Marvel's The Defenders: 6 Reasons To Be Excited (And 4 To Be Worried)

Reasons To Be Excited...

6. The Supporting Players Are All Great

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Outside of the four main heroes, The Defenders will also be drafting in a number of key supporting players from each series, and the list of those confirmed already is enough to make you wonder how they'll fit everybody in:

Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, and Stick; Trish Walker, Malcolm Ducasse, and Jeri Hogarth; Misty Knight; Colleen Wing; and of course Claire Temple.

While some of those will just have small, more tokenistic roles, others could end up having a fair bit to do here, especially great characters like Misty and Claire.

Juggling them all will be a challenge, but given just how much the likes of Simone Missick, Rosario Dawson, Jessica Henwick, and Rachael Taylor have proved their quality in these roles, it's hard not to get excited about seeing more of them, along with the various combinations that could be thrown up.

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