Its a big baddie filled world out there and sometimes your a-listers are just a bit to
busy After the release of marvels defenders this week it
is the perfect time to figure out just who are the most
important characters in Marvels Defenders.
So lets get to it.
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10 - Colleen Wing Colleen Wing is the right hand ally of Danny
Rand aka the immortal Iron Fist.
She is one of the newer characters in the marvel netflix-verse
but is rapidly becoming one of the most popular.
Considered the highlight of a relatively panned Iron Fist series.
Colleen is a fierce fighter and master swordswoman.
Originally a member of the Hand she converts over to the side of the
heroes and works with Danny.
In Defenders we first meet her in cambodia with Iron Fist tracking
down members of the hand.
Basically continuing their Journey from the end of Iron Fist.
After a return trip to NYC Colleen acts as the initiator
of the Defenders by getting Iron Fist and Luke
Cage together to have a talk about where they stand.
Colleen continues to be important in the fight by fighting alongside the super powered
quartet until getting stabbed in the gut by her
resurrected master bakkudo.
Sidelined for a short while she takes the initiative and steals an
entire evidence locker of C4 and runs to help the defenders in the Final BAttle against
the hand.
Colleen even gets to go next level by eliminating one of the fingers of the hand.
That being her dear old sensei Bakkudo.
She lops his head off via Kitana strike ensuring that even if the hand
had more dragon essence they wouldn't be able to bring bakkudo back due to his decapitation
a precedent setup in Iron Fist via the beheading
of Meachum.
Colleen is the very definition fo a support player in Defenders and hangs with
the heroes showing that maybe some day down the
line the Jessica Henwick acted Character may in fact get her own series.
09 - Misty Knight One of the best parts of luke cage was detective
Misty Knight.
She is just an amazing character front to back.
So it is a really nice that she has a big role to play in the culmination of these
marvel netflix series.
At the end of Luke Cage we saw Misty shot and for the comics faithful
among us were really excited to see her get that cybernetic super arm and become the Misty
Knight from the comics.
Alas she didn't get hurt enough to lose the arm and returns in the
Defenders A-ok and still chasing bad guys.
Only now instead of chasing the bullet proof hero of
Harlem she is after a shadowy crime syndicate who leaves little to no trace of their existence.
Misty is admittedly frustrated by the crime syndicates ability to thwart her investigation.
But that doesnt stop her from helping her old friend
Luke Cage get back into the mix by telling him about
some kids in harlem who are going missing after getting new jobs.
Misty kind of floats on the periphery of the main characters acting as
a kind of face for the New York Police Department when the defenders run amok of the law.
Her interactions with Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock
in episode 2 were particularly awesome.
In the end Misty goes against her job and helps the
defenders handle their final fight with the hand.
She shows up just in time to see Colleen and Bukkudo dueling and intercedes.
She saves Claire Temple but does not see bakkudo as he cuts
her arm clean off!
We last see her talking to Colleen about some experimental treatments at a
cutting edge hospital that Danny owns pretty much clearing the way for Misty to become
a super hero as well.
08 - Claire Temple Claire has been the glue that has held the
Netflix-verse together since day one.
From the time we meet her in Daredevil season 1 when she
finds matt in a dumpster bleeding out.
To when she helps Jessica Jones Save Luke Cage's life
in her series to meeting and falling love with
Luke Cage and all the way to training with Colleen wing and assisting Iron Fist in his
incursion into China.
Basically Claire has been there since the jump for all of these Heroes and she
doesn't disappoint in Defenders.
She is the other half of bringing Danny and Luke together for
their bro out story time.
She is always at luke's side offering her opinion as the voice of reason.
And she is there in the precinct trying to talk Misty down and make them see that the
heros need to do this and not the police.
Unsuccessfully but she is there nonetheless.
Claire is so important to the defenders in that she knows
them all.
Matt and Luke the most but she becomes close to Danny as well.
What we’re saying is that she knows Jessica the least.
In the end she is the one that reminds them all that sometimes
things are bigger than you are and you need the
help of others even if you are super powered.
Just like Colleen and Misty Claire is there in the
final fight taking on members of the hand even though she has little to no fight training.
There has been talk that we would see claire become
night nurse by the end of defenders.
But alas we still have gotten no closer to that being
a reality and at this point we maybe should start to
entertain the idea that she is not going to go that route.
Which is fine cause Claire is awesome even without donning a superhero persona.
After it is all said and done Claire returns with her
beau Luke Cage to harlem to continue Luke's efforts at cleaning up the messes of Cottonmouth,
Diamondback and Mariah.
07 - Stick Stick is a giant a-hole.
Pretty much the whole time he is on screen he is an a-hole.
But he is an a-hole with a purpose.
That is leading the chaste and fighting the hand.
He has spent many years educating both Matt Murdock and Elektra
in the ways of the ninja so that they could be
used as weapons in the war against the hand.
Matt obviously turning away and elektra being killed in the process.
But stick preservers and continues to fight the war against the hands
forces and the five fingers themselves.
When we first run into stick he has been held captive by
the Hand and is being interrogated by Alexandra.
He cuts his hand off and makes a break for it
finding the four heroes after they linked up and took on the hand in the Midland Circle
building.
Stick acts as the nick fury here.
Telling them that they are the only hope for NYC and that they
need to come together as a team and strike the hand down.
The heroes are hesitant at this especially daredevil.
But as time goes on he gets them to work more closely together before
Stick decides to go Dirty Harry and take out Iron Fist so that way the hand cannot complete
their goals.
He is almost successful as he incapacitates Luke and makes his way to kill Danny when
Elektra pops in and takes on her old sensei in battle.
Killing him in the duel.
Stick may not have made it out of the defenders but his role
was instrumental in bringing them together as the last
line of defense against the hand.
06 - Alexandra The hand has been a faceless organization
for most of the original 4 netflix series.
Sitting out luke cage and jessica jones and being the
central focus of both daredevil season 2 and iron fist.
But we have never seen the leaders of the organization until defenders.
Alexandra is a denizen of K’Un L’un who was cast out for pursuing
immortality.
Not alone in her exile she is sent away with 4 other traitors to the ideology of Kun
Lun and become the 5 fingers of the hand.
Over time Alexandra has built her influence and strength.
She has lived for most of human history and has
seen many great events and orchestrated the fall of a few civilizations.
In defenders she is responsible for the resurrection of Elektra
as well as her transformation into the Black Sky.
A super weapon destined to help the hand defeat
the chaste.
Think and evil Iron Fist.
Alexandra is also dying from cancer and needs to finish
her work so that way she can harvest enough of the
black substance “Dragon essence” to keep her alive forever.
Throughout the series she toys with the defenders and seemly has everything
under her control.
That is of course until she fials to realize that her surrogate daughter elektra
is not something that can be controlled and is
killed by her.
Alexandra importance in this series is easy to write off as the bad guy who brough
the heroes together.
But overall she is important to not only the heroes arcs.
But the arc of Elodie Yung's Elektra as well.
Without Alexandra's teaching and mentorship Elektra would never
have made the jump from weapon to leader.
05 - Jessica Jones The foul mouthed detective is the start of
the what is widely considered the best of the netflix
marvel shows.
Jessica certainly had the most gripping story, the most broken hero and by far
the best bad guy of the bunch.
But what about Jessica now?
When we start defenders she is just on a hiatus.
The fame of what she did has not settled with her and instead of embracing the
boom in her business she does what she does best.
Self destruct and retreat into herself.
We jump into her story with a family looking
for their lost father and husband something jessica
writes of as cheating ans refuses to take the case.
But being the do-gooder she is.
She investigates anyways which leads her into
a plot involving the hand.
Jessica ends up at Midland circle alongside the other defenders and fights
their way to freedom.
Jessicas importance on the defenders is less as a pure fighter and more
as a moral compass and bull shit detector.
She is quick to call out any and all things she thinks
are incorrect and will tell anyone regardless of
skills to screw themselves if they are in the wrong.
This is something you kind of need to have in
a street level superhero team.
If you didn't you would have Daredevil and iron fist running the
show as they see fit and that isn't going to go well if you catch out drift.
In the final fight Jessica is pretty pivotal.
She sets up the initial attack as well does some major damage to the hand with
her super strength.
In the end she saves the lives of both iron fist and luke cage by leaping up
an elevator shaft and holding the elevator in place so the other heroes can escape.
Saving 50% of your team.
Doesn't get much more important than that.
04 - Luke Cage The hero of Harlem!
The man who defeated cotton mouth and diamond back.
Well when we pick up with the bulletproof hero he is just
finishing his time in prison for crimes committed before becoming the hero of harlem.
We get a nice daredevil connection right off the bat as
claire employs foggy to help get luke out of jail.
Once he is back in Harlem he decides to take it
easy for a bit and not go super heroic on anyone right away.
Until Misty Knight finds a way to drag him back into the mix.
From here we get an excellent interaction with Danny and a mututal
respect forms.
Which as we know becomes the greatest friendship in all of comicsdom.
Seriously netflix give us that heroes for hire season like right now.
Or hell after Luke Cage and Iron fist season 2 let their third season
be a heroes for hire thing.
But we digress.
Luke is the heart of the defenders.
He cares deeply about the safety of others and will do anything he can
to make sure people are safe.
Even if that is charging head first into a cave filled with ninjas and
guns.
And oddly enough it is what the defenders needs from him.
He is all heart and that offsets the no trust attitude of jessica, and the
headstrong nature of both danny and matt.
Luke will do whatever it takes to save the most people.
He will have words about how we get there and why
the group should or shouldnt do something.
But at the end of the day.
The hero of harlem has the most traditional super hero roots of the
defenders and without him the team could eventually delve into villainy.
03 - Elektra Speaking of villains.
There is nothing better than the classic tales of a hero who falls or a tragic
romance that is cut short.
So with Elektra they were like why choose and we got to have both.
At the end of daredevil Elektra was deceased and taken by the hand and dropped in a stone
container for some nefarious purpose to be show later.
That later was defenders.
Brought back to life and given some serious ninja training
and an infusion of dragon essence.
As Alexandra's right hand she went around the world eliminating
enemies of the hand that could be used to help unmask the organization and give information
on their plans.
But after awhile elektra starts to uncover things about her old life and eventually
she crosses paths with her former lover Matt Murdock the Daredevil.
This is the last straw that takes Elektra from being just another Black
sky and into being the resurrected Elektra Nacchios.
Upon realizing who she is and that she no longer wants or needs someone pulling her
strings she decides that a change in leadership is
necessary and kills her surrogate mother and mentor Alexandra.
Elektra succeeds where the rest of the hand has failed and gets the Iron
Fist to break the seal to a dragon graveyard where
the hand can harvest as much essence as they want.
In the end she fights one on one with her love Matt Murdock and is seemingly killed
as Midland Circle collapses on top of them.
02 - Daredevil The man without fear is the one who started
us off in the netflix-verse and it would be easy to
think that he is the most important member of the defenders universe and sure the argument
can be made.
But second place is not a bad landing spot at all.
At the end of Daredevil season 2 we see the man without fear heart broken
at the death of his lifelong love elektra.
When we meet him in defenders he has given up on being
Daredevil and has thrown himself into his work
as a pro bono attorney.
But after the seismic event that rocks brooklyn mattie is thrown back
into a world he has tried to forget since Elektra’s death.
Matts progression is slow back into Daredevil first representing Jessica Jones
during her arrest by the NYPD.
Then he makes his way to Midland Circle for the first group
fight for the defenders.
Where he encounters Elektra and his whole world is turned upside down.
After this fight he has yet another reunion with his
old mentor stick where he is informed that Elektra is the black sky and they need to
kill her.
Matt ie very hesitant about the defenders and withholds
information until he realizes that they can all
be trusted and that they are a team.
In the end Daredevil serves as leader of the group and can
get the group to focus their skills to work as a team.
At the end of defenders Daredevil hears the accidentally set off time bomb and informs
the group to escape the sewers while he stays behind.
Uttering the words protect my city to Iron Fist.
He is seemingly killed alongside elektra in the building collapse only to be shown in
the end of the series that he is still alive in an
undisclosed nunery.
The man without fear may be mia for the other defenders right now but his
sacrifice changed his team members and helped them all become better heroes.
01 - Iron Fist Love him or hate him Danny Rand is the most
important character in the whole defenders series.
Admittedly he may not be the most interesting in the series but he is far and away the
most important as his powers are central plot point for the whole series and the hand are
primarily his villains.
At the end of Iron Fist we see Danny at the top of his company working
alongside ward meachum to helm his empire as he seeks out the hand to destroy them.
He and Colleen Wing have been working as a 2 person
team and Danny is used to be in control of all
the situations he gets himself into.
But in defenders he is never in control of his actions and he
has a lot to learn from his fellow heroes.
After the midland circle fight He is the first one to say
that they should all stick together and handle this fight a super team.
But he is brushed off.
Later it is revealed to be that there is an impenetrable
wall at the bottom of the giant hole from daredevil.
And the only way through is the power of the iron fist.
So during defenders its goes back and forth from having danny around to
help in the fight or should they keep him hidden
away and safe?
Any way you slice it Danny Rand is the most important character in the whole
series and after the heroes are triumphant.
Danny is the one who realizes most that superheroes are needed in this world to fight
for the little guys.
Going so far as to take over Daredevils post in Hells Kitchen protecting
the city the way Daredevil would have.
And that is the list.
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