Daredevil vs. Arrow: A Qualitative Analysis

Here's a handy chart evaluating the differences between Daredevil and Arrow. Because I know you needed one.

Element	Daredevil	Arrow
Hero’s desire to save city	High	High
Frequency of explicit expression of desire to save city	High	Highest
Ratio of specific motivation to hero’s desire to save city	Medium	High
Length of fights	A bit too long	Just right
Credibility of fights	Medium	Low
Entertainment value of fights (believability divided by length)	Medium	High
Hero muscles	High	Near WWE levels
Hero believably hampered by reasonable number of injuries	Die Hard	Die Hard 2
Hero requires time to recover from injuries	Medium	Low
Credibility that stipulated training could produce stipulated fighting skill	Low	Low
Believability of characters	High	Low
Characters have reasonable reactions to ridiculous situations	High	Low
Characters consume alcohol in quantities proportional to their problems	Yes	No
Bechdel Test	Fail	Pass
Amount of death	High	High
Likelihood dead character will stay dead	High	Lowest
Emotional impact of major deaths	OH MY GOD	Yeah, whatever
Secrecy of secret identities	Medium	Lowest
Reasonableness of reaction to finding out secret identity	High	Low
Hero has a plan	Low	Medium
Villain claims to have a plan	High	High
Villain actually has a plan	Low	High
Villain’s plan seems like it’s going great up until the very end	No	Yes
Villains are memorable	Yes	Yes
Villains are scary	Yes	Yes
Villains act like whiny, neurotic babies	Yes	No
Villains look like giant, violent babies	Yes	No
Faithfulness to corpus of decades of comic book material	High	Low
Is art?	Pretty close	Not so close
Is fun?	Grim fun	Fun grim fun
Is good?	YES	YES