For all the failures of Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil - and there are plenty - this is the one thing he got right. Elektra's death in Frank Miller's run is iconic, remembered as one of the earliest examples of how brutal death in superhero comics could be. Running afoul of Bullseye on a rooftop, the assassin runs her through with her own Sai (insult to injury and all that), resulting in a the subtly graphic image of Elektra's vest being stretched by the puncture of the weapon. The worst part is Bullseye holding her aloft, a move which you can feel through the page. The fact that MSJ managed to translate her death scene from the comics almost verbatim to the film was impressive stylistically, and more than that, it was fairly brazen. The Daredevil film came at a time when it was uncommonly ballsy to introduce a love interest in the first film of a hopeful series, and kill her off in the first one. For all of Daredevil's striking similarities to Raimi's Spider-Man, it was definitely a rather more mature outing thanks to things like killing off his girlfriend. Shame about the spinoff.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.
