History Film / Daredevil2003

* {{Homage}}: Daredevil's burning initials was an homage to another comic book movie, ''Film/TheCrow'', which Mark Steven Johnson is a big fan of.

** Kevin Smith's character is name Creator/JackKirby.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Bullseye's skills, whether he has some kind of ability that alters probability and proficiency in his favor or if he's just really skilled. Admittedly, this is the same movie where Jennifer Garner's character lacks any powers (at least until her spin-off) yet can jump to another rooftop without harm or leap several feet into the air. However, Bullseye himself is able to [[spoiler: impale her father]] with Daredevil's club (which isn't sharp or strong enough to do so), lift Elektra (a full grown woman) by her neck and is strong enough to lift her in the air [[spoiler:by gutting her]][[note]]in the movie's defense, even the comics haven't specified exactly where Bullseye's abilities come from, other than to have once or twice suggested he may be a low-level [[ComicBooks/XMen mutant]][[/note]].

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Bullseye's skills, whether he has some kind of ability that alters probability and proficiency in his favor or if he's just really skilled. Admittedly, this is the same movie where Jennifer Garner's character lacks any powers (at least until her spin-off) yet can jump to another rooftop without harm or leap several feet into the air. However, Bullseye himself is able to [[spoiler: impale her father]] with Daredevil's club (which isn't sharp or strong enough to do so), lift Elektra (a full grown woman) by her neck and is strong enough to lift her in the air [[spoiler:by gutting her]].

* InexplicablyAwesome: We are given an explanation of Matt's abilities in the form of his chemical accident, but we never discover how Bullseye got his own superhuman skills or even what exact kind of power they are.

** Matt and Elektra's playground fight. It shows Elektra isn't afraid to throw down if she encounters a man giving her grief, but it's also clear Matt's not even trying to win, just play with her. Elektra manages to get the upper hand after Matt holds her around the neck and render him unable to keep fighting. When she later fights Daredevil, she manages to do the same thing, albeit more lethally, and it's also clear Matt has not intention of even winning.

* DeathAsComedy: Bullseye kills a old lady on a flight simply for talking his ear off. This would be such a dick move if the manner he did it (ricocheting a peanut off the back of the seat in front of him into the woman's throat, posing her as asleep, then politely asking the flight attendant for more peanuts) wasn't so darn funny. Then again, Bullseye seems to think ''every'' death he causes is this trope.

* {{Capepunk}}: One of the earliest examples by Marvel due to aiming to realistically show what challenges Matt would face as a street level vigilante with no powers outside of enhances senses and being a lawyer who only defends innocent people. The result is that he is a bitter antihero who's senses cause plenty of inconveniences for him and his law firm is failing.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The film doesn't hold back in showing the downsides of heroism. After a night of patrolling, Matt is in so much pain he can barely stand, he's covered in scars and has various injuries that haven't healed properly, he takes massive amounts of painkillers, his personal life is a wreck as he can't maintain relationships due to his activities and his senses mean he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank. Overall, he's a physical and psychological wreck.