In a flashback to 1995, Fury learns of the Skrulls’ existence when one transforms into his Skrull physique after being shot and killed in Fury’s automotive. Once we see Fury once more in 1997, he is shaped friendships with a number of the Skrulls. He is sort to a younger Gravik (Lucas Persaud on this scene and Kingsley Ben-Adir as an grownup) who has misplaced his mother and father within the final stand in opposition to the Kree. 

We study in that second flashback that Gravik might have seemed like a child, however as a result of Skrulls have an extended lifespan, he is really an grownup. So right here we’ve an offended younger man, recognized as a survivor, who managed to flee a lethal battle on his personal. After dropping his total household, he is pressured to stay in one other type on an alien world, maintain his total identification a secret, and conceal out due to a promise that Fury and fellow Skrull Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) make to discover a new Skrull homeland. He watched the Skrulls round him step ahead to assist the people, and no such assist has returned to them. With no homeland in sight thirty years later, Gravik is able to combat to take over this one.