Oh yeah, this is not your child's Marvel Cinematic Universe! That familiar logo slapped all over Daredevil shouldn't suggest that the show is as family-friendly as pretty much every one of the studio's previous projects have been. In fact at times Daredevil manages to get more bloody and violent than even your average crime drama. Just saying, The Wire never had a scene where a guy kills himself by stabbing his head on a spike on a wall. That was pretty gross. But it's also kind of cool. The PG-13 violence in all of the Marvel films is kind of sanitised and bloodless, which is a good thing in that kids don't get upset but is also sort of bad, since it implies that killing is a relatively clean thing, and not worth spending time thinking too much about, and there's not really any consequences to it. Not a good message. Daredevil's street level setting means that the violence isn't of the Chitauri soldier shot with plasma canon or shield hits a guy in the face variety. Instead it's down and dirty, the fight choreography flirting with the wire-fu that's been Hollywood's fave ever since The Matrix, but is mostly much more tense, terse, and brutal. In the way that a street fight with a bunch of criminals would be. It also makes the effects of the violence clear, from Matt's injuries to that guy he tossed off a roof into a dumpster.
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