Can I just point out that the existence of Yon-Rogg’s daughter, Una-Rogg, in the comics has some pretty big implications? Like, “Kree are naturally matriarchal but the Supreme Intelligence has fucked their society up” implications?
If you’re unfamiliar with her, she has the power to control men and enslave them to her will, and can kill them by absorbing their “life energy”. She hold no such power over women of any species. How exactly she does this is unclear, but apparently it’s something that can be “cut out”. She explains that the majority of Kree women are born with this power but that they’re identified at a young age and put thought a procedure that removes it. Again, how they identify this is unclear but she discovered that she had this power during her first sexual experience.
When she’s explaining all of this she’s pleading with a woman to help her because she’s terrified that she’ll be sent back to the Kree Empire and have the power removed. She talks about it like it’s basically a psychical female circumcision that’s extremely painful for an adult woman. She claims that “the males fear us”, but the thing is, literally everything we see suggest that most Kree men love it.
First off, apparently enough parents keep it hidden from the government if their daughters have this ability, mothers and fathers, for it to be common procedure to remove it from adults, and apparently Yon-Rogg belongs to the group of people who believe women should keep this power.
Secondly, Una-Rogg has dated a lot of Kree men (because as we all know by now, when the Kree aren’t killing people, they like to fuck) who all knew she had this power and the other men around her knew it too, yet non of them ever reported her. She used to date non other than Ronan the Accuser and he was way into it (so you can make a note of that; Ronan is a sub). And it’s not like the men around her are mindless zombies. She only controls enemies for short periods and otherwise mostly for consensual sex play. For example, if a man annoys her or argues with her she doesn’t suddenly force him to shut up, so it’s very moderate.
So it very much seem like the majority of Kree men think it’s only natural for Kree women to hold this power over them and even desire it, with a few party poopers ruining it for everybody else. It could very well be that the Supreme Intelligence just doesn’t like having a bunch of women running around who can control the men and cause an uprising, so it force the sexes to be on the same level.
And it even fits with the MCU. Tumblr likes to think of Yon-Rogg as horribly sexist, but like I’ve said before we never actually see him or any other Kree do anything sexist in the movie. They say some stuff that sounds like Earth sexism but as aliens it has a different context to them and they treat Carol in a very gender neutral way otherwise. If Carol had been Carl he would have been told to control his emotions too as seen in the deleted scene where Yon-Rogg is told the same thing. In the books we get a glimpse into Yon-Rogg’s thoughts about Carol and we learn that he actually see her as superior to himself and thinks she should be free and able to use her powers, but he’s too afraid to question the Supreme Intelligence. He also consider Min-Erva to be the next best member of his team, so he obviously has a lot of respect for women.
And then of course there’s Ronan who talks rather negatively about Carol until she destroys his ships and suddenly he’s like “That’s a Woman! We have to kill you some day but can you please top me first?” So Kree men in the movies seem to really like their women powerful and able to kill them.
I don’t think Marvel understands the implications of Una-Rogg yet, but I for one would like to see it explored more and how it affects their society.
