There's also an unsettling use of 'beating me up's not a mercy, you should have just killed me' in an early episode, which I think is meant to address 'the Batman problem' but I didn't get the impression the show was taking a stand either way.

(I also think Matt's view on giving/taking beatings is contextualized by his dad being a boxer and there's some in-universe definition of what's acceptable in a fair fight that I would question in *the real world* but seems allowable for artistic license/action hero tradition here).