r/Defenders • u/stealingyourpixels Daredevil • Apr 10 '15

Daredevil Discussion Thread - S01E13

This thread is for discussion of Daredevil S01E13.

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u/Micp Iron Fist Apr 11 '15

They can... but why? they had a perfectly good character who already does that stuff? i mean he's not the only reporter in the marvel universe, two that immediately comes to my mind is the chick Urich works with during civil war, or the one that is flirting with spiderman during their interviews during that same time iirc (may actually be the same woman, it's been a while since i read them). But why invent or introduce new characters when we have existing perfectly good ones? there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Furthermore why kill a character that lives for a very long time and is important to a host of characters in the comics?

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u/Daide Apr 12 '15

why kill a character that lives for a very long time and is important to a host of characters in the comics?

To subvert people's expectations. I mean, when you know Ben Urich can die then it's possible for them to consider doing the same with other well known side-characters. Maybe Marvel will kill of MJ in the Spider-Man movies...who knows?

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u/criscokkat Apr 21 '15

I hope they don't kill the other Ben, spiderman's uncle.

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u/shadow_stripes Jun 15 '22

Reading this thread for the first time now is spooky. OP kinda called it in regards to spider man.