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snickfic ([personal profile] snickfic) wrote in [community profile] mcu_cosmic 2019-07-21 06:17 pm (UTC)

Well, one of the Eternals characters they specifically did a casting call for a gay Asian actor to play a gay Asian character, right? I wasn't following closely, but looking at the cast, that'd have to be Gilgamesh.

I don't know the Inhumans that well, but from what I've seen of them they're not very much like mutants except for having random powers. They're a monarchic society, possibly very long-lived (iirc?), and their semi-secret kingdom is currently located on the dark side of the moon. Their powers are generally genetic, I believe, as opposed to mutants, where anyone might turn out to be a mutant regardless of parentage. So I believe they end up playing a fairly different narrative role. (Edit: although recently there was this whole plotline for a while where they triggered a lot of latent Inhuman powers in apparently normal people, and that did feel very much like a mutant storyline.)

Their king Black Bolt (short for, I kid you, not Blackagar Boltagon) communicates only via telepathy, their queen Medusa has hair greater than her body mass and can use it like a bunch of extra hands, and they have a giant dog with a tuning fork on his head. #comics

If you want a very quick and dirty intro to the Inhumans, I strongly recommend FF, the Matt Fraction/Mike Allred book about the "replacement" Fantastic Four (including Medusa) that has to step in when the actual Fantastic Four disappears for a year. It's DELIGHTFUL. The first few issues are in this book, and then it gets its own trade volumes after that.

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