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You already know the beginning: Hell's Kitchen. Brave kid. Old lady rescued. Toxic chemicals spilled. Vision lost. Senses heightened. Father killed for throwing a rigged boxing match. Psyche scarred. Justice sought. No fear!
Here is where things get different:
Matt Murdock is 17, and ready to enroll in a Pre-Law undergraduate course at prestigious Empire State University. He has been reading news reports by hot-shot Bugle reporter Ben Urich, exposing dangerous levels of Stimulagen -- the chemical that granted Matt his powers -- in the city's water supply. Urich's reports links this menace with dubious activities in warehouses owned by Wilson Fisk, influential self-made businessman, and reputed mob underboss of Alexander Bont, the Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, feared throughout the neighborhood. However, pay-offs to cops and legal loopholes have prevented any charges from being filed against Fisk or Bont. Matt has made it his personal mission to bring the mob leaders to justice, driving him to study the legal system with an obsessive zeal, and earning himself a scholarship to ESU.
But college life itself presents all kinds of unexpected challenges for Matt.
At home in the Kitchen, his immediate neighbors -- indeed, his surrogate family -- regard him as a fortunate son, urging him to use his academic success to get out of the Kitchen once and for all, like so many of them wish to do.
Matt's childhood buddy, Turk, doesn't have the same kind of opportunity. He has secretly begun considering the offer of becoming a rookie enforcer for cocky local hooligan Pointdexter, who is seen as a rising star in the underworld. Nevertheless, Turk loyally sticks up for Matt, whenever the burly locals accuse him of being a social climber.
Matt's best pal and neighbor, Karen Page, wishes that her friend would spend less time caught up in his personal quest. In fact, she's beginning to think he's keeping secrets from her. Things get even more complicated when a temp agency assigns her to work as a clerk in the Bugle, inspiring her to investigate her evasive pal.
Meanwhile, at school, despite Matt's academic success, he is picked on and ostracized by his snobby peers. Among his few confidantes is the sympathetic Teacher's Assistant, who is none other than Richard Fisk -- the estranged son of Wilson Fisk. Richard claims to want no part of his father's budding criminal empire (alhough he shares his Dad's proclivity for living it up!)
Another friend is his bumbling, affable classmate, Foggy Nelson (who is sort of the Ron Weasley to Matt's Harry Potter, in this version).
Matt has also caught the attention of enigmatic, cool billionaire heiress Elektra Naitchios. But why exactly is she so interested in him?
Amidst the drama of home and school life, a conspiracy is taking shape. Bont has entered into a fragile alliance with the shadowy Japanese underworld group known as The Hand, who have their own sinister designs for Empire City. (This is a similar arrangement to Falcone's deal with the Legue of Shadows in Batman Begins.)
Matt finds himself drawn into this battle for control, when he befriends Stick, an eccentric black war veteran, now working as a janitor at ESU. Stick tells him about the upcoming threat of the Hand, and that Matt is desitned to save civilization itself, from its results. Skeptical at first, Matt realizes from Stick's heartbeat that he is not lying. Matt agrees to be trained in the ways of a sect known as the Chaste.
As the series unfolds, we see Matt dealing with the various dualities in his life: the dimly-lit comfort of the Kitchen vs. the flourescent misery of ESU; his wavering faith in the legal system vs. the apparent effectiveness of vigilantes like The Punisher and The Blood Rose; his staunch Catholic upbringing vs. his 'sinful' impulses, and so forth.
Here is where things get different:
Matt Murdock is 17, and ready to enroll in a Pre-Law undergraduate course at prestigious Empire State University. He has been reading news reports by hot-shot Bugle reporter Ben Urich, exposing dangerous levels of Stimulagen -- the chemical that granted Matt his powers -- in the city's water supply. Urich's reports links this menace with dubious activities in warehouses owned by Wilson Fisk, influential self-made businessman, and reputed mob underboss of Alexander Bont, the Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, feared throughout the neighborhood. However, pay-offs to cops and legal loopholes have prevented any charges from being filed against Fisk or Bont. Matt has made it his personal mission to bring the mob leaders to justice, driving him to study the legal system with an obsessive zeal, and earning himself a scholarship to ESU.
But college life itself presents all kinds of unexpected challenges for Matt.
At home in the Kitchen, his immediate neighbors -- indeed, his surrogate family -- regard him as a fortunate son, urging him to use his academic success to get out of the Kitchen once and for all, like so many of them wish to do.
Matt's childhood buddy, Turk, doesn't have the same kind of opportunity. He has secretly begun considering the offer of becoming a rookie enforcer for cocky local hooligan Pointdexter, who is seen as a rising star in the underworld. Nevertheless, Turk loyally sticks up for Matt, whenever the burly locals accuse him of being a social climber.
Matt's best pal and neighbor, Karen Page, wishes that her friend would spend less time caught up in his personal quest. In fact, she's beginning to think he's keeping secrets from her. Things get even more complicated when a temp agency assigns her to work as a clerk in the Bugle, inspiring her to investigate her evasive pal.
Meanwhile, at school, despite Matt's academic success, he is picked on and ostracized by his snobby peers. Among his few confidantes is the sympathetic Teacher's Assistant, who is none other than Richard Fisk -- the estranged son of Wilson Fisk. Richard claims to want no part of his father's budding criminal empire (alhough he shares his Dad's proclivity for living it up!)
Another friend is his bumbling, affable classmate, Foggy Nelson (who is sort of the Ron Weasley to Matt's Harry Potter, in this version).
Matt has also caught the attention of enigmatic, cool billionaire heiress Elektra Naitchios. But why exactly is she so interested in him?
Amidst the drama of home and school life, a conspiracy is taking shape. Bont has entered into a fragile alliance with the shadowy Japanese underworld group known as The Hand, who have their own sinister designs for Empire City. (This is a similar arrangement to Falcone's deal with the Legue of Shadows in Batman Begins.)
Matt finds himself drawn into this battle for control, when he befriends Stick, an eccentric black war veteran, now working as a janitor at ESU. Stick tells him about the upcoming threat of the Hand, and that Matt is desitned to save civilization itself, from its results. Skeptical at first, Matt realizes from Stick's heartbeat that he is not lying. Matt agrees to be trained in the ways of a sect known as the Chaste.
As the series unfolds, we see Matt dealing with the various dualities in his life: the dimly-lit comfort of the Kitchen vs. the flourescent misery of ESU; his wavering faith in the legal system vs. the apparent effectiveness of vigilantes like The Punisher and The Blood Rose; his staunch Catholic upbringing vs. his 'sinful' impulses, and so forth.
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