Appearances
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- NYPD
- Stokes Crime Family
- Councilwoman Mariah Dillard
- Diontey (First appearance)
- C-Money (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Trish Walker (Voice only)
- CNN (Mentioned)
- New York Giants (Mentioned)
- Domingo Colon (Mentioned)
- WJBP-TV
- Eric Fraser (First appearance)
- Thembi Wallace (First appearance)
- Geoffrey Canada (Mentioned)
- Biggie (Photo)
- Soledad Temple
- Jessica Jones (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Pop (Photo)
- Chico Diaz (Mentioned)
- Earl Scarfe (Photo)
- Mama Mabel (Photo)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Joel Spurlock (Mentioned)
- Tone (Mentioned)
- Barack Obama (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Al Green (Mentioned)
- Alex Wesley (First appearance)
- WNEX New York
- Damon Boone (Mentioned)
- Shades (Mentioned)
- Peter "Pistol Pete" Stokes (Photo)
- Wilson Fisk (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-199999
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Harlem
- Harlem's Paradise
- Pop's Barber Shop
- 29th Precinct Police Station (First appearance)
- Rafael Scarfe's Apartment (First appearance)
- Mariah Dillard's House (First appearance)
- Chrysler Building
- Empire State Building
- Hell's Kitchen (Mentioned)
- Metro-General Hospital (Mentioned)
- Harlem
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Stanford University (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- Sun
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth
Items:
- Where's Waldo? (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Soledad Temple's Delivery Van
Synopsis
Synopsis not yet written
Cast
| Character | Actor |
|---|---|
| Luke Cage | Mike Colter |
| Cottonmouth / Cornell Stokes | Mahershala Ali |
| Detective Misty Knight | Simone Missick |
| Claire Temple | Rosario Dawson |
| Councilwoman Mariah Dillard | Alfre Woodard |
| Detective Rafael Scarfe | Frank Whaley |
| Soledad Temple | Sonia Braga |
| Trish Walker | Rachael Taylor |
| Bobby Fish | Ron Cephas Jones |
| Captain Betty Audrey | Sonja Sohn |
| Lieutenant Perez | Manny Pérez |
| Zip | Jaiden Kaine |
| Thembi Wallace | Tijuana Ricks |
| Diontey | Danny Henriquez |
| C-Money | Jeremy Sample |
| Eric Fraser | Andrew Rein |
| Port Security Officer | Kendall Lloyd |
| Alex | John Clarence Stewart |
Notes
- The Gang Starr song the episode is named after is "Suckas Need Bodyguards", from their album Hard to Earn. The song describes an individual who is strong even without protection, while also criticizing those who claim to be in a position of power yet still need outside protection. This could be seen in the situation between Luke Cage, who can handle himself, and the duo of Cottonmouth and Mariah Dillard, whose positions of power are threatened by their subordinates (Detective Scarfe and the media).
- The song featured in the episode is "People Make The World Go Round" by The Stylistics.
Trivia
- Rachael Taylor reprises her role as Trish Walker from Marvel's Jessica Jones in a voice cameo at the opening of this episode.
- Mariah Dillard asks, "remember when Obama sang Al Green?" while trying to give an example of how to make a fun political campaign. However, the current president of the United States in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is President Matthew Ellis. It is unknown if this is a continuity error, or if Obama exists in this universe in another political post of some sort, or if perhaps Obama was the president before President Ellis took over.
- This episode mistakenly shows the real life MetLife Building in New York instead of Avengers Tower which occupies the same location in the Earth-199999 reality.