Why does Daredevil's cowl have eyeholes?
In the final episodes of Daredevil 2015, he acquires his 'official' character suit. In the previous episodes he wore a scarf fashioned into a mask that covered the top part of his face.
Daredevil's 'official' cowl contains what appear to be two eye holes. What purpose can these serve?
Best Answer
An eyeless mask might tip villains off that Daredevil is blind. This has at least 2 negative outcomes:
- It alerts them to certain physical vulnerablities that they can now exploit;
- They now know he's a young, built blind man, which might narrow the choices down and jeopardize his secret identity.
It actually makes you wonder why he didn't have eyeholes until now. Stan Lee reportedly commented on the subject with the same reasoning:
When they made The Trial of the Incredible Hulk TV movie, with Rex Smith as DD, Stan Lee saw that the mask had no eyeholes and asked why. They said that it was because he was blind. Yeah, said Stan, but no one was supposed to know that!
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Answer 2
Also, a more obvious answer is that the guy who made him the red costume didn't know he was blind, so assuming he could see, he made him a costume with eye holes.
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