I HAVE COMPLETED DAREDEVIL, and there are a number of things I want to comment on, so consider this Daredevil Comment Post #1: in which I discuss Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk, and their child-selves.
Matt’s identity is also explicitly linked to being a Murdock, more specifically like his father, who lived by the idea of never giving up and who died not only for Matt’s sake (financial security), but by defying someone more powerful through winning when he wasn’t supposed to (which was also partly about setting an example for Matt). So yeah, Matt is the savior and the saved, the defiant hero and the abandoned child, carrying his father’s legacy right beside his child-self.
I think? (I need to rewatch before I meta more in-depth b/c I’m not 100% sure I got every bit of canon correct up there)
Well, but it’s complicated, because you can just as easily see what Battlin’ Jack Murdock did as being unbelievably selfish. He did something he knew had a high chance of getting him killed (thus leaving his son without a father) in order to a) salvage his own pride and b) leave his son with a memory of his father that he could feel proud about. An inheritance is not a substitute for a father. I think there’s something cowardly about preferring to leave your son with a memory of you that you like than to do the hard and, yes, humiliating work that would be involved in sticking around for him. Matt blamed himself for his father’s death, as we well know. I’m not sure how he sees his father’s legacy–”savior” might be part of it, but that’s not necessarily all of it. I think Murdocks “getting beat up a lot” probably has more to do with it, personally.
(Cutting for length)
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