History Characters / MCUKarenPage

* AssassinOutclassin: As mentioned in the trope above, none of the attempts to assassinate her work out, but special mention goes to Dex's failed attempt. Unlike the previous examples where someone has to rescue her, and in this particular instance Matt chose to abandon an attempt to target Fisk in his penthouse to come rescue her, here ''she's'' the one who takes down Dex by surprise attacking him when Matt is unable to beat him.

* AmicableExes: After a rather bitter break-up between her and Matt during Season 2 of Daredevil, they are back on friendly terms in The Defenders with them figuring out if they want to get back together. Matt revealing his alter-ego by the end of the second season certainly helped a lot with their relationship.

* AnywhereButTheirLips: She gives Foggy a kiss on the forehead while he's lying in a hospital bed due to the injuries he sustained from a bombing orchestrated by Fisk.

* AssassinOutclassin: As mentioned in the trope above, none of the attempts to assassinate her work out, but special mention goes to Benjamin Poindexter's failed attempt. Unlike the previous examples where someone has to rescue her, here ''she's'' the one who takes down Dex by surprise attacking him when Matt is unable to beat him.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Outwardly kind and compassionate, but physically attacking her is a ''very'' bad idea. Four times in the first season, she was physically attacked. Only half of those times (Rance, the guys that attack her outside Elena's apartment) did someone else save her (Matt in the former case; Foggy in the latter). The other two times, with Clyde Farnum and James Wesley, [[DamselOutOfDistress she saves herself.]] On all four occasions, she makes her attackers ''suffer''. By Season 2, she carries a gun around at all times and is perfectly willing to use it on Frank. And in Season 3, she's willing to use the gun to protect Jasper Evans when Fisk sends Dex to the ''Bulletin'' to get rid of Evans and discredit Daredevil. Later, when Dex tries to kill her in the church, she uses herself as a distraction for Dex to let the congregation escape or to let Matt get a second wind, and she's the one who pulls the finishing move of the fight by knocking Dex off the balcony to stop him from killing Matt.

* BigSisterInstinct: Towards her younger brother Kevin. When her boyfriend, Todd, got into a physical fight with Kevin and was beating him with a tire iron, Karen saved her brother by threatening Todd with a gun, then actually shooting him in the arm when he still tried to beat Kevin up anyway.

* BrokenBird: Karen's appearance in ''The Punisher'', as she's in the midst of mourning Matt and can't stop thinking about losing him. She keeps a photo of her with Matt and Foggy placed on a tabletop by the TV, her new apartment looks very similar to Matt's apartment, and her talking with Frank about not wanting to be alone suggests she also hasn't spoken much with Foggy at all since the events of ''The Defenders''. At the start of Season 3, she's struggling not to succumb to her grief over not having Matt around.

** She reveals to Fisk that she shot and killed James Wesley and twists the knife even further when she tells him he deserved more gunshot wounds. This pisses Fisk off and had it not been for Foggy's intervention, he would have murdered her and had the FBI cover it up.

* CommonalityConnection: When assigned by Ellison to interview Neda Kazemi about how she and her father were attacked and almost kidnapped, Karen appeals to Neda about how she was slandered after her brother died because Neda refused to talk to her due to her experiences of being slandered by reporters.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Karen's headstrong, investigative nature causes her to advance the plot forward as much as, if not more than, Matt himself. In Season 1, the exposure of Wilson Fisk is as much the result of Matt's interventions as Daredevil as it is Karen's use of the media. It's more apparent in Season 2 of ''Daredevil'', where Karen keeps the Punisher plotline going while Matt becomes involved with helping Elektra fight the Hand. In Season 3, she is very active in trying to get Fisk put back in prison, and even gets an entire episode named after and primarily focusing on her.
* DeathSeeker: Losing Matt causes Karen to turn into one by the time of ''The Punisher'', with her outright provoking Lewis Wilson into gunning for her and Senator Ori simply so she can get an adrenaline high to take her mind off the emptiness she feels without Matt in her life. Fisk getting out of prison, and ordering an attack on her colleagues that also costs her the lead on Jasper Evans, is enough for her to decide to confront Fisk in his penthouse and provoke him into trying to kill her by revealing her part in Wesley's murder, a decision that would've almost certainly gotten her killed if not for Foggy's intervention, and which ultimately culminates in Fisk ordering a hit on her and several more innocent people (including Father Lantom) getting killed in the process. When Dex seems ready to kill her, she seems resigned to her fate as he's readying his baton to strike.

** When she and a bunch of people get kidnapped by the Hand in order to lure Daredevil out, she manages to help Turk Barrett, one of the hostages, activate his ankle monitor so the police and Daredevil could find them. She succeeds.

* GenreBlind: She's quite naive at first about how dangerous going after Wilson Fisk will be, until Ben Urich sets her straight by pointing out what happened to other whistleblowers who decided to expose corruption by speaking to him. Of course, Karen fails to consider what Fisk will do when he learns that she and Urich found and spoke with Fisk's mother. Namely, he kills Ben. She also tricks Ben into going with her, telling him that they are going to a hospice that might be good for Ben's Alzheimer's-suffering wife, meaning he doesn't even know what he is getting into until he's already started speaking with Fisk's mother, and by then it was too late for him to save himself. Karen learns from her mistake, and come Season 2, is more meticulous in her investigation and less willing to drag others in.

-->'''Karen:''' He died quickly. If you were wondering. Didn't suffer much. You see, Wilson, Matt Murdock isn't the person you should be worried about. I killed Wesley. I shot him seven times. Because the clip ran out. He deserved more.

* NeverSuicide: Fisk arranges for Farnum to hang her in her jail cell. It almost works, only Karen goes for Farnum's eyes and then screams for help while he is out.
* NiceGirl: Karen has a strong morality, and she's also nice to those around her, such as respecting Elena's dislike of swearing. Matt says her compassion is one of the better qualities he likes about her.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: In Season 3, Foggy notes that her plan to interview Wilson Fisk and then provoke him into attacking her (which was only stopped by Foggy's intervention) is the kind of thing Matt would do. Given how Matt did something similar in the previous season by going to the prison to interrogate Fisk and actually ''did'' manage to provoke Fisk into attacking him, Foggy's comparison isn't far off the mark.

* PlayingPossum: She does this to fool a security guard who was blackmailed into assassinating her into thinking she was dead. She then takes the opportunity to scratch his eye out and screams for help.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She tries to leave New York after provoking Fisk by revealing she killed James Wesley but Sister Maggie insists that she hide in the Clinton Church. Unfortunately, this leads to Fisk sending Dex there to assassinate her which leads to Father Lantom dying and a few congregants getting injured in the crossfire.

** Schoonover also tries to kill her after she figures out that he's The Blacksmith and assassinated Samantha Reyes and Gregory Tepper, but Frank manages to save her from him.

* SouthernFriedGenius: Her titular episode revealed that she managed to get accepted into Georgetown University but deferred her application due to how her family business might go under if she does. It's unknown if she ever decided to go to Georgetown after her brother's death and subsequently getting disowned by her father.

* TranquilFury: Was clearly in this state when interviewing Fisk in the suite where he's being held under house arrest. She never raises her voice but her words show that she's seething with anger as she reveals what she knows about him and tells him how she killed James Wesley.

* WeirdnessMagnet: She frequently gets involved in dangerous ordeals. As Detective Brett Mahoney puts it "Is there any shitstorm you're not a part of?"
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Her arc in ''The Punisher'' falls victim to this, as Karen more or less disappears from the show after Frank saves her from Lewis Wilson.[[note]]Admittedly, there were justified out-of-universe reasons for this: namely, that Deborah Ann Woll had to go back to ''The Defenders'' to finish filming Karen's scenes there, and ''The Punisher'' proper needed to focus back on its main characters as it started its final act[[/note]]

* WorkingWithTheEx: With Matt in Season 3, who comes out of hiding after news of Fisk has been moved out of Ryker's Island and is just as determined to take him down as she is.

* YouDidntAsk: Her response when Matt points out that she never told him that she had a brother before during Grotto's funeral.

** Ellison says that she's just as much of a pain in the ass as Ben Urich was, though it took years for Ben to become that.

* ActionSurvivor: Karen barely survives Fisk's attempt to have her killed in jail by clawing at Farnum's eyes hard enough to draw blood with her nails. James Wesley underestimates just how far she'd be willing to go to protect her friends and family, and she steals his gun and empties it into him.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When she was a teenager, she had a boyfriend named Todd, who was a drug dealer, but their relationship forcibly ended when her younger brother Kevin burned down his trailer and she had to shoot Todd to stop him from beating Kevin to death in retaliation. It's subverted in the present, as she disapproves of Matt and Frank's vigilantism and brutality but knows that the city needs people like them to stand up to powerful criminals and defend the weak and helpless.

** In Season 1, when being held captive by James Wesley. In Season 2, she has one when she realizes Colonel Schoonover is the Blacksmith. In Season 3, she purposely invokes this, with FBI camera surveillance, with Fisk, hoping to provoke him into attacking her, with mixed results.

** Her association with Matt's life is shown in ''The Defenders'', where her clothes match the colors of Matt's Daredevil armor: a red skirt and a black coat with red inner-liner and red sash.

* ADayInTheLimelight: While she's already a major character, Episode 10 of Season 3, aptly named "Karen", revolves entirely around her. The first half-hour is an extended flashback showing her backstory, including her brother's death. The last 15 minutes involve Fisk sending Dex to attack Karen as revenge for Wesley's death, and Matt rushing to stop the attempt.

* DeathSeeker: Losing Matt causes Karen to turn into one by the time of ''The Punisher'', with her outright provoking Lewis Wilson into gunning for her and Senator Ori simply so she can get an adrenaline high to take her mind off the emptiness she feels without Matt in her life. Fisk getting out of prison, and ordering an attack on her colleagues that also costs her the lead on Jasper Evans, is enough for her to decide to confront Fisk in his penthouse and provoke him into trying to kill her by revealing her part in Wesley's death, a decision that would've almost certainly gotten her killed if not for Foggy's intervention, and which ultimately culminates in Fisk ordering a hit on her and several more innocent people (including Father Lantom) getting killed in the process. When Dex seems ready to kill her, she seems resigned to her fate as he's readying his baton to strike.

** When James Wesley kidnapped her and tries to force her into lying to Ben Urich and everyone that Fisk is a good person, she steals his gun the first chance she gets and unloads it on him.
** When she and a bunch of people get kidnapped by The Hand in order to lure Daredevil out, she manages to help Turk Barrett, one of the hostages, activate his ankle monitor so the police and Daredevil could find them. She succeeds.

-->'''Karen:''' If you're going to kill me... just do it. I'm sick of listening to your bullshit.

** She ends up the beneficiary of this: after Fisk's first hit on her fails and she goes public with what she knows about Union Allied, he calls off the kill order because (he believes) she's already caused all the damage she's going to and her death at this point could increase scrutiny on his organization. This turns out to be a severe underestimation on his part.

** She and Foggy also get drunk at Josie's Bar after finding out that Elena Cardenas was murdered.

* EyeScream: She scratches out the eye of a police officer who was blackmailed into assassinating her by James Wesley.

-->'''Matt:''' It's a good quality, Karen. The stuff of saints.\\
'''Karen:''' Yeah, well I'm no saint.\\
'''Matt:''' I can't tell you how glad I am to hear that.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: In Season 3, Foggy notes that her plan to interview Wilson Fisk and then provoke him into attacking her (which was only stopped by Foggy's intervention) is the kind of thing Matt would do. Given how Matt did something similar in the previous season by going to Ryker's to interrogate Fisk and actually ''did'' manage to provoke Fisk into attacking him, Foggy's comparison isn't far off the mark.

* ScrubbingOffTheTrauma: After the Bulletin massacre caused by the copycat Daredevil, she repeatedly tries to wipe the blood spots from her sleeve while being questioned by the FBI.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Subverted. She tries to talk Frank out of killing Ray Schoonover, who was revealed to be the Blacksmith and behind several assassinations, including an assassination attempt on her, but unfortunately Frank has made up his mind and goes through with it.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: She passes out after having asking a colleague out for a few drinks and later waking up in her apartment next to his dead body with a knife in her hand to make it look like she killed him as the police burst into her place and arrest her. She utters this trope word-for-word to Matt and Foggy because of how damning the evidence to frame her looks like and fortunately Matt can hear her heartbeat and know she's telling the truth.

* TheBusCameBack: After sitting out most of the second season of ''The Punisher'', she returns in the antepenultimate episode to help get Frank out of the hospital he's incarcerated in.

* DarkSecret: At the end of Season 1, no one else knows she killed [[TheDragon James Wesley]], and at least her friends don't know that she was indirectly responsible for the death of her brother Kevin. Though it's no longer a secret at the end of Season 3, since she separately tells Foggy, Fisk, and Matt about killing Wesley, and also tells Matt about Kevin's death.

* DefiantCaptive: Is she ever.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: In Season 3, Foggy notes that her plan to interview Wilson Fisk and then provoke him into attacking her (which was only stopped by Foggy's intervention) is the kind of thing Matt would do. Given how Matt did something similar in the previous season by going to Ryker's to interrogate Fisk and actually ''did'' manage to provoke Fisk into attacking him, his comparison isn't far off the mark.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}''

* HurtingHero: She's been one from the beginning, having killed her brother and been disowned by her father when she was 20. She spends all of ''The Punisher'' visibly hurting over losing Matt, and using her work with Frank to try and work through that grief.

* AdaptationExpansion: Compared to her comics counterpart, [[http://daresplaining.tumblr.com/post/131534889263/mcu-karen-pages-superhero-origin Karen is practically a superhero without the superpowers]], even having a storyline that's very parallel to Matt. [[http://www.imdb.com/list/ls033828946/ A breakdown of MCU characters by screentime]] shows that Karen has more screen time than any Netflix MCU character who isn't one of the titular protagonists.

* AdaptationalSkill: She has incredible investigative skills in this adaptation, which her comic counterpart lacks in any capacity.

* CharacterDevelopment: Not only is Karen's role massively expanded from the comics, but she also probably undergoes the most CharacterDevelopment of any character throughout the show, changing from a scared (though very brave) office worker on the run from her past, to a BadassNormal heroine in her own right. [[https://www.bustle.com/p/karen-pages-fate-in-daredevil-season-3-is-luckily-nothing-like-in-the-comics-12619200 She also does not suffer her comic counterpart's fate ]] and finishes the show on equal grounds with Matt, with them having worked out their issues with each other with them being very close but not together romantically in the series finale (with the possibility that they could make it work this time if they ever chose so). Not bad for a character who was initially dismissed as nothing more than a boring love interest (and a DamselScrappy to boot) by fans.

-->'''Matt Murdock:''' It's a good quality, Karen. The stuff of saints.\\
'''Karen Page:''' Yeah, well I'm no saint.\\
'''Matt Murdock:''' I can't tell you how glad I am to hear that.

* NotHisSled: [[SparedByTheAdaptation Unlike her comics counterpart, Karen isn't killed by Bullseye]], with Dex killing Father Lantom instead. In fact, the scene where this was ''supposed'' to happen even remakes the comic panel featuring Karen's death, but switches her and Matt's positions; Matt is instead a bloody mess being cradled in ''her'' arms, this time around.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DanielaPalavecino (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Flávia Saddy (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

* OutDamnedSpot: After the Bulletin massacre caused by the copycat Daredevil, she repeatedly tries to wipe the blood spots from her sleeve during her FBI interview.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Frank Castle and Ben Urich never interacted with her in the comics. Here, she has a very close relationship to both of them, with her being as a MoralityPet to the former.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: When she was a teenager, she had a boyfriend named Todd, who was a drug dealer, but their relationship forcibly ended when her younger brother Kevin burned down his trailer and she had to shoot Todd to stop him from beating Kevin to death in retaliation. It's subverted in the present, as she disapproves of Matt and Frank's vigilantism and brutality but knows that the city needs people like them to stand up to powerful criminals.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She shot and killed Wesley with his own pistol.

* CelebrityParadox: ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' confirms that ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' exists in the MCU. Karen's actress Creator/DeborahAnnWoll played Faye in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok''.

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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Not watching the road and being really intoxicated while driving causes Karen to crash her car with her brother Kevin as a passenger. Kevin doesn't make it.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:She often gets saved in the nick of time by Matt. In "Karen", she gives Matt one back by knocking Dex off a balcony when he's about to shank Matt.]]
* BigNo: [[spoiler:When Father Lantom gets impaled by a billy club meant to hit her.]]

* DarkSecret: At the end of Season 1, no one else knows she killed [[TheDragon James Wesley]], and at least her friends don't know that [[spoiler:she was indirectly responsible for the death of her brother Kevin]]. Though it's no longer a secret at the end of Season 3, since she separately tells Foggy, Fisk, and Matt about killing Wesley, and also tells Matt about [[spoiler:Kevin's death]].

** When James Wesley kidnapped her and tries to force her into lying to Ben Urich and everyone that Fisk is a good person, she [[spoiler:steals his gun the first chance she gets and unloads it on him.]]

* DriverFacesPassenger: PlayedForDrama. During her eponymous episode that reveals her backstory, [[spoiler:she constantly took her eyes off the road during her argument with Kevin as they were driving away from Todd's burning trailer. She ends up drifting out of the lane and hits the guardrail at a little bridge crossing the creek, flipping the car over several times and killing Kevin.]]

* DrunkDriver: Along with her not watching the road, this is what lead to the car accident that [[spoiler:killed her younger brother Kevin.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When Dex faces to kill her after temporarily incapacitating Matt, Karen simply closes her eyes and waits for Dex to deal the killing blow... [[SubvertedTrope only]] for Father Lantom to get in the way and [[TakingTheBullet take the blow himself]].]]
* FireForgedFriends: She and Frank were initially at odds with one another because Frank shot up a hospital where Grotto was being treated in in an attempt to assassinate him and [[spoiler:executed him not long after]]. They later form a close bond because Karen showed and gave Frank a photo of his family and got to know one another because Matt wanted Nelson and Murdock to represent him during his trial.

* FormerTeenRebel: Season 3 reveals that she used to be a hard partier and drug user who didn't want to go to college. [[spoiler:Kevin's accidental death]] manages to set her straight and ditch her rebellious behavior.

** She also feels this way regarding [[spoiler:Father Lantom's]] death as [[spoiler:she put him in danger by hiding in the Clinton Church while Fisk was hunting for her and because he willingly took a fatal hit from a Billy Club meant for her.]]

* KarmaHoudini: As revealed in her titular episode, she escaped punishment [[spoiler:for the car accident that killed her brother (which is on the grounds of manslaughter) because the sheriff is a family friend anywho made it look like he was the only one in the car. However this only makes her feel more guilty, and she was forced to leave town because her father [[IHaveNoDaughter refuses to have anything to do with her anymore]].]]

** She sobs uncontrollably when [[spoiler:she gets into a car accident and causes her younger brother Kevin's death in the process.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:As much as she denies any responsibility for it, Kevin's death was this to her. She eventually accepts that it was her fault.]]
* NeutralFemale: Karen has a habit of telling off men like Matt, Frank, and Ellison when they treat her like this. After Wilson Fisk tries to have her framed up and twice attempts to have her killed for exposing corruption at Union Allied, she becomes feverishly devoted to bringing down Fisk and ending corruption in Hell's Kitchen, single-handedly pushing Foggy and Ben into helping her uncover Fisk's secrets and expose him. [[spoiler:She ends up feeling guilty later on about Ben though since she blames herself for pushing Ben into writing about Fisk and therefore his death]], but it doesn't stop her from fighting on.
* NeverMyFault: Repeatedly claims it wasn't her fault [[spoiler:that her brother died. Except for her actions, bad choices, and refusal to accept her brother and father's help directly resulted in Kevin's death]]. That being said, [[spoiler:she fully admits to having killed her brother when she and Matt are hiding from Dex, hinting that the TraumaCongaLine she's endured over the course of Season 3 from Dex and Fisk has pushed her to accept responsibility]].

* NoodleIncident: Before shooting and killing James Wesley, she asks him if he thinks this is the first time she shot someone before. [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that the first time she shot someone was when she shot her ex-boyfriend Todd because he was beating his brother to a pulp.]]
* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:[[SparedByTheAdaptation Unlike her comics counterpart, Karen isn't killed by Bullseye]], with Dex killing Father Lantom instead. In fact, the scene where this was ''supposed'' to happen even remakes the comic panel featuring Karen's death, but switches her and Matt's positions; Matt is instead a bloody mess being cradled in ''her'' arms, this time around]].

* ParentalAbandonment: Karen's mother died from cancer and her father refuses to have a relationship with her, ever since [[spoiler:Karen accidentally caused her younger brother's death]]. When Karen attempts to leave New York, she calls her father and asks him to come home, only for him to come up with a flimsy excuse why she can't.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She tries to leave New York after [[spoiler:provoking Fisk by revealing she killed James Wesley but Sister Maggie insists that she hide in the Clinton Church. Unfortunately, this leads to Fisk sending Dex there to assassinate her which leads to Father Lantom dying and a few congregants getting injured in the crossfire.]]

** [[spoiler:Schoonover]] also tries to kill her after she figures out that [[spoiler:he's The Blacksmith and assassinated Samantha Reyes and Gregory Tepper]], but Frank manages to save her from him.

* SouthernFriedGenius: Her titular episode revealed that she managed to get accepted into Georgetown University but deferred her application due to how her family business might go under if she does. It's unknown if she ever decided to go to Georgetown [[spoiler:after her brother's death and subsequently getting disowned by her father.]]

** Her backstory reveals that she definitely has this with regards to [[spoiler:Kevin, her younger brother, who was killed in a car accident that she caused]].
** [[spoiler:Father Lantom's death]] also becomes this for her as [[spoiler:he willingly sacrificed his own life to save her when Fisk ordered Dex to assassinate her.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: She can't go back to Fagan Corners anymore because [[spoiler:her father disowned her for accidentally causing her brother's death.]]
* YouDidntAsk: Her response when Matt points out that she never told him that she had a brother before during [[spoiler:Grotto's funeral]].

* ImprovisedWeaponUser: She uses a cross and swings it at Dex to stop him from shanking Matt. It sends Dex falling but doesn't kill him.

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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Not watching the road while driving causes Karen to crash her car with her brother Kevin as a passenger. Kevin doesn't make it.]]

* ConfessInConfidence: Foggy has her pay him five dollars so that she can confess to him that she killed James Wesley and said confession will be covered under attorney-client privilege.

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