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* BrokenPedestal: Bakuto and the Hand are this to Colleen after she learns the AwfulTruth about what the Hand really is. Ironically, Colleen's former students are so fanatical in their loyalty to the Hand that they see Colleen as this. Davos also apparently sees Danny as this during the final scene, looking on with disapproval and leaving when Danny hugs Colleen, a member of the Hand.

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* BrokenPedestal: BrokenPedestal:
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Bakuto and the Hand are this to Colleen after she learns the AwfulTruth about what the Hand really is. Ironically, is.
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Colleen's former students are so fanatical in their loyalty to the Hand that they see Colleen as this. this.
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Davos also apparently sees Danny as this during the final scene, looking on with disapproval and leaving when Danny hugs Colleen, a member of the Hand.
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: Non-verbal example. Davos asks what is keeping Danny in New York, just as Danny sees Colleen escaping from the compound.

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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: Non-verbal example. Davos asks what is keeping Danny in New York, just as Danny sees Colleen escaping from the Hand's compound.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Danny's main argument is that K'un L'un is good, and the Hand is evil no matter what.

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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Danny's main argument is that K'un L'un K'un-L'un is good, good and the Hand is evil no matter what.what. However, he shows signs of moving out of this mindset, unlike Davos.



* CallBack: Davos reveals he found Danny by just using the Internet, like the hobo in episode 1 mentioned anyone could do. {{Justified|Trope}} since Davos reminds Danny that he always told Davos about the internet when they were in K'un-Lun.

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* CallBack: Davos reveals he found Danny by just using the Internet, like the hobo in episode 1 Episode One mentioned anyone could do. {{Justified|Trope}} since Davos reminds Danny that he always told Davos about the internet when they were in K'un-Lun.K'un-L'un.



* MrExposition: Davos is this, explaining a lot about K'un-Lun and the intricacies of the Iron Fist to Claire.

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* MrExposition: Davos is this, explaining a lot about K'un-Lun K'un-L'un and the intricacies of the Iron Fist to Claire.

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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Danny's main argument is that K'un L'un is good, and the Hand is evil no matter what.

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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Danny's main argument is that K'un L'un is good, and the Hand is evil no matter what.



* YouHaveFailedMe: Bakuto sentences Colleen to be drained to death for not helping in finding Danny.

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* YouHaveFailedMe: Bakuto sentences Colleen to be drained to death for not helping in finding Danny.Danny.
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** Claire gives Danny a shirt that a [[Series/LukeCage "friend"]] left behind. Danny notes that it has bulletholes in it and wonders if this friend is okay.

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** Claire gives Danny a shirt that a [[Series/LukeCage [[Series/LukeCage2016 "friend"]] left behind. Danny notes that it has bulletholes in it and wonders if this friend is okay.
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** Claire recalls how the Hand attacked her hospital and killed a fellow nurse in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2017}}''

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** Claire recalls how the Hand attacked her hospital and killed a fellow nurse in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2017}}''''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

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** Claire recalls how the Hand attacked her hospital and killed a fellow nurse in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2017}}''



* DesignatedGirlFight: When fighting her former students Mary and Brian, Mary manages to put up a decent fight against Colleen, while Brian goes down with a broken arm pretty easily.

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* DesignatedGirlFight: When Colleen is fighting her former students Mary and Brian, Mary manages to put up a decent fight against Colleen, while Brian goes down with a broken arm pretty easily.



* IronicEcho: "It's not what I thought it was". Said by Danny when Davos finds him after the trial of Shou-Lao, and later by Colleen when she finds out that the Hand really is as evil as Danny and Claire have been telling her.



-->'''Davos:''' ...it's not...it's not horrible.



* OhCrap:
** Danny has one when he realizes Claire is going to close his wound with a ''staple gun''.
** Colleen has one when she's sees all the cages and blood draining equipment in the basement of the Hand compound.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Danny sees Colleen escaping from the Hand compound, he realizes it means something is very wrong, and goes after her.



* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Colleen tries to explain to Claire and Danny that the Hand has different groups with different philosophies, saying that Gao's faction is rogue while Bakuto and Colleen's is trying to help people. [[SubvertedTrope It's not]].



-->'''Danny:''' Colleen, I'm not here to fight you!\\
'''Colleen:''' Why not?! You're the destroyer of the Hand! I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!

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-->'''Danny:''' Colleen, I'm not here to fight hurt you!\\
'''Colleen:''' Why not?! You're the destroyer of the Hand! I am I'm the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!


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* WhatTheHellHero: Claire is naturally very pissed off to learn that Colleen is in the Hand, pointing out that they killed a friend of Claire's.
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* DesignatedGirlFight: When fighting her former students Mary and Brian, Mary manages to put up a descent fight against Colleen, while Brian goes down with a broken arm pretty easily.

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* DesignatedGirlFight: When fighting her former students Mary and Brian, Mary manages to put up a descent decent fight against Colleen, while Brian goes down with a broken arm pretty easily.
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* MeatgrinderSurgery: Having lost her job at the hospital, Claire now patches up superheroes with whatever she can find at home. Like a ''staple gun.''

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* AwfulTruth: Colleen finally learns that the Hand really is as evil as Danny and Claire have been telling her.



** Bakuto mentions the Incident againt, while listing the people who were helped by the Hand.

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** Bakuto mentions [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Incident againt, Incident]] again, while listing the people who were helped by the Hand.


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* DesignatedGirlFight: When fighting her former students Mary and Brian, Mary manages to put up a descent fight against Colleen, while Brian goes down with a broken arm pretty easily.

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* BrokenPedestal: Bakuto and the Hand are this to Colleen after she learns the AwfulTruth about what the Hand really is. Ironically, Colleen's former students are so fanatical in their loyalty to the Hand that they see Colleen as this.

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* BrokenPedestal: Bakuto and the Hand are this to Colleen after she learns the AwfulTruth about what the Hand really is. Ironically, Colleen's former students are so fanatical in their loyalty to the Hand that they see Colleen as this. Davos also apparently sees Danny as this during the final scene, looking on with disapproval and leaving when Danny hugs Colleen, a member of the Hand.



** Bakuto mentions the Incident againt, while listing the people who were helped by the Hand.



* TheFettered: Joy is pretty shocked when she learns that both Danny and his father plan on murdering Bakuto rather than arresting him.



* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite claiming that the western food is poison for the body and soul, Davos, actually tries some Pizza.
* NotSoStoic: Davos, calm and collected for most of the time, at one points breaks into a rage during his dialogue with Claire, still resenting Danny for abandoning them.



* PrecisionFStrike: Claire tells Danny to ''calm the f- down''.
* PrinciplesZealot: Danny initally does ''not'' want to listen to anything Colleen says, once again emphasizing that he is the Iron Fist, sworn destroyer of the Hand.



* SilenceYouFool: Done by Bakuto to shut Colleen up when she questions him and by Harold when Joy questions him.



* UseYourHead: Colleen employs this against one of her former pupils to escape her execution by blood-draining at the Hand compound.

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* UseYourHead: Colleen employs this against one of her former pupils to escape her execution by blood-draining at the Hand compound.compound.
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Or rather, the knife tip in Danny's case.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Bakuto sentences Colleen to be drained to death for not helping in finding Danny.

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* BrokenPedestal: Bakuto and the Hand are this to Colleen after she learns the AwfulTruth about what the Hand really is. Ironically, Colleen's former students are so fanatical in their loyalty to the Hand that they see Colleen as this.



* SuicideByCop: Colleen attempts it after her DespairEventHorizon.
-->'''Colleen:''' You're the destroyer of the Hand? I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!

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* SuicideByCop: Colleen attempts it to goad Danny into killing her after her DespairEventHorizon.
-->'''Colleen:''' -->'''Danny:''' Colleen, I'm not here to fight you!\\
'''Colleen:''' Why not?!
You're the destroyer of the Hand? Hand! I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!
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** Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has lenft Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.

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** Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has lenft left Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.

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*TheFundamentalist: Colleen accuses the Order of the Crane Mother of being fanatics. Later, she learns that Bakuto has turned her former students into these.



* UseYourHead: Colleen employs this as part of her plan to escape the Hand's underground chamber.

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* UseYourHead: Colleen employs this as part against one of her plan former pupils to escape her execution by blood-draining at the Hand's underground chamber.Hand compound.
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** When Bakuto sentences Colleen to death, she's taken to a chamber in the basement where it's implied that they're going to drain her blood, which Nobu was doing in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.

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** When Bakuto sentences Colleen to death, she's taken to a chamber in the basement where it's implied that they're going to drain her blood, which Nobu was doing in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' with a group of drug-addicted and homeless kids.



** Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has left Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.

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** Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has left lenft Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.

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* BittersweetEnding: Danny finally forgives Colleen for lying to him and takes her back, but Colleen is left visibly traumatized by learning the truth about Bakuto.

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* BittersweetEnding: Danny finally forgives Colleen for lying to him and takes her back, but Colleen is left visibly traumatized by learning the truth about Bakuto.Bakuto and the Hand.



-->'''Davos:''' I Don't know who Pete is.

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-->'''Davos:''' I Don't don't know who Pete is.

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* BittersweetEnding: Danny finally forgives Colleen for lying to him and takes her back, but Colleen is left visibly traumatized by learning the truth about Bakuto.



-->'''Colleen:''' You're the destroyer of the Hand? Well I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!

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-->'''Colleen:''' You're the destroyer of the Hand? Well I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!

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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: Non-verbal example. Davos asks what is keeping Danny in New York, just as Danny sees Colleen escaping from the compound.



* CallBack: Davos reveals he found Danny by just using the Internet, like the hobo in episode 1 mentioned anyone could do.

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* CallBack: Davos reveals he found Danny by just using the Internet, like the hobo in episode 1 mentioned anyone could do. {{Justified|Trope}} since Davos reminds Danny that he always told Davos about the internet when they were in K'un-Lun.

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-->'''Danny:''' Do you ever think that the Thunderer was wrong?\\

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-->'''Danny:''' Do you ever think that the Thunderer was wrong?\\wrong? About certain things?\\


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* ConflictingLoyalty: Colleen is torn by between her feelings for Danny and her loyalty to Bakuto. Ultimately, she puts Danny first.


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** When Bakuto sentences Colleen to death, she's taken to a chamber in the basement where it's implied that they're going to drain her blood, which Nobu was doing in Season 2 of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After mentioning the time when Danny and Davos accidentally saw Lei Kung during his private meditations while naked, Danny asks if Davos if he ever thought his father was wrong, meaning choosing Danny to face Shou Lao. Davos assumes they're still talking about the meditation.
-->'''Danny:''' Do you ever think that the Thunderer was wrong?\\
'''Davos:''' We all meditate in private in our own ways.



* MrExposition: Davos is this, explaining a lot about K'un L'un and the intricacies of the Iron Fist to Claire.

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* MrExposition: Davos is this, explaining a lot about K'un L'un K'un-Lun and the intricacies of the Iron Fist to Claire.


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* TraumaCongaLine: This episode has one of the worst days of Colleen Wing's life. Rejected by Danny, betrayed by her own students, sentenced to death by Bakuto, and learning the AwfulTruth about the Hand takes such a toll on her that she seriously attempts SuicideByCop.
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* OutdoorBathPeeping: Dacos and Danny reminisce about a time they took a donkey cart along the lake road hoping to see the girls bathing. Instead all they saw was Davos' father during his "[[UnusualEuphemism private meditations]]. [[BrainBleach Nude]]."

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* OutdoorBathPeeping: Dacos Davos and Danny reminisce about a time they took a donkey cart along the lake road hoping to see the girls bathing. Instead all they saw was Davos' father during his "[[UnusualEuphemism private meditations]]. [[BrainBleach Nude]]."
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* OutdoorBathPeeping: Dacos and Danny reminisce about a time they took a donkey cart along the lake road hoping to see the girls bathing. Instead all they saw was Davos' father during his "[[UnusualEuphemism private meditations]]. [[BrainBleach Nude]]."
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* ShoutOut: When Davos is telling Claire about Shou Lao, Claire asks if he's a little thing like a Komodo Dragon, or like ''Disney/PetesDragon.''
-->'''Davos:''' I Don't know who Pete is.
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* EasilyForigven: {{Subverted|Trope}}; Danny is furious with Colleen for lying to him about being part of the Hand and initially wanted nothing more to do with her. Danny later forgives Colleen while pulling her out of her DespairEventHorizon.

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* EasilyForigven: EasilyForgiven: {{Subverted|Trope}}; Danny is furious with Colleen for lying to him about being part of the Hand and initially wanted nothing more to do with her. Danny later forgives Colleen while pulling her out of her DespairEventHorizon.
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* EasilyForigven: {{Subverted|Trope}}; Danny is furious with Colleen for lying to him about being part of the Hand and initially wanted nothing more to do with her. Danny later forgives Colleen while pulling her out of her DespairEventHorizon.
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* CooldownHug: Danny pulls Colleen into one after getting her out of her attempt at SuicideByCop.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has left Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.

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* DespairEventHorizon: DespairEventHorizon:
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** Colleen later crosses it when the Hand tries to have her killed, briefly attempting SuicideByCop with Danny.


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* SuicideByCop: Colleen attempts it after her DespairEventHorizon.
-->'''Colleen:''' You're the destroyer of the Hand? Well I am the Hand! So light up your damn fist and destroy me!
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Danny is firmly on one now, vowing to not leave New York until the Hand is completely wiped out.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Danny is firmly on one now, vowing to not leave New York until the Hand is completely wiped out.out.
* UseYourHead: Colleen employs this as part of her plan to escape the Hand's underground chamber.
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Danny tries to fix his damaged chi and find his place in the world, while Colleen deals with conflicting information.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Danny's main argument is that K'un L'un is good, and the Hand is evil no matter what.
* CallBack: Davos reveals he found Danny by just using the Internet, like the hobo in episode 1 mentioned anyone could do.
* ContinuityNod:
** Claire mentions that she doesn't have any antibiotics on hand because would-be superheroes and vigilantes keep turning up half-dead at her apartment.
** Claire gives Danny a shirt that a [[Series/LukeCage "friend"]] left behind. Danny notes that it has bulletholes in it and wonders if this friend is okay.
* DespairEventHorizon: Colleen's betrayal and the fact that he's lost everything has left Danny with only the desire to destroy the Hand.
* InternalReveal: Claire learns about Colleen being in the Hand.
* JustFollowingOrders: How Becca and the rest of Colleen's former students justify betraying her to Bakuto.
* MrExposition: Davos is this, explaining a lot about K'un L'un and the intricacies of the Iron Fist to Claire.
* TheResenter: Davos is implied to be this, resenting Danny for becoming the Iron Fist and then abandoning them.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Danny is firmly on one now, vowing to not leave New York until the Hand is completely wiped out.

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