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Subsequent seasons including ''Daredevil'' Season 2 and ''Iron Fist'' Season 1 reveal more about them, with Nobu merely being part of one faction, whereby multiple other Hand factions show up including those led by Madame Gao and Bakoto.
''The Defenders'' finally goes into full detail on their origins. The Hand were five leaders exiled from Kun'Lun, and these five would form "the Five Fingers" of the Hand, with the overall leader being Alexandra.
''The Defenders'' finally goes into full detail on their origins. The Hand were five leaders exiled from Kun'Lun, and these five would form "the Five Fingers" of the Hand, with the overall leader being Alexandra.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu was just TheHeavy and MouthOfSauron for his faction of The Hand, not the BigBad as the episodes of ''Daredevil'' had led us to believe. It turns out Murakami was the one pulling his strings in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}''.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu was just TheHeavy and MouthOfSauron for his faction of The Hand, not the BigBad as the episodes of ''Daredevil'' had led us to believe. It turns out out, Nobu answered to Murakami was the one pulling his strings who finally reveals himself in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}''.
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** Of HYDRA. While they both are ancient criminal organizations dedicated to the acquisition of power, the Hand uses [[MegaCorp corporations]] and mysticism to expand its influence, contrasting HYDRA's preferred use of advanced technology, [[TheGovernment governments]] and intelligence agencies.
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** Of HYDRA. While they both are ancient criminal organizations dedicated to the acquisition of power, the Hand uses [[MegaCorp corporations]] and mysticism to expand its influence, contrasting HYDRA's preferred use of advanced technology, [[TheGovernment governments]] and intelligence agencies. While HYDRA espouses fascistic ideology and seeks to remake the world in its image, the Hand has no political project to speak of.
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* HumanResources: [[spoiler:On two occasions, it's been shown their bases have basements where people are drained of their blood for... something, implied to have something to do with their resurrection abilities.]]
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* SecretWar: Engaged in one with Stick and his organization, the Chaste. [[spoiler:And another with the city of K'un-Lun.]]
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* SecretWar: Engaged in one with Stick and his organization, the Chaste. [[spoiler:And another with the city of K'un-Lun.K'un-Lun, which the Chaste is revealed to be servants of.]]
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* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He don't know what happens to him after getting knocked out by Daredevil.
* EvilOldFolks: While not as old as Stick, the Specialist is clearly past middle-age.
* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: The name AHandAndALeg: Stick cuts of his hand to interrogate him.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being a member of thecharacter, while not addressing his job description stresses how adept at it Hand, he actually is.has a family whom he loves.
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* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: He might have been greedy, but he only started cooking the books for the Hand after they kidnapped his son.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashed into serving the Hand.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson thinks he's working for the Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a criminal thriller, and ignores he'sactually serving an organization straight out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashed into serving the Hand.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson thinks he's working for the Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a criminal thriller, and ignores he'sactually serving an organization straight out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.
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* ForcedIntoEvil: He might have been greedy, but he only started cooking DeadlyEuphemism: The name of the books for character, while not addressing his job description stresses how adept at it he actually is.
* EvilOldFolks: While not as old as Stick, theHand Specialist is clearly past middle-age.
* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He don't know what happens to him afterthey kidnapped his son.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashed into serving the Hand.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson thinks he's working for the Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a criminal thriller, and ignores he'sactually serving an organization straightgetting knocked out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.by Daredevil.
* EvilOldFolks: While not as old as Stick, the
* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He don't know what happens to him after
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* IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan Gibson into working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with a scalpel]]!
* IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan Gibson into working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with a scalpel]]!
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The ForcedIntoEvil: He might have been greedy, but he only started cooking the books for the Hand has after they kidnapped his son.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashedhim into a loyal acolyte, willing to kill his own father.serving the Hand.]]
*IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson into thinks he's working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him tothe hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a scalpel]]!criminal thriller, and ignores he's actually serving an occult organization straight out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.
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* CunningLinguist: He speaks a number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
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* CunningLinguist: He speaks a number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMomentBrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Hand has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about brainwashed him into a loyal acolyte, willing to snort some cocaine kill his own father.]]
* IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan Gibson into working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with arolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.scalpel]]!
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* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with a
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
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A mysterious child smuggled by Nobu into the United States from Japan.
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* CunningLinguist: He speaks a number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
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!!''Black Sky''
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Bonale Fambrini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A mysterious child smuggled by Nobu into the United States from Japan.
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* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
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!!''Black Sky''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Bonale Fambrini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The local leader of the Hand, and fully capable of fighting both Daredevil ''and'' Elektra.
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* DarkChick: Madame Gao is the only female crime boss amongst Wilson Fisk's associates, she is also good at reading people and knowing what to say them to throw them off. She also serves this role for the Five Fingers, being the only female member besides Alexandra, who fills the position of BigBad.
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!''The Hand''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"Free from the fear of death, these pieces of shit step up, kill their master, take over, and paint the shores of the Far East with the blood of anybody who stands in their way. They grow in size, power, wealth, spread across Asia, and finally give themselves a name. ''Yami no te'' (闇の手). It means, 'The Hand'."''
-->-- '''Stick'''
A mysterious organization based in Asia; initially believed to be {{Yakuza}}, they are eventually revealed to be something much worse. In ''Daredevil'' Season 1, through their agent Nobu Yoshioka, the Hand are helping Wilson Fisk secure control over the New York underworld in exchange for control of a specific block in Hell's Kitchen, as part of something they call "the Rising".
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the leaders of each faction of the Hand is called ''Daimyō'', the title bore by Japanese feudal lords. In the MCU, they are called "the Five Fingers".
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Hand was originally a nationalist ninja clan from Japan, and only became corrupted when the Snakeroot, the worshippers of the Beast, infiltrated the clan. In the MCU [[spoiler:the founders of the Hand were five members of the Order of the Crane Mother--Alexandra, Gao, Bakuto, Murakami and Sowande--who wanted to use the bones of dragons to resurrect themselves. The elders of K'un-Lun felt this was desecration, and exiled them. These five exiles became the Five Fingers of the Hand, dedicated to "serving life itself" by never dying.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: While the Hand is a force to be reckoned with here, they are nowhere near as powerful as their mainstream comic counterparts. In this version, aside from a degree of MindControl and the ResurrectiveImmortality the highest level members are given, the Hand are just a very powerful secret crime organization full of {{Badass Normal}}s or higher level fighters. In contrast, the comic book version are a demon-worshipping Death {{Cult}} that can explicitly use magic and mystical rites, revive their members easily from a shared life force ritual even if they've been reduced to ash, and have all manner of beings from those with superpowers to straight up {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. This version is also led by long-lived evil humans, while the comic version is controlled by a powerful demon called the Beast and its equally diabolic supernatural servants.
* TheAgeless: Those resurrected by the Hand do not age beyond the time they were first killed. [[spoiler:Harold Meachum has remained the same way for 13 years and though Madame Gao's true age is unknown, she mentions being alive at least since the 17th century.]] In fact, the Hand was founded for the purpose of discovering a way to keep its founders alive forever.
* AncientConspiracy: The Hand have been around for centuries, if not millennia. When Stick explains the Hand's origins to Matt, he's forced to admit that even he doesn't know how old the Hand is, but does describe them as "ancient".
** Stick offhandedly credits them with the destruction of Pompeii, suggesting that at the very least they've existed for over 1900 years.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: How they manage their ResurrectiveImmortality. [[spoiler:It's a supply of Shao-Lao's bones the founders acquired when they were kicked out of K'un-Lun, but bringing Elektra back used up the absolute last of it, save the stuff lying underneath Midland Circle.]]
* ArcWelding: The first season of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' retcons Madame Gao and her Steel Serpent operation into a faction of the Hand operating in parallel to that of Nobu's.
* AudibleSharpness: Actually an important plot point, as due to their supernatural silence, Daredevil has to rely on the sounds of their weapons to track them.
* TheBadGuyWins: The most frustrating thing about fighting them: they always get what they want.
** Season 1 of ''Daredevil'': [[spoiler:Despite the death of Nobu, the Hand ultimately got Elena Cardenas' tenement building, and Nobu's death was just a temporary setback.]]
** Season 2 of ''Daredevil'': [[spoiler:While Matt is able to convince Elektra not to join the Hand, Nobu accidentally killing her allows the Hand to recover her body and begin resurrecting her with the sarcophagus Nobu had. The only real victory is that Stick causing Nobu's permanent death has left the New York Hand leaderless, and that is just until someone strong enough emerges.]]
** Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'': [[spoiler:Although Danny is able to drive the Hand out of Rand Enterprises and stop Bakuto's attempts to take control of the New York Hand, Gao manages to escape, while the Hand still have influence in the Roxxon Corporation and Midland Circle Financials. Additionally, Danny abandoning his duty as the Iron Fist left K'un-Lun open, allowing the Hand to launch an attack.]]
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''The Defenders'': [[spoiler:while they managed to secure those wins, the fact is that they lost a lot of manpower, capital, and most importantly, the last of their reserves of the Substance. The Hand still operates like nothing is wrong, but it's clear that the Five Fingers are actually getting worried.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: Suits and ties seem to be a standard outfit for them. You know, along with the TechnicolorNinja garb. Crossed with HellbentForLeather, as their non-ninja Mooks wear suits but with leather jackets and leather ties.
* BigBad:
** Murakami's faction, led by Nobu Yoshioka, serve as this for Season 2 of ''Daredevil'', emerging from "hibernation" now that Matt and Frank Castle have taken out their potential rivals.
** In Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'' Gao and Bakuto are vying for control of the Hand's New York operations, and want to use the Rand corporation to achieve this. Harold Meachum, their proxy and the FinalBoss, is responsible for killing Danny's parents through poison provided by Gao.
** The Five Fingers take central stage in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', led by Alexandra [[spoiler:and later Elektra.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:If someone is resurrected by the Hand, they will be unkillable unless their head is removed, meaning seemingly mortal wounds will just heal or not be a problem for them. However, each time they come back, they become less and less human, eventually going completely insane.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: What we saw of the Hand when Matt was fighting them in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' were exclusively ethnically Asian. Seemingly, criticism over falling into {{Orientalism}} and racial stereotypes led to the Hand being retooled as more ethnically diverse in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', and a full example of EqualOpportunityEvil in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', where most of the henchmen that participate in fight scenes are either Caucasian or African-American and the leadership is a CosmopolitanCouncil. Possibly justified in that the Hand members shown in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' were just the faction led by Nobu and Murakami.
* ChildSoldiers: Some of their members are teenagers (occasionally controlled, sometimes [[spoiler:indoctrinated for years]]).
* TheClan: Madame Gao refers to them as such in "Nelson v. Murdock".
* CombatPragmatist: The Hand are much more pragmatic about their use of weapons in the MCU than the Marvel Universe. They seem to prefer traditional feudal-era Japanese weapons, but if the situation calls for it they'll use guns.
* CorporateConspiracy: The Hand has wormed its way into dozens of companies like Rand Enterprises and Roxxon Corporation, just to name a few, allowing them access to large amounts of cash and the ability to move their resources and operatives wherever they need to go.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Their leaders consist of a Japanese man, a Chinese woman, an African man, an AmbiguouslyBrown man portrayed by a Puerto-Rican with a Brazilian name, and a Caucasian woman. The latter two of indeterminate origin.
* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: They operate using front companies such as Midland Circle Financials and Asano Robotics or taking over already existing ones such as Rand Enterprises or the Roxxon Oil Corporation.
* TheDreaded: Fisk quite clearly fears angering them. Nobu just mentioning them in a few arguments with Fisk is enough to get Fisk to start being more agreeable. [[spoiler:The hatchet-men of New York are terrified when Danny Rand mentions them, and immediately acquiesce to their demands.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: Murakami and Gao's factions of the Hand play small roles in season 1 of ''Daredevil'' as backers of Fisk, but are never referred to as the Hand, and their ultimate plans are never revealed. Nobu's red ninja outfit (their comics getup) is the only hint as to who they are. They go on to be the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of season 2, as well as the first seasons of ''Iron Fist'' and ''The Defenders''.
* EliteMooks: Their ninja are more than a challenge even after Matt learned to track them.
* EnemyCivilWar: In Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'': [[spoiler:with Nobu's permanent death and inability to capture Elektra alive, the New York Hand is in the midst of a power struggle between Bakuto and Madame Gao's opposing factions for control.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Hand has many members of different races and nationalities which includes Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, English, and even Black, White and Hispanic Americans.
* EvilInc: Part of their plan for domination: the Hand have wormed their way into dozens of companies like Rand Enterprises and the Roxxon Corporation, just to name a few, allowing them access to large amounts of cash and the ability to move their resources and operatives wherever they need to go. They also use the corporations to give scholarships to members to get them into places in the community, like hospitals and City Hall.
-->'''Bakuto:''' We are living in a new age where governments aren't the true controllers of man's destinies. It's corporations like Rand Enterprises that govern the world.
** They also have their own shell company in the form of Midland Circle Financial, which is mentioned in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' and is promonently featured in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler:Averted. The Hand do in fact have their own internal disputes, with Madame Gao being on the outs with Bakuto due to her drug-dealing activities. Ironically enough, Bakuto does play this trope straight, using a more friendly and peaceful approach, treating its members with love and respect rather than acting like a crime syndicate.]]
* EvilPowerVacuum: When Daredevil took down Wilson Fisk, the Hand realized that something was changing and went into "hibernation", thinking this would eliminate potential rivals. The subsequent campaigns by Daredevil, the Punisher, and Luke Cage against crime allowed the Hand to end up becoming the dominant power in the New York underworld, to the point that their word was more or less law among the people who knew about them.
* FacelessMooks: In typical ninja fashion, their clothing covers their entire faces except for their eyes.
* {{Foil}}:
** Of HYDRA. While they both are ancient criminal organizations dedicated to the acquisition of power, the Hand uses [[MegaCorp corporations]] and mysticism to expand its influence, contrasting HYDRA's preferred use of advanced technology, [[TheGovernment governments]] and intelligence agencies.
** The subsequent release of ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' allows for comparison with the Ten Rings led by Wenwu / The Mandarin. Both are similarly led by functional immortals (influenced by East Asian-derivative supernatural cultures) and devote themselves to criminal and terroristic activity. Both the Hand and the Ten Rings seems to have integrated well into modern society and expanded its influence in business. However, while its leadership (the Five Fingers) [[AHouseDivided has taken towards backstabbing each other]] (bringing in their followers into the mess), the singular leadership of Wenwu (as well as their tangential respect of his offspring, Shang-Chi and Xialing) meant there was never any contest in leadership.
* GraveRobbing: [[spoiler:They take Elektra's corpse out of its casket and place it into a sarcophagus to resurrect her as the Black Sky.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu and [[spoiler: Madame Gao]] are the only members to appear in Season One of ''Daredevil'', yet their presence is definitely felt. Fisk certainly doesn't want to get on their bad side. [[spoiler:More specifically, in ''Iron Fist'' Season One, Gao and Bakuto indicate that there is someone else pulling their strings, but they don't mention any names. They were likely referring to Alexandra, the "first among equals" of the five leaders of the Hand.]]
* TheHeavy: Their presence is heavily felt across the Netflix MCU shows, in a similar way to how HYDRA or Thanos are in the movie side of MCU.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Their motives are hard to determine until the end of ''The Defenders'':
** In exchange for helping Fisk, they want ownership of a specific block in Hell's Kitchen, which happens to be the site of Elena Cardenas' tenement building. They will accept only that block, and nothing else. According to Season 2, it's part of something called "the Rising", and involves significant amounts of excavation.
** It pops again in ''Iron Fist'' when they demand that Rand Enterprises gain control of a pier for possibly the same reason.
** Their ultimate goal is to activate a "Black Sky", the ultimate living weapon. What happens after that is unknown; according to Stick, the Hand has never been able to successfully activate one.
** Their ultimate goal, and the purpose of the Black Sky, are eventually revealed in ''The Defenders'': [[spoiler:the Hand use dragon bones to resurrect themselves, and the city block they want sits on top of a fossilized dragon skeleton, the last known skeleton on Earth. The purpose of the Black Sky is to be a living weapon who can kill the Iron Fist and allow the Hand to conquer K'un-Lun to claim Shou-Lao, whose body is reborn after death, allowing them an infinite supply of dragon bones.]]
* HumanResources: [[spoiler:On two occasions, it's been shown their bases have basements where people are drained of their blood for... something, implied to have something to do with their resurrection abilities.]]
* KeepItForeign: Stick suggests that the full, original name of 'The Hand', when not translated into English, is ''Yami-no-te'' (闇の手). For what it's worth, it literally translates to "[[MeaningfulName Hand of Darkness]]", which is [[ObviouslyEvil pretty-on-the-nose]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: The goal of the organization as a whole is to find a way to keep their leaders alive indefinitely.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Defenders'', the group as a whole is finished, with three of their leaders explicitly dead, and the other two buried deep underground or outright dead, while Elektra is likely dead as well, leaving the organization in tatters, if not completely obliterated.]]
* MadeOfIron: While lowlier thugs and soldiers of the Hand are as mortal as anyone else, the higher-ups, especially the Five Fingers, are able to withstand wounds that would kill any normal human being, even before one considers their ResurrectiveImmortality. Madame Gao, for example, regularly survives blows that would pulverize the bones of anyone her size and apparent age, and Bakuto walks away from multiple impalements and ignores gunshot wounds. Even lieutenants of Hand leaders like Nobu survive injuries that would be instantly fatal to most people, like getting thrown off the roof of an apartment building. [[spoiler: This is likely due to the dragon's blood they've been using for immortality.]]
* ManOfKryptonite: Their ability to consciously control their bodily functions enables them to vanish from Matt's "world on fire". This naturally makes fighting them significantly more difficult. [[spoiler:In ''Daredevil'' Season 2, Matt initially tracks them through their swords, but when they realise this and stop using them, Matt can't locate them until Stick tells him to start listening for their breath]].
* MasterOfYourDomain: Nobu can slow his heart rate and lower his body temperature, and his dialogue indicates that this is standard tactic for the Hand.
* MonochromeCasting: The first two seasons of ''Daredevil'' render them essentially identical to the Yakuza, with all of their members (apart from some brainwashed teens) being Japanese. However, they get more fleshed out in ''Iron Fist'' and ''The Defenders'', showing that they are a truly global organization and their leaders reflect much of the western hemisphere (a Russian white woman[Alexandra], a sub-Sahara black African man [Sowande], a west Asian man [Bakuto], a south Asian woman[Gao], and an east Asian man [Nobu]) and their membership expands to reflect that as well, particularly Bakuto's facility in New York.
* MoreThanMindControl: While some are forcibly controlled, others are just mindlessly devoted to them after being manipulated by them for years.
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: They are a criminal syndicate whose whole goal is immortality at any cost.
* NecessaryEvil: Fisk tells Wesley that working with them is such but does not elaborate.
* {{Ninja}}: An evil cult full of them.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Because the MCU is less fleshed out with nowhere near the accumulated history of the comic books not to mention the fact that the heroes are street level fighters, means that The Hand is more a secret NebulousEvilOrganization that influences the world from the shadows and, aside from the ritual to grant immortality using dragon bones, doesn't have all the magic and SuperNaturalMartialArts that the mainstream version has.
* PyrrhicVictory: ''The Defenders'' reveals that, for all their TheBadGuyWins moments in previous shows, the Hand's confrontations with Daredevil and Iron Fist ''have'' left them significantly crippled and compromised: [[spoiler:resurrecting Elektra]] cost them [[spoiler:all of their remaining AppliedPhlebotinum, meaning death is now a very real possibility for them]], their losing [[spoiler:Rand Enterprises]] has allowed Danny to [[spoiler:collect information on their illegal activities (though he doesn't get to use it)]], and while they've [[spoiler:successfully eliminated the Chaste]], the multiple deaths they caused trying to cover their tracks have attracted the attention of law enforcement, [[spoiler:and [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant eventually causes Luke Cage to go after them]]]]. They still try to keep the facade of an all-powerful shadowy organization, but it's pretty clear they are getting desperate.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their primary colors seemed to be black and red.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Stick claims that the secret to their "immortality" is bringing their dead back to life. One of their ninjas had clearly undergone an autopsy previously, and [[spoiler:Nobu returns from the dead after burning to death and being kicked off from a rooftop. In ''Iron Fist'', it's shown that as long as the heads are attached and bodies aren't too mangled, they can keep resurrecting indefinitely three days after being killed.]]
** The plot of ''The Defenders'' (and ultimately the entire overarching plot of the first two ''Daredevil'' seasons and the first ''Iron Fist'' season) hinges on this: [[spoiler: the Hand were running low on the Substance, collected from dragon bones, used for each resurrection, which fueled their attempt to acquire the specific properties in Hell's Kitchen which were directly over the last known grave of a dragon.]]
* RoguesGalleryTransplant:
** The Hand are traditionally Daredevil villains and have scarcely gone up against Iron Fist, while in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' their entire origin is connected with the Iron Fist and K'un-Lun, where they are sworn enemies of the city of K'un-Lun and it's the holy purpose of the Iron Fist to protect it from the Hand.
** Serves as this InUniverse too, where they start off as adversaries to Matt, before Danny Rand faces off against them, though granted they mostly deal with different factions of the Hand (Matt had to fight Murakami[=/=]Nobu's faction, while Danny had Gao and Bakuto's factions).
* SecretWar: Engaged in one with Stick and his organization, the Chaste. [[spoiler:And another with the city of K'un-Lun.]]
* StealthExpert: The Hand are so good at masking their footsteps and heartbeats that Matt can't track them. He tries tracking the noise made by their weapons, but they quickly get wise to it and stick to unarmed combat with Matt helpless against them. [[spoiler: Stick manages to get through to Matt that the Hand have to breathe like everyone else and that he should listen for the sound of exhaling breaths.]]
* SuperHumanTrafficking: They were the ones who smuggled the Black Sky to New York for Nobu to pick up. The following episode indicates that they are doing the same to other children.
* SuperNaturalMartialArts: Significantly downplayed from the comics, but there are hints that they and the Chaste both have elements beyond merely CharlesAtlasSuperpower abilities. Bakuto even starts teaching Danny Rand to harness his chi, bringing this trope more to the fore.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: There are only few differences between them and HYDRA. They are an ancient, cult-like criminal organization with connections to supernatural forces, a massive network of agents hidden in positions of power and leaders prone to competing and sabotaging each other.
* TechnicolorNinja: Nobu's outfit from ''Daredevil'' Season 1 (pictured above) is bright red with black, traditional Hand attire in the Marvel Universe. In Season 2 the assassins that Matt fight in Ninja garb wear a version that is black but with red highlights and inner liner, so the red may just be ceremonial, or reserved for higher ranked members like Nobu.
* TheUndead: One ninja examined by coroners is shown to have autopsy marks in his chest, indicating he was already dead and brought back to life before being killed again. [[spoiler:Given that Nobu was resurrected in Season 2, it's implied that the Hand members are undead revenants. ''Iron Fist'' confirms they can indeed resurrect people, and ''The Defenders'' confirms that they do so through the blood of dragons, harvested from their fossils. The initial process of resurrecting a person appears to cost significant amounts of the blood, but afterward they only need miniscule amounts, and then only if they're dying of old age. If they're healthy, they resurrect on their own after death so long as they're not decapitated. The Chaste and other followers of K'un-Lun regard them as no longer really being alive, though other than increased violence and sociopathy they're indistinguishable from living humans.]]
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler:''Iron Fist'' reveals the Hand have managed to worm their way into nearly every part of New York's infrastructure. Hospitals, the NYPD, the mayor's office, even Rand itself. With the latter, they've been there for ''years''.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Starting coups and outright civil wars seems to be a normal thing for them, over the centuries.
* {{Yakuza}}: What outsiders think they are. The Chaste know otherwise, and it's implied that Fisk might as well.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hand have zero issues with executing underlings and agents who fail them in action. [[spoiler: Especially since they can just resurrect them when they die and bring them back even stronger and more ruthless.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: A standard practice for the Hand. In ''Daredevil'', when Stan Gibson's bodyguards fail to protect him, they tie strings on their fingers in anticipation of receiving this. [[spoiler:Hirochi has them [[YouHaveFailedMe shot instead]].]] In ''Iron Fist'', [[spoiler:Harold Meachum is to be subjected to this for defying Madame Gao. Harold kills them before they can, but still goes through it anyway to avoid Gao's worse punishments.]]
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!Leadership
!!The Five Fingers
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Five Fingers of the Hand''
!!!Appearances: ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The five founders of the Hand. Originally members of the Order of the Crane Mother and residents of K'un-Lun, they betrayed the order in their search for immortality.
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics they are known as Daimyos, as the Hand is mostly led by Japanese nationals.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Each of the Fingers is a skilled martial artist with centuries of training, powerful enough to be capable of going toe-to-toe with any single one of the Defenders, even the superhuman Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. [[InformedAbility Though, most of the Fingers don't exactly live up to their reputation when push comes to shove]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: Together, they serve as the main antagonists of ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''.
* CanonForeigner: With the exception of Bakuto, all of them are completely original to the [=MCU=].
* CompositeCharacter: In the MCU, they are former inhabitants of K'un-Lun and members of the Order of the Crane Mother. In the comics, the Daimyos have no link to either.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: They run the Hand as equals - though Alexandra holds a position of Primus Inter Pares among them - and belong to different ethnicities: a Japanese man (Murakami), a Chinese woman (Gao), an African man (Sowande), an AmbiguouslyBrown man portrayed by a Latin American actor (Bakuto), and a Caucasian woman (Alexandra).
* DecapitationRequired: Cutting off their heads is the only way to confirm that they are dead for good.
* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: The remaining Fingers [[TheStarcream reluctantly]] defer to Elektra, after she kills Alexandra]].
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Averted. After Murakami's faction is all but destroyed in Season 2 of ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'', Gao and Bakuto begin a war over whose faction rules over New York and this rivalry affects their actions in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''.
** [[PlayedStraight Played more straight]] with the death of Sowande. When Sowande's head is sent to the other Fingers, they are visibly distraught. While Alexandra tries to brush it off, referencing how in the past, they have each made attempts to impede and/or possibly kill one another, the rather quick and dismissive way she delivers her response makes it seem like she's trying to move through the issue quickly without dwelling on it. It may simply be that Sowande's death reminds Alexandra of her own impending doom (with her body quickly breaking down), but one should also keep in mind that these guys have been together for hundreds if not thousands of years, sharing the same homeland, goals and other commonalities. As twisted and messed up as the situation is, no one else can understand them because no one else has been through what they have: the loss of Kun'Lun (to which they desperately long to return), as well as feeling the weight of centuries while the world begins to drastically change around them. The only constants in their lives are each other and suddenly one is now gone forever. It's seems that they do have a bond that's like family...albeit a really messed up version of evil is one big happy, several dysfunction-ridden family.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Five Fingers are motivated by [[ImmortalsFearDeath an all-consuming fear of dying]] and have made it The Hand's mission statement to prolong their lives, but they view anyone and everyone else -- including each other and their own subordinates -- as acceptable casualties, the rest of The Hand's hierarchy made of either brainwashed civilians willing to throw themselves at their enemies or are raised from an early age under a MartyrdomCulture.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Their main drive is to ensure their supply of [[spoiler:dragon bones]], which they use to concoct "the Substance" that makes them immortal and is used for resurrection in case they are killed.
* ItsAllAboutMe: They insist that they have vaguely benevolent motives and that their true purpose is to serve the cause of "life itself", but in practice what they mean by this is that they are simply afraid of death and they, personally, want to live forever , and they don't care how many people they have to kill to achieve this. Quite possibly they rationalise their actions by thinking that since they are the oldest human beings on the planet (so far as they know at least), they are the only "life" that truly matters.
* Really700YearsOld: The five are extremely old, as a result of achieving ResurrectiveImmortality through their use of "the Substance".
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The fingers seem to only tolerate each other at best and they have spent untold number of years trying to murder each other. Murakami is very critical of pretty much every decision Alexandra makes as the Hand's leader, while Gao and Bakuto had a bitter rivalry between each other during the events of ''{{Series/Iron Fist|2017}}''. Nonetheless by the time of ''The Defenders'' all of the members are forced to work together in order to get more of the Substance and fight the Defenders.
* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: The Fingers all [[spoiler:came from K'un-Lun]] originally and their stated desire in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' is to eventually return home. Many of them show a fondness for their place of origin and long to return.
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their tension among each other and even numerous coups and EnemyCivilWar's in the past, they still share somewhat of a bond, shown best at their shock and mourning when [[spoiler:Sowande and later Alexandra are killed]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Aside from the Chaste it seems like the biggest threat to the organisation is, ironically, its own members. According to Alexandra, the other Fingers have tried multiple times to [[TheStarscream usurp power from her]] and [[EnemyCivilWar skirmish's between factions are common.]] [[spoiler:After Sowande is killed Alexandra brushes off his death and points out that there was little love lost between members, and they are all expandable.]]
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[[folder:Alexandra Reid]]
!!''Alexandra Reid''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_alexandra.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"The more connections you have, the easier it will be to break you."'']]
!!!'''Known Aliases:''' "Angelica Fletcher", "Alberta Davis", "Abigail King", "Audrey Thompson"
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SigourneyWeaver
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"It's just a city. You'll get used to watching them fall."''
The ringleader of the Hand, who oversees the entirety of the Hand's operations in New York City.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Bears a number of similarities to ComicBook/RasAlGhul. The technically immortal leader of an ancient organization of assassins with untold influence, depends on a mystical substance to preserve their immortality, and exerts some kind of control over a hero's love interest [[spoiler: (Elektra for Alexandra, and Talia for Ra's)]].
* ArchEnemy: To Stick. Being the leaders of the two opposing organizations at war. They know each other well enough to refer to each other by name and have been at it for a very long time.
* BigBad: She serves this role for the events of ''The Defenders'', and is the overarching villain behind most of the events in ''Daredevil'' and ''Iron Fist''. Ultimately, [[spoiler: she's killed in the sixth episode of ''The Defenders'' and Elektra takes her place as leader of the Hand.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Her control over the other Fingers is tenuous at best, and she's killed and usurped by Elektra shortly after she tries to reassert her dominance.]]
* CanonForeigner: Alexandra is a completely original character brought in for the Netflix series, along with most of the Hand's leadership.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Her very first scene is being told she only has months or even weeks to live. [[spoiler: She is in fact centuries old, but The Substance that keeps her alive has largely run out, and she is hoping to cheat death again by finding more of it under New York.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: In the comics, Nobu is the one behind the Hand's creation. In the Netflix shows, Nobu is a lieutenant of Murakami's while Alexandra is portrayed as the group's ancient founder and leader.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:She's killed by Elektra in episode six, leaving the heroes to battle her and the three surviving Fingers in the final act.]]
* TheDreaded: Kinda. Madame Gao is seemingly fearful of her, but it's just an act and all of the other members of the Hand make it clear that they're willing to challenge her rule.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Her company Midland Circle assists the Hand in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''. She also has a deal going with Rand Enterprises in ''Iron Fist''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Two in her introduction episode; the first shows that [[spoiler: she is dying]] and the second is a conversation with Gao, who can only be described as servile and scared, much in the way Fisk was when dealing with Gao herself.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She claimed that she once had a daughter who passed away long ago [[spoiler: with K'un-Lun being unable to save her]]. She clearly views [[spoiler: Elektra]] as some sort of daughter substitute, though she insists that if [[spoiler: Elektra]] proved to be a failure or disloyal, she wouldn't hesitate to kill her.
* EvilCounterpart: Just like Danny, she has a considerable amount of influence over an ancient, mystical organization and lives as a powerful resident of New York City in the present.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Tries to keep [[spoiler: Elektra]] under her thumb by raising her as a surrogate daughter and even implying that she'll kill her if she's ineffective in her role. [[spoiler: Elektra kills her and ousts her as leader of the Hand instead.]]
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Alexandra reminisces about the distant past a lot in ''The Defenders'' such as the time when Manhattan was a forest before being urbanized and visiting Constantinople before becoming renamed Istanbul.
* FatalFlaw: Her absolute fear of death is her motivation for hastening carefully laid out plans into a wild west shooting gallery.
* TheFriendNoOneLikes: It's clear that most, if not all of the other Five Fingers strongly dislike her and take issue with her tactics and decisions, and Murakami makes zero attempt to hide that he thinks she's an idiot and a liability and is sick of her shit.
* GreaterScopeVillain: For the Hand arcs of ''Daredevil'' and ''Iron Fist''. While Nobu, Madame Gao, and Bakuto were part of the {{Big Bad Ensemble}}s of those shows, they were all reporting to Alexandra, who leads the Hand as a "first among equals" with regards to the other four "Fingers". The building built by Nobu becomes the headquarters of Alexandra's front company Midland Circle Financials.
* IHaveManyNames: According to Stick, Alexandra Reid is simply the identity she's taken up in the current era. Based on the documents Jessica manages to find at the New York City archive of public records, she's been through many names since 1820, and has resided in Manhattan since around the time the Dutch colonized the island. Though she's always stuck to first names that start with the letter 'A'.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: It was what kicked off the events of ''The Defenders'' in the first place. When her immortality started fading and leaving only few months or even weeks to live, her desperation to live led to her rushing the search for [[spoiler: the dragon bones]] just to prolong her existence, provoking the earthquake in Manhattan that led to the heroes teaming up.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Elektra impales her from behind with her sais, then decapites her with her remaining sword.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Elektra stabs her through the chest from behind]].
* InformedAbility: She is described as being extremely dangerous to fight, but ultimately the only thing she does in direct combat is disabling Elektra after she is resurrected. Most of her threat comes instead from her connections, knowledge, manipulation skills, and her willingness to go to extreme lengths to get what she wants. This could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that, as noted above, [[ImmortalsFearDeath she's terrified of dying for good]] and her body was already on the verge of giving out with the doctor that examined her saying many of her vital organs were close to failing. Given her situation and the fact that [[LoadBearingBoss without her]] they may not be able to get the substance needed to resurrect her should she die or that the other fingers might leave her dead to take her postion and consolidate their power, she would most likely try to avoid any physical confrontation at all cost.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Elektra impales and decapitates her in the midst of speaking to the other three Fingers.]]
* LightIsNotGood: She wears mostly white dresses and is the leader of the Hand.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Although her medical condition has taken its toll on her abilities as a fighter, she was at one point at least capable enough to disable a wary Elektra.
* NonActionBigBad: She never gets physical with the heroes. This is her FatalFlaw that her subordinates repeatedly point out. Murakami mocks her for not liking to get her fingers dirty and Gao praises only her skill as a manipulator and deal-maker. This leads to much discontent within the Hand ranks, and she is [[spoiler: quickly killed by Elektra when she regains her memories and her violent impulses as the Black Sky]]. Her disabling a wary and recently resurrected Elektra shows that, at one point, she was a skilled or at least capable hand-to-hand fighter, but her medical condition has eroded even that away.
* OffWithHerHead: As with all of the other high-ranking Hand members, she can only be killed by decapitation. [[spoiler:After being mortally stabbed by Elektra, she's then beheaded to finish the deed.]]
* Really700YearsOld: The reason she knows so much about ancient civilizations is because she was there when they existed.
* SilkHidingSteel: Marco Ramirez describes her (or rather, Weaver) as "the kind of person you can buy as the smartest person in the room, who you can also buy as a person holding a flamethrower."
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Killed mid-conversation by Elektra.]]
* ThemeNaming: All of her known aliases are names that begin with "A".
* TheUnfought: Never fights any of the Defenders, [[spoiler:and with her death, we'll never know how skilled she was.]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Note that white is a color associated with death in some Asian cultures. This aspect is later emphasized when [[spoiler:she's stabbed in the back by Elektra]].
* WickedCultured: She's shown to have a refined taste and knowledge in many areas, such as cuisine, art, and music. She's also been a ruthless killer for hundreds of years.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Madame Gao]]
!!''Madame Gao''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Wai Ching Ho
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"Man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Choose and choose wisely. Or others shall choose for you."''
The second Finger, Madame Gao runs a faction of the Hand under the guise of being a member of the [[TriadsAndTongs Chinese Triads]]. She runs the drug trade in Hell's Kitchen, primarily dealing in heroin with the assistance of Wilson Fisk and Harold Meachum. She's also known for using the blind as couriers and workers. Though appearing to be a frail old woman, she is in fact the most feared of the crime bosses, with the others clearly terrified of crossing her.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:She's capable of knocking Matt on his behind in one hit, claims to speak "all" languages, and obliquely mentions to Owlsley that she's from "far away". The Steel Serpent markings on her heroin give a good indication as to [[Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}} where she's from.]] During ''Iron Fist'', she confirms she is from K'un-Lun.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:She has no problem mutilating or murdering underlings for minor transgressions and failings, ruling by fear motivating them ''not'' to fail her.]]
* BadassBoast: She claims to be several centuries old and fluent in ''all'' languages, among others.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:When Owlsley asks if she killed James Wesley, she honestly says she didn't, because he treated her with respect, and seems genuinely appalled by the idea.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season 1, along with [[spoiler:Bakuto]] and [[spoiler:Harold Meachum.]] Of the three, she's the most dangerous, and controls the Hand's influence in Rand Enterprises. She also [[spoiler:supplied the poison Harold used to kill the pilots of the Rands' plane.]]
* BilingualBonus: In Chinese her name can translate to "tall" or "high", which [[MeaningfulName matches her position of authority]].
* BreakThemByTalking: It's a bad idea for any one person to be alone in a room with her, as she will use words to get in their heads and target their sensitive areas.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: As she comments to Wilson Fisk, she's fully aware of how odd her somewhat mystical trappings make her seem to others, which sometimes lets them underestimate her as a shrewd, intelligent businesswoman.
-->'''Gao:''' ''[mockingly, in Mandarin]'' Did I divine the location [of your penthouse] from bones and spells, chanted beneath the moonlight? No. I discovered it because you have grown sloppy. ''[clicks tongue]'' And emotional.
* TheBusCameBack: After leaving New York in the later half of ''Daredevil'' Season 1, [[spoiler:she returns in season 2, now competing with "The Blacksmith" for control of the New York heroin trade.]]
* CanonForeigner: There may be inspirations from existing characters, but there is no character in the comics who goes by the name Madame Gao.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Madame Gao isn't exactly a fighter (anymore), given she walks with a cane, but if she absolutely must defend herself, she can easily send a grown man flying with a single palm strike.
** ''The Defenders'' shows that [[spoiler:she actually is still a fighter despite her age, and powerful enough to take on both Jessica Jones and Luke Cage simultaneously.]]
* TheChessmaster: One of the most impressive examples shown in the series. Not only does she have Wilson Fisk under her thumb, she has full control over the powerful Rand enterprises through blackmailing Harold Meachum. She is also able to run rings around Danny and his allies keeping ahead of him all season, and even when she gets captured she still has the last laugh.
* {{Clairvoyance}}: Has some level of this. In several instances she is aware of people hiding around her location before she should be, and later in the season she communicates with Danny through a one-way video feed, instantly knowing he's watching and can somehow hear what he's saying.
* ConnectedAllAlong: ''Iron Fist'' reveals that she is actually part of the Hand, a connection never mentioned or even implied in either her or the Hand's previous appearances, even when they had shared scenes.
* {{Cult}}: She claims that the blind heroin workers willingly serve her through faith, and that [[spoiler:they blinded themselves in the name of faith.]] And said cult is part of the Hand.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Her heroin can be administered via patch and also stops the body to build a tolerance. Not only would it be cleaner than infected syringes lying in parks but will be a miracle for palliative care (one of her spokespeople even going to a doctor's office). Instead she uses it to give junkies an eternal high.
* DarkChick: Madame Gao is the only female crime boss amongst Wilson Fisk's associates, she is also good at reading people and knowing what to say them to throw them off. She also serves this role for the Five Fingers, being the only female member besides Alexandra, who fills the position of BigBad.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Is captured in the eighth episode of ''Iron Fist''.
* DirtyCoward: Despite calling Danny to an official duel, she has no problem breaking the honor of the duel she appointed by holding an innocent girl hostage to force Danny to back off. Then again, [[LoopholeAbuse she only said her master agreed to Danny's terms. Gao didn't say she herself agreed to Danny's terms]].
* DragonAscendant: She starts off as one of the members of Fisk's crime ring in ''Daredevil'', before going on to become the BigBad in ''Iron Fist''.
* TheDreaded: Fisk treads very lightly around her, more so than any of his other associates, and when she makes it known in "Shadows in the Glass" that she's uncertain about his handling of things (by seeking him out in his own penthouse), Fisk is clearly terrified -- [[FlippingTheTable lashing out in rage after she leaves.]]
* ElderlyImmortal: She's the oldest-looking of the Fingers despite all of them being hundreds of years old.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She makes a single appearance in ''Daredevil'' Season 2, when Matt discovers she's a major competitor of the Blacksmith, the one responsible for the deaths of Frank Castle's family and asks her to help take him down, not even trying to do anything against her for the moment.]]
* EvilCripple: She walks with a cane. [[ObfuscatingDisability She doesn't really need it.]] And it conceals a sword.
* EvilIsPetty: According to Danny her heroin deals double as a middle finger to Kun Lun, as she uses one of their logos as a drug brand.
* EvilOldFolks: She and Leland have this in common. The difference is Gao is ''far'' more dangerous than Owlsley could ever hope to be.
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:She's the head of a faction of the Hand, and is involved in a personal war against Bakuto and his own faction.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Not that the other villains in ''Iron Fist'' are pushovers but [[spoiler:Gao is the darkest and most despicable one out them all.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler:She was born in K'un-Lun and there's not a day she doesn't long to return... but can't. Being a high ranking member of their mortal enemy might have something to do with that.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:As one of the last standing members of the Five Fingers, she calmly accepts her imminent demise as Midland Circle is blown up.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her sweet little grandmotherly Chinese woman facade is extremely convincing right up until the second she drops it.
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** While Fisk doesn't directly work for her, she's the only crime boss he answers to, since her heroin is the backbone of his criminal dealings. And he's genuinely distraught by A) her ability to find out where he lives, and B) her disapproval of the way he's handling things.
** [[spoiler:She gave Harold Meachum the poison he used to kill Danny's parents, and brought him into the Hand.]]
* HannibalLecture: She excels at giving these, as [[spoiler:Danny, Claire, and Colleen]] can attest.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We have no idea why she was in the city, dealing drugs, or working with Fisk. In her last scene, she implies that the whole thing was little more than a game to her, and seems unconcerned with her losses.
* IronicName: "Gao" means "tall". She barely clears five feet.
* KarmaHoudini: She is the only one of the villains of ''Daredevil'' to get away intact, with Matt's actions having barely inconvenienced her. And again in ''Iron Fist'', where she escapes from her enemies with absolutely no consequences whatsoever.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:''The Defenders'' finally appears to kill her off, albeit in a vague enough fashion that some fans still aren't convinced. Considering Matt survived despite not even trying to get out from the rockfall, it's entirely plausible that she and Elektra did too.]]
* KiManipulation: Gao can manipulate and project her Chi as concussive force to blast away objects, which makes it appear as if she has MindOverMatter powers.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:After her and Owlsley's attempted murder of Vanessa fails and Matt destroys her warehouse, she concludes that Fisk's obsession with Vanessa and Matt's interference are going to bring him down and gets out while the getting is good.]]
** [[spoiler:During the final fight below Midland Circle in ''The Defenders'', when it's become clear that things aren't going her way, she slips into the shadows and doesn't appear for the rest of the fight. As such, by the end, she's the only finger of the Hand still alive and uninjured - at least until the building collapses on top of her.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: She knows pretty much everything there is to know about everyone she talks to, which makes her an extremely effective negotiator and adept at [[BreakThemByTalking breaking people by talking.]] It's never explicitly stated whether her intelligence network is just that good or if it's tied to her mystical origins.
* MistakenNationality: Was believed to be Chinese by [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Owlsley.]] [[spoiler:She's actually K'un-Lunan.]]
* NervesOfSteel: She isn't remotely bothered by Matt getting the drop on both of her guards, or advancing on her. Nor is she bothered by being face to face with Danny Rand. The only time she ever comes close to losing her cool is when it looks like Danny is about to hit her with the Iron Fist.
* NeverMessWithGranny: An old, polite woman who walks with a cane -- yet she's perhaps the most dangerous of Fisk's partners, and when she comes up against Matt, she lays him on his ass with a single hit. And again with Danny Rand, she taps him and sends him flying into a wall.
** [[spoiler: Cranked up to eleven in ''The Defenders'', which shows that her telekinesis is strong enough to blast down doors and shift cars. And then she takes on both Jessica Jones AND Luke Cage by herself, briefly overwhelming them.]]
* OhCrap: Despite otherwise having NervesOfSteel, she appears genuinely scared for a few seconds when [[spoiler:Danny finds out she killed his family and is ready to hit her with the Iron Fist.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: She demonstrates fluency in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. And maybe more.
-->'''Wilson Fisk:''' How many languages do you speak?\\
'''Gao:''' ''All'' of them.
* ProverbialWisdom: She tends to speak in riddles and {{Koan}}s, creating an aura of Eastern mysticism around herself. {{Subverted}} in that she is actually a ruthless criminal who merely puts on a sagacious facade.
* TheQueenpin: She's the boss of the heroin trade of Hell's Kitchen, which is initially assumed to be just the TriadsAndTongs but turns out to be a faction of the Hand under her leadership.
* TheRival: The Blacksmith is her rival in the heroin trade of Hell's Kitchen.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: InUniverse. She starts off as an enemy for Daredevil, before Iron Fist has to deal with her.
* Really700YearsOld: She's several centuries old.
-->'''Gao:''' Did you really think your drugs would affect me? I spent most of the 17th century being interrogated.
* SherlockScan: She can instantly tell that Fisk is faking not being able to understand her Chinese, but plays along with the ruse until it's no longer of use to her. She also manages to zero in on Claire and Colleen's insecurities in seconds, though it's helped with Colleen that she knows about her past.
* TheStarscream: She loves playing the part of the ever loyal adviser slash partner, but she is usually also scheming behind her allies' backs to take power. Alexandra is rather amused when Gao calls herself her most loyal ally when in the past Gao led a coup against her.
* StealthHiBye: She can do this on ''Matt'', who typically does it to other people. Despite his enhanced senses, she disappears the moment he loses focus on her.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Her palm strikes are capable of sending people or objects flying, presumed to be enhanced by her [[KiManipulation chi]]. She first demonstrated this when meeting Daredevil, sending him skidding across the floor, and later managed to send Danny Rand flying with a light tap. In ''The Defenders'', it's potent enough to not onlu move cars but allow her to solo Luke Cage ''and'' Jessica Jones in a fairly even fight. Only the Iron Fist is shown to be more powerful.
* SwordCane: The true purpose of the cane she has, since [[ObfuscatingDisability she doesn't need it.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: She wasn't a nice person to begin with in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'', but her portrayal in ''[[Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}} Iron Fist]]'' really exemplifies her more corrupted and twisted side. She's now portrayed as a BadBoss who lives off the suffering of others, a ManipulativeBitch who keeps people in check through fear and is fond of [[BreakThemByTalking breaking others with words]].
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She was caught at the bottom of Midland Circle when it collapsed, but seen as how Matt survived, she may have as well, especially since she was not exhausted or injured like Matt or Murakami, respectively]].
* VillainsNeverLie: She prides herself in always telling the truth and she is ''extremely'' apt at using it to mess with people's heads.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bakuto]]
!!''Bakuto''
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[[caption-width-right:300:"''I think you'll find I'm much more easygoing than Gao. You see, she leads through fear. I find partnership to be a much more effective method."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ramon Rodriguez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"The world we live in now is run by corporations, not governments. Oligarchies of the rich and powerful. But that's not gonna last much longer."''
The third Finger, Bakuto runs a compound in New York City that recruits disadvantaged young people off the streets and offers them sanctuary and training. He then uses them to infiltrate institutions to spread the Hand's influence.
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* AffablyEvil: Is very calm and polite with people, especially those loyal to him or that he thinks he can get to work for/with him.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has a Japanese-sounding name, but is played by a Puerto-Rican. In ''The Defenders'', Alexandra refers to him and his forces as "reinforcements from South America."
* ArchEnemy: To Colleen, [[spoiler: his former student]].
* AscendedExtra: In the comics, Bakuto is a minor villain, who only appeared in three issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' in 2010, in the ''Left Hand Path'' storyarc.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A MasterSwordsman and literally the ''only'' Finger who can match their fearsome reputation on screen. In virtually every fight he's in, whether it be in ''Iron Fist'' or ''The Defenders'', he largely dominates, and was even responsible for [[spoiler:cutting off Misty's arm.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: One of the first season's major antagonists, along with Harold Meachum and Madame Gao, in ''Iron Fist''.
* BigGood: What he initially pretends to be to Danny, and believes himself to be.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Is defeated and ([[NotQuiteDead seemingly]]) killed in the penultimate episode of ''Iron Fist''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares greatly about his subordinates. During his fight with Danny in episode 12 he becomes distracted when [[spoiler: Colleen cries out in pain, showing that even after trying to kill her he still cares about her on some level.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: He treats his subordinates with respect and patience.
* {{Foil}}: To Madame Gao. His way of leading the Hand is to inspire loyalty by giving young people with nothing a place to belong. Gao's way is to find those in the high arcs of society, feed their greed and lust for power and later control them through blackmail and fear.
* HealingFactor: Though not outright stated, no injuries seem to stick, even outside of the Hand's infamous ResurrectiveImmortality. He outright tells Colleen that there's nothing she can do to him that he can't recover from, and shortly afterward, [[spoiler: he completely ignores his wounds when Misty shoots him in the chest]]. The only way to make an injury stick is to [[spoiler: completely decapitate him]].
* HeroKiller: He cuts off Misty Knight's right arm before Colleen is able to decapitate him.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Twice. First by Colleen, who wins her fight with Bakuto by stabbing him through the gut with her broken katana. The second time occurs when Davos stabs him through the heart while Danny and Colleen are debating what to do with Bakuto.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: He pretty much just ignores it when guns are pointed at him. [[spoiler:He's apparently able to either heal from or just completely ignore Misty's bullets.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice is a katana, which he's seldom seen without in a fight.
* MadeOfIron: Even moreso than other Hand members, Bakuto can take hits that would drop normal humans. At the climax of ''The Defenders'', [[spoiler: Misty shoots him three times in the chest and he doesn't even ''flinch'']]. It takes [[spoiler: Coleen gutting him, slicing his throat, and then completely chopping his head off to finally end him.]]
* MeaningfulName: The name he goes by, ''Bakuto'', is obviously not his real one as he's vaguely South-American. The name he chooses - ''bakuto'' - is a title given to gamblers and illicit peddlers who were the precursors to the modern yakuza. Given that she's Japanese, perhaps Colleen should've been a bit more careful in choosing a guy whose name literally means "criminal ringleader" as her sensei...
* NeverFoundTheBody: Danny and Colleen discover that Bakuto's body disappeared while he and Davos were fighting. Colleen assumes that Bakuto's people took it, but Danny notes that Harold managed to come back from the dead. Sure enough, he ''is'' revived, and Colleen even finds herself fighting him again in ''The Defenders''.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Colleen decapitates him the next time she faces off with him, but not before he manages to partially cut off Misty's right arm.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: Bakuto is a BenevolentBoss in a huge contrast to [[YouHaveFailedMe Gao]], inspiring loyalty from his underlings and sparing them when they fail instead of executing them, because he views this as a more effective manner of control than using fear. Make no mistake, he is no AntiVillain and shares the same end goals as the Hand.
* Really700YearsOld: Like the rest of the Five Fingers, he's at least several centuries old.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Like most of the Hand, Bakuto is a Daredevil villain in the comics. Here he predominantly fights against Danny and Colleen, with him even being an ArchEnemy for Colleen.
* TranquilFury: When he gets angry, it is like this.
* WalkingSpoiler: His role as a leader of the Hand is a major plot twist in the second half of the first season of ''Iron Fist''.
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[[folder:Murakami]]
!!''Murakami''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If you knew anything about me, you'd know I hunt the wolf."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Yutaka Takeuchi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The fourth Finger of the Hand, Murakami is the most secretive of the Hand leaders.
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* BilingualDialogue: Murakami exclusively speaks in Japanese, despite clearly understanding English. Despite speaking English, the other Fingers all also clearly understand what he is saying.
* ChallengeSeeker: He regularly hunts dangerous animals in the Japanese forests, including a bear that he stalked for ten days before fighting it to death. Alexandra later notes that testing his strength has always been his "singular focus". When he fights the Defenders, he typically only attacks on his own, without summoning any help from his faction. This is exemplified in the opening montage of "Take Shelter," which shows Sowande and Gao rounding up their respective mooks to attack the Defenders, while Murakami approaches completely solo.
* CurbStompBattle: TheWorfEffect aside, he at least manages live up to his initial reputation at least once by curb stomping Jessica Jones in a few seconds and nearly killing her. [[BigDamnHeroes Then Matt shows up and assists Jessica in scaring him off]].
* TheDreaded: The way Stick describes him while running down the Five Fingers paints him as this, a hermit who prefers to let his underlings run the show, but when he comes out of hiding, bad things happen. [[TheWorfEffect He fails to live up to this reputation.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu was just TheHeavy and MouthOfSauron for his faction of The Hand, not the BigBad as the episodes of ''Daredevil'' had led us to believe. It turns out Murakami was the one pulling the strings of in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}''.
* TheHermit: Murakami prefers to keep to himself, leaving the operation of his branch to Nobu.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Is impaled on some rebar when he's thrown off the elevator at Midland Circle. The severity of his injury makes it unlikely he survived the collapse of the building.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Nobu, whom we believed led his own, Japan-based branch of the Hand, was actually subservient to Murakami.
* OffstageVillainy: Unlike the other Fingers, Murakami does nothing villainous until asked to attack the Defenders, yet Stick says he has a terrible reputation.
* Really700YearsOld: At least several centuries old, just like the rest of the Fingers.
* TheStarscream: He doesn't even ''try'' to hide his ambitions to betray Alexandra [[spoiler: or Elektra]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After having most of his Hand agents within his faction killed or arrested over the events of the second season of ''Daredevil'', Murakami only fights on his own. Predictably, being a normal human being outside of his immortality, he gets thrashed pretty badly when fighting superhumans like Luke Cage or the Iron Fist.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He mostly takes the place of Nobu in the greater scheme of things. His stoic demeanor and talents are similar to the one of his subordinate as well
* TheWorfEffect: Despite taking down a bear, Murakami is constantly seen being hurt or beaten in combat. He does note that he ''nearly'' was killed and that this is common of his hunts, and that he prefers a close contest instead of an easy battle.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sowande]]
!!''Sowande / "White Hat"''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It won't be long before your plan falls apart. Before the chair I'm on becomes a throne."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' South African, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Babs Olusanmokun
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The fifth Finger of the Hand, Sowande is an African warlord and gun runner.
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* AfricanTerrorists: Stick describes him as a warlord.
* ArmsDealer: Stick also describes him as a gun runner.
* BadassBoast: He ''really'' likes giving these out. Although he couldn't back the first one up and got captured for it.
-->(''To Luke Cage'') They say you can't be broken. We'll see about that.\\
(''To Stick after informing him of his ParanoiaGambit below while tied to a chair'') It will not be long before this chair becomes a throne.
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Of the five fingers, he is the first to die a permanent death.
* CleanupCrew: He hired young men in Harlem to dispose of the bodies of Chaste warriors the Hand killed. Said method involved spraying the corpses with acid. Once they had finished a few jobs, Sowande would [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness have them killed]].
* ChekhovsGunman: He's heavily implied to have been the militia commander that Father Lantom described to Matt in season 1 of ''Daredevil'' as having cut a village elder and his family to pieces.
* InformedAbility: Stick claims that he's able to stop someone's heart in two blows, slowing their pulse until their heart fails. We briefly see Sowande overwhelm Luke with nerve strikes, and later subdues Danny with one hit, but it's otherwise a reputation he never quite lives up to. {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as those nerve strikes were enough to harm Luke, so it's safe to say any one of them would kill a normal person.
* IShallTauntYou: He spends his interrogation taunting Luke, Jessica and Danny over their previous failures to protect people and threatening the lives of their loved ones. He knows exactly where to hurt even bringing up sore spots like Kilgrave to Jessica.
* {{Jerkass}}: This guy clearly enjoys mocking Stick and the Defenders.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Despite being one of the Five Fingers of the Hand, he has very little appearances onscreen and doesn’t even have opening credit billing.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Sowande actually manages to stagger Luke with his blows and gives a BadassBoast about breaking him. One off-screen fight later, he is trashed and taken prisoner by Luke.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Stick decapitates him.]]
* ParanoiaGambit: He once got captured by the Chaste, but his army sealed them in their fortress. Their fear got the better of them, and after ten days they bowed to him to make it all stop.
* Really700YearsOld: Very, very old, like the rest of the Five Fingers of the Hand.
* ScaryBlackMan: Being a member of the Hand makes him pretty scary. He is implied to also be the ruthless militia commander Father Lantom described encountering in "Speak of the Devil".
* UndyingLoyalty: All the Defenders could do was either hear him talk or knock him out because torturing for information was not happening.
[[/folder]]
!!!Associates
[[folder:Elektra Natchios]]
-->See [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders]].
[[/folder]]
!Operatives
!!Murakami's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Blacksmith's organization in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: They are implied to be the entirety of the Hand, not just a faction, in the first two seasons of ''Daredevil''.
* TheClan: Gao refers to them as such in Season 1 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.
* FacelessMooks: Their {{mooks}} fight wearing ninja outfits that cover everything except their eyes.
* {{Yakuza}}: They operate under this guise. Some of its members and underlings even believe they are working for a Yakuza syndicate.
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Nobu Yoshioka]]
!!''Nobu Yoshioka''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I show you respect. You would be wise to return the courtesy."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300: Nobu's Hand outfit]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peter Shinkoda
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"Each man must stand for himself or fall with the unworthy."''
Murakami's top lieutenant and the leader of the Hand's New York operations, who serves as their representative to Fisk.
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* AdaptationNameChange: He is named Kagenobu in the comics. [[IHaveManyNames Then again]]...
* AdaptationalWimp: Traditionally Kagenobu is the founder of the Hand, while here's he's TheDragon to one of the true leaders.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Absolutely dominates his fight with Matt, losing only to a sheer stroke of luck on Matt's part. When they face off again season 2, he at first still proves to be a better fighter than Daredevil, although they are a lot closer and Daredevil actually defeats him one-on-one, by kicking him off a great height. During the season finale, Daredevil mainly stands his ground because his new armor keeps Nobu from landing the crippling blows he was able to land before. He's even able to fight off Matt and Elektra at the same time. After he kills Elektra, however, Matt manages to defeat him one-on-one.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He's able to stand in freezing cold weather wearing only a business suit, and is later shown to be able to slow his heart rate and lower his body temperature. Not to mention his (lack of a) reaction to [[spoiler:being on fire.]] It is later explained that this is the result of the Hand's resurrection rituals.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The local leader of the Hand, and fully capable of fighting both Daredevil ''and'' Elektra.
* BackFromTheDead: After seemingly burning to death in his fight with Matt in season 1, he is [[spoiler:resurrected by the Hand to continue leading their New York operations in season 2.]]
* BigBad: As the leader of the Hand he becomes this for season 2, following [[spoiler:the reveal of his BackFromTheDead]].
* BladeOnARope: Nobu expertly wields a kyoketsu-shoge during his fight with Matt.
* CompositeCharacter:
** He [[spoiler:kills Elektra with her own weapon]], an action done in the comics and the ''Daredevil'' film by Bullseye, who would not appear on the show until Season 3.
** His position as the apparent leader of the Japanese faction of the Hand, instead of being the founder of the Hand itself, seems to be taken from the comics version of Hirochi.
* CostumeEvolution: Favors light suits sans ties in season one, or wears his red ninja gear. [[spoiler:In season 2, after pulling a BackFromTheDead, he wears darker, heavier outfits and gloves, likely to cover his burn scars. He also avoids the ninja gear, even as other members of the Hand wear theirs.]]
* DecapitationRequired: Because of the Hand's resurrection ritual, this is the only way to actually kill him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: He gets thrown off a rooftop by Matt during Season 2's climax, seemingly breaking his no-kill rule. It turns out he survived, but not long before running into Stick, who quickly beheads him.
* DragonAscendant: In Season 1 he was a partner and subordinate of Fisk, while Season 2 he is upgraded to the BigBad, [[spoiler:or at least TheHeavy]].
* DragonInChief: Nobu oversaw and commanded Murakami's men. While Murakami still outranks him, it is pretty much Nobu running the show.
* {{Foil}}: Shown as one to Fisk. Nobu is abrasive and stern, but also has a strict code of honor and respect towards his opponents. Wilson Fisk spends much of his screen-time as stuttering and reluctant, but he is ruthlessly pragmatic and fearsome when dealing with his opponents (while Nobu would rather fight Daredevil fairly, Fisk doesn't mind ambushing him when he's weakened).
-->'''Wilson Fisk:''' Nobu didn't mind, he meditated for hours. I find it difficult to meditate. My mind won't quiet.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nobu is initially seen on a freezing-cold rooftop, completely unaffected by the temperature, causing Owlsley to mutter "You can at least ''pretend'' to be cold. It's unsettling." Later, Matt identifies his heartbeat as being "Different. Stronger."
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Every single other remaining member of the crime bosses is either totally apathetic to his presence or despises him. Wesley even asks why they tolerate him, and Fisk responds that he is a "NecessaryEvil".
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:During season 2, he has burn scars on his face and neck. Exactly how far those go isn't shown.]]
* TheHeavy: While high ranked enough to be the leader of the New York group, Nobu makes it clear that he ultimately [[TheDragon answers to]] superiors in Japan. ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' reveals his direct superior is Murakami, and his efforts to find and recruit the Black Sky were on behalf of Alexandra.
* HeroKiller: A formidable adversary able to dominate the fights regularly. He gives more than pause to Daredevil and Elektra.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: His organization wants control of an entire, specific block in Hell's Kitchen, which is part of their terms with Fisk. No explanation for this is given, not even to Fisk. ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' reveals [[spoiler:the site contained the buried skeleton of a dragon, which the Hand harvests for their resurrection rituals.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems to hold fighting worthy opponents to the death in high regard. When facing the man in the mask, he becomes much more polite and even bows to his opponent for the good fight before landing the finishing blow.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: His attire during his duel with Matt in Season 1 is a red ninja outfit, and the biggest hint as to who he and his yet unnamed forces were, as this is their classic comics attire.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: More of a indirect example [[spoiler:as the gasoline from a barrel that he accidentally pierces ends up setting him alight after he falls into the puddle leaked from it and then sparks ignite his gasoline-soaked clothes.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Stick claims that "Nobu" is just the name he's currently using, and has gone by many names over the years.
* InterimVillain: The BigBad of the only season of Daredevil to not feature Fisk in the role.
* {{Jerkass}}: Dying and coming back repeatedly has made him all-round abrasive to everybody.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As much as it was {{Pride}} that compelled him to face the man in black himself, Nobu wasn't lying when he said that he had the skills to take down Daredevil.
* LightningBruiser: He's much faster than Matt. During their fight, he's able to strike Matt before he gets his guard up several times. [[spoiler:Even when Nobu is on fire Matt can only just barely dodge getting hit.]] Nobu is also stronger and tougher than Matt. [[spoiler:He gets terribly close to killing Matt in a one-on-one fight. Even in their rematches in season 2, Nobu is only defeated in the season finale after Matt gets into a rage-driven HeroicSecondWind after Elektra's death. He spends most of the fight previously fighting Matt and Elektra at the same time. Matt does defeat him fair and square in the previous episode, but even then Nobu loses mainly because he is kicked off a great height.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Thanks to whatever the Hand does to its members he barely registers major wounds that Daredevil causes him; he might not have even been aware he was on fire until his body gave up.
* ManOnFire: Which doesn't seem to bother him, since he doesn't even cry out in pain; he just rushes Matt, and then quietly smoulders.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Quite understated, and definitely not out of remorse, but he's quite disturbed when [[spoiler: he runs through Elektra in his attempt to kill Daredevil, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain depriving him of the Black Sky he's been seeking out for 2 seasons]].]]
* MythologyGag: He is named after Kagenobu Yoshioka, the founder of the Hand in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Stick mentions that Nobu has used several names over the years.
* {{Ninja}}: Of the Hand, judging by the getup.
* OffWithHisHead: His fate at [[spoiler:Stick's]] hands in the ''Daredevil'' season 2 finale, thus preventing any future [[BackFromTheDead resurrections]].
* PetTheDog: Gives Matt a measure of respect he rarely gives anyone else.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:After Daredevil throws him off a building, Stick finds him, stabs him through the chest, and then cuts his head off.]] So far at least this has proven to be his last death.
* Really700YearsOld: After the reveal that he [[spoiler:came BackFromTheDead in season 2, Elektra says he's lived at least 3 lifetimes.]]
* SirSwearsALot: [[BilingualBonus You wouldn't know it unless you spoke Japanese]], but Nobu has an absolutely filthy mouth. At one point he gets fed up with Wesley's TactfulTranslation and voices his opinion in obscenity-punctuated English.
* StealthExpert: He's able to [[MasterOfYourDomain control his body's functions]] (heart-beat, breathing, etc.) so well that he's the only one who's ever been able to sneak up on Matt.
* TechnicolorNinjas: His ninja outfit is notably colored brightly red, which is traditional Hand attire.
* WalkingSpoiler: The revelation that Nobu was a member of the Hand was a huge spoiler for Season 1, considering that ''Daredevil'' at this point had no supernatural elements. Although he's killed in Season 1, he is [[spoiler:resurrected and serves as the primary antagonist of Season 2.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Favors the [[SinisterScythe kyoketsu-shoge]].
* WorthyOpponent: Outright says that Matt is one, saying that killing him is an honor. Nobu shows nothing but respect towards him, in stark contrast to his manner around Fisk which is full of Japanese cuss words.
* {{Yakuza}}: His faction of the Hand operates like the Yakuza and seems to promote this belief in others, like the Kitchen Irish and even some of their underlings.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hirochi]]
!!''Hirochi''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hirochi_mcu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Who said I was Yakuza?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ron Nakahara
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"The Rising is coming. You are but one man, akuma-san. You cannot stop what we have started."''
A senior executive of the Roxxon Corporation and high ranking member of the Hand.
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* AffablyEvil: Hirochi is a cheerful, polite fellow who cuts off fingers.
* CreepySouvenir: He has a little box in his office filled with the fingers of people who've displeased him.
* TheDragon: Seems to be this to Nobu.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before we know of his connection to the Hand:
-->'''Hirochi:''' Who said I was Yakuza?
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:He has Stan Gibson's bodyguards killed for failing to adequately protect him.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: Indulges in this, as shown by the box in his office.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tyler]]
!!''Tyler''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyler_profile_pic.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Maya Rosewood
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A member of the Hand who primarily assists Nobu.
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* TheDragon: Serves as Nobu's top enforcer and leads the Hand's ninja mooks in a series of kidnappings.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair and has no problem kidnapping and executing people.
* GirlFriday: To Nobu.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Is mostly an assistant for Nobu but also takes point during the Hand's mission to kidnap people that Daredevil helped.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The Hand's only female member shown during the second season of ''Daredevil''. The first season of ''Iron Fist'' expands on this, showing that the Hand was shown to have other female members but Tyler was the only female shown in Nobu's faction of the Hand.
* TokenWhite: The only white person shown working for the Hand willingly, initially. ''Iron Fist'' reveals other factions of the Hand are pretty multiracial and include white people as well. Tyler is still this trope to an extent, given that she's the only white person serving directly under Nobu.
[[/folder]]
!!!Underlings and Collaborators
[[folder:The Specialist]]
!!''The Specialist''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Takeo Lee Wong
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A torturer serving under Hirochi.
----
* DeadlyEuphemism: The name of the character, while not addressing his job description stresses how adept at it he actually is.
* EvilOldFolks: While not as old as Stick, the Specialist is clearly past middle-age.
* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He don't know what happens to him after getting knocked out by Daredevil.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stan Gibson]]
!!''Stan Gibson''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' John Pirkis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"I'm not like them."''
An accountant for the Roxxon Corporation, as well as the Hand. He believes to be working for the Yakuza, however,
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* ForcedIntoEvil: He might have been greedy, but he only started cooking the books for the Hand after they kidnapped his son.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashed into serving the Hand.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson thinks he's working for the Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a criminal thriller, and ignores he'sactually serving an organization straight out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Daniel Gibson]]
!!''Daniel Gibson''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daniel_gibson.png]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Lucas Elliot Eberl
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
The son of Stan Gibson, kidnapped by the Hand.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Hand has brainwashed him into a loyal acolyte, willing to kill his own father.]]
* IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan Gibson into working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with a scalpel]]!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Philip Cabroni]]
!!''Philip Cabroni''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/philip_cabroni.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Joe Forbrich
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A NYU professor hired by the Hand to write a matrix to encode their ledger.
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* CunningLinguist: He speaks a number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Black Sky]]
!!''Black Sky''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Bonale Fambrini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A mysterious child smuggled by Nobu into the United States from Japan.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Stick calls Black Sky a very rare and dangerous weapon, but he appears to be a young boy and nothing else, even to Matt's senses. Stick insists that he's not a person. Nobu also insists that Black Sky was "very valuable" and will be "difficult to replace" after Stick kills the boy, and seems upset enough to lend a lot of weight to Stick's argument. [[spoiler:According to Nobu when talking to Elektra in [[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E12TheDarkAtTheEndOfTheTunnel "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel"]], the Black Sky is actually a {{Child Soldier|s}} trained to the pinnacle of being a human killing machine.]]
* CreepyChild: Mostly due to how Stick talks about him rather than anything he does.
* EnfantTerrible: According to Stick.
* HumanoidAbomination: According to Stick, while he looks human he's something powerful and quite evil.
* ItIsDehumanising: Stick only refers to the boy as "it", never as "he", even after he no longer has to obfuscate the nature of Black Sky from Matt.
* KilledOffScreen: Courtesy of Stick.
* NoNameGiven: Nobu's complaint to Fisk implies that Black Sky is a species or type of metahuman rather than the boy's name.
* NothingIsScarier: The audience is deliberately kept in the dark on what the boy is. His only appearance on screen has him sitting calmly in a shipping container and being moved to a car. The only hints to his powers or abilities are Stick's ominous references to him as a "bringer of shadows".
* ThePlan: Its importance to Nobu's plan is hinted by the writing of 'Black Sky' on his map in Japanese.
* SlaveCollar: Which keeps him bolted to the floor of the container he's in.
* SuperHumanTrafficking: It's implied that he is a superhuman of some kind and he was purchased by Nobu's organization.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:In Season 2, we find out that Elektra is a Black Sky herself.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Onscreen once, then dies off-camera.
[[/folder]]
!!Gao's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* ArcWelding: Gao's organization is retconned into a faction of the Hand in Season 1 of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
* {{Cult}}: Gao states that her blind followers actually blinded themselves as an act of faith.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Season 1 of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' reveals that not all of its members are Chinese and Chinese-Americans, with Gao employing mooks of other ethnicities as well.
* EnemyCivilWar: Involved in one with Bakuto's faction in ''Iron Fist''.
* TriadsAndTongs: In Seasons 1 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' it seems to be entirely composed of Chinese and Chinese-Americans. In Season 2, they have moved from Hell's Kitchen and into the Manhattan Chinatown.
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants and Underlings
[[folder:Harold Meachum]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Rand Enterprises]] section
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Veznikov Brothers]]
!!''Andrei and Grigori Veznikov''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andrei_veznikov.png]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grigori_veznikov.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Andrei (top) and Grigori (bottom)]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Nikita Bogolyubov (Andrei) and Stan Demidoff (Grigori)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A pair of Russian brothers whom Danny Rand fights as part of a challenge by the Hand.
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* BashBrothers: Two brothers who work together [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether to kill people]].
* CanonForeigner: The two characters are not based on any characters from the comics and are exclusive to the show.
* TheDividual: "It's a tag team, except we are not two. We are one."
* KnifeNut: Both brothers use knives when fighting Danny.
* TwinTelepathy: While they're not twins, they seem to have some form of telepathy given they communicate wordlessly in-between themselves.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: They have trouble believing that Danny is the Iron Fist, thinking he's just some rich guy. Danny fixes their perceptions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bride of Nine Spiders]]
!!''Alessa / The Bride of Nine Spiders''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A gift I freely give."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jane Kim
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
An assassin of the Hand who uses spider venom to kill her opponents. She fights Danny as part of a challenge by the Hand.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, the Bride was a incredibly creepy EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette whose torso is revealed to be a hollow shell filled with vicious spiders. Not only she lacks this characteristic here, but is more conventionally attractive.
* AdaptationalNationality: Is Nepalese in the comics, but Korean in ''Iron Fist''.
* AdaptationalVillainy: She was always on the heroes' side in the comics, being a Immortal Weapon and a defender of one of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven. Here she's an assassin of the Hand.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: From AmbiguouslyHuman in the comics to a regular mortal woman in the MCU.
* AnimalMotif: Spiders, obviously.
* FauxActionGirl: Initially gets the upper hand using trickery and poison, but when Danny actually recovers enough to fight her, she goes down laughably easily in seconds.
* {{Goth}}: Her outfit when facing Danny.
* MasterPoisoner: Uses spider venom when fighting.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Subverted; unlike the Veznikovs and Scythe, the Bride doesn't dismiss Danny as some rich guy playing fighter.
* TheVamp: When she first comes face to face with Danny, she doesn't try to attack him, she tries to seduce him. It was part of a ploy to stab him in the neck with some needles laced with spider venom.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Has Danny at her mercy for an extended period of time after poisoning him, and instead of finishing him she taunts and plays with him, giving him a chance to recover.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scythe]]
!!''Scythe''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"When does the real warrior get here?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' David Sakurai
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
-->''"I serve the one who called me here. Without question. Without doubt. With a desire to serve... until death."''
One of the assassins of the Hand, sent to battle Danny Rand as part of a challenge by the Hand.
----
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Scythe wonders when the real warrior will arrive, Danny says that with the childish insults, it's like the Hand's champions all trained on the same playground. Scythe can't help but chuckle.
* AdaptationalNationality: He appears to be Japanese in this version. He's a white American in the comics.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He underestimates Danny due to his hubris.
* BeardOfEvil: An assassin of the Hand with a goatee.
* BloodKnight: Anyone who breaks into karaoke mid-bloodbath is clearly very much enjoying himself.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Scythe's first scene has him singing karaoke, then the camera pans down to reveal the bodies of people who had been partying that he killed. Then Scythe walks over to the last guy living, and uses the cord of the microphone to strangle the last guy.
* FinalBoss: He's the last opponent of the grand duel and by far the toughest.
* PsychoForHire: He's a sadistic assassin in the Hand's employ.
* RaceLift: He was a white guy in the original story.
* UndyingLoyalty: When the Hand calls, he answers without question.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zhou Cheng]]
!!''Zhou Cheng''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zhou_cheng_profile.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Care for a taste?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LewisTan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
-->''"I am Zhou Cheng, disciple of my master Chi'n-Lin, sworn defender of the Hand."''
A guard at one of the Hand's factories in China. He is also an alcoholic. A really ''big'' alcoholic.
----
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Zhou Cheng of the comics is just a emotionless killing machine willing to kill any innocents in his path. This Zhou Cheng is a lot more civil and AffablyEvil.
* AffablyEvil: Pretty nice guy for a Hand assassin. He even offers Danny a drink during their fight.
-->'''Zhou Cheng:''' Care for a taste?
* TheAlcoholic: Oh and how. Given he's a DrunkenMaster he has to.
* BerserkButton: When Danny smashes his booze recipient, Zhou Cheng noticeably starts fighting with more anger.
* DeadpanSnarker: He mercilessly snarks at Danny's expense.
* DrunkenBoxing: His primary fighting style.
* DrunkenMaster: The fact he's absolutely shitfaced does not keep him from trashing Danny.
-->'''Danny:''' What would your master say if he saw you drinking so much?\\
'''Zhou Cheng:''' Oh he insists upon it!
* EvilCounterpart: He's to the Hand what Danny Rand is to K'un-Lun: a man sworn by oath to protect and serve his master by guarding a path.
* FunctionalAddict: Being an alcoholic doesn't impede his fighting. If anything, he's made it part of his fighting style.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Sports a nasty, massive burn on the left side of his face that makes him look almost TwoFaced.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Uses his bottle as a flail during his fight with Danny.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Zhou Cheng serves the Hand, no matter what. He points out to Danny he's made a vow that cannot be broken.
* MythologyGag: Zhou Cheng saying that his master is named Ch'i-Lin and his claim that he's perpetually drunk to keep something very dangerous inside of him from being awaken are references to how in the comics Zhou Cheng is the host of a mystical dragon monster named Ch'i-Lin, who seeks to kill every Iron Fist on the day of their 33rd birthday to absorb their chi in order to open a door to K'un-Lun.
* NobleDemon: As he points out he's a man of honor acting under a sacred oath. He just happens to have made it to the evil people.
* PrecisionFStrike: Also doubling as an EstablishingCharacterMoment. When Danny wakes him from his drunken stupor, he squints in agony from his perpetual hangover and snarls, "Arsehole!"
* RestrainingBolt: Zhou Cheng implies he's perpetually drunk not just because of his fighting style, but also because he ''has'' to be otherwise something very dangerous inside of him will awaken.
-->'''Zhou Cheng:''' Some chase the dragon. ''I've'' got to keep him sedated. Bad things happen if I don't.
* {{Troll}}: He mocks Danny relentlessly, which is aided by his [[DrunkenBoxing mocking fighting style]].
* UndyingLoyalty: He has sworn an oath to serve The Hand, and takes it very seriously.
* UnexplainedAccent: While it is the actor's natural accent, it is still a little distracting that Zhou's thick English accent goes completely unacknowledged.
* WeirdnessCoupon: Why does the Hand tolerate such a drunken lout? He's unquestionably loyal, and is a very good fighter ''because'' of his alcoholism.
* VillainHasAPoint: Zhou Cheng is actually correct in his assessment that Danny has abandoned his oath to protect K'un-Lun in the search for vengeance and his own interests.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sophia]]
!!''Sophia''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jeanna de Waal
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao infilitrated within Rand Enterprises.
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* FauxActionGirl: She has some martial arts training but is no match to Danny Rand.
* MouthOfSauron: She's one of Gao's three "sales representatives" offering the synthetic Steel Serpent.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radovan Bernivig]]
!!''Radovan Bernivig''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Olek Krupa
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A chemist kidnapped by the Hand to engineer their synthetic heroin.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Is implied to have been subjected to this.
* IHaveYourWife: The Hand have taken his daughter captive to force him into service.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King]]
!!''King''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sala Baker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with guarding Radovan Bernivig.
----
* BeardOfEvil: Has a thick and large beard and is a member of a vast evil organization.
* DecapitationPresentation: His head is put on a pike to deliver a challenge to Danny.
* EliteMook: Gives Danny one hell of a fight.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Madame Gao executes him for failing to keep Radovan captive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Alexi]]
!!''Alexi''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Solomon Shiv
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with punishing Harold Meachum and partnered with Vando.
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* MouthOfSauron: Acts as an envoy from Gao to Harold to get info on Danny Rand and inform him of his punishment.
* {{Foil}}: While Vando is silent and physically imposing, Alexi is slimmer and talkative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vando]]
!!''Vando''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brett Chan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with punishing Harold Meachum and partnered with Alexi.
----
* BaldOfEvil: He's the member of an evil organization. and bald.
* BeardOfEvil: Sports a goatee and is a member of vast evil organization.
* TheBrute: He's one of the many underlings of Madame Gao who serve her as muscle.
* {{Foil}}: To Alexi, who is slim and talkative whereas Vando is silent, large and imposing.
* TongueTrauma: Gao had his tongue removed as punishment. [[{{Fingore}} And two of his fingers, too]].
* TheVoiceless: As a result of his mutilation, he doesn't speak.
* YouHaveFailedMe: In the past, he had his tongue and two fingers removed as a form of punishment.
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!!Bakuto's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* {{Cult}}: Bakuto runs his faction as a cult and an educational facility that brainwashes young people into loyal followers of the Hand.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Bakuto employs mooks from various ethnicities.
* EnemyCivilWar: Involved in one with Gao's faction in ''Iron Fist''.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Unlike Gao's and Murakami's factions, who operate as crime syndicates, Bakuto's faction runs as an educational organization for underprivileged kids and tries to instill in them the notion that the Hand is a peaceful, loving organization where they can belong to something bigger than do good.
* TheFundamentalist: Some underlings like Becca Yoo, Mary, and Brian have become so loyal to the Hand that they'll betray their own sensei, Colleen, to Bakuto.
* NaiveNewcomer: Several younger underlings like Gil and Ciara don't seem to have a clue he's being inducted into a fanatical cult
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Spoiler Character]]
!!''Colleen Wing''
-->See the [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders and Allies]] page
[[/folder]]
!!!Underlings
[[folder:Becca Yoo]]
!!''Becca Yoo''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/becca_yoo.png]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Samantha Herrera
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen who went on to become a doctor thanks to Bakuto and works at the Metro-General Hospital.
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* CanonForeigner: There is no Becca Yoo in the comics.
* TheMole: She's one of the hundreds of Hand disciples infiltrated throughout New York.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brian]]
!!''Brian''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Walker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen and one of the loyal Hand followers under Bakuto.
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* ScaryBlackMan: His size and devotion to the Hand make this African-American man an imposing and scary presence.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darryl]]
!!''Darryl''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Marquis Rodriguez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen who is up for a scholarship.
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* CanonForeigner: Has no comic counterpart.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite failing to stop Danny and Davos from escaping, Bakuto forgives Darryl and tells his men to get Darryl patched up, saying that Darryl is part of the Hand's future.
* FightClubbing: He was the one who told Colleen about the fight club, originally doing it for money to help support his mother and two brothers.
* UnwantedAssistance: He was at Colleen's first cage match, taping it and posting it online, on the belief that it would show people how skilled Colleen was and so they would want to train at the Chikara Dojo. Colleen was not pleased to learn this.
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!''The Hand''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hand.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"Free from the fear of death, these pieces of shit step up, kill their master, take over, and paint the shores of the Far East with the blood of anybody who stands in their way. They grow in size, power, wealth, spread across Asia, and finally give themselves a name. ''Yami no te'' (闇の手). It means, 'The Hand'."''
-->-- '''Stick'''
A mysterious organization based in Asia; initially believed to be {{Yakuza}}, they are eventually revealed to be something much worse. In ''Daredevil'' Season 1, through their agent Nobu Yoshioka, the Hand are helping Wilson Fisk secure control over the New York underworld in exchange for control of a specific block in Hell's Kitchen, as part of something they call "the Rising".
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:In General]]
* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, the leaders of each faction of the Hand is called ''Daimyō'', the title bore by Japanese feudal lords. In the MCU, they are called "the Five Fingers".
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the Hand was originally a nationalist ninja clan from Japan, and only became corrupted when the Snakeroot, the worshippers of the Beast, infiltrated the clan. In the MCU [[spoiler:the founders of the Hand were five members of the Order of the Crane Mother--Alexandra, Gao, Bakuto, Murakami and Sowande--who wanted to use the bones of dragons to resurrect themselves. The elders of K'un-Lun felt this was desecration, and exiled them. These five exiles became the Five Fingers of the Hand, dedicated to "serving life itself" by never dying.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: While the Hand is a force to be reckoned with here, they are nowhere near as powerful as their mainstream comic counterparts. In this version, aside from a degree of MindControl and the ResurrectiveImmortality the highest level members are given, the Hand are just a very powerful secret crime organization full of {{Badass Normal}}s or higher level fighters. In contrast, the comic book version are a demon-worshipping Death {{Cult}} that can explicitly use magic and mystical rites, revive their members easily from a shared life force ritual even if they've been reduced to ash, and have all manner of beings from those with superpowers to straight up {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. This version is also led by long-lived evil humans, while the comic version is controlled by a powerful demon called the Beast and its equally diabolic supernatural servants.
* TheAgeless: Those resurrected by the Hand do not age beyond the time they were first killed. [[spoiler:Harold Meachum has remained the same way for 13 years and though Madame Gao's true age is unknown, she mentions being alive at least since the 17th century.]] In fact, the Hand was founded for the purpose of discovering a way to keep its founders alive forever.
* AncientConspiracy: The Hand have been around for centuries, if not millennia. When Stick explains the Hand's origins to Matt, he's forced to admit that even he doesn't know how old the Hand is, but does describe them as "ancient".
** Stick offhandedly credits them with the destruction of Pompeii, suggesting that at the very least they've existed for over 1900 years.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: How they manage their ResurrectiveImmortality. [[spoiler:It's a supply of Shao-Lao's bones the founders acquired when they were kicked out of K'un-Lun, but bringing Elektra back used up the absolute last of it, save the stuff lying underneath Midland Circle.]]
* ArcWelding: The first season of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' retcons Madame Gao and her Steel Serpent operation into a faction of the Hand operating in parallel to that of Nobu's.
* AudibleSharpness: Actually an important plot point, as due to their supernatural silence, Daredevil has to rely on the sounds of their weapons to track them.
* TheBadGuyWins: The most frustrating thing about fighting them: they always get what they want.
** Season 1 of ''Daredevil'': [[spoiler:Despite the death of Nobu, the Hand ultimately got Elena Cardenas' tenement building, and Nobu's death was just a temporary setback.]]
** Season 2 of ''Daredevil'': [[spoiler:While Matt is able to convince Elektra not to join the Hand, Nobu accidentally killing her allows the Hand to recover her body and begin resurrecting her with the sarcophagus Nobu had. The only real victory is that Stick causing Nobu's permanent death has left the New York Hand leaderless, and that is just until someone strong enough emerges.]]
** Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'': [[spoiler:Although Danny is able to drive the Hand out of Rand Enterprises and stop Bakuto's attempts to take control of the New York Hand, Gao manages to escape, while the Hand still have influence in the Roxxon Corporation and Midland Circle Financials. Additionally, Danny abandoning his duty as the Iron Fist left K'un-Lun open, allowing the Hand to launch an attack.]]
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''The Defenders'': [[spoiler:while they managed to secure those wins, the fact is that they lost a lot of manpower, capital, and most importantly, the last of their reserves of the Substance. The Hand still operates like nothing is wrong, but it's clear that the Five Fingers are actually getting worried.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: Suits and ties seem to be a standard outfit for them. You know, along with the TechnicolorNinja garb. Crossed with HellbentForLeather, as their non-ninja Mooks wear suits but with leather jackets and leather ties.
* BigBad:
** Murakami's faction, led by Nobu Yoshioka, serve as this for Season 2 of ''Daredevil'', emerging from "hibernation" now that Matt and Frank Castle have taken out their potential rivals.
** In Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'' Gao and Bakuto are vying for control of the Hand's New York operations, and want to use the Rand corporation to achieve this. Harold Meachum, their proxy and the FinalBoss, is responsible for killing Danny's parents through poison provided by Gao.
** The Five Fingers take central stage in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', led by Alexandra [[spoiler:and later Elektra.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:If someone is resurrected by the Hand, they will be unkillable unless their head is removed, meaning seemingly mortal wounds will just heal or not be a problem for them. However, each time they come back, they become less and less human, eventually going completely insane.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: What we saw of the Hand when Matt was fighting them in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' were exclusively ethnically Asian. Seemingly, criticism over falling into {{Orientalism}} and racial stereotypes led to the Hand being retooled as more ethnically diverse in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', and a full example of EqualOpportunityEvil in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', where most of the henchmen that participate in fight scenes are either Caucasian or African-American and the leadership is a CosmopolitanCouncil. Possibly justified in that the Hand members shown in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' were just the faction led by Nobu and Murakami.
* ChildSoldiers: Some of their members are teenagers (occasionally controlled, sometimes [[spoiler:indoctrinated for years]]).
* TheClan: Madame Gao refers to them as such in "Nelson v. Murdock".
* CombatPragmatist: The Hand are much more pragmatic about their use of weapons in the MCU than the Marvel Universe. They seem to prefer traditional feudal-era Japanese weapons, but if the situation calls for it they'll use guns.
* CorporateConspiracy: The Hand has wormed its way into dozens of companies like Rand Enterprises and Roxxon Corporation, just to name a few, allowing them access to large amounts of cash and the ability to move their resources and operatives wherever they need to go.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Their leaders consist of a Japanese man, a Chinese woman, an African man, an AmbiguouslyBrown man portrayed by a Puerto-Rican with a Brazilian name, and a Caucasian woman. The latter two of indeterminate origin.
* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: They operate using front companies such as Midland Circle Financials and Asano Robotics or taking over already existing ones such as Rand Enterprises or the Roxxon Oil Corporation.
* TheDreaded: Fisk quite clearly fears angering them. Nobu just mentioning them in a few arguments with Fisk is enough to get Fisk to start being more agreeable. [[spoiler:The hatchet-men of New York are terrified when Danny Rand mentions them, and immediately acquiesce to their demands.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: Murakami and Gao's factions of the Hand play small roles in season 1 of ''Daredevil'' as backers of Fisk, but are never referred to as the Hand, and their ultimate plans are never revealed. Nobu's red ninja outfit (their comics getup) is the only hint as to who they are. They go on to be the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of season 2, as well as the first seasons of ''Iron Fist'' and ''The Defenders''.
* EliteMooks: Their ninja are more than a challenge even after Matt learned to track them.
* EnemyCivilWar: In Season 1 of ''Iron Fist'': [[spoiler:with Nobu's permanent death and inability to capture Elektra alive, the New York Hand is in the midst of a power struggle between Bakuto and Madame Gao's opposing factions for control.]]
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Hand has many members of different races and nationalities which includes Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, English, and even Black, White and Hispanic Americans.
* EvilInc: Part of their plan for domination: the Hand have wormed their way into dozens of companies like Rand Enterprises and the Roxxon Corporation, just to name a few, allowing them access to large amounts of cash and the ability to move their resources and operatives wherever they need to go. They also use the corporations to give scholarships to members to get them into places in the community, like hospitals and City Hall.
-->'''Bakuto:''' We are living in a new age where governments aren't the true controllers of man's destinies. It's corporations like Rand Enterprises that govern the world.
** They also have their own shell company in the form of Midland Circle Financial, which is mentioned in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' and is promonently featured in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler:Averted. The Hand do in fact have their own internal disputes, with Madame Gao being on the outs with Bakuto due to her drug-dealing activities. Ironically enough, Bakuto does play this trope straight, using a more friendly and peaceful approach, treating its members with love and respect rather than acting like a crime syndicate.]]
* EvilPowerVacuum: When Daredevil took down Wilson Fisk, the Hand realized that something was changing and went into "hibernation", thinking this would eliminate potential rivals. The subsequent campaigns by Daredevil, the Punisher, and Luke Cage against crime allowed the Hand to end up becoming the dominant power in the New York underworld, to the point that their word was more or less law among the people who knew about them.
* FacelessMooks: In typical ninja fashion, their clothing covers their entire faces except for their eyes.
* {{Foil}}:
** Of HYDRA. While they both are ancient criminal organizations dedicated to the acquisition of power, the Hand uses [[MegaCorp corporations]] and mysticism to expand its influence, contrasting HYDRA's preferred use of advanced technology, [[TheGovernment governments]] and intelligence agencies.
** The subsequent release of ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' allows for comparison with the Ten Rings led by Wenwu / The Mandarin. Both are similarly led by functional immortals (influenced by East Asian-derivative supernatural cultures) and devote themselves to criminal and terroristic activity. Both the Hand and the Ten Rings seems to have integrated well into modern society and expanded its influence in business. However, while its leadership (the Five Fingers) [[AHouseDivided has taken towards backstabbing each other]] (bringing in their followers into the mess), the singular leadership of Wenwu (as well as their tangential respect of his offspring, Shang-Chi and Xialing) meant there was never any contest in leadership.
* GraveRobbing: [[spoiler:They take Elektra's corpse out of its casket and place it into a sarcophagus to resurrect her as the Black Sky.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu and [[spoiler: Madame Gao]] are the only members to appear in Season One of ''Daredevil'', yet their presence is definitely felt. Fisk certainly doesn't want to get on their bad side. [[spoiler:More specifically, in ''Iron Fist'' Season One, Gao and Bakuto indicate that there is someone else pulling their strings, but they don't mention any names. They were likely referring to Alexandra, the "first among equals" of the five leaders of the Hand.]]
* TheHeavy: Their presence is heavily felt across the Netflix MCU shows, in a similar way to how HYDRA or Thanos are in the movie side of MCU.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Their motives are hard to determine until the end of ''The Defenders'':
** In exchange for helping Fisk, they want ownership of a specific block in Hell's Kitchen, which happens to be the site of Elena Cardenas' tenement building. They will accept only that block, and nothing else. According to Season 2, it's part of something called "the Rising", and involves significant amounts of excavation.
** It pops again in ''Iron Fist'' when they demand that Rand Enterprises gain control of a pier for possibly the same reason.
** Their ultimate goal is to activate a "Black Sky", the ultimate living weapon. What happens after that is unknown; according to Stick, the Hand has never been able to successfully activate one.
** Their ultimate goal, and the purpose of the Black Sky, are eventually revealed in ''The Defenders'': [[spoiler:the Hand use dragon bones to resurrect themselves, and the city block they want sits on top of a fossilized dragon skeleton, the last known skeleton on Earth. The purpose of the Black Sky is to be a living weapon who can kill the Iron Fist and allow the Hand to conquer K'un-Lun to claim Shou-Lao, whose body is reborn after death, allowing them an infinite supply of dragon bones.]]
* HumanResources: [[spoiler:On two occasions, it's been shown their bases have basements where people are drained of their blood for... something, implied to have something to do with their resurrection abilities.]]
* KeepItForeign: Stick suggests that the full, original name of 'The Hand', when not translated into English, is ''Yami-no-te'' (闇の手). For what it's worth, it literally translates to "[[MeaningfulName Hand of Darkness]]", which is [[ObviouslyEvil pretty-on-the-nose]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: The goal of the organization as a whole is to find a way to keep their leaders alive indefinitely.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: By the end of ''The Defenders'', the group as a whole is finished, with three of their leaders explicitly dead, and the other two buried deep underground or outright dead, while Elektra is likely dead as well, leaving the organization in tatters, if not completely obliterated.]]
* MadeOfIron: While lowlier thugs and soldiers of the Hand are as mortal as anyone else, the higher-ups, especially the Five Fingers, are able to withstand wounds that would kill any normal human being, even before one considers their ResurrectiveImmortality. Madame Gao, for example, regularly survives blows that would pulverize the bones of anyone her size and apparent age, and Bakuto walks away from multiple impalements and ignores gunshot wounds. Even lieutenants of Hand leaders like Nobu survive injuries that would be instantly fatal to most people, like getting thrown off the roof of an apartment building. [[spoiler: This is likely due to the dragon's blood they've been using for immortality.]]
* ManOfKryptonite: Their ability to consciously control their bodily functions enables them to vanish from Matt's "world on fire". This naturally makes fighting them significantly more difficult. [[spoiler:In ''Daredevil'' Season 2, Matt initially tracks them through their swords, but when they realise this and stop using them, Matt can't locate them until Stick tells him to start listening for their breath]].
* MasterOfYourDomain: Nobu can slow his heart rate and lower his body temperature, and his dialogue indicates that this is standard tactic for the Hand.
* MonochromeCasting: The first two seasons of ''Daredevil'' render them essentially identical to the Yakuza, with all of their members (apart from some brainwashed teens) being Japanese. However, they get more fleshed out in ''Iron Fist'' and ''The Defenders'', showing that they are a truly global organization and their leaders reflect much of the western hemisphere (a Russian white woman[Alexandra], a sub-Sahara black African man [Sowande], a west Asian man [Bakuto], a south Asian woman[Gao], and an east Asian man [Nobu]) and their membership expands to reflect that as well, particularly Bakuto's facility in New York.
* MoreThanMindControl: While some are forcibly controlled, others are just mindlessly devoted to them after being manipulated by them for years.
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: They are a criminal syndicate whose whole goal is immortality at any cost.
* NecessaryEvil: Fisk tells Wesley that working with them is such but does not elaborate.
* {{Ninja}}: An evil cult full of them.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Because the MCU is less fleshed out with nowhere near the accumulated history of the comic books not to mention the fact that the heroes are street level fighters, means that The Hand is more a secret NebulousEvilOrganization that influences the world from the shadows and, aside from the ritual to grant immortality using dragon bones, doesn't have all the magic and SuperNaturalMartialArts that the mainstream version has.
* PyrrhicVictory: ''The Defenders'' reveals that, for all their TheBadGuyWins moments in previous shows, the Hand's confrontations with Daredevil and Iron Fist ''have'' left them significantly crippled and compromised: [[spoiler:resurrecting Elektra]] cost them [[spoiler:all of their remaining AppliedPhlebotinum, meaning death is now a very real possibility for them]], their losing [[spoiler:Rand Enterprises]] has allowed Danny to [[spoiler:collect information on their illegal activities (though he doesn't get to use it)]], and while they've [[spoiler:successfully eliminated the Chaste]], the multiple deaths they caused trying to cover their tracks have attracted the attention of law enforcement, [[spoiler:and [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant eventually causes Luke Cage to go after them]]]]. They still try to keep the facade of an all-powerful shadowy organization, but it's pretty clear they are getting desperate.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their primary colors seemed to be black and red.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Stick claims that the secret to their "immortality" is bringing their dead back to life. One of their ninjas had clearly undergone an autopsy previously, and [[spoiler:Nobu returns from the dead after burning to death and being kicked off from a rooftop. In ''Iron Fist'', it's shown that as long as the heads are attached and bodies aren't too mangled, they can keep resurrecting indefinitely three days after being killed.]]
** The plot of ''The Defenders'' (and ultimately the entire overarching plot of the first two ''Daredevil'' seasons and the first ''Iron Fist'' season) hinges on this: [[spoiler: the Hand were running low on the Substance, collected from dragon bones, used for each resurrection, which fueled their attempt to acquire the specific properties in Hell's Kitchen which were directly over the last known grave of a dragon.]]
* RoguesGalleryTransplant:
** The Hand are traditionally Daredevil villains and have scarcely gone up against Iron Fist, while in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' their entire origin is connected with the Iron Fist and K'un-Lun, where they are sworn enemies of the city of K'un-Lun and it's the holy purpose of the Iron Fist to protect it from the Hand.
** Serves as this InUniverse too, where they start off as adversaries to Matt, before Danny Rand faces off against them, though granted they mostly deal with different factions of the Hand (Matt had to fight Murakami[=/=]Nobu's faction, while Danny had Gao and Bakuto's factions).
* SecretWar: Engaged in one with Stick and his organization, the Chaste. [[spoiler:And another with the city of K'un-Lun.]]
* StealthExpert: The Hand are so good at masking their footsteps and heartbeats that Matt can't track them. He tries tracking the noise made by their weapons, but they quickly get wise to it and stick to unarmed combat with Matt helpless against them. [[spoiler: Stick manages to get through to Matt that the Hand have to breathe like everyone else and that he should listen for the sound of exhaling breaths.]]
* SuperHumanTrafficking: They were the ones who smuggled the Black Sky to New York for Nobu to pick up. The following episode indicates that they are doing the same to other children.
* SuperNaturalMartialArts: Significantly downplayed from the comics, but there are hints that they and the Chaste both have elements beyond merely CharlesAtlasSuperpower abilities. Bakuto even starts teaching Danny Rand to harness his chi, bringing this trope more to the fore.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: There are only few differences between them and HYDRA. They are an ancient, cult-like criminal organization with connections to supernatural forces, a massive network of agents hidden in positions of power and leaders prone to competing and sabotaging each other.
* TechnicolorNinja: Nobu's outfit from ''Daredevil'' Season 1 (pictured above) is bright red with black, traditional Hand attire in the Marvel Universe. In Season 2 the assassins that Matt fight in Ninja garb wear a version that is black but with red highlights and inner liner, so the red may just be ceremonial, or reserved for higher ranked members like Nobu.
* TheUndead: One ninja examined by coroners is shown to have autopsy marks in his chest, indicating he was already dead and brought back to life before being killed again. [[spoiler:Given that Nobu was resurrected in Season 2, it's implied that the Hand members are undead revenants. ''Iron Fist'' confirms they can indeed resurrect people, and ''The Defenders'' confirms that they do so through the blood of dragons, harvested from their fossils. The initial process of resurrecting a person appears to cost significant amounts of the blood, but afterward they only need miniscule amounts, and then only if they're dying of old age. If they're healthy, they resurrect on their own after death so long as they're not decapitated. The Chaste and other followers of K'un-Lun regard them as no longer really being alive, though other than increased violence and sociopathy they're indistinguishable from living humans.]]
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler:''Iron Fist'' reveals the Hand have managed to worm their way into nearly every part of New York's infrastructure. Hospitals, the NYPD, the mayor's office, even Rand itself. With the latter, they've been there for ''years''.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Starting coups and outright civil wars seems to be a normal thing for them, over the centuries.
* {{Yakuza}}: What outsiders think they are. The Chaste know otherwise, and it's implied that Fisk might as well.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Hand have zero issues with executing underlings and agents who fail them in action. [[spoiler: Especially since they can just resurrect them when they die and bring them back even stronger and more ruthless.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: A standard practice for the Hand. In ''Daredevil'', when Stan Gibson's bodyguards fail to protect him, they tie strings on their fingers in anticipation of receiving this. [[spoiler:Hirochi has them [[YouHaveFailedMe shot instead]].]] In ''Iron Fist'', [[spoiler:Harold Meachum is to be subjected to this for defying Madame Gao. Harold kills them before they can, but still goes through it anyway to avoid Gao's worse punishments.]]
[[/folder]]
!Leadership
!!The Five Fingers
[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Five Fingers of the Hand''
!!!Appearances: ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The five founders of the Hand. Originally members of the Order of the Crane Mother and residents of K'un-Lun, they betrayed the order in their search for immortality.
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* AdaptationNameChange: In the comics they are known as Daimyos, as the Hand is mostly led by Japanese nationals.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Each of the Fingers is a skilled martial artist with centuries of training, powerful enough to be capable of going toe-to-toe with any single one of the Defenders, even the superhuman Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. [[InformedAbility Though, most of the Fingers don't exactly live up to their reputation when push comes to shove]].
* BigBadDuumvirate: Together, they serve as the main antagonists of ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''.
* CanonForeigner: With the exception of Bakuto, all of them are completely original to the [=MCU=].
* CompositeCharacter: In the MCU, they are former inhabitants of K'un-Lun and members of the Order of the Crane Mother. In the comics, the Daimyos have no link to either.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: They run the Hand as equals - though Alexandra holds a position of Primus Inter Pares among them - and belong to different ethnicities: a Japanese man (Murakami), a Chinese woman (Gao), an African man (Sowande), an AmbiguouslyBrown man portrayed by a Latin American actor (Bakuto), and a Caucasian woman (Alexandra).
* DecapitationRequired: Cutting off their heads is the only way to confirm that they are dead for good.
* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler: The remaining Fingers [[TheStarcream reluctantly]] defer to Elektra, after she kills Alexandra]].
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Averted. After Murakami's faction is all but destroyed in Season 2 of ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'', Gao and Bakuto begin a war over whose faction rules over New York and this rivalry affects their actions in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''.
** [[PlayedStraight Played more straight]] with the death of Sowande. When Sowande's head is sent to the other Fingers, they are visibly distraught. While Alexandra tries to brush it off, referencing how in the past, they have each made attempts to impede and/or possibly kill one another, the rather quick and dismissive way she delivers her response makes it seem like she's trying to move through the issue quickly without dwelling on it. It may simply be that Sowande's death reminds Alexandra of her own impending doom (with her body quickly breaking down), but one should also keep in mind that these guys have been together for hundreds if not thousands of years, sharing the same homeland, goals and other commonalities. As twisted and messed up as the situation is, no one else can understand them because no one else has been through what they have: the loss of Kun'Lun (to which they desperately long to return), as well as feeling the weight of centuries while the world begins to drastically change around them. The only constants in their lives are each other and suddenly one is now gone forever. It's seems that they do have a bond that's like family...albeit a really messed up version of evil is one big happy, several dysfunction-ridden family.
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Five Fingers are motivated by [[ImmortalsFearDeath an all-consuming fear of dying]] and have made it The Hand's mission statement to prolong their lives, but they view anyone and everyone else -- including each other and their own subordinates -- as acceptable casualties, the rest of The Hand's hierarchy made of either brainwashed civilians willing to throw themselves at their enemies or are raised from an early age under a MartyrdomCulture.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: Their main drive is to ensure their supply of [[spoiler:dragon bones]], which they use to concoct "the Substance" that makes them immortal and is used for resurrection in case they are killed.
* ItsAllAboutMe: They insist that they have vaguely benevolent motives and that their true purpose is to serve the cause of "life itself", but in practice what they mean by this is that they are simply afraid of death and they, personally, want to live forever , and they don't care how many people they have to kill to achieve this. Quite possibly they rationalise their actions by thinking that since they are the oldest human beings on the planet (so far as they know at least), they are the only "life" that truly matters.
* Really700YearsOld: The five are extremely old, as a result of achieving ResurrectiveImmortality through their use of "the Substance".
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The fingers seem to only tolerate each other at best and they have spent untold number of years trying to murder each other. Murakami is very critical of pretty much every decision Alexandra makes as the Hand's leader, while Gao and Bakuto had a bitter rivalry between each other during the events of ''{{Series/Iron Fist|2017}}''. Nonetheless by the time of ''The Defenders'' all of the members are forced to work together in order to get more of the Substance and fight the Defenders.
* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: The Fingers all [[spoiler:came from K'un-Lun]] originally and their stated desire in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' is to eventually return home. Many of them show a fondness for their place of origin and long to return.
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their tension among each other and even numerous coups and EnemyCivilWar's in the past, they still share somewhat of a bond, shown best at their shock and mourning when [[spoiler:Sowande and later Alexandra are killed]].
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Aside from the Chaste it seems like the biggest threat to the organisation is, ironically, its own members. According to Alexandra, the other Fingers have tried multiple times to [[TheStarscream usurp power from her]] and [[EnemyCivilWar skirmish's between factions are common.]] [[spoiler:After Sowande is killed Alexandra brushes off his death and points out that there was little love lost between members, and they are all expandable.]]
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[[folder:Alexandra Reid]]
!!''Alexandra Reid''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The more connections you have, the easier it will be to break you."'']]
!!!'''Known Aliases:''' "Angelica Fletcher", "Alberta Davis", "Abigail King", "Audrey Thompson"
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SigourneyWeaver
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"It's just a city. You'll get used to watching them fall."''
The ringleader of the Hand, who oversees the entirety of the Hand's operations in New York City.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Bears a number of similarities to ComicBook/RasAlGhul. The technically immortal leader of an ancient organization of assassins with untold influence, depends on a mystical substance to preserve their immortality, and exerts some kind of control over a hero's love interest [[spoiler: (Elektra for Alexandra, and Talia for Ra's)]].
* ArchEnemy: To Stick. Being the leaders of the two opposing organizations at war. They know each other well enough to refer to each other by name and have been at it for a very long time.
* BigBad: She serves this role for the events of ''The Defenders'', and is the overarching villain behind most of the events in ''Daredevil'' and ''Iron Fist''. Ultimately, [[spoiler: she's killed in the sixth episode of ''The Defenders'' and Elektra takes her place as leader of the Hand.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Her control over the other Fingers is tenuous at best, and she's killed and usurped by Elektra shortly after she tries to reassert her dominance.]]
* CanonForeigner: Alexandra is a completely original character brought in for the Netflix series, along with most of the Hand's leadership.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: Her very first scene is being told she only has months or even weeks to live. [[spoiler: She is in fact centuries old, but The Substance that keeps her alive has largely run out, and she is hoping to cheat death again by finding more of it under New York.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: In the comics, Nobu is the one behind the Hand's creation. In the Netflix shows, Nobu is a lieutenant of Murakami's while Alexandra is portrayed as the group's ancient founder and leader.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:She's killed by Elektra in episode six, leaving the heroes to battle her and the three surviving Fingers in the final act.]]
* TheDreaded: Kinda. Madame Gao is seemingly fearful of her, but it's just an act and all of the other members of the Hand make it clear that they're willing to challenge her rule.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Her company Midland Circle assists the Hand in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''. She also has a deal going with Rand Enterprises in ''Iron Fist''.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Two in her introduction episode; the first shows that [[spoiler: she is dying]] and the second is a conversation with Gao, who can only be described as servile and scared, much in the way Fisk was when dealing with Gao herself.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She claimed that she once had a daughter who passed away long ago [[spoiler: with K'un-Lun being unable to save her]]. She clearly views [[spoiler: Elektra]] as some sort of daughter substitute, though she insists that if [[spoiler: Elektra]] proved to be a failure or disloyal, she wouldn't hesitate to kill her.
* EvilCounterpart: Just like Danny, she has a considerable amount of influence over an ancient, mystical organization and lives as a powerful resident of New York City in the present.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Tries to keep [[spoiler: Elektra]] under her thumb by raising her as a surrogate daughter and even implying that she'll kill her if she's ineffective in her role. [[spoiler: Elektra kills her and ousts her as leader of the Hand instead.]]
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Alexandra reminisces about the distant past a lot in ''The Defenders'' such as the time when Manhattan was a forest before being urbanized and visiting Constantinople before becoming renamed Istanbul.
* FatalFlaw: Her absolute fear of death is her motivation for hastening carefully laid out plans into a wild west shooting gallery.
* TheFriendNoOneLikes: It's clear that most, if not all of the other Five Fingers strongly dislike her and take issue with her tactics and decisions, and Murakami makes zero attempt to hide that he thinks she's an idiot and a liability and is sick of her shit.
* GreaterScopeVillain: For the Hand arcs of ''Daredevil'' and ''Iron Fist''. While Nobu, Madame Gao, and Bakuto were part of the {{Big Bad Ensemble}}s of those shows, they were all reporting to Alexandra, who leads the Hand as a "first among equals" with regards to the other four "Fingers". The building built by Nobu becomes the headquarters of Alexandra's front company Midland Circle Financials.
* IHaveManyNames: According to Stick, Alexandra Reid is simply the identity she's taken up in the current era. Based on the documents Jessica manages to find at the New York City archive of public records, she's been through many names since 1820, and has resided in Manhattan since around the time the Dutch colonized the island. Though she's always stuck to first names that start with the letter 'A'.
* ImmortalsFearDeath: It was what kicked off the events of ''The Defenders'' in the first place. When her immortality started fading and leaving only few months or even weeks to live, her desperation to live led to her rushing the search for [[spoiler: the dragon bones]] just to prolong her existence, provoking the earthquake in Manhattan that led to the heroes teaming up.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Elektra impales her from behind with her sais, then decapites her with her remaining sword.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Elektra stabs her through the chest from behind]].
* InformedAbility: She is described as being extremely dangerous to fight, but ultimately the only thing she does in direct combat is disabling Elektra after she is resurrected. Most of her threat comes instead from her connections, knowledge, manipulation skills, and her willingness to go to extreme lengths to get what she wants. This could be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that, as noted above, [[ImmortalsFearDeath she's terrified of dying for good]] and her body was already on the verge of giving out with the doctor that examined her saying many of her vital organs were close to failing. Given her situation and the fact that [[LoadBearingBoss without her]] they may not be able to get the substance needed to resurrect her should she die or that the other fingers might leave her dead to take her postion and consolidate their power, she would most likely try to avoid any physical confrontation at all cost.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Elektra impales and decapitates her in the midst of speaking to the other three Fingers.]]
* LightIsNotGood: She wears mostly white dresses and is the leader of the Hand.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Although her medical condition has taken its toll on her abilities as a fighter, she was at one point at least capable enough to disable a wary Elektra.
* NonActionBigBad: She never gets physical with the heroes. This is her FatalFlaw that her subordinates repeatedly point out. Murakami mocks her for not liking to get her fingers dirty and Gao praises only her skill as a manipulator and deal-maker. This leads to much discontent within the Hand ranks, and she is [[spoiler: quickly killed by Elektra when she regains her memories and her violent impulses as the Black Sky]]. Her disabling a wary and recently resurrected Elektra shows that, at one point, she was a skilled or at least capable hand-to-hand fighter, but her medical condition has eroded even that away.
* OffWithHerHead: As with all of the other high-ranking Hand members, she can only be killed by decapitation. [[spoiler:After being mortally stabbed by Elektra, she's then beheaded to finish the deed.]]
* Really700YearsOld: The reason she knows so much about ancient civilizations is because she was there when they existed.
* SilkHidingSteel: Marco Ramirez describes her (or rather, Weaver) as "the kind of person you can buy as the smartest person in the room, who you can also buy as a person holding a flamethrower."
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Killed mid-conversation by Elektra.]]
* ThemeNaming: All of her known aliases are names that begin with "A".
* TheUnfought: Never fights any of the Defenders, [[spoiler:and with her death, we'll never know how skilled she was.]]
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Note that white is a color associated with death in some Asian cultures. This aspect is later emphasized when [[spoiler:she's stabbed in the back by Elektra]].
* WickedCultured: She's shown to have a refined taste and knowledge in many areas, such as cuisine, art, and music. She's also been a ruthless killer for hundreds of years.
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[[folder:Madame Gao]]
!!''Madame Gao''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It is the clever man who plays the fool. And a foolish woman who does not recognize it."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Wai Ching Ho
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"Man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Choose and choose wisely. Or others shall choose for you."''
The second Finger, Madame Gao runs a faction of the Hand under the guise of being a member of the [[TriadsAndTongs Chinese Triads]]. She runs the drug trade in Hell's Kitchen, primarily dealing in heroin with the assistance of Wilson Fisk and Harold Meachum. She's also known for using the blind as couriers and workers. Though appearing to be a frail old woman, she is in fact the most feared of the crime bosses, with the others clearly terrified of crossing her.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[spoiler:She's capable of knocking Matt on his behind in one hit, claims to speak "all" languages, and obliquely mentions to Owlsley that she's from "far away". The Steel Serpent markings on her heroin give a good indication as to [[Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}} where she's from.]] During ''Iron Fist'', she confirms she is from K'un-Lun.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:She has no problem mutilating or murdering underlings for minor transgressions and failings, ruling by fear motivating them ''not'' to fail her.]]
* BadassBoast: She claims to be several centuries old and fluent in ''all'' languages, among others.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:When Owlsley asks if she killed James Wesley, she honestly says she didn't, because he treated her with respect, and seems genuinely appalled by the idea.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season 1, along with [[spoiler:Bakuto]] and [[spoiler:Harold Meachum.]] Of the three, she's the most dangerous, and controls the Hand's influence in Rand Enterprises. She also [[spoiler:supplied the poison Harold used to kill the pilots of the Rands' plane.]]
* BilingualBonus: In Chinese her name can translate to "tall" or "high", which [[MeaningfulName matches her position of authority]].
* BreakThemByTalking: It's a bad idea for any one person to be alone in a room with her, as she will use words to get in their heads and target their sensitive areas.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: As she comments to Wilson Fisk, she's fully aware of how odd her somewhat mystical trappings make her seem to others, which sometimes lets them underestimate her as a shrewd, intelligent businesswoman.
-->'''Gao:''' ''[mockingly, in Mandarin]'' Did I divine the location [of your penthouse] from bones and spells, chanted beneath the moonlight? No. I discovered it because you have grown sloppy. ''[clicks tongue]'' And emotional.
* TheBusCameBack: After leaving New York in the later half of ''Daredevil'' Season 1, [[spoiler:she returns in season 2, now competing with "The Blacksmith" for control of the New York heroin trade.]]
* CanonForeigner: There may be inspirations from existing characters, but there is no character in the comics who goes by the name Madame Gao.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Madame Gao isn't exactly a fighter (anymore), given she walks with a cane, but if she absolutely must defend herself, she can easily send a grown man flying with a single palm strike.
** ''The Defenders'' shows that [[spoiler:she actually is still a fighter despite her age, and powerful enough to take on both Jessica Jones and Luke Cage simultaneously.]]
* TheChessmaster: One of the most impressive examples shown in the series. Not only does she have Wilson Fisk under her thumb, she has full control over the powerful Rand enterprises through blackmailing Harold Meachum. She is also able to run rings around Danny and his allies keeping ahead of him all season, and even when she gets captured she still has the last laugh.
* {{Clairvoyance}}: Has some level of this. In several instances she is aware of people hiding around her location before she should be, and later in the season she communicates with Danny through a one-way video feed, instantly knowing he's watching and can somehow hear what he's saying.
* ConnectedAllAlong: ''Iron Fist'' reveals that she is actually part of the Hand, a connection never mentioned or even implied in either her or the Hand's previous appearances, even when they had shared scenes.
* {{Cult}}: She claims that the blind heroin workers willingly serve her through faith, and that [[spoiler:they blinded themselves in the name of faith.]] And said cult is part of the Hand.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Her heroin can be administered via patch and also stops the body to build a tolerance. Not only would it be cleaner than infected syringes lying in parks but will be a miracle for palliative care (one of her spokespeople even going to a doctor's office). Instead she uses it to give junkies an eternal high.
* DarkChick: Madame Gao is the only female crime boss amongst Wilson Fisk's associates, she is also good at reading people and knowing what to say them to throw them off. She also serves this role for the Five Fingers, being the only female member besides Alexandra, who fills the position of BigBad.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Is captured in the eighth episode of ''Iron Fist''.
* DirtyCoward: Despite calling Danny to an official duel, she has no problem breaking the honor of the duel she appointed by holding an innocent girl hostage to force Danny to back off. Then again, [[LoopholeAbuse she only said her master agreed to Danny's terms. Gao didn't say she herself agreed to Danny's terms]].
* DragonAscendant: She starts off as one of the members of Fisk's crime ring in ''Daredevil'', before going on to become the BigBad in ''Iron Fist''.
* TheDreaded: Fisk treads very lightly around her, more so than any of his other associates, and when she makes it known in "Shadows in the Glass" that she's uncertain about his handling of things (by seeking him out in his own penthouse), Fisk is clearly terrified -- [[FlippingTheTable lashing out in rage after she leaves.]]
* ElderlyImmortal: She's the oldest-looking of the Fingers despite all of them being hundreds of years old.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She makes a single appearance in ''Daredevil'' Season 2, when Matt discovers she's a major competitor of the Blacksmith, the one responsible for the deaths of Frank Castle's family and asks her to help take him down, not even trying to do anything against her for the moment.]]
* EvilCripple: She walks with a cane. [[ObfuscatingDisability She doesn't really need it.]] And it conceals a sword.
* EvilIsPetty: According to Danny her heroin deals double as a middle finger to Kun Lun, as she uses one of their logos as a drug brand.
* EvilOldFolks: She and Leland have this in common. The difference is Gao is ''far'' more dangerous than Owlsley could ever hope to be.
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:She's the head of a faction of the Hand, and is involved in a personal war against Bakuto and his own faction.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Not that the other villains in ''Iron Fist'' are pushovers but [[spoiler:Gao is the darkest and most despicable one out them all.]]
* TheExile: [[spoiler:She was born in K'un-Lun and there's not a day she doesn't long to return... but can't. Being a high ranking member of their mortal enemy might have something to do with that.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:As one of the last standing members of the Five Fingers, she calmly accepts her imminent demise as Midland Circle is blown up.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her sweet little grandmotherly Chinese woman facade is extremely convincing right up until the second she drops it.
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** While Fisk doesn't directly work for her, she's the only crime boss he answers to, since her heroin is the backbone of his criminal dealings. And he's genuinely distraught by A) her ability to find out where he lives, and B) her disapproval of the way he's handling things.
** [[spoiler:She gave Harold Meachum the poison he used to kill Danny's parents, and brought him into the Hand.]]
* HannibalLecture: She excels at giving these, as [[spoiler:Danny, Claire, and Colleen]] can attest.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We have no idea why she was in the city, dealing drugs, or working with Fisk. In her last scene, she implies that the whole thing was little more than a game to her, and seems unconcerned with her losses.
* IronicName: "Gao" means "tall". She barely clears five feet.
* KarmaHoudini: She is the only one of the villains of ''Daredevil'' to get away intact, with Matt's actions having barely inconvenienced her. And again in ''Iron Fist'', where she escapes from her enemies with absolutely no consequences whatsoever.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:''The Defenders'' finally appears to kill her off, albeit in a vague enough fashion that some fans still aren't convinced. Considering Matt survived despite not even trying to get out from the rockfall, it's entirely plausible that she and Elektra did too.]]
* KiManipulation: Gao can manipulate and project her Chi as concussive force to blast away objects, which makes it appear as if she has MindOverMatter powers.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:After her and Owlsley's attempted murder of Vanessa fails and Matt destroys her warehouse, she concludes that Fisk's obsession with Vanessa and Matt's interference are going to bring him down and gets out while the getting is good.]]
** [[spoiler:During the final fight below Midland Circle in ''The Defenders'', when it's become clear that things aren't going her way, she slips into the shadows and doesn't appear for the rest of the fight. As such, by the end, she's the only finger of the Hand still alive and uninjured - at least until the building collapses on top of her.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: She knows pretty much everything there is to know about everyone she talks to, which makes her an extremely effective negotiator and adept at [[BreakThemByTalking breaking people by talking.]] It's never explicitly stated whether her intelligence network is just that good or if it's tied to her mystical origins.
* MistakenNationality: Was believed to be Chinese by [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Owlsley.]] [[spoiler:She's actually K'un-Lunan.]]
* NervesOfSteel: She isn't remotely bothered by Matt getting the drop on both of her guards, or advancing on her. Nor is she bothered by being face to face with Danny Rand. The only time she ever comes close to losing her cool is when it looks like Danny is about to hit her with the Iron Fist.
* NeverMessWithGranny: An old, polite woman who walks with a cane -- yet she's perhaps the most dangerous of Fisk's partners, and when she comes up against Matt, she lays him on his ass with a single hit. And again with Danny Rand, she taps him and sends him flying into a wall.
** [[spoiler: Cranked up to eleven in ''The Defenders'', which shows that her telekinesis is strong enough to blast down doors and shift cars. And then she takes on both Jessica Jones AND Luke Cage by herself, briefly overwhelming them.]]
* OhCrap: Despite otherwise having NervesOfSteel, she appears genuinely scared for a few seconds when [[spoiler:Danny finds out she killed his family and is ready to hit her with the Iron Fist.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: She demonstrates fluency in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. And maybe more.
-->'''Wilson Fisk:''' How many languages do you speak?\\
'''Gao:''' ''All'' of them.
* ProverbialWisdom: She tends to speak in riddles and {{Koan}}s, creating an aura of Eastern mysticism around herself. {{Subverted}} in that she is actually a ruthless criminal who merely puts on a sagacious facade.
* TheQueenpin: She's the boss of the heroin trade of Hell's Kitchen, which is initially assumed to be just the TriadsAndTongs but turns out to be a faction of the Hand under her leadership.
* TheRival: The Blacksmith is her rival in the heroin trade of Hell's Kitchen.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: InUniverse. She starts off as an enemy for Daredevil, before Iron Fist has to deal with her.
* Really700YearsOld: She's several centuries old.
-->'''Gao:''' Did you really think your drugs would affect me? I spent most of the 17th century being interrogated.
* SherlockScan: She can instantly tell that Fisk is faking not being able to understand her Chinese, but plays along with the ruse until it's no longer of use to her. She also manages to zero in on Claire and Colleen's insecurities in seconds, though it's helped with Colleen that she knows about her past.
* TheStarscream: She loves playing the part of the ever loyal adviser slash partner, but she is usually also scheming behind her allies' backs to take power. Alexandra is rather amused when Gao calls herself her most loyal ally when in the past Gao led a coup against her.
* StealthHiBye: She can do this on ''Matt'', who typically does it to other people. Despite his enhanced senses, she disappears the moment he loses focus on her.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Her palm strikes are capable of sending people or objects flying, presumed to be enhanced by her [[KiManipulation chi]]. She first demonstrated this when meeting Daredevil, sending him skidding across the floor, and later managed to send Danny Rand flying with a light tap. In ''The Defenders'', it's potent enough to not onlu move cars but allow her to solo Luke Cage ''and'' Jessica Jones in a fairly even fight. Only the Iron Fist is shown to be more powerful.
* SwordCane: The true purpose of the cane she has, since [[ObfuscatingDisability she doesn't need it.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: She wasn't a nice person to begin with in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'', but her portrayal in ''[[Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}} Iron Fist]]'' really exemplifies her more corrupted and twisted side. She's now portrayed as a BadBoss who lives off the suffering of others, a ManipulativeBitch who keeps people in check through fear and is fond of [[BreakThemByTalking breaking others with words]].
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She was caught at the bottom of Midland Circle when it collapsed, but seen as how Matt survived, she may have as well, especially since she was not exhausted or injured like Matt or Murakami, respectively]].
* VillainsNeverLie: She prides herself in always telling the truth and she is ''extremely'' apt at using it to mess with people's heads.
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[[folder:Bakuto]]
!!''Bakuto''
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[[caption-width-right:300:"''I think you'll find I'm much more easygoing than Gao. You see, she leads through fear. I find partnership to be a much more effective method."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ramon Rodriguez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
->''"The world we live in now is run by corporations, not governments. Oligarchies of the rich and powerful. But that's not gonna last much longer."''
The third Finger, Bakuto runs a compound in New York City that recruits disadvantaged young people off the streets and offers them sanctuary and training. He then uses them to infiltrate institutions to spread the Hand's influence.
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* AffablyEvil: Is very calm and polite with people, especially those loyal to him or that he thinks he can get to work for/with him.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has a Japanese-sounding name, but is played by a Puerto-Rican. In ''The Defenders'', Alexandra refers to him and his forces as "reinforcements from South America."
* ArchEnemy: To Colleen, [[spoiler: his former student]].
* AscendedExtra: In the comics, Bakuto is a minor villain, who only appeared in three issues of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' in 2010, in the ''Left Hand Path'' storyarc.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: A MasterSwordsman and literally the ''only'' Finger who can match their fearsome reputation on screen. In virtually every fight he's in, whether it be in ''Iron Fist'' or ''The Defenders'', he largely dominates, and was even responsible for [[spoiler:cutting off Misty's arm.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: One of the first season's major antagonists, along with Harold Meachum and Madame Gao, in ''Iron Fist''.
* BigGood: What he initially pretends to be to Danny, and believes himself to be.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Is defeated and ([[NotQuiteDead seemingly]]) killed in the penultimate episode of ''Iron Fist''.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares greatly about his subordinates. During his fight with Danny in episode 12 he becomes distracted when [[spoiler: Colleen cries out in pain, showing that even after trying to kill her he still cares about her on some level.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: He treats his subordinates with respect and patience.
* {{Foil}}: To Madame Gao. His way of leading the Hand is to inspire loyalty by giving young people with nothing a place to belong. Gao's way is to find those in the high arcs of society, feed their greed and lust for power and later control them through blackmail and fear.
* HealingFactor: Though not outright stated, no injuries seem to stick, even outside of the Hand's infamous ResurrectiveImmortality. He outright tells Colleen that there's nothing she can do to him that he can't recover from, and shortly afterward, [[spoiler: he completely ignores his wounds when Misty shoots him in the chest]]. The only way to make an injury stick is to [[spoiler: completely decapitate him]].
* HeroKiller: He cuts off Misty Knight's right arm before Colleen is able to decapitate him.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Twice. First by Colleen, who wins her fight with Bakuto by stabbing him through the gut with her broken katana. The second time occurs when Davos stabs him through the heart while Danny and Colleen are debating what to do with Bakuto.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: He pretty much just ignores it when guns are pointed at him. [[spoiler:He's apparently able to either heal from or just completely ignore Misty's bullets.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice is a katana, which he's seldom seen without in a fight.
* MadeOfIron: Even moreso than other Hand members, Bakuto can take hits that would drop normal humans. At the climax of ''The Defenders'', [[spoiler: Misty shoots him three times in the chest and he doesn't even ''flinch'']]. It takes [[spoiler: Coleen gutting him, slicing his throat, and then completely chopping his head off to finally end him.]]
* MeaningfulName: The name he goes by, ''Bakuto'', is obviously not his real one as he's vaguely South-American. The name he chooses - ''bakuto'' - is a title given to gamblers and illicit peddlers who were the precursors to the modern yakuza. Given that she's Japanese, perhaps Colleen should've been a bit more careful in choosing a guy whose name literally means "criminal ringleader" as her sensei...
* NeverFoundTheBody: Danny and Colleen discover that Bakuto's body disappeared while he and Davos were fighting. Colleen assumes that Bakuto's people took it, but Danny notes that Harold managed to come back from the dead. Sure enough, he ''is'' revived, and Colleen even finds herself fighting him again in ''The Defenders''.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Colleen decapitates him the next time she faces off with him, but not before he manages to partially cut off Misty's right arm.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: Bakuto is a BenevolentBoss in a huge contrast to [[YouHaveFailedMe Gao]], inspiring loyalty from his underlings and sparing them when they fail instead of executing them, because he views this as a more effective manner of control than using fear. Make no mistake, he is no AntiVillain and shares the same end goals as the Hand.
* Really700YearsOld: Like the rest of the Five Fingers, he's at least several centuries old.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Like most of the Hand, Bakuto is a Daredevil villain in the comics. Here he predominantly fights against Danny and Colleen, with him even being an ArchEnemy for Colleen.
* TranquilFury: When he gets angry, it is like this.
* WalkingSpoiler: His role as a leader of the Hand is a major plot twist in the second half of the first season of ''Iron Fist''.
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[[folder:Murakami]]
!!''Murakami''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If you knew anything about me, you'd know I hunt the wolf."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Yutaka Takeuchi
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The fourth Finger of the Hand, Murakami is the most secretive of the Hand leaders.
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* BilingualDialogue: Murakami exclusively speaks in Japanese, despite clearly understanding English. Despite speaking English, the other Fingers all also clearly understand what he is saying.
* ChallengeSeeker: He regularly hunts dangerous animals in the Japanese forests, including a bear that he stalked for ten days before fighting it to death. Alexandra later notes that testing his strength has always been his "singular focus". When he fights the Defenders, he typically only attacks on his own, without summoning any help from his faction. This is exemplified in the opening montage of "Take Shelter," which shows Sowande and Gao rounding up their respective mooks to attack the Defenders, while Murakami approaches completely solo.
* CurbStompBattle: TheWorfEffect aside, he at least manages live up to his initial reputation at least once by curb stomping Jessica Jones in a few seconds and nearly killing her. [[BigDamnHeroes Then Matt shows up and assists Jessica in scaring him off]].
* TheDreaded: The way Stick describes him while running down the Five Fingers paints him as this, a hermit who prefers to let his underlings run the show, but when he comes out of hiding, bad things happen. [[TheWorfEffect He fails to live up to this reputation.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Nobu was just TheHeavy and MouthOfSauron for his faction of The Hand, not the BigBad as the episodes of ''Daredevil'' had led us to believe. It turns out Murakami was the one pulling the strings of in ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}''.
* TheHermit: Murakami prefers to keep to himself, leaving the operation of his branch to Nobu.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Is impaled on some rebar when he's thrown off the elevator at Midland Circle. The severity of his injury makes it unlikely he survived the collapse of the building.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Nobu, whom we believed led his own, Japan-based branch of the Hand, was actually subservient to Murakami.
* OffstageVillainy: Unlike the other Fingers, Murakami does nothing villainous until asked to attack the Defenders, yet Stick says he has a terrible reputation.
* Really700YearsOld: At least several centuries old, just like the rest of the Fingers.
* TheStarscream: He doesn't even ''try'' to hide his ambitions to betray Alexandra [[spoiler: or Elektra]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After having most of his Hand agents within his faction killed or arrested over the events of the second season of ''Daredevil'', Murakami only fights on his own. Predictably, being a normal human being outside of his immortality, he gets thrashed pretty badly when fighting superhumans like Luke Cage or the Iron Fist.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He mostly takes the place of Nobu in the greater scheme of things. His stoic demeanor and talents are similar to the one of his subordinate as well
* TheWorfEffect: Despite taking down a bear, Murakami is constantly seen being hurt or beaten in combat. He does note that he ''nearly'' was killed and that this is common of his hunts, and that he prefers a close contest instead of an easy battle.
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[[folder:Sowande]]
!!''Sowande / "White Hat"''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"It won't be long before your plan falls apart. Before the chair I'm on becomes a throne."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' South African, K'un-Lunan
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Babs Olusanmokun
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
The fifth Finger of the Hand, Sowande is an African warlord and gun runner.
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* AfricanTerrorists: Stick describes him as a warlord.
* ArmsDealer: Stick also describes him as a gun runner.
* BadassBoast: He ''really'' likes giving these out. Although he couldn't back the first one up and got captured for it.
-->(''To Luke Cage'') They say you can't be broken. We'll see about that.\\
(''To Stick after informing him of his ParanoiaGambit below while tied to a chair'') It will not be long before this chair becomes a throne.
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Of the five fingers, he is the first to die a permanent death.
* CleanupCrew: He hired young men in Harlem to dispose of the bodies of Chaste warriors the Hand killed. Said method involved spraying the corpses with acid. Once they had finished a few jobs, Sowande would [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness have them killed]].
* ChekhovsGunman: He's heavily implied to have been the militia commander that Father Lantom described to Matt in season 1 of ''Daredevil'' as having cut a village elder and his family to pieces.
* InformedAbility: Stick claims that he's able to stop someone's heart in two blows, slowing their pulse until their heart fails. We briefly see Sowande overwhelm Luke with nerve strikes, and later subdues Danny with one hit, but it's otherwise a reputation he never quite lives up to. {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as those nerve strikes were enough to harm Luke, so it's safe to say any one of them would kill a normal person.
* IShallTauntYou: He spends his interrogation taunting Luke, Jessica and Danny over their previous failures to protect people and threatening the lives of their loved ones. He knows exactly where to hurt even bringing up sore spots like Kilgrave to Jessica.
* {{Jerkass}}: This guy clearly enjoys mocking Stick and the Defenders.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Despite being one of the Five Fingers of the Hand, he has very little appearances onscreen and doesn’t even have opening credit billing.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Sowande actually manages to stagger Luke with his blows and gives a BadassBoast about breaking him. One off-screen fight later, he is trashed and taken prisoner by Luke.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Stick decapitates him.]]
* ParanoiaGambit: He once got captured by the Chaste, but his army sealed them in their fortress. Their fear got the better of them, and after ten days they bowed to him to make it all stop.
* Really700YearsOld: Very, very old, like the rest of the Five Fingers of the Hand.
* ScaryBlackMan: Being a member of the Hand makes him pretty scary. He is implied to also be the ruthless militia commander Father Lantom described encountering in "Speak of the Devil".
* UndyingLoyalty: All the Defenders could do was either hear him talk or knock him out because torturing for information was not happening.
[[/folder]]
!!!Associates
[[folder:Elektra Natchios]]
-->See [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders]].
[[/folder]]
!Operatives
!!Murakami's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Blacksmith's organization in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: They are implied to be the entirety of the Hand, not just a faction, in the first two seasons of ''Daredevil''.
* TheClan: Gao refers to them as such in Season 1 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.
* FacelessMooks: Their {{mooks}} fight wearing ninja outfits that cover everything except their eyes.
* {{Yakuza}}: They operate under this guise. Some of its members and underlings even believe they are working for a Yakuza syndicate.
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Nobu Yoshioka]]
!!''Nobu Yoshioka''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I show you respect. You would be wise to return the courtesy."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300: Nobu's Hand outfit]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Peter Shinkoda
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"Each man must stand for himself or fall with the unworthy."''
Murakami's top lieutenant and the leader of the Hand's New York operations, who serves as their representative to Fisk.
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* AdaptationNameChange: He is named Kagenobu in the comics. [[IHaveManyNames Then again]]...
* AdaptationalWimp: Traditionally Kagenobu is the founder of the Hand, while here's he's TheDragon to one of the true leaders.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Absolutely dominates his fight with Matt, losing only to a sheer stroke of luck on Matt's part. When they face off again season 2, he at first still proves to be a better fighter than Daredevil, although they are a lot closer and Daredevil actually defeats him one-on-one, by kicking him off a great height. During the season finale, Daredevil mainly stands his ground because his new armor keeps Nobu from landing the crippling blows he was able to land before. He's even able to fight off Matt and Elektra at the same time. After he kills Elektra, however, Matt manages to defeat him one-on-one.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He's able to stand in freezing cold weather wearing only a business suit, and is later shown to be able to slow his heart rate and lower his body temperature. Not to mention his (lack of a) reaction to [[spoiler:being on fire.]] It is later explained that this is the result of the Hand's resurrection rituals.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The local leader of the Hand, and fully capable of fighting both Daredevil ''and'' Elektra.
* BackFromTheDead: After seemingly burning to death in his fight with Matt in season 1, he is [[spoiler:resurrected by the Hand to continue leading their New York operations in season 2.]]
* BigBad: As the leader of the Hand he becomes this for season 2, following [[spoiler:the reveal of his BackFromTheDead]].
* BladeOnARope: Nobu expertly wields a kyoketsu-shoge during his fight with Matt.
* CompositeCharacter:
** He [[spoiler:kills Elektra with her own weapon]], an action done in the comics and the ''Daredevil'' film by Bullseye, who would not appear on the show until Season 3.
** His position as the apparent leader of the Japanese faction of the Hand, instead of being the founder of the Hand itself, seems to be taken from the comics version of Hirochi.
* CostumeEvolution: Favors light suits sans ties in season one, or wears his red ninja gear. [[spoiler:In season 2, after pulling a BackFromTheDead, he wears darker, heavier outfits and gloves, likely to cover his burn scars. He also avoids the ninja gear, even as other members of the Hand wear theirs.]]
* DecapitationRequired: Because of the Hand's resurrection ritual, this is the only way to actually kill him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: He gets thrown off a rooftop by Matt during Season 2's climax, seemingly breaking his no-kill rule. It turns out he survived, but not long before running into Stick, who quickly beheads him.
* DragonAscendant: In Season 1 he was a partner and subordinate of Fisk, while Season 2 he is upgraded to the BigBad, [[spoiler:or at least TheHeavy]].
* DragonInChief: Nobu oversaw and commanded Murakami's men. While Murakami still outranks him, it is pretty much Nobu running the show.
* {{Foil}}: Shown as one to Fisk. Nobu is abrasive and stern, but also has a strict code of honor and respect towards his opponents. Wilson Fisk spends much of his screen-time as stuttering and reluctant, but he is ruthlessly pragmatic and fearsome when dealing with his opponents (while Nobu would rather fight Daredevil fairly, Fisk doesn't mind ambushing him when he's weakened).
-->'''Wilson Fisk:''' Nobu didn't mind, he meditated for hours. I find it difficult to meditate. My mind won't quiet.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nobu is initially seen on a freezing-cold rooftop, completely unaffected by the temperature, causing Owlsley to mutter "You can at least ''pretend'' to be cold. It's unsettling." Later, Matt identifies his heartbeat as being "Different. Stronger."
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Every single other remaining member of the crime bosses is either totally apathetic to his presence or despises him. Wesley even asks why they tolerate him, and Fisk responds that he is a "NecessaryEvil".
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:During season 2, he has burn scars on his face and neck. Exactly how far those go isn't shown.]]
* TheHeavy: While high ranked enough to be the leader of the New York group, Nobu makes it clear that he ultimately [[TheDragon answers to]] superiors in Japan. ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' reveals his direct superior is Murakami, and his efforts to find and recruit the Black Sky were on behalf of Alexandra.
* HeroKiller: A formidable adversary able to dominate the fights regularly. He gives more than pause to Daredevil and Elektra.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: His organization wants control of an entire, specific block in Hell's Kitchen, which is part of their terms with Fisk. No explanation for this is given, not even to Fisk. ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' reveals [[spoiler:the site contained the buried skeleton of a dragon, which the Hand harvests for their resurrection rituals.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems to hold fighting worthy opponents to the death in high regard. When facing the man in the mask, he becomes much more polite and even bows to his opponent for the good fight before landing the finishing blow.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: His attire during his duel with Matt in Season 1 is a red ninja outfit, and the biggest hint as to who he and his yet unnamed forces were, as this is their classic comics attire.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: More of a indirect example [[spoiler:as the gasoline from a barrel that he accidentally pierces ends up setting him alight after he falls into the puddle leaked from it and then sparks ignite his gasoline-soaked clothes.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Stick claims that "Nobu" is just the name he's currently using, and has gone by many names over the years.
* InterimVillain: The BigBad of the only season of Daredevil to not feature Fisk in the role.
* {{Jerkass}}: Dying and coming back repeatedly has made him all-round abrasive to everybody.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As much as it was {{Pride}} that compelled him to face the man in black himself, Nobu wasn't lying when he said that he had the skills to take down Daredevil.
* LightningBruiser: He's much faster than Matt. During their fight, he's able to strike Matt before he gets his guard up several times. [[spoiler:Even when Nobu is on fire Matt can only just barely dodge getting hit.]] Nobu is also stronger and tougher than Matt. [[spoiler:He gets terribly close to killing Matt in a one-on-one fight. Even in their rematches in season 2, Nobu is only defeated in the season finale after Matt gets into a rage-driven HeroicSecondWind after Elektra's death. He spends most of the fight previously fighting Matt and Elektra at the same time. Matt does defeat him fair and square in the previous episode, but even then Nobu loses mainly because he is kicked off a great height.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Thanks to whatever the Hand does to its members he barely registers major wounds that Daredevil causes him; he might not have even been aware he was on fire until his body gave up.
* ManOnFire: Which doesn't seem to bother him, since he doesn't even cry out in pain; he just rushes Matt, and then quietly smoulders.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Quite understated, and definitely not out of remorse, but he's quite disturbed when [[spoiler: he runs through Elektra in his attempt to kill Daredevil, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain depriving him of the Black Sky he's been seeking out for 2 seasons]].]]
* MythologyGag: He is named after Kagenobu Yoshioka, the founder of the Hand in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Stick mentions that Nobu has used several names over the years.
* {{Ninja}}: Of the Hand, judging by the getup.
* OffWithHisHead: His fate at [[spoiler:Stick's]] hands in the ''Daredevil'' season 2 finale, thus preventing any future [[BackFromTheDead resurrections]].
* PetTheDog: Gives Matt a measure of respect he rarely gives anyone else.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:After Daredevil throws him off a building, Stick finds him, stabs him through the chest, and then cuts his head off.]] So far at least this has proven to be his last death.
* Really700YearsOld: After the reveal that he [[spoiler:came BackFromTheDead in season 2, Elektra says he's lived at least 3 lifetimes.]]
* SirSwearsALot: [[BilingualBonus You wouldn't know it unless you spoke Japanese]], but Nobu has an absolutely filthy mouth. At one point he gets fed up with Wesley's TactfulTranslation and voices his opinion in obscenity-punctuated English.
* StealthExpert: He's able to [[MasterOfYourDomain control his body's functions]] (heart-beat, breathing, etc.) so well that he's the only one who's ever been able to sneak up on Matt.
* TechnicolorNinjas: His ninja outfit is notably colored brightly red, which is traditional Hand attire.
* WalkingSpoiler: The revelation that Nobu was a member of the Hand was a huge spoiler for Season 1, considering that ''Daredevil'' at this point had no supernatural elements. Although he's killed in Season 1, he is [[spoiler:resurrected and serves as the primary antagonist of Season 2.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: Favors the [[SinisterScythe kyoketsu-shoge]].
* WorthyOpponent: Outright says that Matt is one, saying that killing him is an honor. Nobu shows nothing but respect towards him, in stark contrast to his manner around Fisk which is full of Japanese cuss words.
* {{Yakuza}}: His faction of the Hand operates like the Yakuza and seems to promote this belief in others, like the Kitchen Irish and even some of their underlings.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hirochi]]
!!''Hirochi''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hirochi_mcu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Who said I was Yakuza?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ron Nakahara
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"The Rising is coming. You are but one man, akuma-san. You cannot stop what we have started."''
A senior executive of the Roxxon Corporation and high ranking member of the Hand.
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* AffablyEvil: Hirochi is a cheerful, polite fellow who cuts off fingers.
* CreepySouvenir: He has a little box in his office filled with the fingers of people who've displeased him.
* TheDragon: Seems to be this to Nobu.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before we know of his connection to the Hand:
-->'''Hirochi:''' Who said I was Yakuza?
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:He has Stan Gibson's bodyguards killed for failing to adequately protect him.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: Indulges in this, as shown by the box in his office.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tyler]]
!!''Tyler''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyler_profile_pic.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Maya Rosewood
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A member of the Hand who primarily assists Nobu.
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* TheDragon: Serves as Nobu's top enforcer and leads the Hand's ninja mooks in a series of kidnappings.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair and has no problem kidnapping and executing people.
* GirlFriday: To Nobu.
* MinoredInAsskicking: Is mostly an assistant for Nobu but also takes point during the Hand's mission to kidnap people that Daredevil helped.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The Hand's only female member shown during the second season of ''Daredevil''. The first season of ''Iron Fist'' expands on this, showing that the Hand was shown to have other female members but Tyler was the only female shown in Nobu's faction of the Hand.
* TokenWhite: The only white person shown working for the Hand willingly, initially. ''Iron Fist'' reveals other factions of the Hand are pretty multiracial and include white people as well. Tyler is still this trope to an extent, given that she's the only white person serving directly under Nobu.
[[/folder]]
!!!Underlings and Collaborators
[[folder:The Specialist]]
!!''The Specialist''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Takeo Lee Wong
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A torturer serving under Hirochi.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: The name of the character, while not addressing his job description stresses how adept at it he actually is.
* EvilOldFolks: While not as old as Stick, the Specialist is clearly past middle-age.
* TortureTechnician: He's brought in to torture Stick.
* NoNameGiven: His actual name is never mentioned even in credits.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He don't know what happens to him after getting knocked out by Daredevil.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stan Gibson]]
!!''Stan Gibson''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' John Pirkis
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
->''"I'm not like them."''
An accountant for the Roxxon Corporation, as well as the Hand. He believes to be working for the Yakuza, however,
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* ForcedIntoEvil: He might have been greedy, but he only started cooking the books for the Hand after they kidnapped his son.
* HopeSpot: He is forced to serve the Hand because they kidnapped his son Daniel. Daredevil rescues Daniel, and Stan promises Daniel that things will be different. [[spoiler:Then Daniel kills Stan, as he had been brainwashed into serving the Hand.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: Gibson thinks he's working for the Yakuza, essentially believing he's trapped in a criminal thriller, and ignores he'sactually serving an organization straight out of DarkFantasy {{Wuxia}}.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Daniel Gibson]]
!!''Daniel Gibson''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Lucas Elliot Eberl
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
The son of Stan Gibson, kidnapped by the Hand.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Hand has brainwashed him into a loyal acolyte, willing to kill his own father.]]
* IHaveYourWife: He's the proverbial wife, imprisoned by the Hand to force Stan Gibson into working for them.
* {{Patricide}}: After his father took him to the hospital, he [[spoiler:stabbed him with a scalpel]]!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Philip Cabroni]]
!!''Philip Cabroni''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Joe Forbrich
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A NYU professor hired by the Hand to write a matrix to encode their ledger.
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* CunningLinguist: He speaks a number of Asian languages, including Korean and Japanese.
* HookersAndBlow: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has this: after seeing out some hookers, he's about to snort some cocaine with a rolled up dollar bill before Daredevil and Elektra interrupt him.
* RaceFetish: He has a fetish for Asian women.
-->'''Philip Cabroni:''' I know I'm into some sick shit but next time I swear all I want to do is eat moo goo gai pan off your bodies. All. Day.\\
'''Prostitute:''' We're not Chinese!\\
'''Cabroni:''' Whatever, it's all hot to me.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Black Sky]]
!!''Black Sky''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Bonale Fambrini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''
A mysterious child smuggled by Nobu into the United States from Japan.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Stick calls Black Sky a very rare and dangerous weapon, but he appears to be a young boy and nothing else, even to Matt's senses. Stick insists that he's not a person. Nobu also insists that Black Sky was "very valuable" and will be "difficult to replace" after Stick kills the boy, and seems upset enough to lend a lot of weight to Stick's argument. [[spoiler:According to Nobu when talking to Elektra in [[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E12TheDarkAtTheEndOfTheTunnel "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel"]], the Black Sky is actually a {{Child Soldier|s}} trained to the pinnacle of being a human killing machine.]]
* CreepyChild: Mostly due to how Stick talks about him rather than anything he does.
* EnfantTerrible: According to Stick.
* HumanoidAbomination: According to Stick, while he looks human he's something powerful and quite evil.
* ItIsDehumanising: Stick only refers to the boy as "it", never as "he", even after he no longer has to obfuscate the nature of Black Sky from Matt.
* KilledOffScreen: Courtesy of Stick.
* NoNameGiven: Nobu's complaint to Fisk implies that Black Sky is a species or type of metahuman rather than the boy's name.
* NothingIsScarier: The audience is deliberately kept in the dark on what the boy is. His only appearance on screen has him sitting calmly in a shipping container and being moved to a car. The only hints to his powers or abilities are Stick's ominous references to him as a "bringer of shadows".
* ThePlan: Its importance to Nobu's plan is hinted by the writing of 'Black Sky' on his map in Japanese.
* SlaveCollar: Which keeps him bolted to the floor of the container he's in.
* SuperHumanTrafficking: It's implied that he is a superhuman of some kind and he was purchased by Nobu's organization.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:In Season 2, we find out that Elektra is a Black Sky herself.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Onscreen once, then dies off-camera.
[[/folder]]
!!Gao's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* ArcWelding: Gao's organization is retconned into a faction of the Hand in Season 1 of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
* {{Cult}}: Gao states that her blind followers actually blinded themselves as an act of faith.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Season 1 of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' reveals that not all of its members are Chinese and Chinese-Americans, with Gao employing mooks of other ethnicities as well.
* EnemyCivilWar: Involved in one with Bakuto's faction in ''Iron Fist''.
* TriadsAndTongs: In Seasons 1 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' it seems to be entirely composed of Chinese and Chinese-Americans. In Season 2, they have moved from Hell's Kitchen and into the Manhattan Chinatown.
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants and Underlings
[[folder:Harold Meachum]]
-->See the [[Characters/MCUCompanies Rand Enterprises]] section
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Veznikov Brothers]]
!!''Andrei and Grigori Veznikov''
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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grigori_veznikov.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Andrei (top) and Grigori (bottom)]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Nikita Bogolyubov (Andrei) and Stan Demidoff (Grigori)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A pair of Russian brothers whom Danny Rand fights as part of a challenge by the Hand.
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* BashBrothers: Two brothers who work together [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether to kill people]].
* CanonForeigner: The two characters are not based on any characters from the comics and are exclusive to the show.
* TheDividual: "It's a tag team, except we are not two. We are one."
* KnifeNut: Both brothers use knives when fighting Danny.
* TwinTelepathy: While they're not twins, they seem to have some form of telepathy given they communicate wordlessly in-between themselves.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: They have trouble believing that Danny is the Iron Fist, thinking he's just some rich guy. Danny fixes their perceptions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bride of Nine Spiders]]
!!''Alessa / The Bride of Nine Spiders''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bride_of_nine_spiders.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"A gift I freely give."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jane Kim
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
An assassin of the Hand who uses spider venom to kill her opponents. She fights Danny as part of a challenge by the Hand.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the comics, the Bride was a incredibly creepy EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette whose torso is revealed to be a hollow shell filled with vicious spiders. Not only she lacks this characteristic here, but is more conventionally attractive.
* AdaptationalNationality: Is Nepalese in the comics, but Korean in ''Iron Fist''.
* AdaptationalVillainy: She was always on the heroes' side in the comics, being a Immortal Weapon and a defender of one of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven. Here she's an assassin of the Hand.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: From AmbiguouslyHuman in the comics to a regular mortal woman in the MCU.
* AnimalMotif: Spiders, obviously.
* FauxActionGirl: Initially gets the upper hand using trickery and poison, but when Danny actually recovers enough to fight her, she goes down laughably easily in seconds.
* {{Goth}}: Her outfit when facing Danny.
* MasterPoisoner: Uses spider venom when fighting.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Subverted; unlike the Veznikovs and Scythe, the Bride doesn't dismiss Danny as some rich guy playing fighter.
* TheVamp: When she first comes face to face with Danny, she doesn't try to attack him, she tries to seduce him. It was part of a ploy to stab him in the neck with some needles laced with spider venom.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Has Danny at her mercy for an extended period of time after poisoning him, and instead of finishing him she taunts and plays with him, giving him a chance to recover.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scythe]]
!!''Scythe''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scythe_mcu.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"When does the real warrior get here?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' David Sakurai
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
-->''"I serve the one who called me here. Without question. Without doubt. With a desire to serve... until death."''
One of the assassins of the Hand, sent to battle Danny Rand as part of a challenge by the Hand.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Scythe wonders when the real warrior will arrive, Danny says that with the childish insults, it's like the Hand's champions all trained on the same playground. Scythe can't help but chuckle.
* AdaptationalNationality: He appears to be Japanese in this version. He's a white American in the comics.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He underestimates Danny due to his hubris.
* BeardOfEvil: An assassin of the Hand with a goatee.
* BloodKnight: Anyone who breaks into karaoke mid-bloodbath is clearly very much enjoying himself.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Scythe's first scene has him singing karaoke, then the camera pans down to reveal the bodies of people who had been partying that he killed. Then Scythe walks over to the last guy living, and uses the cord of the microphone to strangle the last guy.
* FinalBoss: He's the last opponent of the grand duel and by far the toughest.
* PsychoForHire: He's a sadistic assassin in the Hand's employ.
* RaceLift: He was a white guy in the original story.
* UndyingLoyalty: When the Hand calls, he answers without question.
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[[folder:Zhou Cheng]]
!!''Zhou Cheng''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zhou_cheng_profile.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Care for a taste?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LewisTan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
-->''"I am Zhou Cheng, disciple of my master Chi'n-Lin, sworn defender of the Hand."''
A guard at one of the Hand's factories in China. He is also an alcoholic. A really ''big'' alcoholic.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Zhou Cheng of the comics is just a emotionless killing machine willing to kill any innocents in his path. This Zhou Cheng is a lot more civil and AffablyEvil.
* AffablyEvil: Pretty nice guy for a Hand assassin. He even offers Danny a drink during their fight.
-->'''Zhou Cheng:''' Care for a taste?
* TheAlcoholic: Oh and how. Given he's a DrunkenMaster he has to.
* BerserkButton: When Danny smashes his booze recipient, Zhou Cheng noticeably starts fighting with more anger.
* DeadpanSnarker: He mercilessly snarks at Danny's expense.
* DrunkenBoxing: His primary fighting style.
* DrunkenMaster: The fact he's absolutely shitfaced does not keep him from trashing Danny.
-->'''Danny:''' What would your master say if he saw you drinking so much?\\
'''Zhou Cheng:''' Oh he insists upon it!
* EvilCounterpart: He's to the Hand what Danny Rand is to K'un-Lun: a man sworn by oath to protect and serve his master by guarding a path.
* FunctionalAddict: Being an alcoholic doesn't impede his fighting. If anything, he's made it part of his fighting style.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Sports a nasty, massive burn on the left side of his face that makes him look almost TwoFaced.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Uses his bottle as a flail during his fight with Danny.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Zhou Cheng serves the Hand, no matter what. He points out to Danny he's made a vow that cannot be broken.
* MythologyGag: Zhou Cheng saying that his master is named Ch'i-Lin and his claim that he's perpetually drunk to keep something very dangerous inside of him from being awaken are references to how in the comics Zhou Cheng is the host of a mystical dragon monster named Ch'i-Lin, who seeks to kill every Iron Fist on the day of their 33rd birthday to absorb their chi in order to open a door to K'un-Lun.
* NobleDemon: As he points out he's a man of honor acting under a sacred oath. He just happens to have made it to the evil people.
* PrecisionFStrike: Also doubling as an EstablishingCharacterMoment. When Danny wakes him from his drunken stupor, he squints in agony from his perpetual hangover and snarls, "Arsehole!"
* RestrainingBolt: Zhou Cheng implies he's perpetually drunk not just because of his fighting style, but also because he ''has'' to be otherwise something very dangerous inside of him will awaken.
-->'''Zhou Cheng:''' Some chase the dragon. ''I've'' got to keep him sedated. Bad things happen if I don't.
* {{Troll}}: He mocks Danny relentlessly, which is aided by his [[DrunkenBoxing mocking fighting style]].
* UndyingLoyalty: He has sworn an oath to serve The Hand, and takes it very seriously.
* UnexplainedAccent: While it is the actor's natural accent, it is still a little distracting that Zhou's thick English accent goes completely unacknowledged.
* WeirdnessCoupon: Why does the Hand tolerate such a drunken lout? He's unquestionably loyal, and is a very good fighter ''because'' of his alcoholism.
* VillainHasAPoint: Zhou Cheng is actually correct in his assessment that Danny has abandoned his oath to protect K'un-Lun in the search for vengeance and his own interests.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sophia]]
!!''Sophia''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jeanna de Waal
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao infilitrated within Rand Enterprises.
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* FauxActionGirl: She has some martial arts training but is no match to Danny Rand.
* MouthOfSauron: She's one of Gao's three "sales representatives" offering the synthetic Steel Serpent.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radovan Bernivig]]
!!''Radovan Bernivig''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Olek Krupa
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A chemist kidnapped by the Hand to engineer their synthetic heroin.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Is implied to have been subjected to this.
* IHaveYourWife: The Hand have taken his daughter captive to force him into service.
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[[folder:King]]
!!''King''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sala Baker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with guarding Radovan Bernivig.
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* BeardOfEvil: Has a thick and large beard and is a member of a vast evil organization.
* DecapitationPresentation: His head is put on a pike to deliver a challenge to Danny.
* EliteMook: Gives Danny one hell of a fight.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Madame Gao executes him for failing to keep Radovan captive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Alexi]]
!!''Alexi''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Solomon Shiv
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with punishing Harold Meachum and partnered with Vando.
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* MouthOfSauron: Acts as an envoy from Gao to Harold to get info on Danny Rand and inform him of his punishment.
* {{Foil}}: While Vando is silent and physically imposing, Alexi is slimmer and talkative.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vando]]
!!''Vando''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brett Chan
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A follower of Madame Gao tasked with punishing Harold Meachum and partnered with Alexi.
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* BaldOfEvil: He's the member of an evil organization. and bald.
* BeardOfEvil: Sports a goatee and is a member of vast evil organization.
* TheBrute: He's one of the many underlings of Madame Gao who serve her as muscle.
* {{Foil}}: To Alexi, who is slim and talkative whereas Vando is silent, large and imposing.
* TongueTrauma: Gao had his tongue removed as punishment. [[{{Fingore}} And two of his fingers, too]].
* TheVoiceless: As a result of his mutilation, he doesn't speak.
* YouHaveFailedMe: In the past, he had his tongue and two fingers removed as a form of punishment.
[[/folder]]
!!Bakuto's Faction
[[folder:In General]]
* {{Cult}}: Bakuto runs his faction as a cult and an educational facility that brainwashes young people into loyal followers of the Hand.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Bakuto employs mooks from various ethnicities.
* EnemyCivilWar: Involved in one with Gao's faction in ''Iron Fist''.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Unlike Gao's and Murakami's factions, who operate as crime syndicates, Bakuto's faction runs as an educational organization for underprivileged kids and tries to instill in them the notion that the Hand is a peaceful, loving organization where they can belong to something bigger than do good.
* TheFundamentalist: Some underlings like Becca Yoo, Mary, and Brian have become so loyal to the Hand that they'll betray their own sensei, Colleen, to Bakuto.
* NaiveNewcomer: Several younger underlings like Gil and Ciara don't seem to have a clue he's being inducted into a fanatical cult
[[/folder]]
!!!Lieutenants
[[folder:Spoiler Character]]
!!''Colleen Wing''
-->See the [[Characters/MCUDefenders Defenders and Allies]] page
[[/folder]]
!!!Underlings
[[folder:Becca Yoo]]
!!''Becca Yoo''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/becca_yoo.png]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Samantha Herrera
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen who went on to become a doctor thanks to Bakuto and works at the Metro-General Hospital.
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* CanonForeigner: There is no Becca Yoo in the comics.
* TheMole: She's one of the hundreds of Hand disciples infiltrated throughout New York.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Brian]]
!!''Brian''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Walker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen and one of the loyal Hand followers under Bakuto.
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* ScaryBlackMan: His size and devotion to the Hand make this African-American man an imposing and scary presence.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darryl]]
!!''Darryl''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/darryl_mcu.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Marquis Rodriguez
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
A former student of Colleen who is up for a scholarship.
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* CanonForeigner: Has no comic counterpart.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite failing to stop Danny and Davos from escaping, Bakuto forgives Darryl and tells his men to get Darryl patched up, saying that Darryl is part of the Hand's future.
* FightClubbing: He was the one who told Colleen about the fight club, originally doing it for money to help support his mother and two brothers.
* UnwantedAssistance: He was at Colleen's first cage match, taping it and posting it online, on the belief that it would show people how skilled Colleen was and so they would want to train at the Chikara Dojo. Colleen was not pleased to learn this.
[[/folder]]
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