Luke Cage Season 1: 13 Best Moments
7. Shades Avoids Assassination (Episode 12: Soliloquy Of Chaos)
After Shades is freed from police custody with the help of Diamondback, he's taken to one of Diamondback's compounds, where the latter's lackeys attempt to kill him on the elevator ride up.
As he's being strangled to death by Zip, Shades manages to reach for one of the lackey's guns and kills the two other anonymous henchmen. He then takes Zip up to the roof where, after a brief grilling, he blasts him through the head.
Considering how awesome, bada**, and likeable Shades is, it's a damn relief he wasn't killed off, and certainly in such a potentially lame manner. As he showed here, he's a survivor, and hopefully he'll be sticking around for a long while.