Colleen Wing

Colleen Wing is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Wing first appeared in Marvel Premiere #19 (November 1974) by Doug Moench, the late Dick Giordano, Larry Hama and the late Neal Adams.
Descended from a family of samurai, Wing is a Japanese martial artist who avenged her grandfather's death with the help of the superhero Iron Fist. After arriving in New York City, Wing befriended former police officer Misty Knight with whom she started a private investigation agency. The two would later form the crime fighting duo, Daughters of the Dragon. As private investigators, Wing and Knight frequently work with Heroes for Hire: Luke Cage and Iron Fist. In the 2010 Daredevil storyline, "Shadowland", Wing becomes the leader of The Nail, a splinter group of The Hand ninja clan.
Jessica Henwick portrays the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the character in Netflix's Iron Fist.
==Biography==
=== Backstory ===
Colleen was born in the United States to parents of mixed Asian descent, her father being a professor of Asian studies in New York. She spent most of her youth in northern Japan however, being raised by her grandfather. It was her grandfather, Kanji, who would teach her the ways of the samurai.
Upon returning to the New York, Colleen would meet and befriend Danny Rand, also known as the hero Iron Fist. It was during this time that Colleen's father asked in the help of the Iron Fist. The two already soon became good partners and fought together on the mission that her father had set them out to do. After a succesfull mission Colleen stayed in touch with Iron Fist.
He would call upon her and her skills numerous times, particularly when confronting the Kara-Kai Death Cult. While in New York, Colleen would be saved by an NYPD officer named Misty Knight during a shoot-out. The two became best friends afterwards.
After a devastating injury in which Misty lost an arm after a bomb blast, Colleen stood by her new friend and helped her through her recovery even though Misty's days as an officer seemed over. Eventually, Misty's arm was replaced by a bionic one, and the two women teamed up to form a partnership as heroes for hire. They are sometimes referred to as the "Daughters of the Dragon" because of Colleen's background.
=== Story ===
Together with Misty, Colleen would help out Iron Fist on numerous occasions, and also became part of the Heroes for Hire business with Iron Fist's new partner Luke Cage, Power Man. Soon a romance blossemed between Colleen and Luke as well as between Misty and Danny Rand (Iron Fist). Colleen's new role as a hero for hire would however put her into conflict against her old friend Iron Fist when both Colleen and Misty were enslaved by Angar the Screamer and Master Khan, forcing them to fight against their will although they would later recover. After a similar altercation in which Colleen was captured by another foe she developed a heroin addiction. Misty Knight was able to help her friend once more, as the two had done for each other many times before, and Wing not only kicked the habit but got revenge on her captor as well.
Colleen's relation with Luke did not last, and she soon started an on-again-off-again relationship with Bob Diamond, whom was a martial artist as well. The Heroes for Hire, who went by the name Knightwing Restorations Ltd, would go on to aid many other heroes during their careers together - including the X-Men - during adventures that took them from Japan to Canada and back. Soon afterwards however, the company that was made by Luke and Iron Fist seized to exist after the apparent death of Iron Fist. Colleen and Misty went their different ways for some time too.
==Powers and abilities==
Colleen Wing was originally an athletic woman with no superhuman abilities. She has achieved mastery of the traditional combat skills of the Japanese samurai, including swordsmanship (kenjutsu); she is a talented swordswoman and has been shown defeating several HYDRA agents with no injury.
After being brainwashed as a living weapon by Iron Fist foe Master Khan, Danny melds his mind with hers in order to break her free of this control. As a result Colleen gains knowledge of K'un L'un martial arts as well as chi control; allowing her to focus her chi to enhance her strength, accelerate her healing, and reduce her body functions to survive severe conditions.
She wields a 1,000-year-old katana which she inherited from her grandfather. Colleen is also a seasoned private detective with excellent investigative skills.
==Other versions==
*Colleen appears briefly in the alternate timeline of the 1995–1996 "Age of Apocalypse" storyline. She and Misty Knight were in the same human pens and escaped together. However, *Colleen was infested by a Brood-infested Christopher Summers and later killed by Misty Knight.
*An Ultimate Marvel version of Colleen Wing appears in Ultimate Spider-Man #110 as the wife of Danny Rand.
*Colleen appear in the alternate timeline of the 2005 "House of M" storyline as a member of the Dragons, in which the leader is Shang-Chi. Later, she was among the captured Dragons in a trap arranged by both the Kingpin and the Brotherhood; but was freed by Luke Cage in order to help the Avengers defeat the Brotherhood.
*In A.I.M.'s pocket dimension of Earth-13584, Colleen Wing appears as a member of Spider-Man's gang.
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