Freudian Excuse/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in the [[Brian Bendis]] run on the comic book ''[[Daredevil]]''. Daredevil has spent his life tormented by the monstrous Bullseye. When Daredevil discovers Bullseye had a horrible childhood, the hero feels no sympathy, and says he will never fear Bullseye again. A mass murderer is scary; a mass murderer who kills because he had a crappy childhood is merely pathetic.

** Possibly because of Daredevil's ''own'' [[Backstory]]. Maybe not everyone can spin "Blinded by toxic spill at age twelve and single father was coerced into not suing due to carelessly negligent waste handler's mob ties" into "hot-shot lawyer AND superhero", but ''still''...