document_title: List of Luke Cage characters

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text: List of Luke Cage characters

text: Overview[edit]

text:
Character

Portrayed by

Appearances

First

Season 1

Season 2

Main characters

Luke Cage

Mike Colter

"Moment of Truth"

Main

Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes

Mahershala Ali

Main

Does not appear

Misty Knight

Simone Missick

Main

Shades

Theo Rossi

Main

Willis StrykerDiamondback

Erik LaRay Harvey

"Manifest"

Main

Does not appear

Claire Temple

Rosario Dawson

"Just to Get a Rep"

Main

Guest

Mariah Dillard

Alfre Woodard

"Moment of Truth"

Main

Blake Tower

Stephen Rider

"Now You're Mine"

Guest

Main

Tilda Johnson

Gabrielle Dennis

"Straighten It Out"

Does not appear

Main

John McIverBushmaster

Mustafa Shakir

"Soul Brother #1"

Does not appear

Main

Colleen Wing

Jessica Henwick

"Wig Out"

Does not appear

Main

Danny RandIron Fist

Finn Jones

"The Main Ingredient"

Does not appear

Main

Recurring characters

Rafael Scarfe

Frank Whaley

"Moment of Truth"

Recurring

Guest

Bobby Fish

Ron Cephas Jones

Recurring

Domingo Colon

Jacob Vargas

Recurring

Does not appear

Lonnie Wilson

Darius Kaleb

Recurring

Does not appear

Connie Lin

Jade Wu

Recurring

Guest

Candace Miller

Deborah Ayorinde

Recurring

Does not appear

Mark Bailey

Justin Swain

Recurring

Zip

Jaiden Kaine

Recurring

Does not appear

Sugar

Sean Ringgold

Recurring

Guest

Megan McLaren

Dawn-Lyen Gardner

Recurring

Does not appear

Dave "D.W." Griffith

Jeremiah Richard Craft

Recurring

Comanche

Thomas Q. Jones

"Step in the Arena"

Guest

Recurring

Noah Burstein

Michael Kostroff

Recurring

Does not appear

Thembi Wallace

Tijuana Ricks

"Suckas Need Bodyguards"

Recurring

Guest

Alex Wesley

John Clarence Stewart

Recurring

Priscilla Ridley

Karen Pittman

"Manifest"

Recurring

Does not appear

Benjamin Donovan

Danny Johnson

Guest

Recurring

James Lucas

Reg E. Cathey

"Soul Brother #1"

Does not appear

Recurring

Raymond "Piranha" Jones

Chaz Lamar Shepherd

Does not appear

Recurring

Sheldon

Kevin Mambo

Does not appear

Recurring

Stephanie Miller "Billie"

Tarah Rodgers

Does not appear

Recurring

Tom Ridenhour

Peter Jay Fernandez

Does not appear

Recurring

Nandi Tyler

Antonique Smith

"Straighten It Out"

Does not appear

Recurring

Paul "Anansi" MacIntosh

Sahr Ngaujah

Does not appear

Recurring

Ingrid Mackintosh

Heather Alicia Simms

"Wig Out"

Does not appear

Recurring

text: Main characters[edit]

text: Luke Cage[edit]

text: Carl Lucas (portrayed by Mike Colter), a former convict who was given superhuman strength and unbreakable skin, now fights crime under the name Luke Cage.[1][2][3][4]

text: By November 2014, Lance Gross, Colter, and Cleo Anthony were in contention for the role of Luke Cage, a recurring role on the series Marvel's Jessica Jones followed by a headlining role on Luke Cage.[5] Colter was confirmed in the role the next month, as a series regular in both series.[1] He signed on for the two shows without reading any scripts.[6] Colter had been reluctant to sign on due to the comics depiction of the character,[7] which he was familiar with already,[8] saying "when I saw the tiara, all the 1970s blacksploitation stuff, I was like, 'oh my God...' But they assured me, '...we're doing a modern day version.'"[7]

text: Colter discussed the differences in his portrayal in the two series, saying, "You’re not always the same person around everyone you know ... you might not necessarily behave the same way around your mom that you would with your wife or your boss or your fraternity brothers." In Jessica Jones, Cage was vulnerable and "in a bit of a freefall", but in Luke Cage "he’s trying to regroup and trying to figure out what’s his next move. And then the events that happen in the first few episodes get him going, they catapult him into action."[9] On factoring in race when playing the character, Colter said, "The approach with the character for me is more about the human qualities and the things that make Luke Cage tick ... the writers have to then decide to bring in the race of the character, if there’s an angle there. But I don’t look at it as something I have to prep differently for ... it's more of an aside".[8] Colter put on 30 pounds (14 kg) of muscle for the role.[10] David Austin and Clifton Cutrary portray a young and teenage Lucas, respectively.

text: Describing Cage, Colter said, "He's a neighborhood hero, very much linked to New York and Jessica Jones. It's all part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but Luke Cage is a darker, grittier, more tangible character than Iron Man or Thor ... He has these abilities but he’s not sure how and when to use them.[3] Later elaborating, Colter said, "He's a renaissance man, he's trying to better himself and there's something to be said about someone who's always trying to make themselves better, trying to change."[11] Colter noted that the character's catch phrase 'Sweet Christmas' is used in the series, saying "I was afraid of that phrase, but it actually fits so well, I don't know why, I don't know why it fits so well into Luke's mouth."[7] The phrase is used sparingly though, with the character often "opting instead for pensive silence"; composer Adrian Younge said, "He’s a black superhero, but he’s a different type of black alpha male. He’s not bombastic. You rarely see a modern black male character who is soulful and intelligent."[12]

text: Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes[edit]

text: Cornell Stokes (portrayed by Mahershala Ali) is the owner of the Harlem's Paradise nightclub and the cousin of Mariah Dillard, who deals in illegal operations.[13][14][15] He is later killed by an enraged Mariah who first framed Luke Cage for the murder and later shifted it to Diamondback.

text: Ali joined the cast as Stokes in September 2015,[13] despite knowing that the character would die early on in the series. He compared the experience to "shooting a film, as opposed to stepping into another marriage that you never know how long is going to work out" explaining that when Netflix approached him "about Luke Cage, they gave me the arc, and for the first time, I found myself excited by a character’s departure, because I felt like this was something I could give my all to for a period of time before saying 'peace' to him... It gave me a certain freedom to try to do my best work and make peace with it once he experiences his demise."[16] Elijah Boothe portrays a young Stokes.

text: Ali described Stokes as "a Godfather-type villain",[17] while Head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb referred to him as "the other hero of the story", continuing the tradition of previous Marvel Netflix villains Wilson Fisk and Kilgrave.[18] Ali felt that Stokes is "complicated in his own way. He's somebody who goes about things in a different way than the normal person, including myself."[19] Showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, a former music journalist, said that the attitude of rapper Biggie Smalls, whom Coker had been friends with, permeates Luke Cage but particularly influenced his version of Cottonmouth.[18][20] Ali, who creates mixtapes for each of the characters he portrays so "sonically, the character has a soundtrack", stated that his mixtape for Cottonmouth took into account the fact that he was from Harlem, and included songs from Big L, Diamond D, Brand Nubian, D'Angelo, Mobb Deep, Kanye West, and Erykah Badu.[21]

text: Misty Knight[edit]

text: Mercedes Kelly "Misty" Knight (portrayed by Simone Missick) is a Detective at the 29th Precinct and partner of Rafael Scarfe with a strong sense of justice, who is determined to learn about Cage.[22][23] After losing her right arm in an encounter with Bakuto, she returns to the police force as Claire Temple and Colleen Wing help her cope with having one arm. She is later given a robotic arm by Danny Rand and Colleen Wing.

text: Missick, who was announced in the role of Knight in September 2015,[22][23] described the character as "her own person. She's not the wife. She's not a girlfriend. She's not a sidepiece or a sidekick."[18] Missick continued that Misty Knight is "a person who has a very strong moral compass who is absolutely dedicated to protecting her community", adding her proudest moment in playing the character, was the fact that she "believes in the system, even though... [with] our current times, it's difficult to believe in the system."[24] In approaching the character, Missick chose to not read the comics to avoid the expectations of fans, and instead focus on creating her version of the character. In the series, Knight has what Missick called a "superpower" referred to as 'Misty Vision' that allows her to look at a crime scene and deduce what happened.[25]

text: Shades[edit]

text: Hernan "Shades" Alvarez (portrayed by Theo Rossi) is a relentless, menacing, smooth and manipulative, street smart criminal working for Diamondback with ties to Cage's past where they were inmates at Seagate Prison.[26][23][27][28]

text: Rossi was announced as being cast as Shades in September 2015.[23][27] Loeb called Shades "kind of the Littlefinger of Luke Cage", "the ultimate opportunist".[18] He wears sunglasses for most of the series, and used Marvel's Daredevil and Charlie Cox's acting as research, since he could not use his eyes to act, similar to Cox as Matt Murdock.[19]

text: Willis Stryker / Diamondback[edit]

text: Willis Stryker (portrayed by Erik LaRay Harvey) is a powerful arms dealer who is Cage's half-brother and the one who framed him for the crime that sent him to Seagate Prison.[29][30] He later has a showdown with Luke Cage outside of Pop's barbershop while sporting an exo-suit. Luke manages to defeat Diamondback who is arrested by the police.

text: In March 2016, set photos revealed that Harvey had been cast as Stryker in the series.[29] This was not officially announced by Marvel prior to the series' release, and Harvey agreed not to do any publicity for the show, to not "ruin the twist" of Stryker being the series' main villain.[31] Harvey chose not to read the comics to learn more about the character in order to not "interfere with what we were trying to do and cloud my judgment," instead relying on Coker to develop the 2016 version of Stryker, including adjusting his backstory to be the half-brother of Carl Lucas. However, Coker did try to bring as much of the comics' version of the character to the series as he could, including adapting the character's comic costume into armor that allows Stryker to match Cage's super strength.[30] Jared Kemp portrays a teenage Stryker.

text: Harvey talked about the character's illegitimacy, saying, "My character had been called a bastard his whole life. How does that make a person operate? How would you feel if your childhood was illegitimized and ignored and swept under a rug? That’s what drives Willis ... He gets sent away because of his father’s actions and then once he’s in the jail system, he just gets tortured. After all that, his mind’s been twisted and warped, and he’s developed this sensitivity that’s almost psychopathic." Regarding the character's fighting style, Harvey worked with the series' fight coordinator to give Stryker "quick, really fast dabs and slithers" in his movement "because he’s very elusive", given "Diamondback" is named after a species of snakes. The character is always seen smiling when killing or defaming Cage's name, which is "just his way of dealing with his pain. He smiles through his pain."[30]

text: Claire Temple[edit]

text: Claire Temple (portrayed by Rosario Dawson) is a nurse in Hell's Kitchen, whose friendship with Cage will affect both of their lives.[23][27]

text: In November 2015, Dawson was confirmed to be reprising her role of Temple from the previous Marvel Netflix series.[23][27] "Because she plays a nurse that basically seems to be in the right place at the right time, and she's very good at helping out superheroes who are in need, and I think you will see some of that in Luke Cage," said Colter. "Ultimately I think she's going to be a very good companion for Luke. I think she's someone that Luke needs in his life at this time."[32]

text: Mariah Dillard[edit]

text: Mariah Dillard (portrayed by Alfre Woodard) is a local councilwoman, Stokes' cousin, and Tilda Johnson's mother looking to bring change to Harlem, whose life is "thrown into turmoil" by the actions of Cage and Stokes.[33][18] By the end of season two, Mariah Dillard is secretly poisoned by Tilda in her jail cell and dies from the poison.

text: In August 2015, Woodard, who portrays Miriam Sharpe in the MCU film Captain America: Civil War,[34] was in talks to join the cast,[35] and the following month she was confirmed as a series regular, portraying Dillard.[33][18] Woodard, who lives in Harlem,[12] felt that the scripts for the episodes were some "of the smartest pieces of writing [I'd] ever come across",[19] and was convinced to join the project after Coker proved his love of Harlem and its culture.[12] The series' version of the character is significantly different from the comics' Black Mariah, with her portrayed as not necessarily a criminal herself, though she does feel a responsibility to her family which includes Stokes.[26][36] To pay homage to her origins, Coker wanted to give the character the nickname "Black Mariah", which Woodard agreed with if it was used sensitively. The nickname is ultimately used by Stokes as a personal insult from their past growing up together, in retaliation to Dillard verbally attacking him.[36] Megan Miller portrays a young Dillard.

text: Tilda Johnson[edit]

text: Tilda Johnson (portrayed by Gabrielle Dennis) is an holistic doctor who cannot stay out of trouble in Harlem.[37] She is the daughter of Mariah Dillard as the result of one of her rapes at the hands of Pistol Pete.

text: Dennis was announced as cast for the second season in July 2017.[37]

text: John McIver / Bushmaster[edit]

text: John McIver (portrayed by Mustafa Shakir) is a natural leader focused on Harlem and vengeance.[37]

text: Shakir was announced as cast for the second season in July 2017.[37]

text: Blake Tower[edit]

text: Blake Tower (portrayed by Stephen Rider) is a New York assistant district attorney.[38]

text: Colleen Wing[edit]

text: Colleen Wing (portrayed by Jessica Henwick) is a former member of the Hand, Rand's lover, and the owner of a New York City dojo.[39] Colleen helps Misty Knight by training her to fight with one arm. As she and Misty Knight are having drinks in the bar, they are attacked by Mr. Fish. Colleen takes out Mr. Fish's minions as Misty Knight defeats Mr. Fish. Colleen later assists Danny Rand into giving Misty Knight a robotic arm to replace the one that she lost.

text: Iron Fist[edit]

text: Danny Rand / Iron Fist (portrayed by Finn Jones) is a billionaire Buddhist monk, co-CEO of Rand Enterprises, and martial arts expert with the ability to call upon the mystical power of the Iron Fist, who Luke partnered with during his investigation of the Hand during the events in The Defenders.[40] Danny Rand and Colleen Wing give Misty Knight a robotic arm to replace the one that she lost. He later helps Luke Cage in searching for Bushmaster.

text: Recurring characters[edit]

text: The following is a list of guest characters that have recurring roles throughout the series. The characters are listed by the MCU media or season in which they first appeared.

text: Introduced in other TV series[edit]

text: Benjamin Donovan[edit]

text: Benjamin Donovan (portrayed by Danny Johnson, Chaundre Hall-Broomfield as a young man) is a lawyer known for representing high-profile criminals such as Stokes, Dillard and Wilson Fisk.[41]

text: Johnson reprises his role from Daredevil.

text: Introduced in season one[edit]

text: Rafael Scarfe[edit]

text: Rafael Scarfe (portrayed by Frank Whaley) is a hard-nosed police detective at the NYPD's 29th Precinct and partner of Misty Knight who is on Stokes' payroll.[23][42][43] After he was double-crossed and shot by Stokes, Rafael later died in Misty's arms. It was later revealed that he had a hand in the release of 30 criminals including Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton.

text: Whaley's role as Scarfe was announced alongside the series' main cast in September 2015.[23][42] The actor described Scarfe's relationship with Misty Knight as one with "a great deal of love and respect for each other", given that Scarfe "is Misty's mentor... [who] showed her the ropes. She had this raw talent that he, unlike other people on the force, nurtured".[24] When Scarfe is revealed to be corrupt, he is also shown to have had a son who is now dead.[44] Whaley said on this, "It gives the guy a certain amount of complexity ... he's a very conflicted guy and probably has a lot of issues coming into the show with some stuff in his past that led him down that road. I know that he's solid with his partner. I think he has a good heart."[45] Whaley's portrayal of Scarfe's relationship with Misty Knight was not affected by the character's reveal of being on Stokes' payroll, as Whaley was not aware of it until an episode before it was revealed.[43]

text: Bobby Fish[edit]

text: Bobby Fish (portrayed by Ron Cephas Jones)[46] is a local chess master and friend of Pop and Cage's.

text: Domingo Colon[edit]

text: Domingo Colon (portrayed by Jacob Vargas)[47] is a gang leader from Spanish Harlem and business partner of Stokes and Dillard. He was killed by Diamondback.

text: Lonnie Wilson[edit]

text: Lonnie Wilson (portrayed by Darius Kaleb)[48] is a young boy from Harlem. He meets Luke Cage, who looks out for Lonnie on the streets. Lonnie is taken into custody for questioning about Cage, and is given a brutal beating by Detective Dorsey. This leads to Lonnie’s beating being spread through the media by a corrupted politician for their own benefit. He is a supporter of Luke Cage because he knows Cage is innocent of the crimes he has allegedly committed.

text: Connie Lin[edit]

text: Connie Lin (portrayed by Jade Wu)[49] is one of the owners of the Genghis Connie's restaurant below Cage's apartment.

text: Candace Miller[edit]

text: Candace Miller (portrayed by Deborah Ayorinde)[50] is a hostess at Harlem's Paradise who is paid by Mariah to falsely accuse Luke of Cottonmouth's murder. After Misty gets her to confess the truth, she is later killed by Shades following Luke Cage's fight with Diamondback.

text: Mark Bailey[edit]

text: Mark Bailey (portrayed by Justin Swain) is an NYPD officer at the NYPD's 29th Precinct focused on analytics. He becomes a partner and friend of Knight's.[51] After Misty Knight lost her right arm during the fight with Bakuto, Mark was reassigned to Nandi Tyler.

text: Swain was cast as Bailey after a blind audition, and did not learn that the series was Luke Cage until later receiving an e-mail welcoming him to the MCU. The character of Bailey was originally going to have an introductory scene in the fifth episode establishing his relationship with Knight in the series, but the scene was ultimately cut. The script mentioned Bailey taking off his glasses in a scene, so Swain brought a pair of his wife's glasses to the set. During his first scene, Swain "was looking at something close through my wife’s prescription and I started to get dizzy", and quickly took the glasses off, which "became this character thing that Bailey did. He would look up and quickly take off his glasses."[52] Swain felt his character was original for the series, despite a similarly named character appearing in X-Men comics that Swain "search[ed] pretty deep" to find.[51]

text: Zip[edit]

text: Zip (portrayed by Jaiden Kaine)[41] is a gangster who provides muscle for Cottonmouth. Following Cottonmouth's death, Diamondback promotes Zip to be his secondary advisor, behind only Shades. After Diamondback and Shades have a falling out, Diamondback offers to make Zip his second-in-command if he kills Shades. Zip tries to strangle Shades in a freight elevator, but Shades fights back, grabs a gun, kills both of the men accompanying Zip. After getting Zip to confess to Diamondback's duplicity, Shades shoots him in the head.

text: Sugar[edit]

text: Sugar (portrayed by Sean Ringgold)[53][41] is one of Stokes' men. Following Cottonmouth's death, he went to work for Diamondback and Mariah Dillard. When Dillard began to spiral during her war with Bushmaster, he quit and went to Luke Cage where he now works for him.

text: Megan McLaren[edit]

text: Megan McLaren (portrayed by Dawn-Lyen Gardner) is a reporter for WJBP-TV.[54]

text: Dave "D.W." Griffith[edit]

text: Dave "D.W." Griffith (portrayed by Jeremiah Richard Craft) is a young kid selling videos of superheroes in action.

text: Commanche[edit]

text: Darius "Comanche" Jones (portrayed by Thomas Q. Jones) is an inmate at Seagate Prison who worked for Rackham and was cellmates with Shades.[55] After getting out, he rejoins his partner as one of Mariah Dillard's henchmen. Shades was later forced to kill Comanche when he found out that he was Tom Ridenhour's informant.

text: Noah Burstein[edit]

text: Noah Burstein (portrayed by Michael Kostroff) is a doctor at Seagate that give Lucas his powers due to his experiments.[38]

text: Thembi Wallace[edit]

text: Thembi Wallace (portrayed by Tijuana Ricks)[56] is a news reporter.

text: Alex Wesley[edit]

text: Alex Wesley (portrayed by John Clarence Stewart)[57] is Mariah Dillard's assistant.

text: Priscilla Ridley[edit]

text: Priscilla Ridley (portrayed by Karen Pittman)[53][41] is an inspector in the NYPD's 29th Precinct and former sorority sister of Mariah Dillard who Misty Knight answers to. In season two, Priscilla has been promoted to deputy police chief.

text: James Lucas[edit]

text: James Lucas (portrayed by an unknown actor in season one, Reg E. Cathey in season two) is a pastor and Luke Cage's father. The two have a strained relationship due to Cage's incarceration and his own adulterous affair with Dana Stryker.[58]

text: Introduced in season two[edit]

text: Raymond "Piranha" Jones[edit]

text: Raymond "Piranha" Jones (portrayed by Chaz Lamar Shepherd) is a crime boss from wall-street who has ties to the Stokes and is obsessed with Luke Cage.[59] He was later killed by Bushmaster who left his head in Mariah Dillard's fish tank.

text: Sheldon[edit]

text: Sheldon (portrayed by Kevin Mambo as an adult, Antwayne Eccleston as a young man) is Bushmaster's right hand man.

text: Stephanie Miller "Billie"[edit]

text: Stephanie Miller (portrayed by Tarah Rodgers) is an escort hired by Mariah Dillard who renames her Billie in an effort to use her in her latest scheme.

text: Tom Ridenhour[edit]

text: Tom Ridenhour (portrayed by Peter Jay Fernandez) is a police captain and Misty Knight's new superior who does not approve of Cage's style of justice.[60] He gained an informant in Comanche until he was killed by him.

text: Nandi Tyler[edit]

text: Nandi Tyler (portrayed by Antonique Smith) is a detective and longtime rival of Misty Knight.[61] She is later arrested by Misty Knight and Priscilla Ridley after they discover that she had sided with Bushmaster.

text: Paul "Anansi" MacIntosh[edit]

text: Paul "Anansi" MacIntosh (portrayed by Sahr Ngaujah) is Bushmaster's uncle and a former criminal in his own right who runs a Jamaican bar called "Gwen's" which is named after his sister-in-law Gwen McIver. He is later killed by Mariah Dillard. The death of Paul causes Bushmaster and Ingrid to take him home to Jamaica to give him a proper funeral.

text: Ingrid Mackintosh[edit]

text: Ingrid Mackintosh (portrayed by Heather Alicia Simms) is Anansi's wife and Bushmaster's aunt who runs a Jamaican bar.

text: Guest characters[edit]

text: The following is a supplementary list of guest stars that appear in lesser roles or make significant cameo appearances. The characters are listed by the MCU media or season in which they first appeared.

text: Introduced in other TV series[edit]

text:
Reva Connors (portrayed by Parisa Fitz-Henley; first appears in season one): Cage's deceased wife, who started out as a Seagate Prison therapist.[53][62]
Turk Barrett (portrayed by Rob Morgan; first appears in season one): An arms dealer.[63]
Trish Walker (voiced by Rachael Taylor; first heard in season one): Jessica Jones' best friend who works as a radio host.[38]
Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (portrayed by Elden Henson; first appears in season two): A lawyer at Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz.[64]
Hai-Qing Yang (portrayed by Henry Yuk; first appears in season two): The leader of the Yangsi Gonshi that is an uneasy ally of Danny Rand.

text: Introduced in season one[edit]

text:
Henry "Pop" Hunter (portrayed by Frankie Faison as an adult, Edwin Freeman as a young man): A reformed gangster and proprietor of Pop's Barbershop who is considered Harlem's father figure. He is killed by Tone.[65][62][66]
Patricia Wilson (portrayed by Cassandra Freeman): Lonnie Wilson's mother and lawyer who is interested in Cage.
Wilfredo "Chico" Diaz (portrayed by Brian "Sene" Marc): A local boy who gets caught up in crime. A key witness, he is killed by the corrupt detective Scarfe.[45]
Jin Lin (portrayed by Clem Cheung): One of the owners of the Genghis Connie's restaurant.[49]
Tone (portrayed by Warner Miller): One of Stokes' men who led the attack on Pop's Barbershop. He is killed when Stokes throws him off the roof of Harlem's Paradise for what happened to Pop.
Albert Rackham (portrayed by Chance Kelly): A corrupt guard at Seagate Prison who recruits Carl Lucas for the inmate fight ring. He is killed in the accident that gave Luke Cage his powers.[67]
Reggie "Squabbles" (portrayed by Craig Mums Grant): An inmate at Seagate Prison that Lucas befriends. He is killed offscreen on Rackham's orders.
Perez (portrayed by Manny Pérez): A lieutenant in the NYPD's 29th Precinct who is on Stokes' payroll.
Soledad Temple (portrayed by Sônia Braga): Claire Temple's mother.[68]
Betty Audrey (portrayed by Sonja Sohn): A police captain in the NYPD's 29th Precinct who takes the fall for the exposure of the corruption in her precinct.[69]
Mama Mabel (portrayed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson): The grandmother of Cornell Stokes and Mariah Dillard, who lead the Stokes crime family when they were young.
Pistol Pete (portrayed by Curtiss Cook): Mama Mabel's brother-in-law and right-hand who sexually abused Dillard when she was young. One of these activities led to Mariah giving birth to Tilda. Mabel forced Cornell to kill Pete.
Damon Boone (portrayed by Clark Jackson):[38] Dillard's rival for the Harlem council. He was later kidnapped and killed by Diamondback.
Dana Stryker (portrayed by Natalie Paul): Willis Stryker's mother.
Esther "Etta" Lucas (portrayed by Joniece Abbott-Pratt): Cage's mother and James' wife.
Mario Green (portrayed by PJ Marshall): A lieutenant of the Emergency Service Unit of the NYPD's 29th Precinct.

text: Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance through an on-set photograph, the same seen in previous Marvel Netflix series.[70] In Iron Fist, Lee's character is identified as NYPD Captain Irving Forbush.[71]

text: Raphael Saadiq,[72] d-Nice,[73] Faith Evans, Charles Bradley, Jidenna,[72] Dapper Dan,[38] The Delfonics,[72] Cliff "Method Man" Smith,[74] Sway Calloway, Heather B.,[75] Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings,[76] and Fab Five Freddy all appear as themselves.[77]

text: Introduced in season two[edit]

text:
Arturo Rey "El Ray" III (portrayed by Otto Sanchez): A drug dealer covering as a furniture salesman who tries to buy Dillard's assets.[78] He is later killed by Shades and Comanche.
Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton (portrayed by Dorian Missick): A low level thug working under his employer Piranha Jones.[79] He is later killed and beheaded by Bushmaster.
Drea Powell (portrayed by Michelle Beck): Cockroach Hamilton's girlfriend who suffers abuse at his hands.
C.J. Powell (portrayed by Christopher King): Cockroach Hamilton's son who looks up to Luke Cage and tries to protect his mom.
Mortimer "Mr. Fish" Norris (portrayed by Hakim Callender): A minor criminal who wants revenge on Misty Knight for imprisoning his brother Bill.[80][81]
Gideon Shaw (portrayed by R.A. Guirand): An old friend of Bushmaster's who is incarcerated. Misty Knight goes to him for information.
Mark Higgins (portrayed by Jeorge Watson): The CEO of Atreus Plastics and one of Mariah Dillard's "allies" who have been blackmailed by her. He is later killed and beheaded by Bushmaster.
Andre "Ray-Ray" Jackson (portrayed by Los Jones): Shades' personal assistant. He is later killed and beheaded by Bushmaster.
Nigel Garrison (portrayed by Macc H. Plaise as an adult, Alex Allen as a young man): The leader of the Yardies and Miriah Dillard's rival who is killed by Bushmaster.
Detective Tomas Ciancio (portrayed by Rey Lucas): A friend of Misty's who has information about Bushmaster and where he is from.
Wendy Dunnavant (portrayed by Carolyn Michelle Smith): A friend and adviser to Dillard who suggests that she reunite with her daughter Tilda.
Janis Jones (portrayed by LaTonya Borsay): Comanche's mother who mourns his death and despises Shades.
Kalinda "Sunflower" Reynolds (portrayed by Delissa Reynolds): A former prostitute and inmate at Ryker's Prison who knew Dillard. She is killed by her.
Rosalie Carbone (portrayed by Annabella Sciorra): A criminal underworld "power player" with an agenda involving Harlem.[82]

text: Stan Lee makes another cameo this season as a flyer.[83]

text: Faith Evans, Joi & D-Nice, Gary Clark Jr., Esperanza Spalding, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Jadakiss, KRS-One, and Rakim all appear as themselves.[84]


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text: List of people convicted of treason

text: Armenia[edit]

text: Meruzhan Artzruni, Lord Prince of Vaspurakan (? - 369), for conspiring with one of the Great Persian Kings, Shapur II against his liege-lord, Armenian King Arsaces II (Arshak II), whom he betrayed to Persia. He was captured by Arsaces II's son King Papas (Pap) and executed.

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text: Austria[edit]

text: Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár, for involvement in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Executed by firing squad on the same day as the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

text: Austria-Hungary[edit]

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Nedeljko Čabrinović, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Vaso Čubrilović, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Veljko Čubrilović, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trifko Grabez, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Danilo Ilić, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Muhamed Mehmedbašić, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Cvjetko Popović, for conspiring to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip, for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Nazario Sauro, for fighting for Italy in the First World War

text: Canada[edit]

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Louis Riel, executed for leading the Métis in the North-West Rebellion against Canada's expansion into the west.
Kanao Inouye, Kamloops-born sergeant in the Imperial Japanese army in World War II, executed for killing eight Canadian prisoners of war captured at the Battle of Hong Kong.

text: China[edit]

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Zhou Fohai, for serving in the Wang Jingwei government in the Second World War
Chen Gongbo, for serving in the Wang Jingwei government in the Second World War
Wang Jingwei, president of the Reorganized National Government of China (puppet government controlled by Japan) in the Second World War

text: Republic of Congo[edit]

text: Pascal Lissouba, former President of the Republic of Congo

text: Czechoslovakia[edit]

text: Karel Čurda, for betraying the Czech Resistance and the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich.

text: Denmark (under the Nazi occupational government)[edit]

text: Henrik Kauffmann was charged with grand (high) treason by the Nazi-occupied Danish government, for helping the Allies.

text: East Germany[edit]

text: Werner Teske

text: England[edit]

text: Estonia[edit]

text:
Aleksei Dressen
Herman Simm
Vladimir Veitman[citation needed]

text: Fiji[edit]

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George Speight, for plotting the Fiji coup of 2000. Death sentence commuted to life in prison.
Ratu Jope Seniloli, incumbent Vice-President (in 2004), for his role in the coup of 2000. Sentenced to four years in gaol; released by a sympathetic government after three months.

text: Finland[edit]

text: Lauri Törni, for having served with the German Army at the end of World War II, later received a presidential pardon

text: France[edit]

text:
François Achille Bazaine[1]
Robert Brasillach
Marcel Bucard
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Cinq-Mars[2]
Joseph Darnand, for leading the Vichy French Milice.
Émile Dewoitine, aviation industrialist sentenced to 20 years forced labour sentence for collaboration.
Charles François Dumouriez[3]
Isabeau of Bavaria[4]
John the Fearless[5]
Pierre Laval, for being Prime Minister of Vichy France.
Jean Victor Marie Moreau[6]
Michel Ney[7]
Philippe Pétain
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord[8]
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI

text: Germany[edit]

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Adolf Hitler, for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923
Marinus van der Lubbe, for high treason and arson in the Reichstag fire case, in 1933
Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst in 1943 for their involvement in the anti-Nazi White Rose movement
Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (1902-1944), a key conspirator in the failed assassination attempt in the July 20 plot in 1944 on Hitler's life
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, for the attempted assassination of Hitler in the July 20 plot in 1944
Günter Guillaume, Private Secretary to then-chancellor Willy Brandt, and his wife Christel Guillaume, both officers of East German Staatssicherheit, in 1975
Clyde Lee Conrad, former US Army NCO, the only person to have been handed down a lifetime sentence for treason by a court of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1990
Klaus Kuron (de), counter-intelligence officer with the Bundesverfassungsschutz who had spied for East German Staatssicherheit, in 1992

text: Great Britain[edit]

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Archibald Cameron of Locheil, for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising
William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, for supporting the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
Thomas Paine,[9] for publishing anti-British revolutionary literature
Charles Radclyffe, for supporting the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715

text: Greece[edit]

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Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (1921–1922), convicted of treason in 1922 for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Petros Protopapadakis, Minister of Economy in Dimitrios Gounaris' government and later Prime Minister of Greece (1922), convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Nikolaos Stratos, Minister of Internal Affairs in Gounaris' government, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Georgios Baltatzis (el), Minister of Foreign Affairs in Gounaris' government, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Nikolaos Theotokis (el), Minister of Military Affairs in Gounaris' government, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Georgios Hatzanestis, commanding officer of the Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace Greek army, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Executed 15 November 1922.
Michail Goudas (el), rear admiral and minister in Gounaris' government, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Xenophon Stratigos, major general and minister in Gounaris' government, convicted of treason for the Asia Minor catastrophe. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
George Papadopoulos, Greek colonel, leader of a military junta (1967-1973), convicted of treason and jailed for life, dying in Korydallos prison.

text: Hawaii[edit]

text: The Republic of Hawaii government had one trial for treason after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution in Hawaii. Those charged were found guilty, but pardoned after serving time in prison.[10]

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Charles T. Gulick (1841–1897), former cabinet minister
Robert William Wilcox (1855–1903), military leader, later delegate to US Congress

text: Hungary[edit]

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Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, for leading the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Count Fidel Palffy
László Rajk
Sándor Szűcs, international footballer, for defecting.

text: Israel[edit]

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Meir Tobianski, falsely accused of treason during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Executed by firing squad but pardoned after his death.
Mordechai Vanunu, for revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.
"Prisoner X2", a mole within Mossad.

text: Japan[edit]

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Ozaki Hotsumi, journalist and Soviet agent (nominally convicted under the Peace Preservation Law)
Daisuke Namba, Japanese left-wing activist
Kotoku Shusui, Japanese anarchist

text: Kenya[edit]

text: Hezekiah Ochuka, Kenya airforce soldier, for conspiring to overthrow the government of Daniel Moi in 1982

text: Kuwait[edit]

text: Alaa Hussein Ali, for heading the Iraqi puppet government during the Gulf War

text: Mexico[edit]

text: Agustín de Iturbide, for fighting for the royalists' army during the Mexican War of Independence.

text: Netherlands[edit]

text: Anton Mussert, for leading the Dutch puppet regime under Nazi occupation.

text: New Zealand[edit]

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Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, for passing information to the Japanese during World War II (Was not convicted under New Zealand civil law)
Hamiora Pere, for fighting against the British government in Te Kooti's War.Sentence was Death by Hanging

text: Norway[edit]

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Albert Viljam Hagelin, member of Quisling's government.
Vidkun Quisling, for being Minister President of Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II. The word 'quisling' now means 'traitor'.
Ragnar Skancke, Quisling's minister of Church and Educational Affairs.
Arne Treholt Norwegian diplomat, turned by the KGB

text: Pakistan[edit]

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Shakil Afridi, for spying for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States
Hussain Haqqani, for involvement with a secret memo to Admiral Michael Mullen asking for US intervention in changing Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies.

text: Poland[edit]

text: For the betrayal of General Stefan Rowecki to the Gestapo:

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Blanka Kaczorowska (pl) ("Sroka"), as above, emigrated to France in 1971
Ludwik Kalkstein ("Hanka"), protected by the Gestapo during the war, emigrated to France in 1982
Eugeniusz Świerczewski ("Gens"), executed 1944

text: For betrayal of the Polish People's Republic:

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Witold Pilecki ("Druh"), death for espionage for the Polish Government-in-exile, executed in 1948, posthumously acquitted in 1990
Ryszard Kukliński ("Jack Strong"), escaped to the USA in 1981, sentenced to death in absentia in 1984, in 1990 sentence changed to 25 years of imprisonment, in 1995 sentence cancelled due to search of the 1st President of the Supreme Court, fully pardoned in 1997
Adam Kaczmarczyk, death for espionage for MI16, executed in 1969

text: Russia[edit]

text:
Valentin Danilov - 14 years for espionage for China
Mikhail Shein
Igor Sutyagin (2004) - 15 years for espionage for USA. Exchanged for Russian spies in 2010.

text: Scotland[edit]

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Robert Baillie, for involvement in the Rye House Plot
William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, for leading the Raid of Ruthven on King James VI
Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney, for usurping King James VI on the Orkney Islands

text: Soviet Union[edit]

text:
Leonid Eitingon circa 1953
Oleg Penkovsky
Adolf Tolkachev, worked with CIA, executed 1986
Gennady Varenik KGB, worked for CIA
Andrey Vlasov
Genrikh Yagoda

text: Spain[edit]

text:
Francisco Xavier Mina, for fighting against the Spanish government in the Mexican War of Independence.
Camilo Torres Tenorio, for leading the independence movement in Colombia
Carles Puigdemont, for declaration of independence of the Catalan Republic. Currently in exile in Belgium.

text: Sri Lanka[edit]

text: Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil rebel leader who fought with the government for 30 years.

text: Sweden[edit]

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Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, attempted to overthrow the guardian-government of King Gustav IV Adolf with Russian military assistance.
Johann Patkul, protested the land-recovery project of Charles XI of Sweden and, when unsuccessful, sided with Augustus the Strong and tried to wrest Livonia from Sweden.
Magdalena Rudenschöld, for taking part in the Armfelt conspiracy.
Brita Tott, for exposing military movements to Denmark

text: Switzerland[edit]

text: Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, sentenced to 18 years of prison (released after 12 for good behavior) for leaking information to the Soviet KGB.

text: Turkey[edit]

text: Abdullah Öcalan, life sentence (originally death penalty) for trying to establish a Kurdish state in Turkey.

text: United Kingdom[edit]

text:
John Amery, for trying to recruit soldiers and broadcasting propaganda for Nazi Germany.
Roger Casement, for negotiating with Germany to provide arms to Irish revolutionaries during the First World War for use in the Irish Easter 1916 rising; hanged in August 1916.
William Comstive, Charles Stanfield, Richard Addy, Benjamin Hanson and eighteen others were tried and convicted for High Treason for revolt in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1820.
William Joyce, alias 'Lord Haw-Haw', for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom during World War II
Members of the British Free Corps: Thomas Haller Cooper and Walter Purdy (death sentences commuted)
Participants in the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland: Patrick Pearse, Thomas J. Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Edward (Ned) Daly, William Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan, John MacBride, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Cornelius Colbert, Seán Heuston, Seán Mac Diarmada, James Connolly, and Thomas Kent were shot by firing squad in May 1916.
Arthur Thistlewood, John Brunt, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd, Charles Cooper, Richard Bradburn, John Harrison, James Wilson and John Shaw Strange participants of the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy
James Wilson (revolutionary) convicted and executed for High Treason, following his part in the Scottish Insurrection of 1820.

text: United States[edit]

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Philip Vigol and John Mitchell, convicted of treason and sentenced to hanging; pardoned by George Washington; see Whiskey Rebellion.
John Fries, the leader of Fries' Rebellion, convicted of treason in 1800 along with two accomplices, and pardoned that same year by John Adams.
Governor Thomas Dorr 1844, convicted of treason against the state of Rhode Island; see Dorr Rebellion; released in 1845; civil rights restored in 1851; verdict annulled in 1854.
John Brown, convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1859 and executed for attempting to organize armed resistance to slavery.
Aaron Dwight Stevens, took part in John Brown's raid and was executed in 1860 for treason against Virginia.
William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War.
Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner's March with the coal companies and the US Army on Blair Mountain, West Virginia. He was sentenced to 10 years and fined. During his appeal to the Supreme Court he disappeared while out on bail. United Mineworkers of America leader William Blizzard was acquitted of the charge of treason by the jury on May 25, 1922.[11]
Martin James Monti, United States Army Air Forces pilot, convicted of treason for defecting to the Waffen SS in 1944. He was paroled in 1960.
Robert Henry Best, convicted of treason on April 16, 1948 and served a life sentence.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who is frequently identified by the name "Tokyo Rose," convicted 1949. Subsequently, pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Mildred Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally", convicted of treason on March 8, 1949; served 12 years of a 10- to 30-year prison sentence.
Tomoya Kawakita, sentenced to death for treason in 1952, but eventually released by President John F. Kennedy to be deported to Japan.

text: Zambia[edit]

text: Steven Lungu, also known as Captain Solo. Sentenced to death for an attempted coup in 1997, he was pardoned in 2010 by President Rupiah Banda.

text: Zimbabwe[edit]

text: Ndabaningi Sithole, for conspiring to kill Robert Mugabe