Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skepticultist" data-source="post: 7368697" data-attributes="member: 6898719">Krysten Ritter has said there is no plans for a Defenders 2, and I believe her.  The first one got very lackluster results, and I think the various stars and showrunners don't want to waste time on a second series when it means delaying their own individual series.That said, if they do a Defenders S2, I'd go with Silvermane as the villain and introduce the Maggia (Marvel's version of the Mafia).  At the beginning of the series, the following is true: <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wilson Fisk is either in jail again, or has fled the country following the events of Daredevil S3.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The younger crimelords who would fill in the void left by Fisk have all been murdered by the Punisher.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The various crime families are in disarray, lacking leadership and direction.</li> </ol>An aged, long-retired crime boss sees this situation and finds it intolerable.  He wants back in the game.  His name is SILVIO MANFREDI, and once upon a time he and the Maggia ruled New York.  Grown soft with power, weakened by FBI harassment, the Maggia were pushed out of New York by Fisk (as explained in DD S1 by Silvio to Ben Urich, who was supposed to be a nod to Silvermane, but there can be more than one Silvio), but now Manfredi sees a chance to return.  And he realizes that what he needs to take over New York again is not just gangsters, but SUPER gangsters.He captures DR. KARL MALUS, still on the run from the Feds, and forces him to create a legion of supervillain henchmen for him.  Manfredi presents Malus with two of his top guys:  JOSEPH LORENZINI and LONNIE LINCOLN.  Malus performs his experimental procedures on them, and both are granted superhuman strength and durability, though Lincoln's skin becomes chalk-white as part of the procedure, an adverse reaction.  He ends up calling himself TOMBSTONE because he looks like he just crawled out a grave.Early in the series, Lorenzini confronts Luke Cage, the two fight, and Luke ends up giving Lorenzini a headbutt that cracks his skull and nearly kills him.  Malus is able to save him by installing a heavy steel plate in his head, turning him into HAMMERHEAD.  In their second battle, HAMMERHEAD returns the headbutt, nearly killing Luke.  Even a super-punch to the head from Iron Fist can't slow this guy down.We don't see Manfredi become SILVERMANE until the final episode, when he undergoes the process himself, nearly dies, and is saved at the last minute by "Deathlok" cybernetic enhancements bought/stolen from CYBER-TECH (nice little AOS tie-in there).</blockquote>

Verification