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:''This article is about the comic book superhero. For other uses of the name, see Iron Fist (disambiguation).
'Iron Fist' ('Daniel "Danny" Thomas Rand-Kai') is a fictional character, a superhero martial artist in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, he first appeared in ''Marvel Premiere'' #15 in May 1974.
Iron Fist was created by Marvel Comics, along with characters such as Shang Chi, to cash in on the sudden popularity of martial arts in the early 1970s. He appeared in nine issues of ''Marvel Premiere'' (#15–25). According to the letters page of ''Marvel Premiere'' #15, Iron' Fist's origin and creation owe much to the 1940's Bill Everett character, Amazing Man[1].
He later received a solo title in November, 1975 and appeared in ''Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'' starting with issue #10 of that series. As the martial arts craze died down, sales lagged and the solo title ended at #15. Iron Fist also made appearances in Marvel Two-In-One and Marvel Team-Up, including wrapping up the dangling plotlines from his own book in Marvel Team-Up #63-64.
With the cancellation of his solo series Iron Fist reappeared in ''Power Man'' #48–50, where he was teamed with Luke Cage. ''Power Man'' was renamed ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' with issue #50, and ran until issue #125 in September 1986.
In the 1990s Iron Fist appeared again as a recurring guest star in John Byrne's ''Namor'' (in 1991–1992), starred in an eponymous two-part 1996 miniseries, a new version of ''Heroes for Hire'' that ran 19 issues (1997–1999), and a three-part miniseries in 1998.
In the 2000s, Iron Fist appeared in the four-part ''Iron Fist/Wolverine'' in 2000, a 2002 story-arc in Black Panther and a six-part miniseries in 2004. Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's run on ''Daredevil'' reintroduced Iron Fist in 2006, in the period leading up to and during Marvel's ''Civil War'' crossover. Shortly afterwards, Iron Fist appeared in a new series by Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja called ''The Immortal Iron Fist''.
Daniel Rand was born in New York City, the son of American businessman Wendell Rand, a wealthy entrepreneur who discovers the mystical city of K'un-L'un as a young boy. During his time in K'un L'un, Wendell saves the life of the city's ruler, Lord Tuan, and is adopted as Tuan's son. However, Wendell eventually leaves K'un L'un and becomes a wealthy entrepreneur in the United States. He marries socialite Heather Duncan and has a child, Daniel. When Daniel is nine, Wendell organizes an expedition to again seek out K'un L'un, taking his wife Heather, his business partner Harold Meachum, and Daniel. During the journey up the mountain, Daniel slips off the path, his tie-rope taking his mother and father with him. Meachum, who also loved Heather, forces Wendell to plunge to his death but offers to rescue Heather and Daniel. She rejects his help, preferring to journey on their own or die.
As explained in ''Marvel Premiere'' #15, Heather and Daniel come across a makeshift bridge that appears out of nowhere and are attacked by a pack of wolves. Heather throws herself on the wolves to save Daniel and is killed even as archers from K'un L'un attempt to save her. The archers take the grieving Daniel to see Yü-Ti, the hooded ruler of K'un L'un. When Daniel expresses his desire for vengeance, Yü-Ti apprentices him to Lei Kung, the Thunderer, who teaches him the martial arts.
Daniel proves to be the most gifted of Lei Kung's students. Rand conditions his fists by plunging them into buckets of sand, gravel and rock to toughen them. At 19, Daniel is given the chance to attain the power of the Iron Fist by fighting and defeating the dragon known as Shou-Lao the Undying, which guarded the molten heart that had been torn from its body. During the battle, Daniel throws himself against the scar of Shou-Lao, which burns a dragon tattoo into his chest. Having killed Shou-Lao, he enters its cave and plunges his fists into a brazier containing the creature's molten heart, emerging with the power of the Iron Fist.
When K'un L'un reappears after 10 years, Daniel decides to leave and find his father's killer. Returning to New York, Daniel Rand, dressed in the ceremonial garb of the Iron Fist, seeks out Harold Meachum, now head of Meachum Industries. Before Iron Fist can decide whether or not to kill him, Meachum is murdered by a mysterious ninja, and Iron Fist is blamed for the death. Eventually, Iron Fist clears his name and begins a career as a superhero, aided by his friends Colleen Wing and Misty Knight, falling in love with the latter. Notable adversaries in his early career include the first appearance of the villain Sabretooth (who was not yet known to be connected to Wolverine), the mysterious Master Khan (whom the ninja that killed Meachum once served) and the Steel Serpent, the exiled son of Lei Kung, who coveted the Iron Fist power.
''Iron Fist'' (vol. 1) only lasted 15 issues before cancellation, and the Steel Serpent storyline was wrapped up in two issues of ''Marvel Team-Up''. Just before Rand's battle with Steel Serpent, Misty Knight had been working undercover, infiltrating the organization of the crime lord John Bushmaster. When Bushmaster discovered Knight's treachery, he kidnapped Claire Temple and Noah Burstein, the closest associates of Luke Cage, better known as Power Man, holding them hostage to force Cage to eliminate Knight. Iron Fist was on hand to stop him, however, and after a battle, the truth came out. Rand then helped Cage rescue Temple and Burstein as well as obtain evidence that proved Cage's innocence on prior drug charges. The two decided to become partners, forming Heroes for Hire, Inc.
The two characters' comics merged, with ''Power Man'' renamed ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' with #50. Although they supposedly were only heroes for money, the running plot device of the series (which lasted for over sixty issues after the merger) was that they were always doing the right thing, which usually left them with less money rather than more. Iron Fist, in his secret identity of Daniel Rand, had reassumed control of his parents' fortune as half of Rand-Meachum, and was actually quite wealthy. This caused a lot of tension between him and Cage, who was raised poor in the ghetto.
''Power Man and Iron Fist'' ended in 1986 with Rand contracting cancer from radiation poisoning and inadvertently dying at the hands of Captain Hero, and Cage becoming a fugitive as the prime suspect in Rand's death.
In the 1990s, the storyline of Rand's death is resolved in the pages of ''Namor''. Although Rand apparently returns from the dead, it is revealed instead to be the Super-Skrull. He admits that he had been Captain Hero, and that the plot to destroy the lives of Rand and Cage had been masterminded by Master Khan. It is also revealed that the "Iron Fist" that had died was actually a doppelgänger created by the extra-dimensional H'ylthri. Rand had, in fact, been kidnapped and replaced by the H'ylthri copy just after he left K'un L'un for the last time. While in stasis with the H'ylthri, Rand manages to focus his chi, curing the cancer. After Marvel's Onslaught crossover event, Rand and Cage reform Heroes for Hire, Inc. with an expanded team, this time working for Namor's Oracle Corporation. Chronicled in a new ''Heroes For Hire'' series, the title is eventually cancelled due to low sales, ending with Namor dissolving Oracle as well as Heroes for Hire, Inc.
In the ''Iron Fist'' miniseries, Miranda Rand-K'ai also returns from the dead. The H'ylthri revive her and promise to restore her to full life if she retrieves the extradimensional artifact known as the Zodiac Key. To this end, she takes the identity of Death Sting, bringing her into conflict with Iron Fist as well as with S.H.I.E.L.D.. When the H'ylthri try to kill Iron Fist, Miranda turns the power of the Zodiac Key against them, seemingly killing herself in the process. However, exposure to chemicals from the H'ylthri pods prevented her death.
During the "House of M" crossover event, Rand is shown to be a part of Luke Cage's resistance group.
Rand disguises himself as Daredevil to convince the media and the public that Matt Murdock is not the masked vigilante (''Daredevil'' #87). Rand believes that he had been hired to pose as Daredevil by Foggy Nelson. In reality Nelson had faked being murdered and was in witness protection.
He is opposed to the Super-human Registration Act which is the focus of Marvel's 2006 summer crossover event, ''Civil War'', and joins Captain America while still pretending to be Daredevil. While posing as Daredevil, Rand is apprehended by Pro-Registration forces, calling Tony Stark 'Judas' and giving him a silver dollar. He is later freed from the Negative Zone Prison, joining Captain America's team for the final battle with Iron Man's forces.
After the final battle, and the arrest of Captain America, Rand joins the New Avengers, a team, that also has his former teammate Luke Cage as a member. Now underground after the surrender of Captain America and provided with secure accommodation by Doctor Strange, the New Avengers are driven by two goals; to save people "the way [they] want to", and to investigate the reason why the world has been turned upside-down recently. After a confrontation with Elektra and the Hand to rescue Echo, the team discover that Elektra had been replaced with a Skrull some indeterminate time ago, but whether more prominent figures in the Marvel Universe have been replaced with Skrulls by this point is unclear.
In ''World War Hulk'', Iron Fist attempts to defend Rick Jones from Hiroim and Elloe of the Hulk's Warbound during their attack on the Sanctum Sanctorum to capture Doctor Strange. Along with Echo and Ronin, he is defeated and captured.
In 2006, Marvel launched a new ongoing series, ''The Immortal Iron Fist'', co-written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction and featuring art by Spanish illustrator David Aja. "The Immortal Iron Fist" began with a six-part drama, counter-intuitively titled "The Last Iron Fist Story". The story reveals the Iron Fist to be a legacy power conferred on the champion of K'un Lun roughly once a generation. There have been sixty-six Iron Fists, stretching back in time at least as far as the thirteenth century A.D. K'un L'un is also revealed to be one of the Seven Cities of Heaven, each of which has an analagous champion whose powers are as-yet unknown.
The story introduces Orson Randall, Daniel Rand's immediate predecessor, who reneged on his responsibilities to K'un L'un after suffering immense psychological trauma during the First World War. Randall is discovered in Thailand; apparently preserved by the spirit of Shou-Lao and in full possession of his powers, but living in drug-soaked seclusion. Randall is pursued by agents of the Steel Serpent, resurected and pressed into the service of the Crane Mother, ancient enemy of K'un L'un. Jolted out of his decades-long ennui, Randall seeks out Daniel Rand in New York and gives to him The Book of the Iron Fist, a sacred ledger supposedly containing all the Kung Fu secrets of K'un Lun, which Randall claims will be necessary if Rand is to compete successfully in the coming tournament of the Seven Champions.
The Steel Serpent, whose powers have been greatly augmented by Crane Mother, quickly despatches Randall in single combat. On the brink of death, Randall surrenders his Chi to Danny, giving him sufficient power to battle the Serpent to a standstill. After the battle, Rand is immediately summoned by his master, Lei Kung, to compete in the tournament Randall mentioned.
Plunging his fists into the molten heart of Shou-Lao the Undying gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, allowing him to focus his chi and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. His strength, speed, reflexes and senses can all be intensified, making his already formidable martial arts skills even more so. The ultimate expression of this focus is the ability to concentrate his body's natural energies into his hand, manifesting as a supernatural glow around his clenched fist, making his fist "like unto a thing of iron." So concentrated, this "iron fist" can smash into its target with superhuman hardness and impact. However, the feat of summoning the power required leaves Rand physically and mentally drained, unable to repeat the act for a time.
Other applications of the Iron Fist power include the ability to focus chi energy inward to heal oneself or outward to heal others of injury, as well as being able to telepathically meld with another person's mind. Orson Randall, Danny's predecessor as Iron Fist, demonstrated applications including hypnosis and channeling his chi energy into projectile weapons to increase their destructive capacity. Randall also showed enhanced resistance to injury, including resilience to poison gas dropped on his fellow combatants in the trenches of World War I, and a greatly slowed aging process. Although almost one hundred years old by the time he encountered Daniel Rand, he demonstrated physical vitality commensurate with a highly-trained martial artist half his age. Danny has presumably acquired powers and abilities at least equivalent to Orson Randall's -- though not necessarily the skill to control them -- thanks to combining Randall's chi energy with his own. He is also in possession of the Book of the Iron Fist, study of which will greatly expand his kung fu skills.
Even without the Iron Fist, Rand is an accomplished martial artist, and is easily one of the most skilled practitioners of unarmed combat in the Marvel Universe.
In a confrontation with Tony Stark, it is revealed that Iron Fist has long registered his powers as being a deadly weapon but not as a super-hero.
===Marvel Zombies
Ultimate Iron Fist===
Daniel Rand has appeared in ''Ultimate Spider-Man''. His first appearance in the Ultimate universe was in ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #1/2. Later, he appeared in the ''Warriors'' story-arc (issues #79-85) along with Shang Chi, Moon Knight, and others. He reappears in the Ultimate Knights Arc, as a member of a Daredevil-led team trying to take down the Kingpin. In ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #107, however, he has apparently betrayed the group to the Kingpin. Daredevil has uncovered the deception and ends issue #109 demanding answers from Rand. In issue #110 Iron Fist reveals that he has a daughter and the Kingpin threatened her life, so he chose his daughter's life over Daredevil's, and the rest of the heroes that teamed up to take down the Kingpin. He did distract Kingpin while Daredevil grabbed Kingpin's wife. Rand is last seen with his daughter.
★ Iron Fist appears as a non-playable character in the 16-bit video game '' (1994), which was released for the Super Nintendo and Genesis game consoles.
★ Iron Fist was originally going to be a PSP character for .
★ It has been announced that a film titled ''Iron Fist'' is currently in development, with Ray Park set to portray Danny Rand/Iron Fist, and will be directed by Steve Carr (''Are We Done Yet?'') with a script written by John Turman (''Hulk''). The movie is currently in Marvel's queue of movies[2].
★ Iron Fist is to appear in the game '' as a playable character.
★ In ''The Simpsons'' comics, Lenny Leonard is Iron Foot of Heroes for Rent.
1. Yü-Ti (K'un-Lun, Iron Fist's uncle) @ marvunapp.com
2. Steve Carr Waits In Marvel Queue for "Iron Fist" Production @ RottenTomatoes.com
★ A profile of his father Wendell Rand-K'ai
★ A profile of his mother Heather Duncan Rand, Silver Dragon
★ Iron Fist movie entry on the Internet Movie Database
'Iron Fist' ('Daniel "Danny" Thomas Rand-Kai') is a fictional character, a superhero martial artist in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, he first appeared in ''Marvel Premiere'' #15 in May 1974.
Publication History
Iron Fist was created by Marvel Comics, along with characters such as Shang Chi, to cash in on the sudden popularity of martial arts in the early 1970s. He appeared in nine issues of ''Marvel Premiere'' (#15–25). According to the letters page of ''Marvel Premiere'' #15, Iron' Fist's origin and creation owe much to the 1940's Bill Everett character, Amazing Man[1].
He later received a solo title in November, 1975 and appeared in ''Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'' starting with issue #10 of that series. As the martial arts craze died down, sales lagged and the solo title ended at #15. Iron Fist also made appearances in Marvel Two-In-One and Marvel Team-Up, including wrapping up the dangling plotlines from his own book in Marvel Team-Up #63-64.
With the cancellation of his solo series Iron Fist reappeared in ''Power Man'' #48–50, where he was teamed with Luke Cage. ''Power Man'' was renamed ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' with issue #50, and ran until issue #125 in September 1986.
In the 1990s Iron Fist appeared again as a recurring guest star in John Byrne's ''Namor'' (in 1991–1992), starred in an eponymous two-part 1996 miniseries, a new version of ''Heroes for Hire'' that ran 19 issues (1997–1999), and a three-part miniseries in 1998.
In the 2000s, Iron Fist appeared in the four-part ''Iron Fist/Wolverine'' in 2000, a 2002 story-arc in Black Panther and a six-part miniseries in 2004. Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's run on ''Daredevil'' reintroduced Iron Fist in 2006, in the period leading up to and during Marvel's ''Civil War'' crossover. Shortly afterwards, Iron Fist appeared in a new series by Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja called ''The Immortal Iron Fist''.
Fictional character history
Background
Cover of ''Marvel Premiere'' #15, Iron Fist's first appearance.
Daniel Rand was born in New York City, the son of American businessman Wendell Rand, a wealthy entrepreneur who discovers the mystical city of K'un-L'un as a young boy. During his time in K'un L'un, Wendell saves the life of the city's ruler, Lord Tuan, and is adopted as Tuan's son. However, Wendell eventually leaves K'un L'un and becomes a wealthy entrepreneur in the United States. He marries socialite Heather Duncan and has a child, Daniel. When Daniel is nine, Wendell organizes an expedition to again seek out K'un L'un, taking his wife Heather, his business partner Harold Meachum, and Daniel. During the journey up the mountain, Daniel slips off the path, his tie-rope taking his mother and father with him. Meachum, who also loved Heather, forces Wendell to plunge to his death but offers to rescue Heather and Daniel. She rejects his help, preferring to journey on their own or die.
As explained in ''Marvel Premiere'' #15, Heather and Daniel come across a makeshift bridge that appears out of nowhere and are attacked by a pack of wolves. Heather throws herself on the wolves to save Daniel and is killed even as archers from K'un L'un attempt to save her. The archers take the grieving Daniel to see Yü-Ti, the hooded ruler of K'un L'un. When Daniel expresses his desire for vengeance, Yü-Ti apprentices him to Lei Kung, the Thunderer, who teaches him the martial arts.
Daniel proves to be the most gifted of Lei Kung's students. Rand conditions his fists by plunging them into buckets of sand, gravel and rock to toughen them. At 19, Daniel is given the chance to attain the power of the Iron Fist by fighting and defeating the dragon known as Shou-Lao the Undying, which guarded the molten heart that had been torn from its body. During the battle, Daniel throws himself against the scar of Shou-Lao, which burns a dragon tattoo into his chest. Having killed Shou-Lao, he enters its cave and plunges his fists into a brazier containing the creature's molten heart, emerging with the power of the Iron Fist.
When K'un L'un reappears after 10 years, Daniel decides to leave and find his father's killer. Returning to New York, Daniel Rand, dressed in the ceremonial garb of the Iron Fist, seeks out Harold Meachum, now head of Meachum Industries. Before Iron Fist can decide whether or not to kill him, Meachum is murdered by a mysterious ninja, and Iron Fist is blamed for the death. Eventually, Iron Fist clears his name and begins a career as a superhero, aided by his friends Colleen Wing and Misty Knight, falling in love with the latter. Notable adversaries in his early career include the first appearance of the villain Sabretooth (who was not yet known to be connected to Wolverine), the mysterious Master Khan (whom the ninja that killed Meachum once served) and the Steel Serpent, the exiled son of Lei Kung, who coveted the Iron Fist power.
Heroes for Hire
''Iron Fist'' (vol. 1) only lasted 15 issues before cancellation, and the Steel Serpent storyline was wrapped up in two issues of ''Marvel Team-Up''. Just before Rand's battle with Steel Serpent, Misty Knight had been working undercover, infiltrating the organization of the crime lord John Bushmaster. When Bushmaster discovered Knight's treachery, he kidnapped Claire Temple and Noah Burstein, the closest associates of Luke Cage, better known as Power Man, holding them hostage to force Cage to eliminate Knight. Iron Fist was on hand to stop him, however, and after a battle, the truth came out. Rand then helped Cage rescue Temple and Burstein as well as obtain evidence that proved Cage's innocence on prior drug charges. The two decided to become partners, forming Heroes for Hire, Inc.
The two characters' comics merged, with ''Power Man'' renamed ''Power Man and Iron Fist'' with #50. Although they supposedly were only heroes for money, the running plot device of the series (which lasted for over sixty issues after the merger) was that they were always doing the right thing, which usually left them with less money rather than more. Iron Fist, in his secret identity of Daniel Rand, had reassumed control of his parents' fortune as half of Rand-Meachum, and was actually quite wealthy. This caused a lot of tension between him and Cage, who was raised poor in the ghetto.
''Power Man and Iron Fist'' ended in 1986 with Rand contracting cancer from radiation poisoning and inadvertently dying at the hands of Captain Hero, and Cage becoming a fugitive as the prime suspect in Rand's death.
Resurrection
Cover art for ''The Immortal Iron Fist''. Pencils by David Aja.
In the 1990s, the storyline of Rand's death is resolved in the pages of ''Namor''. Although Rand apparently returns from the dead, it is revealed instead to be the Super-Skrull. He admits that he had been Captain Hero, and that the plot to destroy the lives of Rand and Cage had been masterminded by Master Khan. It is also revealed that the "Iron Fist" that had died was actually a doppelgänger created by the extra-dimensional H'ylthri. Rand had, in fact, been kidnapped and replaced by the H'ylthri copy just after he left K'un L'un for the last time. While in stasis with the H'ylthri, Rand manages to focus his chi, curing the cancer. After Marvel's Onslaught crossover event, Rand and Cage reform Heroes for Hire, Inc. with an expanded team, this time working for Namor's Oracle Corporation. Chronicled in a new ''Heroes For Hire'' series, the title is eventually cancelled due to low sales, ending with Namor dissolving Oracle as well as Heroes for Hire, Inc.
In the ''Iron Fist'' miniseries, Miranda Rand-K'ai also returns from the dead. The H'ylthri revive her and promise to restore her to full life if she retrieves the extradimensional artifact known as the Zodiac Key. To this end, she takes the identity of Death Sting, bringing her into conflict with Iron Fist as well as with S.H.I.E.L.D.. When the H'ylthri try to kill Iron Fist, Miranda turns the power of the Zodiac Key against them, seemingly killing herself in the process. However, exposure to chemicals from the H'ylthri pods prevented her death.
During the "House of M" crossover event, Rand is shown to be a part of Luke Cage's resistance group.
''Civil War'' and ''Daredevil''
Danny Rand as Daredevil. Art by Michael Lark.
Rand disguises himself as Daredevil to convince the media and the public that Matt Murdock is not the masked vigilante (''Daredevil'' #87). Rand believes that he had been hired to pose as Daredevil by Foggy Nelson. In reality Nelson had faked being murdered and was in witness protection.
He is opposed to the Super-human Registration Act which is the focus of Marvel's 2006 summer crossover event, ''Civil War'', and joins Captain America while still pretending to be Daredevil. While posing as Daredevil, Rand is apprehended by Pro-Registration forces, calling Tony Stark 'Judas' and giving him a silver dollar. He is later freed from the Negative Zone Prison, joining Captain America's team for the final battle with Iron Man's forces.
New Avengers
After the final battle, and the arrest of Captain America, Rand joins the New Avengers, a team, that also has his former teammate Luke Cage as a member. Now underground after the surrender of Captain America and provided with secure accommodation by Doctor Strange, the New Avengers are driven by two goals; to save people "the way [they] want to", and to investigate the reason why the world has been turned upside-down recently. After a confrontation with Elektra and the Hand to rescue Echo, the team discover that Elektra had been replaced with a Skrull some indeterminate time ago, but whether more prominent figures in the Marvel Universe have been replaced with Skrulls by this point is unclear.
In ''World War Hulk'', Iron Fist attempts to defend Rick Jones from Hiroim and Elloe of the Hulk's Warbound during their attack on the Sanctum Sanctorum to capture Doctor Strange. Along with Echo and Ronin, he is defeated and captured.
''The Immortal Iron Fist''
In 2006, Marvel launched a new ongoing series, ''The Immortal Iron Fist'', co-written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction and featuring art by Spanish illustrator David Aja. "The Immortal Iron Fist" began with a six-part drama, counter-intuitively titled "The Last Iron Fist Story". The story reveals the Iron Fist to be a legacy power conferred on the champion of K'un Lun roughly once a generation. There have been sixty-six Iron Fists, stretching back in time at least as far as the thirteenth century A.D. K'un L'un is also revealed to be one of the Seven Cities of Heaven, each of which has an analagous champion whose powers are as-yet unknown.
The story introduces Orson Randall, Daniel Rand's immediate predecessor, who reneged on his responsibilities to K'un L'un after suffering immense psychological trauma during the First World War. Randall is discovered in Thailand; apparently preserved by the spirit of Shou-Lao and in full possession of his powers, but living in drug-soaked seclusion. Randall is pursued by agents of the Steel Serpent, resurected and pressed into the service of the Crane Mother, ancient enemy of K'un L'un. Jolted out of his decades-long ennui, Randall seeks out Daniel Rand in New York and gives to him The Book of the Iron Fist, a sacred ledger supposedly containing all the Kung Fu secrets of K'un Lun, which Randall claims will be necessary if Rand is to compete successfully in the coming tournament of the Seven Champions.
The Steel Serpent, whose powers have been greatly augmented by Crane Mother, quickly despatches Randall in single combat. On the brink of death, Randall surrenders his Chi to Danny, giving him sufficient power to battle the Serpent to a standstill. After the battle, Rand is immediately summoned by his master, Lei Kung, to compete in the tournament Randall mentioned.
Powers and abilities
Plunging his fists into the molten heart of Shou-Lao the Undying gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, allowing him to focus his chi and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. His strength, speed, reflexes and senses can all be intensified, making his already formidable martial arts skills even more so. The ultimate expression of this focus is the ability to concentrate his body's natural energies into his hand, manifesting as a supernatural glow around his clenched fist, making his fist "like unto a thing of iron." So concentrated, this "iron fist" can smash into its target with superhuman hardness and impact. However, the feat of summoning the power required leaves Rand physically and mentally drained, unable to repeat the act for a time.
Other applications of the Iron Fist power include the ability to focus chi energy inward to heal oneself or outward to heal others of injury, as well as being able to telepathically meld with another person's mind. Orson Randall, Danny's predecessor as Iron Fist, demonstrated applications including hypnosis and channeling his chi energy into projectile weapons to increase their destructive capacity. Randall also showed enhanced resistance to injury, including resilience to poison gas dropped on his fellow combatants in the trenches of World War I, and a greatly slowed aging process. Although almost one hundred years old by the time he encountered Daniel Rand, he demonstrated physical vitality commensurate with a highly-trained martial artist half his age. Danny has presumably acquired powers and abilities at least equivalent to Orson Randall's -- though not necessarily the skill to control them -- thanks to combining Randall's chi energy with his own. He is also in possession of the Book of the Iron Fist, study of which will greatly expand his kung fu skills.
Even without the Iron Fist, Rand is an accomplished martial artist, and is easily one of the most skilled practitioners of unarmed combat in the Marvel Universe.
In a confrontation with Tony Stark, it is revealed that Iron Fist has long registered his powers as being a deadly weapon but not as a super-hero.
Other versions
===Marvel Zombies
Iron Fist is shown twice in battle during the miniseries. He can be seen getting grabbed by a zombie version of Luke Cage and again punching a hole through a zombified Black Cat.
Ultimate Iron Fist===Daniel Rand has appeared in ''Ultimate Spider-Man''. His first appearance in the Ultimate universe was in ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #1/2. Later, he appeared in the ''Warriors'' story-arc (issues #79-85) along with Shang Chi, Moon Knight, and others. He reappears in the Ultimate Knights Arc, as a member of a Daredevil-led team trying to take down the Kingpin. In ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #107, however, he has apparently betrayed the group to the Kingpin. Daredevil has uncovered the deception and ends issue #109 demanding answers from Rand. In issue #110 Iron Fist reveals that he has a daughter and the Kingpin threatened her life, so he chose his daughter's life over Daredevil's, and the rest of the heroes that teamed up to take down the Kingpin. He did distract Kingpin while Daredevil grabbed Kingpin's wife. Rand is last seen with his daughter.
In other media
★ Iron Fist appears as a non-playable character in the 16-bit video game '' (1994), which was released for the Super Nintendo and Genesis game consoles.
★ Iron Fist was originally going to be a PSP character for .
★ It has been announced that a film titled ''Iron Fist'' is currently in development, with Ray Park set to portray Danny Rand/Iron Fist, and will be directed by Steve Carr (''Are We Done Yet?'') with a script written by John Turman (''Hulk''). The movie is currently in Marvel's queue of movies[2].
★ Iron Fist is to appear in the game '' as a playable character.
Parodies
★ In ''The Simpsons'' comics, Lenny Leonard is Iron Foot of Heroes for Rent.
References
1. Yü-Ti (K'un-Lun, Iron Fist's uncle) @ marvunapp.com
2. Steve Carr Waits In Marvel Queue for "Iron Fist" Production @ RottenTomatoes.com
External links
★ A profile of his father Wendell Rand-K'ai
★ A profile of his mother Heather Duncan Rand, Silver Dragon
★ Iron Fist movie entry on the Internet Movie Database
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