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Unnamed grandfather (deceased),
Unnamed grandmother,
Unnamed father (deceased);
Unnamed mother (deceased);
Esa-La (wife; legally separated),
Dra-Ta (son);
Yanah-Rogg (former lover);
Crystalia Amaquelin (former lover)
History
How dare you, an insufferable impurity, question the authority of your makers? We, the Kree, have power much greater than which were given to you by our forefathers. Even this hammer that I, Supreme Accuser, wield — could summon and shatter all elements that exists — if I will it! You are accused of treachery... but never fret, for your execution shall set an example for the rest of niggling yet loquacious accidents like you to be grateful as they still can be spared at my mercy...
- — Ronan the Accuser
- — Ronan the Accuser
Early Years
Ronan was born on the planet Hala, ancestral homeworld of the Kree, into an Imperial family which generations had fought and died in the thousand year wars the Kree have engaged, between the Kree and other such as the Skrulls, Shi'ar, and Xandarians in the order of oldest to most recent rivalry in intergalactic power. During several wars, Ronan lost notable relatives: his great-grandfather, his grandfather and his father. This led him to develop a strong feeling of hate and repulsion for the Kree's three greatest and long-lasting political rivals, growing up with delusion in the radical belief of his people as the underestimated superior race, destined to lead the galaxy.
Striving to be at high power and influence to avenge his fallen people, Ronan enlisted at the Imperial Kree Army, making rivals in the form of the boastful Yon-Rogg and the do-gooder Mar-Vell. Upon the completion of his formal education and training in the army, Ronan was qualified to enroll in the Kree Public Accusers, the main law enforcement body for the empire. Within three years of service, Ronan rose in ranks as the Kree Empire's Supreme Accuser, becoming one of the most powerful warlords in the galaxy during his prime as they either accused worlds deemed to be colonized by the Kree, eradicating the ones that they saw as in contrast or "impure" to their laws and ways. As the Supreme Accuser of the Kree Empire, Ronan became the head enforcer of the laws and decrees of the Kree Empire, third second only to the the Imperial Minister and the highest authority of the Kree: the Supreme Intelligence.
His reputation as a member of his prestigious family easily led to him being betrothed to a noblewoman named Esa-La, although their marriage had a course that had little to no progress of how they valued their relationship, since it seemed like Ronan ended up valuing his obsessions and service for the Empire more than anything. At some point around the early 2000s, Ronan and the Accusers were then called to drop warheads on Earth to wipe out the remaining Skrull opposition there, but were repelled when Mar-Vell's mentee, friend and cosmically-powered ally, Miss Marvel came to Earth's defense. The Accusers retreated, with Ronan promising retribution.
As a proud member of the blue-skinned Kree aristocracy, he was also not too pleased taking orders from the publicly known Imperial Minister who was also practically the spokesperson to the Supreme Intelligence, as Ronan had more deep respect for the Intelligence ever since he studied law and enlisted in the military. Ronan simply couldn't find his place as he eventually realized he was being the Minister's errand boy rather than a legitimate Accuser who had no direct access to communicate with the Intelligence nor lasting influences on Kree authority, who had grown to be more diplomatic and conforming to the rest of the intergalactic community, including some of the long-time rivals of the Kree Empire. Unfortunately, after the Kree and the Xandarian Empire signed a peace treaty, Ronan felt betrayed by the Intelligence's diplomatic decision, and his battalion of Kree were outraged as they considered the Xandarians should pay for their crimes against the Kree. Formally stripping him of his title of Accuser, they defected from the Kree Military in the ship the Dark Aster and attacked various Xandarian outposts, subsequently leaving his life and breaking his contact with the rest of his royal family for a long time.
Hunting the Orb
Ronan went on to make a pact with the Mad Titan Thanos, in exchange for claiming a mysterious Orb and giving it to Thanos, he would use it to destroy Xandar through the two's agreement. Thanos sent his two daughters Nebula and Gamora to aid him as she took the Orb for herself. However, Gamora betrayed them. Ronan and Nebula along with their small group of troops would later track down Gamora to the interstellar prison facility, Kyln, wherein she and her companions had already escaped with the Orb, Ronan ordered the Kyln to be cleansed with no witnesses for the Nova Corps to interrogate about their objective and whereabouts.
Ronan and his army had tracked Gamora and her allies to the planet Knowhere, thanks to a message from Drax. Ronan attempted to pursue Gamora who was escaping with the Orb, but was faced with a vengeful Drax, as Ronan had murdered his family. Ronan fought off Drax, severely wounding and seemingly leaving him for dead. Ronan returned to the Dark Aster, reuniting with Nebula who had retrieved the Orb from Gamora. However when Ronan discovered that the Orb's power was merely a containment for the Infinity Power Stone, he decided not to hand the powerful artifact to Thanos and instead, forged the cosmic stone onto his Universal Weapon, named the Cosmi-Rod. Ronan grew in power with the stone in his possession, threatening Thanos that he would come for him with a wrathful and merciless demeanor after he was done destroying Xandar. Ronan's possession over the Power Stone gained the trust of Nebula, due to her hatred against her adoptive father as the Accuser swore to kill the Mad Titan.
Battle of Xandar
Ronan faces a significant and humiliating defeat against the Guardians of the Galaxy
The Nova Corps, Xandar's police force, were informed of Ronan's plans by Star-Lord, another ally of Gamora. With the help of the Ravagers, the Nova Corps attempted to prevent the Dark Aster from landing in Xandar. Meanwhile, Gamora and her allies, now dubbing themselves as the Guardians of the Galaxy, infiltrated the Dark Aster and confronted both Nebula and Ronan. They attempted to kill Ronan by crash-landing the ship, to no avail due to his cosmic enhancement by the Power Stone on his Cosmi-Rod.
After crashing the ship, Ronan was distracted by Star-Lord, who challenged him to a dance off, long enough for Rocket Raccoon to reactivate one of his weapons and shatter Ronan's hammer, freeing the Power Stone. Star-Lord managed to grasp the stone and seize its power by distributing to the other Guardians by means of contact. Once they had managed to control the stone without perishing to its power, to Ronan's surprise. The Guardians would've Ronan to bits with the Power Stone's energy blast, although it was his cybernetic physiology which kept his heartbeat from flatlining and the rendered the rest of his remaining organs to keep on function as long as he struggled and moved.
Despite experiencing a near-death experience at the hands of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan survived being obliterated with his own two feet still intact, unlike his one arm and most of his organs that were left exposed and were only being stitched up by his cyborg body every second he breathed, enhancing his weakened healing factor. He took advantage of the mist that was produced by the Power Stone while it evaporates and fled the scene with the broken fragments of his Cosmi-Rod without any Nova officer or Ravager finding his remains, although it was not the last time any of his newfound adversaries would be facing and meeting him, as even Ronan himself at that point would be publicly shunned by the officials of the Kree Empire which forced the former Supreme Accuser to go into hiding as he hotwired and piloted a cloaked Necrocraft and left the Nova Empire's star system with little to no indication of his survival or trace of his whereabouts.
Ronan the Reserved
Rebuilding a Broken Reputation
With most of the public presuming Ronan's status as deceased, he would eventually find himself being hunted down by bounty hunters, as one of the Brokers in Xandar were among the few notable witnesses who learned of the banished Accuser's survival. As almost a year had passed, Ronan escaped the bounty on him after flying to the nearest Kree world and led a group of fighters to fight off an invasion of Skrulls during the final year of the Kree-Skrull War. Contrary to how the Minister and most of the Kree government had viewed him as a fugitive since he was stripped off the position of Supreme Accuser, Ronan slowly regained the trust of most the Kree Imperial Military, which during this time had already reinstated Major Mar-Vell after choosing to defend Earth with Carol Danvers, with Mar-Vell ambassador for the Kree. Mar-Vell was skeptical of Ronan's intentions and violent tendencies but was relieved of his survival due to his selfless personality to protect the people of the Kree. In the following years, Ronan had slowly climbed up the ranks of the Accusers and ensured himself on regaining his old title and reputation as well as him gaining access to more advanced Kree tech and weaponry during the last great war against the Skrulls, his service gave him protection from getting attacked by the Guardians of the Galaxy in the form of diplomatic immunity, as long as Ronan would remain neutral with them unless he was ordered to act otherwise.
Despite his half a decade of terror and acting as a living catalyst against diplomacy with the Kree's rival empires, Ronan would still become respected by most of his Imperial Family, with some of his relatives being impressed with Ronan's bravery that he was able to come face to face with the Mad Titan Thanos without meeting death as well as they applauded the Accuser for preserving and enforcing the ancient and radical ways of the Kree in the name of their fallen ancestors even in the modern era. Unfortunately, some old wounds couldn't heal even with time, as Ronan failed to reconcile with his wife even when he found out that she had been raising their son, Dra-Ta, in his absence. Ronan was stricken with guilt and remorse, and while surprisingly, the son didn't end up resenting with his distant father a passion, his active duties as Accuser never gave him time to fully bond with his young son.
Negotiating with the Inhumans
However, when the Inhumans of Earth had activated a Kree Omni-Wave Projector recreated from the Attilan Royal Family, Ronan took off his time from traditional duties after he was called by the Intelligence to lead the Reapers, a viscous Kree black ops team, to investigate the sudden reactivation of the projector's beacon on Earth, a few months since the failed Secret Invasion of the late Skrull Queen Veranke had taken place on the blue planet. Before taking their course to Earth, Ronan was given a lecture by the Reapers that their forefathers from the Kree Science Navy had experimented on various humans — genetically modifying their DNA with Kree genes and technology — thousands of years in the past, and it was only recent when the Reapers had discovered the experiment that the Inhumans that were created in the past still existed, and some even flourished on Earth to this day.
The reapers vanquished some of Inhumans who were working for the Super-Inhuman known as Hive, though the remaining fought back viciously, leaving on Ronan alive to deal with the matter alone. While Ronan fought and tried to subdue the Super-Inhuman, Ronan was astonished yet abhorred by the myriad of existence of Inhumans that he would deem them as "failed experiments," although Hive's vengeful spirit to his hateful creators that lent him the upper hand against the Accuser. Berating back at Ronan for being "impure" due to his cybernetic enhancements, Hive spared him as a living trophy and drained the blood of the dead Kree Reapers, also harvested some of their organs that are vital for creation of Hive's virus to modify their Terrigen Mists. Ronan was eventually rescued by the House of Agon, the Inhuman Royal Family of Attilan, who joined forces with S.H.I.E.L.D. to defeat Hive and his coerced army.
As the Inhuman Royal Family had found out who Ronan was through his ship, they were displeased by his objective and began to discuss on how they should deal with him during his stay on the island of Attilan. However, Ronan took the situation of being the "unwanted guest" of their society to his advantage and attempted to press the Inhumans into service of their creators, as they had been created by the Kree, slowly retracting his views on the species as "failed experiments," and described them as rather "additional gifts of life by the Kree Empire" in order to pander to them. In response, Queen Medusa tried to establish an alliance between the Inhumans and the Kree to help find Black Bolt and free him from his Skrull captors. Ronan agreed, but only on the condition that Crystal Amaquelin became his bride, despite them used to only having a non-romantic tryst when they first worked together. Crystal eventually saw the marriage as a political affair, to Ronan's disappointment since he merely wanted to get to know the Attilan princess better. Crystal herself had defeated Ronan in a duel along with a speechless yet menacing confrontation from King Black Bolt himself which broke their marriage and affair at once, many Inhumans chose to stay in Attilan regardless of Ronan's proposal for an alliance with the rest of the Kree Empire.
Nevertheless of this tension between the two parties, Ronan and the Inhuman Royal Family have stayed in contact as Ronan had offered himself to be their first ambassador for the Kree Empire as the Accuser's final resort. Helping him return home to return to the Supreme Intelligence of his discovery on the earthly Inhumans and the Attilan society. Strangely enough, Ronan found himself conflicted on whether he should encourage the Intelligence to either dispose or invade the Inhumans on Earth, and was somewhat compassionate and sympathetic with helping them out even though he didn't' realize it earlier when he was reunited with the Intelligence on Hala. To save to skins of the Inhumans from getting exploited, Ronan would instead offer the Intelligence some of the DNA samples from deceased Inhumans and Skrulls as well as some Attilan technology which he had secretly extracted during his stay on Earth, which pleased the Intelligence, but it had filled Ronan with remorse. These actions made by the Accuser would later lead him to completely question whether the loyalty he had to the Intelligence and the trust he gained from it were all worth it.
Ronan the Redeemed
Joining the Unification
In the later years of his life, Ronan had entered his own series of personal developments as a veteran Kree soldier, which were noticed and taken note by his subordinates and situational allies. He had become a little less grudgeful against, seeing that he had eventually come out of the deranged shell of fanaticism which he once dwelled himself into. The hateful rage that stemmed from the deaths of his ancestors during the million year wars against other rivaling empires has only led him to realize how the old ways of the Kree filled with conquest, supremacism, and proselytism, among the many traits that are still embodied by the Supreme Intelligence, had made their people and their government seem too archaic and destructive compared to the rest of the communities across the galaxy who were willing to make a progressive change and/or reform with their worlds, especially the ones that rivaled or were previously colonized and invaded by the Kree Empire in the past millions of years.
Taking interest in the secret socio-political plans of some reasonable Kree to unite their Imperium with the Skrulls', Ronan joined and firmly supported the secret council which would pave the way for Dorrek VIII, the son of Mar-Vell and Veranke, to be their emperor. While Ronan was among those who were initially cynical of Dorrek's leadership due to him having the maternal blood of a vengeful tyrant, he would be convinced and ended up respecting the young hero's pure heart of courage and bravery to unite and lead both empires into one, a noteworthy personality which Ronan had reminisced with Mar-Vell before the latter's passing.
Around 2025 when the Skreell Empyre had been existing and flourishing for a year since its foundation, Ronan once more became the Supreme Accuser the moment his former superior ended up losing his life during the attacks of the Vox, a mysterious group of Super-Inhumans that were hellbent on eradicating the officials of the Empyre and overall, dismantling the Empyre itself in their attempt to spark another civil war between the Kree and the Skrulls. Ronan worked in particular with Captain Marvel, a former enemy of his due to her connection with Mar-Vell, in distracting the Vox, long enough for the rest of his brainier allies to discover the truth behind the Vox with the assistance of the Inhuman Royal Family when the Vox also began hunting them.
Rejoining them, Ronan and the alliance confronted the mastermind: Supreme Intelligence, and faced off against his undead or coerced army of Vox. During the final battle, Captain Marvel, Ronan, and some of his Inhuman allies fought side by side once more, with the Accuser using his powered up Universal Weapon to kill the Intelligence's right-hand man, Yon-Rogg, as the latter's deluded loyalty to the Intelligence and his excruciating cosmic enhancements as a Vox had rendered him being too powerful to be left alive in battle, unlike the rest of the Vox that the alliance could still save. The Supreme Intelligence was incapacitated when its consciousness was too unstable to function as a supercomputer, transferring its mind onto a lifeless husk of a Vox before being sentenced to a life in prison as an organic being with a body, which the Intelligence had been despising to live as in its millions of years of existence.
Sealing the Second Fault
Later around mid-2026, Ronan and the Skreell Empyre, whilst leading the Accusers as their reappointed Supreme Accuser, as they went on to assist the crucial collaboration of the Infinity Watch and Guardians of the Galaxy alongside the Ravagers, Nova Corps, to close the second Fault, the largest rift in the space-time continuum of the universe opened by Magus and the Universal Church of Truth during the Infinity Crusade, exposing this reality itself to darker alternate universes. The Fault expanded at a rapid rate, threatening to engulf all of reality, something that did not seem to bother the Great Old Ones, a group of extra-dimensional tentacled creatures of arcane and divine origin where life has defeated death, in which the Watch had to stop before these beings could merge their reality itself over theirs. In the days before Ronan and his team were dispatched into the perilous site of the Fault, Ronan took the chance to bid farewell to his son with his former wife, Esa-La. Despite having no chance to fully rekindle his relationship with her, as she had found herself another man in the span of years since they separated, Ronan found closure as he gave his heartfelt apology to his old flame.
The coalition assembled to stop the Great Old Ones and their festering armies from the Cancerverse and give the main heroes enough time to concurrently seal the Fault from spreading the Negative Zone's Cancerverse into their universe, resulting in their victory at the cost of notable selfless sacrifices, which included Ronan who stayed with Drax and Thanos, both of his mortal enemies turned situational allies, as the notable three brainy brutes went to rescue the heroes who became trapped inside the Cancerverse, clashing against legions of corrupted variants which resided there. When Ronan was starting to succumb to the festering beings of the Cancerverse, Drax — who was imbued with the powers of Adam Warlock as the Avatar of Death — channeled his fist with cosmic energy and smashed the Accuser into pieces not out of a vengeful spirit, but with the intention of putting his long-time enemy out of his misery.
Legacy of the Accuser
Drax himself would later perish not long after killing Ronan out of mercy, giving the final blow against the remaining gargantuan eldritch beings, in order to give the heroes from their last step in sealing the Fault, with no chance of it being reopened from any other invasive dimension in the multiverse. Like the rest of the lives who sacrificed their lives to close the diabolical Cancerverse's invasion on their universe, Ronan was honored and dearly remembered as a hero in his final years of service for the Skreell Empyre. While his actions in the past as a zealot could never entirely be forgiven, his latent redemption as a selfless warrior, soldier, and a warm-blooded and lawful nationalist was acknowledged and rewarded by the most people among the Kree and some of the Attilan society on Earth, in spite of what and how the public should remember his legacy had become divisive and a matter of debate in the first year since his death, although they would still come to an agreement that Ronan was one complicated Kree who was strong with his beliefs and conviction that was proven to be destructive the later years of his life had shown that he wasn't exempted from changing his old ways into a better light and even working alongside those he had grudges against throughout most of his life.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Cyborg Kree Physiology: Ronan possesses all of the various superhuman attributes common amongst his people, such as superhuman strength and an efficient healing factor. The natural attributes of the Kree are mostly resistance to poison, toxins, and disease (Systemic Antidote), and a higher natural strength and body than a human. Ronan is a typical blue-skinned Kree in good physical shape. His equipment provides him further power. Add to this, Ronan has cybernetically enhanced himself to greater levels ever since he became the Supreme Accuser.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Conditional Self-Sustenance
- Environmental Adaption
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Abilities
- Expert Tactician
- Gifted Intellect
- Kree Law Expert
- Kree Education
- Knowledgeable Roboticist
- Experienced Combatant
- Weapons Proficiency
- Hammer Mastery
- Hammer Mastery
Strength level
- Class 18+ (with armor)
- Class 13+ (without armor)
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Kree Combat Armor
Transportation:
- Various Kree Starships
- Necrocrafts
- Accuser Warships
- Silver Aster
- Dark Aster (destroyed)
- Accuser Warships
Weapons:
- Universal Weapon
- Elemental Mallet
- Invisibility
- Energy Blasts
- Force Fields
- Matter Manipulation
- Flight and Levitation
- Limited Teleportation
- Cosmi-Rod (destroyed)
- Concussive Blasts
- Elemental Mallet
- Power Stone (formerly)
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 18
Trivia
- Ronan was the one who gave the Guardians their name, when he sarcastically referred to them as: "Your Guardians of the Galaxy!".
- Ronan was originally deemed to have a "village/city" threat level by the Nova Corps, until his usage of Power Stone had the Corps temporarily classify him to be a "planetary" or "galactic" threat.
- However, since his return as a pardoned and loyal Accuser of the Kree Imperium, Ronan's threat level was reduced to his original level by the Nova Corps, although he was still a potential "planetary" level threat after discovering his allegiance and access to communication to the Supreme Intelligence.
- Ever since his marriage was legally separated, Ronan had entered a short-lived but intimate relationship with Yanah-Rogg, the younger sister of Yon-Rogg. Their relationship ended when Ronan had to battle and kill Yon-Rogg, who had become unstable after mutating himself as a Vox of the Supreme Intelligence as a means to show his loyalty.
- Yanah-Rogg eventually forgave Ronan after understanding the circumstances, but was devastated about his death during the mission to seal the second Fault. Nevertheless, she honored and remembered him as a selfless soldier for the people of the Kree Imperium and the subsequent Skreell Empyre.
See Also
- Appearances of Ronan (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Ronan (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Ronan (Earth-61615)
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