Daredevil: Born Again Trailer, My Thoughts

You just can't keep the Devil down. Especially if that Devil is named Matthew Murdock. And it was true for his Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart. From 2015-2018, Daredevil got his own show on Netflix, produced by Marvel Television. The series would start a whole sub-universe within the MCU that focused on several street-level characters: The Punisher, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist, which led to the Defenders miniseries. 

The show would develop a passionate fanbase, who hoped the series would be revived in some form after it was cancelled by Netflix. Charlie Cox, who played Daredevil in the original series, would reprise the role in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and cameo in Echo and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Vincent D'Onofrio would also reprise his role as Wilson Fisk in Hawkeye and Echo.

In March 2022, it was announced a continuation was in development. It went through changes and revamps, as series do, and filming got suspended by the 2023 Writer's Guild Strike. Cox and D'Onofrio are returning in their roles, but so are Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Hensen as Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/The Punisher. Let's look at the trailer!

Fisk: "You know, this...this is actually nice. The two of us, sitting here...shooting the breeze, enjoying some coffee (good coffee by the way)...we should do this more often."
Matt: "Yeah. We should."

Looks like we are getting a nod to the era in which Fisk became Mayor of New York City after the events of Secret Empire.

I imagine this is set after Daredevil's appearances in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Kingpin's appearance during the events of Echo, considering how that miniseries ended. 

I can imagine that ol' Rich just threw a bit of money around...and a bit of muscle. And that's why Matt is understandably skeptical of Fisk seemingly having changed.

"A line was crossed." My guess is that Daredevil killed someone. And nice little detail with the missing horn in his helmet forming a "D".

Fisk raises something interesting here. He claims that he and Matt are naturally violent men. However, I can also see that he is looking at Matt through the lens of his own ego. Fisk is himself a violent man at his core, but I can imagine that one of Born Again's themes is that even though Richard and Matt may seem similar in that aspect, they are actually very different. 

Introducing the newest supervillain tam sensation: The Rainbow Mask Gang!

The Daredevil theme in church organ is awesome. Very foreboding.

Matt in the club. 

Oh God...that dude on the white mask with the black beanie...that's Muse. He was an Inhuman serial killer who was, as the Jack Nicholson Joker would describe himself, a "homicidal artist", although I think they'll erase his Inhumanity like they did to Kamala Khan.

Frank Castle: YOU'RE ONE OF THEM! YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE COCAINE BEARS!

White Tiger!

Ooh, that guy is never going to walk normally ever again.

I just love that he has his own little Devilcave with all the different masks.