History WMG / LukeCage2016

** Yes, though it's a bit more complicated than that. He had already gained similar powers to Luke at the beginning of the Season, and his brief business with Mariah was only to indirectly leave her open to a takeover so he could thoroughly destroy her. He's ultimately supplanted by Mariah in the end.

** Kind of. Her arc was about not having a limb at all. Once she actually obtains her cybernetic arm she adjusts pretty quickly. Bailey also doesn't become her partner as she ends up taking over the precinct entirely.

** Well he does show up, but only to get the crap kicked out of him by the future Daughters of the Dragon.

** At first that was the case as Bushmaster had gone nuts with terroristic attacks trying to get at her. But in the process, Mariah ends up completely snapping and going into LetMeBeEvil territory in revenge. After creating a nasty massacre at an innocent restaurant and even burning Bushmaster's uncle alive, the script flips. Not only does Luke help Bushmaster periodically, but pretty much every single character in the entire season makes it a mission to put Mariah down once and for all (outside of her lawyer).

Misty will spend the first few episodes of season 2 getting used to her new bionic arm and will be struggling with depression. This will lead her to eventually find hope in her new condition, just in time to help Luke out in a fight by sending one or two bad guys into the air with cybernetic punches.

Instead of Mort Norris being a Maggia goon who gets mutated into a fish man by some strange isotopes, they'll go with something that's still comic book-esque, but fits in better with the shows tone and style. [[PragmaticAdaptation He is instead an assassin for hire who wears a hi-tech, armored diving suit provided to him by Cottonmouth that will still somewhat resemble the original version.]] "Mister Fish" is just what people take to calling him since the suit's mask looks vaguely fish-like and they don't know who he is underneath it, probably taken from a comment about his crimes on a TV news broadcast.

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He'll be more powerful than any of the previous villains, who will be his rivals. He will draw many to his side in accomplishing his goal, which will be gaining Luke's powers. He'll also be very hands-on.

He'll be more powerful than any of the previous villains, who will be his rivals. He will draw many to his side in accomplishing his goal, which will be gaining Luke's powers. He'll also be very hands-on.

[[WMG: John[=McIver=] will be the BigBad of Season 2]]

Tying into the above idea is that Diamondback will recruit powered individuals but they will be members of the Serpent Society, who have easily translatable to screen powers. He could even reach out to HYDRA for support, which will bring in Madame Hydra who will want to cause as much damage as she can to New York as a symbolic gesture of getting even with the Avengers.

[[WMG: Cage and the Punisher have a history]]

This would be the likely way to make a good tie-in to ''The Defenders'' if Matt's reveal to Karen then gets interrupted by him being solicited to defend Luke. After all, throughout ''Luke Cage'', Claire had repeatedly been trying to convince Luke to get hooked up with Matt.

This would be the likely way to make a good tie-in to ''The Defenders'' if Matt's reveal to Karen then gets interrupted by him being solicited to defend Luke.

* Jossed. The two descended from a long-standing Harlem crime family.

Secondly, based on everything that we see during Karen's monologue in "A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen," Matt's reveal happens around December 24th of 2015. This puts that scene after the police car dashcam incident, as the dashcam footage is date-stamped to December 1st. Based on the progress of the plot, everything that happens in ''Luke Cage'' between the dashcam incident and when the US Marshals arrest Luke at the precinct takes place within the timeframe of about two weeks, ending the show before December 18th of 2015.

We see Wilson Fisk's attorney Ben Donovan providing legal defense to Mariah, Cottonmouth, and other members of the Stokes-Dillard gang. At first this seems like SuicidalOverconfidence on Donovan's part, since Wilson Fisk would probably not respond well to his criminal lawyer helping to keep his rivals in power...unless that is Fisk's plan all along, and intentionally had sent Donovan out to get information from the crime lords. Donovan is acting as Fisk's eyes and ears on the streets. He provides Fisk with continuous up to date information on the crime situation in Harlem, either through the clients themselves (like Cottonmouth) or by access to NYPD files, allowing him to tie Mariah's, Diamondback's and Cottonmouth's interests to his own. He also is collecting enough information to effectively manipulate the Harlem weapon trade. So in the future, Mariah will owe Fisk a considerable debt for all of Donovan's help, and Fisk is in need of a new weapons supplier for his enterprise after having wiped out the Russians, while Frank Castle had effectively wiped out the majority of organized crime in Hell's Kitchen, except for the Hand. As Fisk told Frank Castle during "Seven Minutes in Heaven", he is using his time behind bars to effectively establish control over organized crime in New York City's boroughs. And similar to his orchestrating the bombing of the Russian hideouts and the shooting of the cops in "Condemned," he's doing so without having to do much himself.

I imagine that the publicity surrounding Luke's deeds in Harlem, given much of it has been of the positive kind that see Luke as a role model, lingers on, and I can't imagine there won't be people protesting his re-incarceration.

* Why else make Cage a former Marine, in addition to being a former cop?

Waaay back in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E6FZZT the first season of Agents of SHIELD]], a single piece of leftover Chitauri junk kills dozens of people in Highlander fashion. The NYPD bought a huge stockpile of it for killing "freaks." Anything could happen due to exposure to the metal, and most of the people who are currently handling the ammo are ''cops.'' Imagine the comic-book equivalent of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Health_considerations health considerations]] concerning depleted uranium; numerous illnesses starting at brain damage and going all the way up to '''cancer.'''

With the trouble that Luke and Bobby have keeping it a barbershop, they will eventually decide that it is better as something else. The natural choice is turning it into a clinic for Claire. She needs a permanent work area and dedicating the space to fixing up the heroes that are helping New York is something Pop's would approve of.
* Or more likely it will be the Heroes for Hire/Defenders office since it's already a well known neutral spot and is a good way to keep Pop's legacy alive.

We see Wilson Fisk's attorney Ben Donovan providing legal defense to Mariah, Cottonmouth, and other members of the Stokes-Dillard gang. At first this seems like SuicidalOverconfidence on Donovan's part, since Wilson Fisk would probably not respond well to his criminal lawyer helping to keep his rivals in power...unless that is Fisk's plan all along, and intentionally had sent Donovan out to work for the crime lords. Donovan is acting as Fisk's eyes and ears on the streets. Donovan provides Fisk with continuous up to date information on the crime situation in Harlem, allowing him to tie Mariah's, Diamondback's and Cottonmouth's interests to his own. He also is collecting enough information to effectively manipulate the Harlem weapon trade. So in the future, Mariah will owe Fisk a considerable debt for all of Donovan's help, and Fisk is in need of a new weapons supplier for his enterprise after having wiped out the Russians, while Frank Castle had effectively wiped out the majority of organized crime in Hell's Kitchen, except for the Hand. As Fisk told Frank Castle during "Seven Minutes in Heaven", he is using his time behind bars to effectively establish control over organized crime in New York City's boroughs.

* Or more likely it will be the Heroes for Hire/Defenders office since its already a well known neutral spot and is a good way to keep Pops legacy alive.

We see Wilson Fisk's attorney Ben Donovan providing legal defense Mariah and Cottonmouth, and other members of the Stokes-Dillard gang. At first this seems like SuicidalOverconfidence on Donovan's part, since Wilson Fisk would probably not respond well to his criminal lawyer helping to keep his rivals in power...unless that is Fisk's plan all along, and intentionally had sent Donovan out to work for the crime lords. Donovan is acting as Fisk's eyes and ears on the streets. Donovan provides Fisk with continuous up to date information on the crime situation in Harlem, allowing him to tie Mariah's, Diamondback's and Cottonmouth's interests to his own. He also is collecting enough information to effectively manipulate the Harlem weapon trade. So in the future, Mariah will owe Fisk a considerable debt for all of Donovan's help, and Fisk is in need of a new weapons supplier for his enterprise after having wiped out the Russians, while Frank Castle had effectively wiped out the majority of organized crime in Hell's Kitchen, except for the Hand. As Fisk told Frank Castle during "Seven Minutes in Heaven", he is using his time behind bars to effectively establish control over organized crime in New York City's boroughs.

** Unlikely, given that in the one-shot the Mandarin had an agent infiltrate in as a media producer, kill the guard and Slattery's in-prison bodyguard/mook, and abduct him. If the Mandarin actually owned Seagate, it would be a far simpler solution to either (a) have the guards sequester Slattery for a nice long discussion, after which he would regrettably turn up dead and/or disappear, or (b) transfer him to an "undisclosed location. That neither of those happened suggests that the Mandarin was driven to take more overt action.

The procedure is remarkably similar, and we know that HYDRA had long since both infiltrated the US Government and been trying to make their own super-soldiers. Also much like Steve with Luke was a good man who just wanted to do the right thing, which is why the procedure was so successful with him.

Justin Hammer is an inmate in Seagate Prison, a place inside which Diamondback was shown to be able to place operatives. It's therefore easy to perceive that perhaps Diamondback was able to get Hammer Industries to bulk-sell him advanced weapons under the table in return for Hammer's protection from other inmates or to keep Diamondback's own goons from killing Hammer very, very badly.

* Or more likely it will be the Heroes for Hire/Defenders office since its already a well known neutral spot and is a good way to keep Pops legacy alive.

* Jossed. He has no connections to HYDRA and is just a reimagining of the old Luke Cage villain, whose entire grudge with Luke is because Luke is messing with his criminal empire, and [[spoiler:he resents the fact that their father didn't love him]].

[[WMG: ''Series/IronFist'' will overlap with the first season.]]

With the trouble that Luke and Bobby have keeping it a barbershop, they will eventually decide that it is better as something else. The natural choice is turning it into a clinic for Claire. She needs a permanent work area and dedicating the space to fixing up the heroes that are helping New York is something Pop's would approve of.

With the trouble that Luke and XX have keeping it a barbershop, they will eventually decide that it is better as something else. The natural choice is turning it into a clinic for Claire. She needs a permanent work area and dedicating the space to fixing up the heroes that are helping New York is something Pop's would approve of.

[[WMG: Pop's Barbershop will become the Night Nurse's clinic]]