Marvel ruin another character (illuminati spoiler)

[doctorchallenger]

Okay, so Bendis hints heavily that someone in the Illuminati has been an imposter for quite some time (up to thirty years). If this is true, I'm with Cripp12... ticked off. Iron Man would make the most sense, as very few skrulls have ever demonstrated powers (other than about three I can think of), other than shape shifting. It would be tough for them to simulate or master magic, do anything Black Bolt does, stretch or use powerful mental abilities. But they could easily operate and even improve upon eath technology (the armor).

Hate to be a continuity cop here, but it was established in the ROM series that the Dire Wraiths were an offshoot of the Skrull species (Rom #50 I believe). The Dire Wraiths used magic in the later issues of that series.  Further, as I recall, on the space saga arc during the original Claremont/Jim Lee Run on Uncanny (the arc in which Lee came up with his design for Deathbird), a skrull was posing as Prof. X. the Skrull had Xavier hooked up to a device which transfered the Prof.'s power to him.  So said technology could be used for other powerrs as well.  Baring that story in mind, it is possible that the X-Men never rescued the real Xavier at all.

Regardless of who it is, it would suck. That means the last 30 years would be an imposter, explaining any recent strange behaviors, but also would include any of their heroic acts. We wouldn't know that character at all. This would be the king of all retcon debacles.

Agreed.