I love Iron Fist, so of course I watched the new Netflix series Iron Fist.
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That Iron Fist is the weakest link in The Defenders shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who saw Iron Fist, or even anyone who just read the reviews for Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist The only difference between the similar tales of Iron Fist and Doctor Strange — essentially two white men who are taught magic by mystical Asian people — is that it appears Iron Fist actually hired more than one Asian actor.
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Iron Fist is one of several in a joint Marvel/Netflix shared universe, set alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and The Punisher.
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Iron Fist Danny Rand (Finn Jones) is Iron Fist, an expert martial artist who can call upon powerful forces to amp his strength up to superhuman levels.
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I've been slogging my way through the series for a few days, and it takes almost two full hours before Iron Fist actually wields the damn Iron Fist.
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And in the second segment of the trailer, Claire Thomas, who played a prominent role in both Luke Cage and Iron Fist series — introduces Luke Cage to Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist is the weakest hero of Marvel's Netflix run.
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Iron Fist (Finn Jones) — find themselves on the same side.
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Iron Fist season 1 barely needed to be a show.
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Season 2 of Iron Fist begins streaming on September 7th.
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It doesn't matter how mad we get at Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist, in the show's longest, most detailed trailer yet.
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But Mr. Fujimori ruled the country with an iron fist.
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YOWZA, huge news - Iron Fist is officially done at Netflix.
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Netflix's "Iron Fist" was more beloved by audiences than critics.
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Ruthless and dictatorial, he ruled with a bloody iron fist.
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Iron Fist isn't really one of Marvel's most compelling heroes.
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"Rudy, as mayor, was pretty iron fist," Ms. Haberman said.
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To live under the iron fist of Otto von Bismarck?
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He has a reputation of ruling with an iron fist.
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This work is an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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But, they insist, it's canon, because Iron Fist was actually white.
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Marvel's Iron Fist season 2 comes out September 7th on Netflix.
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Alex became a Harlem crime boss in Power Man & Iron Fist.
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In his dying breaths, he recognizes Danny as the Iron Fist.
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You can make the same kind of argument with Iron Fist.
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He rules with an iron fist and a sense of humor.
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Against all odds, the Luke Cage / Iron Fist combo kinda works.
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Literally any of these people would be a better Iron Fist.
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Claudia (Judith Scott) rules her kingdom/club with an iron fist.
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In response, President Nicolás Maduro has responded with an iron fist.
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My mother reigned over the house with an iron fist slipper.
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Khorasani was seen as ruling the group with an iron fist.
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Missick is already confirmed for Iron Fist Season 2, so something tells us this won't be the last we see of the Daughters of the Dragon (and hopefully means we'll see less of Iron Fist himself).
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And so its next two series, Luke Cage and Iron Fist — the last two before Jones, Daredevil, Cage, and Iron Fist team up to become the Defenders — will be met with a lot of anticipation and hype.
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The* critical pile-on of Iron Fist* has officially reached comedy status.
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People are quickly losing interest in 'Iron Fist,' Netflix's panned Marvel show
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Last weekend, Marvel premiered Iron Fist, its latest live-action Netflix show.
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Iron Fist, on the other hand, seriously lacks in the villain department.
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Bottom line: Iron Fist is a lousy show and a squandered opportunity.
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Your father was a big supporter of Jabotinsky and the iron fist.
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Marvel's Iron Fist has been renewed for a second season on Netflix.
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Its nuance is on par with Iron Fist punching people through walls.
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General Dynamics is collaborating with IMI Systems to provide Iron Fist Light.
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This is when Iron Fist takes a turn directly towards the problematic.
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The Iron Fist is a power that's passed from person to person.
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Maureen Ryan, Variety: Why couldn't Henwick be the star of Iron Fist?
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The Iron Fist star shares his thoughts on the show's 2019 end.
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He has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for over 30 years.
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"Ortega is again using an iron fist against his opponents," he said.
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The show also manages to rehabilitate the disaster known as Iron Fist.
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Clarke left the band in 1982 after the release of Iron Fist.
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If things go well, Iron Fist may even get a second season.
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He would likely rule the ministry with "an iron fist", he added.
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After all, from concept to release, Iron Fist has been a challenge.
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It's an iron fist hidden behind a blue-and-white velvet glove.
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Eddie had that Irish bluster, but Sonny had that Italian iron fist.
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Iron Fist (OK, maybe that one's more of a skyscraper-level superhero).
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Even Iron Fist -- the one genuine dud among the previous shows -- benefits from his interplay with the others, particularly the hard-as-rock Cage, who discovers what happens (in slow motion, naturally) when Iron Fist meets immovable object.
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Granted, there's also a lack of great fight choreography in Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, the two Netflix solo series preceding Iron Fist, but those shows aren't centered on martial arts and acrobatic fighting the way Iron Fist is.
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This Taurus (or Aries) baby will rule pop culture with an iron fist.
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Danny explains K'un-Lun and what it means to be the Iron Fist.
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On his own, Iron Fist felt like a caricature, rather than a character.
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By Iron Fist, however, the corridor fight was starting to lose its sparkle.
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Iron Fist, he called out white privilege while working to save the world.
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Warning: mild spoilers ahead for the overall plot of Iron Fist season 2.
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Here's how Iron Fist Season 1 can continue going in the right direction.
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It seems Netflix and Marvel's latest show Iron Fist is not so punchy.
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That, of course, came right off the back of the Iron Fist cancellation.
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The fight scenes aren't Daredevil-good, but they're not Iron Fist-bad, either.
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" His brother could be willful: "Ken rules his world with an iron fist.
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Iron Fist, Marvel's least-loved Netflix series, has been canceled after two seasons.
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Cillizza: She has long been cast as the iron fist of the family.
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Sarit Thanarat, who ruled Thailand with an iron fist from 1957 to 1963.
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Then it was time to welcome the "Iron Fist" cast to the stage.
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Known locally as "The Codfather," he ruled the waters with an iron fist.
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Marvel also released a teaser trailer for Iron Fist, the story of a man named Danny Rand and the mystical powers he inherits: It's a little less forthright than the Cage trailer (Iron Fist is set to debut after Luke Cage).
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At the end of season 1 of Netflix's Marvel series Iron Fist, Rand Enterprises partner Joy Meachum (Jessica Stroup) and master martial artist Davos (Sacha Dhawan) sit down to talk about the superhero Iron Fist, aka their mutual acquaintance Danny Rand.
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And perhaps the biggest challenge facing Iron Fist in 2017 is that the source material, written in the '70s, is rife with Orientalist stereotypes, making fans, especially those of Asian descent, wary of what Marvel would do with Iron Fist.
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In Iron Fist, an Asian woman replaced the white guy in the title role.
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Eventually, though, Danny uses the Iron Fist to knock Luke into a garage door.
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Inhumans, created by Iron Fist showrunner Scott Buck, is Marvel's latest series for ABC.
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Regardless of the character's race on the new show, Iron Fist will be huge.
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A lot of this stems from the era in which Iron Fist was created.
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With the debut of Netflix's Iron Fist now imminent, Marvel is on the defensive.
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Luke Cage and Iron Fist adapted and continued this tradition in their own ways.
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Maybe Iron Fist can finally shed some light on this mess of a web.
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If Alma is an iron fist in a kid glove, Cyril is the opposite.
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Other Marvel series, like Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, were cancelled last year.
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At least in Daredevil and Iron Fist, the Hand had an aura of mystery.
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But Iron Fist has the Marvel name on it, and I'm a Marvel obsessive.
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What's actually the problem: cities are ruled by the iron fist of King Car.
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The Marvel show "Iron Fist" is also not getting a third season on Netflix.
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The most consistently disappointing and distracting Iron Fist element is its flat, repetitive writing.
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Up to that point, Tywin had been ruling King's Landing with an iron fist.
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"Iron Fist" One big surprise with the cast was the presence of Rosario Dawson.
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Or is this just some early setup for the next season of Iron Fist?
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Is "Iron Fist" as bad as its 14 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating would indicate?
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But Mr Duterte's iron fist is not chiefly to blame for the country's economic trouble.
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Thomas bought Willett's Iron Fist bourbon for about $90 a bottle a few years ago.
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Netflix canceled Marvel's Luke Cage on Friday, just one week after canceling Marvel's Iron Fist.
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It may be true that the concept of Iron Fist was more acceptable in 1974.
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It sparked massive street rallies demanding his resignation, but Najib responded with an iron fist.
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Marvel, as a corporate entity, will never admit that Iron Fist was a bad show.
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As the newest show in Marvel's stable, Iron Fist is unquestionably the weakest as well.
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Iron Fist is set to debut in 2017, though no official date has been set.
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But Iron Fist was met with scrutiny and criticism before it even went into production.
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Isaias has ruled the country with an iron fist since independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
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Some are urging Abiy to slow his democratic reforms and bring back the iron fist.
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But such ideas are out of sync with Mr Bolsonaro's belief in the iron fist.
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The 10-episode second season of Iron Fist premieres on Netflix on Friday, September 7th.
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We'll also see some looks at Marvel's Freeform show Cloak & Dagger and Netflix's Iron Fist.
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Here, women rule with an iron fist and refuse to let go of that power.
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With the iron fist of Gadhafi gone, militant Islamic groups festered and grew, including ISIS.
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At least based on what we've seen in Iron Fist Season 1 and The Defenders.
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It followed Daredevil, and shows for Luke Cage and Iron Fist are on the way.
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Jammeh ruled Gambia for 22 years with an iron fist and little tolerance of dissent.
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This regime rules with an iron fist and is highly active in destabilizing the region.
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The duo have one more for us this week: a first look at Iron Fist.
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Putin-installed Ramzan Kadyrov has ruled Chechnya with an iron fist, and oversaw Chechnya's Islamization.
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But Iron Fist was not up the job of creating the bones of this show.
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It's a world of extreme income inequality where techno-fascists rule with an iron fist.
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Granted, Iron Fist could potentially turn itself around in the second half of the season.
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Repeat that over and over, and you've basically got yourself one season of Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist doesn't really understand how to use Wing in a way that makes sense.
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I was never a gigantic Iron Fist fan as a kid, and I wasn't alone.
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Background: Sisi has ruled with an iron fist, killing several thousand and imprisoning some 60,000.
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Q. Owners used to be independent contractors and you guys ruled somewhat with an iron fist.
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I am super pumped up about the Iron Fist series that will premiere on Netflix soon.
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It brings Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones together to save ... oh, never mind.
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So in one early episode, Iron Fist falls some distance before catching himself on a pole.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today: From the first scene, Danny Rand/Iron Fist is an undeniable handicap.
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But then she goes in for the attack, before Iron Fist smashes her sword to pieces.
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Colleen is the owner of a dojo and also a love interest for Iron Fist, a.k.a.
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To be clear: Iron Fist is a hero whose main power is punching people really hard.
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As a high-powered attorney, she sometimes works for Danny Rand, aka the Immortal Iron Fist.
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It was a slog, with no momentum, where the characters simply lived underneath Negan's iron fist.
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Iron Fist, the latest in Netflix's string of Marvel superhero shows, arrives on Netflix March 17th.
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Why shouldn't the highest office simply rule with an iron fist instead, intelligence community be damned?
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They can't change anything at all, because one person controls the realm with an iron fist.
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With the exception of "Iron Fist," Marvel's gritty, violent Netflix series have largely drawn critical acclaim.
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Iron Fist, which came out earlier this year, was the weakest of Netflix's four Marvel shows.
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Until Abiy, that coalition, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), ruled with an iron fist.
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Watching the entire season of Iron Fist left me at the crossroads of fatigue and boredom.
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Iron Fist doesn't have the same cachet as the X-Men, Batman, the Avengers, or Deadpool.
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Marvel absolutely dominated New York Comic Con Saturday night with its "Iron Fist" panel Saturday night.
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Of course, Kim rules North Korea with an iron fist and a disregard for human rights.
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"Iron Fist" is "Brigadoon" with Asian monks and kung fu, and it should be silly fun.
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It's clear Netflix is setting us up for an Iron Fist / Luke Cage partnership of some sort, since the characters are BFFs in the comics – but it's honestly difficult to imagine what this version of Luke Cage could possibly want with this version of Iron Fist.
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"Tekken" follows the "King of the Iron Fist" tournament held by the Mishima Zaibatsu, a large corporation.
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The DC Comics analogue to Marvel's Thanos, Darkseid rules the planet of Apokolips with an iron fist.
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And put forth the argument that, hey, there's no narrative reason that Iron Fist can't be Caucasian.
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If Iron Fist left you with an itch for a proper martial arts action show, it exists.
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These "gateway shows" can lead just about anyone to Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Daredevil, or Luke Cage.
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As the series wears on, we're told that Danny fought hard to earn the Iron Fist title.
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Colleen and Misty are the two women leads of their respective shows Iron Fist and Luke Cage.
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The sad truth, however, is that Iron Fist is the weakest of Marvel's Netflix series to date.
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So apparently Iron Fist should have been cast as an Asian because stereotypes need to be encouraged.
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As Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale, Madelaine Petsch rules the River Vixens' cheerleading squad with an iron fist.
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If you watched Iron Fist (our condolences), the highlight by far was Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing.
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Iron Fist season 2 similarly finds ways to have events orbit Danny without actually revolving around him.
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Iron Fist is the fourth and final Netflix series leading up to team-up show The Defenders.
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The Defenders unites the protagonists of Netflix's Marvel shows Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist.
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Someone needs to bring "the Immortal Iron Fist" back down to Earth — we're counting on you, Defenders!
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Iron Fist Light finds threats two ways: a search and track radar and a staring infrared sensor.
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But until Netflix figures out how it's actually gonna fix Iron Fist – hey, a fan can dream.
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Meanwhile, Iron Fist is the rightful heir of a billion-dollar fortune who has actual magic powers.
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But some of it is thanks to the rest of Iron Fist being, well, not so good.
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The finance ministry or whichever ministry he handles is going to be run with an iron fist.
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Marvel's Iron Fist comes out this Friday, and its star, Finn Jones, is already on the defensive.
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This reality is slowly changing, and Marvel's Iron Fist Netflix series could have helped continue that change.
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Some shows punch a little higher (the canceled "Agent Carter"), some kick a little lower ("Iron Fist").
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Hun Sen is 67 and has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for more than three decades.
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While that's largely the fault of dull writing and plodding plotting, though, Iron Fist himself hasn't been helping.
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Iron Fist, billionaire hippie and magical white savior of the mystical Easter kingdom of K'un-Lun is… tolerable.
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"She was raised with old world values of her Catholic motherland, and my grandmother's iron fist," says Mazza.
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When Iron Fist introduces Bakuto (Ramon Rodriguez), Colleen Wing's sensei, he's initially treated as an enlightened mentor figure.
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Netflix's Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist each have their own sets of fans (and critics).
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Apparently, it was sealed by a former Iron Fist — and it can only be opened by another one.
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As a serious superhero venture, Iron Fist was destined to walk a rockier path than its sister shows.
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Iron Fist has neither the thematic nor character foundations to justify the same kind of ultra-serious take.
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Byrne, who was working with writer Chris Claremont on Iron Fist at the time, noticed this illogical pattern.
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Tell Asian-Americans, who've led exactly two TV shows in 25 years, how to feel about Iron Fist.
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Moammar Gadhafi seized power in 1969 and ruled it with an iron fist for more than four decades.
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She returns once again in Iron Fist, though it appears she's had her fill of playing backseat nurse.
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" Hubbard's speakership has been "very much like a dictatorship controlling all branches of government with an iron fist.
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But nobody can convince me slogging through a season of Iron Fist benefited my life in any way.
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Iron Fist Light fires a small warhead to intercept the threat at a safe distance from the vehicle.
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It'd be great if Netflix could just cut their losses and start over with a new Iron Fist.
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Jim Vejvoda, IGN: Iron Fist, exec produced by Dexter's Scott Buck, is Marvel's most generic Netflix series yet.
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The latest series — Iron Fist — yet again hones in on a small corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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I was filming Iron Fist for six-to-seven months and they wouldn't give me the time off.
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And then Olenna, Ellaria, and Yara pondering the ethics of war and the need for an iron fist.
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Surveillance on the one hand, and censorship on the other, allows China to rule with an iron fist.
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"BoJack Horseman" returns for its fifth season, and "Marvel's Iron Fist" and "American Vandal" return for season two.
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Although we always sensed it, leading with an iron fist is not the strategy for long-term success.
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Human rights groups and exiles say China governs Tibet with an iron fist and represses its Buddhist people.
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With the support of President Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Kadyrov has stabilized the region with an iron fist.
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Iron Fist reveals that the Hand is a Hydra-like entity, whose tentacles (fingers?) reach into powerful places.
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Wu Assassins is better than Iron Fist if only because Uwais is a better lead than Finn Jones.
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The commander of the Revolutionary Guards has warned that the Guards will employ the "iron fist" if necessary.
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However, Iron Fist's second season isn't exactly good when in the context of television outside of Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist is set in the same New York-centric universe as Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, but the story does take a detour to the mythical land of K'un-Lun, where Rand apparently inherited the mantle of the Iron Fist, which grants him super strength and glowing extremities.
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Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years here, keeping control over its various tribes and clans.
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Beyond his martial arts prowess, Iron Fist can summon his energy into a glowing hand capable of shattering walls.
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However, the attack is likely to strengthen the allegiance of those who admire his iron-fist approach to crime.
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Critics contend that the government's mano dura (iron-fist) policies have worsened conditions in prisons, which were already appalling.
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She accuses them of being disloyal, but they still seem intent on capturing Iron Fist without the Black Sky.
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Marvel's Iron Fist has appeared in the comics juggernaut's various stories and superhero teams for the past 41 years.
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Recently, Finn Jones quit Twitter after getting into a heated debate about representation in general, and Iron Fist specifically.
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If the police fail to contain the unrest, warns an IRGC spokesman, the protesters will face an "iron fist".
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In Iberia Parish, the Sheriff holds the highest elected office and Sheriff Louis Ackal ruled with an iron fist.
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He said he is already feeling heat from Mahathir backers who have no memory of his iron-fist rule.
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Madame Gao's role in Iron Fist is still unclear, though she appears to also have ties with the Hand.
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After a couple of teasers, Netflix has released a full trailer for the upcoming second season of Iron Fist.
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"Oriental is a term used to describe rugs, not people," wrote "Iron Fist" star Jessica Henwick in a tweet.
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Raven Metzner will replace Scott Buck as the showrunner for Season 2 of Iron Fist, BuzzFeed News has confirmed.
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Iron Fist might pack a powerful punch, but lately he's been on the receiving end of a critical pummeling.
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In any society, you will find men who are power-hungry and happy to rule with an iron fist.
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We look forward to seeing how Iron Fist addresses race and representation when it hits Netflix on March 17.
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Iran's government blocked access to social media as part of its "iron fist" response to the pro-reform protests.
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Marvel/Netflix sked: Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Defenders THEN 2nd and 3rd seasons of the other shows and Punisher.
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Today, the current president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is non-military, though he controls the press with an iron fist.
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The once liberal fringe now controls the party with an iron fist and even embraces de facto open borders.
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Netflix's highly anticipated Iron Fist series now has a premiere date for next year: March 17th, according to Variety.
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As Variety points out, Iron Fist is Netflix's fourth Marvel superhero series, after Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Daredevil.
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Iron Fist is the next series Marvel has planned, and the company's track record makes it a promising prospect.
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In Egypt, under the iron fist of President Abdelfattah al-Sisi, a range of literary works can be outlawed.
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And the result is that Iron Fist kind of feels like off-brand Batman in a martial arts outfit.
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In the process, he ruled the country with an iron fist -- locking up political opponents and censoring the press.
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Al-Bashir came to power in a bloodless coup in 1985 and has since ruled with an iron fist.
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She's popped up in Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, and will return this summer in The Defenders.
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Marvel's Iron Fist has been getting a lot of attention lately, but probably not the kind that Netflix would want.
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Danny, meanwhile, has no problem telling everyone that he's the "immortal Iron Fist," eliciting a spectacular eye roll from Luke.
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It's boring and unpleasant, and he has so exhausted the good options on Netflix, he's considering checking out Iron Fist.
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His vision could do away with the problematic exoticism and "white savior" complex associated with Iron Fist in the past.
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" Her approach to politics, she added at the weekend, was: "A policy of an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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All of the other Defenders shows, including Luke Cage, Daredevil, The Punisher, Iron Fist, and The Defenders have been canceled.
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And we speculate about how the ending will affect future seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage.
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Iron Fist debuted this past spring, though is received negative reviews for its poor storytelling and tone deaf racial representation.
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Iron-fist tactics to squelch unrest in the state of Jammu and Kashmir seem only to have deepened local alienation.
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Then Danny returns the favor, proving that while Luke may be bulletproof, he's not immune to the Immortal Iron Fist.
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And of course, there's an Iron Throne where you can sit and pretend to rule Westeros with an iron fist.
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Hubbard's speakership has been "very much like a dictatorship controlling all branches of government with an iron fist," Austin says.
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The Netflix series came under fire after casting Finn Jones, who is white, as the martial arts superhero Iron Fist.
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On Tuesday, Netflix also announced its next Marvel show Iron Fist will be released on the platform in March 2017.
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At Comic-Con Thursday, Netflix unveiled our first look at the second season of its fourth Marvel series, Iron Fist.
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Or perhaps Iron Fist could take Danny in a darker direction, and turn him into an out-and-out supervillain.
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Today Netflix continued its love affair with the world of Marvel Comics by releasing the first season of Iron Fist.
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Madden said during Kim Jong Un's reign, he has built a reputation for ruling with an iron fist when needed.
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In the comics, Danny Rand earns the title of Iron Fist after training with the mystical warriors of K'un-L'un.
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And don't even get me started on the queasy possibility of a comics-accurate Iron Fist / Misty Knight romantic pairing.
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Daredevil is not like Iron Fist or Luke Cage, which both greatly benefit from guest stars from the other series.
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The top court said it was dismayed the only option for the state was "to rule with an iron fist".
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Unfortunately, the Iron Fist gets so many of the show's most important lines that The Defenders buckles under his weight.
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Iron Fist is based on the comic book of the same name, and its main protagonist is one Danny Rand.
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In an interview with RadioTimes, he said the negative reviews of Iron Fist are driven by the current political climate.
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Here's how a typical Iron Fist conversation goes: CHARACTER 1: You did [insert something that the audience just saw happen].
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As speaker, Ms. Pelosi ruled the House with an iron fist, guiding dozens of bills large and small into law.
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Unfortunately, as the fight over Iron Fist has shown us, even something as amazing as comic books has its limits.
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She never met a rule she didn't like to follow or enforce on her little sister with an iron fist.
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"Most Chinese are very supportive of the iron fist policy," said Zhu Feng, a professor of international relations in Nanjing.
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A year ago, the Netflix series "Iron Fist" was preparing to use his block in Bushwick for a night shoot.
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To illustrate just how Iron Fist has improved, and how it hasn't, here are five broad takeaways from season two.
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We find out that Prince Harry killed his older brother William and is now ruling England with an iron fist.
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A lot has happened in Jessica Jones' world since her debut, including a spinoff show for Jessica's brief love interest Luke Cage, two more MCU series set in the same world (Iron Fist and The Punisher), and the miniseries The Defenders, which brought Jessica back to reluctantly team up with Luke, Iron Fist, and Daredevil.
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He ruled with an iron fist for two-and-a-half decades until his ouster in the 1986 "People Power" revolution.
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Let me say up front that Iron Fist would still be poorly written and staged, no matter who played the lead.
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And Danny Rand (Finn Jones) is destined to be the "immortal Iron Fist" after losing his parents at a young age.
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Ruthless and bloodthirsty gangs roam the open roads and the tyrannical Authority seek to rule who remains with an iron fist.
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That'll be followed by The Punisher, plus at least another season each for Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist.
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They offer the kind of weight that Iron Fist so desperately wanted to achieve in its first season, but never could.
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Among those taken into custody is Colleen, a superhero in her own right who is also romantically involved with Iron Fist.
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A former small-town doctor, he has been credited with modernizing Malaysia's economy, while ruling the country with an iron fist.
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The "Immortal Iron Fist" doesn't agree with this ruling and tries to punch his way out of the Defenders' imposed custody.
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Unlike Iron Fist, which Marvel indicated might continue on in some form, this reads as a definitive end for the series.
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Further seasons of Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Daredevil are also expected in 2018, but no release dates have been set.
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When you rule over a team with an iron fist for decades and fail to deliver championships, you get the blame.
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Marvel properties currently at Netflix include the Jessica Jones spinoff series Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Punisher, and The Defenders.
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It was like you had to lead with an iron fist, and everyone had to conform — that's how things were done.
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Led by Mohamed Siad Barre, the regime took over Somalia after a coup in 1969 and ruled with an iron fist.
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In this case, they're all based specifically in New York City and include Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist.
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Coming off Iron Fist, inarguably the worst of the four Netflix / Marvel series, The Defenders bears hallmarks of that show's shortcomings.
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The Iron Fist trailer offers less, but it does reveal a look at protagonist Danny Rand before he turns to superheroing.
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Roy Thomas was Marvel's editor-in-chief when he co-created the character of Iron Fist in 1974 with Gil Kane.
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Iron Fist unfortunately hit a sour note in the series, which is doubly unfortunate since it immediately precedes the miniseries premiere.
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He ruled with an iron fist — subjugating, jailing and even torturing anyone whom his government suspected of disobedience to the state.
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Part of what makes Iron Fist so vexing is that it's never quite clear how seriously we're supposed to take him.
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Making matters worse, he demonstrated a real knack for putting his foot in his mouth during the Iron Fist press tour.
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There's no word yet on when the eventual Iron Fist series will debut, but fans can expect an announcement soon enough.
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"Stick: "Because this one, the immortal Iron Fist, living weapon and protector of the ancient city...is still a thundering dumbass.
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Marvel's Iron Fist hits Netflix in just a few months, but fans still haven't seen much of Danny Rand in action.
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Once seen as stabilizing force When Kelly first replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff, he ruled with an iron fist.
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In a heartfelt post on Instagram, Jones shared love and thanks to everyone he worked with and the Iron Fist fans.
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The good news for Marvel, Netflix, and Jones's career is that Iron Fist feels like an anomaly rather than the norm.
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Iron Fist is, for better or worse, handcuffed to the Hand in a way that Jessica Jones and Luke Cage weren't.
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Supervised by Brett Chan, who worked on "Iron Fist" and "Marco Polo," it's stylish and down to earth (no wire work).
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As for the government itself, especially the faction intent on ruling with an iron fist, the sanctions will not hurt much.
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You might not wield much power over the Thanksgiving dinner table, but underneath it you can rule with an iron fist.
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We are being told that Iran is now united behind regime hardliners who have ruled with an iron fist since 1979.
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In Chechnya, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, who is nominally independent but a close ally of Mr. Putin, rules with an iron fist.
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The same can't be said for "Marvel's Iron Fist," the latest Marvel-Netflix collaboration, whose 13 episodes become available on Friday.
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One of Abiy's boldest moves has been to loosen the grip of a state that had ruled with an iron fist.
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Over the past year, many of Netflix's Marvel series — namely Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and most recently Daredevil — have been canceled.
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Immortal Iron Fist No. 16, one of the best stories the two produced, seems tailor-made for the Netflix series to adapt, as it sees Danny pondering love, his life, his destiny, and his own mortality: In the best Iron Fist stories, K'un-L'un and the "Asian" parts of his story don't just exist for Rand's betterment.
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In the wake of Hollywood fails such as The Great Wall and Iron Fist, Mulan clearly has a lot riding on it.
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Don't these people have something better to do than to worry about the fact that Iron Fist isn't Oriental, or whatever word?
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Unfortunately for Harold, Danny's job as the Iron Fist is to protect K'un-Lun, and the world at large, from The Hand.
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The stakes for Iron Fist — one of five planned TV series in a multi-show deal between Marvel and Netflix — are high.
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A more compelling argument about keeping Iron Fist a blond white guy is rooted in what I call the Tiger Lily conundrum.
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Mugabe's impeachment would represent a massive power shift in the country, which the president has ruled with an iron fist since 1980.
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Danny Rand is having a rough time in the latest trailer for Iron Fist, the next Marvel superhero series coming to Netflix.
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Today at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that Iron Fist would return to Netflix for its second season on September 7th.
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More recently on the TV side, Netflix's Iron Fist scored only 18 percent from critics but its audience score is 83 percent.
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" Gumede added: "If he tries to do that with an iron fist, with the military, I don&apost think he will succeed.
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Between Iron Fist, Ghost in the Shell and that first Death Note trailer, it's been a banner month for racially insensitive casting.
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"Iron Fist" fans disappointed that an Asian or Asian American actor was not cast in the lead role used the hashtag #AAIronFist.
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The Defenders is a team-up miniseries featuring Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and unfortunately also Danny Rand, aka The Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist did Finn Jones no favors by saddling him with terrible dialogue, sloppy storytelling, indifferent fight choreography, and a rushed schedule.
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I mean, I think I know why – if you're gonna have Luke Cage, the comic book fans are gonna demand Iron Fist.
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But Iron Fist should prove an interesting test case about the downside of Marvel's meticulously planned, hyper-connected approach to franchise-building.
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Marvel still takes the prize for sheer quantity, though, with new trailers for Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Doctor Strange, and the Defenders.
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Iron Fist is the fourth Marvel series to hit the streaming network, and the final solo outing before next year's The Defenders.
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The Upper East Siders often openly loathed the site, but cautiously so: No deviation from Gossip Girl's iron fist would go unpunished.
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That changed at New York Comic Con today, where we got our first real look at the power of the Iron Fist.
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THE Communist Party dominates China's economy and uses state-run companies, which it controls with an iron fist, to enforce its diktats.
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Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years here, keeping control over its tribes and clans, and quelling Islamist militants.
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After ruling this country for nearly 40 years with an iron fist, he has been out of sight, but on everyone's mind.
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Daredevil), Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist will team up to save New York from a big bad (presumably the Hand).
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His political ambitions could shake the political climate in DR Congo where President Joseph Kabila rules the country with an iron fist.
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But at the same time, frustration over the lack of Asian-American representation in pop culture runs much deeper than Iron Fist.
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"If the state does not strike with an iron fist there will be negative repercussions in more than one area," he said.
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That pain still cannot be freely acknowledged because the party that caused it continues in power and rules with an iron fist.
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Over the last 27 years, TPLF used these forces, with little or no resistance, to rule the country with an iron fist.
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"We will strike with an iron fist those who target the minds and thoughts and attitudes of our dear youth," Salman said.
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When Danny Rand can focus his chi and turn into Iron Fist — a superhero with a superpowered, glowing right hand — he's unbeatable.
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Kim, like his father and grandfather, is a brutal dictator ruling with an iron fist over the most repressive regime on Earth.
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Where would "Jane Austen, but with zombies" fall on the reboot/remake/reimagining scale that currently rules Hollywood with an iron fist?
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Darlene tried to take Elliot's place when he went to prison, ruling fsociety and its new fringe supporters with an iron fist.
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The good news is that this time around, Iron Fist has only 10 episodes, encouraging more streamlined storytelling and a tighter focus.
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In a separate notice on Thursday, the Hebei government promised to use an "iron fist" to deal with air pollution over the winter.
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Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Finn Jones), Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Charlie Cox) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter) in 'The Defenders.
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"It is right to use an iron fist for a while to wake up the rest of Europe," said local resident Diego Detassis.
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But the idea of direct, presidential-level engagement with the leader of North Korea, who rules with an iron fist, has been taboo.
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Hell, a Heroes for Hire team-up featuring Luke Cage and Iron Fist might be the best thing to happen to both characters.
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Luke Cage joins Daredevil and Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist will follow in 2017 before all four heroes join together in The Defenders.
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The protagonists in Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist have linked up to, as the title suggests, defend New York City.
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Even though Iron Fist is about a superhero whose power is punching things really hard, the show consistently fails to reach those heights.
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Because Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The Defenders, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and The Punisher are also co-owned by Netflix, they won't be removed.
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The operation, dubbed "Iron Fist," was the capstone of Heleno's mission to restore order in Haiti after its president was ousted by insurgents.
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The Hand, which is being run by Fisk's onetime ally Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho), is working equally hard to destroy Iron Fist.
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Iron Fist continues the current line of shows leading up to a Defenders mini-series, along with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage.
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Mr Gayoom, who is 80, ran the Maldives for three decades with an iron fist before being voted out of office in 2008.
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"This little girl things she can fight me?" a muscled man yells at the sight of Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick) in Iron Fist.
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The only connection to Jessica Jones is in Iron Fist, where Jessica's sometimes-ally, sometimes-enemy Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) turns up.
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Only comic-book fans will have been aware of figures such as Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist before the shows appeared.
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But where Iron Fist took itself too seriously, The Defenders has the advantage of better-grounded characters to offset its most ridiculous moments.
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Nonetheless, Erdogan has showed no sign of conceding to Trump's iron-fist even as his entire economy is on the brink of crashing.
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But the protests seem to have had no impact on the conduct of the regime that rules the nation with an iron fist.
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It's also co-produced by the same guy who acted as showrunner for Netflix's Iron Fist, the only truly bad Netflix Marvel show.
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When, at the end of Iron Fist Season 1, Davos suggests to Joy that Danny "destroys everything he touches," it's tough to argue.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, The Daily Dot: Netflix dramas are designed for binge-watching, but even by Netflix standards, Iron Fist is glacially slow.
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By placing the Meachums in a central role, showrunner Scott Buck (Dexter) turned Iron Fist into a chilly boardroom drama about business tycoons.
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There's Ghost in the Shell, Netflix's Iron Fist, and The Great Wall (although the latter is a bit more white savior than whitewashing).
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After months of waiting, TheWrap reports and The Hollywood Reports confirms Marvel has found the star for its next Netflix series, Iron Fist.
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From them, he learns to wield the Iron Fist, a technique that allows him to enhance his strength and speed to superhuman levels.
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That's why they are turning to candidates who promise an iron fist or a return to the glory days of a dictatorial past.
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The Iron Fist actor doesn't have an aptitude for the flashy stuff, so it would be cool if the Nightwing actor DOES. pic.twitter.
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The Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities are ruled with an iron fist as Beijing suspects them of being separatists and national-security threats.
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Mugabe's brutal rule Mugabe, the only leader most Zimbabweans have ever known, ruled the landlocked country for 37 years with an iron fist.
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In a summer of terrorist attacks around the world and attacks on police officers on American soil, Mr. Trump promised an iron fist.
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Or, if she chooses to rule with a more iron fist, she could threaten to deny subcommittee gavels to lawmakers who defy her.
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Once seen as stabilizing force When Kelly first replaced Reince Priebus as chief of staff last summer, he ruled with an iron fist.
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Marvel's television head Joseph Loeb leads the panel and will screen new original footage of Iron Fist, due out on March 17, 2017.
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The drawback is that the majority of the fight scenes are choreographed to look more like Iron Fist and Luke Cage than Daredevil.
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The leader, who rules the nation with an iron fist, has also claimed to be able to cure AIDS (but only on Thursdays).
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Here's the 6 shows (and one original movie) dropping on Netflix in September that we recommend:"Marvel's Iron Fist": Season 2 (September 7).
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Police officers are granted an open license to go after the gangs under the government's iron-fist policy, sometimes sweeping up innocent people.
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Now, instead of supporting the truce, the ruling Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or F.M.L.N., would summon the mano dura — the iron fist.
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The play's sole character based on a real person, he is portrayed by John Glover with an iron-fist, velvet-glove moral authority.
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He ruled the country for decades with an iron fist as it endured wars and famine, and protected terrorists like Osama bin Laden.
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To the Editor: North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, runs one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world with an iron fist.
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The greatest Marvel tragedy in recent memory was the limp debut of Iron Fist, the fourth of the entertainment juggernaut's Netflix superhero shows.
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He has governed with an iron fist, with restrictions on media and crackdowns on dissent, amid allegations of deplorable prison conditions and torture.
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If the Marvel-Netflix team-up has sought to assemble the Beatles of brooding brawls, think of "Iron Fist" as a notch below Ringo.
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One would hope that The Defenders would shy away from Danny and his petulance, but unfortunately, Iron Fist is integral to the larger plot.
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The first and most basic criticism of Iron Fist is that Marvel's magical martial arts show has a stunning lack of magical martial arts.
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After a bloody revolution in 1959, he ruled his country with an iron fist until 2008, when his brother Raúl replaced him as president.
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Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and Iron Fist all regularly struggle to put their supporting cast members to use when they aren't helping the title character.
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She suggests he doesn't know all there is to know about K'un-Lun, though, surprised that he doesn't know why she wants Iron Fist.
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And rewriting him as Asian American would be history-making for Marvel: Iron Fist would be the first Asian-American superhero to appear onscreen.
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Where Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor led to The Avengers, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist all come to The Defenders.
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The aftermath of The Defenders — which merged Marvel's Netflix shows Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones — seems to factor in as well.
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But it's an unfortunate coincidence, given that the shows are going to attract the same audience, and Iron Fist seems derivative by coming later.
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Doctor Doom, otherwise known as Victor Von Doom, is a sorcerer and scientist who rules the fictional nation of Latveria with an iron fist.
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The Defenders is Netflix's major crossover event for its Marvel series up until this point, starring Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist.
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The gritty, more mature shows range from great (Jessica Jones) to good (Luke Cage) to well, not so good (looking at you, Iron Fist).
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At San Diego Comic-Con last week, Marvel announced that the second season of Iron Fist will begin streaming on Netflix on September 7th.
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Like Daredevil, Jessica Jones and the just-released Luke Cage before it, Iron Fist focuses on a smaller corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Can the combined charisma of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist bring me back around to the side of the good guys?
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"Daredevil" was canceled roughly a month after its third season debuted on Netflix and after "Iron Fist" and "Luke Cage" already had been axed.
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Apparently, Match Group does not yet think its iron fist in a velvet glove has a firm enough grip on the nation's... uhh... hearts.
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THIS ORANGE, SQUISHY BODY ARMOR MATERIAL COULD SAVE LIVES The Army selected IMI's Iron Fist for adaptation to the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
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With only six episodes released to the press, only time will tell if Iron Fist can bounce back from such a tone-deaf moment.
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Iron Fist will be series number four, followed by The Defenders — which will see the heroes from each of these four titles join forces.
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New Netflix series Iron Fist has similarly been accused of whitewashing, and in an interview with Inverse, director Roy Thomas made things even worse.
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"Don't these people have something better to do than to worry about the fact that Iron Fist isn't Oriental, or whatever word?" he said.
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The Defenders The heroes of Marvel's four Netflix series — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist — come together in this super-team miniseries.
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Iron Fist, at its center, The Defenders ends up sidelining its most charismatic characters in favor of the humorless, the corny, and the dull.
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Instead of continuing in that vein, though, The Defenders takes Iron Fist in a new direction, giving the character some much-needed self-awareness.
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And it never has to stand in the shadow of a show like Daredevil (see: Iron Fist), because it's confident in its own skin.
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By the time Iron Fist came around, it needed to be massaged and finessed to fit the missing pieces of this almost-assembled puzzle.
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Iron Fist, his story is essentially one of being an outsider in a mystical Asian city and learning the ways of the city's people.
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"He will return to the iron fist of coordination with the U.S.," said Arlene Tickner, a political scientist at Del Rosario University in Bogotá.
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He has ruled Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous state with 32 million people, with an iron fist since, showing little tolerance of internal dissent.
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Seeing him act, we can be worried about his methods because where he is governing, he doesn't govern softly, but with an iron fist.
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Yet it reminded the South of the iron fist inside the glove by flying its air force unannounced through Seoul's air defense identification zone.
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Yes, there was a whitewashing controversy regarding the casting of Finn Jones as Danny Rand, but that wasn't a reason Iron Fist was awful.
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Uzbek President Islam Karimov died in September after ruling the Central Asian nation of 32 million people with an iron fist for almost 27 years.
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Netflix's binge approach obviously provides the latitude to gradually unspool this origin story, but "Iron Fist" practically crawls along, and the characters aren't especially interesting.
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As for whether Lohan can mimic the matriarch of "Vanderpump Rules," Tariq has doubts because Lindsay rules with more of an iron fist than Lisa.
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The fight scene that finally brings them together checks all the fan-service boxes, as when Iron Fist stands behind Luke as he takes bullets.
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It's largely accepted by now that Iron Fist is Marvel's weakest Netflix series, given the widespread critical opinion that it's a boring, often offensive mess.
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The original tweet was clearly written to comment on how lame Iron Fist seems not only in the above scene, but throughout his solo series.
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There are now no more Netflix shows based on the Marvel Defenders characters, with Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist all having previously been axed.
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When she's not busy ruling the Seven Kingdoms with an iron fist, it turns out Cersei Lannister is a also a dab hand at Instagram.
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I'm no comic book fan, but I saw a few episodes of Iron Fist and came to my own conclusion about Danny Rand (Finn Jones).
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Marvel's Iron Fist premiered on Netflix on March 17th, giving fans the chance to finally join the conversation critics have already been having for weeks.
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The Hand comes up in both Daredevil and Iron Fist — one of Daredevil's enemies, Nobu, is a member of The Hand, as is Madame Gao.
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If Iron Fist made you root for Danny Rand to get clocked in the face, The Defenders is motivation to offer him an icepack afterward.
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Netflix series like Daredevil and Iron Fist all exist within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but don't interact with the films' continuity in any meaningful way.
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Given that he's still the one person capable of taking up the Iron Fist mantle, it's hard to decouple his whiteness from his elevated position.
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The artist has filled her newsfeed with gorgeous photos of the female body for months now, baring the nipple while simultaneously avoiding Instagram's iron fist.
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Mahathir is a polarizing figure and many voters are suspicious of him because of his iron-fist rule as prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
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Iron Fist has also been renewed for a second season, with no launch date set yet, while Daredevil season 3 is expected later this year.
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She couldn't just plow through the opposition like Luke Cage, nor was she particularly interested in martial arts or mysticism like Daredevil and Iron Fist.
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"Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist" have already been cancelled after two seasons, with reports that nearly two-thirds of viewers tuned out after the first.
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Netflix's Iron Fist debuts tonight at midnight, and despite the critical shellacking the series has taken over the past week, the show must go on.
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Danny Rand, specifically as we meet him in Netflix's version of Iron Fist, is the lone survivor of a plane crash that killed his parents.
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However, Luke Cage and Iron Fist have been known in the comics as best buds who occasionally team up as the "Heroes for Hire" duo.
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To be fair, Luke Cage isn't a martial artist like Daredevil or Iron Fist, so no one's expecting overly stylized fight choreography in the show.
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The Hand storyline developed in Daredevil and Iron Fist comes to fruition, and even the literal plot hole of Daredevil Season 2 gets filled up.
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This certainly isn't the last time we'll be talking about diversity issues and old stereotypes, what with Iron Fist coming out in a few months.
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Iron Fist, a story about a white billionaire martial artist with mystical abilities, can't hope to wrestle with similar themes, and that's a big problem.
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Either way, the stage now seems set for the exit of Kabila, who has ruled the resource-rich nation with an iron fist since 19973.
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After three decades of iron-fist rule, Mobutu was overthrown in 1997 by rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who was assassinated nearly four years later.
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Tensions between the two countries go back over 100 years to 7.23, when Japan occupied the Korean Peninsula and ruled it with an iron fist.
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She ruled the caucus with an iron fist, making certain that none of her members opted for some kind of bipartisan deal contravening her approach.
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It's way more compelling than the show Iron Fist actually is, which is half-baked ripoff of Batman Begins, Arrow, Iron Man and Doctor Strange.
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The references they cite to each other resonate with viewers who remember how emotionally evocative those shows (with the exception of Iron Fist) could be.
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Either way, the stage now seems set for the exit of Kabila, who has ruled the resource-rich nation with an iron fist since 2001.
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Mr. Hailemariam came to power in 2012 after the death of Meles Zenawi, who had presided over the country since 1991 with an iron fist.
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Howard Cotto, head of the national police has claimed that this was due to the government's iron fist policy against the country's infamous street gangs.
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His iron-fist policies against crime gave many people a sense that security was improving, and his social programs handed out benefits to the poor.
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Largely out of sight from American intelligence, Le Duan ruled the party with an iron fist from the late 1950s until his death in 1986.
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It's even deftly faithful to the original shows' looks, going blue and steely when the action centers on Jones, white and misty for Iron Fist.
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Mr. al-Bashir ruled Sudan with an iron fist for almost three decades — a tenure marked by human rights abuses, economic decline, and entrenched corruption.
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Putin rules Russia with an iron fist to be sure, but growing public anger over dead loved ones is something even dictators can't always control.
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An investigation last month by The Young Turks identified a program called "Iron Fist," created to spy on civil rights protesters and infiltrate their ranks.
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That means that, one way or another, there will soon be a dramatic reshaping of a committee that Goodlatte has run with an iron fist.
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The FBI's OPR has a reputation for going after rank and file with an iron fist, but senior managers too often get off scott-free.
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The resident who spoke to VICE News described the militants' rule as a 'lifetime of hell' They have ruled the city with an iron fist.
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On Friday, Netflix debuted a trailer from its latest project, "The Defenders," a superhero squad that will feature Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
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According to Morgan's interview with Entertainment Weekly, Negan rules with an iron fist (or, rather, a barbed wire-covered baseball bat) for a very specific reason.
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Ironically, Luke Cage's Iron Fist crossover was one of the season's strongest episodes, and certainly the most palatable Danny Rand has ever been as a character.
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Instead, Coker picks up some books for himself—a Black Panther compilation and a new Power Man and Iron Fist—and shuffles out of the store.
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One person who's got no patience for that kind of talk is Roy Thomas, the 76-year-old creator of the Iron Fist comic book series.
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Knowing that, it's easy to imagine that same character watching Iron Fist and wondering what the hell she's watching, right along with the rest of us.
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There's plenty to dislike about Iron Fist, but I'm not here to critique its (justified) casting controversy, its wooden acting, or even its breathtakingly bad plot.
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The title of Iron Fist doesn't just make him a superhero; he's the latest in a long line of protector warriors for his stereotypical Orientalist culture.
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It's a shame, because Luke Cage has consistently been held up as one of the better shows in the franchise, while Iron Fist was widely panned.
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In the comic-book series, conceived during the Kung-Fu craze of the 2016s, Iron Fist — aka Danny Rand — was white, and has been ever since.
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But in 2015, the government reinstated a mano dura ("iron-fist") approach, warning gang members that officers could shoot them "without any fear of suffering consequences".
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Like the similarities between the criminal plots of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, this issue likely is due to the basic tropes of the source material.
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That's not to say that Marvel's Netflix shows — which encompass Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the upcoming Defenders and Punisher series — are bad.
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The first series to launch will be Jessica Jones, followed by Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Daughters of the Dragon (aka Misty Knight and Colleen Wing).
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Then Netflix, whose only-game-in-townness made it the best destination for gritty "street-level" shows like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist.
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When Marvel TV first got into business with Netflix, they announced they were making five shows: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
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It joins the likes of Daredevil, the Peabody Award-winning Jessica Jones, and the upcoming Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders on the streaming network.
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There, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist will team up to take on the supernatural threat growing under New York since Daredevil season one.
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Japan and South Korea have had tense relations since at least 1910, when Japan colonized South Korea and ruled it with an iron fist until 1945.
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Her father, Alberto K. Fujimori, ran Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000 in an effort to crush the Marxist rebel group Shining Path.
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He is not, however, universally popular at home or abroad because of alleged ties to the military, which ruled Myanmar with an iron fist until 2011.
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Marvel's newest Netflix show, The Defenders, brings together four series—Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist—into a motley palimpsest of butt-kicking misfits.
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After that dismal first season of Iron Fist made me dread another series featuring him, The Defenders actually gave me hope for Iron Fist's second season.
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He said the real head-butting was between the management on each side of the country dealing with the iron-fist-ruling "musical overlord" Don Kirshner.
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From then on, the country was under the iron fist of a military dictatorship, which repressed all democratic opposition, violated human rights, and was pervasively corrupt.
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The bigger challenge facing the show's writers was taking the Iron Fist narrative and making it both digestible and distinct, which they've utterly failed to do.
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The mediation had begun after a 2011 uprising toppled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled Yemen with an iron fist for more than three decades.
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Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for close to 40 years, died aged 95, last Friday after months of treatment in a Singapore hospital.
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Beijing has ruled Tibet with an iron fist since Chinese Communist Party troops marched into the region in 1950 in what it terms a "peaceful liberation".
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He came to power in a military coup in 1961 and ruled with an iron fist until he was assassinated by his intelligence chief in 1979.
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While police brutality and violent crackdowns were a regular occurrence during the iron-fist rule of Ben Ali, many hoped democratic progress would help eradicate these practices.
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The actor and star of Netflix's upcoming Marvel's Iron Fist can't wrap his mind around fans rejecting a white billionaire protagonist — except that now there's Donald Trump.
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Marvel and Netflix gave San Diego Comic-Con, which kicked off Thursday, its first major reveals: the trailer for Luke Cage and a teaser for Iron Fist.
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You don't need to have watched all of the preceding series to enjoy it, but if you've never watched Daredevil or Iron Fist, you might be confused.
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His defining feat is defeating Shou-Lao, an event that left him with a dragon tattoo burned into his chest and the power of the Iron Fist.
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One of the most vocal advocates in the fight to make Iron Fist an Asian man is Keith Chow, founder of the website the Nerds of Color.
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The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist from 1996 to 2001, are seeking to topple the Western-backed government in Kabul and reimpose Islamic rule.
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These moments are played as painfully earnest, when it would have served Iron Fist better to lean into the absurdity of the scenarios with a humorous edge.
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Horner said former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who ran the sport for decades with an iron fist until 2017, would have had a firmer response to that.
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General Haftar, who heads the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), rules the east with an iron fist (with backing from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates).
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It's also one of the few Netflix and Marvel original series left on the platform following cancellations of multiple shows, including Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Daredevil.
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People wanted the comics character Danny Rand, the Iron Fist, to be rewritten as an Asian guy to push back against the original comics' white-savior overtones.
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Netflix's Iron Fist will soon join the ranks of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage — and if the official trailer is any indication, they're in good company.
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Iron Fist sets the stage for Marvel's The Defenders miniseries on Netflix, bringing in the last hero on the team alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.
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I'm all for martial arts battles replacing the endless explosions and gun fights we see in every action sequence nowadays, so here's hoping Iron Fist can deliver.
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An "iron fist in a velvet glove" strategy will significantly degrade Boko Haram's ability to carry out mass-casualty terrorist attacks, but it will not guarantee harmony.
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After decades of a dictator controlling the media with an iron fist, it was the first time that someone so brazenly questioned the authority of President Mubarak.
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Beijing sent troops into remote, mountainous Tibet in 1950 in what it officially terms a peaceful liberation and has ruled there with an iron fist ever since.
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But instead of dedicating his life to outsmarting the cops and ruling the underground narcotics trade with an iron fist, Gose decided to plead guilty in April.
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As his follow-up to Iron Fist, Jones will appear in the upcoming Defenders series, slated to debut later this year (no date has been announced yet).
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But even if Marvel did that, and even if it managed to perfect the depictions of Asian people on this show, Iron Fist would still be awful.
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An unpopular president has put down protests with an iron fist, leaving more than 100 dead on the streets of Caracas last year among police and protesters.
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" Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell) bolted from the Sept of Baelor to get back into fighting shape as the lead of the since-canceled Netflix series "Iron Fist.
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Qassim Suleimani, the commander of Iran's elite security forces and the iron fist of the Islamic republic's theocratic ideology, Trump tossed that grenade at the Middle East.
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Here's an evergreen gif I made for just such occasions: And another: Here's Daredevil cathartically punching Iron Fist the way I punched the wall next to my desk!
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Marvel completists will no doubt feel compelled to check "Iron Fist" out, but the show plays like a relatively weak cog in its otherwise pretty well-oiled machinery.
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Habré ruled with an iron fist from the start, executing prisoners of war and political opponents, and enforcing a violent crackdown on civilians suspected of being opposition sympathizers.
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She tries to tell him that the war he's been fighting against The Hand is over, but he reminds her that Iron Fist can still stop The Hand.
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But though the Iron Fist viewers met in the eponymous show was a failure of imagination, The Defenders series itself improves upon Danny Rand in a real way.
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The Defenders puts Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist into a superhero supergroup for an eight-episode series that's pretty much bound to be a hit.
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Just a week after it announced that Iron Fist wouldn't return for a third season, Marvel has revealed that another of its Netflix shows won't continue: Luke Cage.
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In the case of Iron Fist, Deadline speculated that the series might migrate over to Disney's forthcoming streaming service alongside planned shows about Loki and the Scarlet Witch.
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But first, Iron Fist is hitting your small screen (and presumably lots of bad guys) on March 17, when all episodes will be available on Netflix for streaming.
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The series tells the story of a chosen family trying to make space for themselves while an all-powerful empire grips the solar system in an iron fist.
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When the news dropped that Finn Jones would reprise his role as Danny Rand, A.K.A Iron Fist in Luke Cage Season 2, the internet was less than enthused.
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With the cancellations of Luke Cage and Iron Fist, this leaves Jessica Jones, Punisher, and Daredevil as Netflix's Marvel shows for when we need our superhero binge fix.
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After cutting his teeth on Dawson's Creek, Berlanti essentially rules the CW with an iron fist, while creating other projects you're obsessed with all over the television map.
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The bad ass with the iron fist is Amanda Hogan -- a defensive back for the Omaha Heart who just got burned for a TD by the Pittsburgh Rebellion.
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Haron is just one of the many critics who think that by casting a white lead, Iron Fist is propagating stereotypical orientalism and the problematic white savior narrative.
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Until being stripped of the title in answer to his increasingly destructive behavior in October of 2015, Jones ruled the UFC light heavyweight division with an iron fist.
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Castro, who ruled Cuba with an iron fist for five decades, created a spy apparatus whose outsized impact has extended far from the shores of the Caribbean country.
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In reality Kim, a third-generation hereditary leader, rules North Korea with an iron-fist and the title change will mean little to the way he wheels power.
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After the 24-year-old was cast in another big series, playing Colleen Wing on Netflix's Marvel's Iron Fist, she thought she would have to bid GOT adieu.
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This first teaser doesn't have even a second of footage of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, or Iron Fist, but it sets a vibe that feels just right.
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Karimov, who had run the resource-rich former Soviet republic of 32 million people with an iron fist since 1989, died from a stroke in September, aged 78.
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In reality Kim, a third-generation hereditary leader, rules North Korea with an iron-fist and the title change will mean little to the way he wields power.
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Iron Fist is an important reminder that we're at the point where superheroes stories have to do more than just hit the same beats over and over again.
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Despite Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's extremist roots, residents of Idlib said that the group so far did not appear interested in running the province with an iron fist.
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Taking over from Suharto, who had ruled the world's most populous Muslim majority country with an iron fist for 32 years, Habibie held power for just 17 months.
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The Kim clan has ruled North Korea with an iron fist for decades, imprisoning and executing thousands and running brutal "re-education" camps for dissidents and their families.
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Thousands of miles away in the Maldives, Yameen, long criticized for running his Muslim majority nation with an iron fist, rejected a surprise Supreme Court decision on Feb.
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Mugabe, who was 230, ruled the country with an iron fist for more than three decades before getting pushed out of power two years ago in a coup.
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The training was carried out as part of the latest iteration of Iron Fist, an exercise that involves various training evolutions leading up to a large amphibious assault.Cpl.
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But his latest work, and the one most relevant to Inhumans, is a bit questionable: Buck was the showrunner on the critically panned Marvel Netflix show Iron Fist.
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Henwick told Entertainment Weekly that she was busy in New York filming Netflix's "Iron Fist" when she got a call from both showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
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In this new episode, Henry Michel dreams up the eventful daily lives of special agents from the Taste Police, who protect France's culinary heritage with an iron fist.
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Iron Fist himself sticks out like a sore thumb in The Defenders, petulant and self-important but inexplicably the hill upon which they are expected to fight and die.
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They have largely ignored Obama's paper tiger rhetoric, but Trump's iron fist may well be what will compel them to get in line and relinquish their illegitimate power. Why?
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Aside from Iron Fist, their greatest enemy is the Chaste, although it's a shame they're not called something like "Steel Boot" to fit the theme we've got going here.
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Vulture has an interview with the actor, who outlines the possibilities of playing Iron Fist — a character who is defined by being an outsider — in a particularly heartbreaking way.
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That said, the racial politics that have troubled comics fans since before the show was even cast continue to be pain points for Iron Fist in its back half.
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The main argument is simple: Netflix's Iron Fist should be played by an Asian or Asian-American actor because the character's story is an Asian or Asian-American one.
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Claire has helped bandage the superheroes up more times than we can count, and Colleen didn't need any help from Iron Fist (Finn Jones) while decapitating Bakuto (Ramón Rodríguez).
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It didn't have any major hits during the last quarter of 2016, releasing titles like Iron Fist, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and a standup special from Dave Chappelle.
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This trailer is mostly about Sigourney Weaver lecturing heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist on why their attempt to band together to oppose her are misguided.
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St-Pierre might have impressed us all against Bisping but it was clear that he wasn't quite the fighter who ruled over the welterweight division with an iron fist.
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Mitterrand, who exercised iron-fist control over his party and government, finished his first term in 20073 with high popularity ratings thanks to landmark policies that pleased his voters.
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Iron Fist comes to Netflix on March 17, 2017, unleashing the final of four street-fighting superhero stories that will tie together in the super-team miniseries, The Defenders.
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If you carefully watch the smoke billowing out of the brazier in the release announcement above, you can just make out a peek at the trademark Iron Fist symbol.
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Marvel's Iron Fist: Season 2: NETFLIX ORIGINAL With the defeat of the Hand, Chinatown is left vulnerable to turf wars, and Danny must protect the streets of New York.
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But it has just as much crap—Iron Fist, Disjointed, Fuller House—along with a host of shows no one has heard of, like Between and Haters Back Off.
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He later said he feared Nicaragua was going down the same path as Venezuela and hoped it could be persuaded to stop responding to protests with "an iron fist".
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He ruled the country with an iron fist for almost four decades and is the only leader the nation has known since it achieved independence from Britain in 1980.
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The rap star broke it down for us out in Beverly Hills ... telling TMZ Sports he wouldn't wanna blow his bankroll when the league rules with an iron fist.
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It's clear that updating the Iron Fist story and its bugs for 703 has been difficult, and perhaps choosing this specific hero in the first place now seems questionable.
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It all comes back to one fundamental question: What did Netflix and Marvel see in Iron Fist to think it could break away from the many stories like it?
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If Kelly entered the West Wing with an iron fist, one official in the West Wing noted, Shine has taken the opposite approach, quietly observing the power structure first.
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"To handle this serious emergency of the detention centers, you need the iron fist of an Extraordinary Commissioner who brings back order and respect for the law," he tweeted.
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The attack was seen as a rebuff to Mr. Xi, who had just left the city and vowed to wield an "iron fist" against Uighurs who oppose Chinese rule.
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Mr. Fujimori then proceeded to rule with an iron fist, dismantling courts, staffing institutions with loyalists and committing gross human rights violations in his quest to stamp out dissent.
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The gist of the criticism is that with the mustache, Harris resembles the reviled Japanese leaders who ruled the Korean Peninsula with an iron fist during the Japanese occupation.
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For the first time in more than a century, the world has chosen to confront a new and terrifying virus with the iron fist instead of the latex glove.
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For the first time in more than a century, the world has chosen to confront a new and terrifying virus with the iron fist instead of the latex glove.
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"Strike them with an iron fist, make them taste the hell of your fires," the National Army, the main Turkey-backed rebel force, told its fighters in a statement.
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"Strike them with an iron fist, make them taste the hell of your fires," a statement from the National Army, the main Turkey-backed rebel force told its fighters.
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Creatively speaking, Marvel's Netflix shows -- among them "Iron Fist" and "The Punisher" -- also fell well short of Marvel's top tier, even if it's difficult to quantify their commercial performance.
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Iran, one of the countries most strongly identified with the rise cyber terrorism and malicious hacking, appears now to be using an iron fist to turn on its own.
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Amer's exhibition at Cheim & Read, featuring images of nude female figures made all the more seductive by her choice of materials, is an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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That bout, in which Umehara won a stunning come-from-behind victory against Wong at the Evolution Championship Series 2004, is considered iconic by people in the fighting-game community to this day: And given how much overlap there is between comics culture and the fighting-game community, seeing the two do battle with, say, Iron Fist facing Ryu is an easy way to promote a show about Iron Fist fighting evil ninjas.
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On the heels of the streaming giant facing charges of "whitewashing" by casting a white actor to play a martial arts expert in "Iron Fist," a new controversy has emerged.
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The Iron Fist/Luke Cage alliance strengthened both characters in a way that The Defenders should have – indeed, in a way that Defenders did strengthen Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock.
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The news comes days after Netflix announced the double cancellation of both Jessica Jones and The Punisher, on the heels of its axing of Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Daredevil.
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Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years, was forced from office in 1998 as the world's fourth most populous nation descended into economic and social chaos.
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Moreover, it's a heavily Asian-influenced film that actually stars a part-Asian lead (Reeves), which is more than we can say for Ghost in the Shell or Iron Fist.
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Where early Daredevil episodes used her as a plot device — a love interest turned into a damsel in need of rescuing — Iron Fist sees her learning how to fight back.
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Much has been said about the casting problems in Iron Fist, a show centered around the trope of a Western white man adapting the practices of a mystical Eastern society.
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Since Iron Fist mainly focuses on Danny getting his company back from an enemy he's not prepared to fight yet, it only features about six episodes of story that matters.
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Based on the other three's conversations, it sounds like they want Danny because they want to return "home" to K'un-Lun, but they can't do so without an Iron Fist.
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The fundamental thing to understand about Iron Fist is that he's a conceptually flawed character; his origin story presents him as both a "white savior" and a "best Asian" figure.
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The Trinamool Congress of West Bengal, a state ruled with an iron fist by the party's founder, Mamata Banerjee, is based on an insubstantial mix of populism and Bengali pride.
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Netflix recently released new images of Iron Fist, its forthcoming series set in Marvel's Cinematic Universe, which leads up to its forthcoming superhero team-up season Defenders later this year.
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That isn't inherently bad — the shows in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are linked, giving Iron Fist a chance to build on the Hand's established mythology and explore how it works.
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" The loss of Daredevil has apparently taught Danny to appreciate New York the way Matt does, because the Immortal Iron Fist confides to Colleen, "it's starting to feel like home.
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I had interviewed Finn Jones, who discussed taking on projects like Iron Fist and Game of Thrones with such a die-hard fan base, and how he enjoyed that challenge.
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Iron Fist is still a mess of comic book and kung fu clichés, but the later episodes of the second season show its potential to actually tell a good story.
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The studio is trying the same thing with its television series: the heroes of "Daredevil", "Jessica Jones", "Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist" teamed up as "The Defenders" earlier this year.
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It's unclear if Luke Cage, Daredevil, or Iron Fist will continue on Disney's upcoming stand-alone streaming service, but Marvel Entertainment has confirmed Daredevil's journey will continue in some capacity.
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Under Islam Karimov, Mr Mirziyoyev's predecessor, who died in 2016 after ruling with an iron fist for a quarter of a century, Mr Inoyatov acquired powers far beyond his brief.
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The demonstration in Manila was held to protest the decision to re-inter Marcos, the dictator who ruled the Philippines with an iron fist for two-and-a-half decades.
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The Israeli company Rafael's Trophy system used by the Israel Defense Forces is being adapted for the Abrams and the Iron Fist from the Israeli IMI Systems for the Bradley.
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"Don't these people have something better to do than to worry about the fact that Iron Fist isn't Oriental, or whatever word," Thomas said in a recent interview with Inverse.
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Iron Fist arrives in a deep hole amid concerns about its curly-haired, blonde protagonist appropriating Asian culture, but the bigger problem ends up being that he's barely even appropriating.
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On Tuesday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews even tweeted his prediction on where Sydney is headed next, if its public spaces and people continue to be governed with an iron fist.
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Marvel's Netflix series is speeding toward its own supergroup "Avengers" moment with The Defenders, but before that, we'll get one or two more standalone series — Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
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Often such works are grossly overwritten (Enver Hoxha's memoirs ran to thirty volumes) and/or plainly incomprehensible—but when you rule with an iron fist, who dares to edit you?
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This is the lesson of The Infernal Library: Words change their meaning when they're published in a landscape of authoritarian control, when the pen is wielded by an iron fist.
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Controlling him feels like the only solution to avoiding heartbreak, just like ruling my mind with an iron fist seemed like the only way to make it through each day.
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Internal emails obtained by The Hill showed that the Trump transition team set up security due to fears that Pruitt's anticipated iron fist against EPA regulations could generate public ire.
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Indeed, given the Chinese Communist Party's general preference for the iron fist over the velvet glove in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, more oppressive security measures are likely.
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Mirziyoyev, 59, was prime minister from 2003 under Karimov, who died of a stroke in September having run Central Asia's most populous nation with an iron fist for 27 years.
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" The Tony Award winner — who recently played former President Clinton in Broadway's "Hillary and Clinton" — goes on: "The perp, Jeffrey Epstein, deserved to be crushed By Justice's ruthless iron fist.
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Reports increasingly indicate Snap is a tough place to work, ruled by CEO Evan Spiegel with an iron fist, and run by his inner circle even when they lack experience.
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Game of Thrones star Ricard Madden (Robb Stark, RIP) stars in Medici: Masters of Florence, while his castmate Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell, also RIP) leads the Marvel show Iron Fist.
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With Washington's help, a more peaceful Colombia was able to make a dramatic transition from iron fist to velvet glove and turn a near-failed state into a success story.
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He has ruled the Communist Party with an iron fist and has since his ascension to the presidency in 2012 purged dozens of officials in a nationwide "anti-corruption" drive.
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At its best in the comic books, the Iron Fist narrative is about the family Rand builds, the legacy of Iron Fists before him, and the destiny he can't evade.
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Diving into her chest voice, but not milking it or pushing too hard, her tone stayed round, warm and not all that loud, an iron fist in a cashmere glove.
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Readers of this column know that I fervently support gay marriage, but I don't think bakers like Jack Phillips are best brought along by the iron fist of the state.
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And when the battle begins, Black Panther comes face to face with a juiced-up Skrull who flashes various superpowers (Wolverine's claws, Luke Cage's unbreakable skin, Danny Rand's Iron Fist).
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Mr. Maduro's response has been to assail spreading street protests with an iron fist and to erode the power of the National Assembly, in which his opponents have a majority.
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Over the past month, the Marines at Camp Pendleton in California have been training with their Japanese partners to execute an amphibious assault in the latest iteration of Iron Fist.
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In the half-priced back issues I found a "Power Man and Iron Fist" issue that featured a Rom Spaceknight guest appearance, which I had somehow missed in the 1980s.
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After IS captured Palmyra last May, it ruled the city — a world heritage site and desert oasis known for its Roman-era temples, colonnades, and theatres — with an iron fist.
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But fans understood the reference to Luke's comic book roots as one half of the Heroes for Hire, the two-man beatdown crew staffed by Iron Fist and Luke Cage himself.
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Ritter's pregnancy news came days after Netflix announced the double cancellation of both Jessica Jones and The Punisher, on the heels of its axing of Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Daredevil.
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Growing up in Florida, Lemonis says his family ruled with an "iron fist" in terms of making sure he learned the value of a solid work ethic at a young age.
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Sixty years after China brutally squashed the Tibetan uprising against the Communist Party, it's still ruling with an iron fist, making Tibet one of the least free regions in the world.
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Here today with an object lesson in that idea is Netflix's latest teaser for Iron Fist Season 2, which also confirms (again) that the Marvel series will return on Sept. 7.
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Iron Fist, created by Dexter writer Scott Buck, follows Danny Rand (Finn Jones), a Buddhist monk and martial arts master who vanished in a plane crash when he was a boy.
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Netflix's last Marvel series focused on a member of supergroup The Defenders is here, and it gives us our first extended look at the world of Danny Rand, aka Iron Fist.
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It follows billionaire Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who reappears after vanishing fifteen years ago, who trained as a monk to become a martial arts master known as the Immortal Iron Fist.
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It'll have a look at its upcoming series Black Summer (a tie-in to SYFY's Z Nation), Marvel's Iron Fist, Voltron Legendary Defender, and Matt Groening's new animated fantasy show Disenchantment.
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In case you're unaware, The Defenders is a miniseries that's meant to tie together the heroes of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist in an Avengers-like super team.
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At the time, she was filming Marvel's Iron Fist in New York and wasn't sure she would be able to get time away to film her scenes for Game Of Thrones.
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The group rules the desperately poor population of approximately 1.9 million people — 1.3 million of whom are refugees displaced during the establishment of the state of Israel — with an iron fist.
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I don't claim to be a comic-book fan and will admit that I had never heard of Iron Fist before I knew it was coming to Netflix as a series.
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The Verdict: Marvel's Iron Fist starts off sluggishly, seeming far more like a soap opera than a superhero series, complete with bland, pretty, rich people sneering and scheming over family fortunes.
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This might have worked if Danny returned home to a slick, fast-paced setting like The Good Wife or Dirty Sexy Money, but Iron Fist doesn't have that kind of energy.
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In the latter years of rebel-leader-turned PM Meles Zenawi, who ruled with an iron fist until his death in 2012, even ministers didn't dare make decisions without his blessing.
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With the second season of Netflix's Daredevil having debuted last month, the company is also looking ahead to Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the Agents of SHIELD spinoff Marvel's Most Wanted.
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Francisco Flores, El Salvador's president in the early 2000s, responded with a "mano dura" (iron fist), locking up thousands of gangsters, separately by gang, which increased the prison population by half.
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This is one idealized vision for the future of Willie Cauley-Stein, ruling his kingdom—a rectangular one, painted in a rich and regal shade of purple—with an iron fist.
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The 13-episode Iron Fist will also star Jessica Henwick (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King), and Jessica Stroup (The Following).
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Pakistan uses an iron fist against those that attack or merely criticize the state, from the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) to the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, which demands more rights for ethnic Pashtuns.
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Marvel's small-screen answer to The Avengers — featuring Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist on a single team — is one of the most hotly anticipated shows of the year.
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Joseph Dunford noted in a recent speech, only 6 percent of the Chinese people belong to the Communist Party, but they rule with an iron fist over the other 94 percent.
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Lukashenko has governed the former Soviet republic with an iron fist for a quarter of a century and he announced on Sunday he would stand again in the 2020 presidential election.
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Mr. Abbas, duly provoked, responded with an iron fist: He refused to pay Gaza's electricity bills, so Israel cut power to four hours a day in what became an infernal summer.
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The 93-year-old ruled the country with an iron fist for 37 years and was the only leader the nation has known since it achieved independence from Britain in 1980.
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Across the bottom of the Bulletin page are a selection of covers for five previous issues, with one each corresponding to Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
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President Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years, was forced from office in 1998 as the world's fourth most populous nation descended into economic and social chaos.
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All the Defenders are together, so the lighting and production designers get to go nuts with all their colors: Daredevil red, Luke Cage yellow, Jessica Jones purple, and Iron Fist green.
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During a recent visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton for exercise Iron Fist, Insider had the opportunity to observe and learn how 60 mm mortar teams get rounds down range.
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"Women were subject to violence when they had no power, but those who did have power by virtue of royal blood or marriage could rule with an iron fist," Fouracre explains.
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Professor Martín Íñiguez of the department of Latin American studies at Iberoamericana University in Mexico, said that the government's "iron fist" approach will almost certainly fuel more violence over coming months.
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Benedetto Della Vedova, a junior foreign minister in Rome, dismissed this, saying the offer was couched in a "velvet glove of Europeanism" but bore the "scent of the ethno-nationalist iron fist".
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In the black-and-white, 17-second teaser, Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Danny Rand (Finn Jones), aka Iron Fist, are in an elevator together.
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Now if something is really racist or degrading to a sex or race, an ethnic group or something like that, that's something else, but Iron Fist isn't that and never has been.
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But Iron Fist seems more concerned with the Hand as an idea to build on before The Defenders debuts, instead of as a menace Danny must fight hard to defeat right now.
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One of my favorite Iron Fist arcs is from writer Matt Fraction and main artist David Aja, which ran from 2007 to 2008 and featured a more human iteration of the character.
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It can also serve to dull the pain some fans may feel at the loss of the Netflix-licensed characters like Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist (somebody liked it), and Jessica Jones.
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The show appears to have a government conspiracy and thriller feel, which should set it apart from the rest of Marvel's Netflixverse: Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
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Vowing that the government would "not negotiate with criminals", Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who took office as the country's president in June 2014, introduced a mano dura (iron-fist) policy towards the gangs.
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Since then, he's been allowed to rule the region with an iron fist and given political and financial support from Putin in exchange for cracking down on Islamic militants in the Caucasus.
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But the trailer still shows a decent helping of action via a hallway fight scene, a brief clip of Elektra and Luke Cage putting Danny Rand, aka Iron Fist, on the ground.
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After the government announced a mano dura (iron-fist) policy, the number of alleged gang members shot by police and soldiers rose 2262-fold, from 22009 in 21.9 to 22000 in 212.
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As a result, Danny Rand became the Immortal Iron Fist, while Davos took on the name Steel Serpent and was obsessed with reclaiming the powers that he felt should have been his.
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That truce was followed by a brief but important drop in the murder rate that was reversed once the ceasefire broke down and the government intensified its so-called "iron fist" policies.
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The same goes for the Netflix series Iron Fist, Tilda Swinton's recent turn in Doctor Strange, Matt Damon's recent turn in The Great Wall, and Emma Stone's part-Hawaiian character in Aloha.
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The bar's infamous original owner, "Crazy Sarah," ruled over this place with an iron fist, unafraid to roar at customers like Willie Nelson when they failed to bring their empty bottles downstairs.
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Berdymukhamedov, 59, has run the former Soviet republic of five million people with an iron fist for a decade after succeeding equally autocratic president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov, who died in 2006.
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The event series promises to be an Avengers-esque crossover featuring Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, all facing a mystical evil that threatens to swallow New York City whole.
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Hun Sen, who has ruled with an iron fist for more than 30 years, said that any cut in aid would only affect foreign-paid non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, not him.
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Internal emails obtained by The Hill showed that the Trump transition team set up the heightened security due to fears that Pruitt's anticipated iron fist against EPA regulations could generate public ire.
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No one is buying their progressive, globalist bullshit anymore, so it must be force-fed down the throats of users and dissent must be stamped out with the iron fist of censorship.
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Whenever Cage shows up, The Defenders gets a break from the tense-neck aggression of Iron Fist (the first time Cage walks on screen, it's to the strains of Mos Def's "Sunshine").
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But after toppling the brutal leader, who had ruled with an iron fist since 1989, the military maintained its grip on power, despite massive protests calling for a handover to civilian rule.
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So while I wouldn't necessarily mind another Defenders series, I'd be devastated if we didn't get to see how what happened in The Defenders affects each of its heroes — even Iron Fist.
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From the six episodes I've seen so far (Vox will post a review of the full season this weekend), Iron Fist represents a life-threatening malaise to the superhero genre: terminal boredom.
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On Friday, Marvel and Netflix unleashed 13 episodes of the first season of Iron Fist upon the world — and it is the single worst thing the superhero television factory has ever created.
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Thankfully, Netflix's Iron Fist tones down the '70s-era stereotypes — though any writer working in television in 2017 should be able to recognize the comics' racial hangups, so that's not saying much.
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Check out the trailer above and watch all your favorite Marvel heroes—plus, I guess, Iron Fist—trade moody quips before bashing on some bad guys while Nirvana plays in the background.
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All we have to do is look at El Salvador, where a series of failed iron fist campaigns that combined police crackdowns with a lack of social alternatives served to increase violence.
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Ad sales declined and programming costs increased, but the sale of "Iron Fist" to Netflix and the syndication of "How to Get Away With Murder" reruns more than made up the slack.
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Insider recently had the chance to observe Marines and their Japanese partners going through assault climbing training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California during the latest iteration of Iron Fist.
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Keith Chow, the editor in chief of The Nerds of Color, argued that an Asian-American Danny Rand would have made sense for "Iron Fist," both from a casting and story standpoint.
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Of course, seeing Bailey return to being the tough, but lovable boss that rules Grey Sloan with an iron fist just in time for the midseason finale can't possibly be a coincidence.
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Welcome to the 63st Emmys, where Sandra Oh could make Lead Actress history, Veep is taking its last swing at bat, and Game of Thrones stands to rule with an iron fist.
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Iron Fist, than it does when a black man like Luke performs acts of heroism, and Luke Cage doesn't let the public off the hook or give it the benefit of the doubt.
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Iron Fist remains an outlier; many were so put off by the premise and its problematic whitewashing that they didn't even bother, or couldn't get on board with the character even after trying.
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The NCAA is a vehicle for that exploitation, and it requires ruling with an iron fist so that no money is unnecessarily transferred from the (mostly white) administrators to the (mostly black) athletes.
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Known by direct reports in Italy as "il Dottore" and by his U.S. lieutenants as "The Boss", Marchionne ran the executive team with an iron fist, people who work closely with him say.
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Fellow Defender Iron Fist-slash-Danny Rand (Finn Jones) is also directly invested, since The Hand destroyed K'un-Lun, the mystical city where Danny learned Kung-Fu, which he was sworn to protect.
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Brigadier-General Esmail Kowsari, the Revolutionary Guards' deputy security chief in Tehran, said the situation in the capital was under control and warned protesters would face "the nation's iron fist" if unrest persisted.
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The streaming service just pulled the plug on the Marvel show Iron Fist after two seasons, and Everything Sucks after one—and comedian Michelle Wolf's talk show The Break after only 10 episodes.
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Kim, who was known in his country as "The Great Leader", ruled North Korea from 1994-2011 with an iron fist and was responsible for countless human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said.
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"He runs Scientology with an iron fist," writes the elder Miscavige, a musician and businessman who introduced David to the religion in the late '22013s, in Ruthless, published today by St. Martin's Press.
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Unless you set out to rule the world with an iron fist, chances are you're spending the early game laying the foundation for a game that's more a race than a boxing match.
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So when Iron Fist finally hit Netflix this morning after months of loud buzz – some of it good, most of it bad – I fired up my television to give the show a go.
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Iron Fist is a martial arts expert who masters the power of the technique which is his namesake, which as you might imagine results in his being able to punch things really hard.
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The panel, moderated by Eliana Dockterman from Time magazine also featured Jessica Henwick from Marvel's Iron Fist, Kate del Castillo from Ingobernable, Gillian Jacobs from Love, and Logan Browning from Dear White People.
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Marvel's latest Netflix show, Iron Fist, has provoked enough arguments over its premise — white Western man becomes the world's greatest Eastern mystic — that star Finn Jones wound up quitting Twitter after engaging them.
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He ruled over the small nation with an iron fist, imposing a one-party system for years and only allowing multi-party rule in 1991, though his party retained its grip on government.
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The deep animosity between the two countries has reignited decades of mistrust between them, which began when Japan occupied the Korean Peninsula and ruled it with an iron fist from 1910 to 1945.
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Until then, though, "The Punisher" drifts along at an uneven, at-times sluggish pace, which has been an issue with the lesser lights ("Iron Fist" comes to mind) in the Marvel-Netflix collaboration.
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And not for some bullshit abstract reason like "proving worthy of the Iron Fist," but because he realizes it's up to him to pull himself back out of the pit he's gotten into.
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I won't presume to know what was going on in their heads as they put Iron Fist together, but it kinda feels like they enjoyed writing Ward more than they enjoyed writing Danny.
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Marvel's Iron Fist Netflix series will have to be written in a way that corrects the Orientalist fever dream feel that's present in the source material, to update the story for 2016 audiences.
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But it's not all a fairy tale; the ruthless Red Cargo (Nonso Anozie, from "Game of Thrones") rules the island with an iron fist, and machine gun-slinging men patrol his factory floors.
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Neither Tom Pelphrey nor Jessica Stroup have been announced as part of the Defenders cast, and the ending of Iron Fist Season 1 gave us no reason to believe they'd return so quickly.
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The franchise combines the main characters of four previous Netflix series — Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter) and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) — into a super crime-fighting team.
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Both sides deny it, but privately lawmakers around him conceded that they were wary of comparisons to Mr. Schiff, who oversaw hearings in the Intelligence Committee with an iron fist and tight lips.
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Rivalries between ethnic groups — once repressed by a state with an iron fist — have exploded into the open, and the United Nations says 2.4 million Ethiopians are currently displaced due to these conflicts.
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But now it's 2018, and Iron Fist is back in business with a new showrunner, Raven Metzner (Sleepy Hollow), raising the question of whether the series could revive itself as something worth watching.
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Marvel's big plan with its Netflix shows (those existing and those in production) — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist — is to eventually connect them all with a Defenders team-up series.
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The company also announced premiere dates for Season 5 of "Orange Is the New Black" (June 9), "Bill Nye Saves the World" (April 21), and revealed a new sneak peek at "Marvel's Iron Fist."
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As they walked in, they were greeted by an imposing stained glass window with an image of Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist from 1924 until his death in 1954.
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If they wanted to kill off white Iron Fist and come up with one who wasn't Caucasian, that wouldn't have bothered me, but neither am I ashamed for having made up one who was.
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A boy named Danny Rand is adopted into a mystical Asian city called K'un-Lun, where he acquires the power of the Iron Fist, martial arts skills, and his sense of right and wrong.
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Now, he's trying his hand at space opera, following inventor Vivian Liao who is catapulted into the distant future, where the world is ruled under the iron fist of an ancient and powerful Empress.
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On Wednesday, Marvel and Netflix dropped the first trailer for The Defenders, the Avengers-like team-up project that brings together the four Netflix properties of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist.
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Unfortunately, when people didn't follow Negan's exact orders (and started dying because of it), he lost all of his chill and chose to rule with an iron fist — or, rather, a barbwire-covered bat.
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I was born in Iran before its 1979 revolution, when it was a secular country with a modern constitution and equal access to the law, but ruled by a dictator with an iron fist.
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The first thing that happened when I sat down to watch Iron Fist was I discovered that Enter the Dragon was playing on HBO (or Cinemax, or one of those other premium cable channels).
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I was told Iron Fist would be a superhero show about Loras Tyrell having magical martial arts powers, but so far it's looking like the story of a nice family and their terrifying stalker.
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All of Marvel's Netflix programming so far have been great (Jessica Jones is still the highlight for me), so there's good reason to have high hopes for Iron Fist, and for The Defenders, too.
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On the heels of backlash about Scarlett Johansson's role in Ghost in the Shell and its very own Iron Fist, Netflix was keenly aware that it was treading on thin ice with this movie.
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Iron Fist will be its fourth show developed in partnership with the comic creators, telling the story of Danny Rand, martial artist and wielder of a mystical force that lets him punch through walls.
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This, in turn, would increase inflation and put new pressure on Mr. Sisi, who has responded to criticism with an iron fist this year, silencing critics and street protests through mass arrests and convictions.
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"The law will be strictly enforced on the culprit who did this criminal act and will hit with an iron fist anyone who tries to harm state of law," government spokesman Mohammad Momani said.
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Critic Score: 39%Audience Score: 73%"Iron Fist" followed billionaire Daniel Rand, played by Finn Jones, as he comes back to New York after training to be able to fight wrongdoers and stop crime.
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The establishment's late owner, Crazy Sarah, used to run things around here with an iron fist, but it's one of the greatest places to learn how to be Texan, even if you ain't one.
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Now, as a person who has the capability—who has proven himself—I can approach the production of songs like I approached the score for my own film, The Man with the Iron Fist.
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When Iron Fist was announced, before Jones had even been cast, fans asked Marvel to cast an Asian or Asian-American actor to play the title character, who was white in the original comic.
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In a country with 18 religious groups, all of which are represented in parliament, where sectarian divides are (usually) put aside in order to govern, ruling with an iron fist is not an option.
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The reason I was called an anti-white racist was that I tried to explain why Asian-American comic book fans were upset that Marvel's Iron Fist is going to be a white man.
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"It can get rough," 2nd Lt. Nicholas Pierret, the officer in charge on an AAV live-fire range, told Insider during a recent visit to Camp Pendleton for the latest iteration of Iron Fist.
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The city was quiet overnight after hundreds of Gambians celebrated Barrow's swearing in and the subsequent ECOWAS advance into their country - a popular destination for European tourists that Jammeh has ruled with an iron fist.
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Super religious, super constrictive, Carrie is forced to sew her own clothes in patterns that she hates, left horribly uninformed about things like her own body, and generally kept home under her mother's iron fist.
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There are ripples from villains of Daredevil and Iron Fist, but what you need to know is that this is a high-risk alliance banking on the off-chance four reluctant misfits will band together.
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Under their care, he's become a martial arts expert imbued with the power of the Iron Fist – an ancient mystical force that usually manifests on the show in the form of Danny's glowing, superpowered fist.
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The arrest came a week after a judge revoked a pardon for Keiko's father, a rightwing populist who ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990-2000 and was later imprisoned for human rights crimes.
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While it may have gotten lost in the hype surrounding Marvel's new series, Badlands, which returned for its second season last weekend, delivers on the core promise that Iron Fist fails to live up to.
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Fujimori, who remained in a hospital with blood pressure and heart problems on Thursday, governed Peru with an iron fist from 1990-2000 after being swept to power by a populist wave in 1990 elections.
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The series is essentially the Avengers of the streaming service's Marvel Universe, finally bringing together the four heroes of its already-established comic book adaptations: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and the newbie, Iron Fist.
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Deadline says that while it isn't likely that the entire Marvel / Netflix shared universe will migrate over to Disney's soon-to-come streaming platform, it's possible that that Iron Fist might make the jump over.
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It offered entertainment junkies a smorgasbord of trailers and teasers of upcoming projects, including Netflix's highly-anticipated "Iron Fist," series (a Marvel property), Dreamworks' Trollhunters (another Netflix original), and the "Planet of the Apes" reboot.
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Alan Moore pioneered this approach with his run on Saga of the Swamp Thing from 1984-87, and Matt Fraction successfully reinvigorated the characters Iron Fist (2006-09) and Hawkeye (2012-15) using this method.
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From the looks of the trailer, it seems like Iron Fist will stay relatively grounded in the world of corporate takeovers and family dynamics, since there's no super-powered villain to be seen (just yet).
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Ruled with an iron fist for more than two decades by former Communist Party boss Islam Karimov, who died last year, Uzbekistan has long said its tough religion policy is justified by national security concerns.
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Yet the central role went to white actor, Finn Jones, to the dismay of some viewers who wanted to see Tan in the part even though the character in the comic "Iron Fist" isn't Asian.
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The networks were run with an iron fist by Mr. Ailes, the founding chairman and a former Republican strategist, who established the channels as a lucrative profit center and an influential voice in conservative politics.
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Having seen all 13 episodes of the first season, though, I'm here to let you in on a little secret: Danny Rand may be Iron Fist, but Ward Meachum is the show's real secret weapon.
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But even if not, we'll always have this, quite possibly the single greatest gif to come out of Netflix's Defenders universe: Is it too easy to caption this with "literally us while watching Iron Fist"?
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In a statement on Tuesday commemorating the eve of the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of Ramadan, King Salman said the kingdom would strike "with an iron fist" anyone who misled Saudi youth.
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Karimova-Tillyaeva first announced her plans to resign last August, roughly a year after the death of her father who had run the ex-Soviet Central Asian nation with an iron fist for 27 years.
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What's currently drawing so much attention to the character is Marvel's upcoming Iron Fist Netflix series, particularly because Marvel and Netflix have done such a great job of bringing Jessica Jones and Daredevil to life.
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But unlike Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, Castle is much more violent and exponentially more ruthless when it comes to stamping out evil from his home turf in New York's Hell's Kitchen.
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He also ran the nation with an iron fist, and among his victims was his charismatic protégé, deputy and presumed heir, Anwar Ibrahim, who was imprisoned in 1998 on sham charges of sodomy and corruption.
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Keiko Fujimori, 40, whose father, Alberto, ruled the country with an iron fist in the 1990s, had about 38 percent of the vote, according to an official count of about one-fifth of the ballots.
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Sudan's announcement of a compensation deal comes as the African nation undergoes a fragile transition after the fall last year of president Omar al-Bashir, who ruled with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
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His parents had fled Libya for the UK because they opposed the brutal rule of Muammar Qaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for six decades until he was killed with US assistance in 2011.
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The Punisher was an unexpected addition to Marvel and Netflix's superhero roster, which was initially designed to spotlight Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, before bringing the "street-level" heroes together for The Defenders.
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The tiny oil and gas-rich nation has been ruled with an iron fist by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the longest-serving president in the continent, since he came to power in 1979 in a coup.
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Then there are the television series: Legion, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Supergirl, Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, Krypton, Titans, Young Justice, and on and on.
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In fact, the study seemed to demonstrate that most Netflix Originals can eventually lead you to a Marvel show — Grace & Frankie leads to Love, which leads to Shameless, which will then direct you toward Iron Fist.
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Since the introduction of Marvel's Daredevil series on Netflix back in 2015, the Marvel cinematic universe has been building on the small screen with the premieres of Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage solo series.
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The nationalists will probably shy away from taking an active role in economic and foreign policy, says Mr Can, but they will make sure Mr Erdogan continues to tend to domestic affairs with an iron fist.
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Known by direct reports in Italy as "il Dottore" - the Doctor - and by his U.S. lieutenants as "The Boss", Marchionne ran the executive team with an iron fist, according people who worked closely with him say.
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Stick is a member of The Chaste, an ancient group that is sworn to fight The Hand, who are likely to be the primary antagonists of The Defenders following their involvement in Daredevil and Iron Fist.
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"Raven's love of all things Iron Fist and his extensive knowledge of martial arts films made him the perfect choice to continue telling the adventures of Danny Rand and Colleen Wing," Loeb said in a statement.
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The agency quoted a law enforcement source as saying the gang had planned to carry out a series of attacks in Chechnya, which is ruled with an iron fist by Ramzan Kadyrov, the Moscow-backed president.
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Iron Fist was better the more it steered away from Danny – Colleen, Claire, and Ward all proved to be more compelling characters than the ostensible hero, and Colleen and Claire in particular paired beautifully as buddies.
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Since Daredevil kicked the whole thing off in 2015, there have been multiple seasons of Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist, and one season of The Punisher and the superhero team-up series The Defenders.
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Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for 30 years, congratulated Kem Sokha on his appointment as parliament's minority leader on Wednesday and said he looked forward to working with the opposition leader.
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Trump can and should take decisive action in 2018 to support the ouster of the virulently anti-American theocracy that has ruled Iran with an iron fist and threatened its neighbors for the past four decades.
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Last summer, labor unions filed a petition, charging that Arcos had structured its operations to reduce its tax burden, ruled its own franchisees with an iron fist and gained unfair advantages through its real estate practices.
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Given the resentment against the iron fist of M.B.S. and his willingness to humiliate senior members of the royal family, Prince Ahmad's less adversarial style might help Saudi Arabia to re-establish the shattered royal consensus.
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And the last issue of Iron Fist: Living Weapon, a series that debuted in 2014 and ran until May 2015, came in at a meager No. 142 on the best-seller list of its final month.
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And for Asian-American comic book fans, the casting of Iron Fist was an opportunity, the biggest one in years, to see an Asian-American superhero onscreen, at the center of his or her own show.
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Last year, the festival kicked off with Frank Castorf's acclaimed seven-hour "Faust," the director's penultimate production for the Berlin Volksbühne, which he led with an iron fist for 25 years before being ousted in 2017.
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Netflix's wretched Iron Fist, like the other Marvel Netflix shows, largely abandoned the humor of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in favor of a gritty, downbeat landscape of dimly lit hallways, furrowed brows, and supposedly intense monologues.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 33, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, has somewhat loosened social strictures in the absolute monarchy, but critics say he has offered little more than an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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Without feeling like a paint-by-numbers kit, "Defenders" maintains the essence of the misanthropic private eye, Jones; the haunted blind vigilante, Daredevil; the bulletproof Harlem mensch, Cage; and the hippy-dippy martial artist, Iron Fist.
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Because of the histories of the various Marvel comics from which the show is drawn, this results in the story flowing primarily through Iron Fist, the least interesting and least popular of the Netflix-Marvel characters.
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The nebulous, largely faceless (ninja robes, after all) forces of the Hand were a drag in "Daredevil" and "Iron Fist," and even with the addition of Sigourney Weaver as their leader, they're pretty dull here, too.
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Instead of trying something different with its smaller episode number, Iron Fist seems to have simply compressed the general story pattern of Marvel's other Netflix superhero shows and applied them to a different set of characters.
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Netflix's Iron Fist may have landed to lackluster reviews, but the streaming service is already looking toward its next big superhero show with a new teaser video for Marvel's The Defenders, according to our friends at Polygon.
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Daredevil was canceled in November 2018 after three seasons, Iron Fist was canceled in October 2018 after two seasons, Luke Cage was also canceled last October after two seasons, and The Defenders only ran for one season.
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On the small screen, Dawson first starred as Claire Temple in the Netflix adaptation of Marvel's Daredevil, and has since reprised her role in the Marvel/Netflix series Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and The Defenders.
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However, the show is unique among Marvel properties thanks to its focus on Danny as the titular Iron Fist, a supernatural kung-fu warrior and the mystical protector of the ancient, Eastern society known as K'un-Lun.
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Finn Jones, who plays Margaery Tyrell's brother on HBO's Game of Thrones, has landed the role of Iron Fist in the Netflix-Marvel universe, a role that will see him topline his own series, Mashable has confirmed.
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With additional seasons of Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil all in the works, their creators should look to this season of Luke Cage for a model of how to keep the MCU's television presence going strong.
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In addition to Iron Fist taking on the role of funny, competent sidekick to Luke Cage's smooth operator, Danny is redeemed in the episode by finally confronting the glaring reality that he's a billionaire and that matters.
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While characters like Daredevil and The Punisher have been dressed up in the costumes that they're best known for — often with a more realistic reinterpretation, Iron Fist went without it in the first season of the show.
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It's no secret that critics (and Team Mashable) weren't the biggest fans of Iron Fist, but we take a little comfort in the fact that the rest of the Defenders don't seem that sold on him either.
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We already knew the fate of Disney's Marvel co-production TV shows, including Daredevil, The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and The Defenders was not subject to the new arrangement Disney announced earlier this week.
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And after 13 months away from the fight game, Rousey's reliability and consistency—traits we took for granted—only look more impressive now that the kingdom she once ruled with an iron fist has descended into anarchy.
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Jordan's King Abdullah said the perpetrators would not go unpunished and that his security forces would deal with "an iron fist" with any group that sought to harm the country's security or borders, a palace statement said.
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To them, the sale amounted to a blank check for Riyadh to continue prosecuting its war in Yemen with an iron fist, regardless of the humanitarian ramifications on one of the poorest countries in the Arab world.
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Mirziyoyev, 59, served as prime minister from 2003 under President Islam Karimov, who died of a stroke in September having run Central Asia's most populous nation, a former Soviet republic, with an iron fist for 27 years.
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Cage occupied the same moody, gritty, noir New York that fellow Netflix Marvellians Daredevil and Jessica Jones call home, and the three plus Iron Fist will eventually all share the same screen in a Defenders mini-series.
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By publishing it, he went against a well-established taboo on criticizing Karimov, who ran the nation of 32 million with an iron fist from 1989, first as a Communist apparatchik and then as an elected leader.
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This is the latest Marvel series, after "Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist," that Netflix has cancelled recently, and is a sign that Marvel TV and Netflix's multi-series agreement, signed in 2013, may be hitting some bumps.
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However, Kim knows that, long term, he can't rule over his nation of 85033 million people with an iron fist and prison camps forever; history tells him that no dictatorship can last in such a brutal manner.
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The juxtaposition of "badass martial artist" and "recognizable movie star" also rings a little strange, but that could be in response to the fan black-lash against Danny Rand's lacklustre fighting skills in Marvel's Iron Fist series.
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Outside Hong Kong, the Chinese authorities can deal with independence-minded minorities with an iron fist, suppressing movements in Tibet and in the western region of Xinjiang, for example, that are pushing for more autonomy from Beijing.
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What makes Iron Fist feel like a conceptual failure is that it's simply a piece of Marvel's grand plan to assemble its Netflix shows into The Defenders series, rather than a show intended to showcase its hero.
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Iron Fist, by contrast, is chained to a story intended to establish the importance and complexity of the Hand, the villainous ninja-filled organization from the second season of Daredevil (one of that series' more successful concepts).
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Elected in 84, took office in 85, so he's been around for quite some time, but he rules the Senate with an iron fist and as basically the one guy who gets to decide what happens there.
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As the setup of "Iron Fist," the superhero series from the Marvel universe that will be released on Netflix next week, critics who call the show a missed opportunity say it aligns closely with old Asian tropes.
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In fairness, after its fellow Marvel shows Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the superhero team-up series The Defenders were all recently canceled by Netflix, it became evident that Jessica Jones was not long for this world.
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The streaming service recently axed three of its big shows, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil, leaving only Jessica Jones and The Punisher standing — both of which were already deep in production when the other series were canceled.
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Danny Rand isn't just any lost-boy-billionaire-turned-super-warrior-turned-lost-man-billionaire — he is the Iron Fist, the latest in a long lineage of powerful warriors who serve as the sworn enemy of the Hand.
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Misty, a police detective with a super(ish) power, took a number of characters into protective custody when the Defenders — Luke Cage, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Iron Fist, and Daredevil (Charlie Cox) — seek refuge for their loved ones.
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Fortunately for the series's momentum, that plot quickly takes a back seat to a much bigger threat in the form of Davos and Joy punishing Danny by stripping him of his Iron Fist power through a mystic ritual.
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