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And what about that tells you he won't be an "honorable" villain? or that he'll be just a lackey? Our look at this version of the Chitauri is so far mostly limited to just the bio-mechanical goons that were sent down to Earth, but there could always be more like the Other who display a bit more intelligence.

Heck, maybe the Other will be retconned into being some other cosmic Marvel character, maybe another Kree even. As for who owns what, we know the Skrulls are shared between Marvel and Fox, but it's doubtful they want to push that issue any more than they already have with Quicksilver, especially when it's for a movie they don't seem to have that much faith in commercially. Most of the rest is still tied up with the Fantastic Four license. Remember back to August 2012 when Marvel tried to buy back a number of villains, namely Galactus and the Silver Surfer, in exchange for more time to work on a Daredevil reboot. They're making the best of what they got, and a character like Ronan probably isn't a bad choice.