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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9625175" data-attributes="member: 18">That would make complete sense but the show completely fails to frame it like that! So it remains hard-work headcanon! (Not saying there's anything wrong with headcanon! Just that the writers probably didn't intend it).You'd want some scenes of him either like getting visibly worked up beforehand, or really freaking out afterwards, and maybe showing how badly mauled the guy was, and making it a bit obvious that something deeply messed-up had happened, rather than just cutting abruptly as the fight ends. And then worse, the next scene we see him in, he isn't messed up at all, he's have a cheeky cheery fun conversation with Kamala's dad and cheekily returning the diamond in a fun comedy way! It's practically 1960s Batman levels of silly. After he just horrifically scarred a man (barely and only accidentally avoiding blinding him in one eye) and broke his leg in probably multiple places (which could also have easily severed an artery!)!That's a huge tonal mismatch that indicates they didn't want us to think of the fight as the "beast inside" coming out, but rather that it was a "justified takedown of a criminal" or something. It's that weird empathy-less writing you sometimes see from Hollywood, where badguys are solely props, no matter how developed their character, but that's a also a mismatch for the Catholic guilt and general vibes of DD (especially with the explicit Kingpin comparisons).What's even weirder is they had an opportunity to course-correct next episode, when they have Matt looking troubled, praying about justice and flashing back. They could have had him like, wince as he remembered what he did to that guy. But instead it's just "I failed to save Foggy", and the only bank robbery stuff he flashes back to is being threatened by shotgun guy (red mask) and fighting him, not mauling this dude.</blockquote>

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