When Does ‘Marvel’s Iron Fist’ Season 3 Hit Netflix?

Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2 is a lean and mean follow-up to the first season that dramatically improves the show’s overall quality and delivers some of the best fight scenes in the entire Netflix/Marvel lineup. And with only 10 episodes this season, odds are you barreled through the entire adventure a whole lot quicker than this years’s Jessica Jones and Luke Cage installments. In fact, you’re probably wondering when you can have more martial arts superhero action! I know you’re wondering it, because why else would you be reading this? So let’s get down to it and talk about Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 3–but first, let’s talk about all those season finale spoooilerrrrs y’all!

Does Marvel’s Iron Fist Season 2 end on a cliffhanger?

Oh boy oh boy, you bet it does. The final episode of the season, titled “A Duel of Iron,” sets so many balls in motion Netflix should really consider getting a professional juggler to handle the next season. Should we list all the plot points? YES.

• Misty Knight decides that being a police captain ain’t for her and toys around with the idea of partnering up with Colleen Wing, literally coming up with the name of their comic book detective agency Knightwing.
• Colleen Wing is now Iron Fist and presumably New York City’s protector too, considering that Daredevil is still missing and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage prefer to keep to themselves/their neighborhood. Colleen’s even learned to do something Danny definitely didn’t teach her: channel her chi power into her sword.
• Davos and Mary Walker are still alive, although Davos is in the hands of the authorities.
• Mary Walker learned that she has an alternate, even scarier personality, one that leaves a “bloody mess” of bodies behind her. That’s a shout out to one of her alternates in the comics, Bloody Mary.
• Danny Rand and Ward Meachum are traveling the globe together as adventures, tracking down secrets of the Iron Fist. That leads them on the trail of Orson Randall. In the comics, Randall was the Iron Fist during World War I, took in Danny’s father Wendell and raised him in K’un-Lun, and enjoyed a long, long lifespan (Iron Fists aren’t really joking about that “immortal” thing).
• And lastly, Danny too has learned how to channel his chi into objects–this time a pair of pistols that he uses to shoot a… a chi bullet, I guess is what you’d call it?

That’s a lot to chew on, probably the most season finale reveals in any Marvel/Netflix show.

Will there be an Iron Fist Season 3?

That’s the big question. Netflix has not renewed the show for a third season, but it also sometimes takes a while to do so. For instance, it still hasn’t given the go ahead for Luke Cage Season 3. Jessica Jones got a Season 3 order relatively quickly after Season 2’s release, so it is possible we’ll know something about Iron Fist’s future soon–but don’t hold your breath.

There are a few variables at play here, though. There is the fact that Season 2 ends on so many cliffhangers. They sure did act like they knew a Season 3 was a guarantee, right? But there’s also the matter of Disney’s (Marvel’s parent company) upcoming streaming service, which may lead to all of these shows dropping down a few rungs on the priorities ladder (which is totally a thing). But Netflix has also made it clear in the past that they decide when to pull the plug on the Marvel shows, not Marvel TV/Disney.

There’s also the chance that we’ll get a spinoff series (or two!) instead of a proper Season 3. Could Netflix be planning a Heroes For Hire (Luke Cage and Iron Fist) show, or a Daughters of the Dragon (Misty Knight and Colleen Wing) show? Either one, or both, could happen, and would be able to pick up the pieces of the Season 2 finale.

When will Iron Fist Season 3 come out?

If Netflix orders another season of Iron Fist, it could be a while before we see it. Whereas most Netflix shows tend to release new seasons roughly a year apart, the Marvel shows have had more of a queue-based system. That’s why it’s taken so long for Daredevil Season 3 to come out, because Netflix had to release second seasons of all the other solo hero shows and Defenders first.

But all that may be changing. With Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 on the way, 2018 will be the very first time that all four of the inaugural Netflix heroes will have released a season in one year. And Jessica Jones jumped right from releasing Season 2 to shooting Season 3, so it is possible that all the shows may be on track for annual-ish releases from this point forward. Of course there is still the matter of Marvel’s Punisher Season 2, which wrapped filming in August and is possibly on track to come out in early 2019. Maybe that bumps some of the following seasons back a bit, meaning maybe Iron Fist Season 3–if it’s in the cards–comes out in late Fall/early Winter 2019.

We will update this article as more information is released about Iron Fist Season 3.

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UPDATE: Netflix has canceled Marvel’s Iron Fist after two seasons.

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