History Headscratchers / Inhumans

** Maximus even calls them out on their stupidity. It's possible that they viewed him as "just human" and didn't think he would pick up on the coup.

* Why were the guys plotting against Maximus doing so in the palace, and at least once right outside his throne room ''while he was watching them?'' That seems particularly dumb. Not only could someone have been listening in, but this is in a civilization with supposedly advanced technology: Modern-day Earth has surveillance technology like security cameras and listening devices, but Attilan doesn't? Were these guys just being careless or what?

*** I get that not everyone's going to have combat-applicable powers, and the Genetic Council might even be more likely to have, say, analytical abilities or something as opposed to more flashy abilities. While out-of-universe it makes sense for budget reasons, especially given the show, it just seems to stretch suspension of disbelief that in a society based on superpowers, where the divide is explicitly between people with "good" mutations and people with weak or useless mutations, we don't see even members of the elite (presumably the Council is pretty important) displaying any sign of qualifying powers. It makes the show feel more unbalanced since it gives the impression that there's a small number of powered people at the top (the Royal Family + Maximus' hunters) rather than a more-or-less functioning society of powered people in sufficient numbers to oppress the non-powered people.

** For the guards it's mostly a budget thing. Characters with a name and personality get powers. As for the Council, they probably have powers related to intelligence. Not every power is going to have an application during a fight.

* Presumably the Genetic Council would have "good" powers, so why haven't they used them? Even in situations where it's clear that trouble is coming none of the guys (and ladies) in robes ever display any powers, whether to fight back or escape. For that matter, shouldn't at least some guards have powers too? Why are they always subduing the council/attacking the Royals/guarding Crystal with guns? I actually assumed the guards ''didn't'' have any powers, and that's why they joined up with Maximus, before realizing that Gorgon has powers and is the leader of the Guard and that at least some of Maximus' little Earth-bound hunting party are probably guards and they all seem to have powers. Or are the guards we see after Maximus' coup just a bunch of those non-powered guys and Maximus said "You're guards now, here's some armor and a gun"?

*** That makes sense for the prior generation, but it raises a new question: If Maximus ''wants'' to go to Earth, would banishing the Genetic Council really be a punishment? Even if he's trying to avoid killing people, doesn't Attilan have a prison or a dungeon beneath the palace or something where they can stash these guys? Also, if Medusa and Crystal's parents ''were'' on Earth, does that mean we could see them showing up? Black Bolt has been secretly sending people to look for Earth Inhumans so he could have been looking for his wife's parents at the same time, though granted Earth is pretty huge and they could already be dead.

** Maximus banishes the Genetic Council as well, maybe they get banished to Earth?

* So apparently Medusa and Crystal's parents were exiled. Considering that the moon, as far as we know, is just Attilan, where were they exiled ''to?'' The slums where all the laborers live? If that's the case, why spare the children instead of sending the whole family?

* So apparently Medusa and Crystal's parents were exiled. Considering that the moon, as far as we know, is just Attilan, where were they exiled ''to?'' The slums where all the laborers live? If that's the case, why spare the children instead of sending the whole family? There was a second Inhuman city in the comics, albeit not on a Moon, so do "exiles" just get abandoned on Earth or something?

* Why would Medusa even entertain the ''possibility'' that an ATM would give her money, just because she's the queen of Attilan? She's not completely stupid; she knows that Earth is hostile to Inhumans, and that they have no idea Attilan exists, rendering all her royal power useless.

** Except the only people Black Bolt talks to are the royal family, with whom he seems to spend all of his time. So Karnak and Black Bolt could never have a conversation by themselves? Gorgon and Black Bolt getting into the elevator together would just lead to thirty seconds of awkward silence?

** Maximus seems to know what Black Bolt means when he signs, the times that Black Bolt directly signs to him. It's likely that the ones who know it best would be those who have known him the longest or talk to him the most. Medusa might just translate for people who aren't directly related to him or don't know what Black Bolt means as well as she would.

* On a related note, it seems as if only Medusa can translate what Black Bolt is signing, even in the presence of the royal family. None of them have learned sign language to communicate with their own king?

** Considering he was shot, they probably figured he more of fell into the water from blood loss rather than jumping off it.

* When Triton was pursued by soldiers in the opening sequence, gets shot, and jumps off a cliff into the water, one of the soldiers says into his radio, "Target eliminated." [[spoiler:It turns out the soldiers were working for Maximus, as opposed to being American soldiers as implied. If that's the case, shouldn't they be well aware that Triton can breathe water and had successfully escaped?]]

* After Black Bolt got his powers and accidentally killed his parents, why didn't the Inhumans install some kind of plexiglass or something in the Terrigenesis chamber just in case someone else gains potentially destructive abilities? When those two kids came out of the chamber in the first episode, for all they knew, one of them could have sprayed acid everywhere...

* After Black Bolt got his powers and accidentally killed his parents, why didn't the Inhumans install some kind of plexiglass or something just in case someone else gains potentially destructive abilities? When those two kids came out of the chamber in the first episode, for all they knew, one of them could have sprayed acid everywhere...

** [[spoiler: The first episodes demonstrate that they are aware that descendants of those left behind during the move to the moon in the distant past are still on Earth, and that Black Bolt is aware of the random Inhumans popping up, but that the society as a whole has been cut off from Earth and is largely unaware that they have brethren on the surface.]]

* Will they mention Afterlife? I can understand that they would ignore specific people, but a second inhuman city would seem to be way more important than that.

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* Will they mention Afterlife? I can understand that they would ignore specific people, but a second inhuman city would seem to be way more important than that.

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Will they mention afterlife? I can understand that they would ignore specific people, but a second inhuman city would seem to be way more important than that.