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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 705950" data-attributes="member: 4441">Re: Stinker!!Well, it started out as revenge and vengence.  There's death, mayhem, and general brutality at Daredevil's hands.  He goes, in the course of the movie, from vengence to justice.  Merciless to merciful.  I'm just saying.    Well.... he doesn't.  As the billyclub is taken away as evidence and eventually the reporter sees it.  As was seen throughout the movie, the billyclub breaks into two parts.  I think he lost them both when he knocked Bullseye off the motorcycle, but Bullseye only picked up one of them.  Daredevil grabbed the other to make his escape.  I think that was the point.  That Daredevil somehow got in front of him, and Quesada didn't know how.Daredevil isn't Superman, Wolverine, or Spider-Man.  He has no extraordinary strength or healing powers.  You'd probably want to catch your breath and regroup as well if you were getting beaten that hard.  I think we, as a movie-going public, are too used to heroes that can take a beating that would put a normal guy it traction, but still keep fighting.  *shrug*He lost the only case that we saw, to an extraordinarily slick, expensive, experienced lawyer in the pay of a powerful crimelord.  A lawyer who didn't have Matt's morals, and was all to eager to use any weapon, including calling the victim a drug addict.  And in many rape cases, with a man's word against a woman's...  it doesn't always go well.  As for the low pay vs. sensory deprivation tank...  I won't argue with you there.   It is rather far-fetched.  Necessary, for him, so he can sleep without hearing half the city.  Though I wonder how he managed to sleep the night he was with Elektra.  I think it was a cool idea, but the writers kinda forgot that no matter how cool the toys, one has to be able to pay for them.  Many other superheroes also seem to be millionaires (Iron Man, Batman, even Professer Xavier has some kind of fortune), and I think that's something they forgot.  Kinda hard to take out a loan for that kind of stuff...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />*shrug*  He was in this for vengence at the beginning of the movie.  And rather extreme vengence at that.  He wanted people, particularly the kind of people he went after, to know what he would do to them.  Nothing like putting fear into the heart of your enemies.  It does half your work for you.    Dear lord no!  At least this didn't have Mr. Freeze spouting off really bad cold-related quotes and puns every five minutes.  That alone places Daredevil at least one notch above B & R.  So that's my two copper pieces.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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