Agents of SHIELD Proved Inhumans Don't Work - By Turning Them Into Mutants
Agents of SHIELD inadvertently proved the Inhumans don't work, by turning them into mutants. In 2013, Marvel Television launched what was intended as the first official MCU tie-in TV series, Agents of SHIELD. It didn't take long for the show to begin blazing its own trail, though, with season 2 introducing the Inhumans. Chloe Bennet's hacker Skye was transformed into the Inhuman superhero Quake, a literal metamorphosis that essentially led to her becoming the show's co-star.
The small-screen debut of the Inhumans was accompanied by Marvel Studios' Phase 3 announcement, which included the announcement of an Inhuman movie, scheduled for November 2, 2018. At first this seemed like a surprising case of corporate synergy between Marvel Television and Marvel Studios; the general assumption was that Agents of SHIELD was introducing the concept of the Inhumans, setting them up to become their own major MCU franchise. Unfortunately, the relationship between Marvel Studios and the rest of Marvel Entertainment soured, with Disney forced to conduct a major corporate restructure in 2015. The Inhumans movie was swiftly dropped, with the entire property passed to Marvel Television, who launched their own Inhumans TV series instead — an ostensible companion show for Agents of SHIELD that flopped. This failure led to the Inhumans being relegated to a secondary plot-point even in Agents of SHIELD, with several major arcs dropped.
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In truth, though, Agents of SHIELD had unwittingly signaled the major problems with the Inhumansfranchise as a whole. Marvel Comics had been attempting to increase their profile at the time as well, and Agents of SHIELD mimicked the comics by introducing a version
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