| Alpha Primitive | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four vol. 1, #47 (February 1966) |
| Created by | Jack Kirby Stan Lee |
The Alpha Primitives are a fictional subspecies of humanity from Marvel Comics. They first appeared in Fantastic Four #47 (February 1966), and were created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.
The Alpha Primitives were a slave race created by the Inhumans, an advanced offshoot of humanity. Because of the Inhumans' low population, they created a labor force of hominids bred to be strong, but of limited intelligence. They were also rendered unable to breed, being produced only by cloning.
The scheming usurper Maximus the Mad once tried to use the Alphas in his schemes, mutating three of the creatures into malevolent beings of pure mental energy known as the Trikon, but they were defeated and banished into the Negative Zone [1].
Maximus later tried to use the latent guilt most Inhumans felt about the Alphas in one of his many plots to overthrow the royal family of Attilan, utilizing Omega, but the guilt was abolished when the Inhumans' ruler Black Bolt declared the Alpha Primitives free. The Alphas would no longer be cloned, and those already made would be allowed to live out their lives in a preserve under the city proper [2].
The remaining Alpha Primitives live quietly in their preserve, many still mindlessly performing the jobs for which they were trained. At one point, the Inhumans Karnak and Gorgon are revealed and punished for advocating the continued use of the Primitives as slaves.[3]
By the time Atillan was moved to the Moon, however, it was understood that the Alphas could not live on their own, and the previous arrangement was reversed.[4]
The former king of the Inhumans, The Unspoken, recently revealed that Alpha Primitives are actually humans who have been exposed to gas created from Xerogen Crystals, a substance created by the Kree as a weapon for the Inhumans to use against their human enemies.[5]
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