Turk Barrett is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character is usually depicted in stories featuring Daredevil , in which his inept schemes are played as comic relief .
158-724: Barrett was a recurring character in the Marvel shows Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , The Defenders , and The Punisher set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , portrayed by Rob Morgan . Turk Barrett first appears in Daredevil #69 (Oct. 1970) and was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan . Turk was a small-time crook operating in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan . Roscoe Sweeney once sent Barrett to pay Jack Murdock to throw
316-526: A Marvel Knights merchandise program was created to support the series, which creates new opportunities for individual product lines and collector focused products. Licensing partners wanted to pair up with Marvel, despite this not being a film project, given its previous successes. An update for the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions was released in November 2015, featuring a six-part story quest involving Daredevil and Jessica Jones along with
474-425: A bank robbery that a clone of Madame Web foresaw, Prowler returns to New U Technologies to stop a fight between clones of Jack O'Lantern , Kangaroo , Massacre , Mirage , Montana , and Tarantula . Jackal reminds Hobie that he was brought back to keep the reanimated supervillains in line and that he is to warn him when he leaves the building, so his technology does not go out into the world. Knowing how annoying it
632-583: A bit of time at Josie's Bar in New York City. His criminal associate Grotto often reluctantly participates in Turk's schemes. Turk once mugged someone at Christmas and intended to use the Yuletide attire of Santa Claus to swindle charitable donations from others. In this instance, when he was confronted by Matt Murdock, Turk stabbed the disoriented Murdock seriously, almost fatally wounding Matt. During
790-574: A boxing match. Barrett was associated with a street gang called the Thunderbolts. Barrett also worked for Eric Slaughter. Barrett once stole Mauler 's armor from Aaron Soames to confront Daredevil , but he is defeated in seconds during their confrontation. Turk later stole Stilt-Man 's armor, offering his services but the Kingpin declined to employ "idiots", and Wilbur Day contacted Daredevil with knowledge of how to defeat him. Turk has spent quite
948-506: A brother of the late Candace Miller as a favor for Misty, encounters Turk talking to an undercover police officer at a seedy dive bar in Harlem, and interrogates him for information on a recent string of murders that the Hand have been committing in Harlem. Turk reveals to Luke that the killings are the work of a new player named "White Hat" (later revealed to be Sowande, one of the five leaders of
1106-419: A cape which contains a network of pneumatic filaments which expand with air to give it a rigid structure, allowing him to glide for short distances. A technological genius, Hobie Brown has also designed the cybernetically-controlled wing harness used by Hornet (Peter Parker during Identity Crisis ), although he himself was unable to use it due to the weight. He is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, possessing
1264-664: A career as a construction worker. Hobie began to look after his 'little brother' Manuel "Manny" Lopez as a part of the Big Brother Program. When Manny was murdered, Prowler believed the White Tiger (Hector Ayala) was responsible and attempted to bring White Tiger to justice. Prowler attempted to join the super-hero group the Defenders , only to be tossed into the harbor by Valkyrie , at which point he decided to retire his identity. However, his Prowler equipment
1422-419: A conspiracy of the criminal underworld being led by Wilson Fisk . In the second season , Murdock continues to balance life as a lawyer and Daredevil, while crossing paths with Frank Castle / Punisher , a vigilante with far deadlier methods, as well as the return of an ex-girlfriend— Elektra Natchios . In the third season , after Fisk is released from prison, Murdock, who has been missing for months following
1580-570: A consumer insights company, released data that examined the "social-media buzz" for the series to try to correlate it with potential viewership. The data showed that when the first season premiered in April 2015, the season had nearly 275,000 Twitter and Instagram posts regarding it. For when the second season was released in March 2016, the posts had declined to just over 200,000, and for the third season, looking at data gathered halfway through October 2018,
1738-471: A dinner, following Miles' successful scholarship achievements. During the " Gang War " storyline, Aaron Davis is approached by Hobie Brown in his Hornet attire where he had heard about his exploits as Prowler. Upon giving Aaron a copy of one of his Prowler costumes, Hobie asks him to find out what Hobgoblin is planning for Brooklyn. If he slips up, Hobie will repossess the Prowler identity from Aaron. Amidst
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#17327724518821896-517: A dumpster after scaring him into giving up Diamondback's warehouse. In season two , Turk is revealed to have opened up a marijuana shop. Luke and Danny Rand visit Turk at his shop and intimidate him into giving up the location of a warehouse operated by the Stylers working for Bushmaster who are growing his nightshade. Turk makes an appearance in The Defenders . Luke, seeking to help out
2054-426: A face that is intended to match the bottom half of an actor's face, "because half of his face has to be covered and has its own expression and the actor's face is going to be doing something else". For the billy clubs used by Daredevil in the series, which were designed by Andy Park , "There was a discussion early in the process, because Charlie Cox [and his stunt double] Chris Brewster are both right handed, of having
2212-416: A format which has been used for other Netflix original series . Daredevil was the first Netflix original series to receive its Descriptive Video Service audio description track. Despite being branded as a "Netflix Original", Daredevil was licensed to Netflix from Disney. Daredevil was removed from Netflix on March 1, 2022, along with the other Marvel Netflix series , due to Netflix's license for
2370-759: A global franchise with Spider-Man officially acting as a "bodyguard" as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, Hobie Brown is hired to act as Spider-Man in situations where the public would expect to see Peter and Spider-Man in the same place. Following the fight against Zodiac 's Pisces Sect, Peter tells Hobie to change into his Prowler costume and that they'll retrieve the Webware together before Zodiac undoes his encryption. Before The Clone Conspiracy storyline and crossover, wanting to know more about New U Technologies, Peter sent Prowler to infiltrate. He ended up encountering Electro (Francine Frye). Prowler
2528-505: A green and purple battle suit with a cape and clawed gauntlets. The original version, Hobie Brown , was created by Stan Lee , John Buscema and Jim Mooney , based on a drawing by 13-year-old John Romita Jr. , who also named the character. The character was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #78 (November 1969) as an adversary to the superhero Spider-Man . An African-American teenage prodigy, Hobie created
2686-690: A green belt in taekwondo . In 2022, Screen Rant included Prowler in their "10 Best Marvel Characters Who Made Their Debut In Spider-Man Comics" list. An alternate universe variant of Hobie Brown from Earth-58163 appears in House of M . This version is a member of Luke Cage 's resistance. A zombified alternate universe variant of Hobie Brown / Prowler from Earth-2149 appears in Marvel Zombies . An alternate universe variant of Hobie Brown from Earth-65 appears in Spider-Gwen . This version
2844-465: A gritty, 1970s New York feel for the show. We love the idea of beauty and the decay of the city, and Hell's Kitchen being a place that's both beautiful and gritty at the same time. And that's why Matt Murdock loves it and wants to protect it." The series' action sequences took inspiration from The Raid films. Matthew J. Lloyd was the director of photography for the first season, Martin Ahlgren for
3002-429: A gun to John Healy, one of Fisk's assassins, only for the gun to jam on Healy during the hit despite Turk promising this would not be an issue. After Fisk decapitates Anatoly Ranskahov for interrupting Fisk's date with Vanessa Marianna , James Wesley has Turk pass a message on to Anatoly's brother Vladimir to provoke him into assembling his men at key locations where Fisk then proceeds to attack with suicide bombers. In
3160-553: A level based on Hell's Kitchen. Daredevil was released on the streaming service Netflix , in all territories where it is available, in Ultra HD 4K and High-dynamic-range video (HDR). The first two seasons were enhanced to be available in HDR after their initial release by post-production vendor Deluxe . The episodes for each season were released simultaneously, as opposed to a serialized format, to encourage binge-watching ,
3318-573: A meeting Cottonmouth is having with Tone, Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez in order to ask Tone for the money promised, Cottonmouth throws Tone off the roof and then sends Turk off empty-handed. Turk doesn't appear again until late in the season, when he is seen doing business with Diamondback . He is established to be versed in Greek mythology as he has to explain to Zip what Diamondback means when describing his recent falling out with Shades as " Icarus crap". Later, Luke tracks Turk down and traps him in
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#17327724518823476-469: A miniseries based on the Defenders . This format was chosen due to the success of The Avengers (2012), for which the characters of Iron Man , The Hulk , Captain America , and Thor were all introduced separately before being teamed up in that film. In December, Goddard was officially hired as executive producer and showrunner for Daredevil , and his production company Goddard Textiles produced
3634-563: A movie a couple of years ago, long after the Affleck movie . But what we all sort of realized is that, this movie doesn't want to cost $ 200 million. The thing about Matt Murdock is, he's not saving the world. He's just keeping his corner clean. So it would feel wrong to have spaceships crashing in the middle of the city. But because of that, Marvel on the movie side is not in the business of making $ 25 million movies. They're going big, as they should". Marvel Studios eventually decided that
3792-460: A new antagonist in the fourth before a final showdown between Daredevil and Fisk in the fifth. Oleson expanded that it was planned for Typhoid Mary to serve as the antagonist for the fourth season, along with the return of the Owl , with Bullseye reappearing in the fifth season. That same month, Hulu 's senior vice president of originals Craig Erwich said that the streaming service was open to reviving
3950-407: A new series, Daredevil: Born Again (2025), which is in development for Disney+; Born Again will also see Woll, Henson, Zurer, Bernthal, and Bethel reprise their roles. The first season sees lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock use his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil while uncovering
4108-576: A no-nonsense dramatic flair, Daredevil excels as an effective superhero origin story, a gritty procedural, and an exciting action adventure." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The second season has an 81% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Bolstered by some impressive action, Daredevil keeps its footing in season two, even if its new adversaries can't quite fill
4266-414: A producer. In April 2015, Marvel and Netflix announced that Daredevil had been renewed for a second season, but DeKnight would not be returning due to prior commitments. He was replaced as showrunner by Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez, who served as writers for the first season and worked closely with DeKnight and Goddard. Mark Verheiden , Alison Engel, Ramirez, and Petrie became executive producers for
4424-543: A retelling of the character's origin. Goddard had been a longtime fan of Daredevil after being raised Catholic, and identifying with the character's story of a "Catholic superhero struggling with the notions of right and wrong". He did not want to be "a guy that just takes the comics and then shoots them onscreen. I think it's our job to treat it as if it's our run. If I'm the writer of a comic book, you wouldn't just retell someone else's story, you would just take that ball and move it forward." In August 2014, when talking about
4582-650: A reunion with Spider-Man trying to stop him. Despite Spider-Man's attempts, the Sinister Six carry out Aaron's heist and take off aboard a decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier . When the Champions interrupt a meeting with Lucia von Bardas as a buyer, Spider-Man attempts to persuade his uncle to give up his criminal ways. Although the chaos results in his apparent death, Aaron is later revealed to be alive, seemingly having followed his nephew's advice. Miles later goes to visit his reformed uncle. After Miles
4740-527: A reverse ionic pulse explosion by overloading his suit. This ends up sending Ultimatum and the Goblin back to Earth-1610 causing the Goblinoids to regress back to their human form while the remaining henchmen of Ultimatum flee the area. After Miles and his clone Shift free Quantum from Assessor's control, they learn that Aaron is alive somewhere in a different universe and discover Assessor's connection to
4898-677: A ride-sharing scam as he's driving through Greenwich Village, Barrett stumbled upon a bunch of Skrulls attacking some monks that were delivering the Mind Infinity Gem to Doctor Strange at the Sanctum Sanctorum . Upon acquiring the Mind Gem during the fight, Turk begins to establish a criminal empire so that he can fill the void that was left when Kingpin left the criminal business. After briefly confronting Turk, Daredevil can somehow see again when in his presence. Turk uses
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5056-589: A strong nod to the original characters. We wanted to pick up where the comics version left off. I studied the illustrations from The Man Without Fear , Daredevil Yellow , and the issues of the 1960s, to which the newer collections pay homage. I wanted the costume design to reflect the illustrations of those volumes through a modern lens while maintaining a retro sensibility." Joshua Shaw, who has also done design work on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), helped design costumes for several characters on Daredevil , while Lorraine Calvert took over as costume designer for
5214-531: A supervillain and then return said items as Hobie. Donning his green and purple Prowler costume for the first time, Hobie set out to rob the payroll office of the Daily Bugle , figuring that would garner him quick publicity. However, he was caught in the act by Peter Parker . While struggling with Parker, he drew editor J. Jonah Jameson 's attention. Parker, with no way to defeat Prowler without giving away his own secret identity, contrived to get thrown through
5372-483: A tin suit, or the idea that they think there's a Thor out there with a magic hammer. But the truth of the matter is, 'I've never seen him. Have you ever seen him?' It's that kind of world that we exist in. For us, it makes Marvel what Marvel has always been, which is grounded. Jeph Loeb on the opportunities that Daredevil existing within the Marvel Cinematic Universe presents. Daredevil
5530-701: A visit to Mexico City, Aaron fights off the Mexican crime boss Scorpion . When his deal with Scorpion goes bad, he is detained by Mexican authorities. Returning to New York, Prowler interrogates the Tinkerer who he kills while realizing his nephew is Spider-Man. He then claims various tech for himself: an electric suit, a winged suit and electric gauntlets. Davis uses his winged suit in a vain attempt to kill Scorpion. The next day, Aaron confronts his nephew about being Spider-Man. Davis initially convinces Spider-Man to assist in defeating Scorpion, however, Spider-Man comes to
5688-510: A window during the struggle, and used spider-powers to save himself once outside. Traumatized by the events, the shaken Hobie made his escape to the building's roof, only to be confronted by Spider-Man. Spider-Man vanquished and unmasked Hobie, but realized he was just a misunderstood kid (just like Peter once was), so instead of handing him over to the police, he advised him to rethink his life. Hobie took Spider-Man's advice to heart and gave up his criminal ways. He later impersonated Spider-Man at
5846-457: Is a clone of Hobie Brown. The Jackal cloned Hobie, with all of his memories apparently intact. After learning about the Jackal's mission, Prowler became loyal to him and started acting as a spy to find out what Parker Industries was up to. It is revealed that this Prowler is a clone that Jackal had gathered to grow clones with false memories that span all the way to their deaths. After stopping
6004-730: Is a member of the Yancy Street Gang . The Earth-138 version of Hobie Brown operates as Spider-Man, though he is referred to as Spider-Punk due to his punk rock-inspired design. Initially referred to as Hobart Brown to distinguish him from his primary continuity counterpart, he was renamed "Hobie" following the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse . An alternate universe variant of Hobie Brown / Prowler from Earth-18119 appears in Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows . This version
6162-490: Is abducted by The Hand as part of Nobu Yoshioka 's trap set for Daredevil and Elektra . He almost loses his foot after Karen Page activates his parole bracelet to alert the police, but Matt shows up and intervenes before that happens. Turk next reappears in Luke Cage . In season one , he first appears when he's shown to occasionally visit Pop's Barbershop in Harlem to play chess with Bobby Fish. Detective Misty Knight
6320-594: Is alive from telepathic feedback resulting from Electro's attack. Prowler tells Julia what New U Technologies has accomplished and tries to get Julia to join them, but she refuses and escapes in a puff of black smoke. Prowler's body then starts failing due to not taking his New U Pills for an extended period of time, as he questions what he's doing with his life. He is then confronted by Electro. Prowler tries to escape Electro's wrath in Alcatraz, which proves difficult with Electro's powers and his dying body. Using his weapons,
6478-495: Is also revealed that Turk is one of Jeri's clients, and it is implied that Jeri got his criminal charges for his work with Fisk reduced. Turk appears in Iron Fist season two , when Ward Meachum and Mary Walker go to him to obtain guns for an attempt to rescue Ward's sister Joy from Davos 's captivity. Daredevil (TV series) Marvel's Daredevil is an American television series created by Drew Goddard for
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6636-689: Is contractually obligated to appear in films if asked by Marvel. Cox expressed interest in making a cameo appearance in Captain America: Civil War (2016) due to Daredevil's presence in Mark Millar 's 2006–2007 " Civil War " crossover storyline, which inspired the film, but acknowledged that he might had "missed the boat" due to principal photography having already commenced by that point. While writing Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely talked about possibly including Daredevil and Luke Cage in
6794-475: Is first seen attacking the Black Fox (Raul Chalmers) for possession of a chalice to keep Mindy out of prison. Mindy accepted a bookkeeping job at Transcorp New York. The company was caught in some shady stock deals and Mindy was set up and blamed for the crimes. Seeing it as the only way to clear Mindy's name, Hobie re-donned his Prowler costume and found the books which Mindy had been blamed for stealing. He hid
6952-608: Is forced to crash a DHS sting operation to acquire guns. Turk later appears in season two . Despite having gone straight, Frank still recruits him into getting close with the Russians. He is found out and forced to lure Frank into a trap, though Frank sees it coming. Turk appears in Jessica Jones . In season two , Jeri Hogarth buys a revolver from Turk as part of revenge on Inez Green and her con artist boyfriend Shane Ryback who conned Jeri out of her material possessions. It
7110-522: Is kidnapped by the villain Assessor, Aaron obtains a new Prowler suit and tracks them down. With the help of Jefferson, who is using S.H.I.E.L.D. weaponry, Aaron rescues Miles, although Assessor escapes. After escaping from Ultimatum, Miles' burner clones, and Ultimatum's henchmen, Spider-Man and Prowler run into the Green Goblin and the Goblinoids. As Spider-Man and Prowler fight the Goblinoids,
7268-410: Is later mentioned that "they all had to get their stomachs pumped and be treated for third-degree burns ". Rick Lawson is the third incarnation of Prowler. A medical intern, he was present when Hobie Brown was brought into the hospital where he worked due to a back injury. The costume was partly cut away to conceal Hobie's superhero identity, but his friends were unwilling to risk moving him due to
7426-516: Is later stolen by a cat burglar to commit crimes for fashion criminal Bella Donna . Hobie was eager to join the search for the thieves, but Spider-Man insisted that he stay home so he would not get into trouble, since the second Prowler had committed a felony murder . When the second Prowler was subsequently defeated by Spider-Man, the stolen equipment was returned to Hobie. Prowler later appeared in California during Peter's Webs book deal. He
7584-483: Is left with no choice but to fight back. She then knocks him down as Prowler's body continues deteriorating. The Prowler clone assists Jean DeWolff 's clone in helping Spider-Man get away from the villains. During the final battle, Prowler and DeWolff battle the villains outside. Hobie's body is rapidly decaying, but the two receive assistance from Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 and Kaine Parker . Gwen leaves Hobie in an alley when he proves too weak to continue and he's found by
7742-661: Is naturally inventive, especially in the field of pneumatics despite no formal education in that science. Each one relies on a suite of technical gimmicks. Prowler wears modified coveralls interwoven with denim and stretch fabric, equipped with gas cartridge bracelets and anklets capable of propelling projectiles at high velocity. Their arsenal of projectiles include steel darts ("flechettes"), gas pellets, small explosives, magnesium flares and cleaning fluid. Prowler has been known to use hypnotic aids and conventional hand-held weapons. Each wears steel-tipped gauntlets for scaling walls and shock absorbent foam rubber insulated boots. He also wears
7900-444: Is shown to be familiar with Turk's criminal activities when she and Rafael Scarfe cross paths with him on the sidewalk outside of the barbershop. Turk is indirectly responsible for kickstarting a war between Luke Cage and Cottonmouth , as he tips off Cottonmouth's henchman Tone to Chico's presence at the barbershop. This causes Tone to shoot up the barbershop with twin submachine guns, wounding Chico and killing Pop. When Turk crashes
8058-430: Is then seen talking to Peter about his future, wondering which direction he will take. He then heads home, where he is last seen conflicted about his own identity. Hobie next attacks the F.E.A.S.T. Center, which was re-established by May Parker . He tells Spider-Man that he was investigating a crowdfunding group called Fairgray Pay after he funneled some money to help a sick friend, which never reached him, and broke into
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#17327724518828216-466: Is to be stuck in the same location, Jackal assigns Hobie to take care of a potential hacker in San Francisco. When Hobie goes to get more information on the hacker from Madame Web, he is told of seeing buildings filled with agony that cannot escape. After confronting his killer, Electro, Prowler figures out Madame Web's precognition and goes to Alcatraz , where he sets off a trap and gets caught in
8374-408: Is working with Rabble. Upon taking them to where Hobgoblin's hideout is, he warns them about his hired muscle as Ms. Marvel notices that Goldbug III, Lady Stilt-Man , Man-Bull , Mr. Fish I, Ricadonna , and Shocker are outside. He then joins Miles, Gust, and Ms. Marvel in entering the building while the others fight Hobgoblin's hired muscle. The fourth iteration of Prowler native to Earth-616
8532-595: The Identity Crisis storyline. Prowler was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D. in Ms. Marvel 's Civil War tie-in. Escaping incarceration, he attended the wake for Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day), along with many other villains and former villains. Prowler narrowly escaped injury as Spider-Man and Puma escorted him from the wake shortly before it was bombed by the Punisher. When Peter Parker elevated Parker Industries into
8690-646: The Secret Wars storyline, two variations of Turk Barrett are seen in different Battleworld domains. The first one resides in the Battleworld domain of Technopolis and is a cowardly henchman of Kingpin. He accompanied the Kingpin to a meeting with the War Machine Deputies. When a fight ensued, Turk tried to make an excuse to leave the fight. The second one resides in the Battleworld domain of
8848-703: The Avengers and the Space Phantom . Prowler was hired along with the Outlaws to retrieve a Symkarian nuclear device in England. Prowler then formally joined the Outlaws to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Canadian official. His costume and equipment were stolen by Nightcreeper and Prowler then battled him and the Vulture (Adrian Toomes). This story also revealed that his brother is Abraham. Later, Hobie
9006-500: The Beyond Corporation . As it turns out, Aaron is trapped in a dystopian alternate future where he is captured by an alternate version of Miles' clone Selim who killed his reality's Miles. After Miles and Shift from the prime universe acquires aid from the resistance force, led by alternate grown up versions of Billie Morales, Ganke, Aaron, and the alternate elderly Peter Parker are freed from Selim's imprisonment. Following
9164-677: The Infinity Watch to safeguard the Infinity Gems from such calamities including Thanos . During the " Infinity Wars " storyline, Turk attends a meeting of the Infinity Watch in Central Park. He is accompanied by Bullseye , Sandman , Spot , Tombstone and Typhoid Mary . As the heroes are fighting Gamora 's Requiem form, Doctor Strange takes Barrett to another dimension where Doctor Strange persuades Turk to hand
9322-448: The Marvel Cinematic Universe . As explained by head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb in 2015, Marvel Studios had "first dibs" on the character once the rights had reverted. Drew Goddard pitched a new Daredevil film to Marvel, but Marvel was not looking to create an R-rated film, and Goddard did not want a "watered down version" of the character, as he also explained in 2015: "I went into Marvel and talked to them about making it as
9480-651: The Venom symbiote (possessing the Madrox Gang). Turk Barrett is a recurring character across the Marvel's Netflix television series , portrayed by Rob Morgan . This version of the character is depicted as comic relief , always being subject to misfortunes whenever he appears: Turk first appears in Daredevil season one in a recurring role. He is an associate of Wilson Fisk , and is engaged in smuggling and arms dealing. A reputation for being shady, he's shown selling
9638-484: The Vulture , who seeks revenge against the original Prowler and nearly kills him, but Spider-Man interferes and defeats Vulture. Afterwards, Lawson is taken to the hospital and the Prowler costume is returned to Hobie (who is still recovering from paralysis). The Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Prowler is Aaron Davis , the uncle of Miles Morales and the brother of Jefferson Davis . Whereas Jefferson reformed by marrying Rio Morales , Aaron never came around and became
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#17327724518829796-604: The first season , with Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez taking over as co-showrunners for the second , and Erik Oleson joining the series as showrunner for the third ; Goddard served as a consultant for the series. Charlie Cox stars as Matt Murdock / Daredevil , a blind lawyer-by-day who fights crime as a masked vigilante by night. Deborah Ann Woll , Elden Henson , Rosario Dawson , and Vincent D'Onofrio also star, with Toby Leonard Moore , Vondie Curtis-Hall , Bob Gunton , and Ayelet Zurer joining them for season one , Jon Bernthal , Élodie Yung , and Stephen Rider joining
9954-430: The "series stuff with Netflix", Marvel has "a bigger plan to branch out". In December 2014, Loeb explained that "Within the Marvel universe there are thousands of heroes of all shapes and sizes, but the Avengers are here to save the universe and Daredevil is here to save the neighborhood [...] It does take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's all connected. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we would look up in
10112-482: The 2016 " Civil War II " storyline, Turk is with the Kingpin when they hear from the barista Armand that his girlfriend Sonia went missing. They track Sonia down to a human trafficking business that Man Mountain Marko and Janus Jardeesh (Kingpin's former minion) were working for. During the 2018 " Infinity Countdown " storyline, Barrett found the Mind Gem and started using its powers for his own personal gain. While doing
10270-751: The Disney+ series Hawkeye (2021). At that time, Jessica Henwick , who portrayed Colleen Wing in the Marvel Netflix series, indicated that Cox had known about the opportunity to reprise the role in Marvel Studios productions years prior. In March 2022, a Daredevil reboot series was revealed to be in development, with Feige and Chris Gary producing. The series was confirmed to be in development for Disney+ in late May, with Matt Corman and Chris Ord attached as head writers and executive producers. The series, titled Daredevil: Born Again ,
10428-620: The Frank Miller, you have the Brian Bendis run, you have the Ed Brubaker run. I was lucky enough to do Daredevil: Yellow (2001–2002). But they feel different. They have different elements to them. Same cast. In many cases, same tone. But a different adventure [...] you can watch Daredevil season two without having seen Daredevil season one. But if you watch each of them, it's like getting two different books. It's closer to
10586-569: The Galaxy films and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). An update to the Disney+ timeline split out the series by season, with Daredevil 's second season placed after Ant-Man (2015), and the third before Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Prowler (Marvel Comics) The Prowler is an alias used by several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . These characters are primarily depicted as wearing
10744-636: The Goblin states that a pulse will go off where anyone who took the Goblinoid drug will turn into the next wave of Goblinoids. As Jefferson shows up to aid Captain America in fighting the Goblinoids, Bombshell and Starling catch up to Spider-Man and Prowler just as the Goblin catches up to them at Prospect Park. Ultimatum, his henchmen, and the Goblinoids attack Spider-Man, Captain America, Jefferson, Prowler, Bombshell, and Starling. The Goblin recovers and attacks Prowler as Ultimatum plans to send Spider-Man back to Earth-1610. Prowler sacrifices himself to give off
10902-637: The Hand). Luke uses Turk's information and catches Sowande picking up a cleaning crew to destroy the bodies of Hand victims, and eventually crosses paths with Danny. Turk appears in The Punisher . In season one , Turk is targeted by Frank, acting on intel from David Lieberman , to seek out guns, only to learn that Turk's shipments have dwindled aside from a pink Ruger Mini-14 , due to most of it being sold to some Greek criminals. Frank settles for then pistol-whipping Turk unconscious instead of killing him, and
11060-424: The Jackal orders the villains in the "Haven" part of New U Technologies to kill Spider-Man, Prowler works with Spider-Man to fight the villains off. When the alarm goes off and all the clones start breaking down from clone degeneration, Prowler leaves Haven and tries to find the individual who set off the system that has been killing the clones. Prowler accuses Julia of being the culprit. He tries to fight Julia, who
11218-461: The Mind Gem over. In the alternate timeline of the 2005 storyline " House of M ", Turk Barrett is a member of Willis Stryker 's gang. After Stryker was defeated, Turk willingly followed when Luke Cage took control of the group. The Ultimate Marvel version of Turk Barrett is a gangster. A criminal acquaintance of Aaron Davis , he has Jefferson Davis as his main enforcer, eventually leaving his territory to Wilson Fisk's criminal empire. During
11376-572: The Mind Gem to get the judges to change their verdict on some criminals while gaining their loyalty and money. Daredevil caught wind of Barrett's goals and warned him about playing in the criminal big leagues. Doctor Strange later tracked down Barrett in order to get the Mind Gem from him only for Turk to evade the Sorcerer Supreme. He is among the Infinity Gem holders that are contacted by Doctor Strange who wants them to come together as
11534-741: The Netflix series as a more integral part to the MCU once Daredevil: Born Again underwent a creative overhaul in September 2023. Footage from the series was used in promotional material for Echo . With Echo 's release, all of the Netflix series were retroactively added to the MCU Disney+ timeline , with Daredevil placed alongside the Phase Two content of the MCU, between the Guardians of
11692-558: The Outlaws (including rehabilitated villains like Sandman , Rocket Racer and Puma ). His safety designs were stolen by Justin Hammer . Hobie proved the design flaws during an encounter with Hammer's hirelings. Hobie fought Black Tiger (a.k.a. his brother Abraham Brown of the Sons of the Tiger ) as an initiation test for Silver Sable. Prowler joined with Spider-Man and the Outlaws against
11850-425: The Prowler identity. At one point, Bella Donna (Narda Ravanna) stole Hobie Brown's costume and equipment and hired a cat burglar that Spider-Man fought a long time ago to become the new Prowler. During one of his crimes, Prowler accidentally kills a guard. Furthermore, the witnesses see his silhouetted profile and believe Spider-Man to be implicated in the murder. Eventually, Spider-Man captures both Bella Donna and
12008-665: The Prowler technology to operate as a petty thief, but following his encounter with Spider-Man, he was convinced to turn his life around. Since his redemption, Hobie has served as a valuable ally to Spider-Man, as well as a superhero in his own right, leading the 1994 limited series Prowler . Additionally, several other characters have used the Prowler alias and technology in the mainstream Marvel universe , including an unnamed self-titled " Second Prowler " (created by Lee and Steve Ditko ) and medical intern Rick Lawson (created by Todd DeZago and Mike Wieringo ). A clone of Hobie Brown (created by Dan Slott and R.B. Silva) serves as
12166-464: The Prowler, clears both his and the original Prowler's name, and returns Hobie's stolen equipment. This Prowler is later seen at the "Bar With No Name" attending Stilt-Man's wake, and calls himself the " Second Prowler ". He has a brief fight with the original Prowler at Stilt-Man's funeral. Sometime after the original Prowler leaves, the Punisher poisons the guests' drinks and blows the place up. It
12324-619: The Stalker that was intended for the never-published The Spectacular Spider-Man #3. Since Hobie, several other characters have taken up the Prowler identity as well. The second version first appeared in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #47 (October 1980), and was created by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko . The third version, Rick Lawson, first appeared in The Sensational Spider-Man #16 (May 1997) and
12482-536: The Valley of Doom which is based from the remnants of Earth-51920 where every Marvel character is depicted in Wild West form. He is one of Mayor Wilson Fisk's minions. Barrett and the rest of Mayor Fisk's men attack Red Wolf when he tried to destroy Roxxon Dam. Upon being tipped off by Ben Urich , Sheriff Steve Rogers intervened and was able to put him in sheriff custody. Later that night, Mayor Fisk sent Turk and
12640-410: The alternate Ganke's sacrifice on preventing alternate Selim's suicide attempt on destroying New York along with them, Aaron, Miles and Shift stays at the reality to help Billie's resistance on rebuilding the city and restoring its freedom. After the three finally made it home to Earth-616, Aaron helps Shift to be adopted by a mother who is a herbalist, then treats both Miles and Shift bruschetta breads at
12798-538: The animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). Additionally, both actors make cameo appearances in the animated film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), in which Jharrel Jerome also voices Miles G. Morales , an original incarnation of the Prowler who will return in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse . The original and most well-known iteration of Prowler, Hobie Brown, debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #78 (November 1969), and
12956-502: The back injury, leading to Lawson finding a portion of the costume that was left unattended and deducing Hobie's identity. After finding Hobie's address from his medical files, Lawson steals a replica of the Prowler costume, using new tech to both rob patients in the ICU and get revenge on those who had "wronged" him in the past, such as a construction foreman who fired him when needing the job to complete medical school. He has an encounter with
13114-421: The billy clubs holster on the right leg. But Daredevil wears those billy clubs on the left hand side. So while it would have been easier to place the holster on the right we all felt that we had to keep to the classic profile and keep them on the left." The suit was upgraded for the second season, with Calvert calling it "a much more fluid suit and much more tactical in a way." The costume department "streamlined"
13272-465: The books on an information chip and put the information chip on the chalice, where no one would look for it. Prowler and Spider-Man then teamed up to take on the Black Fox to regain possession of the chalice. Hobie vindicated his wife of stock fraud charges with the help of Spider-Man and the Black Fox. Prowler later attempted to vindicate Spider-Man of a crime and first encountered Silver Sable and
13430-648: The cast for season two , and Joanne Whalley , Jay Ali and Wilson Bethel joining in season three . Daredevil entered development in late 2013, a year after the film rights to the character reverted to Marvel, with Goddard initially hired in December 2013. Cox was cast in May 2014, and the Daredevil costume was designed by Ryan Meinerding of Marvel Studios ' design team. The series was intended to be darker than other Marvel projects, intentionally avoiding crossovers with
13588-456: The cat burglar "Prowler." In his first appearance, he broke into Oscorp 's abandoned lab to steal a small red box and other rare items from a safe but Oscorp's genetically altered spider crawled into his duffel bag without his knowledge. Miles later visits his uncle's apartment and is bitten by Oscorp's spider. After Miles passes out and regains consciousness, Jefferson forbids Aaron to spend time with Miles on account of his criminal life. During
13746-459: The center since it is almost wholly funded by the group. He and Spider-Man break into the company's head office with help from Marnie, Peter's neighbor known also as The Rumor. After an intense battle, Spider-Man, Prowler and the Rumor escape, with help from Captain America . Prowler is left in his home after being knocked out from the fight. He later wakes up to find that Spider-Man managed to defeat
13904-439: The character would be better served in a television series. Although Feige had plans to use Daredevil in the films, the superiors of Marvel Entertainment ordered Marvel Studios to focus the films on the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy so the characters whose rights they had regained could help build a planned "television empire" under their direct control. In October 2013, Deadline Hollywood reported that Marvel
14062-535: The creators in terms of "imagination and delivering on what the show was about". DeKnight explained that multiple companies had made pitches to the creative team involving "variations of the same idea, where you zoom in on an eye and you see a sonar map of the city." However, one of Elastic's pitches had "fluid-like blood dripping over everything [...] as if paint were covering something invisible and revealing it", which both DeKnight and Loeb wanted to use immediately. Elastic's Creative Director Patrick Clair "came up with
14220-476: The day, that's really exciting, but how did that affect the people who were six blocks over and three avenues down? That's the richness of the Marvel Universe. You can have that sort of thing happen and refer to it, but not have it be – we're not the world of the comics where you look up in the sky and Thor flies by all the time. This is a world where people do refer to Tony Stark as a billionaire in
14378-867: The directors for the remainder of the series, with Dario Scardapane, a writer on The Punisher , hired to serve as showrunner and filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead hired to direct the remaining episodes of the first season. Bernthal, Woll, Henson, Bethel, and Zurer are also reprising their roles as Frank Castle / Punisher, Karen Page, Foggy Nelson, Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, and Vanessa Mariana-Fisk in Born Again . Ahead of Cox's appearance in Echo , which released in January 2024, Marvel Studios' head of streaming Brad Winderbaum acknowledged that Marvel Studios had previously been "a little bit cagey" about what
14536-515: The events of The Defenders , reemerges as a broken man and must decide between hiding from the world as a criminal lawyer, or embracing his life as a hero vigilante. In April 2013, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that the film rights to Daredevil and his associated characters reverted to Marvel from 20th Century Fox in October 2012, allowing those characters to be used within
14694-473: The film's scenes taking place in New York City but felt that including them for quick cameos would not have satisfied the audiences. Disney Consumer Products created a small line of products to cater to a more adult audience, given the show's edgier tone. Paul Gitter, senior VP of Marvel Licensing for Disney Consumer Products explained that the focus would be more on teens and adults than very young people, with products at outlets like Hot Topic . Additionally,
14852-461: The films is "possible. I think there's a way that the worlds can merge. I think our show feels tonally and thematically a bit different from the Avengers movies, but it's all one universe and I feel like there's a way for Daredevil—and other characters, Luke Cage and street level crime characters—to fit into that universe. I think there has to be a way, and I think it's about finding an autonomous tone for that [crossover] film". Cox also said that he
15010-421: The first season. Goddard was happy with the change to television from his film idea "because you can take time and deal with these smaller things, which to me are much more interesting on a character level". However, Marvel announced in May 2014 that Goddard had stepped down as showrunner to focus on directing a feature film based on Marvel's Sinister Six team for Sony Pictures Entertainment . Goddard, who wrote
15168-473: The first two episodes of the series, remained with the show as a consultant while Steven S. DeKnight took over as showrunner and his production company DeKnight Productions produced the first season. The series was officially titled Daredevil , with Peter Friedlander, Allie Goss, Kris Henigman, Cindy Holland, Alan Fine , Stan Lee , Joe Quesada , Dan Buckley , Jim Chory, Loeb, Goddard, and DeKnight also serving as executive producers. Kati Johnston served as
15326-675: The gang wars, Hobgoblin hires Aaron Davis to deal with his "spider problem". Hobgoblin and Prowler sell weapons to the Enforcers in order to sway them to Hobgoblin's side. Prowler accompanied the Enforcers to Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan where they ran into Miles Morales and Cape-Killerss members Scorpion and Gust. While Scorpion and Gust defeat the Enforcers, Miles fights his uncle until Starling arrives with Shift and Ms. Marvel . Upon being subdued, Prowler explains his motives for helping Hobgoblin to Miles as well as mentioning that Hobgoblin
15484-509: The gift shop and his strategic thinking, Prowler manages to defeat the simple-minded Electro. When he makes it outside, he is found by Julia, who takes him on a boat and heads towards New U Technologies to get his New U Pills. When Spider-Man and Spider-Woman of Earth-65 are escaping from New U Technologies, Prowler helped the two out by diverting the cloned villains to another part of the city. Julia helps Prowler break into New U Technologies and takes Prowler to his room to get his pills. When
15642-548: The ground and there are guns and drugs—bones are going to break. People aren't hitting each other and nothing's going to happen because they're indestructible. These are people. They're vulnerable and you get to experience that." In March 2015, Loeb spoke on the ability for the series to crossover with the MCU films and the ABC television series , saying, "As it is now, in the same way that our films started out as self-contained and then by
15800-765: The head of Fairgray Pay with help from Iron Man who bought the company and turned into a division of Stark Unlimited. During their conversation, Prowler is offered a job as the new head of Fairgray Pay, which he quickly accepts. During the " King in Black " storyline, Hobie is shown to have taken up the alias of Hornet during the Symbiote invasion. During the " Gang War " storyline, Hobie as Hornet had heard about Aaron Davis ' exploits as Prowler. He has him operate as Prowler again by giving him one of his Prowler costumes to find out what Hobgoblin has planned for Brooklyn. Hobie warns Aaron that if he slips up, he will repossess
15958-572: The hero's request – Spider-Man wearing a webbing mask – to convince Peter's friends that Parker was not Spider-Man after Peter 'confessed' the truth while suffering delirium due to the flu, thus creating the impression that Parker had merely been confused. Hobie was convinced that Spider-Man was involved somehow in Police Captain George Stacy 's death, and unsuccessfully tried to bring Spider-Man to justice. Hobie eventually married his love Mindy S. McPherson, and settled down into
16116-448: The idea of making a red world that was revealed by liquid." Simulating the CG liquid, which was meant to be an ambiguous reference to poison and blood that behaved like "something in between liquid chocolate and tar", was difficult, with Clair saying "It's hard to make an algorithm act 'insidious'". CG Lead Andrew Romatz elaborated that "Developing the right consistency and behavior of the fluids
16274-400: The incorporation of some of how New York was created into the suit, which led to the use of rivets and "architectural" shapes. The suit is intended to look like a Kevlar vest , and the black sections are an homage to comic panels where the artists highlighted certain areas with red, with "deeper portions" in shadow. On the mask, Meinerding noted the difficulty in designing the entire top half of
16432-494: The lead character of a second Prowler limited series, which ties in with the 2016–2017 storyline " Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy ". The Ultimate Marvel equivalent, Aaron Davis , was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli , and was introduced in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1 (November 2011) as the career criminal uncle of this reality's Spider-Man . Davis was incorporated into
16590-421: The more important thing is not whether or not they look the part, but if they feel the part." Laray Mayfield and Julie Schubert served as casting directors on the series. In December 2017, D'Onofrio revealed he had "a standing agreement with Jeph Loeb", created before the first season, that allowed him to "come in and out of the show", with an unspecified amount of notice given when Marvel hoped to use D'Onofrio in
16748-477: The murderous Electro. Julia arrives and fends Electro off as Hobie is told that Spider-Man stabilized the human and clone cells. When Electro gets the upper hand on Julia, Prowler sacrifices himself to stop Electro and dies in Julia's arms. Kaine later tells Spider-Man that the clones of Prowler and Jean died while fighting the villains. The Prowler's various iterations have no superhuman powers, although Hobie Brown
16906-537: The other men to lure Sheriff Rogers out of the Sheriff Department so that they can kill Red Wolf. This plan didn't go well as Sheriff Rogers and Red Wolf were able to kill Turk and those involved in the attempt on Red Wolf's life. In the " Old Man Logan " prequel "Old Man Hawkeye", Turk Barrett works as a bartender at Josie's Bar in Paste Pot Creek and is the uncle of Dwight. He is later killed by
17064-419: The posts had declined to 75,000. The series entered Nielsen Media Research 's streaming list, which measures the number of minutes watched by United States audiences on television sets, as the eighth-most-watched original series across streaming services for the week of December 20–26, 2021, with 195 million minutes viewed. Daredevil ' s appearance on the list was believed to be from viewers returning to
17222-444: The primary Marvel continuity following Secret Wars as a separate version operating independently from the others. Both Hobie Brown and Aaron Davis have appeared in several media adaptations outside of comics, including films, animated series, and video games. Davis in particular is portrayed by Donald Glover in the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and voiced by Mahershala Ali in
17380-520: The process. Hobie wakes up in a cell in Alcatraz and discovers that the hacker is Julia Carpenter , who has been using the Shroud's leftover technology to investigate New U Technologies. Hobie angers Julia by severing an online connection to stop her from looking more into New U Technologies. Back at the company, the villains are getting out of control, so Jackal sends Electro to find Prowler in order to put them under check again. Julia senses that Madame Web
17538-484: The protagonist of the " Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy " tie-in limited series Prowler , published from October 2016 to May 2017. Hobie Brown is the original iteration of Prowler. Born in the Bronx, New York , he was a bright but angry African-American teenager who got fired from his window washer job. Intending to use his engineering skills for personal profit, he devised a plan to steal items while disguised as
17696-482: The realization of his uncle's exploitation. When Miles decides to sever their relationship, Aaron threatens to tell Jefferson and Rio of his nephew's secret identity. Spider-Man ultimately gets into a fight with Aaron that results in Aaron's gauntlets exploding, killing him but not before accusing his nephew of being just like him. Spider-Man later discovers that Aaron was hired to break into Oscorp by Donald Roxxon , and
17854-425: The sculptures, along with small attraction fields and thousands of tiny adjustments to achieve the shapes and behavior Patrick was looking for. In the end I simulated hundreds of tests and thousands of frames of fluids to achieve just the right balance for each shot." Due to time constraints, references to Murdock's boxing history such as a punching bag and boxing ring were cut from the final sequence. The final sequence
18012-525: The season one finale, Turk is among those who are arrested by the FBI for his association with Fisk's empire after Detective Carl Hoffman flips on Fisk. In season two , Turk has made parole and is back to dealing guns. Matt crashes an arms deal between Turk and some enterprising crooks to get information on the Punisher 's recent attacks on the Kitchen Irish and Dogs of Hell. In the season two finale, Turk
18170-493: The second season, and Christopher LaVasseur for the third season. Visual effects for the series were completed by the New York studio Shade VFX. Bryan Goswin serves as visual effects supervisor. Editing for the series was done by Jonathan Chibnall, Monty DeGraff, Jo Francis, Michael N. Knue, and Damien Smith. It was revealed that John Paesano would be composing the music for the series in October 2014. The main theme of
18328-584: The second season, while Friedlander left the show. The series was renewed for a third season in July 2016, with Petrie and Ramirez intended to return as showrunners, but Erik Oleson was announced in October 2017 to be taking over as showrunner, and Karim Zreik, and Oleson also serving as executive producers. Sonay Hoffman and Evan Perazzo served as producers for the season. Elements of the series storyline were adapted from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr. 's 1993–1994 miniseries Daredevil: The Man Without Fear ,
18486-412: The second season. For Daredevil's red suit, introduced at the end of the first season, Marvel Comics' Chief creative officer Quesada contacted Ryan Meinerding and the costume artists and design team at Marvel Studios, who all contributed design ideas, with one of Meinerding's ultimately being picked. Quesada, who previously worked as an artist on Daredevil comics, gave several suggestions, including
18644-476: The series "in order of how they're interested in them and how they learn about them." Netflix's data also showed that a viewer watching Daredevil would most often then move on to Jessica Jones , and vice versa, while other series "with antiheroes and themes of moral ambiguity" such as Bloodline (2015–2017), Breaking Bad (2008–2013), Dexter (2006–2013) and House of Cards (2013–2018) led viewers to starting Daredevil . In October 2018, Crimson Hexagon,
18802-518: The series ending and Disney regaining the rights. Disney opted not to have Netflix pay a large licensing fee to retain the distribution rights for the series, and instead announced that all the series would be made available on Disney+ on March 16 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and in Disney+'s other markets by the end of 2022. In the United States, revised parental controls were introduced to
18960-661: The series following Cox's appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and D'Onofrio's appearance in Hawkeye (2021). Following the release of Echo in January 2024, Daredevil experienced a notable increase in viewership on Disney+. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 99% approval rating for the first season, based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "With tight adherence to its source material's history, high production quality, and
19118-542: The series has attracted a large number of male viewers. Also in the month, Netflix released viewing patterns for the Marvel Netflix series. The data, which came from Netflix's "1,300 'taste communities' around the world, where subscribers are grouped based on what they watch", showed that viewers would not watch the series in chronological order by release, rather starting with Jessica Jones , then Daredevil , Luke Cage and finally Iron Fist . Todd Yellin, Netflix's vice president of product innovation, noted that audiences watch
19276-737: The series in comparison to the 2003 film, Ted Sarandos said, "The series will not be afraid to go darker than the film did. What we love about this particular set of heroes is that they're a little more down to Earth. Costume wise and also in that these are gritty crime stories, more in the streets than in the clouds." Elaborating on this, DeKnight said, "It is a little grittier and edgier than Marvel has gone before, but we're not looking to push it to extreme graphic violence, gratuitous nudity or anything like that. The story does not require that and I think [it] would suffer if you pushed it that far." Marvel Television head and executive producer Loeb later stated that, "There aren't going to be people flying through
19434-544: The series, and on June 20, Rosario Dawson joined the cast. A few days later, Elden Henson was cast as Foggy Nelson , while on July 17, Deborah Ann Woll was cast as Karen Page . On October 11, Dawson's role was revealed to be Claire Temple , a character resembling that of Night Nurse , while Ayelet Zurer , Bob Gunton , Toby Leonard Moore , and Vondie Curtis-Hall joined the series as Vanessa Mariana , Leland Owlsley , James Wesley , and Ben Urich , respectively. In June 2015, Marvel announced that Jon Bernthal
19592-414: The series, along with the other former Netflix series. In June 2020, Cox was contacted by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about reprising his role in Marvel Studios' MCU productions, with Feige confirming in December 2021 that Cox would reprise the role for Marvel Studios, first doing so in the film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Additionally, D'Onofrio first reprised his role as Kingpin in
19750-399: The series, confirmed the two-year wait requirement and also said the decision to cancel the series came as a surprise to the executives at Marvel given the extensive work that had been done for a potential fourth season. She added that filming for the fourth season had been expected to begin around February 2019 and that many of the cast and crew felt the series would last for five seasons, with
19908-503: The series, which was co-composed by Braden Kimball, is derived from Paesano's original demo for the series, which he submitted during the auditioning process. Paesano noted that it is rare for such material to be incorporated into a final score like this. A soundtrack album for the first season was released digitally on April 27, 2015, for the second season on July 15, 2016, and for the third season on October 19, 2018. If you live in New York, there are things that are going on all
20066-436: The series. Costume designer Stephanie Maslansky, talking about the inspiration and vision for the series, said " Daredevil is rooted in the authentically gritty New York City neighborhood, Hell's Kitchen where Matt Murdock grew up. In the comics—particularly those of the Frank Miller era in the early 1990s—there were detailed illustrations we endeavored to bring to life in a grounded, gritty, and updated way, with respect and
20224-416: The series. Cox was saddened by the cancellation, since it "felt like we had a lot of stories to tell", especially since he had been excited by what had been discussed for a potential fourth season. He added that many of the cast and crew "really expected to keep going" and that he was hopeful there would be an opportunity to portray the character again in some form. Amy Rutberg , who portrays Marci Stahl in
20382-467: The series. Despite the pitch, on November 29, 2018, Netflix canceled the series after three seasons. Netflix said the three seasons would remain on the service, while the character would "live on in future projects for Marvel". Deadline Hollywood noted, that "unlike Iron Fist or Luke Cage , the door seems to be wide open" for the series to continue elsewhere, potentially on Disney's streaming service, Disney+. However, The Hollywood Reporter felt this
20540-528: The service to allow the more mature content of the series to be added, similarly to the controls that already exist for other regions that have the Star content hub. As Netflix does not reveal subscriber viewership numbers for any of their original series, Karim Zreik, senior vice president of original programming at Marvel Television, provided some viewership demographics for Daredevil in August 2017, noting that
20698-428: The sky and see [Iron Man]. It's just a different part of New York that we have not yet seen in the Marvel movies." Dawson later elaborated that "When you've got that level of superpowers, the fighting is different, the stakes are different, and it has a grander feel. In that world, they exist in it, so they know it and it's normal to them. But in reality when people are fighting and doing really bad, elicit [sic] crimes on
20856-491: The sky; there are no magic hammers. We've always approached this as a crime drama first, superhero show second." DeKnight took inspiration from The French Connection (1971), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Taxi Driver (1976), and stated that "we would rather lean toward The Wire (2002–2008) than what's considered a classic superhero television show." Loeb compared the series' approach to telling stories over multiple seasons to "the world of publishing, where you have
21014-475: The streaming service Netflix , based on the Marvel Comics character Daredevil . It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the franchise's films , and was the first Marvel Netflix series leading to the crossover miniseries The Defenders . Daredevil was produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios . Steven S. DeKnight served as showrunner for
21172-471: The suit to make it simpler, using less material on the gauntlets and boots. Cox described the changes as "tweaks" that were needed after seeing the suit in action in the first season, and noted that the changes are woven into the storyline of the season, including the need for a new, redesigned mask. The opening title sequence was created by Elastic. The company previously created the title sequence for True Detective (2014–present), which had stood out to
21330-419: The time we got to The Avengers , it became more practical for Captain America to do a little crossover into Thor 2 (2013) and for Bruce Banner to appear at the end of Iron Man 3 (2013). We have to earn that. The audience needs to understand who all of these characters are and what the world is before you then start co-mingling in terms of where it's going." In April, Cox stated that crossing over with
21488-430: The time, but did say, "I'm never going to discourage a network from looking at one of our characters and encouraging us to do more [...] If we are lucky enough that through the writing, through the direction, through the actor that people want to see more of that person, terrific." In April 2016, Marvel and Netflix ordered The Punisher , confirmed Bernthal's involvement and named Steve Lightfoot as showrunner. The series
21646-471: The time. I would never make light of the tragedy of 9/11 , but 9/11 affected different neighborhoods in very different ways. They were all aware that this had happened, but the further down you got towards that area, the more affected you were by it. So we started with that sort of idea, that if the sky opened up and Chitauri were raining down with giant whales, and the Hulk and the Avengers were there to save
21804-456: The void left by Wilson Fisk." On Metacritic, it has a score of 68 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The third season has a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Man with No Fear returns to top form with a third season that begins tediously slow but gradually generates comic book thrills, immeasurably helped by
21962-405: The welcome return of Vincent D'Onofrio's menacing Kingpin." On Metacritic, it has a score of 71 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In December 2015, IGN named Daredevil the second best Netflix original programming series released to date. By January 2016, ahead of the debut of Bernthal as armed vigilante Frank Castle / Punisher in season two, Netflix
22120-609: The wider MCU and focusing on a crime fiction style that was inspired by 1970s films. Design inspiration was taken from the Hell's Kitchen setting of the comics, with filming taking place in New York City. The first season was released in its entirety on Netflix on April 10, 2015, followed by the second on March 18, 2016, and the third on October 19, 2018. They were met with positive reviews, and received numerous accolades including several nominations for Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards . A spin-off series centered on Bernthal's character Frank Castle / Punisher , titled The Punisher ,
22278-427: The world of the graphic novel than it is to the world of the ongoing, serialized show." At the end of May 2014, Charlie Cox was cast as Matt Murdock / Daredevil . Cox was the first choice for the role, suggested by Quesada in 2012 before Marvel Studios regained the rights to the character from the former 20th Century Fox. On June 10, Marvel announced that Vincent D'Onofrio would portray Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in
22436-424: Was animated to a temp track —"an old piece of 90s trip hop"—before John Paesano's music for the sequence was completed. Filming for the series took place in New York City, in areas of Brooklyn and Long Island City that still look like the old Hell's Kitchen, in addition to soundstage work. The production had an eight-day-per-episode shooting schedule. On the feel of the show, DeKnight stated, "We're going for
22594-432: Was cast as Frank Castle / Punisher for the second season, joining season one returners Cox, Woll, Henson, Dawson, and D'Onofrio. The next month, Élodie Yung was cast as Elektra Natchios , a character that had been mentioned already in the first season. In September 2015, Stephen Rider joined the cast in the role of Blake Tower . Cox, Woll, Henson, D'Onofrio, and Rider return for the third season. Wilson Bethel
22752-476: Was chased around by Electro and was accidentally killed. In the aftermath, Doctor Rita Clarkson took Spider-Man to where some people that were subjected to the New U Technologies treatment were being held. The Prowler was among those people, as it turned out that he was not killed by Electro. Julia Carpenter later talks to the real Prowler, who just emerged from cryo-sleep, and tells him about his clone's actions. Hobie
22910-402: Was created by writer Stan Lee and artists John Buscema and Jim Mooney . The character eventually appeared in his own solo comic, The Prowler . The character was inspired by Romita's 13-year-old son John Romita Jr. who sketched a villain called the Prowler. Lee liked the name but not the costume; Romita combined the name with a design that he had previously intended for a character called
23068-514: Was created by writer Todd DeZago and artist Mike Wieringo . The Ultimate Marvel iteration of Prowler, Aaron Davis, first appeared in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1 (November 2011) and was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli . The fourth Prowler, a clone of Hobie Brown, first appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4 #17 (August 2016) and created by Dan Slott and R.B. Silva, serves as
23226-455: Was definitely a tricky process. Getting the scale to feel right was something that we had to play with quite a bit in simulation and also in lighting and texturing. Patrick wanted the sculptures we were forming to feel like miniatures, so we did a lot of experimenting with scene scale and with camera settings, simulating depth of field to achieve that look." Fluids Lead Miguel A. Salek stated that "Each shot required custom flow maps to be painted on
23384-428: Was in "very early development" on a spin-off series titled The Punisher , and was looking for a showrunner. The series would be centered on Bernthal as Castle, and was described as a stand-alone project, outside of the series leading up to The Defenders . Loeb implied that Marvel Television had not instigated the development of the spin-off and were focusing on making "the best 13 episodes of Daredevil season two" at
23542-415: Was officially announced that July for an 18-episode first season, with Cox and D'Onofrio confirmed to return. Cox described Born Again as a "whole new thing" and not a fourth season of the Netflix series. In late September 2023, the series underwent a creative overhaul after a few episodes had been filmed to bring it more in line with the Netflix series. Corman and Ord were let go as head writers, as were
23700-400: Was ordered by Netflix in April 2016. Netflix canceled Daredevil on November 29, 2018. It, along with the rest of Netflix's Marvel series were removed from Netflix and added to Disney+ in March 2022, after Disney regained the license for them. Beginning in 2021, Cox and D'Onofrio reprised their roles as Murdock and Wilson Fisk / Kingpin in MCU projects produced by Marvel Studios, including
23858-528: Was paralyzed during the Great Game. In follow-up appearances, he began regaining movement of his paralyzed limbs- evidence suggests that his paralysis was more a result of mental rather than physical damage, as he was feeling frustrated over the recent theft of his costume, eventually regaining full mobility. While recovering, Hobie provided Spidey with a jetpack used when assuming the Hornet identity during
24016-468: Was part of their Sacred Timeline , noting how there had been the corporate divide between what Marvel Studios created and what Marvel Television created. He continued that as time has passed, Marvel Studios has begun to see "how well integrated the [Marvel Television] stories are" and personally felt "confident" in saying Daredevil was part of the Sacred Timeline. Marvel Studios began looking at
24174-411: Was preparing four drama series and a miniseries, totaling 60 episodes, to present to video on demand services and cable providers, with Netflix , Amazon and WGN America expressing interest. A few weeks later, Disney announced that Marvel Television and ABC Studios would provide Netflix with live action series centered around Daredevil, Jessica Jones , Iron Fist , and Luke Cage , leading up to
24332-424: Was released in November 2017. Woll reprises her role as Karen Page in the series. Ahead of the release of season three, Deadline Hollywood noted the series was expected to be renewed for a fourth season since it was "widely watched and critically acclaimed". Oleson pitched what he wanted to do with a fourth season to Netflix in November 2018, and was hoping that this meeting would lead to an official renewal of
24490-528: Was revealed to be Turk Barrett 's criminal acquaintance when he and Jefferson used to commit various crimes in their youth. Sometime after the " Secret Wars " storyline, Aaron is seen on Earth-616 alive and well. Equipped with a recolored variant of " Iron Spider " armor, he forms his version of Sinister Six (consisting of Bombshell , Electro , the Hobgoblin , Sandman , and the Spot ) and manages to have
24648-492: Was revealed to be joining them in November 2017, as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter , with Joanne Whalley joining as Sister Maggie Grace by January 2018, and Jay Ali joining as FBI agent Rahul "Ray" Nadeem by March 2018. Zurer has a guest appearance in the season. On the casting process, DeKnight stated that "You just have to hope you find the right way. Luckily our cast came together, and I couldn't have been happier. No one will ever perfectly fit what's in your head. For me,
24806-448: Was the first of the Marvel Netflix series, and was followed by Jessica Jones (2015–2019), Luke Cage (2016–2018), and Iron Fist (2017–2018), which led to the miniseries The Defenders (2017). In November 2013, Disney CEO Bob Iger stated that, if the characters prove popular on Netflix, "It's quite possible that they could become feature films," which Sarandos echoed in July 2015. In August 2014, D'Onofrio stated that after
24964-434: Was unlikely, especially since, per the original deal between Marvel and Netflix for the series, the characters cannot appear in any non-Netflix series or films for at least two years following the cancellation of Daredevil , as reported by Variety . Kevin A. Mayer , chairman of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International , noted that, while it had not yet been discussed, it was a possibility that Disney+ could revive
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