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MATT MURDOCK as DAREDEVIL Daredevil Season 3×01
MATT MURDOCK as DAREDEVIL Daredevil Season 3×01
there are two wolves inside of you. one is sobbing because they’re excited to get their mess of a little babygirl lawyer back. the other doesn’t want disney anywhere near matthew murdock.
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mfs be like “heres my comfort character theyre so silly” and the character is very capable of killing a man
daredevil || matt murdock || edit
Matt Murdock and Peter Parker really are very similar huh?
They are “orphans” (or so they’re told)
They were raised by mother and father-figures
Their father figures and mentors died and they couldn’t save them
Their mother figures do their best to support them and their second life
They became vigilantes fighting crime in NYC
They have red suits
They use their special senses
They don’t kill people (usually) but a villain frames them for murder
And their girlfriends die in their arms because they couldn’t save them
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
I was in my Mythology class today and learned about the Oedipus/Electra Complex, which is a Freudian theory that generally means that children tend to subconsciously become sexually attracted to their opposite-sex parent and become jealous of their same-sex parent.
Similarly, other theories state that people tend to choose significant others that resemble their opposite-sex parent.
Then I was rudely reminded by my brain of this:
Marvel was foul for this (Not the creators of Netflix’s Daredevil, but the comic creators).
Her name is literally Elektra Nachios. She fell love with Matt Murdock (a blind man/vigilante), with whom she shared a mentor/father figure, Stick (a blind man/crime fighting cult member).
FOUL—
Authors: "Here are some beautiful and handsome young characters who get a lot of screentime and- wait what are you doing?"
Me: *spending all my time fangirling over secondary/support characters* "..what?"
God what's next a VR game from Matt's POV?
Matt Murdock + love at first sight?
boy do I have some news for you
Autistic Matt Murdock
Ok look. This may just be my autistic ass projecting but Mr. Matthew Michael Murdock is 100% autistic and you can fight me on that.
He is literally like /always/ stimming. You can see it in the show he fidgets with his hands or cane all the time, also that little hop jump thing he did in the college flashback.
Also, I know he has super senses but they read to me a lot like autism/sensory processing disorder. I mean think, he’s not the only character with enhanced senses. Steve, Bucky, T’Challa and Peter all have them too (I’m sure there are other but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head) and other than Peter (who is also autistic and you can fight me on that) none of them have the same problems that Matt does. We see Matt having multiple sensory overloads throughout the show and honestly they are kind of similar to mine. Everything is too much and I get overwhelmed. Steve/Bucky/T’Challa don’t have that problem. Also “cotton feels like sandpaper on my skin” I mean come on.
*Season 2 spoilers for the next paragraph* When he looses his hearing after Frank shoots him in the head and he’s sitting on the floor screaming and smacking his hand on the wall? That is a meltdown. While I don’t scream during mine I do curl up in a ball and sometimes hurt myself. It’s a meltdown.
His sense of Justice. Ok, so not every autistic person has a strong sense of right and wrong but a lot do. We can also see it in the fact that he would rather help people than make lots of money. I heard of a study done (Ok so this study is not without faults, it uses functioning labels and try to patholigize autism despite the results) where there were a group of autistic people and a group of neurotypical people. They were both given a choice, they could donate money to a good cause that would help people but would loose them money, or they could donate money to a not so good cause that would make them money in the long run. There were two tests run, one that was observed one that was not. The autistic group where much more likely to pick that good cause in both. Neurotypicals, on the other hand, were more likely to pick the good cause when they were being observed but the bad cause that would make them money when they were not. Matt literally chooses helping people over money every single time. Hell, he chooses to help people over his own safety every time.
His special interests! He has two big ones: law/justice and protecting Hell’s Kitchen. I mean he basically spends all of his time either working a case or on patrol. He maybe also has a smaller one on catholicism.
Scripting. I think he does a lot of that in the show. He describes his senses as a “world on fire” multiple times and uses “I’m blind” as an excuse for his injuries even when that excuse doesn't really fit said injury. He is also extremely eloquent in court when he can rehearse and know what he is going to say but often trips on his words in regular conversation.
So ya, Autistic Matt Murdock y’all!
-Phoenix
Edit: OMG How could I have forgotten Matts giant special interest on Thurgood Marshall???
Manipulation of Ableism in Marvel’s Daredevil
Ok so imo Daredevil as a show’s best moments are when Matt is manipulating other peoples ableist attitudes/assumptions about him to get shit done. I think one of my favorite examples of this is when *Spoilers for season 2* he and Electra are at the gala to get information on the Hand. Matt purposefully spills wine on the accountant(?) dude to get him in the bathroom and away from everyone else. He knows that he won’t get in trouble for it because he’s just a blameless blind dude right /s. Later in that same episode when he and Elektra need to make an escape and they are able to do that because no one sees him as a threat because of his disability. He can’t possibly be the one to trip the alarm /s. I love all of this because that operation was only successful because of that. An abled person would have had a much harder time with it.
Another things I love about scene when they are escaping is that when the guard rips off Matt’s glasses and shines a light in his eyes (which is hella rude) the look on Matt’s face is amazing. You can just tell he’s thinking well I know we need to do this to go free but but now I am going to be reduced to my disability. This man is going to judge me solely off of that and noting else and I hate that. And honestly? Mood. There have been times when someone finds out I’m autistic and immediately start to talk to me as if I’m 5 years old instead of almost 20. I had an english teacher in high school insinuate that I shouldn’t be in her advanced class because I’m dyslexic. It’s so frustrating! I think Charlie Cox shows that really really well in that scene.
There are a bunch of other examples of this especially in season 3 and its just so great. Its a mechanism for survival in a world not built for disabled people but at the same time you can see how much peoples attitudes and assumptions effect Matt. You can see just how angry and annoyed he is and its such a quintessentially disabled experience. IDK I just have a lot of feelings about it.
-Phoenix
Incorrect Daredevil quotes | inspired by incorrect quotes generator
Matt whispering to Karen: Jail is no fun. I’ll tell you that much.
Karen: Oh, you’ve been?
Matt in a serious manner: only once. In Monopoly.
What listening to hoobastank does to a mf
When is the last time someone hugged you?
Has anyone ever written à Matt Murdock fic with a blind y/n or oc???? I CAN’T FIND ONE!!!! It’s not a want, it’s a need!
Foggy: Look, Matt, I made a little marshmallow you, it even has it’s arms crossed cause you’re grumpy all the time! What do you think?
Matt: *choked up* it’s fine.
this absolutely happened
me: “oh no i suddenly got covid”
“ure sick in the head if your heart pounds for men who are losers. literal losers who just got a. dumped, b. traumatized, c. heartbroken.”
my brain: *coughs*
Classes started so I'm more productive, have another character study, this time, matt!! 💼
Day 8: Matt Murdock
The pain is depurative. More than any number of 'hail mary's could be. This is a true penance, action without the self-pity of words. Without the excuses.
Matt takes his punishment as he has earned it, with a bloody smile.
It hurts, of course it hurts. It's supposed to hurt. Each blow tastes sweet, like pennies on a rainy day. Feels jagged and jittery like something close to love. The caress of something bigger than him.
This fight only ends one way—Matt, standing, bloodied over a pile of unconscious thugs—but first, he has to earn it. Spit enough blood on the concrete to pay for what drips down his knuckles.
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