I’m happy about this news, and here’s the problem with that: Disney and Marvel shouldn’t be putting me in such a position.
The Inhumans have their own, unique potential. When Polaris was out in space, Lorna spending time with Luna as auntie Lorna and helping Crystal in her rise to power were the positive bits of that time. They offered things for Polaris that couldn’t be done with the X-Men. The Inhumans franchise also has its own fans that want what they care about to get some attention.
Because Marvel is trying to tear down the X-Men franchise, and they’re using the Inhumans as a pivotal device toward that goal, they’ve turned the Inhumans into an obstacle. They’ve made people want the Inhumans to fail because success means Marvel is one step closer toward being able to do away with the X-Men completely. As long as the Inhumans franchise doesn’t succeed in its current form and treatment, Marvel can’t deny there’s a place for the X-Men to exist in the Marvel universe.
Marvel’s created a rift between two franchises that should be compatible, and have been in the past. They’ve ruined any chance of fans trusting events between them are in good faith, too, because Marvel’s spent the past half a decade deliberately dismantling the X-Men while building up the Inhumans as replacements for mutants and X-Men.
The shittiest part of all of this is that Marvel’s ruining at least the next few decades of interaction between the X-Men and Inhumans franchises because of their obsessive hate-on for Fox. And I’m being incredibly generous with the estimation of decades. The damage Marvel’s doing today may be permanent.
And it may prevent the Inhumans franchise from ever being able to reach its true potential, because Marvel’s turning them into discount X-Men. It’s forcing the Inhumans to exist in the shadow of the X-Men franchise, priming people to think “Why are they using the Inhumans when the X-Men would be better?”
Marvel’s behavior has been a disservice to both the X-Men and the Inhumans, and they both suffer as a result. Inhumans less visibly but no less severely. And really, that raises one more question: if Marvel’s so desperate to turn the Inhumans into replacement X-Men, do they have any respect for the Inhumans and their real potential at all?
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