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| “ | There's this mystique about art. A shared fiction, if you will. An artist presents a piece to the world in its finished form, and pretends that it simply appeared that way, effortlessly birthed from his genius. Both artist and audience prefer to believe that's the truth. It's nice to think that the really good creators have some direct connection to the divine. But it's a lie. In reality, it's hours and hours of missteps, frustration, and bad ideas that get sliced away to reveal some kind of truth. It's never easy. In fact... It's agony. | „ |
| ~ Muse |
| “ | I had so much beauty left. | „ |
| ~ Muse's last words before succumbing to the fire and dying. |
Muse is a psychopathic serial killer and a minor antagonist in Marvel Comics, being an antagonist to both Daredevil and Blindspot. He is a deranged and mysterious serial killer who believed that he was giving his victims purpose by mutilating their corpses into a twisted form of "art".
A man with a massive god complex, he would question why heroes such as Daredevil cared for his victims and when finally defeated by Blindspot, refused to allow the hero to win, to the point where he committed suicide to avoid being caught and incarcerated by Blindspot.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and murdered hundreds of innocent people and turning them into twisted works of "art" via twisting all their blood and gore into large murals or other displays.
- He anonymously sends a letter to the vigilante Blindspot of the address of an abandoned warehouse where he had planted his latest work which consisted of a mural with blood from over a hundred missing people.
- He would return the scene of the crime weeks later and defaced the mural, replacing most of it with the phrase "You're only as good as your last performance" to taunt Blindspot.
- He left a new address at the crime scene that directed the police to a vacant building. Inside one of the floors, Muse had planted the corpses of six Inhumans he had previously kidnapped, posing them as mannequins with props as if they were performing mundane tasks.
- He taunts and toys with Daredevil by appearing at his vicinity only to gleefully escape when being confronted by the latter.
- He kidnaps Judge Laird, Pearson and two random police officers, bringing them to the sewers where he intended to use them all for his latest work.
- He captures Blindspot and upon being confronted by Daredevil again, he gouges Blindspot's eyes out, blinding him before fleeing the scene.
- Muse taunts Daredevil once more by breaking his own fiingers, stating that's what Daredevil would've wanted, for him to be unable to create more works of "art which is a lie as his fingers would eventually heal not long after.
- He escapes his incarceration at a high-security detention level in New Attilan, brutally killing twelve guards in the process.
- He went on to vandalize numerous landmarks of Manhattan with giant-sized irremovable graffiti made of human blood that featured different vigilantes showing support for them and their defiance against newly-elected mayor of New York Wilson Fisk's anti-vigilante policies.
- His "support" for Daredevil and other vigilantes such as The Punisher is a result of him relating their situation to his while he was imprisoned, which inspired him to escape and continue his work.
- While finishing up the mural of The Punisher, he murders a group of police officers who had arrived at the scene and adorned the graffiti with their corpses.
- When being confronted by Blindspot for the atrocities he had committed, Muse shows no remorse for his crimes and attempted to justify it by doubling down on his crimes being a work of art and by extension, an expression of himself.
- When Blindspot refuses to kill him, he walks into a burning pile of debris to kill himself and in his own way to achieve his victory and master his own fate by avoiding punishment for his crimes.
Trivia[]
- Muse is confirmed to make an appearance via set photos in the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again Show where the character can be seen making graffiti art critiquing the moral nature of Wilson Fisk. It is currently unknown to whether his MCU counterpart would also be Pure Evil.
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- Muse on the Villains Wiki