#but slade wilson is like a bad person because he continually chooses to be a bad person.

[mysteriousbeetle]

the thing about slade wilson is that pretty much everyone he's been involved in the lives of would have been better off without him.

[geneshaven]

No Choice To Make

There is a special place in my heart for the earlier seasons of Arrow. Olicity coming together, Slade Wilson, Roy, Moira, Thea, and God help us, Laurel. But there were some iconic scenes, and in particular in Season 2, Oliver saving Felicity from the Count in episode 7 and that little moment afterwards when Oliver and Felicity are alone after John left.

This little one-shot is about that little moment. I have taken the liberty of adding my own head cannon on how it should have played out.

 After Felicity told Oliver that she was sorry for putting him in the situation to choose to kill again, and after he took hold of her hand and assured her that there was no choice to make, Oliver watched Felicity smile at him and then turned to leave.

But it wasn’t his touch that brought a surge of heat into her heart. It was a new kind of courage and conviction that suddenly awakened inside her. She had more to say to Oliver, a mix of desire and need that cascaded through her mind. It was as warm and comforting as his hand grasping hers. She felt her body heating up, and not because of the blanket Oliver had wrapped around her shoulders. No, this warmth went deeper, down to the secret she has been holding onto ever since he brought her that shot-up laptop.

Felicity is in love with Oliver Queen.

She had met the man first, before he became the hero his is now. However, after what happened tonight, she could not deny that she was in love with the hero too. Watching his physical skills as he faced the danger was a powerful attractor, and not just tonight but every night since she came onboard with John and Oliver to help save the city.

Despite Oliver’s inner demons and the violence that had ruled him for so long, Felicity saw from the very beginning the tenderness and gentle comfort he gave her. Okay, he  did lie to her about that laptop and about that silly sports bottle snafu, (to name a couple that stand out) but when he  displayed his soft-spoken concern about her as he knelt down to comfort her after killing the Count---Felicity could no longer deny her feelings for him, could no longer keep her secret.

So, as Oliver turned to leave after touching her, Felicity reached out and grasped his arm, as if her own comforting touch was the only thing that could tame his inner conflicts. “Oliver,” she spoke to him, looking into his eyes as he turned back around to face her. “I’m…I have something else I want to say. Uh…if you have a few more minutes to spare.”

Oliver gave her his full attention. “Yeah,” he responded. “Of course. What’s up?”

Felicity was hyper-conscious of her hand still resting on his arm. This was definitely a night of touching, she thought. Maybe it was still the lingering relief and excitement of what happened when she watched him come down that hallway to save her, moving with graceful steps and a determined look on his unmasked face. But she knew it was really her conviction in letting Oliver know how she felt about him.

She could feel him waiting for her to continue. There are certain moments in a person’s life that are defining. Felicity heard somewhere that relationships have a tendency to bring people together on a more intimate level when a shared moment of trauma or a dangerous situation like her and Oliver went through tonight. But this was not their first rodeo together. Normally, Felicity was not psychically present when Oliver took on the bad guys. But tonight it was simply a case of Felicity being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Without Oliver’s skills, she was nothing more than victim. It did not sit well with her.

“Oliver, I want…” Felicity hesitated, suddenly unsure if this was the right time to let her feelings out. She knew Oliver had a lot on his plate right now, with his mother and Thea spiraling through a maelstrom of jail and court in the aftermath of Merlyn’s evil plot to destroy Staring City. But Felicity also knew that if she didn’t tell Oliver how she felt, that moment would be gone, maybe forever. She felt like someone stumbling around in the dark, losing her way to the light.

“Oliver,” she began again. “I wanted to talk to you about…about how you make me feel.”

Like Oliver, there was no other choice to make. As the three words that she had been holding onto suddenly spilled out into the space between them. It felt like the perfect way to end this crazy night.  

@memcjo @hope-for-olicity @it-was-a-red-heeler @swordandarrow @1106angel @cruzrogue @icannotbelieveiamhere

[scandalsavagefanfic]

Ok but the worst person to cheat on Jason, even though that the cheating itself would be pretty bad, would be Dick. Like it's pretty much a given that if Jay and Dick ever got together every relationship issue that they ever had would be pinned on Jason even if it wasn't his fault so if Dick cheated pretty much everyone who saw them from the outside would be like " What did Jason do this time " or ''Damn Dick deserves much better than that guy'' and that would destroy Jay's self-esteem even more

Oh my god this so fucking true though. 

I don’t remember how I ended up with so many asks about Dick cheating (there are... at least two others waiting for me) especially since I don’t see Dick cheating. Dick is the type to love love and I don’t see him ever intentionally doing something he knows can or will hurt his partner. 

That said... I dig the angst factor of this so I wrote a little something. 

Probably For the Best

Rating: Teen (I guess)Words: 1157

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Tim stares at his mug; at the steam rising off the dark, umberliquid, and chews on his lip. It’s better if he doesn’t say anything. Certainlybetter to not ask what he’s thinking.

“At least he didn’t try to deny it,” Jason is saying, pokinghis fork at his untouched eggs. “I… just between you and me, Timbo, I probablywould have believed him if he had. I trusted him enough that I could have easilyconvinced myself I was just imagining things. Isn’t that messed up?”

He looks wrecked. Like he hasn’t been sleeping well, if atall. His hair is all untamed curls, sticking up all over the place and he has darkcircles under his bloodshot eyes. Maybe even lost a few pounds.

Tim watches him tip forward, resting his elbows on the table,dropping his head into his palms and digging his fingers into his hair. A deep,shuddering sigh wracks through his body. Like he’s trying to stop himself from gettingchocked up.

It’s been three days since Dick and Jason had a huge, blowup, fight and split. Maybe for good this time if what Jason is saying is true.

Except Tim has a feeling there’s more to it than Jason istelling him.

“Timmy?”

Tim shifts in his seat as he focuses on the heartbroken manacross from him. He loves Jason, he does, but… he loves Dick too. He wants tobe supportive and understanding but he can’t lie to Jason either. And he can’treally throw one of them under the bus for the other right?

There has to be a delicate way to say what he needs to say.To gently guide Jason to see it for himself.

“That sucks, Jay. Really. I’m sorry this is all happening. Whathappened?”

“What do you mean what happened? I just told you. Dickfucking cheated on me.”

“So there were no… signs or anything?”

“Other than the used condom I found when I took out the trashno, Tim, there weren’t any damn signs.”

Tim swallows and chews on his lip again, letting the pauselinger, trying to decide how best to continue.

“It’s just… that doesn’t really sound like Dick, you know?He’s not really the type to cheat for no reason.”

Even as the words leave his mouth he knows he’s made amistake.

The way Jason stills, lips forming a thin line, nostrilsflaring slightly, confirms his fear.

“What the hell does ‘for no reason’ mean?” He asks, voice alot softer than Tim would have expected. “Is there an acceptable reason to cheatthat I don’t know about?”

“I just mean that, sometimes, when a relationship is…complicated or on the rocks, it’s not uncommon for one or both partners to tryto find what they’ve lost with someone else.”

If Tim didn’t know any better, he’d say Jason’s eyes arestarting to look a bit glassy and wet. Even so, Jason manages to glare at himsilently for moment.

“That’s not a reason to cheat. If you’re together, there’san implicit agreement to talk about shit, work your problems out like adults. Andthen, if you can’t, you end it. You don’t… you don’t tell someone you love themand then jump into bed with someone else the moment they leave the apartment.”

“Well,” Tim starts, smiling, trying to hide his next pointin a joke, “You’re not the easiest guy to talk to, Jay.”

However Tim was expecting him to react it wasn’t like this.

Jason’s jaw drops a fraction and all the muscles in his facerelax, falling into something young and vulnerable.

Then his whole body deflates and he sinks back into hischair.

“This… this is my fault.”

Tim cocks his head and narrows his eyes. Can it really bethat easy to show Jason that Dick’s not the bad guy? Or, at least, not the onlybad guy.

“I mean, whatever happened, Dick probably played a part init, so I’m sure there’s enough blame to go around. But, hey maybe this is forthe best, you know? You guys fought all the time, you can’t have been happy.This is a chance to start over. You can find someone more your speed and Dickcan find someone—”

“Better?”

Jason is watching him so closely, face impassive, sea greeneyes locked onto even muscle twitch.

It’s hard to tamp down on the instinctive, reactionary side ofhis brain that answers Jason’s question with a resounding ‘yes’. After all,Dick is kind and funny and bright and just generally kind of perfect. Everyone whomeets him loves him and he could literally have anyone he wanted.

Jason, on the other hand, is… abrasive at best. Kind of aloner. The hermit to Dick’s social butterfly. They really were the weirdestcouple.

“That’s not what I was going to say, Jason,” Tim scolds, hopinghe sounds stern but withering a little under the way Jason’s intense gaze doesn’tbudge, keeping him pinned.

“Nah. You’d never say it. None of you would. ‘cept maybe B.But that’s what you were thinking, isn’t it?”

He could deny it. Wants to, just for Jason’s sake. He doesn’twant to hurt him. But it’s too late for that. It’d be perfunctory. Jason cansee the truth written on him. So Tim just shuts his mouth. Best to just letJason say his piece.

“This is what’s my fault,” he says, waving his hand betweenthem, “Not Dickhead cheating on me. I loved him and he… he fucked someone else.In our bed. I was gone for a single day. He didn’t even wait for my side to getcold.”

Sighing a big, shaky exhale, Jason stands, tosses way toomuch cash on the table and grabs his jacket from the seatback.

“I don’t know what I was thinking. Why I thought this wouldbe different. How could I have been so stupid? Of course this was my fault too.Probably more my fault that any of those dumb little fights, huh? Dick’s toosweet—too nice—to be a dick. Jason must’ve driven him into the arms of another.It couldn’t just be for completely selfish reasons, huh?”

Tim opens his mouth to… say something, anything. Defendhimself and the others. Jason isn’t exactly wrong, they do usually sidewith Dick but it’s… it’s because… it’s not like that. They aren’t automaticallychoosing one over the other. It’s just that Jason is… always wrong?

Even thinking it doesn’t feel right.

Fortunately, Jason doesn’t seem interested in what Tim hasto say. He just jerks his arms through his jacket, shoves his hands in the pocketsand faces Tim once more.

His expression is a façade of strength. But Tim can see thedefeat etched into every heart-broken line.

“I hope you think Slade fucking Wilson is an acceptable improvementfor your golden boy.” 

[burnbrightdoll]

arrow : characters

okay y’all - this is going to my ‘review’ of arrow’s season one. this not going to be spoiler free - so you guys have been warned. overall, this has been a really good season. i have mentioned before that i am not a comic book fan, so i don’t know how accurate everything is. so this is just a joan regular person take on it. this will also be long, so get a drink and be ready to hear my thought’s or don’t. your choice. 

it will all be under the cut so spoiler’s (or honestly it prob won’t be that terribly spoilery but better to be safe than sorry. god, that sounded like a safe sex ad.)

i will be doing three posts. i realized they would be a billion pages long if i put them all together. the character’s, the relationships, and the plot - are going to be what i choose to focus on. you can look at all of the posts if you go to my blog and search: lila rambles a lot - other rambles and reviews will be there too!

this will be focusing on the characters and my feelings on them! we are going to skip talking about shado, yao fei , slade wilson and edward fyre - as that whole island thing is very a big part and as i continue to watch, a post will be coming about them. i will talk about the flashbacks in my plot post. 

the characters / character’s not in flashbacks :

let us talk about the protagonist, oliver queen for a moment. i like oliver. i like the way the writers made him grow as a person. they made him grow from the rich playboy who would cheat on someone he cares about. the island changed him and maybe in some ways for the better. he takes on a persona of someone who wants to right wrongs and i applaud him for that. he is guarded and only lets a few people know her alter ego. over the course of the season, you see him not only change for the better and his alter ego change as well. he is a person you want to punch in the face and kiss simultaneously. he is a likeable character who i am very excited to see grow and evolve. 

now, keeping on the theme of the queen’s - i am going to talk briefly about thea for a second. i love thea. she was hurt by her brother’s and father’s presumed death and her actions clearly showed that. she turned to drugs and underage drinking to cope with something out of her control. since oliver coming back into her life, she has made some bad decisions. driving at eighteen under the drug vertigo  - is not a good life choice. but being forced to work with laurel, clearly has had a positive effect on her. she meets roy because of it and seemed to have developed what may be a pretty decent relationship. like oliver, i am excited to see her character grow and become better. 

i am going to ignore robert (because i don’t really have an opinion on him) and go straight to the matriarch of the queen family. moira. good freaking lord woman. i have such conflicting views on her. she seems so happy and great with her kids and then the show tells us what she did. she is conspiring with malcolm and doing bad things. she bothers me but the writers did a good job creating her that way. even having oliver back, has seemed to have no effect on choosing to go on the ‘light’ side of things. i am intrigued where they will take her. 

now, onto walter steele. i like walter honestly. they made him a strong person who does have a lot of love for the queen’s. i liked how close thea and him became and his relationship with moira is something. it is turbulent in the sense of lies and deceit are so prevalent. he really does work for the plot, as he puts everything into motion. maybe not everything but a lot of stuff that seems to be coming to a boil. i just like walter and hope he doesn’t turn out to be bad. 

now, i am going to talk about the ladies of this show. starting with one felicity smoak. i will say it - i stan felicity already. she is hilarious and rambles a lot (which i feel on a personal level). the chemistry between her and oliver is really well done and the stuff she says to him is amazing. she is such a friendly face inside the darkness of all the hood stuff, and oliver and diggle are so lucky to have them in her life. also - s/o to green arrow for making her a tech girl! i am way too excited to see her become more confident and happy. 

now, laurel lance. what a bamf. she lost her boyfriend, her sister, and her parents (sorta) in one swoop. she is a an amazing character who is so strong and she doesn’t back down. laurel is also a character who is emotionally compromised but it works for her. she develops a relationship (which i will talk about in my next two posts) with tommy - which i feel like made her character a little bit better. i want to see more of laurel in court and being more awesome. 

skipping over sara and dinah - we are going to talk about quentin lance. he is your typical, grieving father who is a badass cop - on paper. but they made him more than that. he is a strong character who loves his daughters so very much. he is very ambitious and is hellbent on catching the vigilante - which i do admire actually. quentin is the person you don’t want to mess with and i am so glad he is in the show honestly. he adds something to the show. 

now - let's talk about the better of the merlyn father and son duo - tommy merlyn. i liked tommy. he stood his ground when oliver essentially jerked him around and made him out to be nothing more than a secret keeper. tommy did have his low points, breaking up with laurel seemed bad but he clearly had his reasons. he is a good friend to oliver, and like so he goes through a transformation over the course of the season. he becomes less of a party boy and more responsible. i am impressed with the way they handled him. 

malcolm freaking merlyn. that man, ugh. i hate that i like him. he is a horrible person but i love john barrowman so i love him. his character reminds me of charles manson tbh. he is charming and good looking like manson, and they both have been associated with such destruction and death. i am excited to see how long simmering things go with him.

finally let’s talk about john diggle. that man is a god send. he tries to get oliver to see the light with things and he is a sweet man. he had gone through so much and doesn’t let it get to him. he tries so hard with oliver and it seems to work sometimes. he wants one thing and he stands his ground so well when it all comes down to it. i love diggle and can’t wait to see him do more in season 2.

[daresplaining]

Do you think Matt is better suited as a prosecutor, or a defence attorney, as he seems to have been most of the time? Which, in your opinion, does he seem to prefer?

    This actually doesn’t come up as much as you might think, so it’s hard to point to a specific panel and say “Hah! Yes, Matt prefers ____”. There’s also not a ton of consistency, and he will occasionally jump from defense to prosecution from one case to another without explanation. But his general trend is toward defense, and since that’s the type of law he’s practiced for most of his career, we can assume that’s what he’s most comfortable with. He hasn’t shown a particular talent for one over the other either. He’s a good lawyer no matter which side he’s on, but overall, he’d rather spend his professional life keeping innocents from going to jail than throwing bad guys in jail– which is part of the reason why he does the Daredevil thing in his off-hours. That way, he is able to balance out the occasional instance of defending people he knows are guilty. And that leads right into your other question, so we hope you don’t mind if we go ahead and answer that here too…

    All the time. There’s a reason he’s been disbarred so many times. (Actually, there are two reasons, but we’ll leave the Kingpin out of this for now. The problem is mostly Matt.)

Judge: “Our issue is less with your sabotage of the Ogilvy case than with Nelson & Murdock’s now-disclosed history of ethics violations. Your past activities as a vigilante, as well as the questionable actions you and your partner have taken to preserve that identity, leave us no flexibility. With a heavy heart, this court hereby disbars Matthew M. Murdock and Franklin P. Nelson.”

Daredevil vol. 3 #36 by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, and Javier Rodriguez 

    Matt is a moral guy but a very unethical lawyer, simply because he does operate on both sides of the law. Every single case he takes on is tainted in this way, because he nearly always uses his Daredevil identity and powers to gather evidence and determine guilt. At this late point in the Marvel universe (and with the exception of the period when the Superhero Registration Act was being enforced), being a vigilante doesn’t seem to be quite as illegal as it is in our world, simply because there have been so many dang superheroes around for so long. However, Matt is put on trial for vigilante activity– which we’ll be talking about later in the post– and it’s still a clear breach of legal protocol, and not what a lawyer should be doing. There’s also the factor of his powers, which he uses on a regular basis to give himself an edge, and on which he relies to an unwise degree. He hates defending guilty clients, and has gotten himself into trouble before by trying to determine guilt via heartbeat. All of this isn’t just a Matt problem, by the way– though it does tend to come up more with him than with other superhero lawyers. There’s a great issue of She-Hulk, for example, (She-Hulk (2004) #1, to be specific) where Jen loses a winning verdict because she saves the world while the trial is going on, and the judge rules that this biased the jury in her favor.    

   But Matt is the Unethical Lawyer poster child when it comes to this sort of thing, and this conflict has been a major theme in Daredevil comics, particularly within the last decade-or-so. With this in mind, we’re going to be providing just a few examples, rather than a comprehensive list of offenses.  

   The “Worlds Collide” story from volume 4 #15.1 focuses specifically on this dichotomy of legal work versus superhero work. Early in both his legal and… extralegal careers, Matt is assigned to defend a man who he apprehended as Daredevil. While spending his nights trying to ascertain whether his client is actually guilty, in court he is put in the position of arguing against the concept of superheroes.  

Matt: “What are his motives? What does he want? I want to know who this man, this ‘Daredevil’– who is, essentially, accusing my client of murder– I want to know who he is. Other than a criminal. We know he’s at least guilty of assault… and, in the case of the defendant, involuntary imprisonment. Consider the facts… An unknown man in a disguise attacks someone… tackles him to the ground… and yet it’s the person who was assaulted who gets arrested? This isn’t justice. And it’s not how the justice system is supposed to work.”

Daredevil vol. 4 #15.1, “Worlds Collide” by Marc Guggenheim, Peter Krause, and Matt Wilson  

   Matt is fully aware of the irony of making this argument and yet continuing to try and determine his client’s guilt as Daredevil. He knows what he’s doing is wrong, and he cares deeply about his career as a lawyer. That’s an important point that we want to make clear. It’s not just a cover/source of intel for his secret life, as jobs occasionally are for superheroes– he genuinely loves being a lawyer and cares about the legal system. But even in this story, at this early point in his career, he feels justified in taking massive liberties with the law for the sake of ensuring that justice is actually done. He’s a self-assured enough person to believe that he knows best, and that his interventions as Daredevil are fair and necessary. That doesn’t mean they are– but that’s his mindset, and it always has been.

Matt: “A man murders. He leaves clues. He did it. He’s guilty. He’ll pay for the crime. Simple. That’s the beauty of justice. Daredevil tracks him, Matt Murdock makes him pay. Simple, gorgeous justice. When I’m poor, blind Matt Murdock, it’s easy to believe in the law, in the courts. Why is it, soon as I put on this suit– I feel that belief cracking? Doesn’t matter. Tonight will be different. I’ll reel the killer in, and the courts’ll get him locked up for life. Pure, beautiful justice.”

Daredevil vol. 1 #251 by Ann Nocenti, John Romita, Jr., and Christie Scheele

    (By the way, this is a good example of what we were referring to in response to your first question. Matt is thinking like a prosecutor here.)

    To explain his willingness to cross these lines– if not to necessarily justify it– we need to look back at his origin story. A key part of his decision to become Daredevil in the first places was the fact that his father’s killers didn’t go to jail for their crime– and I’m partial to renditions of his origin that make clear that he only goes after the Fixer and friends himself after they’ve been put on trial.

Matt: “We did it all by the book. The police weren’t surprised that Sweeney and Slade were involved and it wasn’t long before they were arrested. But, on the day of the bail hearing, suddenly, they had some Park Avenue attorney. His hair gel cost more than what Foggy and I were wearing.”

Daredevil: Yellow #1 by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale   

   He sees justice fail, and so steps in to pick up the slack. Whether this was a good move on his part is up for debate. He unintentionally causes the Fixer to die of a heart attack long before he has a chance to go to jail, for instance, which is a moral issue all on its own. But with this inciting, highly personal incident always in the back of his mind, and as his legal career continues to show him the gaps and weaknesses in the system, he feels continually justified in filling in the cracks with his own brand of crimefighting.

    But credit where credit is due– right now, at this very moment in the current run (spoiler alert!), Matt is taking steps to address this issue. He and the D.A.’s office are attempting to set precedent for allowing superheroes to legally contribute their skills and testimony to criminal investigations, without being forced to reveal their identities.  

Matt: “Slug’s gang escaped, but we got him, and I picked up plenty of evidence with my super-senses. If the judge lets me testify, I can put him away, and maybe get him to turn over on his crew. It is legal. I’m sure of it. And if I can pull this off… if I can testify without taking off my mask, then we all can. Any secret identity hero. Spider-Man… even Blindspot. […] It could change everything. Our powers let us gather evidence the cops just can’t. If we can present it in court, legally… no more tying up bad guys, leaving them for the police and praying the system can get a conviction. We can be part of the process from start to finish.”

Daredevil vol. 5 #22 by Charles Soule, Goran Sudzuka, and Matt Milla

    This still doesn’t seem to address the fact that Matt is both a superhero and a lawyer, and is still free and willing to interfere in questionable ways in his own cases with no oversight– but hey, it’s still a big deal.  

    Generally, the instances of Matt behaving unethically that are emphasized within the narrative specially for being unethical, involve Matt trying to protect his life as Daredevil. His identity has been leaked to the press twice. The first time, fortunately, the journalist was discredited before the story got too far or Matt had to make any big moves. But the second time, when his secret identity is printed on the front page of the Daily Globe (not to be confused with the Daily Bugle) during Bendis’s run, he is forced to choose between accepting the charges or lying, both in public and in court. He opts for lying (with Foggy’s full-if-uncomfortable support), and the two of them even go so far as to sue the Globe for libel.

Foggy: “Working either side of the law? This means Matt Murdock defrauded the American justice system by faking a trial against Daredevil. And that’s just the most recent example. Matt– you can’t. You can’t come clean. You can’t come out. First? You’ll get disbarred. And then… then you go to jail. You know I’m right, pal. So the thing we do? We fight this. […] We get up on the highest tree and we scream: liars! We sue everyone in sight until their heads spin off their bodies.”

Daredevil vol. 2 #33 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, and Matt Hollingsworth

    When he is put on trial for operating as a vigilante, Matt contemplates fighting his way out of the courtroom and just running away, before deciding to plead not guilty. He does, notably, feel bad about all this later, and reflects on it in volume 3 #36 when he finally decides to out himself as Daredevil. But that certainly hasn’t stopped him from lying and playing with the law since.

    Arguably the most egregious– and certainly the most memorable– example of Matt’s shaky legal ethics (which Foggy references in the excerpt above) is the “Playing to the Camera” arc (DD vol. 2 #20-25). This plotline centers around Matt and Foggy getting hired to sue Daredevil, allegedly for causing some major property damage. Matt knows he didn’t do it, and is affronted that his honor is being impinged by some troublemaker pretending to be Daredevil. Despite the obvious immorality such a thing would involve, and Foggy’s protestations, Matt takes the case to keep control of it and prevent other lawyers from snooping around in Daredevil’s business.    

Matt: “Foggy, if we don’t take the case, Griggs’ll keep at it until he finds someone who will. Like Claude Unger. And the last thing Daredevil needs is Claude Unger poking around in his life.”

Foggy: “We can’t do it, Matt! It’s insane! To say nothing of the ethics! Allowing yourself to be hired to sue yourself– it’s illegal! You could be disbarred!”

Matt: “It’ll die on the vine. Remember, the case has no merit. Once we investigate and I find this imposter, it falls apart, end of story. It’ll be over inside of a week.”

Daredevil vol. 2 #20 by Bob Gale, Phil Winslade, James Hodgkins, et al.

   Surprise– it’s not over inside of a week, and it does go to court, and Matt finds himself in the position of having to sue himself. He manages to be in two places at once by convincing Peter Parker to pretend to be Daredevil, going behind his (DD’s) lawyer’s back in the process. It’s a hilarious, utterly unethical mess– and one Matt is perfectly willing to undertake for the sake of protecting his identity.  

    In short: lawbreaking is inherent in the superhero genre, and Matt’s position as a lawyer and devotion to the proper functioning of the justice system in no way prevents him from bending legal ethics to their absolute limit.