This question is mainly for Marvel fans, but the character Daredevil is a superhero/vigilante who’s a lawyer, mainly a defense attorney. I get he’s about upholding justice and helping the little guy, but wouldn’t it make more sense for the character to be a prosecutor or a civil rights attorney rather than a defense attorney?
I get not everyone is guilty, and a lot of people get screwed over, but let’s be honest: most of the time, defense attorneys defend people who are, more often than not, guilty of crimes. If Matt’s whole character is about justice, wouldn’t it make more sense for him to be a prosecutor, use his hearing to decide if the person is guilty or not, and achieve justice that way? Or become a civil rights attorney?
Fisk often does have some drive that his tyranny makes the city “better” or “safer”. It’s misguided and ego-driven, and while he does play the “rules for thee not me” game, he’s not entirely climbing the ladder solely to profit personally, usually that’s a side hustle, a perk of the job, but not the end game. His issue is he leans towards maintaining the city for the sake of the idea of the city, which is more than bureaucracy. He wants to be beloved like a hero, similar to how Lex Luthor and Elon want to be beloved, but they’re all so out of touch and narcissistic they can’t see it’s their nature that makes them loathsome. Their personalities are fictional and they can’t be whatever the writer wants them to be within reason, but I’d add while Fisk is many things, he’s not written as Trump level creep who uses his position and wealth for sexual exploitation. He does personally murder more people than Trump probably has.