Matt believes the MIB should be defended in court and not in the press. The man in the shadows asks after “Black Sky,” a mysterious weapon being transported to New York.įoggy’s busy ranting about “the devil of Hell’s Kitchen.” He’s a “terrorist without the ist,” and he wants to punch him, believing him to be a coward, turning into the J. “Stick” opens in Japan, with a man in the shadows chopping the hand off and then the head, of a panicked Japanese man. One scene with Glenn and we know immediately how Daredevil is so awesome from the moment we see him. Marvel eschewed the traditional origin story at the top, and instead, sprinkled it across the first three episodes in pretty damn effective flashbacks.īut how the hell can Matt Murdock fight? How is he such a badass? Well, part of the answer finally comes in the seventh episode of the series, where we’re introduced to Stick ( The Silence of the Lamb‘s Scott Glenn), the also-blind, also-badass gruff mentor to a young Matt Murdock. While he wasn’t (and still isn’t) called Daredevil, the Man in the Mask was more than a competent fighter. “Rabbit in a Snowstorm” Episode 3 Recapĭaredevil was so successful right off the bat because it threw the audience right into the action.Now the billy club has been passed on to me. David has shepherded us through Frank Miller’s classic run, two of DD’s most famous origin stories and the not-classic Daredevil movie. Daredevil Week(s) continues with the arrival of Netflix’s Marvel’s too many apostrophes’ Daredevil.

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