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The Big Bad Returning For Defenders Comic Book – Could They Also Be In The TV Show? (SPOILERS)

In June, ahead of the Netflix show, Brian Bendis and David Marquez and launching a new Defenders comic book, featuring the same characters from the series, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

But who will their big bad be?

Well in the TV show, it's Sigourney Weaver playing Alexandra – could she be a relative of the original Kingpin before Wilson Fisk, Alexander Bont?

But in the comic book? We have an idea at least.

Someone who is paying Jessica Jones a visit. An unfamiliar face, but we have seen him before.

Because that's Diamondback. Willis Stryker. The character who first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire#1 back in 1972, a childhood friend of Luke, turned antagonist, and who died in the following next, falling on his own blades. And while the Diamondback name was used by others, Willis Stryker stayed dead.

But Diamondback got quite the following in the Luke Cage Netflix show. And he may have been bashed up at the end, but we didn;t see his death.

So, in a synergetic move with the comic books, it looks like Diamondback has returned after forty-five years. And has quite the grudge against all the Defenders…

The Defenders #1 is published in June by Marvel Comics. The Netflix show drops in August.

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