10 Things You Should Know About Luke Cage

How he got his powers, his Harlem roots and more.

More Than Meets the Eye - The premiere of the first season of Marvel's Luke Cage is about to exclusively hit Netflix on Friday, so to prepare for the big day, we felt it was only right to have a refresher on who exactly this superhero is. From how he got his powers to his marriage to another Marvel character, take a look at these 10 facts about Luke Cage. -By Moriba Cummings(Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix) 
He Was a Criminal as a Teenager Before Becoming a Valiant Superhero - Luke Cage, in the early years — originally known as Carl Lucas — grew up in a rough neighborhood in Harlem, New York. To sustain himself, he ended up getting involved with the wrong crowd and eventually joined a gang with his best friend, Willis Stryker. After he realized how much his choices began hurting the ones he loved, he decided to get on the straight and narrow and branched out from his damaging friends, including Stryker.(Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix) 
He Was Falsely Imprisoned for a Crime He Didn't Commit - After Luke left the gang life behind, his relationship with his former best friend, Willis Stryker, suffered to the point that Stryker betrayed him. Luke became an ex-con after he was falsely imprisoned for having heroin in his apartment, which was planted there by Stryker, who tipped off the cops. Adding more fuel to the fire, Stryker was also upset that his girlfriend left him for Luke.(Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix) He Was Born and Raised in Harlem, New York - Unlike many other superheroes well-known today, Luke Cage is more humanized in where his story began: Harlem, New York. While he lived all over the country in the intervening years, Harlem was where it all started for him.(Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix) 

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More Than Meets the Eye - The premiere of the first season of Marvel's Luke Cage is about to exclusively hit Netflix on Friday, so to prepare for the big day, we felt it was only right to have a refresher on who exactly this superhero is. From how he got his powers to his marriage to another Marvel character, take a look at these 10 facts about Luke Cage. -By Moriba Cummings(Photo: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix) 

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