MARVEL/NETFLIX SERIES PART 2 – Luke Cage (SPOILERS)

Marvel and Netflix announced earlier last month that they would be adapting four superhero titles to the small screen, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Daredevil.

We already posted the brief history of Iron Fist (here) and now it’s time for his partner in Heroes for Hire Luke Cage. Our next bio will be a continuation of Luke Cage’s life with Jessica Jones.   

The character history is at its purest, since there are more arcs and stories in the character’s comic book run.

Born and raised in Harlem, Carl Lucas was a petty criminal that belong in a gang, who had thoughts of becoming New York’s biggest racketeer until one day he realizes that his actions were hurting his family and went “straight”, finding a legitimate employment.

While still at the gang Lucas befriended Willis Stryker who was also a petty criminal, and while Lucas left the gang, Stryker remained and rose through the ranks, but the two remained friends. One day Stryker’s girlfriend afraid of her boyfriend’s violent work left him and found help in Lucas. Infuriated and convinced that Lucas was the reason of the breakup, Stryker planted heroin in Lucas’ apartment and tipped the police. Lucas was arrested.

At his first prison, Stryker’s betrayal consumed Lucas who often get involved in brawls and escape attempts. These actions transferred him to Seagate Prison, where he meets the sadistic and violent guard Albert “Billy Bob” Rackham and Dr. Noah Burstein, who recruited Lucas as a volunteer for an experimental cell regeneration procedure based on the Super-Soldier serum. While at the experiment the doctor leaves Lucas alone and Rackham took that as an opportunity to use the experiment controls and tried to kill Lucas, resulting in the experiment going haywire and Lucas gaining superhuman strength and durability, which he used to escape prison.

Now back in the big city, Lucas now called Luke Cage, he establishes an office in Times Square’s Gem Theater and launches himself in a new career as a Hero for Hire, helping anyone who could pay his services. Cage finds out that living in New York and being super powered comes with its own problems, as he frequently fights villains in costume and other superpowered foes. After fighting villains like Doctor Doom, who refused to pay him his fees, Cage begins to fight alongside other superheroes like the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man. At this time Cage also befriends Jessica Jones (also on Marvel/Netflix list of upcoming series) whose super-strength and fighting style were similar to Cage’s who now adapts the Power Man codename. Power Man joins The Defenders but soon resigns.

Also in New York is Doctor Burstein is kidnaped by a villain known as Bushmaster, who also as acquitting evidence of Cage’s heroin charges. Bushmaster blackmail’s Cage into abducting detective Misty Knight, who had humiliated him. Cage does as his told and in the process ends up fighting Knight’s boyfriend Iron Fist, who after hearing the story helps Cage defeating Bushmaster and rescuing his friend and evidence. After this event Cage and Iron Fist become best friends and start working together.

After some years of on and off hero work Cage finally decided to stay has a full fledge hero alongside his friend Iron Fist. The pair of heroes worked many cases including as bodyguards for Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil.

One night Cage and his longtime friend Jessica Jones had a one night stand, resulting in Jones getting pregnant. After some more adventures both ended up living together.

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