This Friday will see the premiere of Marvel and Netflix’s
second collaborative streaming show Jessica
Jones, based on the comic series Alias. The show is the next installment in the
lead up the streaming crossover series Defenders
after Daredevil earlier this year and
will feature the second Daredevil villain brought to life in the form of David
Tennant’s Purple Man. It’s been no
secret that the Marvel cinematic universe has been lacking for interesting bad
guys since day one and a big part of that has been that all the cool bad guys
are part of franchises Marvel doesn’t own the rights to like Spider-Man,
Fantastic Four, or the X-Men.
However, it’s not at all surprising that Marvel is on the cusp of
scoring two big villain wins this year with Kingpin and Purple Man, two
Daredevil bad guys. Daredevil has
always had one of the more interesting rogues galleries among heroes, usually
counted alongside Flash, Batman, and Spider-man as one of the best in the genre
so it’s about time Marvel dove into that toy box of madness for
inspiration. So, that’s what we’re
going to look at today, the full spectrum look at the many foes of Daredevil;
shades, shames, successes and all.
