hoo boy. this is a hell of a question so i'm going to try to answer it to the best of my ability with a numerical list, otherwise i am sure i won't hit everything. let me know if you have any further questions, anon.
1. karen does end up addicted to drugs and becomes a sex worker. however, in the comics, this is after she gets involved with matt and decides she's done with being Daredevil's Girlfriend and Matt Murdock's Secretary. she goes to california to try to establish her own career, to horrible results. later on she comes back to new york and ends up selling matt's identity to the kingpin for drugs, matt almost is outed as daredevil, but of course doesn't blame karen and forgives her easily. karen works to get clean but ultimately is killed by bullseye, iirc.
2. i don't doubt that karen killing wesley in self-defense is going to be the show's way of corrupting her. since this is essentially season zero of matt's story, the characters need to join matt in a somewhat dark place. he can't be the only one keeping secrets, after all. claire's scary dark place is following her kidnapping and realizing that being involved with matt could plausibly get her killed. foggy's scary dark place is knowing that matt has been lying to him for almost the entirety of their friendship, and knowing he's going to have to help matt keep these secrets. these characters clearly need to be broken from being completely assured of their safety or happiness.
3. i'm guessing karen's going to stay a secretary of N&M, despite everything. i can't really say what she'll choose to do on her off hours since she's obviously her own person, but for faithfulness to the comics' sake, she'll probably stay a secretary as her paycheck occupation.
4. surprise! i also dislike the pairing off of matt and karen! i understand that the original concept of her character was to be the Superhero's Girlfriend, but she's grown well beyond that, and if she only exists for matt to save later and then maybe make out with they'd be wasting a hell of a brave woman in the show. as for elektra, since they seem to be keeping faithful to "the man without fear" by frank miller: elektra's a thing of the past, romance-wise. matt and elektra had a fling in college, they still flirt as adults and have hooked up once or twice, but it was never a permanent thing. my guess is they're gonna be doing more college flashbacks featuring matt and elektra flirting at a bar, etc. and when elektra shows back up both karen and foggy are probably going to go "wtf?" and maybe be a bit jealous, but yeah, elektra's probably not going to be a legit contender for a long-standing romance, no more than claire was.
5. funny story about foggy/karen, actually. in daredevil yellow, they explain that foggy was constantly crushing on karen while karen only had eyes for matt, to the point where foggy actually bought her a ring and nearly proposed to her. overall i really hate romance triangles, if i had it my way the three of them would be in one big happy polyamorous relationship, but as you know, Monogamy Rules.
overall i just hope that romance stays by the wayside. if any major romance stuff starts up my eyes will probably glaze the fuck over and i will be writing a lot of angry tweets to the showrunners. i'm not quite sure what'll happen to karen but i hope that the creators have the good sense to not fall into old misogynistic pitfalls that old silver age writers were constantly stuck in during those days.
Re: Karen, S2?
1. karen does end up addicted to drugs and becomes a sex worker. however, in the comics, this is after she gets involved with matt and decides she's done with being Daredevil's Girlfriend and Matt Murdock's Secretary. she goes to california to try to establish her own career, to horrible results. later on she comes back to new york and ends up selling matt's identity to the kingpin for drugs, matt almost is outed as daredevil, but of course doesn't blame karen and forgives her easily. karen works to get clean but ultimately is killed by bullseye, iirc.
2. i don't doubt that karen killing wesley in self-defense is going to be the show's way of corrupting her. since this is essentially season zero of matt's story, the characters need to join matt in a somewhat dark place. he can't be the only one keeping secrets, after all. claire's scary dark place is following her kidnapping and realizing that being involved with matt could plausibly get her killed. foggy's scary dark place is knowing that matt has been lying to him for almost the entirety of their friendship, and knowing he's going to have to help matt keep these secrets. these characters clearly need to be broken from being completely assured of their safety or happiness.
3. i'm guessing karen's going to stay a secretary of N&M, despite everything. i can't really say what she'll choose to do on her off hours since she's obviously her own person, but for faithfulness to the comics' sake, she'll probably stay a secretary as her paycheck occupation.
4. surprise! i also dislike the pairing off of matt and karen! i understand that the original concept of her character was to be the Superhero's Girlfriend, but she's grown well beyond that, and if she only exists for matt to save later and then maybe make out with they'd be wasting a hell of a brave woman in the show. as for elektra, since they seem to be keeping faithful to "the man without fear" by frank miller: elektra's a thing of the past, romance-wise. matt and elektra had a fling in college, they still flirt as adults and have hooked up once or twice, but it was never a permanent thing. my guess is they're gonna be doing more college flashbacks featuring matt and elektra flirting at a bar, etc. and when elektra shows back up both karen and foggy are probably going to go "wtf?" and maybe be a bit jealous, but yeah, elektra's probably not going to be a legit contender for a long-standing romance, no more than claire was.
5. funny story about foggy/karen, actually. in daredevil yellow, they explain that foggy was constantly crushing on karen while karen only had eyes for matt, to the point where foggy actually bought her a ring and nearly proposed to her. overall i really hate romance triangles, if i had it my way the three of them would be in one big happy polyamorous relationship, but as you know, Monogamy Rules.
overall i just hope that romance stays by the wayside. if any major romance stuff starts up my eyes will probably glaze the fuck over and i will be writing a lot of angry tweets to the showrunners. i'm not quite sure what'll happen to karen but i hope that the creators have the good sense to not fall into old misogynistic pitfalls that old silver age writers were constantly stuck in during those days.