History Awesome / IronFist2017

* Danny's next move is to commandeer Ward's car when his driver is out. Ward pulls out a gun and points it at Danny, who for the first time in the episode gets angry and tells Ward to put down the gun. Ward does [[JustForPun cocky]] non-verbal taunt by cocking his gun and pointing it at Danny again. [[LetsGetDangerous Danny shows him why you]] shouldn't be pointing a gun at close range at a master martial artist by effortlessly disarming him and pointing it at Ward.

** Though it should be noted that she started fight byninjec to injecting Danny with a sedative, which clearly came into play, and the finishing move was helped by Danny being distracted by the phone call from Colleen.

!!Meta
* The fact that the series really put some effort into researching the arts. Those episodes titles up there? Most of those are the names for specific real-life Kung Fu techniques of the Shaolin style, "Black Tiger Steals Heart", for example.
** Season 2 improves on this, naming EACH episode after a popular storyline.
* Despite the bad rep this show got, a second season has been confirmed. Marvel Studios is as much a {{Determinator}} as its heroes.
* [[https://screenrant.com/iron-fist-season-2-black-panther-stunts/ The fact that we will get to see the comic accurate yellow mask.]]
* The showrunners have brought in the choreographer of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' in season 2.
* The show's Website/RottenTomatoes rating jumped a whopping 31% from Season 1 to Season 2, the biggest improvement the site has ''ever'' seen between seasons.
* The improved second season, ''period''. Marvel heard the fan complaints, heard the critical rejection, and instead of staying the course or shrugging and dropping the whole "Iron Fist" idea, proceeded to rectify every single complaint and problem.

** Keep in mind, the pair are not just taking on a few guards. They are fighting ''[[UpToEleven the entire school]]'', each student an expert in martial arts, recruited by Colleen or Bakuto, who are masters as well, not to mention that Danny is dealing with a stab wound from earlier. And except for Bakuto, [[CurbStompBattle not a single one poses a remote threat]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[CallBack This]]'' [[CallBack is what the Iron Fist means.]]]]

* Danny using the Iron Fist to [[spoiler:escape the asylum]] in the 2nd episode AKA the trailer scene were he [[OpenSaysMe blasts a three-inch-thick steel door off its concrete-embedded hinges]].
** The various leadups are pretty epic. During his conversation [[spoiler: with Harold, who was pretending to be a ghost]] Danny off-handedly mentions that he is able to focus more as others hit him. Then near to the end of the episode, [[NightmareFuel he is put in a straitjacket and escorted to a room where he is beat up by Ward's goons]]. The beating continues for a while until [[BloodUpgrade Danny starts bleed from his lip]], at which he gives a SlasherSmile. The mooks continue to beat him up, and then stops for a while to say ""Ward Meachum sends his greetings"", at which a yellow glow begins to emanate from under the straitjacket. Danny then rips through the straijacket and then proceeds to tear through them, and then storms out of the room with his hand flickering with yellow light. Then he runs for the exit, and then, read the above.

* Ward, in turn, proves he's his father's son, and has the [[TheDogBitesBack same will of iron when he gets pushed too far]], and proves it when he [[spoiler: takes out Harold with the same knife Harold used to kill Gao's men]].

* Danny, Colleen, and Claire fighting off a Hand paramilitary team who came to recover Gao. Special note to Colleen, who is [[spoiler:dying from being poisoned]] while doing this.

* Bakuto gives us an idea as to how powerful a fully-realized Iron Fist is by showing black-and-white footage of Danny's [[spoiler: 1948 predecessor in the classic costume battling a squad of armed Chinese soldiers, both hands blazing with weaponized chi the entire time]].
* [[spoiler: Bakuto]] vs. Danny, a no-holds-barred showdown in a cramped space. [[TheWorfEffect For Danny.]]
* [[spoiler: Davos]] and Danny teaming up to escape the [[spoiler: Hand compound]].

* Colleen escaping from [[spoiler:the Hand compound.]]

* All of Colleen and [[spoiler:Bakuto]]'s katana fight, particularly when [[spoiler:Bakuto breaks Colleen's katana, and then she kicks the broken point ''into his leg midair''.]] Not so bad for a "teacher of children", ey?

* In the final battle: [[spoiler:Danny and Colleen [[StormingTheCastle storm the Rand Enterprises building]] looking for evidence that Harold Meachum framed him for the Hand's drug trafficking, only to be pinned down by security in the boardroom. Colleen tries to back him up, only to draw Harold's fire - so Danny goes ''nova.'' He uses the Iron Fist for a GroundPunch - it's as if a ''car bomb'' went off. Even better than the shot from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9OKL5no-S0 trailer]] as the full force of the blast is shown - it wipes out an entire ''floor'']].

* Ward [[spoiler:comes to Danny's aid and shoots Harold, causing him to fall to his death.]] After seeing all the abuse [[spoiler:Harold]] puts him through it's really satisfying to see Ward give him his comeuppance. [[spoiler:This time, it sticks]].

** Joy gets a minor one of her own when she drills a Triad in the face even though [[RealityEnsues she hurts her hand doing it]].

** [[Series/TheDefenders One can remember the moment where, in Midland Circle, he knocked out a goon by jumping up on a wall and delivering a punch to him.]] Now, he does the same thing, but only with a kick and a faster speed!

** Claire gets her own moment by performing impromptu surgery and being the MD version of MacGyver to save the chemist's life.

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* Colleen's Iron Fist vs Davos Iron Fist.