DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Showrunner Teases Shocking Deaths, Season 3 Villains, and Possible Returns

If you’ve been keeping up with Daredevil: Born Again, you already know this season hasn’t pulled its punches. With only a couple of episodes left in Season 2, things have taken some heavy, emotional swings, and now showrunner Dario Scardapane is opening up about the big moments that have fans talking. From that brutal death to what’s coming next, there’s a lot to unpack.

One of the biggest shocks came with Vanessa Fisk’s death, which landed hard considering how central she’s been to Wilson Fisk’s world. According to Scardapane, this wasn’t some last-minute twist. It was baked into the story from early on, designed to mirror the loss Matt Murdock suffers.

"We kind of knew this was gonna happen from the beginning of the story in terms of when Foggy died. That’s like a checkmark on the Fisk side. So there has to be a checkmark on Matt’s side, too.

“There has to be balance. This fight between the two of them poisons everything around them, so, in many ways, it’s kind of an intentional irony that the same hand took away their loved ones.

“As we will see in upcoming episodes, Bullseye doesn’t approach that with any morality. He did what he did for reasons, and he can’t really understand what the fuss is. So that makes it: Who’s responsible? Is Matt responsible for Vanessa? Is Fisk responsible for Foggy? Keeping that kind of always in conversation is part of the fun."

That “same hand” being Bullseye adds another layer of chaos to an already volatile situation. And if you were thinking this season might steer him toward some kind of redemption arc, Scardapane shuts that down pretty quickly.

"I don’t think where he ends up at the end of the season could in any way, shape, or form be called redemption. I don’t think that [happens] in the comics, in our lore – in our world. When Bullseye says I’m one of the good guys, you can never take that seriously, and that only exists in his mind. I don’t know if Bullseye can be redeemed for us in the normal world. Out there, there’s no redeeming him."

So, don’t expect a softened version of Dex anytime soon. Of course, fans are still holding onto hope that Foggy Nelson might somehow return. Comic readers know there are ways to pull that off, but it doesn’t sound like that’s the direction this show is taking.

"There’s always room for surprises, and I don’t want to get hopes up, nor do I want to give anything away. I think Charlie’s already addressed this. There are versions in the books where Foggyʼs death was faked.

“There are different runs that have done different things, but in our version of Daredevil: Born Again, in order to kind of kick the story off in a way that we didn’t take lightly, that loss colors everything that Matt does in every episode from here on out.

“So, to make that, 'Oh, it was all a dream,' or 'Oh, it was fake,' really lessens the impact on Matt, and Karen, and their little nuclear family.

“This is Marvel, man. You have characters playing other characters 10 years later. Anything can happen, but in our story, the loss of Foggy is very real and has a very real impact on Matt for the entirety of the story.

“I think you see that in episode 5 where this layer cake that we made of Matt contemplating forgiving the man who killed Foggy, and remembering Foggy’s kind of commitment to mercy, that stuff only really works if Foggy’s gone-gone."

It sounds like Foggy’s death is meant to stick, and it explains why Matt feels so raw this season. While Foggy is a beloved character, he’s a character that needs to stay dead for the sake of the story.

Looking ahead, Scardapane is already deep into Season 3, and while he isn’t naming names, he did hint that the dynamic between Matt and Fisk is evolving in an unexpected way.

"You know, there are people who are like, 'oh God, Matt and Fisk,' but I actually feel that Matt and Fisk are getting closer and closer together as time goes by, in terms of, if you look at where they both end up at the end of season two, it’s easy to kind of start thinking about.

“Their battles are more revealing of who they are, and I think that they’re heading towards that set of revelations getting sorely tested, not exactly by each other."

Could we actually see Daredevil and Kingpin forced into some kind of uneasy alliance? Comic fans know that kind of scenario isn’t off the table.

Then there’s the question of returning characters. Set photos sparked speculation about familiar faces, and names like Elektra and Colleen Wing keep popping up in fan discussions. Scardapane didn’t confirm anything, but he didn’t shut it down either.

"The best way I could put this without giving too much away is that what we do when we’re in the writer’s room is we go and look at some of the iconic comic book runs.

“We look at a lot of the things that seem to make sense in the story that we’re moving forward, and then when the time comes to bring a character in or to add a storyline, we have our wish list.

“Everybody you have mentioned so far is on that wish list. There’s the stuff that I would love to do, there’s the stuff that they’re doing in the larger MCU and sometimes those align and sometimes they don’t.

“The world that we’re doing with this show is very Frank Miller-esque, for lack of a better word. Chip [Zdarsky] and [Brian Michael] Bendis, those artists and writers, they have a very kind of particular tone and a particular sweet spot, and a lot of the characters that you’ve mentioned work in that sweet spot."

That “wish list” comment is just enough to keep fans speculating. As Season 2 barrels toward its finale, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Fisk is losing his grip on New York, Matt is being pushed to his limits, and the emotional fallout from everything that’s happened isn’t going away anytime soon.

If this is where things stand now, Season 3 is shaping up to get even more intense.

Source: Nexus Point News