Originally Posted by
Kisinith
The issue isn't that people on this board are hostile to other IP's (some are admittedly, but not most). The Inhumans were one of Marvels lesser known IP's so by its very nature its... lesser known. However, its most recent major push came directly at the X-Men's expense, narratively (Death Cloud, Extraordinary X-Men, Death of X, and IvX) and logistically (It was part of Marvel's supposed vendetta against Fox movie properties). The whole era is painfully bad (Extraordinary X-Men, retconning mutants, etc.) and getting your push directly at the expense of another IP does not typically make fans of the original IP want to get more involved in the newer one. I'll be the first to admit that the Inhumans IP got dealt a rough hand, it was set up in direct opposition to a much bigger IP with arguably one of the most passionate fan bases, it was written into a number of poorly received crossovers and arguably the worst Marvel live action production (this is anecdotal, I never watched it). That sucks for its fans but its not the fault of X-fandom, thats on the Marvel creative team.
This is not an indictment of you, you indicated that's how you got into the Inhumans and that's fine its comic books. No one should ever be condemned for, or expected to justify their likes. However the inverse is also true, no one should be condemned for their dislikes either, and the IvX era has given a lot of X-fans plenty of reasons to dislike the Inhumans. Not everyone is readily able to simply ignore bad writing and that has hurt plenty of X characters over the years too. I agree that many X-Fans would like elements of the Inhumans, if it had been pushed appropriately. Unfortunately, that's not how Marvel tried to run things and this is the result. Also the idea of "inhumans were going to replace the X-Men" was a direct result of the Inhumans overtly taking parts of the X-Men narrative, the book name (Uncanny Inhumans), retconning mutants, etc. It was a pretty blatant attempt to make the Inhumans budget X-Men and a pretty blatent part of the overall sidelining of Fox movie properties at the time. The worst part is that in their efforts to make the Inhumans a pallet swap of the X-Men they abandoned the best parts of what made the Inhumans distinct. They had been a pretty prominent part of Galactic Marvel and been doing well on their own.
I also disagree with the idea that Krakoa is an Inhuman story, it is a story of a superpowered society, something that the Inhumans have touched upon, possibly closer at times than the X-Men have, but it is not unique to or exclusive to the Inhumans. The fact is that the X-Men have been playing with those same ideas almost since the very beginning. They've had mutant societies since they introduced the Morlocks, Genosha, or Mutant Town, Morrison for example blew this concept up. Economics and Politics have been a mainstay since the introduction of the Hellfire club and Senator Kelley. Isolation, protectionism and international engagement... the many stories on Genosha, Utopia, Ultimate X-Men after Ultimatum. The X-Men have been playing with the idea of a Mutant Society for decades and Krakoa is an amalgamation of aspects of X-Men history. The end result resembles some parts of Inhumanity but is not derived from it.
Also, I have to greatly disagree with you on X-Men/Fantastic Four, I thought that mini was full of potential but delivered total garbage.
Back to the original topic, the fact that the Inhumans do not appear to have any significant political, cultural or economic clout at the moment is the only reason they would not have been invited. Plenty of rivals, villains and adversaries were but as it was a power play, the current lack of power of the Inhumans would be the only reason for their exclusion. In a meta-sense they may also want to continue to distance themselves from IvX, it was not well received and not just in this particular board.