{"id":364990,"date":"2026-03-29T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/364990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:38:08","slug":"daredevil-born-again-season-2-is-officially-doing-the-last-villain-redemption-story-i-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/364990\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Is Officially Doing the Last Villain Redemption Story I Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again Season 2<\/a> seems to be giving fans more of what they want<\/a>. The Season 2 premiere, \u201cThe Northern Star\u201d, sets immediate stakes for the second season, as Daredevil (Charlie Cox) sinks a cargo ship (The Northern Star) that was carrying a crucial shipment for Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio). Kingpin responded in kind, putting even greater pressure on Daredevil and any of his known associates, via his own personal goon squad, the Anti-Vigilante Task-Force (AVTF). <\/p>\n

(MILD SPOILERS) By the end of the Season 2 premiere, Daredevil was in a desperate battle to save his friend, former police detective, Cherry (Clark Johnson), from being taken out by the AVTF. The fight starts to go really bad for Matt, until a mysterious benefactor snipes every officer in the squad, and leaves Daredevil the \u201ccalling card\u201d of a knife blade, tossed onto the floor. <\/p>\n

Marvel Cinematic Universe fans had to let their pulses settle, and their brains process, but it was clear who saved Matt and Cherry\u2019s lives in that drastic moment. And with that reveal, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is taking fans on one of the most unexpected redemption arcs they could get. <\/p>\n

Bullseye Is A \u2018Good Guy\u2019 In Daredevil: Born Again Season 2<\/p>\n

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Yes, it seems that Dex Poindexter, aka Bullseye (Wilson Bethel), still has Matt Murdock in his rifle scope \u2013 only for very different reasons, it seems. Instead of trying to take Matt out or kill anyone else close to him, Dex is watching over Daredevil like some kind of guardian angel, or\u2026 guardian devil.<\/p>\n

Netflix\u2019s Daredevil Season 3 chronicled how Fisk discovered Dex and groomed him to become Bullseye (while impersonating Daredevil, for a time). When Dex finally saw the puppet strings, he turned on Fisk, leading to a brutal three-way fight between them, which ended with Dex\u2019s back being broken. However, Dex was repaired with cybernetics and then hired by Vanessa Fisk (Ayelet Zurer) to kill Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), in order to protect the secret of the Red Hook port, which the Fisks were setting up as a major freeport for illegal businesses all over the globe. Matt nearly killed Dex in their battle after Foggy died<\/a>, and still left his nemesis brutally beaten and broken. <\/p>\n

However, Matt\u2019s anger proved to be the instrument of Dex\u2019s liberation: after Matt visited Dex in prison and hurt him, Dex used a broken tooth to get out of prison and get back to his mission. Last seen, Bullseye had infiltrated a gala where he tried to assassinate Wilson Fisk, only for Matt to jump up and take the bullet. Dex escaped, but no one knows what he will do next. Now we do. <\/p>\n

With Fisk having declared masked vigilantes to be outlaws in NYC, and the personal feud he has with Dex, Bullseye is under just as much threat as Daredevil, right now. That said, few would\u2019ve guessed that Dex\u2019s twisted mind (which was well mapped during Netflix\u2019s Daredevil Season 3) would be able to get around helping Daredevil, as opposed to, say, using the opportunity to take him out. The Netflix series made the Daredevil vs. Bullseye rivalry more brutal than any comic has, and with Foggy\u2019s murder still looming (for now), having Matt play nice is hard to envision. <\/p>\n

Daredevil: Born Again Showrunner Teases Bullseye\u2019s Season 2 Arc<\/p>\n

\"\"Bullseye in daredevil: Born Again Season 2 \/ Disney+<\/p>\n

Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane spoke to ComicBook about Season 2 of the Disney+ series. During that conversation, Scardapane made sure to point out that a lot of Bullseye\u2019s arc in Season 2<\/a> has to do with Dex kind of being a hero in his own mind \u2013 not necessarily the minds of Daredevil or the viewing audience. <\/p>\n

\u201cBullseye is such a rich character, from what they did with him in Season 3 of the Netflix show, the horrible bargain he made with Vanessa Fisk in Season 1, and now he\u2019s coming into our world,\u201d Scardapane explained. <\/p>\n

The showrunner went on to describe exactly what Dex is thinking right about now, stating, \u201c\u2018Okay: the administration is hunting vigilantes. I am a vigilante, so I must be a hero.\u2019 That thought process for somebody like Bullseye is hilarious and terrifying. Yeah. So without giving too much away: [We play with ] how he reacts to being \u201cwanted\u201d by virtue of being a vigilante, but not\u00a0wanted\u00a0by virtue of being a psychopathic killer. We played with that. <\/p>\n

\"\"Daredevil Season 3 \u201cThe Perfect game\u201d \/ Marvel \u2013 Netflix<\/p>\n

Indeed, Wilson Bethel put on a clinic of masterful acting in Daredevil Season 3, as the show chronicled Agent Poindexter\u2019s descent into madness and villainy \u2013 including one of the greatest Marvel origin stories ever told in \u201cThe Perfect Game\u201d (Daredevil Season 3 Episode 5). By the end of Netflix\u2019s Daredevil, Bullseye was a fully-realized character, who operates as a loose cannon threat, almost like a killer in a slasher-horror movie: whenever he shows up, you know someone is likely to die. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s little doubt that Bullseye will continue to evolve and be just as dynamic and fun in Born Again Season 2. In fact, Scardapane already teased as much: \u201cWilson Bethel is the best version of Bullseye ever done, and he\u2019s always game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is streaming new episodes every Tuesday at 6 pm PT, only on Disney+. Discuss the latest theories and rumors about the show with us, over on the ComicBook Forum<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 seems to be giving fans more of what they want. The Season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[176010,23102,146,85,46,1724,11447,19779,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-364990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-benjamin-dex-poindexter-bullseye","9":"tag-daredevil-born-again","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","14":"tag-marvel-studios","15":"tag-mcu","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}