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10 Things You Need To Know About Luke Cage

Sweet Christmas! We're now just a few days away from the arrival of Marvel’s latest Netflix series, Luke Cage, which will land in its entirety on the streaming service come September 30th and is already receiving excellent reviews.
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Published: Sep 27, 2016 05:22 pm

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8) His Powers Came From An Experiment to Recreate Captain America

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Luke Cage Origins

While serving time in Seagate Prison, Carl Lucas is the favourite target of corrupt and brutal guard Billy Bob Rackham, until he’s demoted – a fact he blames Lucas for.

Meanwhile, Carl is recruited into an experimental cellular regeneration procedure by a Dr. Noah Burnstein, who is working on recreating the Super-Soldier process that gave Steve Rogers his abilities. However, Rackham crashes the experiment and accidentally increases the treatment past its limits. The outcome: Lucas is reborn as Luke Cage, a man with impenetrable skin and enhanced strength.

As it happens, this isn’t unique to Cage. Half of the Marvel universe is obsessed with recreating Steve Rogers’ super-serum, it seems, as various other heroes like Hulk, Deathlok, Warhawk and the Ultimate Spider-Man derive their powers from Cap-related experiments gone wrong.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered. Since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester, he has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade. The MCU is his comfort place but, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is The Incredibles.
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