{"id":380811,"date":"2026-04-08T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:06:08","slug":"the-mcu-just-set-up-its-most-important-major-death-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380811\/","title":{"rendered":"The MCU Just Set Up its Most Important Major Death in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death in the MCU<\/a> doesn\u2019t always mean a lot. Only a handful of characters have died in any meaningful way, with far fewer heroes than you\u2019d ever imagine. Hell, even the MCU\u2019s single biggest death event at the crescendo of the Infinity Saga<\/a> lasted only a year. We\u2019re all primed to expect either fake-outs or near-misses, or for death to be a temporary measure, even, so when someone genuinely dies, it tends to leave a mark. T\u2019Challa\u2019s death mattered. Natasha\u2019s death mattered. Tony\u2019s death mattered (albeit with a Doom-shaped complication to come). And another new MCU death just joined them at the very top tier. Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Daredevil: Born Again, Season 2 episode 4. <\/p>\n

It might sound like a clich\u00e9, but Daredevil: Born Again Season<\/a> 2\u2018s explosive episode 4 genuinely changed everything. Bullseye\u2019s thwarted attempt on Kingpin\u2019s life seemingly took Vanessa\u2019s life instead, turning a potential martyrdom into a different kind of nightmare. Vanessa ended up with part of a garish glass Kingpin trinket embedded in the side of her brain, a look of shock on her face so chilling it almost counterbalanced the irony of the situation. She\u2019s not dead yet, but it doesn\u2019t look good. The season so far has explored types of justice, and Bullseye\u2019s place at the extreme end of the spectrum looks like it\u2019s come to the worst conclusion. <\/p>\n

Vanessa\u2019s Death Will Give Us The Worst Version of Kingpin<\/p>\n

\"Vanessa<\/p>\n

While calling Wilson Fisk calm at this point is frankly ridiculous, Vanessa represents a sort of anchor to him from the real, reasonable world. She\u2019s his reason to want to be a better man (after all, during the events of Echo, he consciously removed himself from her to at least partly avoid appearing vulnerable). Removing Vanessa is bad enough, but her being killed by a vigilante might as well be like waving a red flag to a steroid-laced bull. A steroid-laced bull who just happens to be a champion boxer, and a real anger problem. In short, this is the spark that lights the powder.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kingpin is a compelling figure, of course, and the real-world allegory that has annoyed so many people is great storytelling, but nothing compares to the idea of a Fisk driven by vengeance. If Vanessa dies (and Bullseye doesn\u2019t often leave anyone alive), not only will Kingpin be consumed with wrath, but he will have the most valuable martyr to the cause he could ever have hoped for. In other words, not only will Fisk be unleashed, he\u2019ll have even more public backing to do whatever it takes to take down not only Bullseye, but every hero and vigilante in the same bracket.<\/p>\n

This is exactly the kind of escalation we need as Daredevil: Born Again hurtles into its second half. Episode 4 was the high point so far, not least because of the Bullseye elements, but I\u2019ve always worried that Kingpin being sat behind a desk \u2013 even with his hands on the marionette strings \u2013 can only be appealing for so long. Now, we have the perfect setup for him to step out from behind it. Or smash through it, more likely.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death in the MCU doesn\u2019t always mean a lot. Only a handful of characters have died in any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57781,23102,146,85,46,1724,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-380811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-answer-feature","9":"tag-daredevil-born-again","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380811","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=380811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}