Breaking Bad Beats for Daredevil: Born Again’s New Trailer

This morning, Marvel gave us First, a long-term view to Daredevil: Rebornrevival/continuation of the beloved Netflix series as a new chapter and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s full of rage and brutality, but it’s also got some interesting ideas about who’s returning from the original show, who’s being added to the MCU this time, and the comic arcs that are promoting Matt Murdock’s return to action. Let’s see who, shall we?

The Dream Team is back

At the beginning of the trailer, which is built around the long-awaited (but not unpleasant) reunion between Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock, we admit that it has been a long time since the Netflix event. Daredevilseries, and the long-awaited confirmation that, for now, things seem to be good between the three returning directors: Matt, his partner-in-not-crime Foggy Nelson, and also, Karen Page. In the original version of the show, neither Deborah Ann Woll nor Elden Henson were set to appear. We’re glad they’re finally back, but they’re not back either in This trailer is very… and this could tease some bad things to come, especially since we’re dealing with Matt Murdock retiring from the vigilante world when the series begins.

Mayor Fish

A lot has changed for Matt, but a lot has changed for Fisk, as we see him take on a new role as The mayor of New York. This has also been a long time coming: the MCU started setting up an arc for Fisk after he returned to the MCU. Hawkeye at the time of post-credits Echoand now we see that it is growing well Being born again. The plot to put Fisk at the top of the political spectrum comes from recent Marvel Comics history—Fisk became mayor during the tenure of Charles Soule and Stefano Landini. Daredevil at the end of 2017, after the events of Secret Kingdom saw him playing a major role in protecting the citizens of New York after Hydra sealed Manhattan in the Darkforce during their bid to take over America.

In the game, Fisk ran as an independent (and managed to get the votes even with his popular support running on an anti-vigilante platform), and in the end he took Matt himself for the position of Vice Mayor, who used this position to undermine Fisk and finally meet with him as Daredevil, hoping to catch him in a criminal act and rob him of his new powers. Fisk remained the mayor of New York for a while – he just sat down at the peak of the 2022 event. The Devil’s Ruleafter trying to stop the mob in New York and working with the Purple Man to try to force the city to re-elect him as mayor, as well as regain his lost identity of Daredevil’s alter ego. After being stopped by both Matt and Elektra (both working as Daredevil at the time), Fisk was briefly imprisoned, allowing Luke Cage to win the mayoral election by default.

A Known Enemy…

We get a brief and intriguing glimpse within the mid-trailer of another returning character from the Netflix series beyond Fisk himself: Wilson Bethel’s Bullseye. Seen here being led by armed guards through the prison, where we last saw him in the Netflix show Ben Poindexter was arrested after becoming violent from his time as Fisk’s killer, which led him to attempt to kill Fisk and his wife Vanessa at their wedding. . Due to his inability to work with Daredevil and Fisk, Poindexter became paralyzed during the attack, which led to him accepting experimental spinal surgery that seems to have given him back the ability to draw from the comics. Considering he’s up and running now, it looks like the risky surgery paid off.

And the new one?

But we’re also getting new musicians making it too. The handiwork of one in particular is seen throughout the trailer, and we see him working briefly as well: a pure secret, hidden by the Muse. Created by Soule and noted artist Ron Garney in 2016, Muse – who was not identified – was a serial killer who killed his weapons before displaying them in a sinister cartoon. In the series he escapes capture several times before breaking out of prison during Fisk’s Mayorship, before being defeated by Daredevil and Blindspot (whom Muse blinded), leading to his suicide.

One thing that seems to be unclear is what will happen next Being born again and the power of the Muse. In the game, he has superhuman strength and speed, as well as an incredible power of absorption: Muse’s body can reduce the amount of information around him, making him invisible even to Daredevil.

Frenemies Old and New

The trailer also gives us another shot of a returning face from the Netflix show in the form of Ayelet Zurer, playing Fisk’s wife Vanessa (Sandrane Holt was previously cast for the role, previously. Being born again‘creative reboot), and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is burying the hatchet with Matt. Frank’s second season starring in the show ended with him fully embracing the mantle of the Punisher, turning down a contract to do dirty work for the CIA to take over his violent campaign against new criminals. Where he and Matt reunited for an appearance, but what has become of the Punisher in a world where Daredevil has temporarily retired?

A New Hero Rises

Another interesting new character we see in the trailer is the man wearing the famous white mask: this is Hector Ayala, also known as the White Tiger. Played by Kamar de los Reyes in his final role before his death in 2023, Ayala is the first of several characters to wear the mantle of the White Tiger in Marvel comics, a legacy that has continued to include his youngest sister, Ava. First appearing in 1975, White Tiger is given superhuman powers by a charm he wears around his neck, summoning the power of the Great Tiger God, which allows him to gain superhuman strength and power, as well as rapid healing and enhanced powers.

New Clothes

One of the last and most interesting scenes we see in the trailer is Matt looking across the entire area of ​​Daredevil’s masks. Although we see him throughout the trailer in his modified red suit, the various cows here reflect Daredevil’s long history in the game. Most notable is the yellow mask from the suit we saw him wearing in his appearance He-Hulkinspired by the very original costume that Daredevil wears in the cartoon, but there are also two red cows here, which seem to all come from the original version of his current suit that is shown in the entire Netflix series.

The black cow could be a reference to one of the two costumes that Daredevil wore in the game: his armor that he started wearing after the fight with the Wild Pack, or his black “Shadowlands” suit, from when Matt took over. Hand ninja clan and found himself corrupted by his mysterious demon, the Beast. The most interesting addition here is the one on the left, a white silver mask that has only one parallel in the game: the 2023 reset. Daredevil with the production team of Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder, Matt began working as a priest, and eventually teamed up with Doctor Strange to fight his inner demons. The result was an all-white “cleaned” of his usual suit.

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