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WhiskeyDisk posted...

I kind of have to forgive it for in-universe reasons. He's still basically the child that survived the plane crash and behaves accordingly.

The problem is, in the comics Danny literally watches his parents get murdered in front of him and still doesn't have that degree of arrested development. And even in the TV show, he's still spending years in a place where discipline and inner harmony is pretty much paramount, and is being drilled into him every second. If he couldn't master that, they he wouldn't have become the Iron Fist. Danny shouldn't be coming back as a petulant child, he should be coming back as a master of serenity and wisdom (which was a large part of what makes his pairing with the more boisterous and earthy Luke Cage work so well in the comics).

(And on a side-note, this is also literally what makes Archer & Armstrong work so well in Valiant - Archer is basically a darker take on Iron Fist, and Armstrong is basically Luke Cage if Luke Cage was an ancient immortal drunken vagabond.)

Confusion from being returned to a world of Western values and technology after spending decades in a secluded mountain monastery in Asia is fine. A little bit of naivete contrasted by deep understanding of the underlying nature of the world would work great. But Iron Fist works best when he's acting as the straight man to other characters, not as the central focal point of his own journey of personal discovery.

Or to put it another way, "Danny" died with his parents in Asia. The Iron Fist is the man who came back.

Though personally, I'm just kind of annoyed that they hooked him up with Colleen Wing and not Misty Knight.


At this point, they might just be better off having someone beat Danny to death, and have it get blamed on Luke Cage, like happened in the comics.


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