Origin

The Badoon were older than the Kree and the Skrulls, having evolved from reptilian ancestors.^[8] A group called the Builders have claimed to be responsible for creating the Badoon and other races.^[9] However, this claim is unsubstantiated.

There was a natural hatred between the two genders, and they fought each other in long gender wars. Eventually, the males won, placing the females in captivity. In time, the males developed technology and abandoned Lotiara, returning only when their mating drive made it necessary. The males became conquerors of worlds, while the females became pacifists, content to remain in peace on their homeworld and ignorant of the males' star-spanning empire.^[4]

Among the Brotherhood's attempted conquests were the Zen-Whoberis and the extra-dimensional world of Polemachus.^[10] They were known to form alliances with the Brood^[11] and the Kree.^[12] At the time of the Annihilation Wave, the Badoon controlled 37.7% of the Milky Way galaxy.^[13] The Badoon had recently warred with the Skrulls and Kree.^[12][14]

Moord

The Kree experimented on Badoon to create weapons, changing them into Inhumans. Those experiments involved them consuming one drop of diluted water from the dormant Amphogen, a mutagenic substance able to trigger powers, a process known as Amphogenesis.^[15]

Biology

The Badoon were a reptilian species.^[16] The male Badoon had almost no hair, while female Badoon were often covered in lengthy fur.^[4]

They possess inner eyelids and by watching them twitching could determine what the Badoon was thinking.^[2] The Badoon also had green blood.^[6]

Reproduction

Being a reptilian race, the Badoon were oviparous and laid eggs,^[17] though they also had some mammalian features. Once every sun cycle, the Badoon would be overcome with a madness to propagate and when members of both sexes began to mate they would force on one another, until ending in a stalemate.^[4]

After the eggs were laid, the male Badoon would take them for incubation. If males hatched they would remain with the Brotherhood, if females hatched they would be returned to their mothers.^[4] Oil of Atlantean origin was shown to be nourishing to their eggs.^[17]

Hybrids

The Badoon were able to breed with the female Centaurians.^[18] Brother Royale conceived a hybrid daughter with one of his alien slaves.^[19]

Alternate Reality Versions

See Alternate Realities Badoon History.

Durability: The Badoon were very durable, being simply stunned by attacks that would usually kill a normal Skrull.^[21]

Superhuman Strength: The females were naturally more stronger than their male counterparts.^[4]

The male Badoon were more cunning and sly than the females.^[4]

The Badoon had their own form of martial arts, with one technique being called Badoon Spine-Buster which could deliver a devastating injury.^[22]

Because of an inborn defect, the Badoon would be afflicted with a mating madness that drove them to forcefully mate to a stalemate.^[4]

84% surface covered with water, most of the land is semi-tropical^[20]

87% of Earth's^[20]

134% Earth density, tropical humidity^[20]

40 million on each world^[20]

Monarchy:^[16] Patriarchy in the Brotherhood,^[23] and Matriarchy in the Sisterhood^[24]

The Brotherhood were capable of faster-than-light space travel and also possessed personal cloaking technology. They employed a hand-held particle gun called the 'basic weapon', and cellular incinerators.^[25] They also created large, muscular cyborg-like beings sometimes used in personal combat called the Monsters of Badoon.^[16] The Badoon made use of Mento-Programmers which were propaganda devices that implanted the Badoon's missions.^[26] Although males typically wore minimal clothing, some soldiers wore an explosive 'frag-thong'^[12] that destroyed approximately ten surrounding enemies once a Badoon was shot down.
According to Reed Richards, the Badoon were a "Type II civilization",^[27] presumably according to the Kardashev scale.

The males were militaristic, but the females were pacifists. While the male Badoon were brutal to other races and violent toward their females (and vice versa), the Badoon were gentle and courteous with their pets and beasts of burden.^[4] Badoon were a patient race, but their patience had limits.^[17] It was a race of hoarders, who gathered objects which they stored in vaults.^[19] Badoon had a low opinion of mammals, and believed that mammals were not to be fought but slaughtered.^[10] The males among the Badoon enjoyed the hunting and taking of captives, and the fear their victims experienced delighted the Badoon. It was thought of as a sport and enjoyed hunting those foes who gave them a challenge.^[16] At least some Badoon show respect towards "any male that can tolerate his female, much less defend her".^[21]

Language

Please find some words or sentences in Badoon on this page.

Religion

The Badoon are highly superstitious, and fear both demons and possession.^[28] The Badoon had holy sites spread around their world which were all tended by priests, and various holy artifacts such as the Kilzarra.^[8]

Some Badoon (including the Centaurian "Badoon Half-Breeds") seemingly believe in so-called Swamp Gods, sometimes evocating them.^{[29][30][31][32][24]}

Among the known Badoon Gods was Voord Bloodeye, God of Beheading, who was killed 500 years ago by Gorr the God Butcher (it is unknown if he was of the Swamp Gods).^[33]

Economy

The Brotherhood's currency is the Kreull.^[34]

Brother Royal, Czar-Doon, Drang, Droom, L'Matto, Manat, Mud-Ah, Tolaria

• When making the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, James Gunn originally intended to use the Badoon, but because they were introduced in the Silver Surfer Comic Books which were a spinoff of the Fantastic Four Comic Books the cinematic rights were owned by the then-separately 20th Century Fox, and as a result Gunn opted to use the Sakaarans instead.^[35]
  • However, the Badoon appeared in the Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude #1-Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude #2, since Marvel Studios still held the Badoon comic book rights.