Defenders: Every Easter Egg & Marvel Connection

Daredevil

WARNING : The following clause contains SPOILERS forMarvel ’s The Defenders

If there was any doubt thatDaredevil , Luke Cage , Jessica JonesandIron Fistwere all construction towards one major story , thenThe Defendersshows it was the producer ' plan for Netflix all along . Now that the team - up series has make it , and Phase One of the Netflix route map has been completed ( with thenext serial being tease ) fans can enjoy not only the action , the dialogue , and the conflicts … but the Marvel Comics Easter Eggs , too .

It would have been enough of a triumph forThe Defendersto be one of Netflix ’s biggest premieres , but the series did so much more : show the way forward inPhase Two of Marvel ’s Netflix storytelling . Assuming that viewers know their Marvel Comics history well enough to spot the clues …

Needless to say there will be SPOILERS in our listing ofMarvel ’s The Defenders : Easter Eggs & Marvel Connections .

The Renaissance Lives On

The first season ofLuke Cagetook an unexpected turn for a Marvel property by putting its sub in prison by the time of year ’s close - and lead the two masterminds of some cruddy societal manipulation to keep up their causal agent . As the fresh leaders of Harlem ’s Paradise and the criminal offense community that flows through it , Shades ( Theo Rossi ) and Mariah Dillard ( Alfre Woodard ) are left to expatiate their empire beyond that of Cottonmouth . And when Luke Cage returns home in the first episode ofThe Defenders , it seems they ’re still using an honest-to-god merchandising drive .

Throwback To Jidenna

The serial does its ripe to keep each role ’s own visual elan intact , soaking the interiors of Luke Cage ’s scenes with yellow light . But the visual Easter Eggs are also linked to single viewers have onlyheardin Luke ’s own time of year . We ’re concern to the paries artistic creation when Luke hold out digging into the later night employment of Cole ( J. Mallor McCree ) .

Cole may be too untested to shop at Harlem ’s Paradise , but he would obviously have been a fan of their melodious appearances . The artwork for Jidenna ’s " Long Live The Chief " can be seen on Cole ’s wall , and even if viewers do n’t know the creative person , they eff the Sung . Jidenna actually appeared in the first time of year ofLuke Cageperforming that very song on the Paradise stage in Episode 5 .

Return To The Roof… Again

The first meeting between Alexandra ( Sigourney Weaver ) and Madame Gao ( Wai Ching Ho ) helps establish the real evil forces at work , but fans may have missed one anastrophe of mightiness made expressed in shooting locations . InDaredevilSeason 1 Madame Gao became the obvious figure of mystical grandness when Kingpin ( Vincent D’Onofrio ) put on his good acquisition of charming subservience , honoring Gao by converge her in a quiet rooftop garden .

InThe Defenders , it is Gao who is work to encounter Alexandra in almost the exact same blot . This time around , rooter can see for themselves the even greater connexion to Sam Raimi ’s firstSpider - Manmovie . All of the scenes were prepare in the same location , but inThe shielder , the stroke emplacement fromSpider - Manis almost identical .

Tsukamoto Sword

When Danny and Colleen go searching for the operation of The Hand in New York , they quickly hit across a samurai leaf blade - one Colleen quickly relate to as"a Tsukamoto . “She can hardly bring herself to impact it , just observing it … and noting that the one before them has been sharpen . And you do n’t focus a Tsukamoto unless you plan on using it . But the mention here has little to do with martial arts , at all .

The line is almost for certain a quotation to Shinya Tsukamoto , a Nipponese cult film director who make his place in movie house account withTetsuo : The Iron Man(1988 ) . share a name with Marvel ’s motion-picture show poster boy , the film help control that Tsukamoto would be discover as the true sea captain of not Japanese warlike arts films , but Nipponese cyberpunk .

Callback Punch

Marvel fans puzzle the chance to see just how unattackable and compelling a character Luke Cage was when he debuted inJessica Jones , helping break up a cake fight without breaking a exertion . But it was n’t until hissoloseries that he demonstrated his true strength . It was there that he walked into a grouping of Cottonmouth ’s men didder down a local business , with the camera zooming in on a slow - gesture look at one gangster ’s slug .

In that first scene , his fist smashed into an unbreakable human , scarce moving Luke ’s jaw an inch as the bones in his mitt snapped . When Luke faces off against Danny he cerebrate the same will happen . fortuitously , the exact shot is repeated , with Danny ’s glowing impact and the shock on Luke ’s case caught in A-one slow movement .

Eye-Catching Sai

The structure ofThe Defendersthrows audiences through a morsel of a loop , when Elektra is shown uprise by The Hand to combat other members of the team - andthenher line story is explained in Episode 3 . And we do mean origin story : Elektra may have appeared in a time of year ofDaredevil , but she ’s been pass to the mind of a child when wreak back to life . A deadly , superstrong child .

The first signaling that the person Elektrausedto be remains somewhere in her mind comes early on , when Alexandra conduce her into a wide of the mark selection of weaponry . Elektra end up opt a pair of wakizashi ( short - swords ) , but the bearing of a pair of sai - her traditional theme song weapon and the one used inDaredevil- gives her obvious interruption .

Stan Lee Cameo

It would n’t be a Marvel release without a cameo from comic book caption Stan Lee , and he remain his vogue of appearances as a interpreter for the NYPD of Marvel ’s Netflix universe of discourse here . Having previously shown up in a framed photo inDaredevil , and later as part of an NYPD cognisance campaign , he ’s now even more visible on the streets of the city .

“Ironclad”

When the four heroes finally join forces to take on The Hand , they ’re thrown into vivid fighting immediately . They finally get the chance to talk about the architectural plan in peachy item , and fill eachother in on their personalities and powers . Jessica , it turns out , is n’t that self-aggrandising 0n mysticism or magic … or the moniker of ' the Imoortal Iron Fist . ' Instead , she refer to Danny Rand as"Ironclad . "

The line may seem like a demonstration of how little attention Jessica has paid to Danny ’s origin story or ' destiny , ' but Ironcladisa Marvel Comics villain . you may pretend his power set , but we doubt there ’s anything more to this reference than a small New York minute to the fans .

Protect Ya Neck

There ’s no question thatLuke Cageelevated the musical secret plan of the MarvelDefendersuniverse , so it ’s no surprisal to see the concluding showdown get some audio accent . When Danny unleash his Iron Fist on Madame Gao , the natural action is immediately accompany by the Wu Tang Clan ’s " Protect Ya Neck . " It ’s a perfect choice of vocal for the four heroes beating their enemies one after another , but it ’s also a fun inside jest for fan who know the song , and group .

It ’s hard to overlook the fact that whenIron Fistwas announced , many had to clarify that itwasn’tthe same as the filmThe Man With The Iron Fistsstarring RZA , a Wu Tang member . Or the fact that Method Man cameo - erectile dysfunction as himself inLuke Cage . The song choice here is a thoroughgoing tempest , since it includes the line - clear heard in the fighting scene -“Swingin ' through your township like your neighborhood Spider - Man . "

Misty’s Arm

The Marvel pic may keep injuries and wounds to a minimum , but the Netflix appearance have realise their stars take far more serious blows . None bad than Misty Knight ( Simone Missick ) who loses most of her veracious arm in the final instalment of the serial . It ’s a tragical injury no matter how you look at it , but the comic book fans were credibly have more complex emotion when the attack actually come about .

That ’s because of Misty ’s most far-famed point in the comics : her bionic sleeve allowing her to be even more effective in a fight . Fans have been demand a chance to see a serial based on Marvel’sDaughters of the Dragon- starring Misty and Colleen - and a bionic arm may be the thing to get them there .

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