Daredevil season 2: Charlie Cox admits he is 'not a fan of the superhero genre'

Luckily, he is a fan of the show he stars in

The superhero thing is getting a tad old, isn’t it? Not according to fans, as Deadpool has broken numerous box office records earlier this year and Batman v Superman is on track to beat the pre-sale numbers of The Avengers.

With Hollywood pumping out at least 35 superhero films between 2016 and 2020, it is no wonder that almost every actor under the sun has played - or is set to play - a superhero at some stage, even if they don’t like the genre itself.

One of those actors is Charlie Cox, who portrays the hero Daredevil in the Netflix series of the same name. He told the Guardian how he is “not a fan of the superhero genre” but was drawn to Daredevil because it felt “like a crime drama with superhero peppering on top”.

One discussion point this raises is have superhero films at this stage surpassed being their own genre? For instance, Ant-Man could be seen as a heist film, while Captain America: Winter Soldier can be a political thriller. As Cox points out, Daredevil itself is a crime drama. So is it unfair to tarnish all films that feature a superhero film with the same brush?

If so, would saying you ‘dislike the superhero genre’ be meaningless, as each one falls into its own genre? But - then again - there is a definite genre when you look at superhero films, one which revolves around a superpower being beating bad guys, saving the day and blowing up a few cities in the process. It is much the same as how Westerns all focus on a gunslinger who takes out bad guys in the wild west.

So, even though he plays a superhero in a superhero show, Cox still isn’t a fan of the superhero genre, which may/may not be seen as a genre of its own in the first place. Daredevil season 2 hits Netflix tomorrow.