Stop Marvel From Diminishing X-Men With Inhumans!
- by: Nathan Heinermann
- recipient: Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Welcoming all X-Men fans out there to this looming replacement of the x-men with the Inhumans in Marvel comic books and media. I will start with the fact that Marvel is going to eliminate the word "mutant" from their ongoing comic titles and even replacing x-men back stories with inhuman ones.
Fans already know what has happened to the cancellations of the iconic Fantastic Four ongoing team books because Fox owns the movie rights thus Marvel is trying to quell the FF and thus diminish Fox's success. Now it looks like the same tactic is being applied to the X-men. Both FF and the X-men have been around for the past 50 years and have enormous fan bases all over the world.
UPDATE & SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS 2....Don't read this next section unless you want to know....
In "Avengers 2," Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver are of Eastern European descent. To rid of any connection to the X-Men, it's revealed that at the age of 10, their parents were killed in a bombing.
The twins later join up with terrorist organization H.Y.D.R.A. to undergo some voluntary experiments and end up gaining super abilities. Pietro, aka Quicksilver, is lightening fast, while Wanda, the Scarlet Witch, has telekinetic abilities.
Instead of being called mutants, the duo, and anyone with special powers, is referred to as enhanced.
Before the movie Marvel retconned that the twins are no longer Magneto's children thus severing their 30 plus year history I grew up with
I want to be clear Marvel still owns all rights to X-men outside of the movie entertainment genre so it should have no problem continuing to delight fans of the X-men for decades to come but something has happened to the people in charge.
The executives now at Marvel/Disney have taken drastically different tactics.
Back in the early 90's the company was about to face bankruptcy and would have if not for the movie rights deals they made with Fox Studios and Sony Entertainment. These deals kept Marvel afloat and able to produce comic book titles and blockbuster movies like Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Avengers that we all enjoy today.
Now is the time to let Marvel understand just how petty and immature this looming threat to the future of X-Men and the word "mutants" will become unless we rise up and demand them to stop this immature behavior. In the movie rights deals Marvel cannot use the word "mutants" in their movies but they can use Inhumans. Both X-men and the Inhumans have separate origins and teams unique among themselves yet now I fear Marvel is going to replace the X-men with Inhumans and expect this bait and switch will be a success. I for one am a loyal X-Men fan and do not want to see this come to fruition. If you are a X-Men fan and feel the way I do then please sign this petition and stop Marvel before its too late.
Folks, it’s been a sad day for us… due to reasons we aren’t at liberty to disclose, we have been asked to put a hard stop to all X-Men characters for now.
And today Bleeding Cool has the 2015 Marvel Line-Up poster without any X-men or FF characters to be found.
In "Avengers 2," Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver origins are changed to rid of any connection to the X-Men, at the age of 10, their parents were killed in a bombing, later join H.Y.D.R.A. to undergo some voluntary experiments and end up gaining super abilities. Already Marvel changed the twins origin in comic books before the movie and said they are not Magneto's children anymore. Spread the message before its too late.
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