Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===The Inhumans===
The Inhumans are a mutated subspecies of humanity created during the Stone Age when the alien Kree showed up and decided to try tinkering with primitive humans in order to bio-engineer a race of superpowered slave-soldiers. For whatever reason, they got bored and left. The products of their work, however, possessed superior physical and mental abilities compared to their unmodified counterparts. They could also use a mutagenic compound called "Terrigen" to trigger an unpredictable genetic mutation, which would give them random abilities and/or deformities. Somehow, rather than using these abilities and their advanced technology (mostly stolen from Kree junk left behind) to take over the world, the Inhumans instead retreated to a hidden city in the Himalayas called "Attilan", where they set up a monarchy built around the heavy use of genetic engineering and eugenics. No, seriously; they literally have a genetic-based caste system, where Inhumans who come out of the Terrigen process too deformed are second-class citizens, and those whose genetics are deemed "too dangerous" aren't even allowed to undergo the process at all. They also rely on a genetically engineered race of slaves called the Alpha Primitives to run their city for them.

Introduced in the Fantastic Four as an example of pulpy "weird lost civilization", the Inhumans first appeared in the form of a single Inhuman - Medusa, a woman with a massive mane of prehensile hair, who showed up as a member of the villainous team "The Frightful Four" in March 1965. Then, in November of the same year, her cousin Gorgon - a [[satyr]] like Inhuman who can generate earthquakes by stomping the ground with his hooves - showed up and revealed she had been brainwashed into joining the Frightful Four. The next month, the Fantastic Four would escort Medusa and Gorgon back to Atillan, thus introducing the Inhumans as a whole.

For the longest time, the Inhumans were largely a bynote in the wider Marvel universe. Then, in the early 2010s, Marvel began to promote them in a major way, including the controversial decision to have them release the Terrigen Mists previously used to carefully transform one Inhuman at a time in massive "Terrigen Clouds" that began free-roaming across the world. See, it turned out that a number of Inhumans in the ancient past hadn't decided to go and play the genetic lottery in their own private city, but had stayed amongst humanity, and these new Terrigen Clouds would trigger the latent Inhuman DNA in unsuspecting humans across the world, thus resulting in a ''massive'' upswelling in the Inhuman numbers. Of course, this also had the problem of afflicting mutants who came into contact with the clouds with a sterilizing and almost certainly lethal fatal disease, which was actually something that had been established ages ago when the question of "what if a mutant got dosed with Terrigen?" was first brought up.

Why was this controversial? Well, this decision was done at a time when Disney owned Marvel as a whole, but Fox owned the X-Men. So to many readers, this reeked of an obvious ploy to basically try and kill off the X-Men whilst promoting the Inhumans in their place (spoilers: blame Ike Perlmutter). Long story short, it didn't work. Fans hated the comics, the Inhumans TV show utterly bombed even by the low standards of the 2010s Marvel TV shows, and in general the Inhumans have mostly slid back into obscurity. The most notable exception is the new Ms. Marvel discussed below, a "NuHuman" who got her own comic series and is actually pretty well liked. [[Derp|In the end, the whole shebang was rendered moot when Disney bought out Fox, thus obtaining the rights to the X-Men by proxy]].
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