Luke Cage

"People needed someone that didn't require a warrant or shield to get things done. Call it a vigilante, or a superhero. Call it what you will, but like it or not, the Preschool Girls, Team RWBY, the Sonic Alliance, the whole of the Grand Alliance and I finally accepted that that someone had to be Luke Cage... including me."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Uncaging Luke

Carl Lucas is the son of James Lucas as well as the childhood friend of Willis Stryker who, while he was serving as a policeman from Savannah, Georgia, USA, was wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit and sent into Seagate Prison, where he met and fell in love with therapist Reva Connors who tried to make his time in jail easier. During his time in prison, Lucas was subjected to an experiment by Noah Burstein to save his life after Albert Rackham tried to have him killed, leaving Lucas physically enhanced with superhuman strength and seemingly unbreakable skin. After he escaped from his prison, he changed his name to Luke Cage and then moved to New York City, marrying Connors who agreed to protect him, opening a bar named Luke's and living in there until Connors' death seemingly due to a random bus crash.

Months later while he was trying to live quietly, Cage came across the private investigator Jessica Jones during her investigation and started a relationship with her. However Cage was forced to break up their relationship upon discovering that Jones was involved in the murder of his wife due to the influence of Kilgrave. Following his encounter with Jones and Kilgrave, he then moved from Hell's Kitchen into Harlem in order to build a new life away from Jones, working for Pop. However his own life became more complicated due to the actions of Cottonmouth, whose henchman Tone killed Pop in cold blood, which had started a war between the pair which only ended when Cottonmouth was discovered dead.