A new "Daredevil" trailer released Thursday gave us a great first look at Elektra, the breakout femme fatale and former flame of Matt Murdock.
Elektra re-appears in Hell's Kitchen asking for help in taking down a mysterious group of assassins and mercenaries known as "The Hand." They're a lot more than a gang of thugs. They have ties all throughout the Marvel universe and may be the first step in a radical change in tone for Marvel's future Netflix adaptations.
Read on to find out more about the shadowy group and their ties to Daredevil and the rest of Hell's Kitchen.
In season two, Matt will face off against a group of powerful assassins known as "The Hand."
The new trailer focused heavily on Elektra's arrival in Hell's Kitchen and her warning: The Hand is trying to take over the city. The Hand are a group of highly-trained ninjas involved in mafia activity in New York City. When Matt took on organized crime in Hell's Kitchen in season one, Elektra says he only helped The Hand by getting rid of their enemies. We don't know the full scope of their plan, though.
He'll team up with Elektra to fight them, but her connection to the group is dubious.
Elektra warns Matt about The Hand, but we don't see her reveal a key detail: she used to work with them. In the comics, Elektra joined The Hand to increase her skills as an assassin after her father was killed. The trailer makes it clear they'll team up at some point, but how long will it be until her true history with them is revealed? Either way, it's clear both she and Matt will become entangled in the group's overall plot to take control of Hell's Kitchen.
Another key ally in Matt's battle against the group is his mentor, Stick.
When Stick is first introduced on the show, he's tracking The Hand's activities in Hell's Kitchen. They're smuggling a secret weapon: a child with powerful, supernatural abilities called "Black Sky." Stick warns Matt that this was likely only the first step in a much larger plot from The Hand. In the new trailer for season two, Stick reappears. Again, he warns against The Hand.
In the comics, Stick is the leader of a group known as The Chaste. They are locked in a perpetual struggle with The Hand, with Stick and his associates tracking their activities across the globe. The Chaste has never been mentioned by name on the show, but now that The Hand are moving to center stage in season two, it's likely we'll hear more about them.
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