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Anyone else hate Karen? (SPOILERS)


I hate this woman so much. Her martyr ways has gotten too many characters killed - her coworker, Elena, Ben. It pains me that the writers didn't kill her off in S1. Like why is she even alive? She's completely useless (except for getting another character killed), she's overbearing af. She completely ruins this show for me. Please tell me she is different in S2 than in S1.

One day in the year of the fox came a time remembered well...

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Same old complaints...

1. Her co-worker, according to his wife, had already noticed something was going on, and with his wife's encouragement was planning on blowing the whistle on it. His wife actually blamed herself.

2. Watch the scene, Karen has zero to do with Elena's death, she is not the one who persuaded Elena to turn down Fisk's deal. That was Foggy, he was insistent that she not take it. Karen said nothing. Fisk then later admits that he had Elena killed specifically to draw out Daredevil, so you can blame that on Matt if you want.

3.Ben's a big boy, he made his own decision. After telling Karen he was not following up on Fisk's mother's story, he chose to go out on his own and find corroborating evidence, and then to make an aggressive and very public effort to get it published.

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Same old? This is my first time visiting this board...

I don't think we are watching the same show if you think the 3rd point is true. She manipulated Ben into visiting Fisk's mother (which was one of the reason he died) when he had given up a writing the story about Fisk and was taking the promotion. Secondly, he was waiting for a source to establish link between Rigoletto and Fisk's father and it was her nagging which pushed him to write up the story and push it. Her constant "we can't let him get away with this or that" spun Ben's death into motion. Perhaps he would've died eventually, but she sped up the process.

One day in the year of the fox came a time remembered well...

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Yeah, I don't know why people want to blame Karen, rather than the people who actually did the killing.

Hell, I've seen some people put blame on her for the death of the guard who attacked her in jail, when he was killed by Fisk's people as coverup, not by Karen.

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Hah, I came here to say the same thing (though Elena was more Foggy's fault). She's also exceedingly reckless (like the whole thing with Fisk's mother).

I've just finished S1 E11 and the series is starting to drag. So far I'm 0 for 2 with Netflix's Marvel series (didn't care for Luke Cage either). Hopefully Daredevil S2 and Jessica Jones are better.

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She is worse in season 2. She gets attracted to men because she fantasized over fixing them and then is all sulky and sad when they push her away.

She keeps putting pressure on Matt to get what she wants, she is egoistic as hell.

And she is even worse in The Defenders, everything has to revolve around her, she is so immature and overbearing.

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So why is it exactly that so many female characters must be hated for their flaws but male characters flaws get overlooked?
She can get a little righteous and judgemental and stick her nose into everything...but then so can Foggy. At least she isn't boring. If you want to connect the dots to blame her for everything you could also do it with other characters..It depends on what you're objective is.
If you want a shy sweet demure and passive female maybe you should watch another show.

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So why is it exactly that so many female characters must be hated for their flaws but male characters flaws get overlooked?

What nonsense are you spewing? This is the longest and most ridiculous leap I've seen in a while. No one said anything that would make any intelligent person believe this has a thing to do with gender.

Foggy is hated as much as Karen, if not more, and the posts over the years have made that clear.

People like you are a blight on society. Despite the lack of evidence you want to turn simple issues into discrimination. Grow up.

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What are you ..12? You're doing some leaping there with some cute little righteous indignation.
Why don't you read the initial post that I was responding to and realize I was not talking to you. Clearly you jump to conclusion, discuss by insults because... god knows ..how dare I think differently than you..
Go argue with someone else.

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Take a breath before you type. Maybe then your feminist anger won't get in the way of you forming an intelligent sentence.

People are allowed to dislike other people, male or female, without it being about gender.
Remember, this forum is in the real world, not your "girl power, man hating" land of nut jobs. If you advertise your crazy here, that's all you'll accomplish; Looking crazy....

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TBH people complained about Matt "whining" during season 2 lol

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Exactly my point. It has nothing to do with gender.

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