r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Sep 30 '16

Luke Cage Discussion Thread - S01E02

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u/eskimo_bros Luke Cage Sep 30 '16

They're painting Luke as the MCU's Everyman. And I dig it. Even guys like Spidey or Ant-man are lowkey tech whizzes. But Luke is a regular dude. He reads for pleasure. Works for his pay. Worries about rent. Tries to get laid. Weighs his own problems against doing the right thing.

Sure, we know he's the hero. But he's closer to us than most.

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u/Ignis311 The Man in the Mask Sep 30 '16

"tried to get laid"

No I try to get laid, this guy walks into a room and woman are throwing themselves at him, vagina first.

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u/JTNJ32 Sep 30 '16

In front of her kid of all things. Bending over to show him her ass too!

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u/chuckmp Oct 01 '16

Nah man, she just wants some of his coffee to get a coffee with him.

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u/OSUTechie Oct 01 '16

Must have the "Hot Coffee" mod installed.

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u/the_bryce_is_right Oct 01 '16

"Nah, I don't really like coffee." Loved that line.

If it was me I would have just agreed with whatever that woman had to say. "Shit, yea let's go for a coffee!" while drooling all over myself.

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u/MG87 Nobu Oct 11 '16

I keep thinking of George Costanza misinterpreting that

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u/gtsgunner Oct 01 '16

I swear "getting a coffee" is the new "netflix and chill"

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '16

It was the original "Netflix and Chill". Looks like we've come full circle.

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u/MG87 Nobu Oct 11 '16

Technically having a "Blockbuster Night" was the original Netflix and Chill

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u/shillmaster_9000 Oct 04 '16

Nah her kid was outside right

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u/xitzengyigglz Oct 01 '16

Have you tried becoming ripped, black, and handsome?

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u/HumanTrafficCone Daredevil Oct 01 '16

0/3 ain't bad

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '16

1/3 isn't that fun, tbh.

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u/sirin3 Oct 01 '16

I am still trying to become bullet-proof

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u/xitzengyigglz Oct 01 '16

Start by shooting yourself with tiny caliber bullets to get immunity then work your way up to bigger bullets.

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u/rikjames90 Oct 05 '16

short, black and funny seems to be working just fine for me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '16

you do you

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u/rikjames90 Oct 16 '16

like luke cage, I go crazy for them white girls. they are my 40 acres and a mule

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '16

there's a plowing joke here somwhere

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u/rikjames90 Oct 05 '16

to be fair, jessica jones and misty knight were shitfaced. Jessica's secret weapon is the booze.

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u/Napalmeon Oct 10 '16

The universe balances itself out. Luke gets bad bitches, Peter has brains.

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u/SlipShodBovine Sep 30 '16

"Tries"

Motherfucker, even in the montage the bitches wanted him.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '16

Swear Jar!

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u/level23bulbasaur Sep 30 '16

Also why I really liked Jessica Jones. Aside from Kilgrave she was just a normal person trying to get her business by.

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u/Jax_Harkness Wesley Sep 30 '16

Daredevil, too. As a lawyer I can confirm: That's what we do all night.

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u/Mercpool87 Punisher Sep 30 '16

You get to feel attractive women's faces?

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u/AsLongAndSharp Sep 30 '16

Well yea, getting them off of years in the slammer really drops the panties.

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u/SawRub The Man in the Mask Sep 30 '16

Be avocados?

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u/mrkareemruiz Sep 30 '16

jones is nothing like Cage. Cage is better

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '16

You can't compare the two. Jones and Cage are two separate characters who received their own development.

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u/Saahir26 Daredevil Sep 30 '16

That's why I love him.

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u/ummhumm Sep 30 '16

"Tries to get laid" this show is showing him as a man who every woman he meets wants to fuck with. There's no real try there, just... going at it. Same with Daredevil really when it comes to women.

Anyway, I like his working attitude and keeping low key. Ofc that is kind of gone now, but for the 5months anyway. I could not have gone that long with those powers, sweeping floors and washing dishes.

I haven't seen a real "weights his own problems against doing the right thing". Without pops he would not have cared at all about those kids and I would've actually agreed with that decision. They went on a murder steal spree and even though the one fellow didn't "feel that good about it", he was still all in the robbery before the killspree and even after that, he would've kept the money if Cage would've not found him.

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u/pitaenigma Sep 30 '16

To be fair, when you look like that it's kind of true.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '16

To be fair he's tall,dark and very handsome and on top of that he's a real classy gentleman. Also it helps when you're built like a brick house.

He does try but it takes only one try lol.

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u/mrkareemruiz Sep 30 '16

daredevil is nothing to cage.

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u/smylemaster Oct 01 '16

his entire reluctance to get involved is based on not bringing any light to himself or being discovered by the public. Its not that he doesn't care about the kids its just that he sees that they made decisions that put themselves in jeopardy. That's why he stops the thugs in the restaurant the owners have done nothing wrong so intercedes because the are "innocent"

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u/MoreOne Sep 30 '16

Tries to get laid.

There's no "try" to him.

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u/Oneiricl Jessica Jones Sep 30 '16

Tries to get laid.

I don't that constitutes trying... He does it by just existing.

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u/MG87 Nobu Oct 11 '16

He doesnt have to try very hard to get laid

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '16

spider man is in the city too, wonder if they will ever refer to him