Nope doesn’t do me at all.
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Already covered that one. Other heroes who went off on villains because they killed someone of emotional importance to the hero: Spider-Man, Blade, Green Lantern (current) and a host of others. Although now that I think about it there is a closer similarity in that he finds out years later that the man who killed his father is the same bad guy he’s after now. But then again we’ve seen that before in non-super-hero movies.
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Straight out of the DD comic and before the Batman movie. Also the reporter in Batman finds out because Alfred tells her, in DD he figures it out himself. And there is also a totally different dichotomy between these characters as well. Vicki Vale is Batman’s love interest, Ben Urich is certainly not Daredevil’s main squeeze.
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I already covered this one.
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Whose purpose in the Batman movie was to show the wealth of Bruce Wayne, how he fooled people, and to introduce Bruce Wayne to Vicki Vale. In DD there is a similarity in that he hooks up with his female protagonist as well (although not for the first time), but then once again the comparisons fall apart. Another point of the ball in the DD movie was to introduce Matt Murdock to the Kingpin and to foreshadow Elektra’s father’s death. In the Batman movie the scene was not so plot integral. And I should also point out that there are hundreds of movies that involve a black tie affair to promote characterization.
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And completely different ones, especially with how they relate to the characters. Batman does the hanging thing to more strongly associate him with a bat, DD does it just so he can go to sleep. In other words Batman does it 'cause he feels like it, DD does it because he has to. Or at least that’s how it’s presented in the respective movies. Honestly, you see this as a comparison?
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Again, straight out of the comic. Once saw Bullseye kill a guy with a plastic knife and another time he shot a fly in midair with a paperclip and that’s just the tip of the ice burg. I’ve also seen this sort of stuff in James Bond movies.
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Y’know, it’s been awhile since I saw Batman and I don’t remember that. However I think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s probably a minor point in the Batman movie, whereas in DD it was vital to promote the plot and provide tension between the two main protagonists.
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The grappling hook is the only new thing (it is movie specific) but it works in a practical sense (easier to snag stuff to swing from). Other than that it’s the standard billy club he’s had in the comic for years. How does it having a grappling hook mean it was taken from Batman? Both guys swing above the city, so they’re gonna need a way to do it, grappling hooks just make common sense. However, interestingly enough originally DD’s club had a tape recorder and some other stuff in it making it more Batmanesque, but that was dropped in the sixties.[/spoiler]
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Nope. What you’ve listed a bunch of similarities that are circumstantial (and some of with which we could use your line of reasoning to argue that Batman ripped off the Daredevil comic). I’m sure you could do that any number of movies if you tried.
