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Continuing my series on Daredevil
season 2, here are my thoughts on Foggy’s role moving forward. I would have put this under last week’s
article on “Team Daredevil,” but I really wanted to be able to go into as much
detail as necessary on this one.
Considering where his arc left off, there are a number of exciting
possibilities for him moving forward!
Foggy Nelson
Foggy’s next appearance could
work in just about anywhere. We already
know that Hogarth will be appearing on Iron Fist, so perhaps she will
bring her “junior partner” along. This
would fit in nicely with their efforts to work supporting characters from the
different Marvel Netflix series into each other’s series—Brett Mahoney
appearing in Jessica Jones, Hogarth appearing in Daredevil, and
Claire working her way into all the series.
Most likely, in his next
appearance, Foggy will still be on the outs with Matt, considering the way that
season 2 ended. However, at some point I
think Matt is going to realize that he can’t be a lone vigilante for long
without going crazy and that he needs the support system that Foggy and Karen
both provide. I doubt that they will
restart Nelson and Murdock, but they could work together again at Foggy’s new
law firm.
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The Law Firm
In the comics, there are actually
a surprising number of lawyers who are either themselves super-powered or work
with superhuman law. The two who have
already appeared in the MCU are Jeri Hogarth and Matt Murdock. However, the second-most-well-known
super-lawyer (after Daredevil) is definitely Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. She-Hulk.
In a couple of her most recent
comic arcs, Jennifer Walters actually found herself working for the law firm Goodman,
Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway in their superhuman law office. Essentially, this is an entire office
specializing in the nuances of law which affect superheroes. For example, in her first case, Walters
helped a newly-created superhuman to file a class-action lawsuit against the
Roxxon Corporation for making him all-around a physically better person. Later they enabled Spider-Man to testify in
court without removing his mask by verifying his identity through the Avengers’
database. They even set the precedents
of allowing a man’s spirit to testify in court and using time travel as part of
a self-defense case. These are things
which ordinary lawyers would never even consider doing, but which become a
natural part of life when the world is full of superheroes.
In other words, when New York has
a bunch of superheroes running around and stopping criminals, someone needs to
be able to take those cases to court.
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What Could This Mean?
Personally, I think it would be
absolutely awesome to see something like this on Marvel Netflix. We have already seen this play out on some
level in all three seasons of Marvel Netflix to-date. In Daredevil season 1, Nelson and
Murdock used information obtained by Daredevil as part of their investigation
into Fisk’s activities. At the end of Jessica
Jones season 1, Hogarth successfully used the “mind control defense” to
help Jessica avoid criminal charges for killing Kilgrave. One of the major plots of Daredevil
season 2 revolved around the “Trial of the Punisher,” in which Matt attempted
to justify the place of vigilantes in the criminal justice system and Foggy
succeeded in sowing doubt as to whether or not Frank could be charged with a
crime for his actions.
Superhuman law is actually
turning out to be a “thing” on Marvel Netflix.
And Hogarth is uniting two of its primary practitioners in New York City
at a single law firm.
After all, why else would Hogarth
want Foggy over all the other qualified lawyers except for his experience with
“superhuman law”?
There are two different ways that
this can go. The first is for Hogarth to
take the lead as the partner responsible for putting together the “office of
superhuman law” while Foggy does the primary legwork in trying cases and the
like. The second would be for Foggy to
be the partner in charge of this office who recruits new lawyers and superhuman
assistants who can do the actual work.
Between the two, I’m inclined to think they would go for the first
option, in which Hogarth is still involved but Foggy does most of the work.
If they were to go in this
direction, most likely they would need to introduce a number of new
characters. They already have one
super-powered investigator in Jessica Jones; adding Angela del Toro (White
Tiger) to the mix would be a good move as well.
If Matt doesn’t take on the role of “super-powered lawyer,” a good
second option would be to actually introduce Jennifer Walters on Marvel Netflix
as another lawyer with whom Foggy works.
They could add more over time (speedsters to deliver the mail (because
why not?), for example), but this would be a very good start. And even if they don’t go this far, Foggy (a
lawyer with experience in superhuman law) working alongside a genuine
superhuman at a law firm would definitely suggest that they are moving in this
direction.
Conclusion
Does this mean that we are going
to get an actual “Superhuman Law Office” in the Marvel Netflix shows? No; until they actually announce something
like this, this is just pure speculation.
But considering that they are trying to build a full universe here on
the small screen, it is a virtual certainty that the legal system is going to
continue to play a part in these shows.
And that means that these guys will need a lawyer who knows the finer
points of the law where superhumans are concerned.
Do you want to see a “Superhuman Law Office”
on Netflix? Who would you recruit to
it? Do you want to see She-Hulk appear
in the MCU? Let me know in the comments!
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