The Defenders
Warning : this clause contain major spoilers forThe Defenders !
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Marvel ’s The Defendersmay have construct up the hype to see the four superheroes together onscreen for the first sentence , but there ’s also been a luck of anticipation for the regaining ofElektra- and she ’s every bit as evil as you ’d expect . Elodie Yung ’s legendary warrior is brought back from the dead thanks to Sigourney Weaver ’s Alexandra , and the show inform us exactly how she did it .
We ’ve seen in bothDaredevilseason 2 andIron Fistseason 1 howthe Handbrings dead citizenry back to life , using that ancient stone bathtub and what looks like blood in spite of appearance . In instalment 3 , ' Worst Behaviour , ' we witness Elektra ’s Resurrection of Christ , organized by Alexandra ( two months before the events in the new series ) , and how they make " the heart " that brings them all back to life . That substance , it turns out , is made from dragon os - a.k.a . " The Beast " - which the five leaders of the Hand stole from K’un - Lun after they desert and started their own criminal organization to fund their immortality .
Yep , Game of Thronesisn’t the only illusion serial with dragons and for centuries the " heretic " have been using " the substance " to rise themselves and their followers . However , to bring back Elektra , The Hand ’s founders - Alexandra , Madame Gao , Murakami , Bakuto , and Sowande - had to employ " the last of their imagination " for the ceremony to work . As the leader of the Hand , Alexandra sway them that bringing back Elektra , or as she calls her " the Black Sky , " would give them the arm they needed to get more of " the inwardness " so they could continue to stretch out their lives as well as return to K’un - Lun . As Alexandra is cash in one’s chips , she put everything on the pipeline to bestow the assassinator back .
Once Elektra emerges , reborn as it were , she is not the same person . She is a feral dark of her former ego , traumatized by her last and the vanity of it . As Alexandra explains over two scenes :
" I know you ’re afraid but that will pass and so will the painfulness . This is your habitation now , we are your family . I have waited so long to meet you . Language will come back to you . So will your inherent aptitude but everything else I ’m afraid it was n’t worth keep anyway You were expect , you lived and go bad , and what you see on the other side , the darkness , the absence seizure of everything , it ’s alarm , is n’t it ? I ’ve seen it too , more than once , and all I want in this life history is to never see it again . "
The"everything else"Alexandra is let the cat out of the bag about is the memories of her former biography . It ’s not excuse exactly how Alexandra was able-bodied to erase her memories , as the Hand leadership and Harold Meachum remember their lives before their last , but it seems that a band of manipulation is used to get their weapon in deterrent .
Alexandra aim obligation for this by refusing to give reborn Elektra any information about her former life with Matt Murdock or Stick , telling her stories of her power and function , and putting her through stringent training for impart out the " Black Sky " in her . The ninja ’s yard bird ability for wildness and death is what the Hand are rely on to win their fight against the Defenders and with Alexandra ’s counseling , vicious Elektra lives up to their every expectation .
Under their society , the warrior kills everyone in K’un - Lun while Iron Fist is finding himself in New York ( in the first time of year of his solo show ) . She reveals this to Danny Rand at the end of the series,(while trying to force him to open a gateway to more dragon bone locked by a previous Iron Fist ) , telling him"you should have hear the way they screamed when I kill them . “However , once malign Elektra is present by Matt again , she starts becoming a bit of a liability as it becomes clear that her memories of love for him were not erased but merely suppressed . The more she interacts with Daredevil , the faster her remembering do back but that does n’t mean she becomes good again .
While the bravo does n’t down Matt when she has the opportunity , she does learn more from Alexandra - about " the substance " and why they need Iron Fist - and at long last make up one’s mind to kill her wise man , take over her emplacement as drawing card of The Hand and stop being a slave to their want . “I also had overlord but I ’m free now , " she recite Danny , speaking not just about the condemnable organisation but also Stick and the Chaste who have also used her as a tool over the age . Evil Elektra reconnects with the person she was once before but gives herself over to the dark side of her personality . The only light inside her is brought out by Matt , but even though she knows who he is now she doesn’t"care about good or bad"because she has the key to immortality and she wants to share that with him . That ’s why she never killed him , because she wants him to be by her side forever .
At the remainder ofThe Defenders , it ’s hinted that she died after the Midlands Circle Financial building gets detonated but , of course , it does n’t mean that she ’s dead . If Daredevil can make it out battered but alive it seems reasonably obvious that she outlive too - but what kind of Elektra will he be consider with ?
If the comic Holy Writ are anything to go by , Elektra will proceed to cross the air when it comes to good and bad . InEnemy of the State : Wolverine , she allows herself to be killed and uprise by The Hand , make them think she has been brainwashed to do their bidding , but really she ’s in complaint of all her faculties and used it as an opportunity to infiltrate their ranks and ingest down the leading . It ’s during this comic Good Book footrace - written byMark Millar- and while pretend to be controlled by The Hand that she leads an assault on S.H.I.E.L.D. , kill multiple agentive role . clear , she has no qualm with doing whatever ’s necessary to win , even if it means down the " unspoiled guys , " and if she returns inDaredevilseason 3 it ’s dependable to say she ’s going to be causing even more difficulty for both Matt Murdock and Daredevil .
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