Originally Posted by
Force de Phenix
In the comics, the genealogy was/is:
- Proto-humans > Eternals
- Proto-humans > Deviants
- Proto-humans > Humans > Atlanteans/Lemurians
- Proto-humans > Humans > Mutants
- Proto-humans > Inhumans
- Proto-humans > Inhumans > Aerian Inhumans
But Tuk could have changed that, unless Hickman ignores all of this. Some humans mixed with the inhumans that left Attilan, so this could mean that:
a) humans + humans = humans (their offspring will never develop the X-Gene.)
b) inhumans + inhumans = inhumans
"Schrödinger's cat"
c) humans + inhumans = mutants (they have the potential to either, passing down the X-Gene while carrying inhuman DNA, but become a mutant first, cancelling the outcome of passing through Terrigenisis becoming full mutants)
d) humans + inhumans = inhumans (they can only carry inhuman DNA and never develop the X-Gene)
e) mutant + inhuman = ? The only example of this was Luna Maximoff, which was human, then she was inhuman, but since she never reached an age past 9-10, so she's never reached an age that would allow her to develop an X-Gene. Now that they retconned Quicksilver, she's a half human mutate, half inhuman.
OR
c) humans + inhumans = mutants that are immune to any negative affects of Terrigen due to their inhuman DNA.
d) humans + humans = mutants that can be negatively affected.
e) mutants + inhumans = hybrids that carry the X-Gene and can transform again during Terrigenisis
It's comics. It can be confusing if they want it to be. Hickman is cleaning it up though, so these are just theories.