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Daredevil season 3 will reportedly introduce Bullseye, but who is this character?
There will be a Daredevil season 3 on Netflix. In fact, Screen Rant reported that Vincent D’Onofrio has finished up filming his parts as Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk. Maybe the biggest news to come out about season three is the reported addition of Bullseye as a villain. Wilson Bethel will be playing the assassin that never misses.
Bullseye was once played by Colin Farrell in the 2003 Daredevil that starred Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. A lot of people said that he was the one saving grace from the movie. Bullseye entering Netflix’s Daredevil will give Matt Murdock a new kind of villain to attack. Something that isn’t the big and strong Wilson Fisk or the silent but deadly Hand ninjas. Bullseye’s skill set is more athletic, long distance, and comes with a lot of trash talking. But who is this villain?
Who is Bullseye?
Bullseye is one of the most dangerous people on the planet. Despite the hand-to-hand combat, Bullseye can kill anyone with anything he gets his hands on. He’s killed mobsters, kings, millionaires, and super-powered beings, along with a mutant with invulnerable skin in broad daylight, in the middle of Genosha. Why? Just to prove he could.
Bullseye is also completely insane. Not just because he loves to kill, but his theories on it. He once told Norman Osborn he thought he was God’s only friend because he kills everything that God creates. He went on to say,
"“Maybe that’s the secret of religion, right? Maybe I’m the new god.”"
Bullseye is also a smartass. The jokes he makes are usually disgusting and vulgar, but they fit his personality. They help him keep his opponents off balance and disturbed. Like most nemeses, Bullseye is the opposite of Daredevil. Daredevil doesn’t believe in killing and has all of the guilt due to his Catholic upbringing. Unlike Wilson Fisk, Bullseye doesn’t believe in anything but killing. Bullseye is perfect for Netflix’s Daredevil. A villain who’s absolutely despicable. It’ll be cool to see how Daredevil reacts when Bullseye starts killing innocent people in the middle of a fight.
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What’s Bullseye best story?
Comic book series: Bullseye: Greatest Hits (2004 – 2005)
Bullseye’s life has been shrouded in secrecy. Who is he? Where is he from? Why is he the way he is? A lot of these questions were answered in Bullseye’s Greatest Hits.
Bullseye has what seems like a seizure and gets caught and transferred to a facility, where he could be questioned about the location of some dangerous materials. Throughout the questioning, Bullseye is asked about his past. A ploy to get him to tell them where he’s hiding the nukes he stole. We learn a lot about who he is. What happened after the fire was set to his house, his time as a pitcher in professional baseball, and also how he first met Punisher and Daredevil.
This book was unlike a lot of origin stories. It was entertaining. Bullseye’s Greatest Hits showed all of the important moments of his life. A lot of times origin stories show a lot of filler that takes away from the excitement of the story. The story told from Bullseye’s perspective added comedy. Having the guys from the U.S. Government there as well added a break back into the present. Bullseye told some lies, but all and all, the important things weren’t. I highly recommend reading this before watching Daredevil season 3.
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Bullseye’s biggest moment
Comic Series: Dark Avengers: Assemble
Bullseye is a loner. Teams aren’t something that Bullseye has ever been good at. When he was a member of the Norman Osborn’s Thunderbolts, Bullseye was forced onto the team and threatened with death. After a ton of medication and keeping it together during the Skrull Invasion, Bullseye proved himself to be valuable to Norman Osborn. After Norman Osborn was put in charge, Osborn offered Bullseye a chance to become one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Bullseye moved to New York City and became an Avenger.
You’d assume that Bullseye would be offered the chance to become an Avenger and tell the person to shove it where the sun don’t shine. When Bullseye was given the news, he was shocked and looked a bit excited. Bullseye doesn’t work in the public eye, but Hawkeye does. Osborn dressed up Bullseye as Hawkeye and sent him out into the world to be a hero.
Bullseye remained the psychotic killer he’s always been and became what I think was a better Hawkeye than Clint Barton. He hit all of his targets and was more aggressive than his predecessor or Katie Bishop. Sure, he doesn’t fit the Avengers mold, but he was amazing and fit the very hardcore Dark Avengers team.
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Killing Karen Paige
Almost every superhero has dealt with the death of someone they loved. Cyclops witnessed Jean Grey die (more than once), Wolverine has had a laundry list of women he’s loved and lost, and Spider-Man has lost Gwen Stacy. In a lot of ways, these deaths have defined who they are. It’s either motivated them to become better fighters or it becomes a crutch. For Daredevil, Karen Page’s death has been one of his biggest failures. Something he still hasn’t gotten over.
Karen was killed taking a kill projectile from Bullseye that was meant for Daredevil. Murdock hasn’t gotten over it. He even told Ben Grimm’s ex-fiance that he understood why he wouldn’t go through with the wedding.
Despite Karen Page getting over her drug addiction and being diagnosed as HIV positive, Matt wasn’t prepared for her to die in such a violent way. The life he leads is a dangerous one, but this is one of the first times in his life as Daredevil hit him in his personal life. This may not be the first woman Bullseye has killed that Murdock loved, but Karen wasn’t a super-powered person who died in the line of duty. Matt’s romantic relationships will always be second-guessed because of how Karen Page died. I fully believe Bullseye will kill Karen Page in season 3 of Daredevil.
How Bullseye fits into the “Born Again” storyline?
Frank Miller’s written a lot of classic tales. He’s written Sin City, Batman: The Dark Knight, and Dark Knight Returns. Among his classics is series of Daredevil comics. One series took Matt Murdock down in a way that hasn’t been seen often.
Karen Page sells Daredevil’s secret identity for a heroin fix. Fisk gets this information and does his best to tear Matt down. He had Matt’s assets frozen, got a cop to testify that Matt bribed him, and had his house blown up. Matt ended up penniless, homeless, disbarred, and without any friends. If that wasn’t enough, Matt goes after Wilson Fisk and gets beat down bad.
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With Defenders ending with like a scene from Born Again it’s likely that season three of Daredevil will have ties to this story arc. Bullseye may not have been in this series, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be used. As I said earlier, Bullseye is responsible for Karen Page’s death. An easy way to get Daredevil back to New York is by killing Karen. Bullseye could be hired to kill Karen to draw him out. Instead of Wilson Fisk beating him down it could be Bullseye.