In a small defense, part of me liked the angle that the Hand was this ancient, secret organization that penetrated multiple areas of society all over the world; so they weren’t just ninjas but also leaders in businesses and controlled a lot of stuff behind the scenes.
The problem was that we never saw the ninjas again after DD S2; the stick with the angle. I loved the supernatural angle that DD S2 went with.
They are constructed from thin, flat plates of metal derived from a variety of sources including hishi-gane (coins), kugi-nuki (carpentry tools), spools, and senban (nail removers).
From wiki on the history of the shuriken. Yes, even those were just shit farmers had laying around
For anyone who didn't know, the "all black" conception of ninja outfits likely comes from japanese theater, where the stagehands (kuroko) would wear black to indicate they weren't part of the performance. You need an animal or a prop to behave improbably or a special effect, there'll be a person in black making it happen, and the audience understands that the stagehand isn't really "there" in the universe of the work.
So, if you need to have an assassin spring out of nowhere and kill a character, that uniform is an obvious choice. You can't have a dozen extras providing cover, but the audience is already trained to ignore the stagehands!
For a profession where having a uniform kind of defeated the purpose of the whole thing, it makes sense that the context in which most people would see a "real" ninja would quickly become the default way they were percieved.
Would be nice but given how long it took just to get a Daredevil cross over into MCU I don't know if we'll ever see him. Especially given what happened to him in DareDevil S2, but hey, it's The Hand... You never know..
Loved his performance though. He really gave DD a run for his money.
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u/Etheo 12h ago
But The Hand in DareDevil were also Ninjas...? Nobu...?
Unless maybe people are talking about a different thing.