The really hilarious - and sad - thing is that they're the only people surprised when the Apocalypse (or whatever they want to call it) doesn't happen.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'