In the new Disney+ show Daredevil, Fisk is the mayor of New York. He has an anti-vigilante task force that is apprehending and putting vigilantes—and people who help them—in cages, and basically making New York a living hell. If we are to assume that, in a superhero fantasy world, ‘good’ billionaires exist (like Iron Man, Batman, Swordsman, Kate Bishop, Green Arrow, Iron Fist, Blue Beetle, Mr. Terrific, the Wasp, Angel, Emma Frost, Mr. Fantastic, Nightwing, Professor X, Sunspot, Black Panther, Aquaman, and Namor), then that means some billionaires and royalty aren’t terrible people. If that’s the case, then why not fight fire with fire and have Daredevil get help from millionaires and billionaires who support vigilantes and hate Fisk? Even in Daredevil Season 1, some rich people hated Fisk. Why not have them use their wealth to fight the system—for example, paying off jury members, judges, or cops, or even using their influence to make sure Fisk never gets into office again? Why not just do that?
I have not seen it, so this is just based off of my general understanding of the daredevil universe.
If he believes it’s wrong, why would he do it? Classic comic books are like morality plays and the point of this arc is that voter manipulation is wrong. A real person might do it in return, but Daredevil is an archetype, not a person. He does The Right Thing™.
I don’t think he has the contacts to do that. Daredevil is generally considered a small super hero, he works in Manhattan only and didn’t generally run in the same social circles as the Tony Starks of the world.
It also potentially puts him into a compromising position. What happens if the billionaire wants something to happen that will harm Daredevil’s community?
Good rich people? Do they even exist in fiction?
I mean obviously they are portreyed as good in fiction, hence the long list of examples.
as far as the answer, that’s the universal problem with mixed world mixed stregnth superheros to begin with. Same problem why the green arrow can still be dealing with non powered regular schmos with the flash and superman in their universe able to literally reach the city in seconds and deal with all the problems.
Even when the wealthy are shown as wicked gangsters, like in the Sopranos, or Yellowstone, it’s still glorified.
Pretty sure they only exist in fiction
Because tv series need drama and suspense and writers are lazy. In 9 out of 10 series the suspense is created mainly by the main character being an idiot making obviously wrong choices.
Real life logic ≠ comic book logic
I’ve been mad all season tbh, in my head Fisk has got to be doing crazy propaganda work behind the scenes
