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Brad Winderbaum the head of Marvel Television confirms through his Instagram that the Watcher was in episode 4 of Daredevil: Born Again

I’ve had this theory for a while now, and I just can't get it out of my head. There are two big possibilities for Daniel’s future:

Option A: The Vengeful Son

Daniel is actually Leland Owlsley’s son. You remember Leland,the accountant Kingpin killed in Season 1 of Daredevil for his betrayal. Before he died, Owlsley mentioned he was planning to flee the country with his son, a character we never saw. The original showrunners even revealed that Season 4 was meant to introduce the son as the true Owl. What if Daniel is just faking his loyalty, waiting for the right moment to avenge his father?

Option B: The Kingpin’s Heir

On the other hand, what if Wilson Fisk decides to officially name Daniel as his heir? This could lead to Daniel taking on the mantle of The Rose. In the comics, The Rose is typically Fisk’s son (Richard), a sophisticated but cold-blooded crime lord who wears a mask and tries to run his own empire. Given their bond, Daniel fits the elegant criminal aesthetic of The Rose perfectly.

Every time this man is on screen, it feels like a rush of dopamine hits and his unpredictability always keeps me on edge.

His current arc is super fascinating to me because as much as he claims he’s doing good, he’s still committing horrific murders. The fact that I still have a hard time looking at the screen when he takes out the Taskforce (bro stop stabbing them in their eyes please) is saying a lot. But that contradiction is what makes him really compelling.

With Dex having lost himself so deeply and desperately searching for purpose, I think the sliver of guilt from killing innocent people and his worship of goodness comes from a genuine place.

However, his mental state has deteriorated to the point where he can’t properly process empathy or the emotional weight of his actions (good or bad), and he seems to be believe the world is merely black and white. Even when he believes he’s “helping,” it’s just a way to release his sadistic nature, something that will always get the best of him. At the end of the day, it’s all a way to sugar coat his one true goal, vengeance.

My question is has Dex fallen too far to ever truly get a grip on reality and function within society again?

I can see his desire to fight for good and be “one of the good guys” eventually twisting his moral compass even further. His admiration for heroes like Daredevil could push him into a warped mindset where he thinks he needs to take it upon himself to be the unavoidable evil that creates and inspires heroism.

You can lock him up and put him away, but when you need him to stir some trouble, he’s there and ready to go.

Was rewatching Loki season 2 and got to the ending only to realize a great detail I’d missed the first time. His crown in the ending sequence seems to be inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi - repairing cracks in pottery with gold to highlight the beauty in its flaws and strengthen it…

A perfect symbol for this Loki’s journey. His defeats, losses, and centuries (at least) of struggling to find the answer to the loom problem made him the beautiful hero he is in the end and the one strong enough to finally find his throne. They said it through the whole series: he’s a loser, destined to fail, and screw up everything he touches. But it’s those flaws that make him Loki and without them he’d never be able to achieve what he does.

In honor of the new season of Daredevil Born Again I want to share these pictures of my cosplay that was heavily inspired by the art works of David Mack.

Can we show this post some love so that more cool people from Daredevil could see it?👉🏻👈🏻

Photography: Li Eliseeva

Collage: me and Li Eliseeva

This is what worries me most after season 2. I feel like Marvel could get into a very problematic predicament with the character, due to the poor treatment he received before Born Again.

>!At this point, it's no secret that Fisk loses the mayoral race at the end of season two.!< What happens next is a mystery so far; the most unrealistic thing is that he might die.

1. Kingpin is Daredevil's archenemy, as well as one of the few crime bosses Marvel has at its disposal.

2. That option was already used on Hawkeye with his fake death.

But the other options don't seem so good either. On the one hand, I wouldn't like them to keep portraying Fisk as the mastermind who wants to rise to power because at this point, it would be tiresome.

Not only was he the main antagonist in these two seasons, but if we include the Netflix run, Kingpin has essentially been the main villain throughout all the seasons except the second, where the Hand was the main antagonist (and that was only because Fisk had some relevance). So, continuing with the same approach would be like wasting gum that's already worn out.

Another option would be to simply leave him as a crime boss and be done with it, or to pass the mantle to another character, but the problem is that this has already been done and it didn't turn out well. Hawkeye and Echo were the territory Marvel wanted to explore with a Kingpin no longer so tied to Daredevil and just a very ruthless gangster boss, and the result ranged from meh to disastrous.

We can partly blame this on the quality of those projects, but Marvel is also tied down because this Fisk's story was forged with Matt Murdock, which is why it's so strange that Matt isn't involved when he's present. And secondly, it can't be used in film because of Sony's restrictions. So it has to be limited to TV series.

I don't know, I see the character's future as very blurry after this season. The most direct and easy option would be to kill him off, but seeing as they didn't even leave poor Steve Rogers alone after Endgame, that's never going to happen.

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Though i'd turn my Dan Mora study into Daredevil.

Silly I know but this jumps into my head every time I hear or read the name. Any other character names that land differently because of where you live?

I love this party scene in Ultron. I feel like it was the last time the OG avengers were truly all together and on the same page.

The beginning scene at the Avengers compound after Secretary Ross leaves is also a very good scene.

I think this Ultron scene is goated because it’s them just hanging out. Thor Ragnarok had some scenes like that.

Not before nor since then have I seen the MCU have such moments of pure joy. Just heroes celebrating. Moments that make you feel like this is what is worth fighting for.

I really hoped after Endgame there would be something like that as a prologue but it never actually happened. We did get some nice endings in Endgame though, so that was good.