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Ranking The Main Characters Of Marvel’s Iron Fist

Marvel's Iron Fist has long been anticipated by fans of the House of Ideas' Netflix output. As the promotional material for the show has made clear, Danny Rand is the final Defender we have to meet before The Defenders mini-series - which unites Rand with fellow streetwise superheroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage - arrives this summer. Sadly, however, the hype might have been too much for the show, as it's been met with a pretty scathing critical reception.
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8) Ward Meachum

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One of the drawbacks of Iron Fist is the emphasis on the corporate struggles of the Meachum siblings, as they occupy the murky moral ground of being profit-driven businessmen. Their subplot might be more palatable if the Meachums were actually interesting to watch, but they’re unfortunately not. We’ll get onto Joy in a moment, but first let’s take a look at Ward.

On a positive note, we can say that Tom Pelphrey is hugely irritating as Ward Meachum, which means that he’s doing his job very well as the character is clearly intended to be that way. However, that doesn’t mean we enjoy watching him. In the first few episodes, he’s presented as almost cartoonishly evil – ruining a Monopoly game as a kid and ordering his thugs around to kill Danny as an adult.

Later on, some shade is added to him as it’s revealed that he’s completely under the thumb of his father Harold, and is actually uncomfortable with what he does, leading him to develop a drug problem. Still, it’s hard to feel much for the guy.


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'