8 Reasons Why Inhumans Could Never Replace The X-Men

6. They Should Have Stories Different From The Usual Superhero Fare

Inhumans Vs X-Men
Marvel Comics

Treating the Inhumans as just another team of superheroes only really goes against everything they stand for, because really, none of them suit the more traditional dynamics that pervade Marvel's traditional super-groups.

Most of the key Inhumans are part of a strange royal family and they live in a culture that is seemingly deeply alien to anything readers could relate to.

The thing is, they weren't really designed to be basic superhero archetypes. When they were created, they were meant to be something unusual and strange that would come into other superhero books (primarily the now defunct Fantastic Four), and present this alien world for the other Marvel characters to experience and work around.

Even in the past when the Inhumans have been the focus of a story, it's been a limited series that delved into their strange societal structure and further added to them as being different from the other superheroes in the Marvel Universe.

To have the Inhumans brought down to Earth and just being other superheroes feels reductive of what was special and different about them in the first place.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.