Colleen Wing (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

"When you're raised in something like that... When they've formed the foundation for who you are, breaking away is like... I feel lost. I can't believe I'm admitting this, but all I want is something stable. Something I can hold on to."

- Colleen Wing to Claire Temple Colleen Wing is the deuteragonist and lead heroine of the web television series Iron Fist, and a supporting protagonist in The Defenders. She is a martial arts expert who trains young students at a dojo in Hell's Kitchen, and a former member of the Hand. She meets Danny Rand on one of his first days since his return from Kun-Lun. While initially hostile towards Danny, she later becomes one of his closest allies and eventually his girlfriend, and it's her love for him that convinces her to turn on the Hand, including her former mentor, Bakuto.

She is portrayed by Jessica Henwick.

Personality
Colleen Wing bears a strong character based on discipline, and she prefers to fight her own battles rather than have someone else do the job for her. She's very independent and refuses help from Rand when he offers to help her with paying her rent. Despite her independence, she is also strict on herself to follow the Bushido code of conduct, meaning she must hold loyalty, courage, veracity, compassion, and honor as important, above all else. This lead to her feeling great shame when she used her combat skills to earn money in illegal fight clubs, in which she felt free and out of touch with her disciplined nature.

As a martial arts mentor, she is strict with her students and bears little tolerance for lackluster performance. She can also be quick to anger at times, but she tries to maintain her calm and give her adversaries a fair warning before escalating the given situation.

Despite her seemingly harsh nature, her main goal is to motivate her students to defend themselves and others from local threats happening in their neighborhoods. She even recognizes when a fully dedicated student such as Claire Temple makes progress at a rapid rate.

As Wing told Danny Rand, she is not very sociable. But after getting to know him better, she begins to trust him and becomes more open to her emotions; so much so that she decides to devote her life to aiding Rand whenever he needed.