'Whoever you are - you so much as look at me the wrong way and the last thing you will ever see will be your spinal cord in my clutched fist - do we understand each other?' - Super Skrull
Do Skrulls have spines? I guess I really mean, do they have backbones? Not in the sense of "You cowards need to grow some backbones", I mean do they actually possess a vertebral column, similar to humans?
Based on what we know, they descended from what are described as 'reptilian ancestors'. Using the term "reptilian" tends to suggest similarities with Earth reptiles, which do possess a backbone. Skrulls are also large bipeds (or at least have the appearance of large bipeds), with no evidence of an exo-skeleton, unlike the forces of the Annihilation Wave or the Brood. That would suggest they have an internal skeleton of some sort.
Except that they're shape-shifters. It would seem that having a solid skeleton would interfere with shape-shifting. Under normal circumstances bone isn't as flexible as muscle, which makes me believe it would take more effort to shift it to accommodate what the Skrulls want.
Maybe the Skrulls are simply in such fine control of their bodies, down to the cellular level, that they can maintain a form that suggests a skeleton by sheer will. So they're like sentient gelatin.
Do we know anything about skeletons in shape-shifters, Skrullian or otherwise? I'm pretty sure Plastic Man doesn't have a skeleton, given that he survived being scattered into millions of pieces over the ocean floor during "Obsidian Age". That fact that he could reform just seems to point to him being someone with no internal structural system to speak of.
Any thoughts, insights into this?
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Good article on Skrulls here.
http://www.ffplaza.com/commcenter/articles/Skrulls.shtml
Basically Skrulls are reptiles, who can change shape but then they go back to their reptile bods.
FRom what I know, Skrulls usually don't shapeshift into anything with a drastically different skeletal structure--they don't turn into liquid or mud or anything else like that.
I think they have a spinal column which always serves as the primary transmission of neural information. Or they've got something different that we don't know about since they're aliens.
I know that Ultimate Reed Richards has no internal organs or skeleton. They did an explanation of him in an earlyish issue of their book.
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