10 Moments Marvel Have Chosen To Ignore

One of the defining characteristics of the blind lawyer turned vigilante Daredevil is the ever-growing mountain of crap each new writer chose to dump upon him. The situations that Matt Murdoch has endured over the years would break any lesser man, yet somehow he ends each creator run with more focus and determination than when he began.

It's hard to know where to begin listing the tragedies that have befallen him; from dead lovers to prison stints. Financial ruin to public humiliation. From maternal abandonment to intensive care. If Superman is a comic book Jesus, then Matt Murdock is Job.

Perhaps the most painful twist came in the mid naughties during Joe Quesada criminally underrated mini-series "Daredevil: Father". The story is set during a heatwave and is about a serial killer stalking the streets of Hell's Kitchen—one who seemingly has a grudge against Daredevil. Throughout the storyline, both the characters and the audience are lead to assume the killer knows Matt Murdoch's secret and is targeting him for something he has done in his guise as Daredevil.

It is only when the other shoe drops with the discovery of the killer's identity that we understand the depth and cruelty of this latest blow. The killer is, in fact, the daughter of the man Matt Murdoch saved from being run down the day he got his powers. He would end up blind, and on his way to becoming Daredevil, the man would go on to continue molesting his daughter for another decade.

Matt's greatest sacrifice resulted in a young woman driven to the point of madness and beyond. Quesada managed to weave a tale of tragedy into the very fabric of the ongoing Daredevil narrative - the ultimate bitter twist in a life full of them. Only for Marvel to ignore it and continue to re-tread the same storylines that Frank Miller wrote some forty years ago.

It is in some ways fitting that people tragically ignore one of Daredevils greatest stories.