Adding more electrons to a polyiodide (i.e. further increasing its charge via a reduction process) will result in filling more antibonding orbitals (reducing overall bond order), and thus reduce the stability of the resulting species. Still, it is instructive to notice here that, among the cases critically evaluated by Svensson and Kloo in their 2003 review, 3 a potential I16 4-survives, featuring two formal I8 2-units connected by a long (3.45 Å bond). Therefore, the possibility of encountering superior polyiodides of higher charge cannot be entirely ruled out since, when the number of atoms in the chain increases, also the number of bonding levels increases. In other words, much like in an infinite chain (finite charge is irrelevant), very large chains (n = 16 in this case) could be able to stabilize higher charges. Although not likely to be frequent, we cannot rule out that further high-charge linear chain polyiodides could be observed (in which case, our arguments allow us to predict their geometries). In conclusion, we have shown how the introduction of EDMBs in electron-rich atoms, together with well-known and fully established broad chemical concepts, provides a comprehensive picture of linear chain polyiodides, which, in our opinion, never appeared so clear and accessible in the past. The huge number of literature studies discussing bonding features and/or presenting high-end calculations even for simple polyiodides supports our claims of increased clarity.