Comments on: Beyond the radar – some under-used Daredevil skills

By: Shanti

Shanti — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:30:14 +0000

“Either way, the hearing heartbeats thing is pretty impressive (and makes him impossible to hide from),”
Ah, this remind me of one crossover fanfic on ff.net when Matt get hired by Angel who doesn’t have heartbeat.

Speaking of heightened smell sensitivity, there are some people who can’t get use to it. It’s called sensory defensiveness.

By: Duane Thomas

Duane Thomas — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:30:11 +0000

“As an aside, Daredevil still seems to be smelling cordite everywhere, even though they stopped manufacturing the stuff many years ago.”

Interesting. You’re one of the few people I’ve ever met who knows that. When I watched Collateral and the detective in the alleys said, “I can still smell the cordite,” I could only think, “I sincerely doubt that.” lol.

The range of things that you can do with your sense of smell is extraordinary even when we consider what a person with a sense of smell toward the high end of what we’d class as “normal human” can accomplish. For instance I once had a girlfriend who had an extraordinary sense of smell. When someone was walking up behind her, granted the wind was right, she could tell they were there when they were still 20 feet away, simply because she’d smell them. Not only that, she could tell if they were male or female without even looking. She told me, “It’s kind of hard to explain, but women smell sweeter than men. Whereas men smell kind of bitter.”

By: PikkuPiru

PikkuPiru — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:54:12 +0000

hey, you’re right. I didn’t think far enough about it
ok, now, let’s find Marvel’s mail box …

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:23:57 +0000

Thank you very much for your kind words! Now, write Marvel and tell them that.
The reason I tend to think of superhearing as being worse than a heightened sense of smell is that 1) hearing (too) loud sounds is physically painful, whereas smelling something generally is not, and 2) that people get used to smells more quickly. Standing in an alley filled with urine and garbage is no picnic, but if you stand there for half an hour, your nose gradually gets used to it. I guess I just see the heightened sense of smell as something that would be easier to adapt to over time, but that is my own personal interpretation.

By: PikkuPiru

PikkuPiru — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:11:21 +0000

Great post, ! I’ve always wondered why theses abilities were never used as they could … ok, i’ve never had the chance to read the whole Daredevil comics, but …

You speak about how much pain it would be to endure so much sounds … but don’t say anything about how horrible it would be to live in such a big city, surrounded by all kinds of people – so many don’t think that a regular shower is good also for others -, garbage, cars and whatever, toxic waste … with a crazy enhanced nose. Sure he’s used to it, but hey, even with a nose not really working half of the time like mine i can’t stand living in a city for too long. It’s just too much awful scents. I think if he really had this nose, he’d be forced to stand far away from any people whenever they open their mouth, and think about those alleys full of garbage, smelling like pee and i don’t know what, where he always ends grabbing the bad guy … wow, really, you’re right, no wonder why he’s so on edge …

anyway, i love your blog (huh, site, now ?), i read it whenever i can. Your eye on the character is so good, you should be taken as a consultant ! The comic would be seriously improved !

By: Darediva

Darediva — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:02:00 +0000

I guess this could explain another reason Matt moved back from San Francisco? All that techtonic shifting going on in California?

It would be relatively easy for DD to find meth labs or pot smokers. The war on drugs has taken a bit of a back seat to bigger problems in the Kitchen. DD could be cruising through the city and probably pick up on dozens of illicit labs. Maybe he should start carrying a cell phone and drop a message to CrimeStoppers about where these places are, and not waste his time busting them himself.

Even in my reality, tinnitus really sucks. I can’t imagine having ultra-hearing, because sometimes this ringing makes me want to scream. ULF sounds carry so far. Hearing the cacophony of the big city would grate on anyone’s nerves. Small wonder DD is wound so tightly.

Good post, Chris, as usual. DD could be pretty much on the level of Batman in the detective department, I’ve always thought. Just don’t ask him to cut the red wire to stop the ultimate destruction of the world.