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Emily Garbutt

Daredevil fans are theorizing about why Matt Murdock hung up the mask, and some of the suggestions are seriously dark

Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in Daredevil Born Again.

Upcoming Disney Plus show Daredevil: Born Again is set five years after the original Netflix series, and it looks like Matt Murdock has hung up his Daredevil mask by the time the new show begins. But we've previously seen him suit up for She-Hulk, so this must be a relatively recent development for the lawyer-turned-vigilante. So, what could have happened for him to pack in his crime-fighting? Marvel fans are certain it's something pretty dark, and involves at least one death.

"Given the timeframe of the series being around winter 2025 for the New York election, and his appearance in She-Hulk was around the summer of 2025. This is clearly a pretty recent thing that happened after the She-Hulk appearance," pointed out one Reddit user. "But now begs the question of what happened? The best theory I have seen is that they could be adapting the first storyline from Chip Zdarsky's run, of Matt accidentally killing a man. Which I would be so down for that, because I read that first volume for the first time this year, and loved it. I wonder if it would be too much to hope for a Spider-man cameo then, like in that first story."

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