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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Misty Knight Gets An Upgrade In Luke Cage Season 2

By now, a lot of you will have seen The Defenders , which brings together Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist. Also featured in that Marvel/Netflix mash-up was cop Misty Knight ( Simone Missick ). And near the end of the miniseries, a nasty fate befell the police officer. Spoilers lie ahead for Luke Cage Season 2, where she can normally be found, but as the picture courtesy of Entertainment Weekly above can attest, she's had an upgrade. Despite – again, spoiler warning – losing her right arm to the villainous Bakuto during the big final confrontation, Misty was promised that all the resources of Danny Rand's (Finn Jones) wealth would be provided her. And now we see what knowing a billionaire can buy you: a fancy new prosthetic, bionic arm. It's a nod to the character's comic book origins, which saw her lose the limb in a bombing, only for Tony Stark to replace it with an arm boasting all sorts of fun abilities including superhuman strength, energy blas

Luke Cage Trailer Has Finally Arrived

In this Marvel live action series, a street-fighting ex-con battles crime on the streets of New York as the Super Hero, Luke Cage . Having met Mike Colter's troubled Luke in Jessica Jones, here we get a deep dive into his world instead of just seeing him intersect with hers. As the ex-con fights crime and navigates the tricky street politics of New York's Harlem, we also explore his back story, including the experiment that both saved his life but left him forever changed. We also get to meet some of the people who will impact Luke's life both positively and negatively, including barber shop owner and Harlem legend Pop (Frankie Faison), villain Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali), ambitious politician Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard), quick-witted cop Misty Knight (Simone Missick) and bad sort shades (Theo Rossi). Oh, and of course Luke's path will again cross with that of Defenders stalwart Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson), who fills in a littl