Thanks for reminder. If that's the case, well, the new Iron Fist is going to be a hard sell. Because an Iron Fist isn't just the Iron Fist. It's being the baddest, muthaf'ing martiat artist in the Marvel Universe. If Lin Lie is beating Hand ninjas so casually, again, that's a hard sell.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Yeah but I think Marvel perhaps sees that there's not exactly a large audience clamoring for more Sword Master stories but going by the last couple of attempts at solo books for Danny people aren't exactly clamoring for more Iron Fist either so it's a somewhat confusing move to me.
I've to contextualize the statement. I think Danny strives to be that. And in some ways, he believes that. Because when you are the Iron Fist, martial arts is an integral part of your identity. I wouldn't want to see an Iron Fist just one-shot a bad guy.
As for who Iron Fist fights, it should be anyone. Because when one is the Iron Fist, one is expected to hold back the storm when no on else can. The storm can come in the form of demons:
to Hydra agents:
and yes to Hand ninjas:
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
It’s going to keep happening until the MCU decides on how they want to adapt Iron Fist; be it Lin Lie, Pei, Danny with minor/major modifications or an OC
And then the comics will probably go in the opposite direction just to be contrary.
They did put out 2-3 miniseries with Shang-Chi. I blame that one on Covid.
They pushed Carol a ton. That's the whole reason she became Captain in the first place.
I'm surprised he didn't let the comics know he wasn't interested in the Inhumans.
Kieron Gillen describes his run on Eternals as sequel fodder. So I think that's how Marvel Comics is playing it.
To me MCU Shang-Chi and the Shang-Chi written by Greg Pak/Gene Yang are easy to reconcile. They are the same guy just different points of his life. That's how I would explain it to others looking to read him.
With Shang-Chi their hands were basically tied since the version in the film is so drastically different that you couldn't really implement that easily without doing a full on reboot (is his dad suddenly gonna be retconned to have been the Mandarin all along? Is he gonna get the Ten Rings? Is his sister gonna be renamed Xialing?) They did however introduce the mom from the film recently in Gene Luen Yang's series.
Sometimes the divergences also seem to come about as a result of the movies adapting something from the comics after the comics have already dropped it. Making Sam the new Captain America in the films after already having had him return the shield to Steve in the comics was the most glaring mantle that stood out to me recently. And it looks like Marvel is already scrambling to somehow try to cash in on that again in Timeless.