Marvel Is Letting Its Villains Be Haters Again

The just-ended Daredevil: Born Again focuses on Matt Murdock’s ongoing clash with the Kingpin, but it’s another major rogue that sets things in motion. Minutes into the pilot, Wilson Bethel’s Bullseye shows up, kills Foggy with a single gunshot, and proceeds to wreak havoc inside of Josie’s Bar. When he’s not throwing a lot of knives at Daredevil, he’s throwing knives into civilians, knocking them out with cue balls to the skull, or just punching them in the stomach. Many of these could’ve been easily bypassed while still keeping Daredevil on his toes, but among his many skills and traits, ol’ Bullseye is vindictive and such a hater. To be a Marvel fan is to have mixed feelings about the MCU’s villain output. For every Killmonger or Vulture, you’ve got a Cassandra Nova, Iron Monger, or whatever Kang was teed up to be. After a certain point, the baddies stopped being simple foils for the good guys and became saddled with attempts at being topical or thematically relevant in some respec ... Read full article.