This week: Bullseye's appearance!
Bullseye, the long-time Daredevil villain with perfect aim, has one of the best looks around, in my opinion.
But in the early 2000s, comic book adaptations had a strange relationship with comic book accuracy. Although they were looking to the comics for stories more than ever before, the character designs were generally more "realistic" and "down to Earth". That's why, in Daredevil (February 2003), Bullseye looks like this below. The strange thing is that he asks for a costume halfway through the movie, but still doesn't get one.
In the miniseries Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target #1 (September 2002), Bullseye starts wearing plainclothes to draw less attention to himself, but someone complains, so he draws a target on his forehead like so (below). Now I know what you're thinking: this came out almost half a year before the movie. What gives? Well, the movie design had been released by June 2002, so that gives plenty of time for both the fans and the comics creators to become familiar with it.
In Daredevil #48 (June 2003), we get an even more movie-accurate version. In the next issue, we learn it's a tattoo instead of a scar.
But then in Daredevil #49 (July 2003), Daredevil carves it into his head, meaning it will become a scar.
He was back in his classic outfit by Thunderbolts #110 (January 2007)...
...although interestingly, the ditching of his costume seemed to only happen in Daredevil. Whenever he appeared in miniseries during this time, such as Identity Disc (June 2004), Bullseye: Greatest Hits (September 2004), or Punisher vs. Bullseye (November 2005), he wore his classic outfit.
Presumably he still has the scar, but we never see it.
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