Maximus will be the Big Bad
Seems like the best choice. Characters to appear:
- Black Bolt & Medusa obviously
- Black Bolt confirmed! He will be portrayed by Anson Mount.
- Medusa confirmed! She will be portrayed by Serinda Swann.
- Maximus
- Confirmed! He will be portrayed by Iwan Rheon.
- Crystal
- Confirmed.
- Lockjaw
- Confirmed.
- Jiaying in a a flashback
- Karnak. He'd be easy on the effects budget.
- That and he is a major character in the Inhumans mythos.
- Confirmed! He will be portrayed by Ken Leung.
- Triton. Maybe he could appear human most of the time and gain his green, finned comics' design when he's submerged in water.
- Confirmed.
- Gorgon
- Confirmed.
- Black Bolt and Medusa's son Ahura.
- Aireo. This flying man could be Maximus's stooge if he's the Big Bad.
- Kamala Khan, if the series runs long enough & the 2019 Captain Marvel film is successful enough that a Ms. Marvel spin-off or tie-in of some kind could happen.
- Ulysses. Another guy whose powers do not require special effects. They can even relate him somehow to Raina. That, or just skip Ulysses and simply bring back Raina.
- Quake, for the spin-off tie-in aspect.
- Surprisingly jossed
- Phaeder, an exiled Inhuman criminal residing on a remote island, whom Maximus contacts and cooperates with in secret to create his own genetically-modified army. (Okay, granted his connections to the High Evolutionary make him highly legally questionable, but I think he's obscure enough that nobody would make a fuss).
- Or Maelstrom, his son.
- Jolen/Nahrees/Tonaja and the whole foreign exchange gang.
- Black Bolt, Medusa, Lock Jaw, Maximus, Karnak, Triton, Gorgon, Crystal, and Ulysses (in the form of Canon Foreigner Bronaja) confirmed, jost for everyone else.
Black Bolt will use sign language to communicate.
It's a much more logical idea than the other characters just knowing what his intentions are by looking into his eyes or something. It'd also be easier for general audiences to swallow.- Confirmed. The actor studied types of signing and developed his own personal sign language for Black Bolt to use.
There will be brief references to the cosmic events in the MCU.
The Inhuman royal family won't all be related.
- Jossed; the character descriptions listed with each bit of casting news have confirmed Black Bolt and Medusa are related to the others in the royal family.
Daisy Johnson will make a cameo
Because Rule of Cool.- Jossed
There will be many, many, many, MANY jabs at the X-Men movies
Since one of the main reasons why the Inhumans have been pushed so hard by Marvel is because Fox holds the film and TV rights to the X-Men, it would be appropriate that the show itself would include quite a few snubs at Fox and their X-Men shows.- There will be many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many MANY X-Men fans who'd go friggin ballistic over that. Best not actively stir the waters of the fandom rivalry.
- Jossed.
Black Bolt will don his comics costume
And for bonus point it will be Ellen Woglom's character who makes it in order for him to get a better handle on his powers. For comedy there will be commentary on how silly others think it is but Black Bolt himself will love it. Given the positive reception to Lockjaw from the first trailer (especially compared to everything else), further marketing will really try and play up his appearance
This would seem to make sense...from what I've heard, it's similar to how promotional material for Justice League (2017) is playing up Wonder Woman's appearance after the positive response to her movie compared to the rest of the DCEU. There'll be three Inhuman factions.
One is the Inhuman Royal Family and their followers/supporters, one led by Maximus (which is all of Atillan), and one made up of self-hating Inhumans on Earth. The series is low quality because it's an Ashcan Copy
It is known that Kevin Feige did not want to do Inhumans movie and only added it to Phase 3 on the insistence of Ike Perlmutter in exchange for getting the Captain Marvel movie made. As soon as Feige took full control of Marvel Studios, answering directly to Disney leadership, the Inhumans movie was put off the release schedule. Now, moving that property to Marvel Television department (still controlled by Perlmutter) makes sense, what doesn't is filming and releasing two episodes in IMAX on a TV budget. This could be exaplained if the original deal was not just verbal, but some sort of a written contract that required Marvel to have an Inhumans property in theaters at some point before, let's say, 2019. Giving the TV series a short run in IMAX, but not the production budget required for quality VFX lets Feige stay true to his side of the original deal From a Certain Point of View. The Inhuman Royal Family will undergo Character Development.
They'll eventually realize the Fantastic Caste System was wrong. So they plan to change that when they return to Atillan. Assuming they're not too late to win the people back, but it'll likely be too late to change Maximus. The Fantastic Caste System was the result of the events behind Hive and Hydra
Hive was the first Inhuman but he was a mad Inhuman who wanted revenge on the Kree Empire and enslaved many of the Inhumans. The original Inhuman ancestors especially the Royal Family defeated him but realized that Hive still had followers who have been secretly forming the organization who will become Hydra. The Inhuman Royal Family found out and captured every single one of them but the damage was done and these criminals were sent into the mines of anything as punishment. Maximus has (some version of) his powers from the comics.
The Genetics Council decided that an Inhuman with mind control/manipulation abilities, especially one in the royal line of succession, would turn their society into something worse than a dictatorship. So they falsified the records of his Terrigenesis and lied to him about the results, possibly even with his parents' help, in the hopes that lack of knowledge of his powers would prevent him from using them effectively.- Thus making Maximus' Face–Heel Turn a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as the resentment caused by his "human" status fueled his long-term plot to seize the throne.
Maximus' coup wasn't the first attempt to resist the caste system, just the first successful one.
Oppressed underclasses tend to be unhappy about their lot, but history shows that even the most downtrodden people will eventually act if things don't change. Attilan has been active for a long time and, assuming the caste system was in place for most or all of that time, it's inevitable that there were other attempts to change the status quo. They failed since that's almost always the outcome when the underclass is made up of non-powered or weakly-powered people and all the "good" powers belong to those with the most interest in keeping things the same. Gorgon will be revived
At the end of "The Gentleman's Name is Gorgon" the episode's title character seems to die, and the promos for the following episode show his body, just to hammer the point home further. But the show so far has seen that Auran (who I believe is now in the custody of the surviving members of the Royal family) has a Healing Factor, and we've just met a man (Declan) who is a genetic engineer that can play around with Inhuman DNA. Thus, putting two and two together, Declan may find a way to extract Auran's Healing Factor and give it to Gorgon, reviving him.- Confirmed, though not every detail of how he's revived.
Crystal will return to Earth
- "Havoc in the Hidden Land" shows that Crystal is getting tired of her life as a princess and that she wishes to return to Earth because thins were easier and simpler there. Perhaps at the end of the season, she'll return to Earth and get back with Dave.
- Technically true, since in the end all of Inhumankind had to return to Earth to escape the destruction of Attilan.
Maximus was intended by his Terrigenesis to be the Earth ambassador for the Inhumans, while Blackbolt was intended to be King and by his Terrigenesis, protector from the mysterious enemy that fears sonic attacks.
- Terrigenesis is described as knowing when a need must be fulfilled, given events in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thanos, more Inhumans appears, and even those lunar probes), the Inhumans need to make formal contact with the UN and willing nations. If its going to happen, have it be on Inhumans terms. Many ambassadors and heads of state would be reluctant to outright refuse to meet with an Inhuman, but they would meet with a human representative who had the ear of the king, such as the king's powerless brother/Royal Prince. Blackbolt's ability could be evidence that coming conflict with the mysterious enemy is inevitable, which could be caused by increase Inhuman contact with Earth
The series will continue with a second season...but it will be heavily revamped
It will be largely detached from the first season, with it instead focusing on some new characters, like newly empowered inhumans dealing with learning how to use their powers, a far way from wherever the Royal Family settles down on Earth. The Inhumans will appear in the films and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. but will have new actors to play them
If Its lit for another season, a new director and team will have the current actors be replaced and would hand waved the change as Earth's atmosphere causing an effect on their physical biology.- The problem with the show wasn't the cast, so there'd be no real meaning to shaft them. They could keep them around if they used them again, at least some of them.
The Inhumans all died to Thanos's fingersnap in Avengers: Infinity War
Considering the show's Cancellation it only seems fitting that the cast gets wiped off of the face of the universe. Except Lockjaw, who just goes and does his usual thing.- Considering what happened in Endgame, a more likely scenario is the Royal Family survived the snap (since it's confirmed that the snap is truly random, as opposed to merely snapping half of the members of a group of people), but died in the immediate aftermath, so they weren't brought back by Hulk undoing the snap (as it only brought back people who had been snapped away).
The series will be retroactively revealed to be a mere TV show within the MCU
With it being made non-canon, the characters will be reintroduced in Ms. Marvel as supporting characters, possibly in the second season. They'll be made significantly different from their TV show counterparts in order to Win Back the Crowd.