The first look at Marvel Studios' fourth Iron Fist was officially released in a new trailer for Disney+'s Eyes of Wakanda. The MCU took its first dive into K'un-Lun and Iron Fist on Netflix when Game of Thrones star Finn Jones led the way in two controversial seasons. Additionally, Iron Fist, aka Danny Rand, played a starring role in The Defenders, where he teamed up with Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage against The Hand.
After Marvel Studios officially canonized "The Defenders Saga" into the MCU and brought back Charlie Cox's Daredevil, Jon Bernthal's Punisher, and soon-to-be Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones, fans became more eager to see Iron Fist return, either in Daredevil: Born Again or another Netflix project. While the jury is still out on what the future holds for Jones' Danny Rand, the studio confirmed last year that an Iron Fist will appear in the 2025 Disney+ animated series, Eyes of Wakanda.
Just days before Eyes of Wakanda starts streaming on Disney+, Marvel Studios released the official trailer for the Disney+ series, which included the first look at the MCU's latest Iron Fist, who will feature in one of the four episodes. This marks the fourth to appear under Marvel Studios and the first to feature in the main MCU timeline since Netflix's Iron Fist ended in September 2018.
This new Iron Fist is expected to encounter Wakandan warriors at some point in distant history and will be a female version played by voice actor Jona Xiao.
The as-yet-unnamed female Iron Fist will be the fourth to carry the legacy mantle under Marvel Studios after two appear in Netflix's "Defenders Saga" and one was introduced elsewhere in the Multiverse in What If...? Season 3.
Marvel Studios further hyped up Iron Fist's long-awaited return with a new Eyes of Wakanda character poster highlighting the iconic yellow mask.
The new trailer for Eyes of Wakanda can be watched below:
As fans eagerly await Eyes of Wakanda's series premiere on Friday, August 1, they may first wish to meet the previous three Iron Fists introduced to the MCU:
Danny Rand
Danny Rand’s MCU storyline began in Iron Fist Season 1 as the son of a billionaire who had just lost his parents in a plane crash, was taken in by the monks of K’un-Lun, and trained to become the Iron Fist.
Years later, Rand returned to New York and used his martial arts training and mystical abilities to protect his home as a vigilante. In time as the Iron Fist, Rand fell into conflict with the Hand, the wealthy Meechum family, and other K’un-Lun-trained fighters.
Colleen Wing
Shortly after returning to New York, Danny Rand crossed paths with Colleen Wang, martial arts expert and Master of the Chikara Dojo. Along with helping him readjust to city life after K‘un-Lun, Wing joined Rand in investigating a heroin trade with ties to his family company, Rand Enterprises.
As part of the Season 2 storyline, Wing temporarily took on the power of the Iron Fist to help defeat Davos. Ultimately, the former Sensei kept the Iron Fist mantle full-time and used it in conjunction with her family’s katana to create a glowing blade for her heroics.
Kwai Jun-Fan
During What If...? Season 3, Episode 6, which took place in 1872, Hailee Steinfeld's Hawkeye and Simu Liu's Shang-Chi took a Wild West adventure to hunt down The Hood, and were accompanied by the young martial artist Kwai Jun-Fan.
With The Hood defeated, What If...? hinted that Jun-Fan would one day become Iron Fist, as he does in the comics, as Kate Bishop stated that Shang "might have some competition" as the young fighter has "some iron fists on him."
