Daredevil. Charlie Cox plays a blind man and goes through the spectrum of emotions really well (cocky, sad, angry, happy). The little pigeon like head turns when he's listening, the way he walks with the stick, when he questions people while knowing whether they're telling the truth and still playing along. There's subtlety and nuance.
As far as writing goes, in season 1 his motivation and method was contrasted with Fisk's idea of improving the community. Fisk had gentrification (which actually leads to lowering of crime, improvement in living quality etc). However as we know gentrification leads to displacement and puts financial pressure on those living there. On the other hand Daredevil had the idea to elevate the individuals and people already living there.
His morality is also great. Its based on his religious values (of which he doesn't seem to follow any when it comes to being a catholic) and he justifies him not wanting to kill (which is his biggest rule) on his religion. However he constantly flirts with breaking this rule. Beats people up, tortures people, throws them off roofs, puts them in comas, nearly kills people all the time. He has a darkness inside him and at times it seems that the only thing holding it back is his firmness when it comes to his rule. He struggles with the guilt of this darkness and constantly asks the Father and God for forgiveness. It also brings out the hypocrisy of religion. In season 2, I wish this were explored a bit more, especially when it came to the punisher's "debate" with matt and also how matt killed Nobu so many times.
Thor: From what I understand Chris Hemsworth was tired of playing thor. He was almost about to quit. Despite that I think he gave a serviceable performance. His character compared to daredevil is a lot louder and more straightforward, earnest so I feel subtlety can be lost or take the backseat when it comes to such a character in terms of acting. However, infinity war shows us how despite the humor (which he carried from Thor), there's a lot of pain. I feel he really shines there. I didn't feel that sense of pain when it came from ragnarok despite there being attempts at showing them.
In terms of character, Thor has had multiple arcs. I like his Thor Ragnarok arcs and Infinity war (I take them as continuous) most. In Ragnarok, thor shows his sense of duty towards asgard, where he goes from planet to planet looking for the cause of his visions of doom. His entire motivation is to prevent the destruction of asgard, which is fairly straightforward. However his attachment towards asgard is to its people, while Hela is more about the place (further solidified by how she needs it for her power). Hela thirsts for power and glory, very much like how Thor did in Thor 1, while here we get to see how far thor has come (and also retroactively, Odin's concern for thor's action in the first 1).
There's further contrast with Odin's idea of what a good solution to the problem is. Odin covers up their history, covers up their sister (quite literally, he built over the old murals and paintings). Instead of solving the Hela problem, he sought to cover it up, use deceit (much like Loki would, hence Hela thinking he's more Odin's son). However thor, being earnest, genuine and open, decides simply to destroy Asgard. He decides no more secrets and lies. He realizes unlike his father, brother and hela, that Asgard is a people, not a place and also has the mettle to follow through with this and thus sets off ragnarok
Overall, I prefer Thor. But I think Daredevil had a higher quality.
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