Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

[MGibster]

I am not sure that killing a character whose death will have a major effect on another character is necessarily a fridging. I do not think, for instance, that Aunt May was fridged in No Way Home; at least insofar as Uncle Ben would not be considered to have been fridged. However, that said, I think you could certainly make the case that Uncle Hector was fridged. Was Foggy fridged? If he was, does the term lose meaning as every important death turns into a fridging?

Fridging is one of those things you look at in the aggregate rather than on an individual basis. The idea behind fridging is female supporting characters in comics very often suffered disproportionate harm relative to male supporting characters. You can't just look at one instance and say, "That's not fridging," because it's a trend not a one off event. Which kind of makes it difficult to critique of course because we can't just sit here and say "uh, huh," or "uh, nah" at ever instance.

Me personally, I don't care if a supporting character is killed to advance the plot of the main character. Supporting characters exist to advance the plot of the main character. It's why they're called supporting characters. But if female characters are disproportionately harmed compared to comparable male characters I can see why that might be a problem. And for the purpose of this discussion I'm just going to assume it's true.

 

[Tonguez]

If Uncle Ben isn’t considered fridged, then the term has no meaning (unless that meaning requires either a fridge or a female fridgee – which, I suppose, are arguments that could be made).

What about Tonys parents? hell Batmans Parents for that matter?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

was not a result of anything Foggy had been doing

My feeling is that is will be revealed that it had everything to do with Foggy, and nothing to do with DD.

 

[pukunui]

My feeling is that is will be revealed that it had everything to do with Foggy, and nothing to do with DD.

I figured I was just missing context from the OG Daredevil show, but I guess that’s not the case? (I’m only halfway through S1.)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I figured I was just missing context from the OG Daredevil show, but I guess that’s not the case? (I’m only halfway through S1.)

I’ve only seen the 1st episode of this series, but Foggy was definitely up to something.

My theory is Foggy’s death was faked (if you know someone has superhearing you can fool it) so he could go into witness protection, to testify against Vanessa.

The Netflix show did establish that Foggy was not a fan of vigilantism.

 

[pukunui]

I’ve only seen the 1st episode of this series, but Foggy was definitely up to something.

My theory is Foggy’s death was faked (if you know someone has superhearing you can fool it) so he could go into witness protection, to testify against Vanessa.

The Netflix show did establish that Foggy was not a fan of vigilantism.

Interesting theory.

Random question: why do people in Daredevil always refer to Hell’s Kitchen as if it was its own city rather than a small part of NYC?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Interesting theory.

Random question: why do people in Daredevil always refer to Hell’s Kitchen as if it was its own city rather than a small part of NYC?

Same reason I live in Carshalton, even though you would think of it as part of London?

 

[trappedslider]

Interesting theory.

Random question: why do people in Daredevil always refer to Hell’s Kitchen as if it was its own city rather than a small part of NYC?

same reason why we refer to the various China Towns instead of the city they are in

 

[pukunui]

Same reason I live in Carshalton, even though you would think of it as part of London?

But would you refer to your neighborhood as “the city”, or would you reserve that term for the whole of London?

same reason why we refer to the various China Towns instead of the city they are in

What I mean is, they talk about “the city”, and to me that means all of NYC, but in the next breath, they make it clear they’re just referring to the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen – as if it wasn’t part of a much larger city.

Obviously in this new show we’ve expanded to “the city” being all of NYC now that Fisk is the mayor. This is more a question as I watch the OG show.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But would you refer to your neighborhood as “the city”, or would you reserve that term for the whole of London?

There is a separate City of London, which is a neighbourhood.

Salford is a city in it's own right, despite being attached to Manchester.