NEW YORK — Danny Rand just can’t catch a break! A new report has just come out concluding that the publics’ opinion of the Marvel character Iron fist is at an all time low due to the characters overpowered fuckery in the popular game, Marvel Rivals. Approval ratings for Iron Fist haven’t been this low since that god awful Netflix show back in 2017.
“Yeah it’s really a shame and not what we had hoped for with this character,” said Roy Thomas, one of the creators of the character in a recent Reddit AMA. “When Gil and I created the character we just wanted to make another boring billionaire that fights bad guys or whatever. Not some bitch who gets in your face every 5 seconds until you rage quit and go back to playing Overwatch!”
Many players have complained the character needs a nerf in Rivals but that may be too little too late. It seems unlikely the Immortal Iron Fist will reach cult favorite status like Moon Knight or Psylocke. It would take some truly insane stunt casting in a potential MCU feature film to rocket the character into the spotlight like Robert Downey Jr. did for Iron Man.
“Look, all I know is that I gave it my best shot,” said the guy who played him in the Netflix show. We wrote down his name but somehow still forgot it. “I did everything that was asked of me! I hardly worked out and phoned in a mediocre performance mostly in sweatpants. If that wasn’t enough to do justice to the character then I’m not sure what else fans wanted. I fought a dragon you know? I mean we didn’t really show that part in the show but you get it.”
Marvel fans will just have to put up with the K’un Lun killer until they decide to nerf him or “get good” according to one Iron Fist main we asked. Unfortunately it seems for most players this version of the character may be even more frustrating than the portrayal given to us by Phil Jonas or whatever his name was.
At press time, when asked to comment about possibly bringing back actors from the Netflix show in a new series a la Daredevil Born Again, Kevin Fiege responded “What Netflix Show?”
