8 Reasons Why Inhumans Could Never Replace The X-Men

8. Inhumans Still Only Has A Handful Of Interesting Characters

There have been very few worthwhile additions to the Inhumans, and it shows.

When Marvel decided to shift focus from mutants to Inhumans, this meant creating the opportunity to make a whole batch of new Inhumans for readers to get behind. Thus, at the end of the Infinity event, the Terrigen Mists were released across the Earth, and new Inhumans began manifesting globally.

Mutants, meanwhile, experienced a decline in population, even ultimately going through a time where it turned out the Terrigen Mists were in fact poisoning the mutant population and attacking the X-Gene itself.

The problem was, out of the many new Inhumans created, very few turned out to be interesting.

Sure, some looked pretty wild or weird and were visually interesting, but few captured the imaginations of fans quite as much as many of the mutants that have been created over the decades.

The most successful new Inhumans, or NuHumans, were probably Ms. Marvel and Moon Girl. These characters developed staunch fans quickly, a big part of that probably coming from them also representing drastically under-represented communities in the medium and Marvel really pushing them as exciting new titles.

They also went and turned Quake from a mutant to an Inhuman, so it would fit with the explanation of the character in the ABC TV show, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

However, the majority of other new Inhumans were nowhere near as developed, and many were actually very similar to existing characters in a way that made them feel a little cheap. As part of their initial Inhumanity series, the main new Inhuman was one named Inferno, who was pretty much just a copy of the Human Torch. When Human Torch himself became a part of the Inhumans titles, Inferno became utterly redundant, and sadly, a lot of the newer characters have felt like that too.