History Recap / Daredevil2015S1E5WorldOnFire

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Fisk presents himself to Vanessa as this. He genuinely wants to help the city, and is doing whatever it takes no matter how cruel and ruthless. It doesn't help that Matt is suggested to be NotSoDifferent in that way by Claire.

* CovertPervert: Foggy claims that Matt is always getting pretty girls to let him touch their face to get an idea of what they look like. Foggy is confused as to how Matt always seems to know the pretty ones in advance.

* BilingualBonus: Despite Karen's claims that she only speaks Spanish at a high-school level, Deborah Ann Woll's command of it is quite impressive, using a vocabulary beyond what most high school classes would teach. Conversely, Charlie Cox's rapid-fire Spanish isn't actually that good.

* InternalAffairs: After Blake and Hoffman kill Piotr, Fisk makes the problem go away by bribing the Internal Affairs investigators into squashing the investigation.

* DueToTheDead: Vladmir washes his brother's decapitated body.

* SuicideAttack: The mule sent to the Russians by Gao is carrying a bomb in his backpack that destroys the Russians just as they're assembling to go to war. Similar bombs destroy three other assembly points, removing Vladmir's forces at a stroke.

** Karen and Foggy accept Mrs. Cardenas invitation, which they play off as a date. As Karen is inviting Foggy to touch her face and tell her what it feels like, a [[MomentKiller bomb goes off]]

* SuicideAttack: The mule sent to the Russians by Gao is carrying a bomb in his backpack that destroys his men just as they're assembling to go to war. Similar bombs destroy three other assembly points, removing Vladmir's forces at a stroke.

* MythologyGag: Vanessa tells Fisk a story of how a prince dressed in all white with an ascot tried to seduce her. Fisk comments that his attire was a bit much. Fisk in the comics is portrayed as a VillainInAWhiteSuit more often than not.

** For a given value of "stupid." Vanessa can pretend like she doesn't know what Wilson does, but she knows. She understands very much. And when he tells her why the buildings on fire have been removed from the city, all she can say is, "...Good."

* TranslationYes: During an underground meeting, Madame Gao laughs and says a long string of untranslated Chinese on seeing Fisk. Wesley just says she's happy to see him.

* HollywoodLaw: {{Justified}}. Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman, two corrupt cops working for Fisk, shoot and kill a Russian thug in a precinct interrogation room for speaking Fisk's name. If it weren't for the fact that Fisk has the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau in his pocket, Blake and Hoffman would have been placed on modified assignment and administrative leave while an investigation was conducted into their actions. Because of Fisk's connections, Blake and Hoffman remain on active-duty, allowing them to participate with the other corrupt cops to kill the survivors of Fisk's bombings of the Russians' hideouts. It's lampshaded by Ben Urich when he sees Blake and Hoffman assuming command of the scene where Matt has holed up with Vladimir and a police officer who stumbled upon them, and comments "Detectives! I'd thought IAB would have you riding a desk after that thing with the Russians at the station", to which Blake says "You see what's going on here? No one's riding a desk tonight."

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Fisk decides to take care of two problems by framing the Devil for Anatoly's death. He doesn't really intend either to eliminate the other, though. He just wants the Russians distracted while he takes care of them.

* MythologyGag: Vanessa tells Fisk a story of how a prince dressed in all white with an ascot tried to seduce her. Fisk comments that his attire was a bit much. This was almost always Fisk's attire in the comics.

* MythologyGag: Vanessa tells Fisk a story of how a prince [[ManInWhite dressed in all white]] with an ascot tried to seduce her. Fisk comments that his attire was a bit much. This was almost always Fisk's attire in the comics.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karen, commenting on Landman & Zack's lobby:

* MythologyGag: Vanessa tells Fisk a story of how a prince [[ManInWhite dressed in all white]] with an ascot tried to seduce her. Fisk comments that his attire was a bit much. This was almost always Fisk's attire in the comics, and also foreshadowing, since Fisk will be adapting [[https://i.redd.it/1vps7a9jtl601.jpg such a look]] for season 3.

* TactfulTranslation: From the same meeting, Fisk informs the other crime lords that he killed Anatoly:

* VillainsOutShopping: Or rather, out dining. The second dinner date for Wilson and Vanessa goes much better, explosive demolition of several buildings notwithstanding.

* AndThisIsFor: While wailing on Vladimir, Matt states "This is for Claire". Just before he can land the next punch, however, the police arrive.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Piotr is in the interrogation room being grilled by Blake and Hoffman, and he tells them Fisk's name, and wants to tell them everything he knows in exchange for a plea deal. Blake and Hoffman kill him, leaving Vladimir with one less associate to say Fisk's name to.

* MythologyGag: Vanessa tells Wilson a story of how a prince [[ManInWhite dressed in all white]] with an ascot tried to seduce her. Wilson comments that his attire was a bit much. This was almost always The Kingpin's attire in the comics.
* NominalImportance: Repeatedly {{invoked}} for Mrs. Cardenas. Foggy, Karen and Matt repeatedly refer to her by name, of course, and Foggy ''insists'' on it when dealing with Marci.

* BilingualBonus: Karen claims that she only speaks Spanish at a high-school level, Deborah Ann Woll's command of it is quite impressive, using a vocabulary beyond what most high school classes would teach. Conversely, Charlie Cox's rapid-fire Spanish isn't actually that good.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karen, upon Landman & Zack's lobby:

* {{Gorn}}: As if to make up for not showing Anatoly's beheading in detail in the previous episode, now we get some shots of bits of bone and ''goop'' being sprayed with a high-pressure hose off the car's step and of Anatoly's headless body.

* HypocriticalHumor: When Fisk is telling the other crime lords that he killed Anatoly, and then says that they'll be eliminating the rest of the Russians to keep Vladimir from retaliating:

* TactfulTranslation: From the same meeting, Fisk informs the other crime lords he killed Anatoly. This happens:

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karen, impressed by Landman & Zack's building:

* OhCrap: Piotr's face when he realizes that the police detectives he just told Fisk's name to are in fact working for Fisk, and are fully intent on killing him for doing so.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: For a given value of "stupid." Vanessa can pretend like she doesn't know what Wilson does, but she knows. She understands very much. And when he tells her why the buildings on fire have been removed from the city, all she can say is, "...Good."

* {{Gorn}}: As if to make up for not showing Anatoli's beheading in detail in the previous episode, now we get some shots of bits of bone and ''goop'' being sprayed off the car's step and of Anatoli's headless body.
* HypocriticalHumor:
-->'''Fisk''': We all knew that we would need to eliminate the Russians one day. They were too unpredictable.\\
'''Leland''': This from a guy taking heads off with a car door.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Fisk decides to take care of two problems by framing Murdock for the murder of Anatoli. He doesn't really intend either to eliminate the other, though. He just wants the Russians distracted while he takes care of them.
* ManlyTears: Vladimir, on seeing Anatoli's headless body.

* PoliceBrutality: Detectives Blake and Hoffman murder a Russian criminal in their interrogation room for giving up Fisk's name.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Marci tries to condescendingly convince Foggy to drop his current case, where Mrs. Cardenas is worried about her and several others being evicted from their building: