8 Comic Villains Humiliated By Daredevil

2. Bullseye

Daredevil The Man Without Fear Slade
Marvel Comics

Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev had a much lauded run on the Daredevil title back in the early 2000s, and amongst that work was a five-part Hardcore story that was part of Matt Murdock's aggressive ascent to becoming the new Kingpin of New York.

As part of Murdock's journey towards the dark side, he found himself coming face-to-face with Bullseye as the villain was looking to executive a plan to kill another of Matt's lovers.

Tired of Bullseye and his sh*t, Hornhead confronts and completely schools his long-standing rival. Not just in a physical sense, mind, for Daredevil lays a truly traumatising verbal beatdown on Bullseye.

In a jarring moment, the Guardian Devil reveals how he'd at one point planned to kill Bullseye in his sleep before deciding against it. In the process of planning this, Murdock discovered how Bullseye's prostitute mother abandoned him and that he never knew who his father was.

Going further down this murky rabbit hole, Daredevil explains how he doesn't want to kill Bullseye because, quite frankly, Matt doesn't care enough to do so - comparing this to how the rogue's parents didn't care in the slightest about their son.

At the time - and even revisiting it today, 18 years later - this whole exchange was an extremely uncomfortable one, and it's one that left Bullseye in a state of bloodied, shell-shocked embarrassment.

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