Trivia for Daredevil. * This series takes place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. * Daredevil is the first of many Netflix series that will lead up to an eventual crossover in The Defenders. * DeKnight, the showrunner, was heavily influnenced by Mark Miller's run of The Man Without Fearˆ comic run while adapting Daredevil for Netflix. * Charlie Cox stated that Daredevil is much darker than anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to this point. * The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios) was originally intended to be a parody of early 80's comics including Cerebus, Ronin, and Daredevil (Marvel). The traffic accident involving a blind man and a truck carrying radioactive ooze, In the original TMNT comic, Splinter witnesses a boy struck in the face by a