Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

Stalker0 said:

I agree they are different in terms of ability, but I would argue they are not in terms of scale. Clint is as “superhuman” as bullseye is, just in a different way

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He's largely superhuman in a way that almost all "highly trained" supers are if they have a focus at all, though. When was the last time you saw Batman fail an acrobatic action? Far as that goes, how often have you seen equivalent actions fail when done by a protagonist in most action movies unless it involved active attempts at defense on a target's part?

I think the fact Clint does some things that seem superhuman to us is a consequence of genre convention, not a statement about him being superhuman in any way meaningful in-setting. Its hard for me to read Bullseye the same way, because his abilities are called out as being something extraordinary even in-setting.

So the announcement has come in that Jessica Jones will appear in Season 2. It will be interesting to see how she has changed. A lot of major world altering naughty word has gone down since then, but at the same time the she has had a number of years since we last saw her to heal from the naughty word that specifically hurt her. And in the comics she eventually does move on with her life too, right? I am not expecting her to pull a 180 or anything like that. But maybe be like 15 to 30 degrees different from when we last saw her.

If she is still wearing the exact same getup I am going to guess she was snapped. Ten years is a long time for dressing habits to stay exactly the same. Jessica is also perhaps one of the MCU characters least likely to brush aside the trauma of the Blip. It is a different kind of violation that what she experienced before, but it is still an enormous one.

Eh, the MCU mostly pretends the Blip never happened, except when it is needed for a plot point.

Even the name for it: "the Blip." Because half of all life being wiped out for five years and then suddenly returning instantly is just a minor thing. Not to mention the untold millions who would have died because of it even though they weren't directly snapped out of existence, and who never came back (think of what would have happened on just on highways and aircraft and so on).

In retrospect, the Blip was a narrative disaster for the MCU, emphasizing that nothing that happens really matters. Which subsequent films have reiterated. Daredevil should stay well away from it.

Clint_L said:

Eh, the MCU mostly pretends the Blip never happened, except when it is needed for a plot point.

Even the name for it: "the Blip." Because half of all life being wiped out for five years and then suddenly returning instantly is just a minor thing. Not to mention the untold millions who would have died because of it even though they weren't directly snapped out of existence, and who never came back (think of what would have happened on just on highways and aircraft and so on).

In retrospect, the Blip was a narrative disaster for the MCU, emphasizing that nothing that happens really matters. Which subsequent films have reiterated. Daredevil should stay well away from it.

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It’s never addressed directly but the suggestion seems to be that Bruce brought them back “safely”, aka not exactly where they were but in a close safe area.

Otherwise we could just super technical and say that everyone that blipped back would be in space and would die instantly.

Stalker0 said:

It’s never addressed directly but the suggestion seems to be that Bruce brought them back “safely”, aka not exactly where they were but in a close safe area.

Otherwise we could just super technical and say that everyone that blipped back would be in space and would die instantly.

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Clint was talking about those who were left behind but who were on say a plane. With a pilot and copilot and a random 50% blipping out one out of every four planes all around the world will lose both pilots and crash with the 50% of the passengers who were not blipped. On every highway half the cars going at speed lose their drivers so everyone left behind on the road is at risk of uncontrolled cars crashing into them and huge almost instant pileups.

If you start to think about it in terms of the after effects if they just disappeared, then over 50% of the population was gone in that moment. I'd think that would be taken into account.

I thought not undoing the Blip was a strange choice for Marvel to go with. Before it came out I expected Avengers: Endgame to show the dismal place the world became in the months after Avengers: Infinity War. Then, Ant-Man gets out of the Quantum Realm and they use knowledge of that to time travel back to change the past and undo the Blip.

Avengers: Endgame turned out to be such a better film than I imagined, so I forgive them for keeping the Blip intact. But, yes, there would have been so much death and chaos in those early days and weeks following the Snap that people would be forever traumatized. Active pilots and drivers disappearing were mentioned above. Consider surgeons and medical staff disappearing mid-surgery. If caretakers for children or elderly vanished, it might be days before someone checked in on them. Consider parents losing young children and young children losing their parents -- these terrible tragedies happen every day, but the Blip would have multiplied them many times over.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier tried to address some of the fallout, but that show was dealing with so much other stuff it had little time to devote to it in depth. Other post-Blip shows and films have not really shown the aftereffects.

I think at this point, we should just realize that the blip time will be a noodle incident and never really explored to the satisfaction that fans will want.