The “worst thing” for Matt Murdock is chaos. ![]() In the end, the Daredevils are able to settle on an answer - and a pretty simple one at that. The fact of the matter is made clear as Matt (Matt the Attorney, rather than Matt the costumed vigilante) explains to Killgrave: the “worst thing” a person can imagine is the thing that is their exact opposite, the inverse of everything they are - and how can you know the opposite when you don’t know who you are in the first place? Chaos Theory The armored Daredevil of the '90s all but winks at the reader when he says that his counterparts aren’t thinking big enough - they need to be more “extreme.” Matt’s been a steadfast hero, a broken hearted ladies man, a struggling attorney, a stoic ninja, a demonically influenced anti-hero, the kingpin of crime, a happy-go-lucky public hero - you get the picture. Over the last 53 years, Matt’s been through some pretty extensive overhauls and reworks, and while most of them have historically avoided directly contradicting each other in ways that are too distracting, the “mood” of Daredevil stories is something that has never been all that consistent. Daredevil has experienced this phenomena in spades since his creation in 1964. That sort of ever shifting evolution can pose a problem, however, when a character gets too many course corrections in too little time. It’s the sort of growing pains readers expect to see when dealing with characters that are several decades (or more) old. ![]() In fact, you’d be pretty hard pressed to find a classic hero still published today who bears more than a passing resemblance to their original incarnation. It’s not at all unusual for a superhero to undergo some pretty drastic evolution over the course of their existence.
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