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Why do people consider Daredevil "normal."


He can map out a building just by listening, he can predict bullet-fire by reading a gunman's body language, control the physics of his baton with Captain America's level of precision, and hear and smell things on the other side of a massive cityscape. Those are things no normal man can ever do no matter how hard they train. By definition, that makes Daredevil an enhanced human. You can't argue that his blindness reduces him to a normal man. You amputate Spider-man, he would still have super-strength and reflexes.

And than there's there's the fact that Clair's whole arc is predicated on Daredevil being a "special person." The moment she ran into him in the dumpster, her fate would be intrinsically tied to enhanced humans. How could he be her foreay into that world if he isn't like Luke and Jessica?

Jessica: "I know we scare you, and you've never met people like us."
Clair: "You don't scare me, and you're not my first."

Clair: "I met a blind man who can see, because his other senses were so enhanced....I want to help people, people with, abilities."

The mother than talks about the Avengers, and tells her that she's going to keep running people like them. A whole lot of the dialogue and development in these shows makes no sense if Daredevil is a normie.

Daredevil is NOT Batman or the Punisher. He can do things Batman can't. He has unnatural advantages in a fight that truly normal super-heroes don't.

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I've never seen him referred to as normal. Matt Murdock is somewhat normal but not Daredevil.

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Even the Punisher is "more" than human. He can take abnormal amounts of pain and abuse and heals faster than normal. A normal man his age would take weeks to recover from some of those beatings. He is out the next day fighting. He's not "super," but he's a notch or two above "normal." Same with Matt.

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Who called Daredevil normal?

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