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* BluntYes: When Foggy asks Matt if he blew up the buildings and shot the cops:
-->'''Matt:''' You really even need to ask that?
-->'''Foggy:''' ''(Without hesitating)'' Yeah, I think I do.
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Not So Different has been renamed Not So Different Remark, and requires the characters to acknowledge the similarities in-universe.


* NotSoDifferent: Matt tells Foggy "We don't live in a world that's fair. We live in this one. And I'm doing everything I can to make it a better place." This disturbs Foggy because that's exactly what Wilson Fisk keeps saying. In this case, Foggy is concluding that Matt's vigilantism makes him no better than Fisk.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Matt tells Foggy "We don't live in a world that's fair. We live in this one. And I'm doing everything I can to make it a better place." This disturbs Foggy because that's exactly what Wilson Fisk keeps saying. In this case, Foggy is concluding that Matt's vigilantism makes him no better than Fisk.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a flashback to Matt and Foggy's college days, Foggy references that [[ComicBook/{{Elektra}} "Greek girl"]] that Matt dated. At the time it was just a MythologyGag, but it foreshadows Elektra's appearance in Season 2.



* MythologyGag: In a flashback to Matt and Foggy's college days, Foggy references that [[ComicBook/{{Elektra}} "Greek girl"]] that Matt dated. At the time it was just a gag, but come season 2, it [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] Elektra's appearance in this very show.
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* AnswerCut: When Foggy asks WasItAllALie, we cut to Foggy and Matt sharing a drunken FriendshipMoment at college.
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* HappyFlashback: To Matt and Foggy's college days.
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* SingleTear: Matt weeps a single tear when Foggy demands to know if [[BrokenPedestal he committed the cop-killings and bombings the Devil of Hell's Kitchen is accused of.]]
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** When Matt says he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy realises that's [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing how he knew Karen was innocent]]. He also mentions that Clare was hot adding bitterly "But I guess you knew that, right?" a reference to how in the pilot episode he couldn't understand how Matt always seemed to know there was an attractive woman in the room.

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** When Matt says he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy realises that's [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing how he knew Karen was innocent]]. He also mentions that Clare was hot hot, adding bitterly "But I guess you already knew that, right?" a reference to how in the pilot episode he couldn't understand how Matt always seemed to know there was an attractive woman in the room.

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* CallBack: When Matt says he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy realises that's [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing how he knew Karen was innocent]].

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When Matt says he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy realises that's [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing how he knew Karen was innocent]].innocent]]. He also mentions that Clare was hot adding bitterly "But I guess you knew that, right?" a reference to how in the pilot episode he couldn't understand how Matt always seemed to know there was an attractive woman in the room.
** After refusing to answer Karen's call, Foggy asks if that's what Matt does when his friends [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E2CutMan want to go out drinking with him]] or are worried about him [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E6Condemned because bombs are going off]].
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* GuiltByAssociation: Foggy points out that if Matt is arrested, no-one will believe that Foggy and Karen didn't know about his vigilante activities.

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* CallBack: When Matt says he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy realises that's [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing how he knew Karen was innocent]].



* TranslationTrainWreck: Foggy tries to speak Spanish and repeatedly says he and Matt will be great "avocados" instead of "abogados" (lawyers).

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* TranslationTrainWreck: Foggy tries to speak Spanish GratuitousSpanish and repeatedly says he and Matt will be great "avocados" instead of "abogados" (lawyers).
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* FanDisservice: A shirtless Matt with his bruising and wounds, some of which are still bleeding even after being stitched up.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Foggy joined the Punjabi language class in the hope of hooking up with a hot Indian girl he was sweet on, but apparently didn't learn any of the actual language.


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* TranslationTrainWreck: Foggy tries to speak Spanish and repeatedly says he and Matt will be great "avocados" instead of "abogados" (lawyers).


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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Foggy reaction to being told his friend fought a ninja and was taught martial arts by a blind old man.
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* BreakingTheFellowship: The episode ends with Foggy leaving the partnership.
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* BewareTheMindReader: When Matt reveals he's a LivingLieDetector, Foggy is freaked out over the invasion of privacy. Foggy then realises that Matt must have known ''every time'' he lied to him, and just played along.
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* InVinoVeritas: Matt almost lets slip about his super senses when Foggy asks if he gets disoriented while drunk.
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** Foggy at college is enthusiastic about them pairing up like [[Film/TopGun Maverick and Goose]], despite Matt [[AnalogyBackfire pointing out that Goose died]].
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Foggy gushes about how handsome Matt is, causing him to be MistakenForGay before he clarifies that he's actually enthusiastic about Matt as a wingman for helping pick up a better class of girl.

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* ThatCameOutWrong: Foggy gushes about how handsome Matt is, causing him to be MistakenForGay before he clarifies that he's actually enthusiastic about Matt as a wingman RomanticWingman for helping pick up a better class of girl.
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* HopeSpot: Ben's wife appears to recover and encourages him to keep fighting as a reporter. She then goes blank for a moment, then responds to Ben as if she's just woken up, having forgotten the conversation she's just had. Then his nurse friend informs him that the extension she wrangled for him has just run out.
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** After calling out Matt for lying to him, Foggy chooses to lie to Karen to keep Matt's secret. Foggy is rightly infuriated at being forced to make that choice.
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** Foggy is furious that his friend who inspired him to give up a lucrative legal career to act as a poverty lawyer for purely ethical reasons, turns out to be inflicting vigilante justice without trial and using his super senses to spy on people without their consent.
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* BoringButPractical: Matt just got the articles of his superhero costume from the internet.

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* BoringButPractical: Matt just got bought the articles parts of his superhero costume from the internet.internet rather than make it himself.
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* ArmyOfLawyers: The lawyers for Roxxon Oil (including Matt and Foggy) take up the length of a boardroom table, arrayed against the single lawyer of the complainant.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Turns out the junkie who killed Elena fell off a rooftop. Matt assures Foggy that this is Fisk's work, but naturally Foggy has trouble believing him.
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* BoringButPractical: Matt just got the articles of his superhero costume from the internet.

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* TenMinuteRetirement: Ben decides to give up the investigation because his wife needs personal care and he can't afford a proper hospice. Karen coaxes him into checking out an aged care home and talking to a resident. Ben doesn't see the point as the place is far too expensive...until he realises the resident he's talking to is the mother of Wilson Fisk.



* LeaveYourQuestTest: Ben decides to give up the investigation because his wife needs personal care and he can't afford a proper hospice. Karen coaxes him into checking out an aged care home and talking to a resident. Ben doesn't see the point as the place is far too expensive...until he realises the resident he's talking to is the mother of Wilson Fisk.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Foggy snaps at Karen over the phone when she offers to come around and help after Matt's 'accident', telling her he's handling it and she needs to stay at the office.
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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: In a flashback Foggy shows his willingness to pass up an offer from the prestigious law firm they're working at [[FriendshipMoment to go into business with Matt instead]] by emptying an archive box of legal papers and declaring he's going to stuff it full of bagels from the firm's canteen because they won't be able to afford their own from now on. In the present day Foggy throws their "Nelson & Murdock, Attorney At Law" sign in the trash basket, packs his stuff into another archive box and leaves.
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* LeaveYourQuestTest: Ben decides to give up the investigation because his wife needs personal care and he can't afford a proper hospice. Karen coaxes him into checking out an aged care home and talking to a resident. Ben doesn't see the point as the place is far too expensive...until he realises the resident he's talking to is the mother of Wilson Fisk.
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* AfterActionPatchup: Subverted; the patching-up was done by Claire offscreen and we're just seeing Matt recovering; and rather than the usual bonding it leads to two old friends being estranged.


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* BloodKnight: Foggy doesn't buy Matt's story that hearing a child being molested drove him to vigilantism, pointing out that he would have had to have maintained his martial arts skills all the years since Stick taught him. Matt admits he's not driven to vigilantism; he does it because he wants to.


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* ThatCameOutWrong: Foggy gushes about how handsome Matt is, causing him to be MistakenForGay before he clarifies that he's actually enthusiastic about Matt as a wingman for helping pick up a better class of girl.
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* UndressingTheUnconscious: Matt wakes to finds himself only in his briefs, as he had just received the beating of a lifetime in the last episode, and his friends had to undress him off-screen to treat his wounds.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Matt's first act as Daredevil was to beat an abusive father so badly that he spent a month in the hospital eating through a straw.

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