10 Huge What Ifs That Could Have Changed The MCU Forever

10. What If The Inhumans Had Actually Been Made?

Inhumans holds the unwanted distinction of being the only Marvel Studios project to be announced and given a release date that was never actually made, and based on how the short-lived TV show turned out it was probably for the best.

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy marked the MCU's first venture into full-blown cosmic territory, but Inhumans had been in development for a year longer, and just weeks after the Guardians' debut feature had arrived in cinemas it was confirmed that graduate of their writers' program and future Black Panther scribe Joe Robert Cole would be handling the script.

From there, things just sort of fell apart despite Vin Diesel being attached to lead the team as Black Bolt, and two and a half years before the intended November 2018 release date Inhumans was quietly removed from the schedule, never to be spoken of again.

Given that the eventual small screen series was widely panned by critics and fans before getting canceled after just eight episodes, Marvel Studios likely dodged a bullet here.

Guardians of the Galaxy had filled the cosmic void that Kevin Feige was keen to fill, and looking at the how the characters ultimately fared in live-action there was every chance that Inhumans could have bombed hard, and even set the MCU's expansion back by years.