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What is the deal with Marvels Inhumans?
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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ZombieFred
Unconfirmed Member
We all knew it was in response on not having the rights to the X-MEN and wanting to get that audience.
X-MEN are far superior and the inhumans are a mistake. I strongly, strongly reject these monsters and how they tried to kill my beloved mutants.
X-MEN are far superior and the inhumans are a mistake. I strongly, strongly reject these monsters and how they tried to kill my beloved mutants.
KarneeKarnay
Member
Money and Writing were both lacking. Show like this can only succeed with a substantial budget and writing skill.
voodoopanda
Member
I love the Inhumans, but by the Inhumans I mean the original Stan Lee & Jack Kirby Inhumans from their Fantastic Four run. They're the perfect kind of Kirby-weird that I'm a huge fan of that also shows up in his New Gods stuff & lots of other Kirby projects. The whole point of them is that they're weirdos.
I've not been much of a fan of what they've done with the Inhumans since, especially recently. I didn't see the TV show pilot but it didn't look good at all, it looked so bland. For the Inhumans to work, I feel like they need a really stylized, high budget treatment, akin to the Guardians of the Galaxy. But Marvel is basically just turning them into mutants, which makes them lose a lot of their charm and identity. The original Inhumans don't really have anything in common with the X-Men aside from "people who get powers."
I've not been much of a fan of what they've done with the Inhumans since, especially recently. I didn't see the TV show pilot but it didn't look good at all, it looked so bland. For the Inhumans to work, I feel like they need a really stylized, high budget treatment, akin to the Guardians of the Galaxy. But Marvel is basically just turning them into mutants, which makes them lose a lot of their charm and identity. The original Inhumans don't really have anything in common with the X-Men aside from "people who get powers."
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
I honestly feel that The Inhumans are too hard to get right unless you have a really great writer on board. Guardians have that space comedy adventure thing going on for it, but Inhumans can't be that. Inhumans has to take itself pretty seriously. Maybe in theory it doesn't have too, but the most appealing aspect of the Inhumans to me is being a sci-fi drama with superheroes. Making that appeal to the ABC audience isn't an easy feat.
EDIT: Whoops. Thought it was on Freeform, not ABC. My bad.
EDIT: Whoops. Thought it was on Freeform, not ABC. My bad.
NealMcCauley
Member
Ike Perlmutter wanted it to happen. No one else did. This is the result.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Inhumans would be better done as an animated feature/series. It should look over-the-top strange.
Its airing on ABC, not Freeform...
Seijuro
Member
The Inhumans themselves make a great source material for a compelling sci fi superhero epic - with the right budget.
Not what this series is. But Marvel had to hotshot it. Since they probably won't use a license they trashed on TV for a movie that recasts the characters and retcons everything they effectively killed their artificial replacement for the X-Men. Good job.
Not what this series is. But Marvel had to hotshot it. Since they probably won't use a license they trashed on TV for a movie that recasts the characters and retcons everything they effectively killed their artificial replacement for the X-Men. Good job.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Marvel wanted mutants but didn't have the rights to X-Men, so they shoehorned the Inhumans into their spot.
They character assassinated the X-Men for nearly a decade in prep for a movie that will never happen and a tv show that is legendarily terrible. Poetic.
They character assassinated the X-Men for nearly a decade in prep for a movie that will never happen and a tv show that is legendarily terrible. Poetic.
H.Cornerstone
Member
Agents of SHIELD handles Inhumans extremely well and got me into the universe.
Shame they just couldn't do a SHIELD/Inhumans crossover done by the Agents of Shield team.
I mean it makes story sense since the next season is in space.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Yeah, the Inhumans are great, too bad they've been so terribly mishandled these last few years. Black Bolt should be the ultimate MCU badass. Oh well.
The Jenkins / Lee series is good but I also really like the one drawn by Ladronn. And I remember some cool one-shots in the 90s.
The Jenkins / Lee series is good but I also really like the one drawn by Ladronn. And I remember some cool one-shots in the 90s.
It feels like to me that they finally gave up on this in the comics, but the TV/Film side isn't stopping.
They're never going to replace the X-Men and they need to stop trying.
Yep. We could have gotten a high budget Inhumans film, but since Kevin Feige split from Ike and cancelled it, he cheaped out big time with the TV show.
LordOfLore
Banned
The article is about the weird characters and not the TV show. Almost no one checks the links I see.
I know what the article is about. I don't have to read it because I already know the comics. I just felt like addressing that question.
TurnipFritters
Member
Marvel: *spends years tearing down the X-Men to make way for the Inhumans movie*
Marvel: *realizes no one cares about the Inhumans, like, at all, and launches the ResurrXion event a few months before Inhumans is set to premiere*
Marvel: *wonders why no one is buying their comics*