Earlier this month Marvel announced that would be teaming up with Netflix to bring four original series and miniseries based on four of their superheroes, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Daredevil.
In anticipation to more news from each of the series,
here is the first part of a four part post regarding the characters that will
be leading the shows.
The character history is at its purest, since there
are more arcs and stories in the character’s life.
As a youth Wendell Rand visits the mystic city of K’un-Lun,
which materializes once a decade in the Himalayas and was founded about a
million years ago by extraterrestrials, and is ruled by the Dragon Kings, who
are the decedents of the aliens.
After saving the life of Lord Tuan, the ruler of K’un-Lun,
Rand is adopted by Tuan as his heir. During this time Rand marries Shakari and
has a daughter named Miranda Rand-K’ai, and after training and battles wins the
right to be the Iron Fist, only to refuse it. After a ten year stay in the
city, Rand loses his wife due to the internal conflict within the power
structure of K’un-Lun and leaves to Earth.
In Earth he becomes a successful businessman and
marries Heather Duncan, from whom he has a son named Daniel Rand. When Daniel
is nine, Wendell decides to bring him, his wife Heather and his business partner
Harold Meachum to the city of K’un-Lun, which is due to materialize at any
time. During the travel Wendell fells from a mountain ledge and Meachum trying
to get hold of the entire company “helps” Wendell fall. Now stranded, Heather and
Daniel try to survive the harsh environment, but when a pack of wolves attack Heather
dies while protecting her son.
The habitants of K’un-Lun find Daniel and take him in,
while Meachum crippled by frostbite returns home. While at K’un-Lun, Daniel
studies martial arts and befriends Miranda, who he doesn’t know she is his
sisters and a little boy named Conal.
Now nineteen, Daniel asks for the right to try and win
the power of the Iron Fist, which he gets and with the city now
re-materializing on Earth’s plane, Daniel travels back to seek vengeance upon
Meachum who murdered his father. After fighting other masked men, Daniel finds
Meachum but after seeing the invalid state in which he was, Daniel spares him.
Now as Iron Fist, Daniel fights crime and eventually
finds his way to Luke Cage and enters the world of Heroes for Hire.
Through concentration Iron Fist can harness his
spiritual energy or chi and augment his mental and physical capabilities to
peak human condition. If he focuses the chi on his hand then he can temporarily
make it superhumanly powerful, immune to pain and injury. Rand can heal himself
and other of any injury or illness. He can sense mystic energy and is able to
fuse with another person’s conscious and see and feel the other person’s memory
and emotions.
At one point Iron Fist uses the Soulgem to restore
Earth to normal after it being terraformed by evil forces. Interestingly the
Soulgem is used by Thanos in his Infinity Gauntlet. So far two of the five gems
have already appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the first one was the
Tesseract, which appear in Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, The
Avengers and the second one was the Aether, which recently appear in Thor: The
Dark World. It would be interesting to see if these new series will have any
connection to the third Avengers movie, in which it is expected that Thanos
will appear in full.
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