Talos, Secret Invasion
Alas, poor Talos, not even granted a death in a movie, but a streaming show hardly anyone watched. Ben Mendelsohn’s loveable grump of a Skrull met his end trying to save the life of U.S. President Ritson after his convoy was attacked by the renegade Skrull resistance. First left to bleed out and then ultimately executed by the villainous Gravik, Secret Invasion’s biggest sacrifice had little impact on the show’s dark worldview for human-alien relations, with the public exposure of the Skrull’s existence sparking a wave of anti-alien sentiment, including from the man Talos gave his life to save.
