What if... Karen Page had lived?
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The story opens with a guy at a diner (who's clearly Bendis) recapping Matt's life.

He goes onto say how Karen was murdered by Bullseye and sent Matt on the downward spiral that he is currently on.

In this version of events, Karen is not killed but is instead injured and hospitalized. Almost losing Karen puts Matt in a state of rage and he finds out that Kingpin was the one who started the chain of events that lead to her predicament.


Matt attempts to give himself up to the police but Fisk had, in the event of his death, set up documents for his legal team exposing Matt as Daredevil that implicated him in his murder. As such the police arrest Matt first and he instead comes off as a guilty man being caught.
Foggy defends Matt in court and various public heroes like Captain America and Reed Richards come forward as character witnesses.




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Date: 2017-01-31 10:04 pm (UTC)My favourite is "What if... Spider-Man killed Uncle Ben's killer?", because the end IS optimistic, no matter how grim the initial premise. I bought that bad boy twice, once when I was a kid and again recently because I couldn't find the first copy. I think it might have even been one of the first Marvel books I ever bought... man...
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Date: 2017-01-31 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-31 11:11 pm (UTC)Marvel everybody!
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Date: 2017-02-02 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-31 11:47 pm (UTC)It's fine with me, I always liked the "anything can happen"-ness reading them growing up
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Date: 2017-02-01 12:00 am (UTC)It gets kind of repetitive after a while.
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Date: 2017-02-01 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-02-01 01:58 pm (UTC)Seriously...Jessica Jones and Captain America. OTP.
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Date: 2017-01-31 10:31 pm (UTC)I was gonna say there's no way Matt would get the max (hell, they'd likely give him Involuntary Manslaughter at the most), but this is still 616!Marvel: Home of the Ungrateful Bastards.
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Date: 2017-02-01 02:20 pm (UTC)Also he was bothered how no one seemed to care about Karen's death in the comics after the fact so he wrote in Matt having a nervous breakdown over it to bring it back to the forefront, so I don't think his motif was "people need to get over it".
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Date: 2017-02-02 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-02-01 12:02 am (UTC)Kind of odd.
"She lives! And then runs away forever and is never heard from again."
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