The Dark Knight
Summary
monition : contains pillager for Daredevil : Gang War # 2!One of the more memorable parentage from DC’sThe Dark Knightjust got an homage from Marvel to celebrate the rise of a major young bountiful bad . Heath Ledger ’s Joker give audiences some ofThe Dark Knight ’s most memorable quotes , but perhaps the best is from a picture between Michael Caine ’s Alfred and Christian Bale ’s Bruce Wayne . “Some men just require to watch the humans burn,“the butler warns his ward .
That line of business gets echoed inDaredevil : Gang War # 2by Erica Schultz , Sergio Davila , Sean Parsons , Ceci de la Cruz , and Clayton Cowles . While the original movie ’s line is let out for the heroes to make sense of a villain as interrupt as the Joker , this comic issue sees Madame Masque offer it as her own endgame forNew York ’s growing Gang War .
Marvel’sGang Warevent see the city undergo a devastating 48 - hour warbetween New York ’s various criminal empires . Having taken out many of her most pregnant opponents , and with the city ’s Cuban sandwich well in hand , Madame Masque is close to becoming Marvel ’s unchallenged crimelord .
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Madame Masque Puts a Twist on Iconic Dark Knight Line
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Madame Masque recently becameMarvel ’s most severe villainby becoming the primary catalyst for its major crossover upshot , Gang War . She manipulated multiple parties against each other to craft a city - wide war between all of the local gangs fighting for each other ’s territory . As chaos builds and line is spilled , Masque plans to draw the rewards once the dust settle down by take all her rivals ' territorial dominion . Elektra ’s Daredevil is one of the wedge on handwriting to settle the blast of New York , but has so far been snub by Bellona - aclone of Wolverine ’s daughter Laura Kinney .
Impressed with what she has seen from Bellona so far , Madame Masque shape an alliance with her . Masque makes it clear that she hired Bellona largely because she trusts her to sow chaos across the city . Masque take on she"likes to watch the world burn . “With Bellona ’s mission a success , Masque gives her the hazard to pull up stakes , but the assassin or else determine to throw in her quite a little with the villain . It ’s seemingly no accident that Marvel would cite such an iconic motion-picture show line , asif Madame Masque continues to gain , she ’ll be moving into the A - listas New York ’s unchallenged crimelord .
Madame Masque’s Potential as a Top Marvel Villain Is On Full Display
Despite a Rocky History, Masque Deserves the Upgrade
To sell reader on a new top baddie , specially when that baddie is an old grapheme who was n’t always range that highly in reader hold , it ’s significant to showcase them in import where they assert their power . So far , Marvel has done a terrific job at sell Madame Masque as a scourge hem in by an puzzling aura . Not only did she create the domino gist to startGang War , but she was able to enrol a top private investigator into her social status not based on leverage , but on their belief in her capabilities and sight . The Dark Knightline is just a cherry red on top to establish Madame Masque ’s big role in the Marvel Universe moving forward .
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