I've always loved Bullseye as this psychotic villain who still has a literally me aspect and I never understood why he did didn't catch on like the Joker
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I've always loved Bullseye as this psychotic villain who still has a literally me aspect and I never understood why he did didn't catch on l...
Joker had The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, Arkham Asylum: ASHOSE, Batman (1989), and B:TAS in succession. I don't think any other villain has had that level of exposure in such a short time and by that many big names.
Bullseye also doesn't have the same style to his character, he's ultimately just a psycho assassin
Hard to adapt him for a cartoon too
True.
Bullseye also has a deeper element of being in love with Daredevil than Joker has with Batman
Joker's schtick is being a criminal mastermind who commits mass killings with bombs and gasses. Bulleye is a hands-on killer that acts as a hired assassin or a right-hand man. You can write stories about Joker doing shit by himself but Bullseye requires Kingpin or Norman Osborne's involvement.
You're not getting it, Bullseye is about being a psycho who loves killing. This reflects the darkside of Matt who secretly loves beating the shit out of people and gets joy out of it just like bullseye.
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My favorite Bullseye moment was when he got BTFO'd by some D-list hero with actual superpowers, shit was so satisfying to watch.
Everyone always loves Bullseye getting dunked on and I don't get it
It's a shame American Eagle didn't really take off after that Thunderbolts run
thats some really good art
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This is shit.
It's traced Deodato garbage.
Personally, I always thought Bullseye's design is too boring and generic. Like if you stuck him in a D-list group villain shot, he wouldn't stick out at all if you know nothing about him.
He's a mob hitman that's really accurate what do you want?
Bullseye has very little adaptations outside of comics, most of which don't use his distinctive costume from the comics, and Daredevil adaptations in general don't get seen by anywhere close to as many people as Batman adaptations. It's impossible to get a villain to the level of popularity and recognizability the Joker has without putting in decades of effort and having decades of massively successful movies and shows to get you there.
Frank Miller fricked him over.
After Miller made him a big time character by having him kill Elektra, he broke his neck and then put him in a hospital bed with the intent that he'd stay there forever, trapped in a hell where he couldn't move let alone speak but able to see/hear everything around him.
Then motherfricking Denny O'Neil came along and gave him an adamantium skeleton and had Daredevil/Bullseye have a big fricking fight in DD #200 that ended with Bullseye declaring a Joker-tier vendetta against DD because Miller ended his run with the reveal that DD had been sneaking into Bullseye's room every night since he crippled him, to basically taunt Bullseye by offering to euthanize him via Russian Roulette but then go "psyche!" to psychologically torture him for killing the woman he loved.
O'Neil intended to bring him back to write DD and one of the projects was "Elektra Lives Again" which would resolve the ambiguous ending of his run with Elektra's status of being alive or dead or what not. And Miller intended to have Elektra and Bullseye kill each other in this special, so he ordered an embargo on Bullseye, meaning NO ONE could use him whatsoever.
But Miller kept delaying the release of ELA (to the point that it became vaporware for a lot of comic fans who kept getting told "it's coming"), that finally, editorial broke and allowed Anne Nocenti to bring Bullseye back in the pages of Daredevil for her final arc on the book. And editorial got cold feet on killing him off that ELA, when it was finally finished, became a glorified What If comic minus the Watcher as far as not being canon.
Frank Miller did good in crippling him. Why the frick bring him back after that? That's so cheap.
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Batman is one of the most popular superheroes and that elevates Joker who is one of the most popular villains. If Daredevil was an A tier hero then Bullseye would be more popular as well.
What is his gimmick again?
Who is his arch rival again?