Hmm, I wonder if we can work Alan Tudyk into our Guardians of the Galaxy.
[] [Villain Idea] Villain of the week, something like half of them being Luke trading their defeat for favors/information. Diamondback as the season villain.
[] [Show Story Idea] RAG's Idea is Long
Backstory: Carl Lucas spent his youth as a thief and thug on the streets of New York, but when it became clear his actions hurt his family he tried to change. This got him scarred, framed for murder by his best friend (Stryker) and 25-to-Life. Though Stryker paid for it when an angry Lucas snitched, Lucas was to spend decades behind bars. Transferred to Seagate after multiple escape attempts to go to his father's funeral, Lucas found himself offered a deal. Act as a test subject for secret medical research in an underground fighting ring, and after 5 years he would be free to go. Lucas accepts and spends the next three years in endless fighting under sadistic guards and vat treatments, turning to a mixture of meditation/prayer towards his father and 1970s films/shows (all the jail really had in terms of media) to keep himself sane. Eventually Lucas learns that nobody actually goes free and they're either killed or shipped off to another facility. A particularly sadistic guard (Rackham) finds out and causes an 'accident' to kill Lucas and any other test subjects he might have spoken to. Lucas survives the explosion, granted enhanced strength, healing, and unscarred bulletproof skin/invulnerability. He escapes the wreckage in the confusion, presumed dead. Our story begins a month later as Lucas (now under the false identity Luke Cage and shaved bald) gets off the bus in New York city. With his old life unusable, father dead, and three years of hell behind him, Luke Cage is a man aiming to start over. He has nothing and no one, but with a good attitude and super powers he'll start himself a new life here. First, finding a place to stay and a job.
Story: Given the lack of references he struggles to find work mostly until he chases some thugs away from someone and gets an apartment out of it (first month free), from there he's bouncing around NYC trying to find jobs, running into weird shit, and playing hero in return for favors/information/money/etc. At some point Cage finds out Stryker is still around (now as the crimelord Diamondback) and finds himself clashing several times with his men in Harlem. With Stryker in reach Cage has hope that maybe he can undo the framejob on Carl Lucas. Also possibly goes to his father's (fake) grave and perhaps even gets in contact with his brother James Jr. (though maybe not since he knows J Jr. hates him). Maybe he finds a name he recognizes from his time in Seagate in NYC and tries to learn more about the people that turned him into a superhuman. Either way, the season ends with him really embracing being a local hero rather than the jobs he's been doing being temp. work until he can find a proper job or something. Meanwhile, Stryker is gathering all his forces (and all his influence) n order to both expand out of Harlem... and to take down Luke Cage.
[X] [Actor Idea] Mahershala Ali as Diamondback (Stryker)
Is this too much?
