"'Daredevil' was an interesting story. It was before Kevin Feige had stepped into the role of running Marvel," the actor said.

As Ben Affleck points out, the thing that really separated superhero movies before the MCU and after wasn’t the continuity of storyline, but the continuity of tone. Because every superhero movie was made in a vacuum, the characters, visuals and everything else often didn’t feel like they belonged in the same universe.

Ben Affleck is happy to bring back Jon Bernthal for his upcoming action sequel, “The Accountant 2,” but he wants nothing to do with Bernthal’s “Daredevil” villain Frank Castle, aka The Punisher. In a recent sitdown with CinemaBlend,