Daredevil Season 3: 18 WTF Moments

12. Dex's Murderous Past (Episode 5, "The Perfect Game")

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A prolonged flashback sequence in the fifth episode reveals the origin story of Dex, that he grew up in a care home where he showed enormous promise as a baseball pitcher.

After Coach Bradley (Gary Hilborn) pulls him aside when he's in the middle of pitching a perfect game, Dex becomes enraged, ricocheting a baseball off a wall and into Bradley's head, killing him instantly.

This was of course just the beginning of Dex's psychotic behaviour, further fostered by the eventual cancer death of his therapist Eileen Mercer (Heidi Armbruster) and his obsession with colleague Julie (Holly Cinnamon) at the Suicide Prevention Hotline.

It's one of the most compelling - not to mention brutal - villain origin stories in the MCU so far, and impressively avoids feeling even remotely silly.

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