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8. Misty Knight Was The Highlight Of Luke Cage
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Luke Cage hit the ground running when it released last September, and while Mike Colter was brilliant in the lead, it was Misty who stole the show.
Indeed, Simone Missick's performance really helped anchor the series, which saw Knight during her earlier years as a detective in the NYPD. Eagle-eyed viewers would've also noticed the show's constant teasing of the character's bionic arm from the comics, with the character having very nearly come close to losing her actual arm near its end. Bionic or not, Missick was very much the character from the comics, and with The Defenders promising to bring some pretty massive changes to the MCU's street level spin-offs, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see Knight inch closer towards her hero persona.
No doubt fans will be eager to see Misty in The Defenders, especially since it's pretty much a given that Knight will meet up with Colleen at some point in the season's eight episodes. They're a synonymous pairing, and with both having received the most plaudits on their respective shows, it seems likely that Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez will be keen to see them link up sooner, rather than later.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
