Characters why I like them [Ironfist/Danny Rand]

Growing up and watching Bruce Lee and other martial art movies was one of the best parts about my childhood and still to this day I love martial art movies and Asian cinema in general. Growing up I also read comic books and I found myself always drawn to the lesser known characters. Around the year 2006 or so I noticed that Marvel comics was publishing a book called Immortal Ironfist, I had heard of the character Ironfist before but never really got the chance to read about the character, because frankly Marvel was not giving him any spot light they were focused on their big guns, Spiderman, X-men, Hulk, Avengers, Fantastic Four Etc.

But with Immortal Ironfist being launched I could finally find out more about this character and his mythos and man was I blown away. Immortal Ironfist took a very obscure character and turned him from a C-Lister to a great B-Lister, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction really impressed me and the artwork by David Aja fit the book perfectly.

This was just the type of character I was searching for, he was a superhero but also a martial artist an awesome combination. His costume is pretty simplistic the yellow and green really work for his design, Marvel also recently gave a him a white and gold look which also looked badass on him. I also loved his friendship with Luke Cage (another character I’ll be talking about later on) and his love interest Misty Knight which is kind of a back forth fling.

Plunging his fists into the molten heart of the dragon Shou-Lao the Undying infused the dragon's superhuman energy into Rand; this along with training by Lei Kung the Thunderer gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, allowing him to summon and focus his chi (or natural energy) and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. His strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes and senses can all be astronomically intensified, making his already formidable martial arts skills even more so.

His fighting style is also really cool, there were panels in the comic that had references to Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do and his one inch punch which was really cool. The power of the Ironfist takes a lot of focus and energy and I loved that they showed Danny being vulnerable after he used up a good portion of his Chi, it made him all the more human.

In terms of personality Danny is a very laid back guy which was another draw to the character, he wasn’t overly geeky like Spiderman or too much of a badass like say Wolverine he was the perfect blend of both. When It came time to get serious Danny was no joke, I’ve seen this guy beat up opponents much bigger and more aggressive than he is and with considerable ease.

I am happy that Marvel given this character major spotlight and he’s proven to be a very likable character and he’s got a good fan following. I think I heard somewhere that he’s getting a movie which would be very cool and he’s also appeared in some video games such as Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Well that’s the character of Ironfist if you want to know more just read his wiki page here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Fist_(comics)