- "I was just out of law school. No one here took me seriously. They had every right not to. The job just didn't come naturally to me like it did for you. So I worked my ass off to learn this business. And then, I... I won the respect of my colleagues. And, yes, part of me wants to stay because I feel connected to Dad. But the other part wants to stay for me. For what I achieved. I earned my position. I'm not gonna just walk away. Not without a fight."
- ―Joy Meachum to Ward Meachum[src]
Joy Meachum is the daughter of Harold Meachum, who, together with her brother Ward, spent her life building Rand Enterprises to its current position. However, upon Danny Rand's return, the Meachum siblings saw their work put in jeopardy as Rand planned to claim his birthright within the company.
Biography
Early Life
Along with her brother, Ward Meachum, Joy was brought up into a business world by their father, Harold, groomed to take over the company someday. As such, she and her brother became associated with Danny Rand, the child of Harold's colleague, Wendell Rand. While Joy became Danny's close friend, Ward was abusive towards him and would often bully him.
Running Rand Enterprise
Danny Rand's Return
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Walking into Ward Meachum's office, Joy meets eyes with the stranger that claimed to be Danny Rand. Visibly disturbed, she shied away from him when he attempted to embrace her. After asking to speak with Harold Meachum, she and her brother informed him that he had passed away from cancer and demand that he leave the premises. Becoming frustrated, she was frightened by his movement before security escorted him out. Later, she conversed with her brother about the incident and went home.
Arriving at Rand Enterprises Building and into her office, she is surprised by the appearance of Danny Rand. When asking him how he managed to get inside without being detected, he responded that he knew all the entrances and exits, perceiving it as his second home. She agreed to speak with him but warned him that she was armed with mace and had a button to alert security. Pouring him a cup of water, Joy explained that while Ward was persistent that he was not Rand, she partially believed that he was Rand by appearance but accepted that he died in the crash. She listened as Rand began to divulge his experience during the day of his parents' death. She watched as he became dizzy and collapsed on the floor, standing over him next to Ward. While he lie unconscious, the two had him transported and enlisted as a patient at Birch Psychiatric Hospital for treatment.[2]
Joy, later, regretted the decision to drug him; however, Ward reassured her that she did the right thing and that they could have reproted him directly to the police.[3]
Raj Patel
Assisting her brother with a business situation with Raj Patel, Joy joined the two for an approaching dinner. Dress formally, the two appraoched a limo, inside Patel awaited them with champagne and glasses. They traveled to Metro-General Hospital, where Joy told him about Kevin Kennedy, a dying boy whom was an organ donor that possessed O-negative blood. Upon his death, she informed him that his liver would go directly to Patel's nephew Terence Patel, but only if he were te sell Red Hook Pier to Rand Enterprises.[1]
Managing Ward
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Removal of the Meachums
Reviewing the story written in New York Bulletin by Karen Page, Joy experessed admiration for what published but was quickly taken aback when Lawrence Wilkins arrived in her office with security, telling her that the Board had an emergency meeting and voted the Meachums out of Rand Enterprises.[4][5]
Meeting Her Father
Ward's Initial Interaction
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Curiosity
Returning to the building, Meachum was led up the elevators and stairs to the penthouse. Entering inside, she stood shocked to find Harold Meachum living inside.[6]
Deal with the Devil
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Hospitalized
Meachum was carried by Harold and accompanied by Ward into Metro-General Hospital, rushed for the bleeding wound to her abdomen.[7]
Seeking Revenge
Recruited by Davos
Upon learning that her father had once more died for good, Meachum met with Davos, whom persuades her that the return of Rand has altered her life twice, spiraling everything downwards. She is quickly convinced that it would be best if he was removed from existence.[8]
A Long Awaited Meeting
- "All I want is what I've worked my entire life for. And a chance to make something of my own."
"And to punish me."
"It's not about you."
"Didn't we put all this nonsense behind us?"
"All the years that you lied to me about our father? That doesn't qualify as nonsense, Ward." - ―Joy Meachum and Ward Meachum[src]
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The Dinner
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Walker
Meachum and Davos paid Mary Walker a visit at her Apartment, confronting her on Danny Rand's possession of the photographs she had been tasked to take. Though Walker denied actively giving the photos to him and Davos attempted to attack her, Meachum advanced that the two calmed themselves; the three remained in the apartment throughout the night in an effort to gain some explanation to Rand knowing about her presence.[9]
While Davos left the apartment for the bowl, Meachum stayed with Walker. As she conversed her, she poked around her belongings, eventually coming across a letter that detailed Walker's disorder. She was briefly clutched and choked by Walker before cowering away into the floor. Quickly, Meachum reasoned that Walker had not purposely given away the photos and allowed her to continue her task of capturing Rand, requesting that she did so as Walker.[10]
A Dissolving Partnership
- "Look, you have your Iron Fist. I'm very happy for you. Every good boy deserves one. But this cannot blow back on me. I am building something."
"You can't compartmentalize who you are, Joy. You don't just get to pretend this never happened."
"That's exactly what I get to do. This is my life we're talking about. Everything that I've worked for."
"This is my life. Everything I've worked for. I'm the Iron Fist, Joy. A sacred duty, passed down for generations. And you could be part of it." - ―Joy Meachum and Davos[src]
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Offer for Protection
- "I need protection. At least until I figure out an exit plan."
"I can take your money, run protection, but it's a Band-Aid. If this guy Davos decides he wants to hurt you, all bets are off. And if you don't want to run, you need to eliminate the threat."
"Eliminate is a word with connotations."
"No, it isn't. It's just what it sounds like. You can look over your shoulder day and night forever, or you can hire me to make the problem go away." - ―Joy Meachum and Walker[src]
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Apprehended by Misty Knight
- "I did this to you. With him. I paid her to be a part of it. I knew from the start what he would take from you. I wanted to hurt you. And I did."
- ―Joy Meachum to Danny Rand[src]
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Personality
Joy is a woman who feels she has no control over her own destiny. Given a company in her father's will and forced to work a job she was terrible at, she fought tooth and nail to climb the ranks and gain respect from her co-workers, learning business solely for that reason.
In the business room, she has a steely strong personality, but outside of it she is constantly searching herself, prone to bouts of staring and hesitation. She can also be quite timid around others, and will only believe someone when shown definitive proof. She even regretted drugging Danny Rand and leaving him to be taken to Birch Psychiatric Hospital, since she held a strong belief in who he really was. In truth, Rand became a reminder of the family members she had lost and the goodness in herself that she suppressed and the morality that she tries to ignore for the sake of business.
On the bright side, she is an expert detective and extremely resourceful. Every time she wants something done, she proves that she is more capable of it than even her brother Ward, proving to her father that she was a far more worthy successor to his legacy.
She is abhorrent of dishonesty, which caused her to push away her brother and Danny for lying about Harold being alive, even when they explained that they were doing so to keep her away from the Hand. Despite walking out on her father after discovering his ruthless and manipulative nature in betraying Danny after the latter had helped him escape the Hand, she later came to regret turning her back on her father right before his death. Leaving the company, she would grow to harbor a deep resentment to Danny Rand for "ruining her life", more than eager to accept Davos' offer to kill him whereas before she would have been repulsed at the very thought, such as when she would not approve of her father and Danny's plans to kill Bakuto and the Hand.
Abilities
- Expert Businesswoman: To be added
Relationships
Family
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Appearances
Trivia
- In the comics, Joy Meachum was a brilliant business woman who was set to take control of Rand-Meachum, Inc. one day.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Iron Fist: 1.03: Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.01: Snow Gives Way
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.02: Shadow Hawk Takes Flight
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.07: Felling Tree with Roots
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.08: The Blessing of Many Fractures
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.10: Black Tiger Steals Heart
- ↑ Iron Fist: 1.12: Bar the Big Boss
- ↑ Iron Fist 1.13 Dragon Plays with Fire
- ↑ Iron Fist: 2.03: This Deadly Secret
- ↑ Iron Fist: 2.04: Target: Iron Fist
