Namor is not one to ask for a little help from his friends.
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Does he have any friends to ask?
Cap and the original Torch are about the only ones.
More friends than original Aquaman.
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Pete Best, in this context?
Martian Manhunter is the Pete Best. Poor guy vanished from the original JLA line up for awhile.
Aquaman has SUPER friends.
They had to be to put up with him. 
I could see him in She-Hulk and Echo. Though I'm not sure how Matt and Jen would face each other in criminal court, as mentioned in the article. Maybe in civil court? I guess there is a trope where TV lawyers are experts in all areas of the law. But I'll leave that for fans who actually know about the legal field.
Yea I think it would be a civil case unless Jen is working for a DA's office. My guess is they're taking inspiration from a Matt vs Jen court-room case from the comics where a wrongful death claim (civil suit) was filed against Captain America and Matt was the lawyer of the plaintiff suing Steve while Jen was defending Steve.
Matt showing up in She-Hulk and Echo makes a lot of sense, but I don't know about the other shows mentioned. But I'll take all of the Charlie Cox I can get!
Matt can't see it either.
But originally it wasn't "Daredevil" with the "devil" part stressed -- it was just Daredevil, in the traditional sense of the word as a recklessly daring, fearless person (hence "The Man Without Fear"), or a circus performer who does death-defying stunts. So it made sense to give him the kind of flamboyant costume that a circus daredevil might wear, just as it made sense in 1938 to dress Superman like a circus strongman.
That actually bugged me about the Netflix series. They rode so hard on the "Devil of Hell's Kitchen" angle that they failed to adequately justify the etymology of the name "Daredevil," a word that has far more to do with reckless feats of derring-do than anything Satanic. So it was kind of a non sequitur when the full name was finally introduced in the show. I know the more "devilish" stuff was emphasized from Frank Miller's run onward, and that's what the show built on, but in the comics, all that was preceded by Matt's original characterization as a daring, devil-may-care action hero, so in that context the name made sense.
It's both. Daredevil is both a nod to the Devil/Satan imagery in popular culture and a reference to his daredevil physical antics. It's not one or the other, it's Marvel playing into both interpretations of his name.
Exactly.
Present, as a visual pun, but not stressed. They called him "The Man Without Fear," after all -- the fact that it's his tag line tells you it's the part they were emphasizing. And come on, that's obviously a circus outfit he's wearing, with bright colors and a prominent logo; the horns are just a decorative element. Nobody would look at that getup and think "embodiment of the Prince of Darkness" rather than "guy on the flying trapeze." The Daredevil of the '60s was not the angsty, grim figure of the Miller era and after, but one of Marvel's many wisecracking, fun-loving crimefighters like Spider-Man and the Human Torch. Heck, he was written almost identically to Spider-Man, with a similar emphasis on acrobatics and rope-swinging and a similar sixth sense that could do whatever Stan Lee needed it to do that month.
But again, my point is not about the comics, it's about the Netflix show. Its justification of the origin of the name was based exclusively in the "Devil of Hell's Kitchen" stuff, and they never adequately explained why the press started calling him "Daredevil," a term that has more to do with fearless stunts and derring-do than with anything Satanic.
But then, DD season 1's writers seemed to have a poor understanding of name etymologies -- like the way they danced around "Kingpin" as if it were some goofy comic-book name they were ashamed of using, even though it's a perfectly commonplace, appropriate term for the most important figure in a criminal or other organization, and has been since the 19th century.