Lucas Cage

> "OH YEAH HOMIE!" -**Luke Cage**
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### Early life

**Carl Earl Lucas**, the man that would one day be known as **"Luke Cage"** was born and raised on the streets of New York in the district of Harlem. Similar to Earth-616, He was the son of Esther and James Lucas, a retired N.Y.P.D. detective. Lucas spent his youth causing trouble on the streets with his friends Willis Stryker. He eventually joined a gang called The Rivals. Lucas was in and out of juvenile homes throughout his teens. He dreamed of becoming a major New York racketeer until he finally realized how his actions were hurting his family. Later seeking to better himself before becoming an adult, tried finding legitimate employment. Meanwhile, Stryker rose through the ranks of crime, but the two men remained friends.

Eventually Stryker's activities came to the attention of Wilson Fisk a.k.a. The Kingpin of Crime. He was badly attacked in a mob hit, but Lucas was there to save him. After that Reva, Stryker's girlfriend ended their relationship and turned to Lucas for comfort. This created a rift between the two former friends and Stryker believed Lucas was the cause of the break-up. Stryker planted heroin in Lucas' place and called the cops. Lucas was arrested and sentenced to prison. After that Lucas lost contact with his family due to the resentment of his father who intercepted his son's letters to their mother and eventually led each to believe the other was dead.

#### Seagate Prison

While in prison, Lucas was consumed with hatred and rage by his friends betrayal and the supposed loss of his mother. He spent his time getting into brawls along with various escape attempts. Because of this he was transferred to **Seagate Prison**, one of the toughest facilities off the coast of the State of Georgia. One day Dr. Noah Burstein came to the prison to carry out secret medical research and had forced Lucas as a volunteer. He was secretly working on experimental cell regeneration based on a variant of the Super-Soldier process. After 2 years of experimentation, He immersed Lucas in the "Electro-Biochemical System", a device that contained an electrical field conducted by an organic chemical compound. When he left equipment unattended, Burstein tampered with the controls, hoping to kill Lucas. However, the treatment was accelerated past its intended purpose causing mutagenic change throughout Lucas' body, fortifying his cells giving him superhuman strength and durability. Not much later the machine exploded killing everyone except for Luke. Now Lucas used his new-found powers to escape the facility and made his way back to Harlem. Once Wilson Fisk found out about his escape, he sent out a hit on his family, a couple days later Lucas arrived home to his family dead. Lucas ran as far as he could.

#### Hero for Hire

Around 2011 Lucas was in desperate need of money, so he joined a wrestling gig. Where he became the number one champion even beating heroes like Spider-Man during his early days.

#### Calling himself Power-Man

After his final wrestling gig in 2013, Cage saw a building collapsing. He decided to change his life then and there and held the building up saving everybody. The Civilians called him The Power-Man from that moment he became The Power-Man.

#### Defenders

Not much is currently known on Lucas' team but what is known is that The Punisher, Daredevil, Iron Fist and occasionally Spider-Man is apart of it.

### The Decimation

Not much is known on Luke Cage during The Decimation, but what is known is that he is a survivor and right before The Decimation had Wilson Fisk comprehended.

### Death of Iron-Fist

Iron-Fist confronts Wilson Fisk and the battle commences, after The Kingpin outsmarts him, Wilson decides to end him once and for all. He throws him towards and wall. As Luke Cage arrives he watches as The Kingpin crushes Iron-Fist killing him.

### Becoming The Power-Fist

Luke Cage goes to Fisk Tower, once he arrives The Final Battle commences. They both get good hits in, Luke Cage throws him down and starts beating The Kingpin but Wilson Fisk overpowers him throwing him towards the elevator. Due to the battle the building begins to collapse, Luke Cage now on the ground rubble begins to fall on him. The Kingpins laughs at him and leaves him to die. Luke Cage still on the ground, he struggles to get up. he uses all his strength but to no avail but he remembers the Words of Iron-Fist and fights for him, getting up. Luke Cage jumps on the helicopter and begins to break it, not much longer the helicopter crashes and explodes. The Kingpin runs out of the fire laughing but someone comes out behind him, The Kingpin confused looks back at the fire as a Luke Cage comes out, he decides to end this once and for all and jumps towards him for a finisher move, but something happens something that's never happened before. He gains The Powers of Iron-Fist and becomes a master of K'un-Lun's martial arts. Now transformed into his New Form, He goes by The Power-Fist, to honor his friend. Luke Cage defeats Wilson Fisk ending his reign,

### Multiversal Crisis

Luke Cage was one of the key players during The Multiversal Crisis, as when Logan brought him along to bring back items from different dimensions, Luke went on to steal items from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Logans house. After The Great Creator betrayed them and sent them all to different universes. After traveling throughout the multiverse and making it back to Earth-1716, Logan told Luke and Thiago to be with their families because he isn't sure what will happen. It is currently unknown where Luke Cage was during The Multiversal Crisis

### Powers

Luke Cage is possesses various superhuman physical enhancements after undergoing a Super-Soldier experiment known as the Burstein Process, which was designed to increase his body's cellular regeneration rate and recently he gained the Powers of the Iron Fist. Luke Cage rushes towards him and talks to him, he tells him he must go to the hospital but Iron Fist says its too late, in his final moments Iron Fist tells Luke Cage to Take him down, for him. As everyone else arrives, Luke Cage is breaking down into tears.

Our intel classified him as power level 8 out of 10 making him very strong.

* **Superhuman Strength:** After undergoing the original experiment, Cage's strength was increased to superhuman levels.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Cage's muscles generate less fatigue toxins than the muscles of ordinary humans, granting him superhuman stamina. This helps Cage pull off astonishing feats of athleticism despite his excess mass.
* **Nigh-Invulnerability:** Luke Cage's body is as hard as titanium steel. His muscles and bones tissue are super-dense, granting him much greater resistances to physical injury. He can withstand conventional handgun fire of 4 feet and cannot be cut by the sharpest of blades, although in the event of required surgery his skin can be lacerated with an over-powered medical laser.
* **Accelerated Healing Factor:** Luke's invulnerability is usually enough to protect him from damages.
* **Peak Human Physical Conditioning:** Seemingly those of The Iron-Fist