This article contains full spoilers for Marvel's Inhumans. Make sure to read IGN's review of Marvel's Inhumans: The First Chapter.
Marvel's Inhumans: Season 1 might not be leading up to a point where Black Bolt faces down with Daisy Johnson, but ABC's other TV series featuring a cast of Inhumans, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, has a very important impact on this new series.
Agents of SHIELD introduced the concept of Inhumans into the MCU when Skye unwittingly underwent a Terrigenesis transformation back in Season 2. The season ended with a box of Terrigen crystals falling into the ocean, infecting Earth's water supply and fish population and then setting off a string of Terrigenesis transformations across the globe, spawning a whole bunch more Inhumans.
If you were to think, "That's exactly the right sort of event to trigger the Royal Family's interest in Earth," then you'd be right. As revealed in the first two episodes of Marvel's Inhumans, Black Bolt had been sending Triton down to Earth on secret missions to try to rescue these hunted Inhumans and bring them safely back to Attilan. The problem that proved to be an inciting incident on the show is that Attilan was already overpopulated and forced into a strict caste system, and this revelation helped Maximus execute his plan to overthrow the government and institute himself as king.
When asked about connecting Marvel's Inhumans back to Agents of SHIELD through this story thread, showrunner Scott Buck told IGN, "In a way it made it more fun. It was almost like there was a bit of a tease of the bigger Inhumans is going to come out eventually. Inhumans is a comic that’s been around from the mid sixties. It’s a world that’s already been created. We approached it more form that way, building up from the comic book. We don’t see ourselves as an offshoot of SHIELD in any way. We’re just all part of the same family."
If the events of Agents of SHIELD were what helped trigger this Inhumans storyline, the bigger question is how the events of Inhumans won't impact SHIELD's storylines. Considering the cliffhanger that ended SHIELD: Season 4, it makes sense that these characters won't cross paths. Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb explained to IGN that setting Marvel's Inhumans on Hawaii was a way to minimize its impact on the rest of the MCU.
"The first eight episodes, it’s more about the world of Attilan. It’s much more, to use a phrase we all know of, a civil war than one that is going to break out into humanity," said Loeb. "Part of the reason why we picked Hawaii is we did want it to be a contained area that we could go 'OK, that’s what happened on an island that doesn’t have a lot of communication in the places that they’re in and some people are going to know and some people aren’t going to know.' But all I can tell you is that where the story ends, I absolutely guarantee, it is not at all what people think after they’ve watched the first two hours."
Loeb added of future SHIELD/Inhumans connections, "Do I look forward to the day where Daisy Johnson stands in front of Black Bolt and says, 'You aren’t the king of me?' Sure. We should be so lucky that both shows get to that day where we’re going to see those characters interact. But there’s no plan for that to happen right now other than the fact that we know they’re in the same world and characters bump into each other. That’s what happens. That’s the Marvel Universe."
Marvel's Inhumans is currently in IMAX theaters, and will premiere on ABC on September 29th. For more on Marvel's Inhumans, make sure to read how the series brought to life the 2,000 pound CGI dog Lockjaw, as well how the EPs created a way for Black Bolt to speak.
Terri Schwartz is Editorial Manager of Entertainment at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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