After an incendiary season finale that saw Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock finally stop running from their true natures, and then a year-long wait to find out exactly how New York City would explode in the fallout, Daredevil: Born Again has returned to Disney+ with an intriguing first episode that sees Matt and Karen finally go on the offense against their longtime enemy and resident immoveable object Wilson Fisk. Both the first and second season of the show, alongside being both a continuation and a reboot of the original Netflix series, is also pulling heavy inspiration from Chip Zdarsky’s acclaimed run on the character, which elevated The Kingpin to mayor of New York City and put him in control of a state-sanctioned anti-vigilante secret police force, while Matt Murdock wrestled with the effectuality of the law in the face of unfathomable judicial corruption. The run culminated in the Marvel Comics crossover Devil’s Reign, which pit Daredevil and multiple of his heroic partners against Kingpin and his forces; after Fisk was elected mayor in Born Again’s first season, many believed that the MCU was building to some sort of Devil’s Reign adaptation, although the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day may have snuffed out that potential flame.
Regardless of any potential Spider-Man appearances, Born Again is wasting no time in introducing characters both new and old; some of them aiding Daredevil and some of them allying with The Kingpin. The trailer for the season revealed the return of Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, a gateway that could potentially lead to the return of other members of the Netflix Defenders team (no confirmation on that quite yet), and while a few other smaller yet familiar faces are set to pop up, there’s one mysterious character who already has fans running wild with speculation despite this being his first MCU appearance.
