The difference between the Inhumans and the Mutants

[Majin_O.A.W.]

An X-Men team that only acts heroically, attempting to save everybody from threats of all kinds, because they need the PR spin as part of their political struggle, is completely unrelated to the team whose exploits I've been reading since the 70s. That they recognize that showing up as recognizable superheroes does enhance the public's perception of them and further the mutant cause, whether that's taken as an integrationist or isolationist one, is fine, and has always been part of the subtext, but it can't be the main reason they save somebody, whether it be from Shi'ar invasion or a burning building. That's not who the characters are, plain and simple.

I miss the X-Men when they use to be heroes. They hardly do any of that stuff anymore. Remember when they use to save the universe on a regular basis during Claremont's run.

Sadly these exploits go unmentioned much like Cap and his issues with drugs in the past; but I guess this is Marvel's new outlook.

[Post Monster]

Thinking a lot about this, but it's the underlying themes that are different:

1. They are not suffering from public prejudice, but from other governments wanting to control and use them. So governments and corps are likely better adversaries than The People. Being used is the recurring theme for the Inhumans and most of their conflict is about being in control of their destiny.
2. They don't want to be humans or fit in human society. Why would they when they have their own?
3. Alien DNA makes them inherently "other" in unusual ways. Even in their own society.
4. Survival is a major theme. Lack of resources and the need to protect themselves from more numerous species should be a big issue.
5. They are better than you at certain things. They embrace this like Magneto, yet aren't crazy. Mags will like them, I think. It's like a nation of Khan Noonien Singh's. They don't mind playing dirty and being unpopular.

[sprior93]

The Inhumans are a group of meta-human, aristocratic rulers. The X-Men are a group of meta-human, oppressed minorities(as appropriative as that is).

They couldn't be further apart conceptually.

Who would win in a fight? Unless Psylocke, Rachel, Emma, or the Cuckoos can shut down BB, the X-Men are f****d.

[Sea Hound]

Who wants to bet the Inhumans get pushed into the x-men's oppressed and feared territory by Marvel? That they lose their aristocratic separateness, and face more and more prejudice prior to the movie coming out?

I think they'll lose that conceptual difference Sprior93 was talking about.

It's already started in places. I can't think this was a random inclusion in Sixis.

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[ImprobableQuestion]

The whole idea is that in 5 years you won't be able to tell the difference.

Whose idea?

[TheMadTitan]

The Inhumans are a group of meta-human, aristocratic rulers. The X-Men are a group of meta-human, oppressed minorities(as appropriative as that is).

They couldn't be further apart conceptually.

Who would win in a fight? Unless Psylocke, Rachel, Emma, or the Cuckoos can shut down BB, the X-Men are f****d.

BB and Crystal are their only really big guns, though. If an X-Psychic can take them down, the rest of the Inhumans go down hard.

[TheMadTitan]

Whose idea?

Since marvel doesn't hold the film rights to the mutants, the conspiracy theory du jour is that they will try to gradually phase out the mutants and replace them with Inhumans.

It makes a certain sense, but there is no proof right now.