Karen Page Essay

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MCU: KAREN PAGE

High Level Character Description

Karen Page is the secretary/office manager/legal assistant for the law offices of Nelson & Murdock and later, an investigative reporter for the New York Bulletin. Page’s crusade to do good came about when she was nearly murdered by an associate of Wilson Fisk, but saved by Daredevil at the last minute. When she discovers that her employer is the blind vigilante, her romantic feelings for and trust in Matt Murdock are severely tested.

Character Origin

Original from Vermont, Karen Page came to New York City and got a job at the construction company known as Union Allied. Coming across incriminating evidence that implicated the company in the many crimes of Wilson Fisk (Kingpin), Fisk’s people …show more content…

Breaking into Castle’s home, she learned of his dead family, realizing there was a bigger story at play then Castle being a simple homicidal maniac. Castle came to trust Karen and even saved her once from the insane veteran Lewis Wilson. Her association with such a wanted man leads Karen to be brought in for questioning by the Department of Homeland Security.

Character Foes

As mentioned above, Karen has a nasty habit for digging where she shouldn’t. She’s avoided being murdered several times, especially when she began looking into Fisk with Foggy and Urich respectively. However, when she sets her mind to something, she gets it done, even if that means making a few enemies along the way. When she first stumbled upon the Union Allied scandal, she brought the might and wrath of Manhattan’s most terrible villain, Kingpin, to her doorstep. This definitely scares her at first, but the fright soon turns into indignation and determination for truth and justice.

Once Fisk went to jail and the Punisher became New York’s latest “threat,” she butted heads with the DA, Samantha Reyes and her assistant Blake Tower. They want the problem of Castle swept under the rug, as they push for the death penalty. Using her gut and investigation skills, Karen discovers there’s more to Frank’s origins than the official line coming from the DA’s

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