Criti Noll

Criti Noll is the name of a fictional Skrull chararter involved with the Marvel Comics event Secret Invasion. He is charged with replacing the leading Marvel Comics superhero Hank Pym.

History
Secret Invasion: The Infiltration
After the events of Avengers Disassembled and the disbanding of the team, Pym and his wife Janet Pym left to re-kindle their relationship in England. While in England, Hank and Janet's relationship fails and Hank is seduced and then replaced by a Super-Skrull named Criti Noll. Noll, along with the Wasp and a number of other metahumans, are transported to "Battle World" by a god-like being to combat each other

Civil War
Criti Noll next became involed with the superhero Civil War between those agreeing to the government's new superhuman-registration program and those against. Noll (adopting the Yellowjacket persona) with Reed Richards and Tony Stark creates a cybernetic clone of Thor to help in the war against the anti-registration heroes that later kills Bill Foster (who had taken up Pym's former identity as Goliath) in battle. Criti Noll is kidnapped by Young Avengers member Hulkling using his shapeshifter powers to impersonate Pym and free several captive anti-registration heroes. At the conclusion of the Civil War, Pym is named "Man of the Year" by Time magazine for his role.

The Initiatve
Criti Noll, as Pym, becomes one of the chief administrators at Camp Hammond, a U.S. military base in Stamford, Connecticut for the training of registered superheroes in the government program the Initiative, with the secret Skrull plan to place a Skrull in every state initiative team. During this time, Criti Noll (still in his Yellowjacket guise) and the Wasp officially end their attempt at reconciliation, and Criti Noll becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the superheroine Tigra. Noll evades being vaporised in an explosion and survives an attack from KIA. by using Skrull powers.However, Noll convinces the other heroes that he had survived by rapidly shrinking to sub-atomic size.

The Invasion
Criti Noll and Reed Richards study the body of the Skrull Elektra but when Richards discovers the reason why the Skrull's are undetectable, Pym reveals his Skrull identity shoots and incapacitates Richards, leaving him unable to become solid. When the Skrulls land their troops, Criti Noll Pym orders the Initiative cadets to go to New York and fight the Skrulls in an attempt to send them to their deaths.

Powers and abilities
Due to his Skrull heritage, Criti Noll has the ability to shapeshift. He has also been given replicate powers of Dr. Hank Pym, which means Noll can size-shift from a giant to microscopic. Noll has also demonstrated to have Black Panther's quick reflexes, Quicksilver's super-speed, and Vision's density and mass control.

He has successfully posed as a scientific and tactical leader of the Initiative. His scientific intellect is also demonstrated when creating the Thor-clone with Reed Richards and Tony Stark during the Civil War.

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