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Blake Bortles Is Getting the Job Done, but It Hasn't Won Him Any Fans

If you watch the Marvel movies and television shows—and it's no longer cool to pretend that you don't—you know that there is a whole universe of superheroes out there, from high-flying galactic champions like Iron Man and Thor down to gritty street-level crime fighters like Luke Cage and Daredevil. They're like NFL quarterbacks in many ways: fun to watch and root for, some more effective and exciting than others.

There's Iron Fist, a second-stringer with a magic punch he can only use about once per episode, and whose backstory is a bunch of racially fishy Kung Fu cliches (he's a rich white dude who battles stereotypical ninjas) and whose Netflix series bombed.