10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Daredevil
Ben Affleck is hard to forget. Or to forgive.
You're about to see a lot more of Matt Murdock. Even if he doesn't see a whole lot of you. The blind lawyer by day, vigilante superhero by night is ready to head back into the mainstream later this year as Daredevil kicks off Marvel's roster of Netflix series, with early reports suggesting it returns the Man Without Fear to a gritty, crime-oriented setting, more like The Wire than Agents Of SHIELD. It's about time, too. Daredevil has never been one of Marvel's heaviest hitters don't expect to see him popping up in an Avengers movie any time soon, even if the series is set in the same Cinematic Universe but, then, he was never designed to be. Much removed from the usual super villain fighting stuff, Daredevil mainly concerns himself with street level crime. Especially in the iconic runs by artist/writer Frank Miller in the eighties and Brian Michael Bendis (mostly with Alex Maleev) in the noughties, Daredevil has been the Marvel universe's setting for exploring more complex morality than the likes of Captain America, with Matt Murdock contending not only with the dichotomy between his work as an attorney and a superhero, but also mental illness, religion, and constantly dying girlfriends. Whilst never being quite the household name Spider-Man, The Hulk and such are, he's been around for a very long time, and has accrued something of a...colourful history. A history that probably won't be figuring into his Netflix series. Here are ten such things Marvel want you to forget about Daredevil.