No, they own the Skrulls too. Feige said so himself. He said there's a bit of the Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver situation with the Skrulls, then goes on to affirm they chose the Chitauri name because they couldn't use the name Skrulls (among other reasons). With the Ronan and Korath thing, it made me finally realize what Feige meant by a little of the Maximoff situation, which I didn't understand fully because if you can't use the name Skrulls what do you actually own about them then? They can use characters that were Skrulls (or Kree) in the comics but can't actually call them that.
The interview where Feige first talked about the Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver situation at a press showing of the first Avengers movie last year. You should remember it. It was brung up a bunch of times before Whedon confirmed the twins were in A2. I'll go back and get the vid. People overlooked Feige's comments on the Skrulls in the interview for some reason.
When he said "That's why we chose to use that name" I'm pretty sure he was responding to the fact that the guy asked about the Ultimate comics. The Ultimate Avengers is why they chose to use the Chitauri name, not because they can't use the Skrull name.Ah, clutch.
Hmm, maybe, but he could have just as easily been responding to the question before that, since he was already formulating a response on it. I'd love for Marvel to be able to use the Kree and Skrulls fully, but it just doesn't seem likely to me. We'll find out when we start to learn more about the film I guess though.
The vagueness on all his answers about the exact stipulations with the Skrulls is another reason I think they can't actually use the name. He always just says there are contractual limitations with them...well what are they? Knowing that Marvel cant call the twins mutants it would make sense if with the aliens they can't call them that specific race.
Excuse me, but none of us can go into Feige's head and dissect which statement he was responding to. Like I said, we'll find out as we learn more whether they can use the name Kree and by extension the likelihood of them being able to use the name Skrulls.
It wouldn't really make sense as an answer to the first question because it doesn't actually answer the question.
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That's not what the interviewer asks there. Listen to what the interviewer asks
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Feige is (possibly) responding to the question of why they used the Chitauri rather than the Skrulls (because Fox owns some rights to the Skrulls), and goes on to say "well that's why we used that name". That answer fits perfectly into the context of that question. It could go either way, as I said, we can't burrow into his brain and pick it. But the language he used leaves me thinking it's that they can't use the name Skrulls.
Feige never said anything remotely like that. He said "That's why we chose that name." They chose the name Chitauri because the aliens in the movie don't have a pre-existing name. They're a made up race of aliens. They were named the Chitauri because that's what the aliens are called in the Ultimate comics. "Or was it keeping with the Ultimates continuity?" "That's why we chose that name."
"So is that why it was the Chitauri rather than the Skrulls...." "Well that's why we chose that name but the truth is Joss blah blah blah"
