Marvel's Iron Fist Season 2 Best & Biggest Moments

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2, streaming now on Netflix.

Following a widely criticized first season, Marvel's Iron Fist returned for an improved sophomore outing that challenged Danny Rand and Colleen Wing, shook up the status quo, and revealed more tantalizing clues to the legacy of the champion of K'un-Lun.

Between the plot by Davos and Joy Meachum to strip Danny Rand of his power, the fan-favorite pairing of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, and the involvement of the formidable ex-special ops soldier Mary Walker, Season 2 featured plenty of standout moments, but we've whittled them down to the top five.

The Iron Fist Is Stolen

In Episode 4, "Target: Iron Fist," Davos (Sacha Dhawan) finally achieves what he's wanted for so long by usurping Danny Rand (Finn Jones) as the Iron Fist. Financed by Joy Meachum (Jessica Stroup), Davos acquires the mummified corpse of a former Iron Fist and an ancient Tibetan singing bowl, and hires the services of the tattoo artists known as the Crane Sisters to perform an arcane transference ritual to take the "Heart of the Dragon" from Danny's body, and place it into his.

Davos emerges with the Steel Serpent tattooed on his back, and a glowing red fist that will allow him to bend wicked and depraved New York to his will. It's a scary and emotional scene which leaves Danny de-powered and clinging to life.

Davos' Bloody Order

By the time Joy Meachum realizes Davos is evil in Episode 8, "Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance," he's already training his own disciples. She tells him the best way of proving Danny wrong is by doing the right thing, and so he tries to clean up the neighborhood by having his followers apologize to anyone they harmed in the past, only for the amends to go horribly wrong.

When they offer services free of charge to a nervous restaurant owner Mr. Yip, Davos loses his cool, thinking the man was allied with the Triads. In a moment of rage, he uses the Iron Fist and punches straight through the man. The leader of the disciples, Rhyno, is shocked, but when he tries to pull his crew away, his hot-headed deputy Crank slits his throat in one of the series' most brutal moments.

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Davos Cuts Ties With Joy

When Davos finds that Tibetan singing bowl pivotal to the transference ritual has gone missing, he realizes Joy betrayed him. After trying to lie her way out of any repercussions, Joy finally tells Davos the truth, and reveals she had one of his scared disciples deliver the bowl to Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick).

Davos, yet again, loses his temper and pushes her off a balcony to what viewers initially think is her death. Somehow she survives, but is left severely injured. Still, the slow-motion shot of her falling underscores that Davos is willing to kill anyone who defies him -- even an ally.

The Katana of the Dragon

In the season finale, "A Duel of Iron," we discover Colleen is likely the descendant of the legendary Wu Ao-Shi, the sword-wielding first female Iron Fist. It's serendipitous, then, that Danny chose her to wield the "Heart of the Dragon," as he felt she wouldn't be corrupted by its power.

But as he says to her in a goodbye letter, the Iron Fist may have been meant for her all along. In the closing moments of the season, bank robbers are confronted by Colleen, who unsheathes her katana, which glows white as an extension of her Iron Fist.

The Gun-Slinger

In the season's final scene, Danny and Ward Meachum (Tom Pelphrey) are in a seedy bar in Japan, on the trail of the person who shipped the mummified body of an Iron Fist to Davos. It turns out to be a black-market dealer named Orson Randall, who in the comics is the gun-slinging adventurer who bore the mantle of Iron Fist before Danny.

When a henchmen Ward has been questioning shoots at Danny, the former (and likely future) Iron Fist draws twin pistols he and Ward stole from Orson. With his fists and guns flowing, Danny fires two bullets and stops the one meant to kill him.

Available now on Netflix, Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2 stars Finn Jones as Danny Rand, Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Sacha Dhawan as Davos, Tom Pelphrey as Ward Meachum, Jessica Stroup as Joy Meachum, Simone Missick as Misty Knight and Alice Eve as Mary Walker.