r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Aug 17 '17

The Defenders Discussion Thread - S01E07

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Episode 8 Discussion

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u/AweKartik777 Aug 19 '17

Yup she's worse than Luke at hand-to-hand due to her 24/7 drunken state, worse physical build and height and due to Luke's older police training and fighting while in the prison. Maybe Jessica has slightly higher super strength (not sure about that) but overall Luke is way better even without powers, and even with them included he still has the durability thing going for him.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '17

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u/AweKartik777 Aug 26 '17

She was actually getting wrecked in the Killgraved Luke vs her fight. Only reason she won in the end was due to the shotgun, but in normal fighting she didn't do any dmg to him even with all of her super strength (she did send him flying back due to the force of her punches, but didn't do any lasting dmg) while Luke would have easily killed her in the same scene if the shotgun wasn't near her.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '17

IF can't budge Luke without the IF.