Always A Catch

  

Matt Murdock. The man without fear. The Scarlet Swashbuckler. 

Daredevil.

Radar sense, heightened smell and hearing, superb acrobatic agility, a skilled tracker with unparallel encyclopedic intellect. Formidable hand-to-hand combat skills; including Ninjutsu, Judo, American-style boxing all infused with his gymnastic capabilities.

 Lawyer by day, masked vigilante at night. 

These kinds of heroes are my kind of heroes. I don't go for the superhuman extraterrestrial type who can lift mountains and fly at supersonic speed. I mean, sure it's cool, but it detaches us from our humanity. There are articles on how people idolise Superman because he is the idea of a perfect being, and these fanboys just end up feeling inferior. Heroes like Daredevil are the ones to look up to. Real humans with disabilities(in this case, he's blind) and prone to injuries and diseases as much as any normal human being. Every time he battles to save the lives of innocents, there is always a high chance that he could die or be very seriously injured. Every wound, bruise and fracture he takes would take as much time to heal as anyone else. 

But he's willing to take the law into his own hands and protect Hell's Kitchen, to protect the lives of the innocent civilians. There's nothing 'super' about it. He wasn't sent from some distant planet, he's not a mutant, he's not a guardian sent by an Asgardian king....he's just a guy doing good. 

There's humanity for you.