Will Danny Rand Be the Iron Fist Again

Iron Fist's 2d flavor dropped on Netflix this past weekend, and if you're able to tear yourself away from playing Spider-Man to sentinel it, yous'll observe some major changes to the testify's dynamics — and even some twists that sally in the back half.

[Ed. note: The following contains major spoilers for Iron Fist season two]

Most halfway through the flavour, Danny Rand'due south onetime friend Davos steals the power of the Fe Fist. We know how this story goes and expect that, by the end, Danny volition fight Davos and take back his ability.

However, things take turn no one could've predicted: Danny'south partner Colleen Wing ends up with the ability instead, and after an extended chase and boxing, she takes the remaining power from Davos to get the new Iron Fist. Content with existence powerless, Danny leaves New York to acquire more most the legacy of the Fe First pall.

Thanks to a brief time skip at the end, we get an thought of the new status quo. Colleen has spent the following months protecting New York with her new ability — and her sword, which at present glows when the Fist ignites — while Danny and Ward Meachum have traveled to Japan. During the final minutes of the finale, it appears that Danny has reacquired the Fist since his departure, and he makes that articulate in a completely wild fashion: he uses it to ignite two pistols to shoot glowing bullets to destroy a bullet coming his way.

... what?

If you're wondering what the deal with that is, it all ties dorsum to i of the previous Iron Fists: Orson Randall.

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The history behind a key graphic symbol

In 2006's The Immortal Iron Fist comic by Matt Fraction, David Aja, Ed Brubaker, and Travel Foreman, we larn that Danny's predecessor was World War I soldier Orson Randall. Having abased K'un L'un due to PTSD, Orson spent the years after the war dodging HYDRA and Steel Serpent agents, helped in role by Lei-Kung the Thunderer, who was assigned to hunt him down before giving up the search and taking pity on his friend.

Danny and Orson have an even stronger tie than the Iron Fist mantle. While Orson was living in hiding and going on an opium bender, he adopted Danny'due south father, Wendell Rand. In their time together, Orson told Wendell all about Chiliad'united nations 50'united nations, and training him in the process. Upon his "death" by opium addiction, all of Orson'due south fortune went to Wendell, who after grew upwards and spent his fortune to find the mythical metropolis, with young Danny in tow. As it turns out, Orson didn't actually die — he only really loved Thailand and wanted to get off the grid. Orson later traveled to New York to detect Danny, give him a book containing the secrets of every previous Iron Fist, and sacrifice himself to transfer the remainder of his ability to Danny.

Along with the typical suite of Iron Fist powers, Orson also decided to adjust the fighting techniques of earlier Iron Fist and Pirate Queen Wu Ao-Shi, creating the martial arts technique known every bit "Gun Fu." (If you picket the John Wick movies or Kingsman, you've seen this technique a billion times.) His principal use of this was two pistols that "fired lightning from God" i.e. he used his Fist to charge the pistols and make glowing bullets.

What does this mean for the evidence?

During this flavor of Iron Fist, a mummified torso dressed in Iron Fist clothing is discovered, later identified as i Orson Randall. It seems over the course of his travels, Danny took the man'southward one-time squeegee and pistols.

Whatever future the series has — it's unclear if season three is a given — history will certainly play a bigger part than it has before. The prove implies Colleen's a descendant of Wu, supported by the fact that Wu was the first Fist to imbue weapons with her chi. That explains how Colleen can do with her sword what Orson and Danny practice with guns. Even so, some questions remain. Is it the balance ability of Orson's pistols that permit them to piece of work for Danny? Did he discover a new way to get the Fist? Those answers will accept to await until any comes adjacent.

Currently, it's unclear if Orson's connection to Danny volition be the aforementioned as information technology was in the comics. The backstory of Danny's parents has yet to be explored outside their human relationship to the Meachums, so there'due south certain to exist plenty to learn nearly Wendell. Incorporating Orson ensures that Danny nevertheless has something to do in the show beyond be Colleen's moral support, and does indeed assistance him find himself.

As for Colleen, making her the Iron Fist is a beginning across all media, but the choice to accept her and Danny share the mantle simultaneously isn't exactly new territory. In the current Marvel comics, a girl named Pei grew up in K'un L'un and gained the power of the Atomic number 26 Fist, making her the youngest person to ever acquire it. She's since been living with Danny every bit his ward and, subsequently some growing pains, has become something of a teenage hero herself. This doesn't really mean anything for Colleen on the bear witness, except that she may take a page from Pei'south volume and pull off the ultimate fist crash-land with Danny. Only it certainly complicates their relationship when they inevitably reunite, and it charts a new class for the show going forward.

Maybe a rebranding is in gild next season? Iron Fists has quite a ring to it, doesn't it?

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Justin is a Kansas City, Missouri, freelance writer and is on Twitter frequently, @GigawattConduit . He also is an avid lover of M&Chiliad McFlurries from McDonald'south, and accepts that he has an addiction to them.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/tv/2018/9/9/17837274/iron-fist-season-2-ending-gun-fu-colleen-wing

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