If you have Netflix and you haven’t watched the new Marvel superhero crime drama Daredevil than its time to heighten your senses and binge watch the entire season right now!Although if you already binge watch the entire season than I must introduce you to the Graphic Novel that inspired this adaptation.
The Origin
Rookie
Every hero doesn’t start off as “iconic level” with a flashy symbol on their chest, a big bad to take down and leaving only a scratch on their cheek after fighting a battle. No majority of the most famous vigilantes start off wearing a tattered inspired superhero suit, fighting street level goons and praying to God that you survive walking away from a brutal battle after fighting six goons in a alley.What I loved about the Daredevil Netflix Series that they didn’t begin the show of him wearing his iconic Daredevil outfit, instead they begin Matt Murdock’s story of him wearing his black ninja inspired vigilante outfit. You can tell that the writers were heavily influenced by the Man Without Fear Graphic Novel. Both the graphic novel and the show begins the story of Matt Murdock wearing his beginners costume which reflects that Matt Murdock is still growing as a hero and he isn’t exactly in his prime as of yet.
Introducing the Mentor
I remembering watching the Ben Affleck Daredevil movie and being very disappointed (Majority I felt about most about the movie) that Matt Murdock’s mentor Stick was not never mentioned in the movie. Gladly Stick appears in a minimal supporting role in the Daredevil Netflix series. If you watched the Daredevil show Stick is portrayed as a blind, sarcastic old man with hardly any patience towards youngsters. The Daredevil Show manage to keep the essence of the character of being the possible father figure of Matt Murdock but also training him to be his protege for a much bigger task in the future. But at times Stick still sees the non potential side of Matt Murdock because of his no “kill rule” which makes Stick think that he is a unworthy as a assassin.
The Rise of the Kingpin
There are two different portrayals of the Kingpin compare Man Without Fear graphic novel and the Daredevil Netflix Show, in the graphic novel Wilson Fisk a.k.a the Kingpin doesn’t start off as being a already established crime boss.Wilson Fisk begins his empire by working for another crime boss in Hell’s Kitchen until he snaps his neck after talking to him alone in a conference room. After Wilson’s bosses death Wilson Fisk takes over his bosses criminal empire and become the Kingpin of Hell’s Kitchen and a soon rival of the Daredevil. Now featured in the Daredevil TV Show Wilson Fisk is shown already as a crime boss who has numerous cops, judges, journalist, street level thugs and various other employers on his payroll. However, throughout the show many of the people working for him and including himself for that matter, doesn’t call him by his nick name the “Kingpin” as of yet. Similar to Matt Murdock Wilson Fisk isn’t iconic status even though he controls probably all of New York’s underworld. It shows that Wilson Fisk in later seasons is still developing as the Kingpin, and probably become even more powerful like the old time crime boss Lucky Luciano who was the boss of the Five Families of New York. In season 2 will Kingpin be the new Luciano? or something far as worst than just being a crime boss.
The Conclusion
If your a Daredevil fan (which I will be surprised that you haven’t read such a origin story) than I highly recommending reading Frank Miller’s and John Romita Jr.’s Man Without Fear or if your just a fan of the show and would like to catch up reading some classic graphic novels of the Daredevil.
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