Ah, Skrulls... anyone have any insight on what makes em tick? What do you think they are and aren't capable of? For instance, do you think they could pull magic? If so, could they do it at Dr Strange's level? What about their technology? It seems advanced, but there are those on Earth who's tech seems to surpass them, such as Tony Stark or Reed Richards.

Well the schizm with the magical members that were exiled and produced the Dire Wraiths it's likely that existing skrulls can't work magic (not every race can after all). While highly advanced technologicaly they've been pretty stagnant and haven't advanced much in millenia which is why humans who have so many super-geniuses thanks to natural mutation and artificial augmentation can in places exceed them. While they consider themselves so advanced it's more what you'd expect it's legacy technology rather than cutting edge unlike humans who're often shown able to decipher their technology with study.

Hmm, I imagine I could be wrong, but I think from the first appearances the Skrulls were much like the Kree and interested in advancing their technology mostly for war. Both seemed to be focused on biological manipulation, which could be the reason their technology remained fairly stagnant? Even we are looking to make that Super Soldier, but we are more reticent to believe we can get very far as of yet. Thus we improve on our technology instead. Skrulls however remind me of the Protoss in Starcraft as a species so devoted to their sciences that magic or alchemy is irreverent! Yet there could be a deeper factor at work as there are many dimensions to learning and Reed Richards or Tony Stark are anything but conventional, which is likely the reason they can match or surpass their alien Technology. As a wise man once said, "The secret awaits eyes unclouded by ambition!" Isn't it that the atomic bomb was conceived by scientists with altruistic intentions and never knew the use that it was ultimately conceived for!?

Well the scientists who conceived the atomic bomb had to be able to see that conclusion as a possible consequence of nuclear power otherwise we wouldn't have developed it. They simply were focused on peaceful uses but saw the weapon potential as a result of determining various factors like if you put too concentrated a dose of nuclear material in an area could something go wrong. However it did require visionaries to see how to apply that as a weapon (actually it required more of a visionary to work out the plutonium-based nuclear bomb, apparently a U-235 bomb is so simple and guaranteed to work it's almost obvious from the equations to a nuclear scientist) and the Skrull's have been shown to have a problem of being visionary and thinking outside the box. The war that stalmated them so long with the Kree (who stole their technology originally from the Skrulls) also helped both end up stifled in terms of creative thought and development. It doesn't mean that they couldn't manage some development, like the laborous efforts to come up with the Super-Skrull process, but they're way behind that of more rapidly driven worlds like that of Earth.

So does that mean you agree? Oh, and thanks for always filling in the obvious. Lol! Of course the scientists knew it could be used as a weapon. And yeah, I was speaking to the Skrulls having trouble with being visionary, which certainly didn't mean they weren't or couldn't be. Ahh, it's good to be arguing with you again Nightmask!

The Skrulls are certainly a Interesting Race,they have very Advanced Technolgy.They seem to be at a Evolutionary Dead End However,if it were not for their Shape Shifting Powers they would go the Way of the Dinosaur.

Yes the Skrulls are a conundrum in that they've stopped evolving which ironically is a result of their shapeshifting abilities (and killing off the normal skrullian branch of their species) making them able to adapt in general to most situations so their DNA isn't forced to produce things like Flaming Skrulls or Invulnerable ones or the like to deal with their environment. Unlike the human versions of them the Deviant race randomly generates powers and physical forms unrelated to their environment making them in the same boat, unable to effectively evolve as no deviant ever retains a set of inherited traits from an ancestor.

I thought they stopped evolving because as a race they were judged by that celestial crystal.

Well they still manage to do artificial mutation, and even though the Kree were also locked up by it the Supreme Intelligence manage to find a way around it (at least until that awful and poorly thought out if thought out at all retcon that eliminated the Ruul and destroyed a range of marvel continuity, including that struggle for Operation: Galactic Storm). Unfortunately it ends up a fuzzy area due to those contradictory storylines and retcons thrown out over the years by marvel.

Strange but it Seems to many other Alien Races that Skrulls are some what the CockRoaches of the Universe.I guess that most be because of the Trouble Making they do and their Shape Shifting powers.

Well... every house has bugs! Think of the universe like a house! Lol! But it may help to think of them like the Kilngons of the Marvel Universe sort of speaking.... Wanna know what the Brood are like?

The Brood are Plain Evil and Scary,the Kind of Aliens you Shoot First and then Dont ask Questions

I fully well believe that if they chose to do so, the current race of Skrulls COULD manipulate magic but the idea behind it is alien and repulsive to them. They are from the same stock as the Dire Wraiths who diverged from them, who as stated above manipulated magic, and perhaps the direction that the Dire Wraiths took in their evolution is WHY the normal Skrulls would consider the use of magic as blasphemy or dangerous.
Just as certain religious sects in our modern world eschew the use of modern technology as being sinful and opening an individual to temptation, perhaps the Skrulls view the use of magic and how it perverted their brethren, in a similar fashion. It's not that they can't use or manipulate it, it's just that their societal and psychological upbringing prevents them from accepting or attempting it's use.