“[This alternate history] Luke actually missed a big chunk of Prohibition, which began in the U.S. in 1920. He spent most of that time in Rikers and was only released from prison in the early ‘30s… However, there was plenty of crime in Harlem before Prohibition. I liken Luke Cage to Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name character from ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’. He’s a good man in an imperfect world, and understands that sometimes you have to do some very morally questionable things to survive. Killing is just part of that.”

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