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Marvel's Luke Cage

Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

(33 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (24)Season 2 (9)

Characters

Cheo Hodari Coker (17)Mike Colter (11)Luke Cage (11)Nathan Louis Jackson (8)Alfre Woodard (5)Charles Murray (4)Mariah Dillard (4)Simone Missick (3)Jason Horwitch (3)Rosario Dawson (3)

“Blue: Yo, I plead the eighth. Luke: You mean the fifth. Blue: Yeah, that shit. I plead the fifth.”

— Jason Horwitch, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: Law, Plead The Fifth, mistake

“Pop never forgot his people. Where some people saw hard rock kids, he saw precious jewels. He reminded me that diamonds are formed by pressure, covered in dirt, but when you polish them, they shine. Pop saw the shine in everyone that walked in his barbershop, he cut their hair, he listened to their…”

— Jason Horwitch, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: People, jewels, Best In Everyone, Diamonds, Shine

“Yeah, well there was beauty in that beast. You can't control what people say. Just be the best man that you can be.”

— Jason Horwitch, Bobby Fish, Ron Cephas Jones, imdb.com

Tagged: Beast, beauty, Control, Good Person

“He used to say, one way or the other I would regret the life that I led. He used to say 'The Spirit of the Lord is on me because I have been anointed to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, and recovery of sight for the blind to release the oppressed.'”

— Charles Murray, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: Regret, Life, Lord, Freedom, Bible

“Slavery was always a good offer to a master.”

— Charles Murray, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: Slavery, Master, Perspective

“As long as you follow the rules, you'll be fine. Rule number one: You will obey every rule I say after rule number one. Rule number two: None but the righteous shall see God. And since we ain't got no righteous people in here, God ain't gonna have to worry about your shitty prayers. So that means I'…”

— Charles Murray, Albert Rackham, Chance Kelly, imdb.com

Tagged: Rules, God, Righteous, Prayers, Substitute

“You're absolutely right. I'm not gonna touch him. Not the way I should. Since I can't touch the king, I'm gonna take his queen, his knights... his rooks... I'm knocking all his pieces off the board.”

— Matthew Owens, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: Chess, king, Queen, Winning, Outsmart

“I ain't guilty. But I ain't innocent either.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Luke Cage, Mike Colter, imdb.com

Tagged: guilty, innocent, Contradiction

“No, bro, I lit that shit up like the Fourth of July. It was all so Django Candieland shit for real. Lights, camera, action, baby! Somebody call Quentin!”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Tone, Warner Miller, imdb.com

Tagged: Fourth Of July, Lights Camera Action, Explosions, lights

“I'm all about the old school. You know that eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth kind of thing. Fire and brimstone. See back then do someone wrong, wasn't no beggin' and pleadin'. Just took care of it. Handled your business.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Cornell Cottonmouth, Mahershala Ali, imdb.com

Tagged: Old School, Eye for An Eye, Fire, brimstone, Handled Your Business

“If you don't make attempts to befriend someone loneliness is guaranteed to eat you alive.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Reva Connors, Parisa Fitz-Henley, imdb.com

Tagged: Befriend, Loneliness, Eat You Alive, Advice

“Misty: Benjamin Franklin is on the $100 bill sir. Scarfe: So? He wasn't a president! Misty: That's even more impressive! Come on, give the man some credit.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Misty Knight, Simone Missick, imdb.com

Tagged: Benjamin Franklin, American History

“The past is the past. And the only direction in life that matters is forward. Never backwards.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Henry 'Pop' Hunter, Frankie Faison, imdb.com

Tagged: The Past, History, Moving On, Moving Forward