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** On January 31st, 2024, showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers/comments/1afopy5/cheo_hodari_coker_luke_cage_showrunner_reveals/ revealed the episode titles for a potential third season of Luke Cage, presumably finalized before the cancellation notice came in]]. They were:
*** "Public Enemy #1"
*** "Don't Believe the Hype"
*** "Louder Than a Bomb"
*** "Burn, Hollywood, Burn"
*** "You're Gonna Get Yours"
*** "Can't Truss It"
*** "Brothers Gonna..."
*** "Can't Do Nuttin For Ya Man"
*** "Shut 'Em Down"
*** "Show 'Em Whatchu Got"
*** "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
*** "Welcome to the Terrordome"
*** "Rebel Without a Pause"
*** "Public Enemy #1"
*** "Don't Believe the Hype"
*** "Louder Than a Bomb"
*** "Burn, Hollywood, Burn"
*** "You're Gonna Get Yours"
*** "Can't Truss It"
*** "Brothers Gonna..."
*** "Can't Do Nuttin For Ya Man"
*** "Shut 'Em Down"
*** "Show 'Em Whatchu Got"
*** "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
*** "Welcome to the Terrordome"
*** "Rebel Without a Pause"
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* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** For Season 2, Cheo Hodari Coker [[https://www.comicbookmovie.com/tv/marvel/luke_cage/luke-cage-season-2-major-new-details-revealed-about-the-villains-a-heroes-for-hire-spinoff-and-more-a159405 went to great lengths]] to avoid the sorts of issues that season 1 had. Pretty much everything about Bushmaster is a response to these criticisms, namely, giving us a villain that can fight Luke one-on-one without mechanical aids.
** After many fans were just plain confused at the show bending over backwards to try to make [[DirtyCop Scarfe]] sympathetic in his dying hours, Season 2 digs a lot deeper into the problems the exposure of his corruption caused, with his name being mud in the station.
** The second season also tones down the show's moralizing and gives Luke actual character flaws, namely arrogance when the fame goes to his head and a temper [[spoiler: that causes Claire to leave him]].
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Diamondback. Some fans love the LargeHam performance and [[spoiler:his personal connection to Luke that makes for a more emotional climax]], while others just find him silly and wish [[spoiler:Cottonmouth had stayed for the whole season.]] And others still think [[spoiler:his character wasn't really foreshadowed beyond his name, with Luke making no reference to him]], and as such, this makes the show's writing [[spoiler:clumsily try to catch the audience up on who he is.]] Others would've preferred the focus instead shifted to Mariah and/or Shades, [[spoiler:though that thankfully is what ends up happening in season 2]].
** For Season 2, Cheo Hodari Coker [[https://www.comicbookmovie.com/tv/marvel/luke_cage/luke-cage-season-2-major-new-details-revealed-about-the-villains-a-heroes-for-hire-spinoff-and-more-a159405 went to great lengths]] to avoid the sorts of issues that season 1 had. Pretty much everything about Bushmaster is a response to these criticisms, namely, giving us a villain that can fight Luke one-on-one without mechanical aids.
** After many fans were just plain confused at the show bending over backwards to try to make [[DirtyCop Scarfe]] sympathetic in his dying hours, Season 2 digs a lot deeper into the problems the exposure of his corruption caused, with his name being mud in the station.
** The second season also tones down the show's moralizing and gives Luke actual character flaws, namely arrogance when the fame goes to his head and a temper [[spoiler: that causes Claire to leave him]].
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Diamondback. Some fans love the LargeHam performance and [[spoiler:his personal connection to Luke that makes for a more emotional climax]], while others just find him silly and wish [[spoiler:Cottonmouth had stayed for the whole season.]] And others still think [[spoiler:his character wasn't really foreshadowed beyond his name, with Luke making no reference to him]], and as such, this makes the show's writing [[spoiler:clumsily try to catch the audience up on who he is.]] Others would've preferred the focus instead shifted to Mariah and/or Shades, [[spoiler:though that thankfully is what ends up happening in season 2]].
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** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
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** Creator/LanceGross and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of[[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire [[Comicbook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** Creator/LanceGross and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of
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* ApprovalOfGod: Episode 4 had an exchange regarding Creator/LisaBonet's daughter, "Zoë. Or like I call her, [[Film/TheGodfatherPartII Godfather, Part Two.]]" "[[EvenBetterSequel The sequel better than the original?]]" "Close." Creator/ZoeKravitz was flattered, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuDQ9kKUMAAdcgt?format=jpg&name=medium changing her Twitter name]] and posting a picture of herself and Bonet on Instagram with the captions “#willneverbeasgoodaspt1 #butthankslukecage!”
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* ChannelHop: From Netflix to Disney Plus, after Netflix lost distribution rights in early 2022.
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** Misty Knight's basketball skills, with each shot filmed in a single take to make clear that Simone Missick can actually do it. She reportedly filmed ten shots, only missing two.
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* CreatorCouple:
** Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in season 2 is played by Simone Missick's real-life husband Dorian.
** Nick Fury never appears in this series, but Mama Mabel is played by Creator/SamuelLJackson's wife [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson.
** Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in season 2 is played by Simone Missick's real-life husband Dorian.
** Nick Fury never appears in this series, but Mama Mabel is played by Creator/SamuelLJackson's wife [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson.
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* DawsonCasting: Flashbacks in season 2 show that Mariah was a teenager in the mid 1980s, so she should be in her early 50s at the most during the time period when we meet her. Alfre Woodard was in her early to mid 60s when she played her, making her approximately 15 years older than Mariah. Cottonmouth is probably five to ten years older than Mahershala Ali, consequently.
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* DawsonCasting: Flashbacks in season 2 show that Mariah was a teenager in the mid 1980s, so she should be in her early 50s at the most during the time period when we meet her. Alfre Woodard Creator/AlfreWoodard was in her early to mid 60s when she played her, making her approximately 15 years older than Mariah. Cottonmouth is probably five to ten years older than Mahershala Ali, Creator/MahershalaAli, consequently.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MikeColter put on twenty pounds of muscle for the role. Averted by Alfre Woodard, who did not become morbidly obese to play Black Mariah. This was forgivable due to the character's obscurity, however, not to mention the health issues you'd get.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MikeColter put on twenty pounds of muscle for the role. Averted by Alfre Woodard, Creator/AlfreWoodard, who did not become morbidly obese to play Black Mariah. This was forgivable due to the character's obscurity, however, not to mention the health issues you'd get.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Reg E. Cathey played Luke's father in Season 2, replacing the unnamed actor fleetingly seen in flashbacks in Season 1.
* PosthumousCredit: Reg E. Cathey who plays James Lucas completed filming his role in Season 2 shortly before his sudden death at age 59.
* RealLifeRelative:
** Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in season 2 is played by Simone Missick's real-life husband Dorian.
** Nick Fury never appears in this series, but Mama Mabel is played by Samuel L. Jackson's wife [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson.
* StarMakingRole: Season 1 was this for Simone Missick. Season 2 was this for Mustafa Shakir (Bushmaster).
* PosthumousCredit: Reg E. Cathey who plays James Lucas completed filming his role in Season 2 shortly before his sudden death at age 59.
* RealLifeRelative:
** Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in season 2 is played by Simone Missick's real-life husband Dorian.
** Nick Fury never appears in this series, but Mama Mabel is played by Samuel L. Jackson's wife [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson.
* StarMakingRole: Season 1 was this for Simone Missick. Season 2 was this for Mustafa Shakir (Bushmaster).
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* TheOtherDarrin: Reg E. Cathey Creator/RegECathey played Luke's father in Season 2, replacing the unnamed actor fleetingly seen in flashbacks in Season 1.
* PosthumousCredit:Reg E. Cathey Creator/RegECathey who plays James Lucas completed filming his role in Season 2 shortly before his sudden death at age 59.
*RealLifeRelative:
** Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton in season 2 is played by Simone Missick's real-life husband Dorian.
** Nick FurySavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/ColumbiaPictures initially had the rights to Luke Cage, and nearly made a film out of him, but they never appears in this series, but Mama Mabel is played by Samuel L. Jackson's wife [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson.
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* StarMakingRole: Season 1 was this forSimone Missick.Creator/SimoneMissick. Season 2 was this for Mustafa Shakir (Bushmaster).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Columbia Pictures initially had the rights to Luke Cage, and nearly made a film out of him, but they never acted on it, and the rights went back to Marvel.
** Columbia Pictures initially had the rights to Luke Cage, and nearly made a film out of him, but they never acted on it, and the rights went back to Marvel.
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** Columbia Pictures initially had the rights to Luke Cage, and nearly made a film out of him, but they never acted on it, and the rights went back to Marvel.
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested forits the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his ownpage]]policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
** Columbia Pictures initially had the rights to Luke Cage, and nearly made a film out of him, but they never acted on it, and the rights went back to Marvel.
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-testedWhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/MarvelCinematicUniverse Enough for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to hisits own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.page]]
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
** [[Series/HouseOfPayne Lance Gross]] and [[Film/ShesGottaHaveIt Cleo Anthony]] screen-tested for the role of [[Trivia/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] before Creator/MikeColter was cast.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
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* FakeNationality:
** Shing Ka is [[http://www.shingka.com/shingkabio/ Chinese]], but portraying a Korean.
** Barnwell is Jamaican but his actor is African-American.
** Castro is Cuban but Franky G is North American from Puerto Rican descent.
** Shing Ka is [[http://www.shingka.com/shingkabio/ Chinese]], but portraying a Korean.
** Barnwell is Jamaican but his actor is African-American.
** Castro is Cuban but Franky G is North American from Puerto Rican descent.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The series was originally supposed to be the last in the lead up to the ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' with ''Series/IronFist2017'' coming after the second season of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', but the positive reception to Colter's portrayal of Luke Cage in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' caused ''Iron Fist'' to be delayed to 2017 in order to release ''Luke Cage'' first.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
** The series was originally supposed to be the last in the lead up to the ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' with ''Series/IronFist2017'' coming after the second season of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', but the positive reception to Colter's portrayal of Luke Cage in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' caused ''Iron Fist'' to be delayed to 2017 in order to release ''Luke Cage'' first.
** The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The series was originally supposed to be the last in the lead up to the ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' with ''Series/IronFist2017'' coming after the second season of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', but the positive reception to Colter's portrayal of Luke Cage in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' caused ''Iron Fist'' to be delayed to 2017 in order to release ''Luke Cage'' first.
**WhatCouldHaveBeen: The crew hoped to get Music/{{Prince}} as one of the acts in Cottonmouth's club, and even put in Pop's swear jar specifically to entice him, due to his own policy of fining fans who used profanity at his shows. Sadly, he died before they could approach him.
** The series was originally supposed to be the last in the lead up to the ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' with ''Series/IronFist2017'' coming after the second season of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', but the positive reception to Colter's portrayal of Luke Cage in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' caused ''Iron Fist'' to be delayed to 2017 in order to release ''Luke Cage'' first.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MikeColter put on twenty pounds of muscle for the role. Averted by Alfre Woodard, who did not become morbidly obese to play Black Mariah. This was forgivable due to the character's obscurity, however.
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MikeColter put on twenty pounds of muscle for the role. Averted by Alfre Woodard, who did not become morbidly obese to play Black Mariah. This was forgivable due to the character's obscurity, however.however, not to mention the health issues you'd get.
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* ActorSharedBackground:
** This show reveals Claire Temple is half-Latina from her mother's side, just like Rosario Dawson, whose mother is of Puerto Rican and Cuban ancestry.
** Misty Knight, played by Detroit native Creator/SimoneMissick, is a Pistons fan.
** This show reveals Claire Temple is half-Latina from her mother's side, just like Rosario Dawson, whose mother is of Puerto Rican and Cuban ancestry.
** Misty Knight, played by Detroit native Creator/SimoneMissick, is a Pistons fan.
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* SignatureScene: For this show, the defining scene is Luke's one-man assault on Crispus Attucks.
