Meanwhile, Jim Starlin didn’t introduce Thanos until 1973, though the whole look was definitely more inspired by the DC Comics character Darkseid than the shapeshifting predecessors.
Jack Kirby drew the Skrulls with the feature in 1962’s Fantastic Four #2 — their very first appearance — and they have had the same look ever since.
In Ben Mendelsohn’s defense, while Thanos did beat the Skrulls to the big screen by a few years, the green aliens were rocking the striped chin look more than a decade before the giant purple warlord in the comics.