Originally Posted by
Pumpkin King
I feel like hating Inhumans vs. X-Men is something that both X-Men fans and Inhumans fans can agree on.
I admit, I was more of an Inhumans fan during their big push. I had lost interest with X-Men quite some time ago, and I'd gotten into Inhumans from things like War of Kings and the Paul Jenkins mini-series. I was delighted to see the Inhumans get more time in the spotlight, and an actual on-going series instead of just a mini. But the rivalry with the X-Men was pointless and frustrating. The "Terrigen cloud kills mutants" storyline seemed to put the Inhumans writers in an impossible position. Soule and Asmus, in Uncanny and All New Inhumans, clearly wanted to tell their own stories, about different Inhuman settlements, and picking up newly formed Inhumans, and internal political struggles. The mutant Terrigen sickness was barely mentioned. But if they'd focused on the Inhumans helping mutants or destroying the cloud (something that clearly wasn't allowed to happen until IvX), then they wouldn't be telling "Inhumans" stories, they'd be telling X-Men stories. But shoving the Terrigen sickness into the background of the Inhumans books made the Inhumans look like assholes for ignoring this ongoing mass death that they caused. By all rights, IvX should have never happened. They should have had Forge make a containment box and have Storm and Crystal use the wind to push the cloud inside, then Inhumans who want to change can go stand in the box. Problem solved. There were a million easy solutions to just contain the cloud, but Marvel wanted the two groups to fight, so they had to fight.
I appreciate your comments about how the mainstreaming of Inhumans lost sight of what the Inhumans are supposed to represent. That was a common complaint from Inhumans fans, that the group had lost some of their unique weirdness that makes them interesting. I didn't mind the idea of a bunch of new Inhumans being created, and having to integrate (or not integrate) into Attilan society, but the way they went about it didn't work. I'd expect to see much more conflict between the new and old Inhumans (who are steeped in tradition). Surely a few of the new Inhumans would have some objections to the Alpha Primitives, or genetic hierarchy (generally people with "good" powers are treated much better than people with "bad" powers) of Attilan society. But that was never explored at all. I enjoyed the Inhumans push for what it gave us (again, Inhumans had never been Marvel stars like that), but it could have been so much better. And preferably not at the expense of the X-Men. I'd much rather see the two groups have nothing to do with each other. Let them each exist in their own corner of the Marvel universe and do their own thing. I really don't know why Marvel, seeing the X-Men fans' negative responses to the Inhumans push, decided that the best thing to do was to set the two groups up against each other. "Let's have the Terrigen Cloud kill mutants, and the Inhumans sit on their hands and do nothing! That'll bring fans around!"
Also, the Inhumans TV show was such a waste of potential. The whole thing was low budget and rushed. The cast could have been good if the script hadn't been terrible. By all rights, Iwan Rheon should have been a perfect Maximus if they'd just let him play it as Ramsey Bolton 2.0, but instead they managed to make the character boring. They should have just made one high-budget movie, like what the Eternals are getting now, to properly capture the sci-fi weirdness of the group, and been done with it.
Anyway, I appreciate your willingness (or attempts) to be fair in this video. I think Marvel showed how little they care for both franchises, given that they were willing to slaughter the Inhumans in the terrible Death of Inhumans, then toss them back into comics limbo because for some mysterious reason setting them up against the X-Men didn't catch on. I like both the Inhumans and the X-Men. I'd actually like to see the Inhumans come back with another ongoing series, but it would need to be focused again on their own internal struggles and maybe based on the cosmic Marvel side (like War of Kings, and Royals, which were fun reads). Leave the X-Men alone.