Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

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Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

Slightly longer than a little while ago, I read the post over on Argentbadger’s blog, The Bovine Overlord featuring his completed Crisis Protocol model of Iron Fist. In much the same way as I followed Argentbadger after seeing his Luke Cage with my own, I’ve also followed his Iron Fist with my version of the model – with of course the requisite several months to get my model painted. (Yes, this model was started in 2023!)

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

I’m honestly not a huge fan of this model. It has that typical overdesigned look that so many of the Crisis Protocol models have, with a convoluted pose flipping over things while in this case connected to the bases with a flimsy and thin piece of weak HIPS plastic “spell effect”.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

Because of this – and the fact that I decided to magnetise the bases of my Crisis Protocol models – because what foam figure case could store these things? – I embedded some debris into his base which serves as a handy-dandy handle to pick the figure up with.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

It’s a little unseemly – and it definitely messes up his cool “Dragon Punch” profile – but with a model this ridiculously fragile, I felt I needed a solution to not have the magnets that save the figure from disintegrating in a foam case just end up causing him to snap in half instead… oh, and I know that fire doesn’t work in the way that the Dragon Punch is painted – it’s magic, okay?

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist

Fun Factoid! Until very recently, (basically, when the Netflix show and publicity articles came out) I had always assumed that Iron Fist/Danny Rand was of Asian descent. I mean, Bruce Lee and all, right? Power Man and Iron Fist – A black guy and an Asian guy teaming up to kick arse – it all made sense to me as a kid, and since I never followed the comic and it made sense to me then, I never questioned it after that.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Luke Cage, Power Man and Iron Fist

To be honest, I was a little disappointed to see Iron Fist as just another white guy – probably because I’d always assumed the opposite.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Luke Cage, Power Man and Iron Fist

Anyway – here they are – completed! Together again for the first time in my own collection.

21 thoughts on “Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Fist”

  1. Excellent rendition of Iron Fist mate, like the magical flame effect you’ve achieved, and can fully understand your choices on the base to make it easier to handle.

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  3. The mini might not be practical but yours is certainly well-painted! From some angles, my eyes start to trick me into thinking he’s giving that dragon an upper cut. Either that or I played too much Street Fighter 2 is a kid. Ryu or Ken had a move that kind of looks like that, minus the dragon, of course.

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      • I spent many years playing SFII with friends and have at least played around casually with every one since. Except for the new one. Still haven’t installed it from the disc that’s been sitting around since last year…

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      • I really only played SFII on the Super Nintendo and maybe a little in the arcade. I was a button masher and had no real idea what I was doing. It is a fun game and one of the few fighting games I’ve tried that’s easy to pick up and enjoy. Some of them take a lot of skill and have really deep gameplay mechanics which is impressive but also keeps me away.

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      • Yep – I was mostly a SNES player, but have had most of the SF games on most of the consoles since then, even if I never played any of them as much as we did that run of SNES carts!

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  5. Great job, and still one of my favorite comics characters. Especially being a bit of a martial arts nut.
    Yea, you and a million other people, thought he needed to be Asian too! I never thought he’d stir up so much controversy. It’s too bad, because I always liked how the two characters (Luke and Danny), were complete opposites and shouldn’t have gotten along at all, but were good friends. So that’s why I wasn’t crazy about the race switch idea (which might have backfired as an Asian stereotype anyways). But if they had, and found a good actor to portray him, I’m sure I would have been swayed.
    The real missed opportunity I think was not making Miles Morales the new Spidey instead of casting Holland in the MCU. Holland does an excellent job, but since the MCU was already quite a deviation from the comics, part of me felt that would have been a perfect switch.

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    • Thanks mate! I didn’t mean disappointed in the lasck of a race-swap way – just that I was disapponted to find that he was never Asian in the first place! I don’t klnwo much of their dynamics since I never read more than the one of two comics I had as a very young-un, and haven’t yet seen the series (I plan to one day, but SO much to watch first in my limited time….)

      I’m not super keen on the whole MCU habit of race and gender-swapping so many characters (or making a new clone of existing characters to do so with) when they already have so many characters to work with of al types. It can work when there’s either a great actor or a pre-existing version (Edris Alba, Tilda Swinton, Sam Jackson) but it’s way overdone!

      I think Miles would have been a huge backfire – Sony/Disney are there to make money, and as cool as Miles is and can be, Peter in the red-and-blue is still WAY more well known and attractive for casuals and semi-casuals (like myself), and even moreso a few years ago when Civil War happened, pre Spider-Verse movies.

      Besides, they’re obviously going to bring him in assuming they keep multi-versing everything, and since all of Sony’s other Spider-Verse films keep failing, so I think we’ll see him sooner rather than later in a big Sony/Marvel film.

      Just pray that it has some good writing for a change…. 😮

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      • Oh my, totally forgot about the race swap on Heimdall. Whereas with Fury, it felt a little weird to me at first, eventually I came around. But Idris Elba owned that character from the get go and turned him into something that just sticks.

        I don’t know, Miles could’ve backfired and could’ve been a success. We will never know. It feels like there was a big enough gap in movies, that a lot of people (or kids) didn’t know the Tobey movies that well. But I did forget that the video game has been super successful and keeping that version of Spider-Man going strong.

        Honestly, you’re not missing much on the Iron Fist and Cage Netflix shows. The actor for Iron Fist was not a good choice and the show wasn’t that well written. Cage was a little better. Mike Colter did a nice job, but the show itself was pretty meh. Cage doesn’t have a very interesting Rogue’s gallery to play off of either.

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      • For Fury I was already aware of the Ultimate Marvel line where they’d just started drawing Fury with Jackson’s likeness (without permission or licencing) some time earlier – so I’d already had my “jarring” moment witht he character – and it’s Sam Jackson, so it worked for me.

        Peter Parker on the other hand is such a central Marvel character that swapping him from the go with Miles would have been a disaster. Miles really became much more well known on a wider level with the animated films that came later.

        Is Jessica Jones any good?

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