Respect Daniel Rand, The Immortal Iron Fist (Marvel 616)
#Respect Daniel Thomas Rand'Kai, The Immortal Iron Fist
"I am the Iron Fist. I hold back the storm when nothing else can."
Daniel Rand was the son of Wendell Rand, a former inhabitant of the mystical city of K'un-Lun, which resided in another dimension and only appeared on earth once every 10 years. When he was 9 years old, Danny was taken by his father, along with his mother and Wendell's partner and co-CEO of his company, Harold Meachum, to return to K'un-Lun. But Harold killed Wendell to take the company for himself and left Danny and his mother to die in the mountains. Along the way his mother sacrificed herself so Danny could live, and he eventually found and was taken into the city of K'un-Lun. And like all other boys in the city Danny was trained the martial arts though his whole life to possibly become the Iron Fist, K'un-Lun's champion who wielded the Chi of the dragon Shou-Lao the undying. Danny mastered all lesson's taught to him by the city's teacher, Lei Kung the Thunderer, and proved himself the best fighter of K'un-Lun. By doing this he earned the right to face Shou-Lao and take his Chi, which he succeeded in again. He had become next in the long line of Iron Fists. However, after doing this Danny followed in his father's footsteps and left K'un-Lun, where he became known to the world as Iron Fist, The Living Weapon, Hero for Hire, and other titles he would earn over the years.
Allies: Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, Lei Kung the Thunderer, Daredevil
Affiliations: K'un-Lun, Immortal Weapons, Heroes for Hire, New Avengers, The Defenders
Enemies: HYDRA, The Ch'i-Lin, Changming and the Eighth City, Steel Serpent
Source Key
- Marvel Premiere = MP
- Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu = DH
- Marvel Team-Up - MT
- Iron Fist volume 1 = IF1
- Power man and Iron Fist volume 1 = PMIF1
- Iron Fist volume 2 = IF2
- Heroes for Hire = HH
- Iron Fist volume 3 = IF3
- Iron Fist & Wolverine: the return of K'un-Lun = IFW
- Iron Fist volume 4 = IF4
- Immortal Iron Fist - IIF
- Iron Fist: The Living Weapon = ILW
#Feats
Amp
During Immortal Iron Fist, Danny received an amp by absorbing the Chi of the previous Iron Fist, Orson Randall as he died. Before this amp, Davos is able to kill Orson (who was superior to Danny) in the time it took Danny to blink. Immediately after the amp Danny and Davos clash and it ends in a draw. In addition to this amp to his raw power, he also improved in skill, after Orson gave him the book of the Iron Fist. Danny learned from the book which contained the techniques and experiences written by the previous iron fists and he soon after began learning many of its secrets. So keep in mind that all feats before Immortal Iron Fist are prior to this amp which increased his power, skill, and awareness.
Strength
- As part of becoming the Iron Fist, he had to kill the dragon Shou-Lao the undying by constricting him to cut off his flow of Chi - MP 16
- Throws a palm strike strong enough to snap a man's neck - MP 15
- Punches a man and simultaneously breaks a steel chain restraining him - MP 16
- Catches a sword thrust from a powerful ninja - MP 22
- Takes out Sabretooth - IF1 22
- Breaks through spider-man's webbing - MT 31
- While disguised as daredevil, hurts spider-man through his iron spider suit - Civil War 4
- Takes out people with spider powers - Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu 1
Speed/Agility
- As part of his training to become the Iron Fist, he snatches a crown from a snake's head - MP 16
- Catches an arrow in flight - Daredevil 509
- Catches and throws back a knife thrown by a highly trained K'un-Lun warrior - IF1 2
- Evades gunfire from the Punisher - HH 9
- Recovers from a fall on instinct as "the world, seeming to drift by in slow motion" - IF1 4
- Dodges an attempted blitz from Iron man - IF1 1
- Evades gunfire with another person from close range - IF1 5
- Takes out gang members in half a dozen heartbeats, and moves so fast the witnesses are sure what happened - IF1 8
- Supposedly faster than lightning reflexes - IF3 1
- Avoids surprise blades traps - MP 17
- and proceeds to avoid machine gun fire a close range - MP 17
- Leaps out of the way of gunfire - MP 17
- Strikes so fast his attacker didn't even see his attack - MP 17
- Repels surprise blades from two assassins - MP 19
- Dodges close range rifle fire while injured - MP 23
- Catches every flechette fired by Stiletto - PMIF1 50
- "Dodges gunfire with ease" and takes out several men in three seconds - PMIF1 54
- Moves and takes out an opponent as the bullet leaves the gun - PMIF1 80
- More dodging gunfire - PMIF1 89
- Dodges electricity fired by the Eel from very close range - PMIF1 92
- Flips through gunfire from multiple sides - Civil War: Choosing Sides
- Leaps from car to car - IF3 1
- Dodges gunfire while surround on all sides by Hydra soldiers - IIF 1
- Dodges gunfire in midair by swinging on a rope - ILW 1
- Reacts in a microsecond and dodges gunfire - IF3 1
- Catches a bullet from behind him - IIF annual
- From several feet away, catches a bullet that a woman fired right next to her head - ILW 12
Durability
- As part of his training to become the Iron Fist, he takes a beating from a large and strong android - MP 15
- Is fine after getting hit through multiple floors - IF1 4
- Catches a ledge without injury after getting thrown through a window - IF1 9
- Takes a headbutt from an early spider-man - MT 31
- Takes a hit from a triple iron that supposedly hits with the force of howitzer shell - IF 10
- After jumping out of a plane, he abandons his parachute and falls to the ground unharmed - IF3 2
- Jumps down an elevator shaft twelve stories underneath a 72 floor skyscraper - ILW 2
- Takes an attack from Sunspot - New Mutants 44
- Remains conscious after an attack from the prince of orphans sends him flying from K'un-lun to Earth - ILW 3
Endurance
- As part of his training to become the Iron Fist, he punches into buckets of rock to make his hands unfeeling - MP 16
- While facing Shou-Lao the undying, he takes an almost unimaginable amount of heat and keeps going - MP 16
- Keeps on going after being drenched in corrosive acid - MP 17
- Pulls a knife out of his shoulder and keeps on fighting - MP 15
- Sits in place for a day without eating or sleeping - IF1 2
- Keeps fighting after absorbing enough radiation to kill him - IF1 4
- Sits in meditation for 3 days before he starts to not feel his toes - Immortal Weapons 5
- Gets his arms broken and keeps fighting before finally passing out - ILW 5
- Endures getting hanging from his arms on hooks and being branded - IIF 23
Senses
- Knows the real iron man through the illusions - IF1 1
- Immediately detects the White Tiger - HH 1
- Catches a thrown blade from behind using his senses - DH 19
- Detects tracks invisible to the naked eye - IF1 3
- Detects and fights sabretooth and later proceeds to knock him out, after being blinded - IF1 14
- Senses that Captain Hero is intangible - PMIF1 111
- Hears the sweat running down a girl's face - IIF 9
Skill
Combat
- As part of his Iron Fist training, he takes out 4 highly trained K'un-Lun martial artists - MP 15
- Masted all techniques taught to him by Lei Kung, who has trained every Iron Fist and every warrior in K'un-lun going back to at least 730 A.D., and possibly long before that - MP 16
- Even when depowered after having his Chi stolen he still easily beats hand ninjas - IFW 3
- Takes out 88 Shield agents in under 7 minutes while holding back not to kill them - IF3 2
- Knocks a woman out with a nerve pinch - PMIF1 53
- Uses a technique to suppress his heart beat to the point that even daredevil couldn't hear it - PMIF1 77
- Mastered the hypnotic fist technique - IIF 4
- Knocks out Misty Knight with a nerve pinch - MP 21
- Another nerve pinch - PMIF1 88
- Quickly dispatches 3 armed K'un-Lun warriors - PMIF1 75
- Defeats Warhawk (his physical superior) while tranquilized - PMIF1 76
- Defeats Shin Kuei, the Cat, who is able to fight Shang-Chi - HH 19
- Defeats a powerful, armed ninja with thousands of years of experience - PMIF1 75
- Uses his drunken style to avoid giving a forewarning to Mr. X's telepathy - Thunderbolts 137
- Has supposedly infinite ways to kill men - IIF 9
- Defeats a monster that increases in size every time it's hit by cutting its Achilles tendon - IIF 23
Stealth
- Sneaks into an airport with no one detecting him - IF1 1
- Disappears into smoke in the blink of an eye - IF1 3
- Disappears as someone detects him - IF1 3
- Sneaks into avengers mansion without setting off any alarms - IF1 12
- Sneaks past multiple enemies into their base - PMIF1 66
Chi Manipulation
After defeating Shou-Lao the undying, he absorbed Shou-Lao's chi into himself, giving him a wide range of abilities involving the manipulation of his Chi, including healing himself and others, energy absorption, and the ability to focus his chi into his hand to preform his most infamous move, the Iron Fist
Iron Fist
- Breaks through elevator doors - MP 17
- Destroys an attacker's weapon by touching it - DH 0
- Smashes through the armor of a monster than could no-sell small arms fire - IF1 24
- Sinks a ship - PMIF1 68
- The Iron Fist only takes .03 seconds for him to charge and use - PMIF1 54
- Smashes through granite - PMIF1 94
- Uses the power of the iron fist reflects a deathblow back on to the attacker - DH 10
- Uses the Iron Fist to block magic attacks - Master of Kung-Fu Annual
- Uses the Iron Fist to go through a electric field that previously turned a man into a skeleton - IF3 2/1
- Hits classic Luke Cage so hard he flies into another building and it collapses - Power Man 48
- He compares the aftermath of using the Iron fist to an H-Bomb - DH 20
- Completely stops an on-coming subway train - DH 18
- Knocks out a guy (while knocking himself out in the process) that could fight with a hammer-less Thor - PMIF1 113/Avengers 226
- Makes Hulk yell by punching him in the back of the head - HH 1
- In a simulation created by norman osborne and ghost, he kills spider-man with a surprise attack - Thunderbolts 137
- Defeats a massive dragon - Immortal Weapons 5
- In one shot takes out a Helicarrier - New Avengers 59
- In one hit kills a fire god, that was fine after being kicked through buildings - ILW 11
Healing
- Purges poison from his body - IF1 9
- Heals the Vision - PMIF1 102
- Heals Luke Cage from dying but very nearly kills himself in the process - HH 12
- Focusing his chi enough as a ghost brings him back to life, apparently - DH 24
- Heals Dakota North's broken arm - Daredevil 111
- Heals himself subconsciously without feeling anything - IIF 8
- Helps cure Shang-Chi of the spider-island virus - Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu 3
- Breaks himself out of norman osborne's mind control - Thunderbolts 137
Energy Absorption
- Absorbs attacks from Master Khan without thinking about it - IF1 7
- Survives Radion's most powerful attack by absorbing it whose power is supposedly measured in hundreds of megatons - IF1 3/4
- Absorbs electromagnetic energy from a train "loaded with enough explosives to make Hiroshima look like a sparkler", and fires himself at it as a human bullet, and destroys it - IIF 14
Telepathy
- Iron Fist can preform pseudo-telepathy in the form of mind-meld, where he temporarily fuses hi consciousness with another's to share their memories and experiences, he uses it to break through Colleen Wing's brain washing - IF1 6
Energy Projection
- Destroys a bunch of cyborg-ninjas with a chi blast - ILW 2
- Fires chi blasts out of his hands at hydra agents - IIF 14
- Creates a huge dragon out of Chi - IIF 17
Misc
- Helps to exorcise the hand demon out of shadowland daredevil - Shadowland 5
- Detects life force - Shadowland 5
- In the same simulation he killed spider-man in, swats bullets charged with chi back at Bucky and throws a chi charged shield through wolverine's head - Thunderbolts 137
Weaknesses
- Is not bulletproof without charging his chi - IIF 26
- Is still human and can die from things like disease, poison, sufficient injury, ect. if he doesn't use chi to heal himself
- Definitely vulnerable to having his soul stolen - MT 63/New Warriors 8/PMIF1 100
Credit to the scans from Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu goes to u/budgetcutsinc thanks for the help.
Credit to u/Wallzo for letting me repost and update the RT, thanks
Posted Mar 5, 2016, 4:21 PM UTC · edited