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> I'm not neglecting that. Marvel is. The
> Super-Illuminati-Skrull was controlling tech from
> afar the same way Stark does. (At least, this is
> what I've heard; I have not personally seen the
> issue where "Black Bolt" revealed his true green
> colors and threw down with the other Illuminati.)
> And calling Stark's tech "relatively primitive"
> may be wrong, too, at least in terms of his power
> armor. His power armor tech's possibly more
> advanced than anything the Skrull's had (how many
> suits of power armor have they been shown to
> have?).
That's something of an apples and oranges kind of question. Skrulls are a shapeshifting race that developed their technology around that and power armor as Stark uses would be stifling to a creature used to being able to shift their form to suit their needs. So they developed more flexible technologies but if they'd felt the need they could have certainly built better armor given their higher level of technology. During the period they were depowered it's quite possible they even did develop such power armor to compensate in the interim.
> And why shouldn't the Extremis be considered a
> power? Is a superpower not "something normal
> people cannot do, some ability normal humans do
> not possess"? If I can fry a chicken at 20 paces
> (mmmm....), does it matter if the ability is from
> Mutant genes or a bionic implant? If it's not a
> power b/c it's not something he was born with,
> then strictly speaking Ricahrds Cosmic Ray-induced
> mutations aren't powers, either.
I think we're having a disagreement on what we consider a power, at least in the case of the Illuminati Super-Skrull. First Stark was a normal human at the time the Skrulls had him as a prisoner with the rest, he had no powers to copy in the first place. Second the Extremis isn't some kind of feature of Stark's genes or body in the sense that the Skrulls would have scanned and replicated it as a power for a Super-Skrull knock-off of them. Extremis is as much an add-on to Stark as his power armor is and the Skrulls go copying powers inherent in the organism.
> And the (Deviant) Skrulls aren't an evolutionary
> dead-end, there have been Mutant Skrulls (who have
> some power other than Shapeshfting). Most were
> killed at birth, have been for millennia, but
> Apocalypse saved several a few years back (and
> Xavier later took them under his wing, as Cadre
> K).
Marvel actually has established the Skrulls as an Evolutionary dead end, same as the Kree (including featured in the annual for the X-men where Wolverine was killed but regenerated from his blood splashing on an ancient cosmic crystal that judged the worthiness of a race). The occasional writer might miss that point but skrulls are still pretty much a dead-end and require science to manage any kind of mutation via artificial means. They are no longer evolving and haven't in millenia.
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