Coming into Thursday’s panel for Marvel's Luke Cage, there had only been a short teaser hidden within the final episode of Jessica Jones and one other clip released. Ostensibly, that’s what this hour was for: to give fans of the previous Marvel shows on Netflix a better look at Mike Colter’s star turn. But the title turned out to be a slight misnomer, since the sizzle reel that kicked off the panel featured all three current Marvel Netflix shows.

But just because Luke Cage brought some friends to the party, that doesn't mean the show's titular hero still wasn't the life of it. The footage from the new show looked amazing, and showrunner Cheo Coker dropped the best quote of the hour when said, "The world is ready for a bulletproof black man." And Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb took every pause in the panel’s answers and used them as opportunities to show clips of the show, which showed off just how talented of a cast Netflix and Marvel have, well, assembled.

Luke tears up a crooked boxing gym, his invulnerability so overwhelming to the low-level criminals that it plays like a slapstick comedy routine instead of a fight scene. Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali, fresh off an Emmy nomination for House of Cards) breaking things in his office while his cousin Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard) seethes at his brashness. Luke and Detective Misty Knight (Simone Missick) meet for the first time and get up close and personal.

And in perhaps the best single shot in the Marvel Netflix universe since that long-take fight in the first season of Daredevil, Cottonmouth steps in front of a blown-up print of Barron Claiborne’s photo of Notorious B.I.G. wearing a crown, in just the right spot so he’s ominously stepping into Biggie’s place, and muses, "everybody wants to be the king." Oh, and for good measure, there’s a new teaser for the series, perfectly soundtracked with ODB’s "Shimmy Shimmy Ya," which followed through on Coker’s assertion that he’d brought about the "Wu-Tang-ification of the Marvel Universe."

Even if we didn’t get a full pilot screening, that would’ve been enough. But the panel kicked things up a notch when Finn Jones introduced a short teaser for the upcoming Iron Fist series, continuing the trend of dovetailing a preview of the next series along with the one about to debut.

And then Loeb went one better—shocking the room with another teaser, this time for the team-up miniseries The Defenders. It doesn’t have any footage, but it's another great use of music, this time Nirvana’s "Come As You Are," with the only line being given in voiceover by Stick (Scott Glenn). It was some masterful setup, lending the Marvel Netflix series the same type of excitement that is typically reserved for the giant film series panels in Hall H.

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