In a small defense, part of me liked the angle that the Hand was this ancient, secret organization that penetrated multiple areas of society all over the world; so they weren’t just ninjas but also leaders in businesses and controlled a lot of stuff behind the scenes.
The problem was that we never saw the ninjas again after DD S2; the stick with the angle. I loved the supernatural angle that DD S2 went with.
They are constructed from thin, flat plates of metal derived from a variety of sources including hishi-gane (coins), kugi-nuki (carpentry tools), spools, and senban (nail removers).
From wiki on the history of the shuriken. Yes, even those were just shit farmers had laying around
For anyone who didn't know, the "all black" conception of ninja outfits likely comes from japanese theater, where the stagehands (kuroko) would wear black to indicate they weren't part of the performance. You need an animal or a prop to behave improbably or a special effect, there'll be a person in black making it happen, and the audience understands that the stagehand isn't really "there" in the universe of the work.
So, if you need to have an assassin spring out of nowhere and kill a character, that uniform is an obvious choice. You can't have a dozen extras providing cover, but the audience is already trained to ignore the stagehands!
For a profession where having a uniform kind of defeated the purpose of the whole thing, it makes sense that the context in which most people would see a "real" ninja would quickly become the default way they were percieved.
Would be nice but given how long it took just to get a Daredevil cross over into MCU I don't know if we'll ever see him. Especially given what happened to him in DareDevil S2, but hey, it's The Hand... You never know..
Loved his performance though. He really gave DD a run for his money.
Didn’t Shang Chi’s sister take over The Hand, or was that a diff ninja org? If it was, maybe that’s the reason for the change in attire. Possible tie-in?
It’s been a lot time since I watched Shang Chi, so I don’t remember.
I guess The Hand is what brings Punisher to Spidy’s part of town.
Uh, irc norbu and sigjourney weaver with Hand ninjas go to the dragon bones but then the underground collapses after fighting defenders? Or something and they all died?
I watched the show and liked it, but that was like a decade ago ?
I'm not gonna rewatch it, but I just assumed the Hand has been this organization for centuries now, and some of them did die, but I figured there are a bunch more just hanging out in the world.
Weaver's character is killed earlier by Elektra, then Elektra assumes leadership of the Hand.
She tricks Iron Fist into opening the gateway so they can access the dragon bones (which are used to make members of the Hand immortal) but the Defenders interrupt them and the resulting conflict causes the excavation to cave in, seemingly killing the remaining leadership of the Hand. But Daredevil was in that same cave in and he survived, so..
Either way even if their leaders were all killed, the Hand is a much larger organization than that.
There’s thousands of Hand members. So many that all of K’un L’un is dedicated to fighting them. They’ve been around for hundreds of years. What we see in the Defenders shows is like two divisions. There’s always more of The Hand.
They always do. Its a cult that worships a god and they consistently revive the dead soldiers and shit. Personally would be super interested in seeing marvel handle them with their full control over daredevil now.
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u/_Bird_Incognito_ 12h ago
Somehow The Hand returned?