YMMV / Inhumans (Charles Soule)

• Broken Base:
  • Either it's a new golden age for the franchise, bringing them into the mainstream and giving them the attention they deserve or an Audience-Alienating Era that's removing much of what makes the Inhumans unique and making them the poor man's X-Men, complete with the overexposure. Worsened by accusations of it being done out of spite over the movie rights, making the comics comply more with MCU canon. Stories show that the terrigen mists make mutants sterile and mutant hate is at an all time high. Fans are not pleased to say the least. Even fans who don't think that Marvel are doing it deliberately to hurt the X-Men do agree that Marvel aren't doing a good job at making it look like they're not, especially when editors refuse to answer 'yes or no' on if it's true or not.
    • It turns out they were indeed deliberately hurting the X-Men as confirmed by Charles Soule.
  • Some Inhumans fans dislike how the Inhumans are becoming popular at the expense of the mutants. They want to have both species stand side-by-side.
• Designated Hero: The biggest complaint about the Inhumans in this era is that all their stories and their authors insist we're supposed to side with them... but they're the most villainous characters. The Terrigen Mists are killing off mutants world-wide, the retcon of statements from previous eras that the Mists were equally lethal to humans seems to have unraveled, and throughout it all, the Inhumans are doing nothing but demand that they get their way and everyone else should just accommodate the Inhumans' wishes. When one tie-in story in Deadpool and the Mercs for Money reveals that the Inhumans would have declared open war on the mutants for having a Reality Warper mutant successfully use their powers to make Terrigen Mists be non-toxic AND still function as a power activator for Inhumans, but the authors are still insisting that the Inhumans are The Good Guys, you know this is an issue. Perhaps the worst part is how consistent it is. A promotion for Death of X depicts a scene split in two halves; the bottom half features Inhumans hatching from their chrysalises with smiles of joy, whilst the top half depicts an anguished Cyclops doing a Skyward Scream amidst a field of mutant corpses. It's unpleasant foreshadowing of the stories to come.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Crystal, the only member of the Royal Family who doesn't come across as a manipulating schemer who doesn't care about the lives of others. She's the one who goes out of her way to engage with humans, she's the one who rescues mutants and she's the one who is the most approachable. This is somewhat carried over from previous Inhumans stories, as she's always been more likeable, but it especially applied in this era.
  • Ahura could also be considered another. Considering his legitimate grievances with his parents and Soule setting him up as the new leader of Ennilux. A sore spot among fans being that it felt like he was very underutilized after the first arc of Uncanny.
  • Crystal's daughter Luna also gained new popularity in her appearance in All-New Inhumans. With her more humorous personality and even talking with a British accent because she spent some time at the Braddock Academy.
• Older Than They Think: There was already enough "X-Men vs. Inhumans" tension in Marvel fandom circa 2015, so the announcement of Uncanny Inhumans didn't exactly endear X-Men readers to the latter. In actuality, the adjective "uncanny" first appeared on the cover of "Inhumans" #1 (dated October 1975), a full three years before it was first used to describe the X-Men in 1978.
• Schedule Slip: The official launch of Inhuman was delayed a few months to accommodate the switch in direction from Fraction to Soule, allowing the gap between issues one and two to be as minimal as possible, but another slip occurred between issues two and three, delaying the title for two and a half months. They've since kept on a regular schedule, though.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Inhumans have fallen prey to this for much the same reason they've been slapped with the Designated Hero brand. Their whole conflict is that they're desperate to bolster their population. They do this by dispersing the previously tightly controlled Terrigen Mists into the atmosphere, forcibly awakening the potential of all "Nuhumans" — Inhuman-blooded humans who may not have even wanted to become Inhumans, especially given the potential Body Horror and Blessed with Suck results of playing the genetic lottery. These Terrigen Clouds are also lethally toxic to mutants. Add to it that the Inhumans always only needed the Mists to gain super-powers and were still Badass Normals without them, and their spiteful insistence that the only solutions to the problems are those that leave the Mists functioning exactly as they are, and there's really no sympathy to be had for them even amongst their fans.

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