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This question is mainly for Marvel fans, but the character Daredevil is a superhero/vigilante who’s a lawyer, mainly a defense attorney. I get he’s about upholding justice and helping the little guy, but wouldn’t it make more sense for the character to be a prosecutor or a civil rights attorney rather than a defense attorney?

I get not everyone is guilty, and a lot of people get screwed over, but let’s be honest: most of the time, defense attorneys defend people who are, more often than not, guilty of crimes. If Matt’s whole character is about justice, wouldn’t it make more sense for him to be a prosecutor, use his hearing to decide if the person is guilty or not, and achieve justice that way? Or become a civil rights attorney?

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 53 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The whole point of Daredevil is the dilemma between the forgiveness and grace of his Catholic faith and his need to punish "evildoers" like the ones who killed his father. His dichotomous nature means as Daredevil he hands out punishment, but as Matt Murdoch he helps people who made one mistake or are just unable to fight the system in general have a chance to make a better life for themselves. That's what has made the character interesting since Frank Miller revamped him in the late 70s. If the whole comic/show was just a guy callously trying to send everyone to jail for as long as possible the whole time it would be very one dimensional and REALLY boring.

Comics are all about telling a compelling and entertaining story, which means they don't always follow perfect real world logic.

If they did they would be more like a documentary or something

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If the whole comic/show was just a guy callously trying to send everyone to jail for as long as possible the whole time it would be very one dimensional and REALLY boring

A superhero that beats the shit out of a criminal, hands them to the cops, goes in as his day job to prosecute them might as well be "the man with no chill"

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I mean the Punisher is basically that except he skips a few steps

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

That might actually work for a chaotic storyline with an antihero version of Two-Face. The dichotomous nature is baked into the character, maybe even too rigidly