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Roy Thomas' creation of Iron Fist is surely one of the most abused by PC cast members in the Marvel universe by modern writers who can only think of the cheapest ways of scriptwriting around Danny Rand. As the following, predictably sugarcoated Popverse report makes clear,

Like all good comic book characters, Marvel's original Iron Fist Danny Rand died. But, like all good comic book characters, it wasn't a permanent thing and he's okay now - in fact, he's set to become The Undead Iron Fist in a new mini-series from creators Jason Loo and Fran Galán this fall.

Readers who remember Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Travel Foreman, and David Aja's absolute banger of a series from the 2000s, The Immortal Iron Fist, already know that there's this ancient text called The Book of the Iron Fist in the Marvel Universe. It stipulates that all Iron Fists will die by age 33. So, when Danny died on his 33rd birthday in 2024's Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special #1, it wasn't the biggest surprise, as tragic as it may have been to fans.

The tragedy of PC writing that overtook Marvel during the 2000s, at the time Joe Quesada was EIC, is what's insufferable here. After all the damage he caused, if what they're emphasizing now is zombie effects, it's no improvement over what came during that decade in stories centered around Danny Rand, and that a leftist like Fraction was involved on those past tales is telling.

Speaking of resurrections, Danny Rand is back this September as the Undead Iron Fist to find out why these martial artists die by age 33, and, according to Marvel, "expose K'un-Lun's darkest secret and enlighten him and readers alike to the Iron Fist's greatest legends." Personally, if I were Danny, I would want to find out the truth just to spare his successor Lin Lie from a premature death. Bruce Lee died at age 32, we can't also lose Lin Lie so soon. There's so much more I want to learn about his family of archaeologists!

Talking about the decision to kill Danny only to bring him back, writer Jason Loo said, "I was so relieved to not encounter any fan backlash or outrage when I killed off Danny Rand. Because there was always a plan to bring him back, but we wanted to make the fans wait." I don't recall my reaction when I saw Danny's death in the Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special #1, but I probably took a sip of tea and said, "about time." Anyways, happy trails to Danny.

If there's been no backlash, it can actually be because much of the onetime readership left years ago, after the aforementioned Quesada led to so much damage not just to Spider-Man, but the rest of the MCU to boot. They may have been willing to revive Danny Rand, but if it's as a zombie, as the book title suggests, that's tasteless. And is the writer, yet another modern "scribe" I've never heard of, implying he intends to force some tale establishing Kun Lun as more a bad bunch than good for PC reasons? We could do without that. Also, if Loo is saying he was okay with Iron Fist being sent to the great reward as though he were something bad, that too is appalling.

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