This is obviously the season we know the least about, as the first dropped less than a week ago. But, the season finale and some comments during the promotional rounds give us a rough sense of where Luke Cage could go in a potential season 2 (a virtual certainty that Netflix has yet to announce).
Pop’s Barbershop, destroyed a second time by Luke and Diamondback’s climatic fight, leads Bobby Fish to say that maybe it doesn’t want to be a barbershop anymore. Well, if not a barbershop, just off the top of my head, how about an office for the Heroes for Hire? The concept originated with Luke Cage in the comics, melding private investigation with superheroics, and it’s just the thing a working-class hero like Cage would do, especially if his friendship with Danny Rand blossoms in the show as it does in the comics into full-fledged business partner. It would pair nicely with Misty Knight’s own “Daughters of the Dragon” partnership with Rand’s love interest Colleen Wing.
The heroes will have no shortage of problems to deal with upon returning to Harlem post-Defenders. Without Luke around, Dillard and Shades are set to rule the criminal underworld as partners and lovers while Diamondback, laid out from his climatic fight with Cage, is teased for a powered-up return as Dr. Burstein’s next experiment to replicate Luke’s powers. Personally, I found Diamondback’s villain entertaining but uninteresting, so I have a wilder idea: is it too much to ask for somebody to put Cottonmouth’s body in that weird resurrection crypt thing they put Elektra’s body in? Sure his face might be a bit messed up now (understatement) but that the perfect tragic irony for a guy who hated being called Cottonmouth. Honestly, I’ll take any implausible excuse to get Mahershala Ali back around.
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