It seems that over the last few years, the biggest critical successes to come from the one-time pop culture juggernaut Marvel Studios haven’t been the films with world-ending stakes, but smaller-scale and more intimate affairs like last year’s Thunderbolts*. There’s been a particular renewed interest in the street-level side of the Marvel Universe; from the moment Matt Murdock showed up in Spider-Man: No Way Home, fans were demanding to revisit Hell’s Kitchen and the more overlooked sides of New York City, and their demands were answered with the release of Daredevil: Born Again. Among other things, the show dramatically shook up the status quo of the city by dropping Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) into the office of the mayor, a development that should have had major reverberations throughout the larger MCU, but judging from the trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that probably won’t be the case.
For a show set in a supposedly interconnected universe, it can’t help but feel at times like the events of Born Again take place within a vacuum. Recently, it was revealed that the rest of the Defenders would be making their return to the MCU in season 3, making Hell’s Kitchen feel a bit more lively – and now one of those stars has let slip a crucial spoiler for the third season, and in the process may have teased an appearance by Matt Murdock in an unexpected place.
