
Iron Fist season two is an improvement on Iron Fist season one in the way that stubbing your toe is an improvement over jamming your finger in a car door. Surprisingly, it appeared in the movies before the comics, though I would argue it’s based on Slorenia, a country Ultron wiped out the entire population of in Avengers Vol.Photo: Linda Kallerus/Netflix/Linda Kallerus/Netflix It would be remiss of me not to at least mention the thing most people can’t help but have caught, but Mary mentions her military past including an incident in Sokovia, the small nation invented for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

It would make sense that this guy might have had artifacts relating to K’un-Lun and the Iron Fist, and I really hope the show looks into that history at some point because, as you may have guessed, this is the stuff I love most about Iron Fist as a character.įurther reading: Iron Fist Season 2 – Complete Marvel Easter Eggs Reference Guide Lucky Pierre is (or was) the sidekick to another Iron Fist: Orson Randall, who held the fist during World War I.

Not because he shares a name with Professor Erskine from Captain America, but because it’s a clear reference to “Lucky Pierre”, aka Ernst Erskine. If this is going to be used as a catalyst to help him change all of his priorities then God help us, not least because Bethany’s clearly got her own shit going on and her getting pregnant deserves better than to be used as the reason for someone else to clean up.Īs for the episode’s Easter eggs, there’s not a huge amount but the inclusion of the name “Erskine” in “The Erskine collection” as the source for the scroll explaining the Iron Fist ritual is a biggie. Still, Ward’s drunken fight was a high point, but the revelation that he got Bethany pregnant seemed a little melodramatic. I think it’s fair to say at this point that I’m enjoying the pseudo-mystical mythology more than the sibling drama.

It was a bigger problem that Danny ignored her wishes and turned their apartment into a dojo without considering her, and I think they could have made a little more of the idea. I’m not sure I fully buy into the idea that Colleen can’t compartmentalise enough to teach Danny without destroying their relationship, but it does ring true in that she wants out of the pseudo-superhero life and she keeps getting pulled back into it. Of course, at this point Danny is barely mobile. Further reading: Iron Fist Season 2 Villain – Who is Davos?
