It creates a common thread to tie movies and characters together: Cap has a reason to care about the thing Loki stole because it’s the same thing he saw the Red Skull use to try to conquer/destroy the world.
It avoids the need for new exposition: what’s this thing? Oh, it’s an infinity stone. The audience knows what those are already.
So a whole lot of people went to go see Avengers: Infinity War over the weekend, and I was one of them so that I could discuss the film with the good folks at…
Well, he certainly claimed the title as did the Jacobites who followed him, but I mostly used that title to make it clear that James III followed the claim of James II.
The Kree and the Skrull are two galactic empires, the former tending to very good with artifical genetic evolution, nanotech, and power generation, whereas the latter are shape-shifters who are incredibly good at infiltration, espionage, and copying the powers of their enemies. One way to think of them is that the Kree are very much about hard power, whereas the Skrull are very much about soft power.
The idea of the Kree-Skrull War is that these vast galactic powers, locked in war, threaten to come to blows with Earth as the battlefield, “the cosmic equivalent of some Pacific island during World War II.“ The Kree see Earth as an important outpost because of their connection to the Inhumans, and indeed Ronan attempts to devolve earth back to prehistoric days so that it can be better used as a military base. The Skrulls, meanwhile, want to capture the original Captain Mar-Vell and disrupt the human superhero teams they believe to be Kree allies (the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, primarily).
Eventually, the good guys save the day and stop the Kree-Skrull War, resulting in them agreeing to leave Earth out of their conflicts.
SPOILER WARNING: This chapter analysis, and all following, will contain spoilers for all Song of Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones episodes. Caveat lector.
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