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Hello! This is the first time Iâve spoken to you, but it is not the first time Iâve been here. I turn up here at Dailywhump once or twice a month hoping for new whumps to watch. Thanks to Daily Whump I have discovered The Flash, Arrow, ForeverâŠand I really appreciate everything you do. So Iâm writing now to share one of my own whump discoveries. From Marvelâs Daredevil. Spoilers be here so hereâs your warning and stuff.
So Matthew Murdock, played by gorgeous Charlie Cox (You may recognize him as Tristan from Star Dust), is a blind superhero, which is super cool. In Season 1 Episode 2 âCut Manâ well, quite a beautiful title with so much promise and they sure do deliver. Matthew ends up in a garbage bin and is rescued by the lovely Claire. She tries to help him, he pulls out the whole âNo hospitalsâ line and well Claire decides to doctor him up right in her appartment. Do you see all the beauty I am trying to lay out? On top of that we get flashbacks from Matthewâs youth, when he had to patch up his dad.
There are other episodes with plenty of whump, both physical and phsycological. Later we get the whole scenario where his closest friends are on the brink of discovering the âtruthâ; always very entertaining, that.
Anyway, to conclud you should totally review Daredevil and rate it and stuff. Also Iâm terrible with the whole gif making thing. So if you make any gifs from Cut Man I would be thrilled <3.
Daredevil has such a special place in my heart for so many reasons, but the biggest one is that it is a show filled with excellently redered, fully realized, multifaceted friendships, and friendships like that make for excellent whump. Any show can throw their stoic character under a bus, but it takes a show with reallly compelling and touching character relationships to tug my hurt/comfort heartstrings. For these purposes, the Matt/Foggy bromance is just the pinnacle of great writing and acting, and it gives the showâs whumping of Daredevil such pressing emotional stakes.
I mean, look at them. They are too goddamn adorable.
Whatâs even better is that our protagonist isnât the only one to entertain really compelling friendships. The energy between Wilson Fisk and his consigliere, James Wesley, is amazing to watch because when we think of comic book villains, we tend to think of monologues to the effect of
and not so much scenes like this:
The last time I remember being so oddly compelled by a villain/henchman relationship was in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows where the sniper character, far from being yet another paid thug, actually seems to care for Moriarty on a personal level. It just adds something really special to a show (and I think itâs particularly true of Daredevil) when the âbad guysâ can inspire such dedicated companionship. It makes for better whump, but it also forces us to ask - if someone is so devoted to this person, can they and their mission really be so bad?
Anyway, after a long answer to a short question: YES. I definitely need to review Daredevil and will try to do so. That review will look something like this post, I expect, only organized.
I must disappoint you in one small way, which is that I donât make GIFs. I have no moral objections, Iâm just gloriously unskilled at that sort of technical labor and can barely work the tumblr machine well enough to put out my text reviews. However, given the breakout popularity of the show and the embarassing lag time between when you probably asked this ask and when Iâm answering it, I guarantee at least a dozen whump-friendly GIFfers have GIFsetted the crap out of âCut Manâ by now, which is perhaps the only silver lining to it taking me this long to answer.
Thanks for your patience, and for your ask!
