I Think I've Figured Out How Marvel Is About To Solve A Cliffhanger That's Caused 6 Years Of Frustration
When Daredevil concluded in 2018, after the show's cancelation was announced, the finale left a lingering mystery that got under myself and many other fans' skin, but Daredevil: Born Again's trailer hints at the outcome. Daredevil was a groundbreaking series for Marvel that launched on Netflix in 2015. At that point, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was well under way, and the second Avengers movie was just around the corner.
The show was intense, action-packed, and the casting for characters like Matt Murdock and WIlson Fisk was unparalleled. However, when the show was canceled in 2018, it really soured the third season experience for me. Watching as Daredevil fights an all-time great villain like Benjamin Poindexter, aka Bullseye, was just less meaningful, since the show couldn't properly conclude its story. However, with Daredevil: Born Again increasingly appearing to follow on from the events of the original series, I'm looking back at Daredevil in a whole new light.
Daredevil Season 3 Left Bullseye With A Broken Back
Bullseye's Future Was Hanging In The Balance In Daredevil
Daredevil season 3 saw Poindexter recruited by Fisk to impersonate Daredevil and ruin the vigilante's reputation. However, Poindexter was no pushover. As an army vet, and an ex-FBI agent, he was a tough and resilient individual who believed in doing the right thing. Despite this, Fisk manipulated him and forced him to do his bidding, which made Poindexter increasingly frustrated. At one point, Poindexter makes a threat on Fisk's beloved Vanessa, in an effort to push him back and free himself from Fisk's control, but Fisk lashes out brutally.
With the full force of his violent rage, Fisk picked Poindexter up like he was nothing, and charged him into a wall. This resulted in Poindexter's spine snapping, causing the man to become paralyzed and unable to move any part of his body due to that irreversible damage. But of course, Poindexter was supposed to return later as the fully fledged villain, Bullseye, which was teased in the Daredevil season 3 finale, only to become a lingering cliffhanger with seemingly no solution.
The Daredevil: Born Again Trailer May Have Revealed What Happened To Bullseye
Benjamin Poindexter's Fate Has Been Confirmed
Fortunately, the incredible Daredevil: Born Again trailer unpacks a lot about what to expect from the new series, and includes several returning faces from the original run, including Poindexter. And interestingly, Poindexter is up and walking with no apparent aids. This would indicate that the experimental surgery that Poindexter underwent was successful, and he has now had his spine repaired with the aid of rare and powerful metals. But it does a lot more than simply reveal his survival, which was always likely to be the case.
It also reveals that Poindexter is in prison, and he is seen walking with a large scar on his right cheek, which indicates he has recently gotten into a brawl, but clearly came away with very little damage. All of this considered, it certainly appears that Bullseye is joining the narrative in Daredevil: Born Again, and with his allegiance to Kingpin severed, he will prove an incredibly potent threat to both the new Mayor, and Matt Murdock in the first outing of these characters together in more than 6 years.
Bullseye's MCU Origin Could Connect To Another 2025 Marvel Release
The MCU Connections Run Deep For Daredevil: Born Again's Story
But expanding on this idea further, the reality of Poindexter being mobile again after such an intense injury appears to require a deeper explanation, and thanks to the new setting in the MCU, it could prove to have even bigger connections. For instance, before Daredevil: Born Again airs in March, Captain America: Brave New World will hit theaters in February, and that film is set to introduce a powerful metal, known as Adamantium to the MCU. This comes as a result of the Celestial Tiamut, who appeared in Eternals, being made from this rare and powerful material.
While Adamantium is always linked to Marvel heroes like Wolverine, a lesser known instance of the metal's use is in connection to the Daredevil villain, Bullseye. Bullseye often has his spine, and occasionally other parts of his body fused with Adamantium in the comics, which further enhances his durability and fighting power. At the end of Daredevil season 3, Poindexter was set to have Cogmium used in order to fix him, but now that he arrives at this opportunistic point in the MCU, he could get an upgrade that makes him a much greater threat to Kingpin in Daredevil: Born Again.
Daredevil: Born Again
- Release Date
- March 4, 2025
- Network
- Disney+
- Showrunner
- Chris Ord
- Directors
- Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, David Boyd, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
- Writers
- Jesse Wigutow, Jill Blankenship, Thomas Wong, David Feige, Grainne Godfree
Cast
Matt Murdock / Daredevil
Wilson Fisk
Daredevil: Born Again follows blind lawyer Matt Murdock, who uses his heightened abilities to pursue justice in New York. As he manages a bustling law firm, former mob boss Wilson Fisk navigates political ambitions, leading both men toward a confrontation as their pasts resurface.
- Franchise(s)
- Daredevil, Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Number of Episodes
- 9
- Seasons
- 1
- Story By
- chris ord
- Streaming Service(s)
- Disney+
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