Daredevil: Born Again ended its second season with a stunning turn for Matt Murdock, so how does season 3 handle the fallout?
Caution: This article contains SPOILERS for Daredevil: Born Again season 2
The season 2 finale of Daredevil: Born Again brought the various plot threads from the previous two years together. To protect Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) on trial, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) made a bold move: Calling to the stand Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio).
Matt slowly but surely revealed Fisk’s actions through the season, including blowing up a ship. Fisk thought he had the upper hand by threatening to reveal Matt’s secret identity. Matt defused that in a simple way: By telling the entire court he was Daredevil.
In the aftermath, Karen was set free, Fisk was forced to resign as mayor and flee the city with the humiliation of Daredevil saving him from an angry mob. However, for breaking the anti-vigilante laws, Matt was arrested with the world now knowing who he was.
Speaking to The Wrap, Charlie Cox shared how he knew of this turn going into the season.
“It was like, Okay, this is a big challenge. It’s shocking. I think at that point I thought maybe that would be the final season. So I was a little shocked to learn quite soon after that we were going to do another one.“
Cox added that his reply to the news was “Okay, it’s a genie I don’t think we can put back in the box. Or at least, I don’t want to put it back in the box.“
Those words are telling as fans wonder if season 3 will continue with Daredevil’s identity publicly known or some sort of fix?
Daredevil: Born Again will not undo the Daredevil identity reveal
Of course, MCU fans know about identities being exposed. Spider-Man: Far From Home ended with the world learning Peter Parker was Spider-Man and No Way Home showed Peter’s attempts to have Doctor Strange fix it led to multiverse chaos.
In the comics, Matt’s identity was exposed in an early 2000s story, but he settled it by having Iron Fist impersonate Daredevil while Matt was in jail. A later story had Matt revealing himself in court and going around with both identities. When he saved the children of the mind-controlling Kilgrave, aka the Purple Man, they rewarded Matt by using their powers to make the world forget his identity.
The MCU did have Kilgrave (David Tennant) as the main villain in the first season of Jessica Jones, so that’s an avenue open to possibility. But Cox doesn’t seem interested in going back to the status quo.
“That was kind of fun, and cool, and interesting. Because obviously, Kilgrave does exist in our universe, wonderfully played by David Tennant. I really would like to see him kind of make a return of some sort, but I think he’s a very, very busy man.”
It seems far more likely that there won’t be any magical fix and the MCU simply moves on with everyone knowing Matt is Daredevil. He faces the challenge of season 3 opening with him in prison while his former Defenders colleagues reunite to help him out. Cox teased that season 3 will be influenced by a classic comics story, The Devil In Cell-Block D, where Matt has to survive prison.
“There is an excellent Daredevil run in the comics that this season, at least at the beginning, pays homage to, which is really, really fun. So when I knew about that, I was very excited, because it’s a very, very cool storyline. It’s a very different, very cool dynamic to see, you know, Matt Murdock in that environment, bearing in mind things like the kind of people he’s with are the people he put in there.”
We’ll see how it unfolds, but this is a huge change for Daredevil that guarantees the hero will never be the same again!
Daredevil: Born Again is streaming on Disney+.
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