As stated perviously, all four of The Defenders will be in a very different place than when we last saw them. Matt's now reportedly shunned his vigilante duties, Luke's on the mend from his re-inherited prison sentence, and both Jessica and Danny have been left to deal with the very serious consequences their own respective stories left them.
It would've been easy to kick things off with the status-quo remaining as it is, much like The Avengers did in 2012, but it's clear that The Defenders is more than just a summer event. We are, yes, getting to see a bunch of kickass heroes coming together in a big-budget spectacle, but the way in which they do will be in a much more organic way, and indeed, in one that'll see them all get a hefty dose of character development in the process.
Given that all four heroes are due to make more solo appearances in the future, it would feel unnatural for the events of The Defenders to bear little on their own respective journeys. The buzz surrounding the show tells us that it'll have a major impact on New York, and it can only mean that good things are still to come.
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.
