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?
The law spends more time helping the rich abuse the poor than it does judging people who are actually guilty. Matt doesn’t want to be the guy arguing that a kid who smoked a bowl of pot deserves jail time.
Matt helps people with no money and no power defend themselves from people with lots of money and lots of power. The key word is “defend”. He doesn’t put on the horns to go beat up people who are guilty… Most of the time. He puts on the horns so he can go protect the lady he hears being beaten by her husband while he’s trying to sleep.
I see your lack of understanding in the whole innocent until proven guilty persists between accounts @Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz / @PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz
How can he defend a guilty person when they have not been found guilty?
Seems like you’re being a little obtuse here. I think it’s pretty obvious what they meant (person committed a crime but hasn’t been found guilty yet)
Hey, exposing people’s alts is doxxing. OP hasn’t done anything to deserve you violating their privacy.
You must be new here.
The whole point of Daredevil is the dilemma between the forgiveness and grace of his Catholic faith and his need to punish “evildoers” like the ones who killed his father. His dichotomous nature means as Daredevil he hands out punishment, but as Matt Murdoch he helps people who made one mistake or are just unable to fight the system in general have a chance to make a better life for themselves. That’s what has made the character interesting since Frank Miller revamped him in the late 70s. If the whole comic/show was just a guy callously trying to send everyone to jail for as long as possible the whole time it would be very one dimensional and REALLY boring.
Comics are all about telling a compelling and entertaining story, which means they don’t always follow perfect real world logic.
If they did they would be more like a documentary or something
If the whole comic/show was just a guy callously trying to send everyone to jail for as long as possible the whole time it would be very one dimensional and REALLY boring
A superhero that beats the shit out of a criminal, hands them to the cops, goes in as his day job to prosecute them might as well be “the man with no chill”
I mean the Punisher is basically that except he skips a few steps
That might actually work for a chaotic storyline with an antihero version of Two-Face. The dichotomous nature is baked into the character, maybe even too rigidly
I will point out that defence attorneys are important to upholding justice even if their client is guilty. Even criminals deserve a fair punishment, and a government that overreaches to declare harsh punishment without proving beyond reasonable doubt its justification is not justice either. Especially in the Marvel universe, where someone like Wilson Fisk can become mayor, it’s quite important.
Or in our universe, where someone like Donald Trump can become president
I mean Wilson Fisk is probably still worse than Trump, but fair
I don’t think Trump is hiring supervillain assassins yet
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.
I’m basing this on the Netflix show (and not the new one as I haven’t seen it), but Fisk is at least an empathetic person at times. There is a pathos there.
Trump is an empty husk of a human
I mean, yeah, Wilson Fisk is definitelty more human, but that doesn’t make him good lol
I’m sure Trump has plenty of pathos for his good friend Jeffrey Epstein from all the evidence…
Maybe, but part of the theme of the TV show (I can’t speak intelligently about the comics) is that the system is corrupt. As a prosecutor, you would be part of that system.
As a criminal defense attorney you operate independently.
He also need those flexible work hours
