Preliminary Poll

Matt Murdock

Submission reason:

The mcu/netflix daredevil show was inspired by Man Without Fear, one of the worst DD runs written by Frank Miller that was so bad it got retconned. Thanks to the mcu's popularity, comics are now getting mcu-ified and Matt is one of those cases. In all of Daredevil, a majority of runs showed Matt being non-religious or at least have some aspects of lapsed catholicism. Unfortunately because the netflix show is so popular, chip zdarksy, the current writer for Daredevil, decided to make Matt just like his mcu counterpart except 100x worse. You know how ao3 fanfic writers write characters in such an OOC way that it hurts to read? Zdarsky does exactly like that but worse. He made Matt a caricature of what a catholic person would be. Matt is extremely unlikable in a way that isn't entertaining where he goes around preaching about god 24/7 and calls anyone whose killed someone a murderer especially if they did it by accident. First red flag was when he interacted with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. He's interacted with them many times in older runs, knows who they are, knows that they have killed before, and is their lawyer. Here, he learns about them killing (again) and calls them murderers and leaves them. I'm not kidding when I say Matt preaches about God every second because even in his thoughts he's like ""This is God's way"" whenever he goes out as Daredevil, pretty much ignoring the real reasons why he's Daredevil in the first place. He became Daredevil because he wanted justice for his father's murder, simple as that. He knows the law system is flawed and wants to change it and also go against it. Matt being a hypocrite is fun, but in the current run, he's absolutely obnoxious about it. In previous runs, he has hung out with Elektra multiple times with the knowledge that she kills people only for this run, she suddenly isn't trustworthy because she kills people. Matt's characterization has gotten so bad to the point where Daredevil fans joke about him being in his youth pastor era and how the way he preaches about god and uses it as excuses to commit violence comes off as very much crusader colonizer. Daredevil fans like myself are only wishing for Matt to die at this point because the character we've come to love and enjoy reading is no longer there and until a better writer shows up, we have to deal with this version. And this version pushes the whole ""Catholic Matt Murdock"" narrative despite the fact that in a majority of dd comics he isn't religious. It's so bad, just go through breifcasejuice, daresplaining, and xycuro-illuminati's blogs on why this run is terrible.

Propaganda:

Chip Zdarsky stop writing Daredevil challenge

ok… imagine a moon knight and daredevil crossover where dd has no issues fighting the invisible jackals because the dude cant see shit anyway. moon knight is like “you can see them??” and matt, not wanting to reveal his blindness but having no idea theyre invisible, is just like “yeah i can see of course i can see”

moon knight then assumes dd is an avatar of an egyptian god. bc what else? so, naturally, moon knight asks “what god do you serve?”

“jesus”

“what??”

“im catholic?”

“what???”

CHARLIE COX as MATT MURDOCK Daredevil | 2.06: Regrets Only

I had to.

Consider the following: Loki is a known liar, and Matt Murdock can tell whenever people are lying.

Matt Murdock. Daredevil.

Daredevil S02E05 Kinbaku

Me: *throws this at u guys like ur rabid dogs* I drew marvel fanart for u losers, I drew clint are u happy

I love them,,,

DD stands for daredevil designated driver

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 1.08 • "Ribbit and Rip it"

Yeah, I'm fine

*Types "<character name> x reader" into tumblr search bar*

CHARLIE COX as MATT MURDOCK Daredevil | 2.02: Dogs to a Gunfight

…. Do I even need to say their names?

Alaqua Cox & Charlie Cox as Maya Lopez/Echo & Matt Murdock/Daredevil ECHO, 1x01 “Chafa”