Still, Davos promises he could never harm Danny even if he were to join the Hand, a declaration that immediately earns him a rebuke from his mother, Priya (Gita Reddy). Danny sees the Iron Fist as a defender of K’un-Lun, but Davos insists that he must also be willing to slay the city’s enemies. ”Heart of the Dragon” fleshes those motivations out even further by showing young Danny and Davos playing together, a moment that grows darker as talk turns to the role of the Iron Fist. Davos likewise had the most to lose when K’un-Lun fell to the Hand while Danny was in New York, leading him to swear vengeance on the man he calls “brother.” Having known no other life beyond the walls of the mystical city, Davos saw New York as a fallen Babylon that corrupted Danny with the worldly temptations of wealth and a romantic liaison with a member of the Hand. Fortunately, season two’s “Heart of the Dragon” really delivers on that potential by exploring how Davos could go from Danny Rand’s best friend to his iconic enemy, Steel Serpent.ĭavos was already the series’ most developed antagonist, having shown up in season 1 to try to persuade Danny to return to K’un-Lun and resume his duty as the Iron Fist. Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho) continued to ride the mysterious vibe she got from her time on Daredevil and both she and Bakuto (Ramon Rodriguez) wouldn’t get any backstory until The Defenders. Harold Meachum (David Wenham) was apparently evil because being resurrected by The Hand’s magic tainted his soul. Luke Cage very successfully imitated “Shadows in the Glass” when it revealed Cottonmouth’s backstory in the tragic episode “Manifest.” Jessica Jones used Kilgrave’s parents and video of the mind-controlling mass murderer as a child to share his past.īut the first season of Iron Fist didn’t provide any such exposition. That’s the Daredevil episode in which vague glimpses of Fisk’s scheming to gain power and influence really come to fruition, with flashbacks that examine his troubled childhood and the origins of his ambitions. Iron Fist copied Daredevil’s lauded hallway fight scene in season one, but it wouldn’t do its own version of “Shadows in the Glass” until season two. In Iron Fist’s second outing, however, it finally gives Danny a villain worth standing up to by devoting an entire episode to the backstory of his childhood friend, Davos (Sacha Dhawan), in “Heart of the Dragon.” Underdeveloped villains was just one of the many reasons the first season of Iron Fist was a failure. Unfortunately, this lesson didn’t make it over to Iron Fist.
It also recognized the importance of having a strong villain and made sure viewers got to know Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk almost as well as they did Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock. It established a gritty, street-level view of superheroics in New York, an ensemble cast, and a sequential plot. As the first of Netflix’s MCU shows, Daredevil set a lot of precedent for the franchise.
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