Meet the Main Characters of Marvel's Inhumans

From Black Bolt to Lockjaw.

By Terri Schwartz

Marvel's Inhumans will soon be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it debuts on IMAX and ABC in September. Though the Inhumans were previously introduced on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Inhumans will be introducing audiences to the Inhuman Royal Family, led by the silent but deadly Black Bolt, who reside on the dark side of the Moon in the city of Attilan.

"I think of all of the potential adaptations that Marvel could want to do for television, The Inhumans has got to be one of the bravest because it is so out there, and in a great way. I'm acting with a giant, imaginary dog sometimes, you know?" star Anson Mount said of the series. "I can tell you right now there's not going to be anything on TV remotely like this show. That in and of itself, I think as a viewer, I think that that would be interesting to watch to see how the hell are they going to do this."

Anson Mount as Black Bolt and Iwan Rheon as Maximus on Marvel's Inhumans

IGN had the opportunity to visit the Hawaii-based set of Marvel's Inhumans earlier this year, and will be rolling out plenty of coverage leading up to the series' release. To kick things off, we asked the cast to describe their characters and their roles in the series. Click through the below gallery for the cast's breakdown of each of their Inhuman characters:

Marvel's Inhumans peels back the layers on a never-before-seen part of the MCU, and we asked the cast what makes this show different from the many other types of projects we've seen released by Marvel in recent years.

"It's a very different twist on the superhero genre in the sense that they're not really superheroes that are going out to save humanity and help against evil baddies," explained Iwan Rheon. "They're a race of people that have been living completely separate on the moon away from the world. They don't want anything to do with humans, and they're hiding from them essentially. We pick up the story with the sort of threat of them [humans and Inhumans] meeting, and how that will pan out through the series is very interesting. The two worlds sort of start colliding and it's a very interesting sort of dynamic in how two segregated groups sort of interact and how then you integrate them."

Added Mount, "I don't think a television can exist purely in the white hat/black hat paradigm that a lot of graphic novels exist in. Although The Inhumans has been about smudging those lines more than a lot of others. ... One thing is that I like how their 'powers' are, I don't really look at them as powers. I look at them as handicaps. I look at them as sometimes burdens. I think that that endears us to them as well."

The first two episodes of Marvel's Inhumans are premiering exclusively in IMAX theatres for a two-week window beginning September 1st. The series then premieres on ABC on September 29th. For more on Marvel's Inhumans, here's our explainer on the mysterious Marvel characters.

Terri Schwartz is Editorial Producer at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.

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