Originally Posted by
Sutekh
I like that one.
Logically, the newly appearing Inhumans should be *radically* more unpopular with mutant-haters than mutants themselves, since, unlike mutants, which kind of happen to normal humans as a more or less natural progression (at least as far as the hoi-polloi of 616 know), the Terrigen mist is clearly a foreign alien thing that is mutating people into monsters, and the more they learn about it, the more they find out that the people being mutated *where already part alien* (or non-human, whatever).
Since those being transformed are being transformed against their will by an outside (alien) process, I could see families *happily* signing over custody of their children or power of attorney for their loved ones to some government agency that promises to 'get them help' and 'find a cure.' (With 'get them help' and 'find a cure' meaning 'hunt them down, imprison them and experiment upon them, perhaps, incidentally, finding a cure in the process...) The racism-stink wafting around anti-mutant efforts will be much harder to attach to these 'Inhuman Restoration Acts,' because the afflicted were humans and citizens before their 'affliction,' and it would be much easier to characterize this as 'rescuing them' from an 'alien bio-weapon,' than trying to sell a mutant cure.
Even pro-mutant agitators might find themselves in a weird position, some arguing 'first they came for the Inhumans...' while others might regard the situations as utterly different, and as mangled a metaphor as trying to equate mutant rights with suffrage or gay rights. Some mutants might also get in on the act. Some followers of Apocalypse, or Sinister, already a fan of pruning out mutants he considers unworthy, might decide that the Inhumans are an existential threat to mutant supremacy, and it's only time before an all new army of clone-Marauders storm Attilan.
Mr. Sinister, or Exodus, or both, would be a completely logical new foe for the Inhumans. So would the Red Skull, or Arnim Zola, for that matter...
Caught between human supremacists who regard them as no better than, or perhaps even *worse* than, mutants, and mutant supremacists (former Acolytes, Horsemen, etc.) who don't want competition for the coming age of mutant rule, the Inhumans are likely to be in deep doo-doo.
And then there are the actual *Inhumans,* who have felt hard-used and abandoned by the ruling family of Attilan. Seeker, Stallior, Falcona, Aero, Leonus, Timberius, Nebulos, Phobia, Helios, Gronk, Tusk, Foxbat, Gauntlet, Barrage, Hard-Drive, Psynapse. Undoubtedly there are more, who haven't been named, and have been kicked out of Attilan over the centuries, to live in exile, nursing resentment... Attilan's no longer safe in the Himalayas, on the moon, or in space. It's kind of open season on the old guard.
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