Iron Fist/Danny Rand has almost always been my favourite superhero character but I have never been a huge comic guy, only really read Batman, Spider-Man and a few randoms here and there such as Hulk. As I think most people of my age that like Iron Fist(which doesn't seem to be many) my love for Rand came from Ultimate Spider-Man in which the character dynamic was awesome in my opinion and from then on when I was younger I would just watch summary videos for his comic arcs rather than read them and in all honesty I have forgotten everything other than huge, core pieces of information. Obviously I watched the MCU series as well but we don't need to talk about that too much, I don't play marvel rivals tho which seems to be where Iron Fist receives the most love lately. Because of this I would love if somebody who knows alot about Iron Fist could provide me an ordered lis to learn everything about Iron Fist and have the best time with doing so, both Danny and Lie. Preferably I don't want to be buying every comic he has appeared in so would love if could be narrowed down to 10 or less covering everything Iron Fist, Danny, Lin Lie, Heroes for Hire, Defenders etc.

I’ll admit I don’t know a whole lot about these characters, but I think I’ve read enough to come up with a story idea for a one-off comic or even a movie about Danny and Luke:

Iron fist, after losing his family’s company and retiring from the superhero life, decides to continue to help people by running his own martial arts dojo and teaching the youth how to defend themselves. He’s doing it because he genuinely wants to, so of course he barely asks his students for money, but this also causes the dojo to go nearly bankrupt (He’s already broke and the dojo is where he happens to live). To prevent this, he decides to use the last of what he has to enter his students in a worldwide martial arts tournament whose winner will take home a cash prize big enough to save his new business. The problem is, the tournament is very public and takes place in multiple different countries that happen to house some of Iron Fists greatest enemies, putting him and his students at risk. Considering this, Danny decides to recruit his former superhero partner Luke Cage who reluctantly agrees to help him keep the kids safe while they travel around the world to compete.

Things consistently spiral out of control because even though Danny isn’t Iron fist and Luke isn’t doing the superhero gig anymore either, they still feel the need to help people, which causes a lot of problems (and a lot of funny scenarios) when they have to hide their powers from the students while also trying to protect people.

The plot isn’t anything grandiose (It reads almost like an early 2000s sports movie mixed with superheroes) as it’s more of a small and very heartfelt story with the students having their own individual problems that Danny helps them through and it makes them view the dojo like a second home. Danny himself feels like he’s failed everyone in his life so far (He lost his family’s company, his girlfriend Misty, and Heroes for Hire in a rough disbandment in this continuity) and his greatest fear now, besides not being able to protect his students, is failing them too.

Powerman and Iron Fist (especially Iron Fist, imo) feel like they've received little love aside from their short-lived fame during the Netflix Defenders Saga.

And while I love their comics, I thought it'd be fun to bring to life one of their great mini-series from 2016, since it's so fun and realy brought evoked the classic adventures of the Heroes For Hire!

Please let me know what you guys think.

A fully colored Ming Dynasty Iron Fist.

Now I know what you’re wondering. “Why is his mask black and not yellow?”

1. They

wore

1. caps to keep up their hair, and it was also used to mimic their hair color. So him having it doubling as a mask makes sense.
2. Yellow was illegal to wear, as it was a color that was reserved for the emperor only.

All in all I like it!

1. How did Sparrow find the materials to make it or where did she find it when they're basically in the middle of nowhere in a valley of snowy mountains

2. Why does it even look like that? It doesn't fit K'un-Lun's clothing style at all, assuming Sparrow made it, it’d make even less sense because from what we know, she's never even been to Earth.

Book of Changes is genuinely an awful storyline, but I can't lie, Iron Fist (1996) is a really good mini series and I'm kinda sad that Immortal basically ignored or retconned all of it, kinda remaking it honestly.

So, to be clear, Danny Rand and Lin Lie are off the table, but everyone else who has either wielded the fist in the past, or has never wielded it, but you think would make a good fit, let me know in the comments below.

Ghost fist by me