History Fridge / Daredevil2015

** In episode 1 alone, Nadeem goes to his boss's office and asks for a promotion. Hattley, who knows Nadeem is under a mountain of debt, tells him he can't get promoted because he'd be easy pickings to be corrupted. She also says she's been holding him back for reasons that have nothing to do whatever line of bullshit she fed him. Just a few sentences later, she sends him to the most notorious corrupter of government officials in the city to make a deal. Then, just as the Jasper Evans lead comes out to suggest that Fisk is playing them, Nadeem magically gets his promotion. Meaning her offer to run the Fisk intel up the food chain was nothing more than a bluff to make Nadeem actively choose not to report it. She was more than likely setting Nadeem up to be a fall guy, so that if word got out that Fisk was using them, Nadeem would take the fall, and the press would see him as an agent struggling with debt who made a deal to get Fisk out of prison and has been covering for his illegal activities, which ultimately is the plan Fisk decides to go for after foiling Nelson & Murdock's attempt to put Nadeem before a grand jury before Vanessa decides to order Nadeem's execution.

** One could say that there was a moment of this for the audience once Karen pitched to Ellison her theory that Fisk owns the hotel. There's no way Fisk could get himself moved into a hotel that he conveniently happened to own ''without'' bribing the FBI, specifically, the agent in charge of his protective detail. Learning that Fisk paid Jasper Evans to shank him further solidifies this.

* In season 3, when Matt goes to the Bulletin to turn himself in, Dex suddenly shows up and starts attacking. Matt appears moments later with what appears to be his black costume. It seems odd that he would have had his costume nearby to change into until you notice that Matt had simply taken a black jacket and stocking from the coat rack and used that as a makeshift costume. [[https://i.redd.it/pm2s1cynjgv11.jpg]]

* Dex is so InexplicablyAwesome because of his sociopathy. As a child, he admitted to killing birds and cats for fun and he was shown to be obsessively practicing his pitches, honing it to the point he could kill his coach, so large chance he practiced with regular, everyday objects so he could kill animals or even people. As a teenager, he was encouraged to build his life upon pillars of order, so he probably put all his time and focus into training as a soldier, especially because he had nothing else to focus on and because being soldier gravitated towards killing.

* Fisk is able to so easily turn Dex into his assassin without anyone else in the FBI catching on to what he's up to. A very subtle way in which they foreshadow that the other FBI agents are actively on his payroll.

** Said files are also how Felix Manning knows enough about Karen's past to threaten her with it in season 3 when she tries to question him, and how Fisk is able to find enough information linking Matt to Daredevil.

** In episode 1 alone, Hattley finds an agent under a mountain of debt, and tells him he can't get promoted because he'd be easy pickings to be corrupted. Just a few sentences later, she sends him to the most notorious corrupter of government officials in the city to make a deal. Then, just as the Jasper Evans lead comes out to suggest that Fisk is playing them, Nadeem magically gets his promotion. Meaning her offer to run the Fisk intel up the food chain was nothing more than a bluff to make Nadeem actively choose not to report it. She was more than likely setting Nadeem up to be a fall guy, so that if word got out that Fisk was using them, Nadeem would take the fall, and the press would see him as an agent struggling with debt who made a deal to get Fisk out of prison and has been covering for his illegal activities, which ultimately is the plan Fisk decides to go for after foiling Nelson & Murdock's attempt to put Nadeem before a grand jury before Vanessa decides to order Nadeem's execution.

** One could say that there was a moment of this for the audience once we had the scene of Karen pitching to Ellison her theory that Fisk owns the hotel. There's no way Fisk could get himself moved into a hotel that he conveniently happened to own ''without'' manipulating the FBI, specifically, the agent in charge of his protective detail. Learning that Fisk paid Jasper Evans to shank him further solidifies this.

* When Nobu asks if Fisk wants to renegotiate the terms of their partnership, Fisk's expression darkens even before Wesley's translation. Later, it's revealed that Fisk has never needed Wesley's translations. Which is even more noticeable when you consider that Wesley asks Fisk "Did you get that last part?", which means that he's just asking Fisk if he understood everything Nobu said without Wesley having to water it down.

* Owlsley asking, "[[INeedAFreakingDrink Does anyone need a drink as badly as I do?]]" and yet not touching a drop of his champagne foreshadows his involvement in the poisoning.

* Originally, the Devil, or "Ha-Satan" as he was called in the Hebrew bible, could have his name translated as "The Adversary" as Father Lantom mentions, or also "The Accuser". In some scriptures, he functioned more as a NecessaryEvil, or even an Antihero, serving as God's right hand, pointing the finger and judging the guilty for their sins on His orders. In fact "Ha-Satan" wasn't really his name, but his title, and could be seen as a title used by multiple beings. Essentially, Matt has become another accuser himself.

* At the start of season 3, we see no sign of Stewart Finney or the Valdez brothers, the three inmates Fisk recruited to be his advisor (Finney) and bodyguards (the Valdez brothers) with his reserve funds. Knowing [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness what Fisk does to henchmen he has no further use for]] can give some disturbing ideas as to what may have happened to them.

* When Matt and Karen are talking in the crypt after climbing out of the coffin, Karen is standing next to an angel when she talks about Wesley, but when Matt mentions his plan to kill Fisk, she effectively crosses over to the side of the devil and reveals her past to Matt. In the Bible, angels are soldiers and protectors of God. They are part of what is called the heavenly host, or God’s Army. Michaal, leader of God’s army, for example is seen as the perfect holy warrior and protector of the Catholic Church. Note here that that's Matt’s middle name. Karen, in Matt’s mind, goes from the modern conception of the angel ie innocent, to an actual angel. Karen is a warrior and a protector. Especially in this scene. Angels are often used as messengers from God. Karen’s message is “thou shalt not kill”. She is protecting him, because she knows that killing Fisk would shatter Matt. Karen is Matt’s angel, in the biblical sense. She is protecting and guiding him. She does all the things angels actually do. She is his better angels.

** As a fan pointed Matt recounting of the story of Job leaves out a few details such as how it wasn’t God who inflicted all those pains onto Job but the Devil (though God did give Satan permission in order to test Jobs faith) and that in the end God did reward Job ten times after Job proved successful in keeping his faith. Why is this left out? Because Matt has gone through the suffering part but he has not yet experienced the reward. At the end of the season when Matt manages to defeat Fisk without sacrificing his morals his payoff is well earned: He has his friends back, his partner law firm with Foggy is starting back up, his reputation is presumably cleared by the FBI and he seems to be on the verge of a reconnect with his mother. In short just like Job, Matt did suffer but was also rewarded for his suffering.

* When Matt is overhearing Nadeem make a phone call to his wife prior to the grand jury, it's a moment very much like the final phone call Jack made to Sister Maggie before his final fight. It's clear that Nadeem is meant to emulate Jack: both being fathers, wanting to provide for their families, wanting their sons to be proud of them, to not slip into mediocrity. Good men doing the wrong things for what they believed to be good reasons (Jack taking dives for money, Nadeem using Fisk as an informant to nab dangerous criminals), eventually coming to their senses and finally doing something right but sabotaging any future with their sons in the process, leaving final requests to the mothers of their sons to take care of them, and then walking knowingly toward death.

** In fact, the hits to organized crime that happened across the interceding shows between ''Daredevil'' season 1 and ''Daredevil'' season 3 might very well have been why Fisk decided that his newest racket was to extort protection money from other gangs that have taken losses/experienced increased police attention. Which might very well explain why Rosalie Carbone was among those rounded up for the restaurant meeting: she lost a considerable amount of territory in the events of ''Luke Cage'' season 2, between Mariah Dillard's death and Luke Cage creating a crime-free zone in Harlem. When Foggy presents his theory to Karen, notice that the other gangs outlined in his napkin diagram are organizations that have suffered from vigilantism: one can make out names like the Golden Tigers and Yangshi Gonshi (decimated by Davos in ''Iron Fist'' season 2), and the Mexican cartel (decimated by Frank Castle in ''Daredevil'' season 2).

* While it's never dwelled on, Reyes getting murdered is going to have some very negative effects in the long-run. As any viewer of ''Law and Order'' knows, if a district attorney or cop shows any kind of corruption, all of their cases and convictions will be reviewed and many of them might be overturned. Meaning that when Reyes' corruption comes to light, lots of criminal convictions will likely get overturned on technicalities. If Fisk was one of those that Reyes prosecuted, he might be out of jail much sooner than people might expect.

* Early in season 3 episode 6, Karen is seen sitting down for a conference meeting at the ''Bulletin''. Ellison makes a comment about how their health insurance was recently slashed, joking, “I recommend that you don’t get sick.” This is the same day as Dex's attack on the ''Bulletin'', where multiple people are killed or severely injured. A few episodes later, Nadeem learns that Fisk manipulated his sister-in-law's insurance coverage to gain leverage on him. Meaning Dex's attack on the ''Bulletin'' may not have only been to discredit Matt and kill Jasper Evans, but also open up opportunities to get leverage over journalists at a paper that he just recently lost his leverage in (after Caldwell had been arrested). If enough time had lapsed, it's entirely possible Fisk would have been able to use a wounded reporter's inability to pay their medical bills to blackmail them into spying on Karen for him.
* Late in season 3, Foggy finds out that his brother was tricked by Fisk into committing fraud, so that Fisk could have something to blackmail Foggy with. Then you remember that while Fisk is going after Matt hard at this point, he did say to Matt that he'd destroy the lives of both Matt and Foggy when he got out. He hadn't been making an idle threat, and Matt's attempt to get him to leave Foggy alone probably gave Fisk ''more'' incentive to hurt Foggy.

* When Vanessa first drinks the poisoned champagne, you can see her react to the taste and glance down at the glass as if it has an unexpected flavor.

* Poisoning the champagne to kill Vanessa and look like an unsuccessful hit on Fisk is a pretty slick BatmanGambit on Owlsley's part when you consider that Fisk admits to being uninterested in wine, while Vanessa is.

* In the beginning of second season, Castle has Matt at gunpoint — and yet it takes him several seconds to actually shoot Matt in the head. Halfway through next episode, Potter examines Matt's helmet (that was broken by the bullet) and says basically two things: that shot could have easily been lethal and it just might have been a warning one. That's right, Castle probably tried to aim for a non-lethal shot (though it still left Matt with serious injuries). And why did Matt end up in this position? Because, as Creator/CharlieCox put it in [[https://youtu.be/xoOZWkhqTr8?t=28m16s one interview]], defeating Wilson Fisk has caused him to become more arrogant, to the point of having some feeling of invincibility. Foggy had a point when he told Matt "We're talking about a squad of trained killers loose on the streets. Not the kind of guys you challenge to a fist fight in your underwear."

** When Stick first appears in his titular episode of season 1, he scolds Matt for having too much luxury in life. He tells him he is weakening himself and coddling himself with his silk sheets and furniture and that it’s distracting. Basically Stick is the voice in Matt’s head that doesn't let him enjoy anything. The very episode after this opens with Wilson Fisk going through his MorningRoutine, showing off the insanely luxurious lifestyle this criminal has, picking out his suit, and chopping up his green onions to sprinkle onto his omelette in his fancy apartment at his giant table. Fisk is a powerful opponent and he uses people’s comforts and support systems to manipulate them. He goes after people’s loved ones and homes yet he is such a delicate guy that if you interrupt his dinner, he will take your head off with a car door. He is weak in that way. He loses it when his routine gets interrupted. In a way, Fisk proves Stick's point: Not having anything to lose does make you stronger by virtue of removing weaknesses that can be exploited. Fisk's weakness was Vanessa, as she led Gao and Leland to think Fisk had become a bit of a softie and they tried to have her killed in a misguided attempt to get him back on track, which ended up with Fisk killing Leland and later getting arrested.

* On further viewings of Matt's chance encounter with Wilson Fisk at Vanessa's gallery, the more it becomes clear that the enemy they see in each other is different. Fisk hates the Devil of Hell's Kitchen as a business threat. Not until the finale does he see him as a person threat when Matt foiled his attempt to escape police custody. On the flip side, Matt hates Fisk more than just a business man. He hates Fisk as Wilson and as the crime lord. Once he's arrested, Fisk has no identity to hide behind now. Fisk killed Urich and directly was the cause of Claire's and Karen's suffering. Matt sees and knows Fisk for who he really is. But Fisk just hates the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, not the man behind the mask.

* Late in season 3, Foggy finds out that his brother was tricked by Fisk into committing fraud, so that Fisk could have something to blackmail Foggy with. Then you remember that when Fisk was threatening Matt in prison back in season 2, he said he'd destroy the lives of both Matt and Foggy when he got out. He hadn't been making an idle threat.

* In Fisk's last scene in his brief season 2 arc, he's shown in his cell asking for his file on Matt Murdock. Fisk has recognized Matt's fighting style, and is beginning to connect the lawyer and the vigilante.

* During the beginning of the season, Nadeem promises his son Sami to make a pool in the backyard so Sami and his friends can party in it. As the season progresses, a hole is being dug in the backyard, presumably for the pool and using the money Nadeem is earning from his work with Fisk and his promotion. By the end of the season, he is shot dead by Dex and he falls into the hole. Nadeem literally dug his own grave by working with Fisk.

* Dex is so InexplicablyAwesome because of his sociopathy. As a child, he admitted to killing birds and cats for fun and he was shown to be obsessively practicing his pitches, honing it to the point he could kill his coach, so large chance he practiced with regular, everyday objects so he could kill animals or even people. As a teenager, he was encouraged to build his life upon pillars of order, so he probably put all his time and focus into training as a soldier.

* Dex is so InexplicablyAwesome because of his sociopathy. As a child, he admitted to killing birds and cats for fun and he was shown to be obsessively practicing his pitches, honing it to the point he could kill his coach, so large cance he practiced with regular, everyday objects so he could kill animals. As a teenager, he was encouraged to build his life upon pillars of order, so he probably put all his time and focus into training as a soldier.

* There's a running theme of abandonment with Matt. His father abandoned him (in a way), Stick abandoned him, Elektra abandoned him, and depending on what Matt knows or believes, his mother abandoned him. That informs a lot on how he deals with people in the present. Subconsciously, Matt expects people to abandon him so he sometimes pushes people away, or doesn’t fight as hard to keep them when they decide to leave. Obviously Matt has many, many, many layers, but this is noticeable on a rewatch: it's likely the reason he doesn’t fight harder to keep Foggy and Karen from leaving later in the season, or Claire. Inside, there's a small part of him that expects them to leave, but at the end, he of course realizes he needs Foggy and Karen in his life, and goes to reconcile with Karen.

** Remember that every time Kevin is mentioned in conversation throughout the season, she gives pause or becomes a bit distant. She’s obviously still incredibly affected by it. In an emotional moment like a car accident and a failure to redeem someone you reserve into emotion. She was very shaken and absolutely was reminded of her brothers death at the accident scene as well as her failure to stop Frank from seeking out his vengeance.

* In season 2 episode 12, when Karen's being held captive by Schoonover, Frank comes to save her by t-boning her car with a pickup truck. Karen is left with a nasty cut on her forehead from hitting it against the driver's side door. Afterwards, she crawls out of the car and collapses, very much in pain and shock. As the flashback to her backstory later reveals, Karen’s reaction to the car accident with Frank and the visible, visceral trauma of this scene, it is all rooted in the accident that killed Kevin. In both instances, you see her staring at the wreckage of the car. The devastation makes a lot more sense with her backstory, with what she went through with her brother. The guilt. The pain. The loneliness. Her past given to us in heartbreaking glimpses.

** ''Dex actually cannot defeat Fisk''. Fisk is bulky enough that he can tank right through Dex's projectile attacks and strong enough to inflict some real damage; notice that it was ''Fisk'' who took Dex out of the fight, not Matt, who...
** ''...had probably been planning this the entire time''. Matt is fast enough and hits hard enough that he can handily beat Fisk in close quarters, just like in Season 1, so he knows that all he has to do is get Dex out of the way and he wins. Watch the fight again, and notice how Matt only proactively goes after Fisk, and only to keep him from escaping; the only time he engages Dex is when Dex is threatening Vanessa, the only noncombatant in the room. He clearly intended for Dex and Fisk to focus on each other first, let the latter take out the former, then move in and finish the job. So much gets made of Daredevil's fighting skills and enhanced senses that it's easy to forget he's pretty damn intelligent, too.

-->'''Matt Murdock:''' ''[laughs]'' [[HereWeGoAgain Yeah, here it comes]]...\\

-->“You run around this city in a pair of little boy's pajamas and a mask. You go home at night, right? Take that mask off, maybe you think... it wasn't you who did those things, maybe it was somebody else. Well, see, soldiers... we don't wear masks, yeah? We don't get that privilege.