Trivia / Inhumanoids

• Executive Meddling: Inverted — when it became clear the toys weren't selling, Hasbro canned the line, but they still had a 13-episode commitment to fulfill. This led to the writers being allowed to do whatever they wanted as long as there weren't any complaints to the FCC.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Unlike its fellow Sunbow shows such as The Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, and Jem, this show never got rereleased on DVD by Shout! Factory. There were previous DVD releases by Rhino Entertainment, but those only covered nine of the thirteen episodes and have since gone out of print.
  • It did however get a complete series release on DVD in the UK, but sadly it's out of print now.
• Playing Against Type: Dr. Derek Bright, mechanical master and general Badass Bookworm, is voiced by Richard Sanders — Les Nessman.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • Per Aubrey Sitterson, the Inhumanoids were supposed to appear in G.I. Joe (2016) (and therefore the Hasbro Comic Universe), but when they sent in the script to Hasbro, it transpired that Hasbro had lost the rights, therefore any Inhumanoids characters couldn't be used, forcing Sitterson to rewrite the characters into the "Fatal Fluffies" (enemies from the 80s' Joe cartoon).
  • Interestingly, IDW later published a comic that was confirmed to take place in the defunct Hasbro Comic Universe — specifically, a new ROM (IDW) miniseries titled ROM: Dire Wraiths. The miniseries featured the human cast of Inhumanoids, albeit with slightly tweaked, copyright friendly names (such as Hank Armstrong instead of Herc). A few of said humans even make oblique references to facing "inhuman monsters from beneath the Earth".
• What Could Have Been:
  • The first pitch for the series, the Force of Light from Marvel's Tom DeFalco, was much different. The idea here was that meteors would begin to bombard Earth (here 20 Minutes into the Future) and the UN contacted Dr. Charles Gibson for help; on his advice, massive "light shields" are constructed around portions of Earth. They work, but then Gibson's geologist friend, Dr. Jason Bright, finds some of the shields have been sabotaged. While space aliens are initially suspected, he and Gibson's daughter Sandra instead discover the meteors have caused mutated beings dubbed "mutores" to arise; living Beneath the Earth, they're determined to eliminate mankind and keep the meteors coming. Consequently, Bright and several allies construct "light helmets" so they can battle the Mutores themselves. Not much of this draft survived into the final product, with the name "Mutores" being reassigned to the creatures that battle and sealed the Inhumanoids away in the past, while Sandra Gibson evolved into Sandra Shore.
  • Likely tying in with the above situation, the failed Hasbro experiment Unit:E reimagined the Inhumanoids as Primordia, with different designs and potential to be a Chaotic Neutral; it's also suggested in story that they were what happens when you cross the fairies (as in, Princess Lolly, for real).

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