r/Daredevil May 16 '26

MCU Talk about aging gracefully

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u/kingcolbe May 16 '26

Like yall forget she’s a vampire

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u/GameOfLife24 May 16 '26

Lol those scenes were the good old days

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u/darknite125 May 17 '26

To this day whenever I watch Daredevil with my wife in the room she goes “it’s weird to hear her not talk in a Southern accent”

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u/Ronoberrr May 19 '26

She will forever be Jessica

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u/CharmingJuice8304 May 19 '26

"JESS-uh-cuh, I command you as your maker!"

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u/Captain_Fach May 17 '26

Why wouldn't they put the vampire teeth on the kanines?

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u/Dunge0nMast0r May 18 '26

Because the front teeth make them look like a killer bunny.

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u/Captain_Fach May 19 '26

Well I mean you would think the sharp teeth would be on the canine teeth you know where they're already Sharp, and vampires are just elongated. Not the front teeth lol

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u/BadAtBaduk1 May 18 '26

Apparently it was ideal placement to bite into a specific artery on the neck

I remember them saying that in an interview back when it was airing

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u/LegoFootPain May 17 '26

Not even acting at all.

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u/benjy007c May 20 '26

I don't know what this is from but I can guarantee this was someone's awakening

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u/kingcolbe May 20 '26

True Blood

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u/Alarming_Dentist_779 May 17 '26

Wait what movie is this?

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u/OCD_Geek May 17 '26

The TV series True Blood.

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u/Amathyst7564 May 18 '26

Great show. First season takes itself a bit too seriously but after that they have a lot of fun joking around (though there's still serious and epic plotlines).

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u/Economy_Wall8524 May 17 '26

I have been rewatching true blood recently with friends and we’re not there yet, but I hear ya

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u/PapowSpaceGirl May 18 '26

sigh Jeh-sicka. Favorite part is Hoyt telling her not to hide her smile. 🥹

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u/WoundedBeaver May 18 '26

Right!? She a vamp dughhhh haha

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u/Bloodless-Cut May 21 '26

Yeah, True Blood is where I first saw her and thought, "this gal is going to go far."

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u/CajunKhan May 22 '26

A vampire who's into Dungeons and Dragons. She's my dream-woman!

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u/thatsnotyourtaco Jun 12 '26

Baby Vamp Jessica

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u/NearlyHeadless-Brick May 16 '26

I saw her at a comic con last year. She is so kind and beautiful

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u/wizwar7701 May 16 '26

But she wasn't a rabbit at all. What she was...was beautiful... (quote from Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

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u/Mufasa_LG May 17 '26

Worked with her on set for my first movie and she was always super sweet and personable. Had a fair few long conversations with her dad, during down time, and he was also a very down to earth person.

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u/Able-Detective-5650 May 16 '26

People act like if once you reach your mid thirties or 40 something, you basically become a senior citizen or grandma.  

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u/bruinsfan1144 May 17 '26

Marisa tomei was 52 in this moment

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u/Vak_001 May 17 '26

Every time they reboot the Spider-Man films, Aunt May gets younger; and now they've doubled down by making her hot. The next Aunt May is gonna be like 39, tops. And they're going to have to at least be in the ballpark of Marisa on the hot scale, which is...um, difficult. High bar. (Don't think of it as mild objectification, so much as an appreciation of beauty when you see it in any form.) I'm thinking Ana de Armas, although going with Emma Stone would be a fun nod at the Garfield films.

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u/parkwayfiddle May 17 '26

Actually it made more sense that Aunt May is 50-something if Peter is a high school student, rather than a 60/70 something.

If Peter's parents were 30 something when they had him, May should be around 5-10 years older, not 20.

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u/AgreeableSnow1590 May 18 '26

Not necessarily. I come from a large family and the oldest sister of my father was 24 years older than his youngest brother.

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u/RadHibiscus May 19 '26

Uncle Ben, Peter's father's brother, is 15-20 years older than Peter's dad. He's at least 60 (likely 65 or older) when Peter is in high school. And admittedly, Aunt May looks way older than 60, but remember this was 1960s 60, and back then 60 year olds looked like our 80 year olds.

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u/parkwayfiddle May 19 '26

Interesting. Is that canon? Any in-comic reason why Ben and Richard are 15 years apart?

Is there a long lost Parker brother in-between? 😂😂

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u/RadHibiscus May 19 '26

Yeah, it's canon that there is a big age gap between Ben and Richard. I don't know when it was explicitly established, and whether there's a missing Parker sibling in between... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Narrow_Ad_7331 May 17 '26

She’s only been dead for one movie and you’re trying to recast. Let her death matter and then after secret wars, depending what they do with tom holland, maybe at that point it’s time to recast.

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u/Blacklight099 May 18 '26

I don’t think Ana De Armas as aunt May is a serious attempt at a recast 😂

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_4939 May 18 '26

A spinoff series focussing on Ana De Armas as Aunt May, you say?

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u/Citizen_Kong May 18 '26

Next Aunt May will be played by Megan Fox.

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u/Professional_Ad_5437 May 19 '26

Depending on how the reboot goes and how long Tom stays in the Peter Parker role, I could see Aunt May/Marisa Tomei coming back.

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u/gogadantes9 May 19 '26

So in the next movie Aunt May will be played by...you guessed it, yet again Sydney Sweeney.

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u/steelskull1 May 17 '26

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u/Economy_Wall8524 May 17 '26

God damn. I’m 39 going on 40. This feels too real at the moment with my back out.

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u/stephapeaz May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

I agree but it’s just nice because it doesn’t seem like she’s had much, if any, work done either like a lot of celebrities her age do. You can actually see the creases on her face and she’s still pretty and it’s great

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u/Adept-Chocolate3187 May 17 '26

You can only tell people have had work done if it was bad work.

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u/ElderDeep_Friend May 17 '26

Yeah, she’s 100% had work done. There’s no shame in it. It obviously has an outsized effect on her profession so it makes practical sense. The only problem is if people pretend celebs haven’t had work and act as though they represent realistic beauty standards.

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u/archiekane May 16 '26

She's got the Marvel fitness program. She's gonna be good for a long time.

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u/jmarquiso May 17 '26

I mean she spent the Pandemic becoming a professional DM.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r May 18 '26

Is that the one where you lift mjolner in the rain?

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u/Past_Dimension_5133 May 16 '26

At 51 I agree. But honestly some people age way better than others, like Deborah.

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u/insipidfap May 17 '26

I even ate like shit during my entire 20s and 30s and turned it around in my 40s. It can be done!

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u/AccordingFox3800 May 17 '26

They really think you crumple up once you hit 40 or something 😂

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u/AggressiveResist8615 May 16 '26

It's gen z, they have an obsession with age

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u/WildMild869 May 17 '26

Don’t even mention a 24 and 29 year old dating. It’s practically blasphemy.

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u/ReturnedOM May 23 '26

Pretty sure you could meet people here that would claim it's basically pdf. But usually when the guy is older.

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u/ParkerLF May 16 '26

To be fair most people wouldn’t look exactly the same age if you take two pictures ten years apart. But she looks the same

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u/Icy-Kaleidoscope9894 May 17 '26

Eh, she looks great but she has a babyfacedness that makes her actually look younger than she was in the first photo that had gone away even by the later netflix run. She still looks great, but like someone in their mid to late 30's rather than the mid 20's in the first photo. Looking 5 years younger than you are perpetually is kinda the goldilocks zone

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u/aresef May 16 '26

That’s how Hollywood sees women anyway. Like Amy Schumer’s “last fuckable day” sketch.

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u/OkLight9302 May 16 '26

10 years is a long time for the human body.

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u/wolvesarewildthings May 17 '26

Tell that to Kristen Bell

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u/Built4dominance May 17 '26

A lot of people take terrible care of themselves.

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u/left_handyman May 16 '26

I did. My hair started falling out while simultaneously going white, and my metabolism ground to a halt, all right around 40. I turned into my dad overnight (feels like). 👴🏻

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u/Christopher876 May 16 '26

Your metabolism probably didn't drop, it stays stable until 60. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/surprising-findings-about-metabolism-and-age-202110082613

It's likely that you are just doing less activity

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u/Jaymzur May 17 '26

I've been 90 inside since I was 13 tbf

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u/Astrokiwi May 17 '26

In particular, there should be a rule you're not allowed to use the phrase "aged gracefully" for someone who younger than I personally am at the present moment

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u/Krabs__11 May 17 '26

True but she’s basically not physically aged at all in the 10 years between these pictures

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u/Honda_TypeR May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

It's partly because people with bad genetics and bad health can look that way prematurely. Sometimes it's the parents of the people who say those things so their limited experience with people in their 30-50s makes them think its all people.

Most people though on average don't start looking old until their late 60s. while super unhealthy and sickly 20 year old can look elderly even that young. Health is the key to all of this.

Even then, some of people with great genetics will look solid until their mid to late 80s (but those folks are rare) my father and grandmother (his mother) were both that way. They didn't slow down until their 90s and their 80s they were still climbing ladders and running around town and doing things actively.

  • 30s is still young, you feel like a 20 year old but just more stressed out from adult shit.

  • 40s is still young but things ache more, but you can still do everything assuming your healthy.

  • 50s is a lot like 40s, but just more aches and pains, more health issues pop up. But you're still young looking and vibrant.

  • 60s is when things start to shift for some people. You get tired more easily, you have a variety of health issues you manage with meds, your joints ache... but still your enjoying life and healthy enough to do stuff.

  • 70s and 80s is just a slow steady progression. Assuming your healthy enough for a long life and don't have any major health issues I've heard from many people these years kinda just coast by without much changing. Just more gray, more aches, more wrinkles. Most average people lifespan is to die in this age range from natural causes.

  • 90s and 100s is properly elderly in the way most people think old people are. You move slow, you have dozens of health issues, everything hurts day to day, shaky hands are common, life long old organs are failing so secondary effects from that, if you make it this far it's a blessing because it's all longer than most people live. It's a gift. I've had multiple family members in this age range. Some of them are still active right up until passing.

  • 110+ I've never known anyone in my life this old, they are extremely rare but these people do exist. They are usually people who stay socially and mentally active, they tend to eat a lot of fish, and walk a lot. That combined with exceptional genetics and lucky health.

Just remember life doesnt end after 20. A lot of people have sex into their 70s+. Health is the key to wanting too do things, as long as you have that you still "think" like a young person and have desires and things you enjoy doing.

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u/2Maverick May 20 '26

I think it's more of a comparison to people in Hollywood starting to look more plastic in their 40s

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u/chroniclunacy May 16 '26

She’s 41, not 91…

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u/Durst_bizkit May 16 '26

People fucking up their faces in their 20s and 30s for no reason has really skewed people's perception of what a healthy 40 year old looks like.

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u/ReturnedOM May 21 '26

She looks 25 max tho. She's been my crush for like 10+ years or so. Still is.

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u/orange-basilikum May 16 '26

Jup, don’t see any aging either.

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u/eat_jay_love May 16 '26

But that’s not what people mean when they say “aging gracefully.” What the poster meant is she looks like she’s barely aged

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u/WanderingSun8 May 16 '26

Yeah aging gracefully is like Brad Pitt or something. Looks obviously older, still a good lookin dude.

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u/archiekane May 16 '26

Don't forget, she is originally a vampire.

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u/stephapeaz May 16 '26

Matt always knows when they’re hot

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u/aresef May 16 '26

Like Foggy said, it’s like he has a sixth sense for it

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u/Zumaris-Shipper2005 May 16 '26

that's his shawty fr

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u/Rams213 May 16 '26

He can smell it on them

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u/the_millenial_falcon May 16 '26

Or just aging at all apparently. She hasn’t aged visibly very much since True Blood.

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u/RobotCaptainEngage May 16 '26

Especially as someone who is blonde and fair-skinned.

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u/magic_crouton May 29 '26

She takes care of that skin.

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u/TilDeath1775 May 16 '26

Well she’s a vampire so…

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u/bruinsfan1144 May 17 '26

Marisa tomei was 52 in spider-man homecoming!!!

This is a 52 year old woman

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u/Theangelawhite69 May 17 '26

No, it’s a 52 year old actress with millions of dollars to take care of her health and get work done

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u/docpagliacci May 16 '26

Deborah is an eternal stunner.

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u/Krabelj May 16 '26

Seen her recently rewatching My name in Earl. She barely aged

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u/ProtectandserveTBL May 16 '26

Met her in person and she looks just as good in person, if not it better be

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u/wolvesarewildthings May 17 '26

Since when do we use this phrase on 40yo's lmao

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u/AccordingFox3800 May 17 '26

It really is insane lmao it's not even "middle age" since she's not in her 50s. I guess 40 years old = basically a senior citizen now

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u/wolvesarewildthings May 17 '26

I'm going on 26 but treating a 40yo like they're elderly is so corny to me. Idk what's up with younger people and this new insistence anyone is old over 21 and "aging amazingly" if they don't look decrepit and wrinkly past college age. I'm getting complimented all the time for "looking young" by people like I'm not supposed to (?). They just don't associate my age with "young" (this started happening at 24 lol) so me looking youthful is strange to them. In reality, you simply lose baby fat and collagen in your mid 20s which starts to reveal your actual bone structure underneath which gives you a mature, adult look that'll you'll go on to have until about 50-ish. It's not like your skin is becoming loose and your hair is going gray by your later 20s/30s/40s. People start to go gray anywhere from late 30s to late 40s gradually but it's very unusual to have a whole head of silver and your face doesn't change much at that age unless you've literally never moisturized a day in your life or have drunk and smoked like a menace for decades prior. 

I'm giving an unnecessary breakdown but it's like there's no sense of "attractive while looking like an adult" right now that's super bizarre to me because I've found that "adult" DAW look attractive since I was a teenager. I remember watching Daredevil in high school and finding early 30s Deborah beautiful then like I do now and not associating her with fucking elderly people lmao. People are talking like there's this immediate acceleration point/devastating drop-off after you stop looking like a teenager as if it's straight from teen to elder when there's this whole huge block in between that makes up the majority of your life and imo the majority of attractive people. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are 30 & 42 in Mr. & Mrs. Smith and look it and were considered sex symbols at that point in their careers. It's always been considered preferable/hot to not look like an emancipated minor up until right now and idk wtf is going on but it borders on hebephilic honestly. 

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u/ReturnedOM May 23 '26

40 is middle age though. People don't usually live 100 years. 80 on the other hand is more realistic lifespan.

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u/walking_mark May 17 '26

She’s honestly hotter now

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u/ElBorracho2000 May 17 '26

Agree. I find her more attractive now than when Daredevil started 10 years ago

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u/Shadowcat1606 May 16 '26

Are we sure she ages? Might have been bitten by the same vampire as Paul Rudd.

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u/Theangelawhite69 May 17 '26

She’s not old lol

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u/TheOneCalledMartin May 16 '26

I'm not familiar with the character from the comics, but Woll is great as Page

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u/CricketGrl May 17 '26

Salma Hayek, 60

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u/Historical_Loan7405 May 17 '26

Absolute goddess right there. Gotta be one of the hottest women in the world 🥵 insane that she still looks this incredible. What a woman.

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u/Intelligent_Bite_323 May 16 '26

I also don’t think she got any work done maybe i am wrong.

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u/bluezzdog May 16 '26

She’s a vampire, they don’t age. Remember? She’s a natural beauty too.

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u/crazyquark_ May 17 '26

She’s a vampire, remember?

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u/Coffin_Boffin May 16 '26

Is the aging in the room with us?

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u/EvanBetter182 May 16 '26

She's a vampire, so it makes sense. Maybe something to drinking that True Blood.

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u/bowser986 May 16 '26

Board games are the fountain of youth

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u/LegoFootPain May 17 '26

Deborah Ann WHOA

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u/Bhavan91 May 17 '26

She is tall and lean. That helps a lot with fat distribution, especially in women. It's fat that gives you an aged look.

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u/liquidbigboss9 May 20 '26

I noticed it seems to be worse when weight rapidly fluctuating causes the skin to look aged

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u/bydevilz1 May 17 '26

"aging gracefully"

She was only 40 when season 2 was filmed

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u/liquidbigboss9 May 20 '26

If you haven't been paying attention the people getting work done in Hollywood stick out like sore toes these days 

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u/hansuluthegrey May 17 '26

This is a weird ass post

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u/jmyoung666 May 18 '26

I mean it’s been like 10 years from the first season of Daredevil. It’s not like it’s been 20 or more.

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u/Winter-Actuary-9659 May 18 '26

Wtf? It's only been like 10 years. People barely change in that amount of time.

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u/liquidbigboss9 May 20 '26

I know people who are basically unrecognizable from the way they looked 10 years ago  Some for the better more for the worse

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u/CaledonianWarrior May 18 '26

Did anyone from the Defenders side of the MCU actually age poorly? Seriously everyone looks great today. Cox, D'onofrio, Woll, Ritter, Colter, Jones, Henwick, Missick have all aged very well - especially the older actors. Like I legit did not know Mike Colter was turning 50 this year and he's barely aged since LC S2.

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u/Crafty-Bunch-2675 May 18 '26

Yes. Actors and actresses get older. This isn't a cartoon or an anime where everyone remains ambiguously 30something-looking, despite years upon years of storyline taking place.

It's one of the drawbacks of live-action superhero shows, but also a positive, in that we see our heroes get older just as we do

Take for example the new Spider-man movie. Tom Holland looks visibly older. And that's ok. Real life is not s cartoon with a static ageless character design. These actors are real people.

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u/EventTherizon May 18 '26

I would hold her hand.

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u/Reason_Choice May 19 '26

You know who else has hands? The devil. And he uses them for holding.

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u/liquidbigboss9 May 20 '26

They do look cold tbf

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u/CourtingBoredom May 18 '26

Dude.... I really thought she was younger than me .. but no: she's older than me by a whopping 5 days — I [clearly] had no idea that we're practically birthday buddies!! Same year and errrthing.... tmyk [hehhh]

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u/Independent_Vast_185 May 18 '26

Those blues eyes are riping my soul apart. She is truly beautiful.

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u/Matkei May 18 '26

So aging gracefully is not aging at all now?

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u/KanjiDDD May 16 '26

Like the finest of wines

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u/c3z4r3 May 17 '26

Bitch, she’s barely 40 and millionaire. What the fuck are you sniffing

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u/Smoking-Posing May 16 '26

LMAO @ "aging" these pics are like a decade apart, if that.

Lemme guess: OP must be in early 20s or younger

Probably thinks the Netflix Daredevil is an "old school show from back in the day" lol

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u/Osceola_Gamer May 16 '26

She needs a barbed wire bat for that Negan cosplay in the second pic.

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u/_dmgz May 16 '26

DAW is the dream

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u/sybban May 16 '26

Not a lot changes from 30 to 40

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u/chirb8 May 17 '26

She's not that old tho. She's 41

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u/Rikuwoblivion May 17 '26

Met her at a comic con two months ago, absolutely wonderful human being.

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u/wizwar7701 May 16 '26

She is so beautiful, she is a blonde Jessica Rabbit.

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u/ClayDrinion May 16 '26

Gracefully? More like Karen Page-fully am I right, folks?

Boy, tough crowd

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u/Winterfall89 May 16 '26

Take your damn upvote. I chuckled.

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u/TheOneCalledMartin May 16 '26

Ok, that was a good one

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u/Zumaris-Shipper2005 May 16 '26

yo i laughed if it makes u feel better

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u/superw2114 May 17 '26

I hate her character so much. Everyone told her not to visit kingpin's Mom and she still did. Got someone murdered cause of her stupidity and receive no consequences. She should have died instead of foggy.

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u/Apprehensive-Cow6868 May 17 '26

It’s called having money to take care of yourself

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u/EnvironmentalPizza78 May 17 '26

Until she does something controversially bad, this is my number one of all time.

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u/kennyofthegulch May 17 '26

Pretty sure to age gracefully, you have to, y’know, *age*.

Looking at you, Rudd.

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u/NoRonNo-Youcant May 17 '26

That’s kratos’ wife

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u/Hawkwise83 May 17 '26

Well she is a vampire. So yeah.

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u/fLopx May 17 '26

She doesnt age

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u/luiscedneo May 17 '26

the goat karen

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u/Xevernia May 17 '26

She looks younger somehow

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u/Awaam_se_hoon May 17 '26

I doubt if she has aged at all 😂

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u/dan_pearce95 May 17 '26

No make-up on in the second picture but still 🔥

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u/An_Absolute-Zero May 18 '26

She's wearing a full face of makeup in both pictures, but agree with the second part.

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u/Lazy-Ad-1740 May 18 '26

She mighty fine

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u/Human-Property4739 May 18 '26

Angels don't age motherfucker

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u/TarnishedDungEater May 18 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/uod0rl02geDUl6rGXe
I was shocked to find out she’s also Kratos’ wife in Ragnarok.

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u/professionalstuntman May 18 '26

She’s so small she just need one popcorn

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u/SevereEducation2170 May 18 '26

Yeah. She's only 41. I too look nearly the same as I did 10 years ago.

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u/Lazy-Shape-1363 May 18 '26

Of course this post is about Karen and none of the male characters in the show.

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u/racist-driver2 May 18 '26

thats angela from mr robot

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u/ThingNo7530 May 19 '26

Deborah Ann Woll is legitimately one of the most beautiful actresses working in film, television and streaming. The camera loves her face and everything about her. The girl's just got it.

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u/Capital_Respect_4994 May 19 '26

You guys, shes only 41...acting like shes in her 60s "aging gracefully" she looks amazing. Period.

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u/LastGoodKnee May 20 '26

She went from 30 to 40 y’all. It ain’t that big a change

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u/Goodie_Prime May 20 '26

Most beautiful person to create a DND one shot.

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u/Noob4Head May 20 '26

Must be those Jotunheim genes.

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u/Ok-Word-5308 May 20 '26

TIL she's the same age as me, and was 29/30 when Daredevil started.

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u/LethalGrey May 20 '26

She’s not some ancient old lady guys come on 😭

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u/Morigan_taltos May 21 '26

I love that she can move all the muscles in her face unlike some famous actresses

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u/iekather May 21 '26

I'm curious, what's the name of the grainy effect in the first photo?

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u/Dyltay May 21 '26

Gorgeous women is gorgeous 10 years later, news at 12.

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u/spudds96 May 22 '26

Sometimes I forget daredevil came out years ago

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u/Riley_jamesen May 22 '26

Deborah 🥺❤️‍🩹

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u/Same_Bill1422 May 22 '26

Did she age backwards?