Providing the heroes with ninjas to fight, evidently.

"And I know I shouldn't have pried out his gold fillings, especially after I'd already stripped him naked and beaten him unconscious, but… it's what's best for the company."

"Just to be clear, Danny, are you, on your first day, drawing a line in the sand?"
"No. You're right. I'm sorry. But I will not sign off on a 900% profit margin. You said some of what we make will go toward further research. How much?"
"I don't know… $10 per pill?"
"Then I would suggest we sell for 15."
"How does 30…

Danny's definitely privileged where RandCo is concerned, but I don't know if I would read his Iron Fist status as being part of that. He was effectively trapped in K'un-Lun, and was going to be doing non-stop martial arts either way, so he worked hard and overcame the odds to be the best.

Thank you for using 'feminist' as a pejorative in your second sentence. It saved me three more paragraphs of reading.

That's not true, though.

Pretty much just Ray the firefly, in fact. At least if we're talking about the animated canon.

True. But in fairness, Shaolin monks don't spend at least 93% of their time in another dimension.

That was the theory for a while, but then in the second half of Luke Cage people just started saying 'Iron Man' again, so there clearly isn't and it's merely really stupid.

Unlike the rest of the MCU, which exists on Earth-199999, the Netflix shows exist on Earth-199910

I don't know what it says about who that I agree with this, but holy shit, I do.

That Obi-Wan/Vader wrist-waggling contest on the Death Star really gets more and more anticlimactic with every passing day, doesn't it?

'Monkey style' is one of the major styles of Kung Fu, so I think at least the concept of monkeys would have come up.

"I have to do something about Danny Rand, or my name isn't Ward Meachum. Wait… Rand… four letters… Ward… also four letters… four… 4 Washington Lane! The next clue is at the White House hospital!"

"How the hell did he learn martial arts?" was a fun reading of a rare fun line.

It's even stupider because one of the core aspects of the Punisher is that he has nobody left in his life.

True. I just have a personal tendency to give credit for intent. Or in extreme cases, the potential for intent.

I'm not even talking about the Blacksmith plot. That's legitimately my prediction of how Punisher S1 will go.

I think you mean three episodes with a fair amount of murder, then six episodes of secondary characters falling all over themselves to explain how Frank is actually a hero because his family is dead, and then a finale that will include either lots more meaningless murder or one significant one.

There is an interesting nuance to Danny, if you're willing to be almost entirely extratextual about it.