Did the Daredevil show alter your view of the character?
I think they lost sight of the acrobatics side of Daredevil. He is supoosed to be this tremendous athlete doing backflip scissor kicks. In the show he fights with a unique style but it doesn't really encompass the real role of the comic version of the character IMO.
I get that its an origin story and that the rest comes later, but I still have a hard time imagining Daredevil, the man without fear, as the street fighting brawler from the show. He should be jumping from motorcyles onto trucks and doing backflips off of buildings and all that. He is a superhero in the comics. The MCU version doesn't belong in the same breath as the guys from Avengers, even Hawkeye or Widow has infinitely better feats, like taking out hordes of Chitauri, Widow jumping onto a glider from 20 feet down, taking out hordes of mooks without even getting hit, killing tens or hundreds of Ultron fodder, Hawkeye has taken out QS and SW before. He has plenty of feats against high-tier MCU characters.
DD doesn't even have formal training beyond martial arts with Stick. How would he take out a team of tactically trained SHIELD agents with guns? How would he fare against other heros or their villains? In the finale he barely beat up a big fat untrained human (Fisk) in 1v1 battle. He also had weapons and his opponent did not.
NO. I knew DAredevil was bad ass since I was a teen. He's basically Marvel's Batman. He's that cool. If anything, I think the modern stuff is kind of shitty. DAredevil as Frank Miller and Ann Noncenti wrote him was pure gold!!!!!!
I hate the Bendis run. With a passion.
The Netflix series is pretty good I will not deny that.
I hate to admit this but I have never read a solo DD comic. Because of the show I want to now but it hasn't changed my opinion of him as a character just made me more interested. @overmonitor you brought up some stuff that didn't really occur to me while watching the show but definitely does now. Now that you mention it he didn't seem like that much of a "daredevil" while watching as much as an ass kicker.
I loved the show. Unlike some I thought it was cool watching him struggle.
I don't know what people expected from a vigilante who wasn't left a billion dollars to travel the globe and learn every fighting form on the planet and afford gear nearly on par with Stark tech.
He was a blind kid trained in martial arts til about 12 and forced to teach himself the rest.
Made me respect him more than most street level characters in live action.
@overmonitor: I liked the first half of the season despite my dislike for Vincent D'Onofrio's hammy performance, but as the season went on I started to develop the concerns you did. I was a fan before the show, so it didn't alter my view, but I think there's room for growth. The depictions of Luke and Jessica in Jessica Jones kinda make me wish they got someone who looked a little more like Matt as well.
@captain13: Hopefully there will be growth. I have always loved DD and I really want next season to be a little more daring with the action sequences and try to keep the same gritty realism.
I mean being honest, put end of season Daredevil against even Jessica Jones or Luke Cage and who wins? Jessica or Luke 9/10. Unarmed thugs put up decent 1v1 fights against DD, whereas Luke can take on 5 at once with no problem or scratch, Jessica has lifted a car and has flight capability. Neither of them are nearly as skilled but again, random thugs have given him decent trouble 1v1 before in the show.
At least in the comics DD is in the same class as high-street tier guys, and puts up good fights against Logan, Danny Rand, Sabretooth, Scott Summers (using his powers), he has taken out an armed and bloodlusted Frank Castle, and plenty of lesser-known superpowered villains, takes on and beats hordes of armed ninjas, legit bullet-timer (as in deflects bullets with his batons), curls 400 lbs like its 50, has taken out a version of Onslaught because DD can't be fooled by illusions from tricksters. There was an instance where he takes out 20+ armed, HGH amped thugs, by himself with no costume, in the middle of the street all at once.
I need to watch the last episode again, did they at least end with him perched on a rooftop?
@overmonitor: Yeah, I think they ended with him looking out over the city.
In terms of fights, it just takes Matt too long to take down thugs in this universe. And he's not nearly acrobatic enough.
@overmonitor: just geeked when you said back flip scissor kick XD
I already liked the Daredevil character and the comics but the show reminded me of the reason why, and it also made the character more relatable.
It stayed the same but full disclosure, I already adored the character. What it did do, was make me feel a lot better about what was happening to Daredevil in the comics at the time. I got my Matt back, if only for a little while.
No. Daredevil has always been awesome.
Did really enjoy the show though.
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