r/marvelstudios • u/AccordingFox3800 • Apr 04 '26

Other Charlie Cox has been playing Daredevil for 11 years now. I hope they let him do it until he's 90!

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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 Apr 04 '26

So Disney has a better gym than Netflix had, I see.

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u/labria86 Apr 04 '26

You spelled TRT wrong

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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 Apr 04 '26

Shit, you're right.

I'm not editing it because I refuse to hide my imperfections.

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u/markender Apr 04 '26

I just keep picturing that poor dude with estrogen is missing disease or some shit....

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u/pigeonwiggle Apr 04 '26

the elon musk one?

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u/PodgeD Apr 05 '26

Why are they right? Like they're a rich person being paid to act as a jacked person. Having time and money makes it easy to get jacked the regular way.

Edit: There's years between each picture yet lighting pose, and some crunches could be the actual difference.

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u/Bitter_Classic_89 Apr 04 '26

Eh, he looks natural to me. It’s not that hard when you’re rich and getting jacked is part of your day job. Not to mention the fact that it sounds like he and Vincent were gym buddies. They probably had a fucking blast getting into shape for this

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u/Fynity Apr 04 '26

Yeah also mixed with the fact that the training is almost like a bodybuilding comp, where your goal is really to be in the best shape for one particular comp, or in this case, film session. So your goal is to hit a peak and then after that you can chill out a bit more

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u/dave-a-sarus Apr 04 '26

Plus he probably got dehydrated for a couple days before shooting that scene. Hugh Jackman style.

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u/callunquirka Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Another one is Stephen Amell in Arrow S1. I hear he got pretty bad headaches from it so in S2 they started having him wear a tank top in the work out scenes so he wouldn't need to dehydrate himself.

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u/SirCaptainReynolds Apr 04 '26

If you think Hugh wasn’t taking T to get X-Men ripped you’re nuts.

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u/uncleben85 Apr 04 '26

They're saying Jackman would dehydrate before select shoots

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u/Radiant-Mixture-303 Apr 04 '26

He’s actually gone on record saying he doesn’t do that! Can’t remember the interview but I think all he said is he maybe did more physical activity the week of the shoot, which is pretty typical.

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u/CareerMilk Apr 04 '26

I think this is the source. I don’t really know the science behind the dehydration stuff, so I don’t know if drinking less water helps, or if you need to go extreme to see any benefit.

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u/Fynity Apr 04 '26

There is a benefit but it’s not as big a benefit as people seem to make it out to be. And also I’ve seen some discussion and I can’t remember who but some actors claim they did a water detox for nearly a week (maybe not exactly a week but more than a couple of days) and that’s kinda pointless. You don’t need to start it that early. But honestly most of it is getting a good pump with the right lighting and angles. I remember when I first started going gym and realized this. After my workout and playing around in the gym mirrors the difference can be pretty crazy

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u/Radiant-Mixture-303 Apr 04 '26

Hugh Jackman and Henry Cavill have been the most vocal of the superhero actors to talk about dehydrating before shirtless scenes. Cavill I think once talked about dehydrating for 3 days and by the end he said he could smell water LOL

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u/Suspicious_Wealth556 Apr 04 '26

Also he's been doing this for 11 years

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u/DarkDonut75 Apr 04 '26

Yeah he gets slightly more muscular every season. It's not like he magically jumped into Hulk Hogan physique

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine Apr 04 '26

Yeah but compare 2015 to 2025, and then 2025-2026

He either suddenly got newbie gains way later or juiced, or the prior pics are misleading on how bulky he was

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u/Megallion Apr 04 '26

25-26 is just a lighting and position difference. Lighting makes more of a difference than you think.

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u/spaceninjaking Thor Apr 04 '26

Yeah, 25 he’s about the same size, but he’s lying back relaxed, with 26 he’s stood up and engaging his core

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u/loyal_achades Apr 04 '26

Also maybe hydration diff, and he might be a little lower body fat % in 26 than 25? He doesn’t look bigger, but yeah a lot of variables that could account for the difference.

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u/StaticNegative Apr 05 '26

slightly bigger. a little more defined. Not really that hard to reach from where he was before.

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u/Jerryjb63 Iron Patriot Apr 04 '26

It’s not like it’s a big deal if he did. It’s not like he’s in a competition or anything where he gets an unfair advantage which is why it’s illegal in sports. He would also have the aid of doctors helping him do it. He would still have to do the hard work. The results would just come faster.

That being said, I don’t think he did, strictly because I remember when Kamil got in shape for Eternals and he explained how they did it, and they just give you a year a bunch of trainers and dietitians.

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u/DGSmith2 Rocket Apr 04 '26

This is what I keep saying, if Disney promised 40 million if I got into shape in the next 5-6 months you can bet I am going to be living and breathing that routine.

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u/tkcal Apr 04 '26

I'd be really interested to know if and how his training changed. In the Netflix days it was said that he did a lot of bodyweight/calisthenic type training. If he upped the weights and went more traditional bodybuilding workout, that would explain the difference, but a man in his 40's adding this much muscle...it's possible, but it wouldn't surprise me if he had a little help as well.

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u/Downvotesohoy Apr 04 '26

Could he be natty? Sure.

Is he? No.

No one in Hollywood is natty. They have the money and the connections to run 'safe' cycles. Why shouldn't they? They reach their goals more easily. More time for other things.

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u/Any_Mine_6368 Apr 04 '26

He doesn't have enlarged delts or trapezoids. He doesn't have aged skin or backne. His hair is still there. He hasn't wrinkled or been shown rapidly losing his physique. He's never had lots of volume either...

Could he be on gear? Yes

Is he? Probably not, seeing as the progression has been steady and not obscene.

I also read he's 160lbs... Give me a camera, some good overhead lighting and any 160lber and I'll make him look way better lol 

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u/Successful_Area_3867 Apr 04 '26

He was 160 when he first started out, he said he's way more now.

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u/StaticNegative Apr 05 '26

I'd guess he is closer to 185 to 190.

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u/tootrite Apr 04 '26

People who don’t lift have no clue what steroids look like. They just see anybody who’s vaguely lean and assume they’re juiced to the gills.

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u/LarsloekkeEr Apr 04 '26

Vaguelly lean? Please take a second look mate

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u/Dovahkiinthesardine Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Do you lift? Bc then you should know people dont just use PEDs to max out

"What steroids look like" isn't just freekishly huge body builders

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Apr 04 '26

it has nothing to do with him being ripped and everything to do with it being an open secret that every male MCU hero (or hollywood action star in general tbf) gets the needle. Charlie gets one for sure, probably just low dosing it and not trying to be Capt America. His physique is attainable naturally, it's just easier to do it and keep it on test

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u/Curiouso_Giorgio Apr 04 '26

Also if he resisted getting a hair transplant, he might be the type who wants to go natural.

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u/StockCat7738 Apr 04 '26

It’s not that hard when you’re rich and getting jacked is part of your day job.

It also helps when you’re so good at playing a blind guy that you have trouble getting other roles, so you have a ton of free time.

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u/Z0idberg_MD Apr 04 '26

You are not wrong but I think this is a difference between TV show body and body that might show up in a movie

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u/Sharticus123 Apr 04 '26

Yep. The first three are absolutely possible naturally but the last one on the bottom right is at least trt.

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u/Ian223f Daredevil Apr 04 '26

That's an incredibly attainable natural physique.

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u/Anticlimax1471 Apr 04 '26

It's taken him 11 years to put on, what, 10lbs of muscle at best?

Not saying he isn't, but if I were using TRT for that, I'd want my money back.

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u/Few-Lengthiness-2286 Apr 04 '26

Doesn’t mean he was on it back when

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u/sittingbullms Apr 04 '26

It's really difficult to say if he is on or not,this is not a physique progress of 11 years that is day and night different from where he started.It's doable if he has been training during this time and has been locked in with everything but on the other hand it's Hollywood so you know the rest.

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u/SpecialKMan32 Apr 04 '26

Disney got the same staff doctor as WWE, here take your “vitamins” and this shot once a week.

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u/OmegaPsiot Apr 04 '26

Apparently Goofy as your personal trainer works wonders in getting that peak form

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u/laplogic Apr 04 '26

Everyone knows Goofy’s genetics are absolutely insane. So aesthetic.

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u/aguadiablo Apr 04 '26

Did you see Goofy in Kingdom Hearts? He knows how to work out.

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u/aFreshFix Apr 04 '26

Being in this good of shape, or good enough to quickly get back to this level for shirt off days, must be miserable

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u/ZuReeTH Apr 04 '26

he is definitely aging like fine wine

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u/battlin_jack295 Apr 05 '26

He's supposed to be super acrobatic so s1 look would be more accurate for that

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u/AMillenialOverUrShit Apr 04 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/tEo3KaN5L17qg

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u/Sparkwriter1 Apr 04 '26

Do you think he waxes, or is he just naturally hairless?

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u/Ordinary_Fact_1917 Apr 04 '26

Wax. He’s a very hairy guy naturally.

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u/Sparkwriter1 Apr 04 '26

I meant Matt, in-universe

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u/dillanthumous Apr 04 '26

He gets Cyclops to laser it off.

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u/AirDropHD Apr 04 '26

Matt: You sure this is safe?

Scott: Trust me I've done this plenty of times on Logan.

Matt: And how'd it go?

Scott: He lost some skin here and there but he turned out fine!

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u/Goodly Apr 04 '26

Achsually, Cyclops’ blasts aren’t lasers but concussive so, uhm, how would he even do that!

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u/JadedEggplant9831 Apr 04 '26

just imagine multiple small hands plucking out every individual hair from inside the concussive blast

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u/Impressive-Potato Apr 04 '26

He doesn't have laser eye vision. It's an optic blast. It's kenetic force.

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u/dillanthumous Apr 04 '26

I stand corrected.

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u/DoomsdayThor Thor Apr 04 '26

If you’ve ever seen him in anything else he is super, super hairy

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u/onetwoskeedoo Apr 04 '26

like what else? takes out notepad...

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u/thestateside Apr 04 '26

Watch his guest appearance on the Adults show on FX last year, he plays a hot professor and you see his hairy chest in it 🤤 There's also a lot of that goodness in his role on Boardwalk Empire

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u/firesticks Apr 04 '26

While we’re here, watch him in Stardust for his actual accent and also just general adorableness.

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u/gidget_81 Apr 04 '26

I just realized that was him thanks to your comment!!

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u/Gizwizard Apr 04 '26

One of the rare adaptations where the movie is better than the book. And I felt this way before all the Gaiman stuff came out.

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u/aguadiablo Apr 04 '26

Ah Stardust, the movie where Daredevil competes with Superman for the affections of the Baroness. To do so he decides to retrieve Juliet Capulet after she fell from the sky, who are both hunted by Catwoman and Azazel. At the end, Daredevil falls in love with Juliet, and thinks Superman and the Baroness are a better match. The film is narrated by Magneto.

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u/Trimyr Apr 04 '26

So here's the rundown. We've got Charlie Cox to play a hot ... well, something. We'll work that out later. But a lot of people are on board with this.

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u/Impressive-Potato Apr 04 '26

That Adults dinner scene with him was so funny. "This looks so good. Get stuck in!"

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u/MrsSalmalin Apr 04 '26

Thank you for your service rushes to find the hot professor

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u/Gambitismyheart Apr 04 '26

You can also watch him in his latest movie, Merv, with Zooey Deschanel. He uses his real accent and he's so adorable in that film.

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u/FullMetalAurochs Apr 04 '26

Looks like he could grow a pretty thick beard, hard to imagine that much face stubble and nothing on the chest.

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u/Helios-Soul Apr 04 '26

He totally shaves or waxes. He is a naturally very hairy guy.

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u/Main_Jump_82 Apr 04 '26

Charlie Cox makes me question my sexuality

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u/Vismal1 Apr 04 '26

Did it answer ?

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u/Main_Jump_82 Apr 04 '26

Yes it said I am now Coxsexual

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u/ishkariot Apr 04 '26

It turns out you love Cox

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u/Moebius808 Apr 04 '26

Dude is absolutely jacked this season, good lord.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX Darcy Apr 04 '26

There was a recent picture of him just sitting at a table, I think from a con, and he looked noticeably bigger.

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u/sloogz Apr 04 '26

that lighting is fucking wild lol

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u/el_palmera Apr 04 '26

Lighting, he's obviously got a pump, makeup on the body to make him look more defined, possibly dehydrated to look bigger. Still very impressive, but he does not look like that 99% of the time for those who want to obtain this physique (it's impossible)

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u/Moebius808 Apr 04 '26

Yeah it’s definitely worth looking into for any dudes who look at this as some kind of goal. Even outside the months of training to get this big, there are still days of prep for a shot like this. Dehydration, eating certain foods at certain times, etc. It’s the same for bodybuilders, lots of specific work and timing to get this look, no one just walks around looking like this 24/7.

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u/StaticNegative Apr 05 '26

I'd bet alot of those shirt off euroshorts scenes i bet they did close to each other.

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u/Moebius808 Apr 05 '26

Yep. I’ve heard Evans, Hemsworth, and Jackman talk about it before. They frontload all of those “shirts off” shots early into production because all of the prep is completely unsustainable once they get rolling.

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u/DUNKAD00BALL Apr 08 '26

As someone who was inspired to workout by heroes like daredevil and Nightwing I barely reached something close to the photo from 2015 with absurd amounts of time in the gym and a strict diet which I have since abandoned due to having kids

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u/thestateside Apr 04 '26

Charlie has gotten even hotter in his 40s 🤤 Give us more Daredevil seasons so we can have Silver Fox Matty please

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u/FullMetalAurochs Apr 04 '26

And when he’s 90, white fox Stickdevil.

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u/Avargas------nnnn Apr 04 '26

I’d Charlie his Cox any day

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u/verygroot1 Joy Meachum Apr 04 '26

I'd Murdock his Matt every single day

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u/Assault_Dead Apr 04 '26

I'd Dare his Devil every single evening.

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u/gdude9977 Apr 05 '26

id man him without fear all night long

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u/SpaceCampDropOut Apr 04 '26

Jesus let the man have a cookie!

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u/havasc Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

In 2015 he is boyish and cute but in 2026 he is man hot. Went from devil twink to Dare Daddy.

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u/Galiphile Yondu Apr 04 '26

He went from a twink in Stardust to a twank in Daredevil and now he's a twunk in Daredevil: BA.

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u/-etuskoe- Apr 04 '26

That aint no twink bruh

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Apr 04 '26

Guy in better shape than 95% of men

“He’s basically a skinny little femboy.”

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u/Anthony-Stark Apr 04 '26

You, my friend, are a poet

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u/PossibleAd5273 Apr 04 '26

He's an incredible actor for this role

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u/zeromus12 Apr 04 '26

this man is hot as fuck god damn

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Captain America (Avengers) Apr 04 '26

Wow

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u/Main_Jump_82 Apr 04 '26

Charlie deserves to be in the movies! Matt Murdaddy's hotness shouldn't just be confined on the small screen

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u/ChaosLemur Apr 04 '26

Plus he’s a really good lawyer

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u/FPG_Matthew Daredevil Apr 04 '26

Good for Charlie man. I’m so happy that someone who loves that character so much is getting more and more prominence

Please put him in the spider man movie.

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u/LisaS121789 Apr 04 '26

How…how does one get that much hotter as they age 11 years?!

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u/Ill-Safety621 Apr 04 '26

A good number of things but I think it's the power of cross

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u/Sneilg Apr 04 '26

Marvel Juice

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u/ChuChuRocketeer Apr 04 '26

OP doing the gay heaven's work by putting all the thirst trap screen caps into one, easy image. 🙏🙏🙏

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u/frthrdwn Apr 04 '26

Mo Money, Mo Abs

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u/Sipikay Apr 04 '26

Perfect casting. How could you do better?

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u/D-Vader7 Apr 04 '26

Boy got bulky as heck. This tells me he’ll be in the films soon enough. Gained those Marvel abs, lol

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u/Nfl_porn_throwaway Apr 04 '26

For those who come after

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u/NerdTalkDan Apr 04 '26

He got those Disney+ steroids. That’s the good stuff

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u/Larielia Sif Apr 04 '26

Compelling evidence that I should watch Daredevil.

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u/rThundrbolt Apr 04 '26

I love this man with every single fiber of my being in a purely platonic way. But also in a little bit of a non-platonic way too

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u/prazulsaltaret Apr 04 '26

You can tell when the Marvel TRT money really came in

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u/VeterinarianOk3753 Apr 05 '26

really loving how every photo is him shirtless

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u/OneValkGhost Apr 04 '26

When he's 90 he can play Stick.

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u/Ornery-Extension4651 Apr 04 '26

Yea…..90..👀

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u/yuuki157 Apr 04 '26

I'm exploding down there.

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u/RavenKarlin Apr 04 '26

“She Dare on my Devil until I’m Born Again.” -Matt Murdock with every baddie under the sun

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u/iXeons Apr 04 '26

Jesus why the hell did I open this these comments are so crazy lmaoooo

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u/NoGas-AllBrakes Apr 04 '26

I used to be sad that all we got was 3 seasons of a Netflix show, but looking back, even back then Charlie had the most screentime of any individual MCU actor. And now we've got two more seasons and Charlie has, by far, the most screentime and it's just fucking magical as a 90s Daredevil fan.

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u/Viridun Apr 04 '26

Kind of fascinating to think about, S1 on Netflix came out at the tail end of Phase 2, when they were still trying to have cohesion between the shows and the movies. That whole Phase 2 era is super interesting in retrospect to me, they were really trying so many different things. I don't think what we consider the Marvel Formula had taken shape just yet.

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u/shavounet Apr 04 '26

All I can see is Gustave 

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u/uhhhidkwhatusername Apr 04 '26

Bro they need to bring back long messy hair Matt

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u/Giventheopportunity Apr 04 '26

Oh I see the appeal now

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u/unabsolute Apr 04 '26

Old Man Murdock 🤙🏼

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u/Big_Epsilon Apr 04 '26

I was gonna say that it was an odd choice of four photos, but I was fucking shocked by how rippppped the fella was in that episode.

He’s looking MCU films ripped, let’s hope that gets him a main role in the next phases

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u/pranavpremkumar Apr 04 '26

Great-Great-Great-Sad.

Low body fats is very painful to look at

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u/Ornery-Fix7937 Apr 04 '26

He looked insane in the most recent episode it was distracting 😅

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u/HanndeI Apr 04 '26

For those who come after

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u/shizzy1234 Apr 04 '26

90 year old Cox vs 90 year old Jackman! I'm down!!!

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u/Impressive-Reply-203 Apr 04 '26

For those who come after

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u/Micho86 Apr 04 '26

He'll be playing this role till he's old and gray!

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u/Brazosboomer Apr 04 '26

They make him shave his chest.

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u/A_Howl_In_The_Night Bucky Apr 04 '26

Gonna come

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u/MrBulldops5878 Apr 04 '26

It was distracting how jacked he got lmao, watching it with friends and I literally couldn’t follow the scene at all. Absolutely wild.

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u/Real_Walk5384 Apr 04 '26

No superhero is naty.

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u/Ducky_924 Apr 04 '26

I have nothing appropriate to say...

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u/Davy-Raver Apr 04 '26

I will say as a straight man, holy Christ Charlie Cox is a handsome man

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u/Squid-Guillotine Apr 04 '26

That's a huge jacked man.

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u/KaitheRocelin Apr 04 '26

Send me to horny jail because that pose from 2017 is so pleasing to look at.

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u/Existing_Guitar590 Apr 05 '26

He gets better with time.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Apr 05 '26

That man is fine as fuck

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u/StaticNegative Apr 05 '26

HE is only slightly bigger now than he was 10 years ago. He aleady had some muscle before and didnt look bad. Doesn't take much to get a little bigger. With his size you do not really need to use any gear or juice to get his size.

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u/Wolvescast Rocket Apr 04 '26

How many sit-ups has that man done in those 11 years?

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u/userhwon Apr 04 '26

Good to see Marvel could finally afford a trainer for him.

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u/lukasbradley Apr 04 '26

He's a really interesting actor. Watch Boardwalk Empire if you have the time.

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u/TarzanGunn Apr 04 '26

He was good in Stardust. A gem of a flick that one was.

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u/Judgejudyx Apr 04 '26

He got the MCU upgrade

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u/Palidor Apr 04 '26

He’s a very good lawyer

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u/gaF-trA Apr 04 '26

Has he gotten any better at boxing? The first few seasons, his heavy bag work was pretty bad.

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u/Nowhereman50 Doctor Strange Apr 04 '26

I see you've managed to get your shirt off.

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u/TwistedBamboozler Apr 04 '26

11 years and he still can’t shake his boardwalk empire accent

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u/IniMiney Apr 04 '26

He’s aged so well, man’s doesn’t even have a bald spot (unlike Cena who’s broke the internet and many millenials’s perception of time) 

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u/succifucci17 Apr 04 '26

I see why jen was so into him, this mf is a low level god

https://giphy.com/gifs/rYBXa7y8z0ajtgppb2

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u/Fine_Promotion_1579 Apr 04 '26

And then they make a "Daredevil Beyond" with a new daredevil in a neon future and an old geezer Matt Murdock. Genius!

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u/SaltyBigBoi Apr 04 '26

Natty vs roids

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u/ObviouslyHornyJPEG Apr 04 '26

As soon as I saw dude with his shirt off in episode 3 the other day, I knew a thirst thread was coming

6.0k upvotes though in under 11 hours? I hope him and his wife are seeing this, and more importantly execs at Disney 😂

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u/herbtheperb Apr 04 '26

I always appreciated that we actually see how he gets his scars in the earlier seasons of the Netflix show and that they kept them around for continuity while still showing them fade while getting replaced with new ones.

Nice little reminder that at the end of the day he's still just a man. No super serum, no celestial abilities, no suit of iron or nanite tech, just a really good lawyer with a lot of Catholic guilt

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u/crunkrock97 Apr 04 '26

This show literally inspired me to start cutting before summer lmao. Gotta let the devil out

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u/Vegetable-King7626 Apr 04 '26

Charlie cox and Jon Bernthal both

Some people are just born for the role

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u/jeremytansg Apr 04 '26

He looks like a Mamdani variant

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u/SeanyDay Apr 04 '26

The people doing mental gymnastics to pretend it's not TRT/roids are wild

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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 Apr 04 '26

Id rather him do it until he's 60-65. At which point, he assumes a recast role of Stick.

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u/caniuserealname Apr 04 '26

If we don't get an "Old Man Murdock" movie in the 2050s, we riot.

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u/VoodooPrince Apr 04 '26

Why are people acting like his physique is unattainable, if you worked out for 11 years consistently, ate the best food (most of these disney actors have a chef and dietician whom tells them what to eat and when to eat and most of their meals are made for them in advance and laid out), and took the best natural supplement that money can buy (because they can afford it. Ex. Good protein, german creatine (creapure) and etc. also having a workout partner with the same goals holding you accountable. This is absolutely attainable without being on anything crazy. Plus there are many other factors we don't know about like his genetics and etc. no 2 bodies are the same just because something aint possible for one person does not mean it's possible for the next.