10 Insanely Dark Marvel Moments That Will Never Make It To Film

8. Daredevil Kills Bullseye

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In the life of Matt Murdock, there’s barely a day goes by that there’s not some sort of trauma going on. The poor Guardian Devil has had it harder that most of Marvel’s heroes, although he’s also not shy of enforcing his own form of justice when needed.

Once such instance was in the aftermath of his ‘one true’ Elektra being killed by Bullseye. Giving chase to the man who slayed his beloved, Daredevil ends up in a position where he has his foe dangling from a power cable. Instead of opting to to easily pull his rival up to safety (y’know, like what most heroes would do?), Hornhead instead chooses to drop Bullseye to his death.

Now Marvel’s Netflix-exclusive Daredevil show is indeed pretty dark, grimy and gritty, plus it’s set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but would it really go as far as to show its titular hero dropping somebody to their death when he could easily have saved them?

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