R'Klll
R'Klll is a female extraterrestrial comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
R'Klll was a female member of the Skrull race who was a member of the House of T'Riss. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #18) It was noted that her father had been the former emperor of the Great Skrull Empire. This was until a young Skrull named Emperor Dorrek VII slew him and took the throne for himself. To secure his position as Emperor, he came to marry R'Klll who he took as his wife leading to her ruling as empress of the empire. (Fantastic Four v1 #206) She later came to have a daughter with him who was named Anelle where she served as a princess of the Skrull empire. (Fantastic Four v1 #257)
Later on, a Skrull armada was sent against Xandar but was destroyed at the hands of the Prime Thoran. Upon learning of this, Dorrek VII believed that fighting such a foe could result in his own death. This led to him ordering a retreat in order to preserve his own life with R'Klll deciding to use this as an opportunity to murder her husband. She then killed him and declared him to be a traitor to the empire whilst she took the throne as empress. It was then that she ordered a renewed assault against Xandar and sent commands for reinforcements to arrive for the invasion. (Fantastic Four v1 #209)
She and the Supreme Intelligence came to agree to end the Kree-Skrull War based on a months long fight on Earth's Moon between the Skrull warlord Raksor and the Kree colonel Bel-Dann. The pair were originally assigned to the planetoid to observe the honor duel between the X-Men and the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to decide the fate of Jean Grey. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #18)
Afterwards, the empire detected the coming of Galactus with the Skrulls decided to cloak their galaxy as per their practice to protect themselves against the World Devourer. However, on this occasion, the Herald of Galactus Nova managed to bypass them and uncovered the Skrull throneworld. The Skrull fleet was then deployed to fight him off but they were unable to stop the cosmic being who began the process of consuming the planet. The empress and her daughter were unable to escape and had no option but to face their death. (Fantastic Four v1 #257)
In that moment, her daughter Anelle confided that the child she bore with Mar-Vell was still alive as the Princess had secretly sent her son to live on Earth. Upon hearing this, R'Klll felt a renewed sense of hope for their people and thought of the scheme she could achieve in bringing both the Skrull and Kree together. This led to her activating a translocation device and teleporting only herself away from the Throneworld thus leaving her daughter to die as Galactus consumed the planet. Teleporting to a Skrull world, she then had her subjects use Power Skrull technology to make her take the form of a long dead Kree warrior named Talnath whose details were recorded in their files. Thus, she gained her strength and speed whilst enhancements were made to mask her Skrullian DNA whereupon she killed the scientists so that no one would know of her continued existence. She then went to Hala in the guise of Talnath where she faked her stories of her escape back to the Kree. (Empyre: Aftermath Avengers v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, R'Klll was a female adult Skrull who had long green hair and often wore garments of high ranking royalty of the empire. (Fantastic Four v1 #206)
She was noted for being the first of the House of T'Riss. (Fantastic Four Annual v1 #18) Her father was the former emperor until he was slain by Dorrek VII. After marrying Emperor Dorrek VII, she came to hold the title of empress of the Great Skrull Empire. She was shown as having little respect for her husband who she saw as a weakling and a coward. This led to her openly mocked and defying him as she secretly planned to eliminate Dorrek VII in order to take the throne for herself. (Fantastic Four v1 #206)
R'Klll was also the mother of Anelle who was said to be her daughter. (Fantastic Four v1 #257) Though she cared for her daughter, it was shown that she was not averse to leaving her to die so long as it suited R'Klll's purposes. Through her daughter, she came to be a grandmother as Anelle had bore a son named Dorrek VIII whose father was the Kree warrior Mar-Vell. (Empyre: Aftermath Avengers v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
She was able to shape her hands into blades that she could use to stab her opponent in order to murder them. (Fantastic Four v1 #257)
Her natural shapeshifting abilities were further enhanced through technological means allowing her to mimic a person's natural abilities but also their DNA. This was achieved through Power Skrull technology allowing her to copy a person's strength and speed whilst mentally controlled image inducers helped mask her Skrullian DNA from detection. (Empyre: Aftermath Avengers v1 #1)
In her crown, she possessed a translocation device with a long reach that was capable of teleporting another person though there were risks. She could use this to escape certain destruction to another location in the galaxy. (Empyre: Aftermath Avengers v1 #1)
Empress R'Klll stood as a leader of the Great Skrull Empire and commanded the interstellar nations great resources. (Fantastic Four v1 #206)
Notes
- R'Klll was created by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard where she made her first appearance in Fantastic Four v1 #206 (February, 1979).
In other media
Television
- In X-Men, R'Klll made a cameo appearance in the setting of the 1990s animated television series during the "Dark Phoenix Saga". She and the Kree Supreme Intelligence were consulted by Empress Lilandra over Charles Xavier's challenge for the X-Men to fight the Shi'ar over the fate of Jean Grey after she became the host of the Phoenix.
Appearances
- Fantastic Four v1: (1979)
- Fantastic Four Annual v1:
- Empyre v1:
- Empyre: Aftermath Avengers v1:
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