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->''"Let me be clear. You might know me as Matt Murdock, defense attorney, here to help. That guy's gone. I've changed sides. I'm now a prosecutor for the great city of New York. I put the bad guys away."''
-->-- '''Matt Murdock'''
''Daredevil'' (initially collected in trade as ''Daredevil: Back in Black'') is a 2015 comic book published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' initiative. It's written by Creator/CharlesSoule (''ComicBook/SwampThing'', ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' and ''[[ComicBook/XMen Death of Wolverine]]''), with art primarily by Ron Garney and Phil Noto.
After finally coming out on top of things in Mark Waid's run, Matt Murdock is back in the thick of things. Having somehow erased the world's memories of his identity, Matt has returned to Hell's Kitchen, and is once again waging war against its criminals. At the same time, Matt Murdock has now become an assistant district attorney. Matt begins to battle against the villain Tenfingers and his gang on both fronts.
At the same time, Daredevil has taken on new hero Blindspot (Samuel Chung) as his apprentice. Sam is an illegal Chinese immigrant who has created an invisibility suit. He eventually decides to use the suit to fight crime, specifically in Chinatown, where he lives.
The run began in December of 2015, but had a short story introducing Blindspot in ''All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One'' #1 in November. In May of 2016, a ''Daredevil/The Punisher'' miniseries —coinciding with the second season of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''— began, also written by Soule. After three years on the title, Soule's run wraps up in late 2018, with the "Death of Daredevil" arc.
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!!In addition to the usual ''Daredevil'' tropes, Charles Soule's run provides examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Wilson Fisk considers it all to be about territorialism, not ethics.
* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Matt's hair color is now noticeably closer to Creator/CharlieCox's, in that he's brunette and the red shows in certain light. Before this run, Matt was a straight-up redhead. In flashbacks to when he lived in San Francisco, his hair is also red. As of the "Supreme" arc, he is back to redhead.
** Foggy's appearance now more closely resembles Creator/EldenHenson.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Almost the entirety of "The Death of Daredevil" is Matt's dream as he almost dies on the operating table following the car accident]].
* AmbiguousEnding: The last panel of issue #612 [[spoiler:shows Matt flatlining, but the heart monitor shows one single beat]].
* AncientConspiracy: Another one connected to the Hand -- Elektra and Stick found a book which describes something called "the Fist" which can destroy the Hand, but it requires a King ''and'' Queen. One of which won't survive.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sam's sister Hannah goes out clubbing late at night and eats food he saves for work in order to support the two.
* ArcWords: "I cannot see the light. So I will be the light."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Seventh Day," a priest concedes that God made the evils in the world: dead puppies, natural disasters, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...
* BadassNormal:
** Daredevil himself, as always.
** Blindspot is a normal guy who can kick ass, the implications being that he was decently well versed in doing so even before he began gaining Daredevil's tutelage, [[spoiler:which is confirmed in issue #27]].
** Tenfingers' gang. Matt comments that they fight like they've been training with Comicbook/IronFist. We later learn that's because they've been infused with eldritch magical energies from Tenfingers.
* BaitAndSwitch: Issue #606 shows [[spoiler: what appears to be Matt at a bar claiming to be his twin brother Mike, thus indicating he's reviving the old identity. But the issue ends with Matt as Daredevil walking in to find "Mike" smiling and saying "you must know my brother."]]
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Matt's life as a blind superpowered hero]] begins and ends with car accidents.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Daredevil trains Blindspot in martial arts, teaching him that he shouldn't be too reliant on his invisibility suit.
* BreatherEpisode: During the ''Supreme'' arc, Matt takes an entire issue out to just sit in a bar with [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played straight with the Purple Children.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Averted with several covers in this series. They mostly depict a scene from the issue or give some hints as to what the issue is about. At times it gets rather abstract, though.
* {{Cult}}: Tenfingers runs the Church of the Sheltering Hands. It mainly appeals to illegal immigrants, and promises to make life better for them. Of course, it needs their money to do so.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Compared to the Mark Waid run. The series itself is fairly standard with a regular Daredevil comic.
** Matt's costume was black with red highlights until he [[spoiler:won his Supreme Court case]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wilson Fisk [[spoiler:got himself elected as a political leader]] by telling people what he meant to do. They were so into the honesty they fell for it.
* DragonLady: [[spoiler:Sam's mom]] to Tenfingers.
* EarWorm: Dazzler's "Light of the Moon", which is so catchy it makes it from a lady several blocks away into Mike Murdock [[spoiler:who isn't even created yet]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted with the Purple Man, who seems proud to never draw the line anywhere.
* EyeScream: Muse does this [[spoiler:to Blindspot]]. Muse also seems to have had this done to himself.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] in "Land of the Blind."
* FeelNoPain: When cornered by Daredevil and the police, Matt approaches to deliver a beatdown to Muse. Muse responds by casually breaking the fingers on one of his hands using his other hand, showing zero reaction to doing so.
* {{Fingore}}:
** Tenfingers does this to his henchmen as a '''reward'''.
** Muse does this to himself, knowing that it's what Daredevil wanted to do anyway and as such stealing his revenge.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sam is responsible, Hannah is not. Not until she has to be, anyway.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In what turns out to be [[spoiler:Matt's nightmare]], Tenfingers and Gladiator are alive again.
* {{Gorn}}: It's not everywhere, but this run does indulge this trope when it feels the need.
* GuestStarPartyMember:
** Steve Rogers in issue #4.
** Spider-Man in issue #9.
** Luke Cage and Echo in issue #21.
** Jennifer Walters in issue #23.
** Electra during the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] soon after the FaceHeelTurn.
* HeroicBuild:
** Matt/Daredevil has his, of course. As usual, his civilian clothes downplay it as part of keeping his identity secret. Sam/Blindspot also has a more understated one. Thanks to its art style, the Daredevil/Punisher mini-series makes it less of an understated one and more obvious.
** Samuel/Blindspot cuts quite an impressive figure when out of costume in ''ANADM Point One''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each other's real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
* HorsebackHeroism: Daredevil and the Order of the Dragon ride police horses in their battle with the Hand.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the "Supreme" arc, [[spoiler:Matt reveals that he threw the case in the Court of Appeals to get a chance to have it tried in Supreme Court]].
* TheIllegal: Samuel and Lei Wu are illegal Chinese immigrants.
* InhumanEyeConcealers: Blindspot loses his eyes - until a DealWithTheDevil gives him glowing CreepyBlueEyes with black sclera. He hides them under opaque black sunglasses.
* InsistentTerminology: Sam refuses to be Daredevil's "sidekick," and prefers "apprentice."
* {{Invisibility}}: Blindspot's suit can do this, and uses normal batteries to do it.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tenfingers]] spends the first arc callously using the downtrodden Chinese immigrants for his own selfish purpose of a life of luxury, so it's really only fair that he [[spoiler:suffered death]] from Muse who callously uses his victims for his own selfish purpose of "art." It is later shown to go beyond that.
* KickedUpstairs: When [[spoiler:Fisk becomes mayor of New York, he hires Matt to be his deputy mayor]], which is basically a powerless ceremonial position that doesn't even get to take over if the mayor is incapacitated. [[spoiler:Fisk keeps Matt occupied by making him study huge regulatory manuals that aren't even in Braille, forcing him to listen to an assistant read them line-by-line. He only puts up with it because being near Fisk allows him to eavesdrop with his super-hearing.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Matt somehow erased the knowledge of his secret identity from everyone's minds, with the exception of Foggy. He believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil. This has complications as Elektra no longer remembers so she thinks she was "cheating" on Matt with Daredevil and nearly gets them killed with her not knowing they're the same.
** This does work to Matt's advantage when [[spoiler:Wilson Fisk becomes Mayor of New York. When Fisk offers to make Matt deputy mayor, Matt realizes Fisk no longer remembers he's Daredevil and this is the best way to get in close.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tenfingers is eventually shown to suffer from this. When Muse kidnaps Blindspot and takes him to his lair/art room, [[spoiler: we and Blindspot see that Tenfingers was one of Muse's first victims]].
** SerialEscalation: Tenfingers [[spoiler:meeting his end not by The Hand but by the ArcVillain Muse]] is to show just how evil and unhinged Muse is.
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:he gets brought back by a demon on a daily basis to suffer another horrible death]].
* ManOfKryptonite:
** Muse is an Inhuman with the ability to cancel out all sensory information around him, making him nearly invisible to Daredevil.
** Daredevil to Blindspot. Blindspot can turn invisible, but Daredevil's blindness and enhanced senses basically cancel that out.
* TheMentor: Matt takes on new vigilante Blindspot as his sidekick, or rather "apprentice," as he'd prefer to be known.
* MissingDad: Hannah and Sam are half-siblings with the same mother, but neither one knows who their father is.
* MyGreatestFailure: After Muse abducts Blindspot, Matt gets into a tizzy over the guilt he feels for it. This goes into overdrive once [[spoiler:Muse puts out Sam's eyes right in from of him. The next arc kicks off when Matt creates a scheme to get enough money to pay for Sam's hospital bills, rehabilitation therapy, and possibly even cybernetic but experimental eye implants, namely because Sam, as an illegal immigrant with no insurance of his own, has no hope for paying for any of it. At this point, Matt's more than willing to secretly take a hit out on his Daredevil persona just to raise the needed funds.]]
* OhCrap: Basically said verbatim by Matt when he finds out [[spoiler: Wilson Fisk has been elected mayor of New York.]]
* OutOfFocus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: Concerned Matt may win the Supreme Court case that would allow costumed crimefighters to testify on what they hear as evidence, the Kingpin hires Tombstone and supplies him with a rocket launcher to fire before a decision is reached. When the Court finds in favor of Matt, the Kingpin calls Tombstone in a rage. Showing surprising calm, Tombstone points out that ''blowing up the Supreme Court'' is not only completely insane but would make him the most wanted man in the country and there's no way he's going to risk his life and freedom just for Fisk to get his own way. Also, this means Fisk is going to be too busy trying to keep himself from being implicated by Daredevil or others to bother with Tombstone which frees him up to reestablish his own criminal operation.
* PutOnABus: Blindspot joins a Catholic order of Knights at the end of the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc and only shows up again once more, in the ''Death of Daredevil'' miniseries.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility tech... but didn't realize how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
* SecretIdentity: Matt has one again.
* SeenItAll: What ultimately saves [[spoiler:Kirsten]] from the Purple Man. Essentially, a mind-controlled Matt has been instructed to tell Zebediah Killgrave what his greatest fear is, and after thinking about it, [[spoiler:he decides it's not the death of his girlfriend]], admitting that while it would be awful, it has happened to him several times already, so it is not his greatest fear anymore.
* SeeTheInvisible: Blindspot is drawn to be completely invisible. We can only see him when he is invisible through the artist's depiction of Matt's radar sense, or the mask he sometimes puts on while invisible.
* SelfDeprecation: When Matt tells Father Jordan that Sam feels guilty about killing a supervillain in self-defence, Jordan comments that the boy is half Catholic already.
* ShoutOut: When White Rabbit runs away from a fight, Daredevil quips that [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland "maybe she is late for a very important date"]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Daredevil starts off in a new black-and-red costume, but ends up changing back to the classic red costume. Generally, "going back to the classic costume" is seem as Matt returning to become more optimistic and hopeful.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Matt's identity is secret once again and the happy, upbeat tone gets replaced with the old film noir atomosphere and bleakness.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Matt struggles to explain how he knows that serial killer Vincent van Gore and street artist Muse are the same person. When Fisk asks if he heard it from Daredevil, he goes with that.
* TakeThat: When Matt tries to get every form of psychic and reality warper to help him regain his secret identity, Daimon Hellstrom suggests Mephisto, stating [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay he's done this sort of thing before]]. Matt refuses, claiming he's not '''that''' desperate.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where Lei sells her own soul to buy back Sam's eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
* TheStinger: Issue #605 sets up the next arc this way, with a scene after the editor's page for talking about unrelated things.
* TimeSkip: A small-to-decent but indeterminable amount of time passes between the Point One issue where Blindspot seeks out and meets Daredevil and the first issue. It's noted early on that the former's been training under the latter for a little while by that point.
* TitleDrop: "Back in black," when Daredevil has changed back to the black costume to blend in with the background in New York.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates how [[spoiler:The Purple Children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
* TogetherInDeath: Karen is waiting for Matt when he dies.
* VagueAge:
** Before it was stated in the midst of an interview, well past the book's debut, it was rather tough to put a specific age on Sam/Blindspot. His actions tended to paint him as older (vigilante-ing, though not exclusive to an older age frame, holding down a job, plus his engineering genius, though also not exclusive to an older age range, especially not in fiction, and his overall mature mindset), while his design made his age vague due to the [[DependingOnTheArtist art style]]. Said interview states Sam to be 18.
** Hannah gets it too. Sam says she is "a few years younger" than him, and the art makes her look anywhere from 12 to 16.
* VerbalTic: The Purple Man (at least as portrayed in Matt's flashbacks) has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
-->'''Killgrave:''' Be patient, Kirsten the girlfriend! You don't want to spoil the surprise!
* VillainHasAPoint: Murdock reminded mayor Fisk that he knows well that Punisher would never kill cops. "Do I know that? Do I? I think Frank Castle will kill anyone he wants, if he thinks it's warranted. That's the problem, with him and all the vigilantes. They believe they are a law unto themselves."
* WhamLine:
** Issue #1 ends with Tenfingers deciding that both Daredevil and Matt Murdock need to die... and he assigns this job to [[spoiler:Samuel Chung]].
** This can possibly be averted because nowhere in issue #1 is [[spoiler:Blindspot's civilian name given (it was revealed in ''ANADM Point One'')]]. However, it's still notable because [[spoiler:Sam]] calls Ten Fingers "[[spoiler:bossman]]", something he also called [[spoiler:Daredevil]]. He's also wearing the same t-shirt with a distinctive pattern on it that we saw he was wearing earlier under his [[spoiler:Blindspot costume]].
** Issue #6 has Elektra asking Daredevil what he [[spoiler:did with her daughter]]. [[spoiler: The next issue shows us that her mind was tampered with, making Elektra think she had a daughter that was in danger. It's all but stated to be a message from those who helped erase the connection of his civilian and heroic identities from the minds of the masses.]] [[spoiler:Or their father.]]
** Issue #26.
---> [[spoiler:'''Blindspot:''']] [to The Hand] Take him.
** Issue #27.
---> '''Blindspot:''' [[spoiler:I didn't sell the demon '''my''' soul, Mr. Murdock. I sold him yours.]]
** Issue #28.
---> '''Foggy:''' Wilson Fisk is [[spoiler:the mayor of New York City.]]
* WhamShot: The ending of issue #606 as Matt as Daredevil meets [[spoiler: Mike Murdock]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Foggy calls Matt out for letting him remember that Matt is Daredevil, and for doing whatever he did in the first place that caused people to forget, [[spoiler:and for not telling Kirsten]].
* WildCard: Blindspot. His divided loyalties between Daredevil and [[spoiler:the Church of Sheltering Hands]] is played up. On one hand, he appreciates that Daredevil fights for the downtrodden and mentors him. On the other, he feels that [[spoiler: Tenfingers]] is the only one doing anything for illegal immigrants like him.
** This was brought up again in the "Dark Art" arc via an internal struggle that Blindspot has in issue #14. It gets to the point where he questions why he's really doing all of this, noting that he only became Blindspot in the first place to protect his hometown and save his mother, and only sought out Daredevil to help him better learn how to do so.
** In "Land of the Blind," new doubts are raised.
* WritersCannotDoMath:
** Subverted. When Matt [[spoiler:puts a price on his own head]], you might wonder, how's that going to turn a profit? Turns out, [[spoiler:his goal wasn't to make money]].
** Played straight when Blindspot shares his backstory. Despite the fact that previously he and Hannah have been eighteen and sixteen or so, considering that she spends her nights clubbing, it is now established that Sam was at least old enough to train acrobatics before he moved to the States, and that Hannah was born "a few years" after that, making you wonder just how many child labor laws her employers have to break to have her work fifteen hours a day. That said, she could have been exaggerating for effect.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In-universe. Jennifer claims another lawyer "literally" drowned her in paperwork, then corrects herself, saying that she hates when people misuse the word "literally."
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Devil and his apprentice]]
->''"Let me be clear. You might know me as Matt Murdock, defense attorney, here to help. That guy's gone. I've changed sides. I'm now a prosecutor for the great city of New York. I put the bad guys away."''
-->-- '''Matt Murdock'''
''Daredevil'' (initially collected in trade as ''Daredevil: Back in Black'') is a 2015 comic book published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' initiative. It's written by Creator/CharlesSoule (''ComicBook/SwampThing'', ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' and ''[[ComicBook/XMen Death of Wolverine]]''), with art primarily by Ron Garney and Phil Noto.
After finally coming out on top of things in Mark Waid's run, Matt Murdock is back in the thick of things. Having somehow erased the world's memories of his identity, Matt has returned to Hell's Kitchen, and is once again waging war against its criminals. At the same time, Matt Murdock has now become an assistant district attorney. Matt begins to battle against the villain Tenfingers and his gang on both fronts.
At the same time, Daredevil has taken on new hero Blindspot (Samuel Chung) as his apprentice. Sam is an illegal Chinese immigrant who has created an invisibility suit. He eventually decides to use the suit to fight crime, specifically in Chinatown, where he lives.
The run began in December of 2015, but had a short story introducing Blindspot in ''All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One'' #1 in November. In May of 2016, a ''Daredevil/The Punisher'' miniseries —coinciding with the second season of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''— began, also written by Soule. After three years on the title, Soule's run wraps up in late 2018, with the "Death of Daredevil" arc.
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!!In addition to the usual ''Daredevil'' tropes, Charles Soule's run provides examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Wilson Fisk considers it all to be about territorialism, not ethics.
* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Matt's hair color is now noticeably closer to Creator/CharlieCox's, in that he's brunette and the red shows in certain light. Before this run, Matt was a straight-up redhead. In flashbacks to when he lived in San Francisco, his hair is also red. As of the "Supreme" arc, he is back to redhead.
** Foggy's appearance now more closely resembles Creator/EldenHenson.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Almost the entirety of "The Death of Daredevil" is Matt's dream as he almost dies on the operating table following the car accident]].
* AmbiguousEnding: The last panel of issue #612 [[spoiler:shows Matt flatlining, but the heart monitor shows one single beat]].
* AncientConspiracy: Another one connected to the Hand -- Elektra and Stick found a book which describes something called "the Fist" which can destroy the Hand, but it requires a King ''and'' Queen. One of which won't survive.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sam's sister Hannah goes out clubbing late at night and eats food he saves for work in order to support the two.
* ArcWords: "I cannot see the light. So I will be the light."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Seventh Day," a priest concedes that God made the evils in the world: dead puppies, natural disasters, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...
* BadassNormal:
** Daredevil himself, as always.
** Blindspot is a normal guy who can kick ass, the implications being that he was decently well versed in doing so even before he began gaining Daredevil's tutelage, [[spoiler:which is confirmed in issue #27]].
** Tenfingers' gang. Matt comments that they fight like they've been training with Comicbook/IronFist. We later learn that's because they've been infused with eldritch magical energies from Tenfingers.
* BaitAndSwitch: Issue #606 shows [[spoiler: what appears to be Matt at a bar claiming to be his twin brother Mike, thus indicating he's reviving the old identity. But the issue ends with Matt as Daredevil walking in to find "Mike" smiling and saying "you must know my brother."]]
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Matt's life as a blind superpowered hero]] begins and ends with car accidents.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Daredevil trains Blindspot in martial arts, teaching him that he shouldn't be too reliant on his invisibility suit.
* BreatherEpisode: During the ''Supreme'' arc, Matt takes an entire issue out to just sit in a bar with [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played straight with the Purple Children.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Averted with several covers in this series. They mostly depict a scene from the issue or give some hints as to what the issue is about. At times it gets rather abstract, though.
* {{Cult}}: Tenfingers runs the Church of the Sheltering Hands. It mainly appeals to illegal immigrants, and promises to make life better for them. Of course, it needs their money to do so.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Compared to the Mark Waid run. The series itself is fairly standard with a regular Daredevil comic.
** Matt's costume was black with red highlights until he [[spoiler:won his Supreme Court case]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wilson Fisk [[spoiler:got himself elected as a political leader]] by telling people what he meant to do. They were so into the honesty they fell for it.
* DragonLady: [[spoiler:Sam's mom]] to Tenfingers.
* EarWorm: Dazzler's "Light of the Moon", which is so catchy it makes it from a lady several blocks away into Mike Murdock [[spoiler:who isn't even created yet]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted with the Purple Man, who seems proud to never draw the line anywhere.
* EyeScream: Muse does this [[spoiler:to Blindspot]]. Muse also seems to have had this done to himself.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] in "Land of the Blind."
* FeelNoPain: When cornered by Daredevil and the police, Matt approaches to deliver a beatdown to Muse. Muse responds by casually breaking the fingers on one of his hands using his other hand, showing zero reaction to doing so.
* {{Fingore}}:
** Tenfingers does this to his henchmen as a '''reward'''.
** Muse does this to himself, knowing that it's what Daredevil wanted to do anyway and as such stealing his revenge.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sam is responsible, Hannah is not. Not until she has to be, anyway.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In what turns out to be [[spoiler:Matt's nightmare]], Tenfingers and Gladiator are alive again.
* {{Gorn}}: It's not everywhere, but this run does indulge this trope when it feels the need.
* GuestStarPartyMember:
** Steve Rogers in issue #4.
** Spider-Man in issue #9.
** Luke Cage and Echo in issue #21.
** Jennifer Walters in issue #23.
** Electra during the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] soon after the FaceHeelTurn.
* HeroicBuild:
** Matt/Daredevil has his, of course. As usual, his civilian clothes downplay it as part of keeping his identity secret. Sam/Blindspot also has a more understated one. Thanks to its art style, the Daredevil/Punisher mini-series makes it less of an understated one and more obvious.
** Samuel/Blindspot cuts quite an impressive figure when out of costume in ''ANADM Point One''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each other's real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
* HorsebackHeroism: Daredevil and the Order of the Dragon ride police horses in their battle with the Hand.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the "Supreme" arc, [[spoiler:Matt reveals that he threw the case in the Court of Appeals to get a chance to have it tried in Supreme Court]].
* TheIllegal: Samuel and Lei Wu are illegal Chinese immigrants.
* InhumanEyeConcealers: Blindspot loses his eyes - until a DealWithTheDevil gives him glowing CreepyBlueEyes with black sclera. He hides them under opaque black sunglasses.
* InsistentTerminology: Sam refuses to be Daredevil's "sidekick," and prefers "apprentice."
* {{Invisibility}}: Blindspot's suit can do this, and uses normal batteries to do it.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tenfingers]] spends the first arc callously using the downtrodden Chinese immigrants for his own selfish purpose of a life of luxury, so it's really only fair that he [[spoiler:suffered death]] from Muse who callously uses his victims for his own selfish purpose of "art." It is later shown to go beyond that.
* KickedUpstairs: When [[spoiler:Fisk becomes mayor of New York, he hires Matt to be his deputy mayor]], which is basically a powerless ceremonial position that doesn't even get to take over if the mayor is incapacitated. [[spoiler:Fisk keeps Matt occupied by making him study huge regulatory manuals that aren't even in Braille, forcing him to listen to an assistant read them line-by-line. He only puts up with it because being near Fisk allows him to eavesdrop with his super-hearing.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Matt somehow erased the knowledge of his secret identity from everyone's minds, with the exception of Foggy. He believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil. This has complications as Elektra no longer remembers so she thinks she was "cheating" on Matt with Daredevil and nearly gets them killed with her not knowing they're the same.
** This does work to Matt's advantage when [[spoiler:Wilson Fisk becomes Mayor of New York. When Fisk offers to make Matt deputy mayor, Matt realizes Fisk no longer remembers he's Daredevil and this is the best way to get in close.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tenfingers is eventually shown to suffer from this. When Muse kidnaps Blindspot and takes him to his lair/art room, [[spoiler: we and Blindspot see that Tenfingers was one of Muse's first victims]].
** SerialEscalation: Tenfingers [[spoiler:meeting his end not by The Hand but by the ArcVillain Muse]] is to show just how evil and unhinged Muse is.
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:he gets brought back by a demon on a daily basis to suffer another horrible death]].
* ManOfKryptonite:
** Muse is an Inhuman with the ability to cancel out all sensory information around him, making him nearly invisible to Daredevil.
** Daredevil to Blindspot. Blindspot can turn invisible, but Daredevil's blindness and enhanced senses basically cancel that out.
* TheMentor: Matt takes on new vigilante Blindspot as his sidekick, or rather "apprentice," as he'd prefer to be known.
* MissingDad: Hannah and Sam are half-siblings with the same mother, but neither one knows who their father is.
* MyGreatestFailure: After Muse abducts Blindspot, Matt gets into a tizzy over the guilt he feels for it. This goes into overdrive once [[spoiler:Muse puts out Sam's eyes right in from of him. The next arc kicks off when Matt creates a scheme to get enough money to pay for Sam's hospital bills, rehabilitation therapy, and possibly even cybernetic but experimental eye implants, namely because Sam, as an illegal immigrant with no insurance of his own, has no hope for paying for any of it. At this point, Matt's more than willing to secretly take a hit out on his Daredevil persona just to raise the needed funds.]]
* OhCrap: Basically said verbatim by Matt when he finds out [[spoiler: Wilson Fisk has been elected mayor of New York.]]
* OutOfFocus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: Concerned Matt may win the Supreme Court case that would allow costumed crimefighters to testify on what they hear as evidence, the Kingpin hires Tombstone and supplies him with a rocket launcher to fire before a decision is reached. When the Court finds in favor of Matt, the Kingpin calls Tombstone in a rage. Showing surprising calm, Tombstone points out that ''blowing up the Supreme Court'' is not only completely insane but would make him the most wanted man in the country and there's no way he's going to risk his life and freedom just for Fisk to get his own way. Also, this means Fisk is going to be too busy trying to keep himself from being implicated by Daredevil or others to bother with Tombstone which frees him up to reestablish his own criminal operation.
* PutOnABus: Blindspot joins a Catholic order of Knights at the end of the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc and only shows up again once more, in the ''Death of Daredevil'' miniseries.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility tech... but didn't realize how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
* SecretIdentity: Matt has one again.
* SeenItAll: What ultimately saves [[spoiler:Kirsten]] from the Purple Man. Essentially, a mind-controlled Matt has been instructed to tell Zebediah Killgrave what his greatest fear is, and after thinking about it, [[spoiler:he decides it's not the death of his girlfriend]], admitting that while it would be awful, it has happened to him several times already, so it is not his greatest fear anymore.
* SeeTheInvisible: Blindspot is drawn to be completely invisible. We can only see him when he is invisible through the artist's depiction of Matt's radar sense, or the mask he sometimes puts on while invisible.
* SelfDeprecation: When Matt tells Father Jordan that Sam feels guilty about killing a supervillain in self-defence, Jordan comments that the boy is half Catholic already.
* ShoutOut: When White Rabbit runs away from a fight, Daredevil quips that [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland "maybe she is late for a very important date"]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Daredevil starts off in a new black-and-red costume, but ends up changing back to the classic red costume. Generally, "going back to the classic costume" is seem as Matt returning to become more optimistic and hopeful.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Matt's identity is secret once again and the happy, upbeat tone gets replaced with the old film noir atomosphere and bleakness.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Matt struggles to explain how he knows that serial killer Vincent van Gore and street artist Muse are the same person. When Fisk asks if he heard it from Daredevil, he goes with that.
* TakeThat: When Matt tries to get every form of psychic and reality warper to help him regain his secret identity, Daimon Hellstrom suggests Mephisto, stating [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay he's done this sort of thing before]]. Matt refuses, claiming he's not '''that''' desperate.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where Lei sells her own soul to buy back Sam's eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
* TheStinger: Issue #605 sets up the next arc this way, with a scene after the editor's page for talking about unrelated things.
* TimeSkip: A small-to-decent but indeterminable amount of time passes between the Point One issue where Blindspot seeks out and meets Daredevil and the first issue. It's noted early on that the former's been training under the latter for a little while by that point.
* TitleDrop: "Back in black," when Daredevil has changed back to the black costume to blend in with the background in New York.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates how [[spoiler:The Purple Children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
* TogetherInDeath: Karen is waiting for Matt when he dies.
* VagueAge:
** Before it was stated in the midst of an interview, well past the book's debut, it was rather tough to put a specific age on Sam/Blindspot. His actions tended to paint him as older (vigilante-ing, though not exclusive to an older age frame, holding down a job, plus his engineering genius, though also not exclusive to an older age range, especially not in fiction, and his overall mature mindset), while his design made his age vague due to the [[DependingOnTheArtist art style]]. Said interview states Sam to be 18.
** Hannah gets it too. Sam says she is "a few years younger" than him, and the art makes her look anywhere from 12 to 16.
* VerbalTic: The Purple Man (at least as portrayed in Matt's flashbacks) has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
-->'''Killgrave:''' Be patient, Kirsten the girlfriend! You don't want to spoil the surprise!
* VillainHasAPoint: Murdock reminded mayor Fisk that he knows well that Punisher would never kill cops. "Do I know that? Do I? I think Frank Castle will kill anyone he wants, if he thinks it's warranted. That's the problem, with him and all the vigilantes. They believe they are a law unto themselves."
* WhamLine:
** Issue #1 ends with Tenfingers deciding that both Daredevil and Matt Murdock need to die... and he assigns this job to [[spoiler:Samuel Chung]].
** This can possibly be averted because nowhere in issue #1 is [[spoiler:Blindspot's civilian name given (it was revealed in ''ANADM Point One'')]]. However, it's still notable because [[spoiler:Sam]] calls Ten Fingers "[[spoiler:bossman]]", something he also called [[spoiler:Daredevil]]. He's also wearing the same t-shirt with a distinctive pattern on it that we saw he was wearing earlier under his [[spoiler:Blindspot costume]].
** Issue #6 has Elektra asking Daredevil what he [[spoiler:did with her daughter]]. [[spoiler: The next issue shows us that her mind was tampered with, making Elektra think she had a daughter that was in danger. It's all but stated to be a message from those who helped erase the connection of his civilian and heroic identities from the minds of the masses.]] [[spoiler:Or their father.]]
** Issue #26.
---> [[spoiler:'''Blindspot:''']] [to The Hand] Take him.
** Issue #27.
---> '''Blindspot:''' [[spoiler:I didn't sell the demon '''my''' soul, Mr. Murdock. I sold him yours.]]
** Issue #28.
---> '''Foggy:''' Wilson Fisk is [[spoiler:the mayor of New York City.]]
* WhamShot: The ending of issue #606 as Matt as Daredevil meets [[spoiler: Mike Murdock]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Foggy calls Matt out for letting him remember that Matt is Daredevil, and for doing whatever he did in the first place that caused people to forget, [[spoiler:and for not telling Kirsten]].
* WildCard: Blindspot. His divided loyalties between Daredevil and [[spoiler:the Church of Sheltering Hands]] is played up. On one hand, he appreciates that Daredevil fights for the downtrodden and mentors him. On the other, he feels that [[spoiler: Tenfingers]] is the only one doing anything for illegal immigrants like him.
** This was brought up again in the "Dark Art" arc via an internal struggle that Blindspot has in issue #14. It gets to the point where he questions why he's really doing all of this, noting that he only became Blindspot in the first place to protect his hometown and save his mother, and only sought out Daredevil to help him better learn how to do so.
** In "Land of the Blind," new doubts are raised.
* WritersCannotDoMath:
** Subverted. When Matt [[spoiler:puts a price on his own head]], you might wonder, how's that going to turn a profit? Turns out, [[spoiler:his goal wasn't to make money]].
** Played straight when Blindspot shares his backstory. Despite the fact that previously he and Hannah have been eighteen and sixteen or so, considering that she spends her nights clubbing, it is now established that Sam was at least old enough to train acrobatics before he moved to the States, and that Hannah was born "a few years" after that, making you wonder just how many child labor laws her employers have to break to have her work fifteen hours a day. That said, she could have been exaggerating for effect.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In-universe. Jennifer claims another lawyer "literally" drowned her in paperwork, then corrects herself, saying that she hates when people misuse the word "literally."
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->''"Let me be clear. You might know me as Matt Murdock, defense attorney, here to help. That guy's gone. I've changed sides. I'm now a prosecutor for the great city of New York. I put the bad guys away."''
-->-- '''Matt Murdock'''
''Daredevil'' (initially collected in trade as ''Daredevil: Back in Black'') is a 2015 comic book published by Creator/MarvelComics, as part of the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' initiative. It's written by Creator/CharlesSoule (''ComicBook/SwampThing'', ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' and ''[[ComicBook/XMen Death of Wolverine]]''), with art primarily by Ron Garney and Phil Noto.
After finally coming out on top of things in Mark Waid's run, Matt Murdock is back in the thick of things. Having somehow erased the world's memories of his identity, Matt has returned to Hell's Kitchen, and is once again waging war against its criminals. At the same time, Matt Murdock has now become an assistant district attorney. Matt begins to battle against the villain Tenfingers and his gang on both fronts.
At the same time, Daredevil has taken on new hero Blindspot (Samuel Chung) as his apprentice. Sam is an illegal Chinese immigrant who has created an invisibility suit. He eventually decides to use the suit to fight crime, specifically in Chinatown, where he lives.
The run began in December of 2015, but had a short story introducing Blindspot in ''All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One'' #1 in November. In May of 2016, a ''Daredevil/The Punisher'' miniseries —coinciding with the second season of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''— began, also written by Soule. After three years on the title, Soule's run wraps up in late 2018, with the "Death of Daredevil" arc.
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!!In addition to the usual ''Daredevil'' tropes, Charles Soule's run provides examples of:
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Wilson Fisk considers it all to be about territorialism, not ethics.
* AdaptationDyeJob:
** Matt's hair color is now noticeably closer to Creator/CharlieCox's, in that he's brunette and the red shows in certain light. Before this run, Matt was a straight-up redhead. In flashbacks to when he lived in San Francisco, his hair is also red. As of the "Supreme" arc, he is back to redhead.
** Foggy's appearance now more closely resembles Creator/EldenHenson.
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Almost the entirety of "The Death of Daredevil" is Matt's dream as he almost dies on the operating table following the car accident]].
* AmbiguousEnding: The last panel of issue #612 [[spoiler:shows Matt flatlining, but the heart monitor shows one single beat]].
* AncientConspiracy: Another one connected to the Hand -- Elektra and Stick found a book which describes something called "the Fist" which can destroy the Hand, but it requires a King ''and'' Queen. One of which won't survive.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Sam's sister Hannah goes out clubbing late at night and eats food he saves for work in order to support the two.
* ArcWords: "I cannot see the light. So I will be the light."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Seventh Day," a priest concedes that God made the evils in the world: dead puppies, natural disasters, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...
* BadassNormal:
** Daredevil himself, as always.
** Blindspot is a normal guy who can kick ass, the implications being that he was decently well versed in doing so even before he began gaining Daredevil's tutelage, [[spoiler:which is confirmed in issue #27]].
** Tenfingers' gang. Matt comments that they fight like they've been training with Comicbook/IronFist. We later learn that's because they've been infused with eldritch magical energies from Tenfingers.
* BaitAndSwitch: Issue #606 shows [[spoiler: what appears to be Matt at a bar claiming to be his twin brother Mike, thus indicating he's reviving the old identity. But the issue ends with Matt as Daredevil walking in to find "Mike" smiling and saying "you must know my brother."]]
* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Matt's life as a blind superpowered hero]] begins and ends with car accidents.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Daredevil trains Blindspot in martial arts, teaching him that he shouldn't be too reliant on his invisibility suit.
* BreatherEpisode: During the ''Supreme'' arc, Matt takes an entire issue out to just sit in a bar with [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played straight with the Purple Children.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Averted with several covers in this series. They mostly depict a scene from the issue or give some hints as to what the issue is about. At times it gets rather abstract, though.
* {{Cult}}: Tenfingers runs the Church of the Sheltering Hands. It mainly appeals to illegal immigrants, and promises to make life better for them. Of course, it needs their money to do so.
* DarkerAndEdgier:
** Compared to the Mark Waid run. The series itself is fairly standard with a regular Daredevil comic.
** Matt's costume was black with red highlights until he [[spoiler:won his Supreme Court case]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Wilson Fisk [[spoiler:got himself elected as a political leader]] by telling people what he meant to do. They were so into the honesty they fell for it.
* DragonLady: [[spoiler:Sam's mom]] to Tenfingers.
* EarWorm: Dazzler's "Light of the Moon", which is so catchy it makes it from a lady several blocks away into Mike Murdock [[spoiler:who isn't even created yet]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted with the Purple Man, who seems proud to never draw the line anywhere.
* EyeScream: Muse does this [[spoiler:to Blindspot]]. Muse also seems to have had this done to himself.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] in "Land of the Blind."
* FeelNoPain: When cornered by Daredevil and the police, Matt approaches to deliver a beatdown to Muse. Muse responds by casually breaking the fingers on one of his hands using his other hand, showing zero reaction to doing so.
* {{Fingore}}:
** Tenfingers does this to his henchmen as a '''reward'''.
** Muse does this to himself, knowing that it's what Daredevil wanted to do anyway and as such stealing his revenge.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Sam is responsible, Hannah is not. Not until she has to be, anyway.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In what turns out to be [[spoiler:Matt's nightmare]], Tenfingers and Gladiator are alive again.
* {{Gorn}}: It's not everywhere, but this run does indulge this trope when it feels the need.
* GuestStarPartyMember:
** Steve Rogers in issue #4.
** Spider-Man in issue #9.
** Luke Cage and Echo in issue #21.
** Jennifer Walters in issue #23.
** Electra during the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] soon after the FaceHeelTurn.
* HeroicBuild:
** Matt/Daredevil has his, of course. As usual, his civilian clothes downplay it as part of keeping his identity secret. Sam/Blindspot also has a more understated one. Thanks to its art style, the Daredevil/Punisher mini-series makes it less of an understated one and more obvious.
** Samuel/Blindspot cuts quite an impressive figure when out of costume in ''ANADM Point One''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each other's real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
* HorsebackHeroism: Daredevil and the Order of the Dragon ride police horses in their battle with the Hand.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the "Supreme" arc, [[spoiler:Matt reveals that he threw the case in the Court of Appeals to get a chance to have it tried in Supreme Court]].
* TheIllegal: Samuel and Lei Wu are illegal Chinese immigrants.
* InhumanEyeConcealers: Blindspot loses his eyes - until a DealWithTheDevil gives him glowing CreepyBlueEyes with black sclera. He hides them under opaque black sunglasses.
* InsistentTerminology: Sam refuses to be Daredevil's "sidekick," and prefers "apprentice."
* {{Invisibility}}: Blindspot's suit can do this, and uses normal batteries to do it.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tenfingers]] spends the first arc callously using the downtrodden Chinese immigrants for his own selfish purpose of a life of luxury, so it's really only fair that he [[spoiler:suffered death]] from Muse who callously uses his victims for his own selfish purpose of "art." It is later shown to go beyond that.
* KickedUpstairs: When [[spoiler:Fisk becomes mayor of New York, he hires Matt to be his deputy mayor]], which is basically a powerless ceremonial position that doesn't even get to take over if the mayor is incapacitated. [[spoiler:Fisk keeps Matt occupied by making him study huge regulatory manuals that aren't even in Braille, forcing him to listen to an assistant read them line-by-line. He only puts up with it because being near Fisk allows him to eavesdrop with his super-hearing.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
** Matt somehow erased the knowledge of his secret identity from everyone's minds, with the exception of Foggy. He believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil. This has complications as Elektra no longer remembers so she thinks she was "cheating" on Matt with Daredevil and nearly gets them killed with her not knowing they're the same.
** This does work to Matt's advantage when [[spoiler:Wilson Fisk becomes Mayor of New York. When Fisk offers to make Matt deputy mayor, Matt realizes Fisk no longer remembers he's Daredevil and this is the best way to get in close.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: Tenfingers is eventually shown to suffer from this. When Muse kidnaps Blindspot and takes him to his lair/art room, [[spoiler: we and Blindspot see that Tenfingers was one of Muse's first victims]].
** SerialEscalation: Tenfingers [[spoiler:meeting his end not by The Hand but by the ArcVillain Muse]] is to show just how evil and unhinged Muse is.
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:he gets brought back by a demon on a daily basis to suffer another horrible death]].
* ManOfKryptonite:
** Muse is an Inhuman with the ability to cancel out all sensory information around him, making him nearly invisible to Daredevil.
** Daredevil to Blindspot. Blindspot can turn invisible, but Daredevil's blindness and enhanced senses basically cancel that out.
* TheMentor: Matt takes on new vigilante Blindspot as his sidekick, or rather "apprentice," as he'd prefer to be known.
* MissingDad: Hannah and Sam are half-siblings with the same mother, but neither one knows who their father is.
* MyGreatestFailure: After Muse abducts Blindspot, Matt gets into a tizzy over the guilt he feels for it. This goes into overdrive once [[spoiler:Muse puts out Sam's eyes right in from of him. The next arc kicks off when Matt creates a scheme to get enough money to pay for Sam's hospital bills, rehabilitation therapy, and possibly even cybernetic but experimental eye implants, namely because Sam, as an illegal immigrant with no insurance of his own, has no hope for paying for any of it. At this point, Matt's more than willing to secretly take a hit out on his Daredevil persona just to raise the needed funds.]]
* OhCrap: Basically said verbatim by Matt when he finds out [[spoiler: Wilson Fisk has been elected mayor of New York.]]
* OutOfFocus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
* PragmaticVillainy: Concerned Matt may win the Supreme Court case that would allow costumed crimefighters to testify on what they hear as evidence, the Kingpin hires Tombstone and supplies him with a rocket launcher to fire before a decision is reached. When the Court finds in favor of Matt, the Kingpin calls Tombstone in a rage. Showing surprising calm, Tombstone points out that ''blowing up the Supreme Court'' is not only completely insane but would make him the most wanted man in the country and there's no way he's going to risk his life and freedom just for Fisk to get his own way. Also, this means Fisk is going to be too busy trying to keep himself from being implicated by Daredevil or others to bother with Tombstone which frees him up to reestablish his own criminal operation.
* PutOnABus: Blindspot joins a Catholic order of Knights at the end of the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc and only shows up again once more, in the ''Death of Daredevil'' miniseries.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility tech... but didn't realize how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
* SecretIdentity: Matt has one again.
* SeenItAll: What ultimately saves [[spoiler:Kirsten]] from the Purple Man. Essentially, a mind-controlled Matt has been instructed to tell Zebediah Killgrave what his greatest fear is, and after thinking about it, [[spoiler:he decides it's not the death of his girlfriend]], admitting that while it would be awful, it has happened to him several times already, so it is not his greatest fear anymore.
* SeeTheInvisible: Blindspot is drawn to be completely invisible. We can only see him when he is invisible through the artist's depiction of Matt's radar sense, or the mask he sometimes puts on while invisible.
* SelfDeprecation: When Matt tells Father Jordan that Sam feels guilty about killing a supervillain in self-defence, Jordan comments that the boy is half Catholic already.
* ShoutOut: When White Rabbit runs away from a fight, Daredevil quips that [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland "maybe she is late for a very important date"]].
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Daredevil starts off in a new black-and-red costume, but ends up changing back to the classic red costume. Generally, "going back to the classic costume" is seem as Matt returning to become more optimistic and hopeful.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Matt's identity is secret once again and the happy, upbeat tone gets replaced with the old film noir atomosphere and bleakness.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: Matt struggles to explain how he knows that serial killer Vincent van Gore and street artist Muse are the same person. When Fisk asks if he heard it from Daredevil, he goes with that.
* TakeThat: When Matt tries to get every form of psychic and reality warper to help him regain his secret identity, Daimon Hellstrom suggests Mephisto, stating [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay he's done this sort of thing before]]. Matt refuses, claiming he's not '''that''' desperate.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where Lei sells her own soul to buy back Sam's eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
* TheStinger: Issue #605 sets up the next arc this way, with a scene after the editor's page for talking about unrelated things.
* TimeSkip: A small-to-decent but indeterminable amount of time passes between the Point One issue where Blindspot seeks out and meets Daredevil and the first issue. It's noted early on that the former's been training under the latter for a little while by that point.
* TitleDrop: "Back in black," when Daredevil has changed back to the black costume to blend in with the background in New York.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates how [[spoiler:The Purple Children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
* TogetherInDeath: Karen is waiting for Matt when he dies.
* VagueAge:
** Before it was stated in the midst of an interview, well past the book's debut, it was rather tough to put a specific age on Sam/Blindspot. His actions tended to paint him as older (vigilante-ing, though not exclusive to an older age frame, holding down a job, plus his engineering genius, though also not exclusive to an older age range, especially not in fiction, and his overall mature mindset), while his design made his age vague due to the [[DependingOnTheArtist art style]]. Said interview states Sam to be 18.
** Hannah gets it too. Sam says she is "a few years younger" than him, and the art makes her look anywhere from 12 to 16.
* VerbalTic: The Purple Man (at least as portrayed in Matt's flashbacks) has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
-->'''Killgrave:''' Be patient, Kirsten the girlfriend! You don't want to spoil the surprise!
* VillainHasAPoint: Murdock reminded mayor Fisk that he knows well that Punisher would never kill cops. "Do I know that? Do I? I think Frank Castle will kill anyone he wants, if he thinks it's warranted. That's the problem, with him and all the vigilantes. They believe they are a law unto themselves."
* WhamLine:
** Issue #1 ends with Tenfingers deciding that both Daredevil and Matt Murdock need to die... and he assigns this job to [[spoiler:Samuel Chung]].
** This can possibly be averted because nowhere in issue #1 is [[spoiler:Blindspot's civilian name given (it was revealed in ''ANADM Point One'')]]. However, it's still notable because [[spoiler:Sam]] calls Ten Fingers "[[spoiler:bossman]]", something he also called [[spoiler:Daredevil]]. He's also wearing the same t-shirt with a distinctive pattern on it that we saw he was wearing earlier under his [[spoiler:Blindspot costume]].
** Issue #6 has Elektra asking Daredevil what he [[spoiler:did with her daughter]]. [[spoiler: The next issue shows us that her mind was tampered with, making Elektra think she had a daughter that was in danger. It's all but stated to be a message from those who helped erase the connection of his civilian and heroic identities from the minds of the masses.]] [[spoiler:Or their father.]]
** Issue #26.
---> [[spoiler:'''Blindspot:''']] [to The Hand] Take him.
** Issue #27.
---> '''Blindspot:''' [[spoiler:I didn't sell the demon '''my''' soul, Mr. Murdock. I sold him yours.]]
** Issue #28.
---> '''Foggy:''' Wilson Fisk is [[spoiler:the mayor of New York City.]]
* WhamShot: The ending of issue #606 as Matt as Daredevil meets [[spoiler: Mike Murdock]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Foggy calls Matt out for letting him remember that Matt is Daredevil, and for doing whatever he did in the first place that caused people to forget, [[spoiler:and for not telling Kirsten]].
* WildCard: Blindspot. His divided loyalties between Daredevil and [[spoiler:the Church of Sheltering Hands]] is played up. On one hand, he appreciates that Daredevil fights for the downtrodden and mentors him. On the other, he feels that [[spoiler: Tenfingers]] is the only one doing anything for illegal immigrants like him.
** This was brought up again in the "Dark Art" arc via an internal struggle that Blindspot has in issue #14. It gets to the point where he questions why he's really doing all of this, noting that he only became Blindspot in the first place to protect his hometown and save his mother, and only sought out Daredevil to help him better learn how to do so.
** In "Land of the Blind," new doubts are raised.
* WritersCannotDoMath:
** Subverted. When Matt [[spoiler:puts a price on his own head]], you might wonder, how's that going to turn a profit? Turns out, [[spoiler:his goal wasn't to make money]].
** Played straight when Blindspot shares his backstory. Despite the fact that previously he and Hannah have been eighteen and sixteen or so, considering that she spends her nights clubbing, it is now established that Sam was at least old enough to train acrobatics before he moved to the States, and that Hannah was born "a few years" after that, making you wonder just how many child labor laws her employers have to break to have her work fifteen hours a day. That said, she could have been exaggerating for effect.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In-universe. Jennifer claims another lawyer "literally" drowned her in paperwork, then corrects herself, saying that she hates when people misuse the word "literally."
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* SignificantWardrobeShift: Daredevil starts off in a new black-and-red costume, but ends up changing back to the classic red costume. Generally, "going back to the classic costume" is seem as Matt returning to become more optimistic and hopeful.
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** Tenfingers' gang. Matt comments that they fight like they've been training with [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]]. We later learn that's because they've been infused with eldritch magical energies from Tenfingers.
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** Tenfingers' gang. Matt comments that they fight like they've been training with [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]].Comicbook/IronFist. We later learn that's because they've been infused with eldritch magical energies from Tenfingers.
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* SeenItAll: What ultimately saved [[spoiler:Kirsten]] from the Purple Man.
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* SeenItAll: What ultimately saved saves [[spoiler:Kirsten]] from the Purple Man.Man. Essentially, a mind-controlled Matt has been instructed to tell Zebediah Killgrave what his greatest fear is, and after thinking about it, [[spoiler:he decides it's not the death of his girlfriend]], admitting that while it would be awful, it has happened to him several times already, so it is not his greatest fear anymore.
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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Daredevil trains Blindspot in martial arts, teaching him that he shouldn't be too reliant on his invisibility suit.
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* InhumanEyeConcealers: Blindspot loses his eyes - until a DealWithTheDevil gives him glowing CreepyBlueEyes with black sclera. He hides them under opaque black sunglasses.
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* KickedUpstairs: When [[spoiler:Fisk becomes mayor of New York, he hires Matt to be his deputy mayor]], which is basically a powerless ceremonial position that doesn't even get to take over if the mayor is incapacitated. [[spoiler:Fisk keeps Matt occupied by making him study huge regulatory manuals that aren't even in Braille, forcing him to listen to an assistant read them line-by-line. He only puts up with it because being near Fisk allows him to eavesdrop with his super-hearing.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each others real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each others other's real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Matt's life as a blind superpowered hero]] begins and ends with a car accidents.
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Matt's life as a blind superpowered hero]] begins and ends with a car accidents.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played straight with the Purple Children.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Averted with the Purple Man, who seems proud to never draw the line anywhere.
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* HorsebackHeroism: Daredevil and the Order of the Dragon ride police horses in their battle with the Hand.
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* EarWorm: Dazzler's "Light of the Moon", which is so catchy it makes it from a lady several blocks away into Mike Murdock [[spoiler:who isn't even created yet]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In what turns out to be [[spoiler:Matt's nightmare]], Tenfingers and Gladiator are alive again.
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** This does work to Matt's advantage when [[spoiler: Wilson Fisk becomes Mayor of New York. When Fisk offers to make Matt deputy mayor, Matt realizes Fisk no longer remembers he's Daredevil and this is the best way to get in close.]]
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** This does work to Matt's advantage when [[spoiler: Wilson [[spoiler:Wilson Fisk becomes Mayor of New York. When Fisk offers to make Matt deputy mayor, Matt realizes Fisk no longer remembers he's Daredevil and this is the best way to get in close.]]
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* OutOfFocus[=/=]PutOnABus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
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* OutOfFocus[=/=]PutOnABus: OutOfFocus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.hands.
* PutOnABus: Blindspot joins a Catholic order of Knights at the end of the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc and only shows up again once more, in the ''Death of Daredevil'' miniseries.
* PutOnABus: Blindspot joins a Catholic order of Knights at the end of the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc and only shows up again once more, in the ''Death of Daredevil'' miniseries.
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* SelfDeprecation: When Matt tells Father Jordan that Sam feels guilty about killing a supervillain in self-defence, Jordan comments that the boy is half Catholic already.
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* ArcWords: "I cannot see the light. So I will be the light."
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** Electra during the ''Mayor Murdock'' arc.
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* ShoutOut: When White Rabbit runs away from a fight, Daredevil quips that [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland "maybe she is late for a very important date"]].
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The run began in December of 2015, but had a short story introducing Blindspot in ''All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One'' #1 in November. In May of 2016, a ''Daredevil/The Punisher'' miniseries —coinciding with the second season of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''— began, also written by Soule. After three years on the title, Soule's run wraps up in late 2018, with the "Death of Daredevil" arc.
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The run began in December of 2015, but had a short story introducing Blindspot in ''All-New, All-Different Marvel Point One'' #1 in November. In May of 2016, a ''Daredevil/The Punisher'' miniseries —coinciding with the second season of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''— ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''— began, also written by Soule. After three years on the title, Soule's run wraps up in late 2018, with the "Death of Daredevil" arc.
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** Muse has an unexplained ability to cancel out all sensory information around him, making him nearly invisible to Daredevil.
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** Muse has is an unexplained Inhuman with the ability to cancel out all sensory information around him, making him nearly invisible to Daredevil.
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** Played straight when Blindspot shares his backstory. Despite the fact that previously he and Hannah have been eighteen and sixteen or so, considering that she spends her nights clubbing, it is now established that Sam was at least old enough to train acrobatics before he moved to the States, and that Hannah was born "a few years" after that, making you wonder just how many child labor laws her employers have to break to have her work fifteen hours a day. (Although she could have been exaggerating for effect.) [[WhatTheHellHero Not to mention that Matt, an ADA, knows about it and her status as an American citizen and does exactly nothing about it.]] (Although he could have assumed she was exaggerating for effect.)
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** Played straight when Blindspot shares his backstory. Despite the fact that previously he and Hannah have been eighteen and sixteen or so, considering that she spends her nights clubbing, it is now established that Sam was at least old enough to train acrobatics before he moved to the States, and that Hannah was born "a few years" after that, making you wonder just how many child labor laws her employers have to break to have her work fifteen hours a day. (Although That said, she could have been exaggerating for effect.) [[WhatTheHellHero Not to mention that Matt, an ADA, knows about it and her status as an American citizen and does exactly nothing about it.]] (Although he could have assumed she was exaggerating for effect.)
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** Matt's hair color is now noticeably closer to Creator/CharlieCox's, in that he's brunette and the red shows in certain light. Before this run, Matt was a straight-up redhead. In flashbacks to when he lived in San Francisco, his hair is also red. As of the ''Supreme'' arc, he is back to redhead.
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** Matt's hair color is now noticeably closer to Creator/CharlieCox's, in that he's brunette and the red shows in certain light. Before this run, Matt was a straight-up redhead. In flashbacks to when he lived in San Francisco, his hair is also red. As of the ''Supreme'' "Supreme" arc, he is back to redhead.
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* AllJustADream: Well, not ''all'' of it. [[spoiler:Just the part after the car accident.]]
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* AllJustADream: Well, not ''all'' '''all''' of it. [[spoiler:Just the part after the car accident.]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Seventh Day'', a priest concedes that God made the evils in the world: dead puppies, natural disasters, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway…
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Seventh Day'', "Seventh Day," a priest concedes that God made the evils in the world: dead puppies, natural disasters, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway…Expressway...
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* BreatherEpisode: During the ''Supreme'' arc, Matt takes an entire issue out to just sit in a café with [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
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* BreatherEpisode: During the ''Supreme'' arc, Matt takes an entire issue out to just sit in a café bar with [[Comicbook/SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
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** Matt's costume was black with red highlights until he [[spoiler:talked himself out of suicide]].
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** Matt's costume was black with red highlights until he [[spoiler:talked himself out of suicide]].[[spoiler:won his Supreme Court case]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] in ''Land of the Blind''.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Blindspot]] in ''Land "Land of the Blind''.Blind."
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** Tenfingers does this to his henchmen as a ''reward''.
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** Tenfingers does this to his henchmen as a ''reward''.'''reward'''.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the ''Supreme'' arc, [[spoiler:Matt reveals that he threw the case in the Court of Appeals to get a chance to have it tried in Supreme Court]].
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: In the ''Supreme'' "Supreme" arc, [[spoiler:Matt reveals that he threw the case in the Court of Appeals to get a chance to have it tried in Supreme Court]].
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* InsistentTerminology: Sam refuses to be Daredevil's 'sidekick', and prefers apprentice.
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* InsistentTerminology: Sam refuses to be Daredevil's 'sidekick', "sidekick," and prefers apprentice."apprentice."
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tenfingers]] spends the first arc callously using the downtrodden Chinese immigrants for his own selfish purpose of a life of luxury, so it's really only fair that he [[spoiler:suffered death]] from Muse who callously uses his victims for his own selfish purpose of "art". It is later shown to go beyond that.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tenfingers]] spends the first arc callously using the downtrodden Chinese immigrants for his own selfish purpose of a life of luxury, so it's really only fair that he [[spoiler:suffered death]] from Muse who callously uses his victims for his own selfish purpose of "art". "art." It is later shown to go beyond that.
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* TheMentor: Matt takes on new vigilante Blindspot as his sidekick, or rather ''apprentice'', as he'd prefer to be known as.
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* TheMentor: Matt takes on new vigilante Blindspot as his sidekick, or rather ''apprentice'', "apprentice," as he'd prefer to be known as.known.
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* OutOfFocus[=/=]PutOnABus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he ''was'' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility tech… but didn't realise how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility tech… but didn't realise how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
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* OutOfFocus[=/=]PutOnABus: Done in a non-standard way. While Blindspot was still "there" after getting injured by Elektra in issue #7, and we saw him talking to Daredevil over the phone in issue #8. While he recovers from his injury, he went absent from the main comic for a few months. However, ''Daredevil/Punisher'' prominently featured him, so he ''was'' '''was''' still appearing when not appearing in the main ongoing. He returned in full in the "Dark Art" arc, before going right back to being OutOfFocus following the injury he suffered at the ArcVillain Muse's hands.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibilitytech… tech... but didn't realise realize how expensive it was to file a patent, and being an illegal immigrant, didn't want to draw attention to himself, noting that inventions from illegal immigrants tend to be stolen by others as another reason.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[PlayedWith Played with]], and in Sam's case, ultimately [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. Blindspot tried to sell his invisibility
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* TakeThat: When Matt tries to get every form of psychic and reality warper to help him regain his secret identity, Daimon Hellstrom suggests Mephisto, stating [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay he's done this sort of thing before]]. Matt refuses, claiming he's not ''that'' desperate.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where she sells her soul to buy back his eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where she sells her soul to buy back his eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
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* TakeThat: When Matt tries to get every form of psychic and reality warper to help him regain his secret identity, Daimon Hellstrom suggests Mephisto, stating [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay he's done this sort of thing before]]. Matt refuses, claiming he's not ''that'' '''that''' desperate.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:whereshe Lei sells her own soul to buy back his Sam's eyesight]], which is going above and beyond.
* TheUnfavorite: Hannah Chung, who is left behind when her mother Lei Wu takes her brother Samuel to China, [[spoiler:where
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* TitleDrop: "Back in black", when Daredevil has changed back to the black costume to blend in with the background in New York.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates how the [[spoiler:purple children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates how the [[spoiler:purple children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
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* TitleDrop: "Back in black", black," when Daredevil has changed back to the black costume to blend in with the background in New York.
* UnreliableNarrator: Matt admits when he relates howthe [[spoiler:purple children]] [[spoiler:The Purple Children]] recovered his secret identity that he is just filling in the blanks and doesn't know exactly what they said.
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** Hannah gets it too. Sam says she is "a few years younger" than him, and the art makes her look anywhere from twelve to sixteen.
* VerbalTic: The Purple Man, at least when Matt talks about him, has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
* VerbalTic: The Purple Man, at least when Matt talks about him, has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
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* VerbalTic: The PurpleMan, at Man (at least when Matt talks about him, as portrayed in Matt's flashbacks) has a tendency to refer to people as their name plus the thing he sees them as. Even when he talks to them.
* VerbalTic: The Purple
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* VillainHasAPoint: Murdock reminded mayor Fisk that he knows well that Punisher would never kill cops. "Do I know that? Do I? I think Frank Castle will kill anyone he wants, if he thinks it's warranted. That's the problem, with him and all the vigilantes. They believe they are a law unto themselves"
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* VillainHasAPoint: Murdock reminded mayor Fisk that he knows well that Punisher would never kill cops. "Do I know that? Do I? I think Frank Castle will kill anyone he wants, if he thinks it's warranted. That's the problem, with him and all the vigilantes. They believe they are a law unto themselves"themselves."
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** Issue #1 ends with Tenfingers deciding that both Daredevil and Matt Murdock need to die… and he assigns this job to [[spoiler:Samuel Chung]].
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** Issue #1 ends with Tenfingers deciding that both Daredevil and Matt Murdock need to die… die... and he assigns this job to [[spoiler:Samuel Chung]].
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* WhamShot: The ending of issue 606 as Matt as Daredevil meets [[spoiler: Mike Murdock]].
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* WhamShot: The ending of issue 606 #606 as Matt as Daredevil meets [[spoiler: Mike Murdock]].
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** This was brought up again in the ''Dark Art'' arc via an internal struggle that Blindspot has in issue #14. It gets to the point where he questions why he's really doing all of this, noting that he only became Blindspot in the first place to protect his hometown and save his mother, and only sought out Daredevil to help him better learn how to do so.
** In ''Land of the Blind'', new doubts are raised.
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** This was brought up again in the ''Dark Art'' "Dark Art" arc via an internal struggle that Blindspot has in issue #14. It gets to the point where he questions why he's really doing all of this, noting that he only became Blindspot in the first place to protect his hometown and save his mother, and only sought out Daredevil to help him better learn how to do so.
** In''Land "Land of the Blind'', Blind," new doubts are raised.
** In
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: In-universe. Jennifer claims another lawyer "literally" drowned her in paperwork, then corrects herself, saying that she hates when people misuse the word "literally".
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* AllJustADream: Well, not ''all'' of it. [[spoiler:Just the part after the car accident.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Even though neither remember each others real identities anymore, Spider-Man and Daredevil still remain best buddies.
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** Matt believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil.
** This has complications as Elektra no longer remembers so she thinks she was "cheating" on Matt with Daredevil and nearly gets them killed with her not knowing they're the same.
** Matt believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil.
** This has complications as Elektra no longer remembers so she thinks she was "cheating" on Matt with Daredevil and nearly gets them killed with her not knowing they're the same.
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** MattFoggy. He believes it was the children of the Purple Man who made everyone forget he was Daredevil.
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