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Stryzzar wrote: He probably does like Daredevil, but I remember reading that he was a huge fan of Batman and he thought playing Daredevil was a close second.

Makes sense. Still one of the big complaints of the season of Oliver's badass decay. Anarky was so chaotic he'd make Oliver's fighting style sloppy too. I know they delved into her origins rather than keeping her as mysterious old woman on Daredevil. It fits that she's more significant in Iron Fist lore considering where she's from. I see where you're coming from with the whitewashing. Ah but that's the thing, another point of critique was they've severely overused the "rich white guy going missing and coming back after being trained in skills that led them to be a superhero" plot as of the past decade. Nolan's Bruce Wayne, Arrow's Oliver Queen, and Doctor Strange all had pretty much the same origin story as that.

Or just have Jack Nicholson or Mark Hammil do their rendition of the classic Joker. Just looks at the reception every time Mark shows up on The Flash to do his Trickster. I really liked The Batman version of Barbara Gordon, her introduction made the show much livelier and exciting. They seemed to have Barbara stand in for Harley Quinn as Ivy's best friend, with Ivy herself being far younger. They do mix up Batman lore quite a bit, while keeping it interesting. They also had that Clock King guy in one episode who could reverse time. Gotham does the Batman lore shuffling too, but often not as successfully. Penguin and Riddler being a gay couple was really out of left field. That was literally the only reason they did that, because her pheromones would be too inappropriate to do for a little girl. If that's the case they should have just cast a teenager/young adult to play Ivy to begin with. That is what i saw from Ben Affleck himself in an interview, he said him and Matt Damon loved those Daredevil comics.

Well they were trying to make Anarky into some sort of threat. The thing that has always made him dangerous to Batman is that he can rally the people to his cause. That was the dangerous part about him. Yeah Madame Gao is from Iron Fist comics. They of course explore that and she takes advantage of Danny by just making him not able to trust anyone. Then he trusts the wrong people. Also that superhero origin has been done before, but that was the thing. They took it from the Doctor Strange books to do it. It was always done that way. The only difference is that he was abused as well as trained at Kun Lun.

Frankly i would prefer an old amazing Joker to a young tatoo weirdo. Actually the guy who could control time never was called the Clock King. He was just a normal guy down on his luck and turned to crime because of one bad decision. However he corrected his mistake because of his son. Now he works as Batman's repair guy for the grandfather clock in Wayne Manor. Most of the time they do it well. It is just that they underuse characters and have the occasional plot like Penguin being attracted to Nygma. (They were never a gay couple) Well then they couldn't tell the story of Ivy and Selina when they were little. It is a shame too because Clare Foley is a really good actress and does the part of Ivy well and they just recast her because the new one is hot.