Matt Murdock has many problems in Daredevil: Born Again — and a complete lack of chemistry with his canon girlfriend is absolutely up there.

When I first started the show, I was tentatively interested in Heather Glenn, who meets Matt during a blind date set up by Matt’s current law partner. They had some cute moments in the first episode, but soon it turned out that Heather had no personality of her own outside of helping Mayor Fisk and his wife with their relationship, the serial killer Muse, or Matt. All we ever saw of their relationship is generic couple stuff that then morphed into even more generic bickering.

I feel betrayed by that first episode, wherein he literally sweeps Heather off her feet to pull her to safety as a crowd rushes in. Where did that energy go?

It’s a shame, because Matt Murdock is so damn charming! He has easy banter with almost everyone. There are a lot of people in the show that he interacts with that have more sizzle and pop than Heather — as well as more defined personalities and character arcs. In fact, there are so many that I just had to rank them.

I’m just saying if you’re trawling through AO3 and you spot an OC x Matt Murdock fic, where the OC in question is an intrepid reporter with a vaguely Eastern European name and long dark hair living in NYC…........

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