"Okey dokey!"

This is no East Pennsylvania greasy spoon called "Ghost of Chance". It is hell. And its wicked master is a terrifying power named Wilson Fisk. "This man looks hurt-- and it looks like you're responsible! We're not just standing by while you finish him off!" Karen Page wants to be an actress someday. Her performance this night is never to be matched. A show of bravery even as every instinct tells her to run screaming. Daredevil #341, writer: D.G. Chichester

Chronologically, before she arrived in New York, Karen witnessed Fisk (before his rise as Kingpin) hunting down his former employer Victor Krueller. She jumped right in front of soon-to-be-Kingpin to confront him, but was quickly saved by Ben Urich.

The reason why this incident was never adressed previously is because Wilson Fisk wanted to clear witnesses, but decided not to cover his hands in blood of the random people, so he just gathered everyone who saw him executing Krueller, including Karen, and brain-washed them with memory-erasing drug.

While they never will cross paths again face-to-face, Karen and Fisk will have a certain beef, unbestknown to each other. In "Born Again", Fisk sent mercenaries after Karen to clear the trace, and they chased her all the way she ran from Mexico back to New York. He later hired Nuke to attack Hell's Kitchen, in order to lure Matt and Karen out from their hideout, which resulted in Karen almost dying in explosion.

Since Fisk considered Karen "the heart" of Matt Murdock that saved him from Fisk's insistant attempt to ruin Daredevil's life, he makes everything in his power to break Karen's heart by hiring Typhoid Mary. Years later, Karen gets a job at WFSK radio station, which Fisk used for money laudering, to indirectly mess with his illegal activities.

Rewinding back to the classics, in Daredevil #28, Karen shows her bravery when she, Foggy and Matt are kidnapped by Masked Marauder and Stilt-Man. When Masked Marauder seemingly shoots Matt, causing him to fall off from helicopter, Karen goes berserk and physically assault the villain as an act of revenge for Matt.

"You fiend!! You heartless, merciless beast!!" "I'm glad you're showing some fight, young lady--! It will make it easier to do what I must!" Daredevil #28, writer: Stan Lee

Of course, Daredevil saves everyone before Masked Marauder kills anyone, and Matt, to Karen's great relief, turns out to be alive.

The moment is significant, since it was actually loosely adapted in Netflix series, with Masked Marauder, reimagined as corrupt police officer Farnum, being sent to strangle Karen in cell in the pilot episode, only for her to pull the same move as in comics, and claw his face.

And then, few dozen issues later, Matt "dies" again, which leads Karen to temporarily leave New York in Daredevil #65, and come back to her hometown of Fagan Corners, Vermont, an eerie and unwelcoming place ripped out of Lovecraftian Horror. As Karen goes thru the closed bridge, she encounters a mysterious and frightening Death's Head, whose mask, based on Aztec turquoise skull, Karen had seen in her childhood nightmares.

Daredevil #56, writer: Roy Thomas

Karen arrives to her family's estate to learn from her mom that Death's Head is responsible for demise of her estranged father Paxton Page. Daredevil suddenly appears to help Karen out, but his encounter with Death's Head ends in Daredevil losing.

That's when Karen decided to take it upon herself to take down Death's Head and she follows the primary suspect, the butler Garth. She ends up in secret laboratory and tries to confront Garth, by attacking him with wooden plank, but the real Death's Head interrupts the altercation. When Daredevil yet again engages in the battle with the villain, they suddenly drop a tank of melted cobalt, and Death's Head jumps in its way, to protect Karen, to everyone's surprise.

The plot-twist: Death's Head was actually Karen's dad, Paxton, who got intoxicated by cobalt and in futile attempts to clear his name, as he was claimed a traitor by US government, lost his mind, resulting in faking his death and attacking his own daughter.

Death's Head later returns to haunt Karen, as the impostor tries to learn the details of scientific work of Paxton Page in creating a cobalt bomb, and puts a bounty on Karen's head, when she becomes an established Hollywood star. This new Death's Head turns out to be Phillip Sterling, an old enemy of Daredevil under the mantles of Exterminator and later Death-Stalker. Ghost Rider, Karen's somewhat of a new boyfriend at the time, helps to banish new Death's Head with his iconic Penance Stare and Hellfire.

But before we return to this "bounty on Karen thing", let's talk about Brother Brimstone, a villain whom Karen faced right on her first job as an actress, the horror TV series "Strange Tales", in Daredevil #65.

Daredevil #65, writer: Gary Friedrich

Brother Brimstone is actually a main antagonist character of this series, portrayed by a slightly deranged actor Ross Archer, who tried to attack his double after learning, that they are cutting his role in order to relaunch the show.

Later, Ross was murdered by impersonator, who turned out to be Vince Sterling, another co-star, who planned to use the high-tech exoskeleton developed for the character portrayal in his own benefit. Initially, Sterling hitted on Karen, but after seeing her learning about exoskeleton from lead costume designer, he intends to murder her in La Brea Tar Pits museum.

Thankfully, a yearning and desperate Matt Murdock arrives to Los Angeles, in attempt to reconcile with Karen and take her home to New York, and together they managed to fight back Brother Brimstone, who fell into tar pit and drowned there.

The next big bad targets Karen in Ghost Rider #14, in order to get the million dollar offered by second Death's Head. Johnny Blaze's nemesis at the time, Orb with hypnotic powers, sets the film set on fire, for Karen to succesfully save the day by using a firehose. While everybody is distracted by dispute on a matter or legitimacy of Johhny Blaze working on set as a stunt performer, Orb enthralls Karen and commands her to kill her double Katy. Yeah, this was also the debut of "Karen Page with the gun".

In the next issue, Orb kidnaps Karen, but Ghost Rider manages to seemingly break hypnosis, for Karen to instantly attack Orb. When Johnny later attempts to kill Orb, Karen stops him, claiming that Blaze would be no better than the villain.

"What? The Orb-- Alive? And trying to gun Johnny down?" "NO! YOU'RE RUINING MY SHOT!" "You'd better believe it, Mister!" Ghost Rider #15, writer: Jenny Blake Isabella

In the same issue, Karen's rant ios backed up by mysterious figure known as A Friend, appearing in an image similar to Jesus Christ. He followed Ghost Rider for some time, and much later in the run revealed to be none other than Mephisto, the lord of Hell.

The little reference in Daredevil Vol. 2 #13 might imply that Mephisto might have been the culprit behind Karen's decent into drug use and porn, but before that, in Daredevil #263, where Mephisto also made a deal with Typhoid Mary and helped her in achieving her goal of breaking Matt and Karen apart, in order to attempt to drag Daredevil to the path of darkness in following storyarcs, as Karen departs from New York. While she runs away, demons from Mephisto's realm who invaded New York swarm Karen to torment her about her dark past.

Daredevil #263, writer: Ann Nocenti

Many years later, after the Multiverse was destroyed and rebuilt into the Battleworld, an alternate version of Karen from "Secret Wars: Secret Love", who is still living in demon-filled New York, encounters Mephisto face-to-face, as Hell-lord is close to killing Matt. Karen takes the sword and decapitates Mephisto to protect Matt, right before a yet another apocalyptic event wipes out this New York.

"I don't know if this is happening or not. I can't stop myself. There's no other option. I have Mary's weapon to thank. Or the thing that was Mary." Secret Wars: Secret Love, writer: Michel Fiffe

Another Karen's big adversary is, who could've guessed it, Bullseye. Their first confrontation happens on the pages of "Predator's Smile" novel, where "Benjamin Poindexter" is hired to stalk Karen as she becomes a threat-posing witness to his new employer. When Bullseye approaches Karen in his "civilian" outfit to warn her not to push it too hard, she, trained by Matt, punches Bullseye in balls and runs away,

Later, Bullseye invades Karen and Matt's appartment to kidnap her, but she fights back. Karen throws shurikens and even cuts Bullseye with them, also causing him to fall off the stairs. Despite initial wish, Bullseye doesn't kill her, as his empoyer plans to use her as a bait for Daredevil.

"Daredevil: Predator's Smile", writer: Christopher Golden

Years later, in Daredevil Vol. 2 #5, Bullseye is hired by Mysterio to take a newborn under Matt's protection, and Karen confronts him again. She tricks Bullseye by giving him a doll instead of a child, and then grabs the gun, ready to shoot the villain point-blank. Unfortunately, the gun turns out to be empty, and then Karen tragically sacrifices herself, when Bullseye throws Daredevil's billy club to kill Matt.

This specific kill is so imprinted in Bullseye's mind, that when Elektra travels in Lester's mind many years later, he still replays this encounter with Karen over and over again, as if it happened yesterday.

"Man, you're a persistent broad. First rule in the "cleaning" business... Never discard a loaded weapon" Daredevil Vol. 2 #5, writer: Kevin Smith

This confrontation revisited in reimagined in Netflix series not once, but twice, with distinct homage to it in 1x11, where Karen successfully shoots James Wesley, and then in actual adaptation of church battle in 3x10, Karen-centric episode, only it ends with Bullseye failing.

Speaking of Season 3, it adapts "Born Again" storyarc, where Karen also encounters a Daredevil impostor, who's hired to kill her, while she's actively chased by her captor Paulo Scorcese and other men working for Felix Manning. This includes Michael Kemp, the character whom Matt visits in Rikers in 3x04.

But coming back to good ol' days, where 616-Karen was still breathing and actively throwing hands in seeking justice. Remember when Karen indirectly caused Kingpin to lose the ownership of WFSK radio station? Well, that wasn't exactly true, as it turned out, by the time Karen started working there, Fisk already lost the ownership, so the money laundering was actually someone else's crime activity?

Introducing yet another iconic Daredevil villain, who made it his goal to ruin Karen Page's life, tho she'd never actually encounter him eye-to-eye: Mister Fear.

"Patience, boy... You'll get closer to Karen Page than you ever thought possible... You have the word of Mr. Fear!" Daredevil #373, writer: Joe Kelly

Fear managed money laundering scheme at WFSK via his agent Insomnia, who acted as the owner of radio station. Thru Insomnia, Fear hired Karen as radio host, in order to gain more audience and thus affect as many people in his devious plans. The plan was to use Karen's show to transmit special low-frequency sonics, that will make listeners unable to sleep and with that, more vulnerable to Mr. Fear's toxins.

When Daredevil ruined Larry Cranston's villainery, he immediately put another plan in motion, manipulating events in a way to release Charles Boroughs, a deranged murderer known as Triple Threat Killer. Cranston tasks Boroughs with stalking Karen Page, and later makes him impersonate a police officer, so that later, Mr. Fear can force Karen into murdering Charles and via his connections in judicial system, charge Karen with this murder. To put a little spice in all that, he almost managed to make Karen cheat on Matt with newly-hired producer at WFSK, Ian Hunter.

Mr. Fear orchestrates the trial of Karen Page, falsifying evidence against her, mocking and tormenting her on TV and in court via prosecutors, about her past as a porn-actress and drug-addict. His plan to destroy Karen, and by that, Daredevil, seemed to go well, as Karen was actually sent to Rikers for the time of trial, but eventually Matt, with the help of friends (and even enemies) managed to get enough evidences that would expose Mr. Fear.