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| Doesn't this guy just scream "I'm a Hero"? |
Name: Carl Lucas (Legally changed to “Lucas Cage”)
First Appearance: Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 (1972)
History: Growing up in Harlem Carl Lucas was a troubled youth. He was involved with gangs and often in trouble along with his friend Wilis Stryker (As opposed to X-Men villain William Stryker). As he got older Carl had a change of heart and decided to go straight, despite staying friends with the still wrong doing Stryker. One day Wilis’ girlfriend leaves him due to his criminal activities and he starts blaming Carl for it. He plants heroin on his old friend and tips off the police. Lucas was arrested and then imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. While in prison he is recruited for an experimental procedure but an “accident” (Actually a murder attempt) gives Lucas super strength and unbreakable skin. Promptly escaping his imprisonment he takes on the name “Luke Cage” and vows to protect the people he once let down during his youth make that mother-loving money by selling his services as a Hero-for-Hire! Since then Cage has been a complete joke of a character that no one has taken seriously become one of the most respected heroes in the Marvel Universe and a high ranking member of the Avengers.
Beta Says: F*ck Luke Cage.
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