Marvel Comic’s powerful Inhumans have been largely ignored since 2018’s Death of the Inhumans storyline, but it has been confirmed that Black Bolt and his Royal Family are still around, and the current A.X.E.: Judgment Day event would be the perfect time for the Inhumans to return in full.
The Inhumans have been around for decades, first debuting in 1965 as a secretive race of super powered beings, later revealed to be science experiments by the alien Kree, who use a process called Terrigenesis to evolve themselves into beings with unique abilities. The Inhumans got a huge push by Marvel during their debacle with Fox Studios over ownership of the X-Men, using the Inhumans to replace the mutants in Marvel stories, but since 2018 the Inhumans have rarely appeared at Marvel.
The current Judgment Day event has seen the regretful revival of the Celestial Progenitor, who was resurrected in the hopes that it would stop Druig’s Eternals war against the mutants of Krakoa, but instead the Progenitor decided it would be judging the worthiness of Earth’s inhabitants, with the fate of the planet riding on its judgment. Unfortunately, even after several diverse attempts at either destroying the Celestial or proving themselves worthy, the Progenitor deemed that the Earth was overwhelmingly not worthy of redemption, prompting an ongoing apocalypse that threatens to destroy all life on the planet. However, the event is not over yet, and there is still a huge opportunity for Marvel to reintroduce the Inhumans, or at least the Inhuman Royal Family, giving them a bombastic and meaningful return to mainstream comics as they help the heroes of Earth save the planet. Marvel has already confirmed that the Inhumans do still exist in the Marvel Universe, with Black Bolt’s inclusion in the Scarlet Witch’s Darkhold event, and the reintroduction of the Inhuman Romeo to his ex-boyfriend Iceman, so at this point it truly makes zero sense that the Inhumans would not have shown up in Judgment Day, as the fate of their world rests on the destruction or appeasement of the Progenitor.
Black Bolt Has Slaughtered Celestials Before
Additionally, the king of the Inhumans, Blackagar Boltagon, known as Black Bolt, has been confirmed to have so powerful a super human ability that he once destroyed six Celestials in one fell swoop, meaning he could easily take down the single Progenitor. Black Bolt’s power is connected to his voice, with a single word spoken unleashing hugely destructive shockwave capable of destroying cities or planets, an ability to strong that he was raised in containment to protect the rest of the Inhumans. Blackagar never speaks out loud, because he can’t make noise without using his ability. Back in the “Thanos Wins” arc of Donny Cates and Geoffrey Shaw’s Thanos, the Mad Titan reflected on his swift rise to power, taking over and destroying the entire universe, and part of how he “won” was by using Black Bolt’s destructive voice to slaughter a group of Celestials. In Thanos #14 the Mad Titan brought a chain-bounded Blackagar before a group of Celestials and then stabbed the Inhuman King, forcing the man to scream and unleash his voice, proving that Black Bolt’s raw power is on the same level as other supremely strong beings like the Hulk, Vulcan, or Sentry. However, Black Bolt is also known for his supreme sense of right and wrong, responsibility, and leadership, meaning that not just his horrifyingly powerful voice could be used to turn the tide of Judgment Day.
If Black Bolt were to return in the climax of Judgment Day, either to use his cosmically powerful voice to destroy the Progenitor or just joining the Inhuman Royal Family with their heroic peers, it would make for a truly impressive and powerful return of the slighted Inhuman race.
