Danny, Danny!
Danny are you okay
It's just a bad memory.
In the past.
I hope so
Welcome back everyone
It's Charlie
We just learned that Marvel is working on a new iron Fist TV series,
and apparently there's going to be a totally new version of Iron Fist in the MCU,
both this year and another new version in the next couple of years.
And it's all part of them bringing back all the Marvel Netflix defenders
characters, starting with Daredevil, Born Again Kingpin.
The Punisher we know is coming back during that.
Jessica Jones, who we know is coming back.
So we'll explain.
Marvel's current plan to redeem the Iron Fist character
just in general, and their plan to give the Danny Rand Netflix
Iron Fist like Finn Jones Iron Fist a chance to redeem the character himself.
Yes, they do have a plan to redeem him in the MCU, too, but apparently is a whole different thing.
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I've been doing a bunch of Daredevil born again videos because we just got a bunch of footage in first Look.
They just started filming, so there's a bunch of teasers out there.
I'll post links for that at the end of this and down to the description below.
there's going to be a whole lot of Daredevil coming next year.
in as you probably seen the news the past couple of weeks, Marvel has a bunch of big
iron fist plans in just generally Marvel Netflix defenders plans is they're bringing back
all those characters they can ice them to the MCU, starting with the Echo
series like apparently they sat down when they were making the Echo series
and we're like, okay, let's actually kinahans is this formally,
even though people always felt like it had been carried through the MCU unofficially.
up until this point, we've been a little bit cagey about what's sacred timeline.
What's not sacred timeline that was that was born of,
frankly, a period at the studio where we were like, we have to stick the landing with Avengers.
Sure.
You know, it was it was another part of the company developing the Netflix stuff.
We were aware of what they were doing.
They were aware of we were doing.
But it was it was a it was it was a lot.
It was a lot to balance anyway.
But now that, you know, to some time has passed,
now that we see how actually how well integrated the stories are.
would be confident in saying it is part of the sacred time.
turns out the reason for all that confusion back in the day when the Marvel Netflix series were
actually going was because of all the contract issues between Netflix and Marvel, the Marvel TV people,
which were like a totally separate group from the Marvel movie, people who are now in charge
of all the TV shows, even though they themselves have also reorganized as the way that Marvel makes TV
shows and brought in actual TV people, which now more closely resembles the way that Marvel TV used to be.
the circle is now complete.
Like they started out thinking that the movie people could do all the TV's stuff
and now they're just back to making the TV stuff like they used to make all the TV stuff.
but the big news right now is they just announced two new versions of Iron Fist.
the first time we're going to see an iron fist again in the MCU.
It's actually going to be one of these totally new versions of the character
during that stealth Black Panther series that Marvel is releasing later this year.
I say stealth series because they haven't released any big trailers or promos for it yet,
and they barely said anything about it publicly despite doing a ton of work on it.
Behind the scenes.
like it sounds like it's going to be a really cool series,
but it's just weird that they haven't said anything about it.
Like, by the way, we have this whole big thing that we haven't told you about.
they formally announced it back at a presentation for what if season two
at the end of last year where they showed off a couple episodes and during
that they announced their entire 2024 animated TV slate of shows.
part of that list was the new Spider-Man freshman year series, which they're calling Friendly
neighborhood Spider-Man now.
Funny enough, Charlie Cox is coming back during that show as his version of Daredevil.
I think Vincent D'Onofrio is also coming back as his version of Kingpin during
that they're also featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as version of Doctor Strange.
But it's going to be kind of an elseworlds type of show.
So it kind of exists in this weird multiverse state in the MCU.
But don't worry, I'll talk more about that in separate videos when we start getting trailers for it.
there's the X-Men 97 episodes, which are actually coming up in March.
We'll get a trailer for that really soon.
And then there's the Black Panther Eyes of Wakanda series.
it's one of a couple Black Panther TV series Marvel is working on right now.
Some of them are live action, some are animated, like there's an okay midnight Angels series.
That will happen eventually.
but this totally new version of Iron Fist in the MCU is supposed to be an ancient iron fist.
And I think based on the whole synopsis of this black Panther series plot,
it's meant to be the very first iron fist in the MCU who ever existed.
if you haven't read the comics, that's the Iron Fist, who was a member of the Avengers 1 million B.C team
with Odin, the first human version of Phenix, the original Black Panther
Bushranger, the original Sorcerer Supreme Agamotto,
who created the Eye of Agamotto that Doctor Strange uses in the MCU.
their stand in version of the Hulk was the Star brand.
Star brand is like a completely different power said different character inside Marvel Comics,
but it was sort of like the stand in for Hulk on that Avengers team
They formed in the actual year, 1 million B.C.
when cave people were running around on earth to fight a celestial
who had come to earth seeking another dead celestial that had crashed.
Earth is sort of a twist on the Eternals plot.
like it was a slightly different version of the Eternals movie plot
with Odin in a version of his Avengers team when he was young.
this new Black Panther series is supposed to follow a special team of Durham allies
who search for vibranium around the world, trying to keep it from falling into anyone's hands.
both villains and heroes.
If the current Black Panther during any era doesn't specific only gifted to anyone
Really good example is during the first Captain America movie during World War Two,
T'Challa Black Panther's grandfather was still king of Wakanda and was still relatively young.
He gifted the vibranium for Captain America's shield to the United States and Howard Stark.
So he specifically intended for them to have Captain America shield.
He didn't know at the time that they'd turn it into a shield.
He just gave them the raw vibranium medal or and Howard Stark was the one who came up with the idea
to turn it into a shield.
That's why they had the jokes about it in Avengers Age of Ultron.
so that
Black Panther series seems like it's going to be showing the team across history.
And it's Marvel's way of using other versions
of Black Panther from previous parts of the timeline, like the older versions of Black Panther.
Because in real life they can't use Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa anymore.
But you can do all the previous versions of Black Panther.
That's why they use his father, the two Shaka Black Panther during the 1980s Avengers episodes.
And what if Same idea with this new Black Panther series, just an opportunity
to see other previous Black Panthers.
And we might see the original Black Panther bazinga because they featured him
during the first Black Panther movie, but we've never actually seen him in live action
or even an animation like you just see depictions of him.
he would have been alive.
When fan say the original Iron Fist was alive, But
the timeline in the comics is very different from the timeline of the MCU.
The MCU timeline is compressed a lot like Asgardians don't live quite as long.
Odin isn't quite as old inside the MCU, but.
It's the same basic concept fans.
They grew up in Kun Lun and trained in martial arts like everybody that grew up in Conlon.
At this point in history, the people of their celestial city were way
more advanced than the cave people of Earth, obviously, because you're talking about 1 million B.C.
Her backstory also crosses over a little bit with the Eternals backstory in the MCU movie.
she fought a lot of those ancient deviants that came to earn.
So she is kind of connected to a lot of MCU stuff already.
the only other version of Iron Fist I could think that it would be if they're going to do an ancient version.
That character is if they go with the Marvel Netflix Iron fist version of history,
which is a little bit different from the timeline of the comics in on the Marvel Netflix Iron fist series
Danny Rand said The legend of Iron Fist is that the original person
to kill the dragon and take the power of the Iron fist was Wu AOC, The Pirate.
Queen of Ping Hai Bay, who was the ancestor of Colleen Wing.
she was the iron fist during the 1500s of the comics.
But in the comics, the iron Fist lineage goes way back to, say, 1 million B.C.
in Fang Fey.
my assumption is that when they used Woo AOC for Colleen Wing's backstory,
it was because Fang Fey as a character hadn't really been created until the Iron Fist
series had been up and running like it already premiered.
So she wasn't really on the showrunners radars until after they introduced
that connection in the comics, Otherwise they probably would have just said that Colleen Wing
was the descendant of Fang Fai, the whole idea though, and the show's backstory is that Danny Rand believed
Colleen came from her line and thus had a claim, an ancient claim to the Iron Fist.
And it was the show's way of explaining why she could possess it.
Like, this is why you should be the Iron fist At the time, the Netflix Iron
Fist series had started to get into the history of the Iron Fist heading into Season three.
Like all the previous versions of the character, they were starting to feature more of those versions.
Like Austen.
Randall was probably going to show up on the series at some point.
Who had been the Iron Fist before Danny ran during the World War two era.
they got really trippy with the Power of Iron Fist during the Season two finale.
Like Danny Rand uses a colonel on ceremony to transfer the power of Iron Fist to Colleen Wing.
But he somehow keeps the power himself, too, which is why there are
two versions of Iron Fist in the present day of the MCU.
and because they canonized all that Marvel Netflix series to the MCU, they did explain in present day.
Colleen Wing still has the power of Iron Fist.
Danny Rand still exists.
He still has the power in apparently Marvel is open to bringing him back.
Finn Jones is Danny Rand.
So it sounds like they don't plan to recast Danny Rand specifically, which is in line with their plans
for Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, the other defenders characters just in general, bringing everyone back
that they can, Originally, I think a lot of us expected Marvel to never bring him back
and never mentioned the character again, like either recast completely
or just do a totally different version and sidestep Danny Rand altogether.
Like what? There was never a Danny Rand.
We don't know what you're talking about.
especially when they introduced the Shang Xi character.
Like, they're focusing on Shang.
She now, he is like the main martial artist superpower being of the MCU.
but I think part of the idea is their plan for Shang.
She is that he's more of an Avengers level character.
Like they're making him a more cosmic leaning character just in general because the alternate dimension,
I think their plans for the future of the Iron Fist character are to keep him more of a street level hero
in as part of all this, Marvel also just announced they're developing a totally new Iron Fist series
with an iron fist who is not Danny Rand.
they didn't really get into the details of it.
So my assumption right now is that it was connected to the ancient Iron Fist fanfare Woo Aoki
And they had introduced during the Black Panther series like a backdoor pilot,
the way they used to do on all the original Marvel Netflix series.
Like you see Luke Cage show up on the Jessica Jones series.
Then he goes off to his own spinoff series.
But because it's so early days right now with this new iron fist TV series
they can actually just do a new iron fist series in present day of the MCU
alongside the other defenders characters who are also coming back.
they could just have it be Colleen Wing coming back because Jessica Hendricks said that
she specifically turned down a role in the new Shang Shi movie I think is Shang Xi's sister,
because she said if she did that, she wouldn't be able to come back as Colleen Wing.
at the time, she made it sound like there were plans to eventually bring the Colleen Wing
character back in some way now, because we got all this talk about Daredevil,
born again, and then canonizing the Marvel Netflix series to the MCU,
it makes a little bit more sense, like, that's what's going on.
if they do an iron fist series with her, they can just bring the Danny Rand
iron fist back as a way to slowly redeem the original Iron fist series.
But this time just a much better creative vision for the characters.
I mean, I love I love Danny Rand. I love Danny Rand.
I love that character. I love I love everything about him.
I think he's such a jewel. lot of room for growth.
Personally, personally, where I would like to see
the reintroduction of the character would be something like a Heroes for Hire TV series.
I think that would just be I think that would be the most dynamic
and the most fun way to reintroduce those characters.
And I think, you know, I loved working with Mike.
I love the onscreen chemistry between Danny and Luke.
I'd love to I'd love to pick up the mantle again and keep moving this character forward, you know,
and make it the best possible iron fist That could be There are a couple bright spots
during the original Iron Fist series, and I think season two, they started to address
a lot of the complaints of season one, like the very, very bad fight choreography issues.
by the time they got to Luke Cage season two, they'd already started doing Heroes for hire stuff.
so you can see things improving in leaps and bounds.
And because in present day, Daredevil Born Again is essentially meant to be like Daredevil.
Season four was just like a slightly different title.
They can do the same thing with this new iron Fist TV series why not just take all the ideas
that you wanted to do during Iron Fist Season three on Netflix and incorporate that into a new MCU series.
Just take the time to make it good, this also gives them a chance
to do an iron fist versus Shang XI fight in the MCU.
Still want to see that go down in some way?
be nice to see Colleen come back and still have the Iron Fist as well.
You know, I think it'd be cool if she showed up in showing she, you know,
still had the Iron Fist and like, you know, there's so much possibility that you can do with this.
Where we left off the season two.
let me know in the comments if they're going to do a new iron fist.
Thibs series at some point with like a totally different spin
on the Iron Fist character, how do you want that to go down?
Like, do you just want them to do a version of Colleen Wing and then roll in Danny Rand at some point?
Or do you want it to be a completely different iron fist during a totally different part of the timeline?
there's a bunch of big stuff coming up.
We'll get a bunch more daredevil born again footage.
Really soon to click here for that last big teaser with a bunch of those Marvel Netflix characters
coming back and click here for my new Deadpool 3 teaser trailer.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one!