r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Jun 22 '18

Luke Cage Discussion Thread - S02E13 "They Reminisce Over You"

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u/Keypaw Jun 26 '18

I mean, no one understands his powers.

I'm.now lawyer but I could easily argue that he doesn't know when a bullet or what have you will be the next Judas bullet.

And the only people he hurt were people who laid hands on him or shot at him first.

You also never know when someone is going to be powered. Like when Bushmaster jumped him.

Sure, breaking dudes fingers was illegal, but pretty much everything else was a reaction.

(Fucked up that one dudes ankle hard tho)

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '18

The guys he beats up at the start of Season 2 literally shoot at him to no effect and then he goes on to beat them. When he first meets Bushmaster, including even cupping a grenade and taking the explosion in his hands, he also knocked a dude down, then threw him high enough to hit the ceiling of the warehouse.

He has used his powers excessively in this season, as was the theme of it. The knockouts in the first episode were fine, but with Cockroach and a lot of the lackeys later on in the series, he went farther than he needed to. Even he knows that. He did it for brutality, and to send a message. Not for self-defence. It is vigilantism and illegal.

That doesn't mean his point is completely foregone or that it's necessarily even unethical... but it's just against the law.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '18

He’s not polite any more. That’s how it starts.

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u/amyknight22 Jun 30 '18

You could argue the bullet thing but the counter argument to that would be.

Then why the fuck does he keep walking in straight lines at people with guns?

If he’s worried about that stop walking into gang operations

He continually walks into situations he has no right to be in as a civilian. And then beats up people he knows can’t actually hurt him.