Joss Whedon Confirms NO SKRULLS OR KREE In His Avengers. Well Then.

Ain’t going to be no Skrull or Kree in  Avengers. Confirmed by Whedon himself.

Hit the jump for his explanation.

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Here’s one  Avengers  rumor we can finally put to bed. Joss Whedon has confirmed that the villains backing up Loki in his  Avengers  movie won’t be the shape-shifting Skrulls or the Kree. So who were those sky-diving minions?

Whedon is still being mum on the identity of Loki’s army, but he has decided to finally stamp out the alien rumors flying around the Internet:

“Those two aliens are Marvel mainstays and have enormous backstories,” Whedon explained. “They have a big life of their own that just could not be contained in a film where I already had seven movie stars.”

Even without such a large cast, Whedon says having the Skrulls in his movie would have been redundant:

“The Skrulls – they can shape change. That’s a whole thing,” he said. “I’ve already got Loki. He’s got magic. Once you got magic along with your Iron Man and your Black Widow – it’s a real juggling act.

Any bets on who the mystery villains *are* then? The Frost Giants as previously speculated? An unnamed alien race of some shit or sort? Hit me with your speculation.