Daredevil’s “human but slightly to the left” mannerisms are endlessly amusing and not touched on nearly enough in fandom.
This is a guy who has had more time without sight than with it, and has had to rely on what he remembers about how people comport themselves, in order to conduct himself appropriately.
Since he was nine, he’s had no visual input for body language and how to interpret it. It would have taken a while to figure out how to translate brand new interactions into something he could emulate and use.
I need so much more of Daredevil using this to his advantage to throw people off. I need Daredevil really selling the idea that the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is an eldrich beastie playing at human.
(And honestly, the lack of gifs with the proper creepy clips is clearly an oversight, so an Intimidating Devil will have to do.)
And honestly, I’d take Matt doing it on purpose as well as by mistake, because both are equally funny.
Matt being an absolute menace and scaring people on purpose For Effect?
Delightful!
Matt forgetting that Humans Don’t Act Like That and scaring the mess out of people because he was focusing on more important matters?
Delectable!
Daredevil makes people question whether the eldrech horrors have crawled from the depths.
Daredevil makes people wonder what awful deal was done to bind this creature to Hell’s Kitchen and rain wrath upon criminals.
Daredevil makes people suffer without the mercy of death.
Daredevil makes bad guys think they better get to a church fast because God is sending the devil after them.
Daredevil freaks wrongdoers out so much that some of them will just give up on sight.
When it’s theorized that Matthew Murdock might be Daredevil, the bad guys don’t go after him because what if Matt Murdock is actually the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen?
Daredevil makes people think that something horrible crawled into a human’s skin and is trying to walk around and pass itself off as human.
Daredevil picks fights with the biggest, baddest, meanest, nastiest scum that the earth can drum up, and he picks these fights over and over and over again.
Daredevil goes after the nasties that whole police forces won’t touch.
Daredevil cannot be mortal, because Daredevil should have been dead many times over, but he always pops back up to take another run at his enemies.
Daredevil goes after the old, the gargantuan, the rooted-in crime elements that nobody else knows exists, or tries their hardest to forget.
Matthew freakin’ Murdock made New Yorkers, who had seen vigilantes crop up before, shake their heads and cross themselves and go, “Naw, that’s the literal devil himself.”
Named after Matthew the follower of Jesus who was martyred for telling off a king for attempting to force a girl to marry him, and for Michael the archangel of battle and end times… Murdock sure lives up to the spirit of savage battle in the name of justice. He’s so violent, such a powerful fighter, and he makes such an impression.
Daredevil is scary.