History Recap / Daredevil2015S3E10Karen

* BattleCouple: Matt and Karen while fighting Dex in the church. Karen takes several moments to use herself as a distraction for Dex when Matt is on the losing end of the fight, and in the alcoves, she knocks Dex over the balcony when he's about to finish Matt off with a splinter of wood.

* BigDamnHeroes: Just as Dex-as-Daredevil is about to kill Karen with a baton, Matt arrives at the church and attacks him from behind. In turn, we get Karen knocking Dex off the balcony just as he's about to finish off Matt.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: It goes both ways. Kevin is trying to look out for Karen's personal life, while Karen considers herself more adept than either her brother or their father when it comes to the diner's finances.

* KarmaHoudini: Karen escapes punishment for the accident that killed her brother because the sheriff is a family friend and makes it look like he was the only one in the car. However this only makes her feel more guilty, and she has to leave town because her father refuses to have anything to do with her (and as she said when talking to Neda Kazemi in the second episode, the town rumor mill blamed her anyway).

** Paxton's persistent optimism despite Karen informing him they can't afford the new grill clearly gets passed down to his daughter, as Karen used a similar line to his in the season 2 premiere when informing Matt and Foggy that Nelson & Murdock was struggling financially.

* NewAgeRetroHippie: This is the role Karen's boyfriend, Todd, pretends to in the flashback, quoting surface level Buddhist shit and wearing the symbols, but he's little more than a scumbag small town drug dealer who makes some of those quotes while breaking a frat boy's arm and dishes out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Kevin after the latter burns his trailer.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: After Kevin burns his trailer down, Todd beats the shit out of him, even beating him with a tire iron. This is what causes Karen to shoot him.

* SmallTownBoredom: Paxton suggests Karen is suffering from this and that explains her sloppiness at work and her hooking up with Todd. Kevin un-defers Karen's attempts to defer her entry to Georgetown University for much the same reason (as well as function as an intervention since she's doing drugs with Todd), with Karen's defense for deferring being that the diner will go under if she's not around.

* WouldHitAGirl: In the flashback to Karen's drug-dealer days, a frat guy tries to rob her then, when she punches him, he's happy to hit her back, except her boyfriend, Todd, walks in and takes the guy out. Later in the episode, Todd also shows he's willing to hit Karen when she tries to stop him beating her brother with a tire iron.

* OnlySaneMan: Karen is the only one in her family who seems aware of the fact that the diner has been on the verge of bankruptcy for years.

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: The entire episode seemingly builds up to Dex killing Karen in the same way Bullseye did in "Guardian Devil". When it seems that this is about to happen, we get a closeup of Karen's eyes going wide like she's the one biting it, only for the camera to quickly pull back to reveal that Father Lantom got hit instead.

** The entire church fight between Matt and Dex is from "Guardian Devil", however, instead of being about a Messiah baby, it's about keeping Dex away from Karen. He is even prepared to kill Karen the same way he did in that story (by impaling her with one of Daredevil's batons), [[BaitAndSwitchGunshot only to instead]] kill Father Lantom. Also the final scene of this episode is a recreation of the panel where Matt holds Karen's body after she died while they are under a statue of Christ, only with the roles reversed with Karen holding Matt instead.

* NotHisSled: The fight at the end bears strong parallels to the comics storyline "Guardian Devil", in which Karen Page was killed by Bullseye. Here, Dex raises his hand to throw the baton at her...and it strikes Father Lantom instead.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Or Little Brother Instinct; Kevin is very distrustful of Todd over the possibility that he's using Karen, to the point that he burns down Todd's trailer. BigSisterInstinct then comes into play when Karen shows herself willing to shoot her boyfriend to stop him beating Kevin with a tire iron.

* ChekhovsGun: Midway through the flashback, we see Todd take Karen out to target practice. She is obliterating the figurines he uses as targets. Later, she uses the gun to threaten and shoot Todd when he's beating up Kevin with a tire iron.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: It goes both ways. Kevin is trying to look out for Karen's personal life, while Karen considers herself more adept than either her father or Kevin when it comes to the diner's finances.

* KarmaHoudini: Karen escapes punishment for the accident that killed her brother because the sheriff is a family friend and makes it look like he was the only one in the car. However this only makes her feel more guilty, and she has to leave town because her father refuses to have anything to do with her (and as revealed in an earlier episode, the town rumor mill blamed her anyway).

** During an argument with Kevin, Karen snaps at him, "Fine. I do drսgs, all right? I'm a big junkie. I'm just two lines away from giving blowjobs for heroin on the street. Thanks for the intervention, I won't touch it again. Are we done?!" In "Born Again," Karen was a drug-addicted porn star who gave up Matt's identity to Fisk for a fix.

* NotHisSled: The fight at the end bears strong parallels to the comics storyline "Guardian Devil", in which Karen Page was killed by Bullseye. Here, he raises his hand to throw the baton at her...and it strikes Father Lantom instead.

** During an argument with Kevin, Karen snaps at him, "Fine. I do drսgs, all right? I'm a big junkie. I'm just two lines away from giving blowjobs for hеrοin on the street. Thanks for the intervention. I won't touch it again. Are we done?" In the comics "Born Again," Karen was a drug-addicted porn star who gave up Matt's identity to Fisk for a fix.

* FlawExploitation: As Mrs. Shelby points out, Fisk made sure there were no cameras in his bedroom so he could slip out to his secret control center, leaving a perfect place for Daredevil to ambush Fisk without his FBI bodyguards seeing it.

** We see that Karen was an addict when she lived in Fagan Corners. In "Born Again," Karen became an addict who sold Matt's identity out to Fisk.

* IHaveNoSon: Karen offers to help rebuild the diner after Todd's death, but her father tells her she no longer has a home there. This is why her dad refused to help in "Aftermath".

* IllGirl: Penelope Page died of cancer a few years before the flashback of Karen's life in Fagan Corners.

* MoralEventHorizon: {{In Universe}}, Kevin and Paxton are both shocked, appalled, horrified, and everything else bad feeling when Karen takes her father's TragicKeepsake off the wall and defiles it. Even then, they're still family and that's forgiveable. Her driving drunk and stoned and causing her brother's death after that argument is when her father finally tells her to leave.

* IHaveNoDaughter: After Kevin's funeral, Karen is more or less disowned by her father.