#nmcu iron fist

[gwensy]

white boy save me save me white boy save me

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Danny Rand (Iron Fist)…

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

If you weren’t following the Netflix Marvel shows when they were first being released, here’s my best attempt at summarizing how the audience/fandom reacted to them:

Daredevil S1: “OMG, best Marvel show ever! I love this darker side of the MCU!”

Jessica Jones S1: “OMG, best Marvel show ever! I love this darker side of the MCU! Marvel does female representation right!”

Daredevil S2: “Punisher was amazing! Elektra and the Hand…eh.”

Luke Cage S1: (first half) “OMG, best Marvel show ever! I love this darker side of the MCU! Marvel does black representation right!” / (second half) “This show is corny and terrible. They did Mahershala Ali dirty.”

Iron Fist S1: “Wtf is this shit?”

The Defenders: “That was certainly a crossover. They did cross over. And things happened.”

The Punisher S1: “This is fine, but it’s tone deaf for Marvel to make this show when we need gun control now.”

Jessica Jones S2: “The story is all over the place. What’s even the focus here? What the heck is happening?”

Luke Cage S2: “I guess this is better than S1 but I still hate that Mahershala Ali got killed off so soon.”

Iron Fist S2: “Better than S1, but that’s not saying much. Also, I welcome our new Iron Fist, Colleen Wing.”

Daredevil S3: “They redeemed the Netflix Marvel shows! Hallelujah!”

The Punisher S2: “This feels rushed. Like there’s two seasons worth of story here.”

Jessica Jones S3: “Wait, this exists? I literally saw no ads for this.”

[descaladumidera]

COLOR WHEEL CHALLENGE

Yeah, nobody thought I'd be able to finish this, including me. So. Yay for me? Even if they're low-effort drawings.

Daredevil

Spider-Gwen

The Punisher

Nightcrawler

Jessica Jones

Iron Fist

Luke Cage

Spider-Man

ID in alt text and under the cut.

[ID:

Nine pictures.

The first one shows a completely filled Color Wheel with eight drawings.

The red part shows Daredevil, the pink part shows Spider-Gwen, the purple part shows the Punisher (Frank Castle), the dark blue part shows Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), the light blue part shows Jessica Jones, the green part shows Iron Fist (Danny Rand), the yellow part shows Luke Cage, and the orange part shows Spider-Man (Peter Parker).

The next eight drawings are the single characters.

The first one shows a drawing of Matt Murdock as Daredevil in his red comic suit. He is shown from the waist up, his lower body cut into a triangle shape. His body is turned slightly away from the viewer and his head is raised as if he is looking up.

The next one shows a drawing of Gwen Stacy as Spider-Gwen in her white, pink, and black comic suit. She is shown in a typical Spidey crouch, one hand on the ground, the other ready to fire a web. Her lower body cut into a triangle shape. She is facing the viewer straight on.

The next one shows a drawing of Frank Castle as The Punisher in in his skull shirt and long leather coat. He is turned slightly to the side but looking at the viewer, holding an assault rifle in both of his hands. His lower body cut into a triangle shape.

The next one shows a drawing of Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in his red-and-black X-Men suit, including the white gloves and shoes. He is jumping, his left arm outstretched, while his right one hangs lower, bringing his right hand level with his feet. His tail is swishing around his body, coming out in front. His lower body cut into a triangle shape.

The next one shows a drawing of Jessica Jones in her trademark leather jacket. She is glowering at the viewer, arms crossed, a light scowl on her face. Her lower body cut into a triangle shape.

The next one shows a drawing of Danny Rand in his green Iron Fist suit, including the yellow mask, yellow gloves, yellow belt, and the yellow dragon on his chest. He is turned to the side, both hands up, balled into fists. He is holding one fist in front of him, while he is pulling the other back, ready for a strike. His lower body cut into a triangle shape.

The next one shows a drawing of Luke Cage in his trademark yellow shirt. He is facing the viewer straight on, his arms crossed in front of his chest. His lower body cut into a triangle shape.

The last one shows a drawing of Peter Parker as Spider-Man in his red-and-blue suit, including the mask. He is turned to the side, body in a crouch, while is head is turned up. His right arm is extended behind him. His lower body cut into a triangle shape.

End ID.]

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defenders text posts pt. 2

[shehungthemoon]

@mihrsuri Eeeeeee I love this. Thanks so so much for the tag Lil!

rules: without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favourite TV shows then tag 10 people

If u see a fellow blorbo COME TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM!!!! (I say as the worse messager in tumblr history)

Edit: I read this as favorite TV show CHARACTERS and I feel so dumb but I'm not redoing this so take this as a blorbo list not a show list!!!

@somethingcleveroneday @cyanocitta-cristata-bromia @mirabilefuturum @sjwromanroy @midnightestsun @twobrokenwyngs @crackhead4 @geekgirl101 @xserpx @babyspacegay

[griefpersevering]

i am screaming

[dovelywind]

ꕥ| THE DEFENDERS — Matt, Jessica, Luke, & Danny

inspo from this

[punisherdefender]

I love the aesthetics of the marvel Netflix series, I mean the colors and the scenes seem visually beautiful to me.

Even though I've only seen Daredevil, the Punisher and Iron Fist, I realized that the colors of the scenes match the character and I love that. (Maybe I'm delusional abt it but i like seeing it like that)

[nmcunyc]

Monthly NMCU Prompt Event March 2024 – Cooking

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Hello and welcome to the Monthly NMCU Prompt Event!

You might ask yourself what this even is. Well, on the 1st of every month we will post a new prompt that can be filled by you. This is an event meant for the fans of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher and isn’t limited to the Netflix (now Disney+) shows, but can include comics, cartoons, games, etc. as well.

So if you feel motivated and the prompt speaks to you—go ahead and let your creativity flow!

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Rules:

your creation can be anything—fic, art, gifs, videos, etc.

if you create visual art, please provide an image description either in the alt text feature, in the post itself, or both

your creation has to feature at least one character from these fandoms as a main character

you can fill prompts from previous months as well

tag @nmcunyc and add the tag #nmcumonthlyevent, so we can reblog your creation (it will be queued, so it might be a bit until it gets reblogged)

you can fill a prompt more than once if you want

tag appropriately

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You might also want to visit us on our Discord!

[tea-with-cinnamontoast]

so, we’ve all at least heard of the iron fist, right? whether it’s from the comics or netflix show, i am 90% sure you’ve at least heard about him! well, i’m here to tell you that there’s more that meets the eye! :)

the netflix show doesn’t flesh out danny as a character that well and some of you probably despise him (...i do too) but his comic self is waaay different. if nmcu danny is whiny and all "because im the iron fist" every five minutes, then comics danny is a mix of a silly little guy, dumbass (affectionate), and a walking sunshine.

of course, there are some comics where he may act a lot different, but he is just a green flag—albeit traumatised—little guy!

the iron fist show itself MESSES UP the lore so badly that i literally do not know what’s so special about the iron fist. so here’s a (not so) deep dive into the lore of the iron fist mantle until lin lie! and some comic recommendations of danny :D

(open the cut for more 💖)

let’s start with the basics, shall we?

What is the Iron Fist? Who is the Iron Fist?

the iron fist is a power that comes from a dragon named shou-lao. this power is the dragon’s chi—or the soul, according to chinese belief. this chi allows them to access the dragon’s powers and unlock different ways of using said powers! the most common was is to turn their fists into "things of unto iron"!

however, the iron fist is not just a power, it’s a mantle given to those who can defeat the dragon themselves. these candidates are trained in k’un lun and if they do win, they will be named the champion of k’un lun. the first iron fist is quan yaozu.

What? What the hell is K’un Lun? What do you mean ‘champion’?

i’m glad you asked! k’un lun is one of the capital cities of heaven! there are 7 capital cities of heaven, according to iron fist lore, each with their own champions who possesses different abilities. they are also called the immortal weapons.

(note that the new weapon in this picture is davos, a long time nemesis of danny, because of circumstances. the actual weapon is the crane mother’s child.)

the fat cobra is from peng lai, a child of a pig farmer raised in abandonment. he was an opera singer as a child and fought in both sides of the world war.

the bride of nine spiders is from the kingdom of spiders, yet her origins are unknown.

dog brother comes from the under city and used to be a poor street orphan with an adoptive brother to protect. he was a slave, too.

tiger’s beautiful daughter is a strong woman from tiger island, an island where women ruled over men. i’m not kidding, in the one chapter where her origins are introduced, she literally destroyed the patriarchy. we stan.

prince of orphans is from z’gambo. unfortunately, we do not know his origins, but he is powerful. like necromancer powerful.

read more about them in ‘the immortal weapons’! absolutely worth it.

Wait, wait, wait. The Immortal Weapons? Are they immortal or just the mantle? Is Danny immortal?

...yes and no.

they are immortal until they die in battle. in a sense where the immortality only applies to their age not their whole body. however, this is highly speculation, since we do not actually know if the term ‘immortal’ refers to them or their title. what we do know is that danny refused to eat the apple of immortality, making him more or less fully human. and he dies multiple times. sort of.

Ooookay... How do you become the Iron Fist?

to become the iron fist, you must be trained in k’un lun as a child of k’un lun. these trainings are watched under lei kung, the thunderer, who is immortal. those who want to challenge shou-lao has to fight each other and win before they are allowed to fight the dragon. these fights are a test of not only physical strength, but spiritual strength, too. chi is like... an inner power. a part of your soul.

then, they fight the dragon. if they figure out how to and win, they will be given the mark of the dragon (the iconic iron fist logo) and they must plunge their fists into the dragon’s molten heart. survive.

Wait, if only a child of K’un Lun is allowed to be the Iron Fist, why does Danny become one? Isn’t he American?

orientalism

well, he was raised there, i guess. dunno. in orson randall’s case, though, it works because he was born in k’un lun despite his parents being american.

Who’s Orson Randall?

orson randall is danny’s predecessor. he’s the iron fist of the 1900s. he had fought in both world wars and more. tired old man. also a mentor of danny’s dad (whoopee). really a fucking cool character to read about definitely check out the orson oneshots.

Who’s Danny’s successor, then?

a chinese kid named lin lie! formerly the sword master, lie was last seen in death of doctor strange: white fox. he sort of died in that comic but SIKE! he’s back as the iron fist babyyyy !!!!!

Who’s my favourite Iron Fist?

it’s danny rand, duh. 🙄 (it’s wu ao-shi. what a girlboss).

What the hell.

hey man you’re gonna love danny and his tragic but interesting backstories i swear it’s just weird to summarize/say out loud 😮‍💨

anyway! some recommendations:

the immortal iron fist - start with this one, basics and a rework of his older comics history !!!

the immortal weapons + orson randall oneshots - just fun as fuck

avengers volume 2 (i think it was 2012)

defenders (2018) - if you like the nmcu this one is for you!

iron fist: living weapon

iron fist: phantom limb - blood, gore, and body horror warning!

immortal iron fists - girl dad danny rand im not kidding he’s so silly here

heart of the dragon

iron fist (2020) - lin lie !!

that’s it thank you for listening to me autistic rambling

[katastrophic-n3vulaa]

hi!

more is happening in keep silence, my new dd & defenders x avengers fic.

the link is to the google doc- when i've got at least 6-ish chapters done - depending on how much i write - i will start uploading it on Ao3.

some excerpts from chapter 1 are below :)

[...]

Out from a shadowed alley, a man caked in blood limps out, gripping the wall for balance. Crimson handprints are left on the wall.

Steve yells, “Sir!” and the man looks up, and for a second, Tony can smell rotting flesh, burning skin and sulphur, and the man’s face is covered in acid-like burns, a gunshot in his head, blood sheeting down from his neck, until Tony gags and blinks, and it’s gone- the man is only covered in blood, and the coppery scent floats down the street.

The man’s eyes are clenched shut, and he shudders and flinches at Steve’s second shout.

Natasha sees the flinch too and places a hand on Steve’s shoulder. The man continues down the road and disappears into a closed flower shop. Tony could have sworn the door wasn’t open, but the man continues making no noise, and then the slamming of a door echoes down the street.

There is something seriously wrong here.

[...]

The world is on fire.

All his nerves are firing, the cuts on his body like flows of molten rock, the raw skin over his torso is covered in flaking patches of blood, the microscopic particles in the air running like sandpaper over his open skin, the vibrations of a train more than twenty blocks away arching through his bones, the lines of still-warm blood that flow down his body feels like someone carving a white-hot knife through him even though blood isn’t even close to that temperature-

Footsteps sound on steel sixteen blocks away. He flinches, burying his head deeper into his shoulders, but he can still hear all of it- 

the minivan with AC/DC blaring through the speakers and the shouts and yells of the eleven people drunk and dancing thirty-seven blocks away, the cars on the streets, the screech of brakes failing as one car slams into a corner shop’s glass window, taking a drunk couple with them into death, a man with a broken rib and a woman with a dislocated shoulder screaming and yelling at each other in Romanian, as a little girl two rooms over holds her baby brother in his crib crying, three pairs of people having sex, the dying heartbeat of an old woman sitting on the side of the road, staring up at the stars, the gunfight at the docks, two kids screaming for someone to save their father as an alcoholic mother smashes a bottle into his exposed back, a teen sitting on top of a ten-storey building zipping up a bag and stepping off the ledge-

A child in the corner of a room, gagged and long since out of tears shivering violently as their blood pressure drops to lethal levels, a sister curling around the dying body of her older brother held by her mother and father as their son dies of something that could’ve been treated had they been anywhere else, the screams of children, teens, adults and elders alike, the laughs of thirteen different people- some hysterical, some cruel, one joyful- and the thousands of different heartbeats he hears-

He can hear the gravel under his feet, the scrape of his bare feet across it, the bones in his body moving, joints rotating as his ligaments move in an instinctual way to walk, his muscles contracting and expanding, his blood rushing around his body, the blood still running on the outside of his body over skin, his heartbeat, the grinding of his teeth and his eyes blinking but he can’t see and he hasn’t been able to since he was nine-

He shudders as the scent of rotting and decaying bodies rush over him, joining the smell of salt, wind, pollen, dead fish, sulphur, motor oil, sweat, sex, alcohol, skin, nylon, plastic, burning rubber, metal, leather, cologne, perfume, tears, bricks and more and more and more and more-

But he hears familiar humming from a familiar place as he clenches his eyes shut to stop the dust and sound and light from touching them, and he stumbles from an alley as the talking of four people becomes crystal clear, he can hear the mechanical whirring from a man’s chest, the high-pitched endless squeal of hearing-aids from another, the trained quiet from a woman, and the heavy thundering heartbeat from a man whose muscles twitch then move as the man steps towards him, and he can hear the man’s lungs contract and air start moving as the man’s vocal folds move and the man starts yelling, “sir!” and he flinches, burying his head further into his shoulders and limping on forward to that familiar place.

[...]

...and she knew his grandfather from school when they were ten.

She knows that the saying, ‘Murdock boys got the Devil in ‘em’ is one of the truest things ever said. What kills people normally doesn’t kill them.

Michael, Matthew’s grandfather, had described it as ‘a complete and utter refusal to fall, to let that wire break.’

Jack described it as a game of chance, ‘the wire frays and you fall, or you get to the top.’

 Matthew describes it as a test of faith, ‘whether you slip, or the wire breaks, to climb you have to believe.’

[...]

Matthew stumbles into Delilah’s flower shop soaked in his own blood, fresh scars twisting around his skin, and she knows that he can’t fall again.

[...]

ring… ring… ring…

 “Hello?”

 “Daniel, please come to the flower shop as soon as possible. It’s an emergency.”

[...]

ring… ring… ri- 

“What?”

 “Claire, please come to the flower shop as soon as possible. It’s an emergency.”

[...]

 ring… ring… ring… ring…

 “What do you want?”

 “Luke, please come to the flower shop as soon as possible. It’s an emergency.”

[...]

ring… ring… ring… ring… ring… ring… ring…

“If you’re calling me you know who I am. Name and number after the tone.”

 Beep

 “It’s Delilah, Frank. Come to the flower shop as soon as possible, please. It’s an emergency.”

[...]

 ring… ring… ring… ri-

 “Who the fuck are-”

 “Jessica? It’s Delilah. Please come to the flower shop as soon as possible.” 

[...]

ring… r-

 “Hello, Franklin Nelso-”

 “Hello, Franklin. It’s Delilah. Please come to the flower shop as soon as possible and bring Karen.”

 [...]

ring… ring… ring…

“Hi! It’s Deadpool-”

“Wade. Please come to the flower shop as soon as possible – it’s an emergency.”

[...]

 ring… ring… ring… ring…

 “Hello, Peter speaki-”

 “Hi Peter, please come to the flower shop as soon as possible. It’s an emergency.”

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

LIE: Frank Castle got court-martialed for going rogue in Afghanistan

[descaladumidera]

Prompt:

Five Times Frank Picked Up a Stray and One Time They Picked Up Him aka Frank makes the bad decision of picking up unconscious, injured vigilantes (DD, Jess, Luke, Danny, Spidey) and patches them up in his safehouse. And then he gets terribly injured and they care for him. Aka Frank gets a found family, if he wants it or not (he doesn't, but they don't give him a choice, after seeing what a softie he is).

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just remembered that the defenders were not the found family i’ve convinced myself they were to be. like wdym they don’t all reluctantly get together on thanksgiving. wdym colleen and matt don’t occasionally team up or chat on rooftops while they’re on patrol. wdym karen and jess don’t become close friends. wdym luke and danny don’t hang out often. wdym they all didn’t get together for colleen and danny’s wedding. wdym foggy and luke aren’t kind of friends. wdym colleen misty and claire don’t go to bars together.

wdym that they aren’t the definition of “anyway don’t be a stranger.”

like i literally convinced myself theyre like the crows in soc but like .. it’s simply not true and i. ☹️

will literally start posting found family au / post defenders fix it fics soon here i swear i cant do this. pls send me little scenarios with defenders you want to see written because i will do it

[raceispunk]

//This is basically just a rant so go ahead and disregard//:

As a neurodivergent person who develops intense hyper fixations the watching order of the nmcu makes me really angry. I understand it was released that way in order to make sense as it came out, but I can't watch Daredevil s3 without watching Defenders and I can't watch Defenders without watching three other shows. I literally cannot stop to get invested in something else while in the midst of a hyperfixation. Like my brain absolutely cannot do that. I literally have to try and make it through three other shows while maintaining a hyperfixation that I'm getting no content for, and not developing another one so that the cycle can be finished on Daredevil. This is totally not a problem for allistic people but this is genuinely destroying parts of my mental health. If anyone has really good fics please send them my way because i'm going to have to make up for a whole season of show that I can't get to yet.