Okay, so the bank robbery episode of Daredevil Born Again.....I feel like that was the first bad episode I've seen so far in the series. I know people are upset because Foggy is dead, but y'all have got to remember that if you yell at Marvel loud enough they will bring a character back in some form or another. And that's because they care about what their fans have to say and also because comic books were not always a multi-billion dollar industry. Marvel almost went bankrupt in the 90s, remember?
The only reason why they didn't is because the former chairman of Marvel Comics Ike Perlmutter sold off film rights of Marvel properties. That's how Fox ended up with X-Men, Hulk ended up with Universal, and Sony got Spiderman. Fox did not invent X-Men. Look it the fuck up -- please, I am begging you. Cause every time some idiot says Fox invented X-Men even though there are behind the scenes interviews with STAN FUCKING LEE on the DVDs -- the creator of the X-Men and one of the moguls of the Marvelverse itself -- I die a little inside.
Marvel and DC -- cause they do this too by the way -- had no choice but to resurrect dead characters way back in the 1960s before the MCU had been even thought of. Because people stop buying books when their favorite characters die, and you cannot print the books without a roof over your fucking head. It's not so much a capitalistic ploy as much as it is a way to AVOID HOMELESSNESS. Because making comics like any career in the arts doesn't pay well, and comic book writers and artists get very little respect for their work because of asshole art snobs and book snobs who think comics are beneath them.
So I'm not upset that Foggy Nelson is dead because I know that he will be back. We will see him in a dream sequence or in a flashback or some random cameo somewhere, but he will be back. That being said, the bank robbery episode felt completely out of place in the Born Again series. It's meant to be a pointless filler fluff episode and that's exactly what it is in the worst way possible. There's very little tying it back to the central plot of Mayor Fisk and the serial killer Muse.
And I can't help but wonder if that episode was salvaged from the original script that got scrapped and rewritten. Cause, from my understanding, that original script was a water downed and more family friendly version of Daredevil. That's basically what that was.
I also don't love how they are making Kamala Khan and the female superheroes the new face of family friendly Marvel. Like that's insulting and misogynistic on multiple levels because it implies that women and girls not only don't like action and gore but that we are also incapable of watching it. So thank you, Moms 4 Liberty and helicopter parents everywhere, for perpetuating that stereotype.
