9 Great TV Characters Underused In Their Show's Final Season

9. Claire Temple - Luke Cage

Fans of the Marvel Netflix Universe owe a great deal to Claire Temple. She appeared in five of the six television series, helped assemble the Defenders (that sounds kinda wrong), and stitched up Matt Murdock more times than we can count, even though she only appears in a handful of Daredevil episodes.

Clarie plays the largest role in Luke Cage. Throughout the first season, she acts as Luke's ally, nurse, and love interest, receiving more development and screen time than any of her other MCU Netflix appearances. Claire wandered from show to show like a TV nomad, but Luke Cage felt like her home.

However, she barely appears in Luke Cage's second and final season. Actress Rosario Dawson was demoted from series regular to "special guest star" status for the first three episodes, her only appearances of the season. In the third episode, Wig Out, Luke and Claire break up, and she leaves Luke Cage, and the Marvel Netflix Universe, for good.

The final line of Luke Cage is the title character turning down an opportunity to see Claire again. For a character who has saved every single Defender, Clarie deserved better.