Daredevil Season 4: Where Can Marvel Continue Its Story At Disney? Here What We Know
Charlie Cox, the actor who brings Daredevil to life in the Marvel Universe, not only on Netflix, assures that if Disney’s plans for him go ahead, he could have ten years of work ahead of him as the Man Without Fear. And, of course, we, humble sinners from Hell’s Kitchen, can’t help but celebrate. Daredevil, the Marvel series and the character, showed for three seasons what he was capable of outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now he has to show everything he can do within it. Rumors suggest that the character, after his cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, will appear in the She-Hulk series, which Marvel premieres in mid-2022, after Moon Knight and that in 2023 it will also fit into the spin -off of Hawkeye Echo. There’s no word on whether the Daredevil character will eventually get his own series, nor where he fits into phases 4 and 5 of the MCU.
Marvel has been intelligently introducing its characters in phase 4 of the MCU, first Kingpin and Matt Murdock days apart, without revealing what his long-term plans are. Charlie Cox has acknowledged in several interviews after the premiere of Spider-Man: No way home that if Marvel’s plans with him go ahead, he has at least ten years to develop his character. By now fitting into the plot structure of the MCU, it is not so clear now that the original story that was intended for Daredevil season 4 will be recovered, if Marvel and Netflix had given it the green light. Season 4 was going to focus on Bullseye, after his origin story was told in Season 3. Since the Kingpin literally stole the spotlight from him, he was the logical villain of Season 4. script) in common places for fans of comics. Remember that when the news of Daredevil’s secret identity leaks to the press, Bullseye tries to kill Daredevil… Kingpin breaks his back.
Daredevil Season 4: Where Can Marvel Continue Its Story At Disney?
The logical thing, to begin with, is that it loses the political substratum that it had on Netflix. The first three seasons of the series were heavily politically charged, still immersed in the Trump era. Trump is gone, and it is true that the residue left by this type of policy is still alive and has spread beyond the borders of the United States, but it does not fit into the new Marvel, whose political burden is concentrated in the new Captain Falcon’s America and Winter Soldier and Black Panther (despite provisionally decaffeinating it in What If…). The rest of the fictions focus on other stories and other claims.
Think that the showrunner of the series on Netflix, Erik Oleson, came to Daredevil after The Man in The High Castle (Amazon Prime Video), after soaking up Nazi writing and techniques, and seeing how those same techniques were applied in 21st-century America. Oleson had a clear agenda. The series asked itself a question in the third season: Is there a reason for hope? Would that make sense now? Not much. Wilson Fisk appeared as a highly sophisticated and intelligent villain who employs tactics straight from Putin’s playbook, capable of manipulating the system to create the right conditions for his rise. Fisk does it with Ray Nadeem (Jay Ali) and with Poyndexter (Wilson Bethel).
We wanted to see more villains, we wanted to see more Elektra. Season 3 was also an origin story, in this case of Bullseye. What makes such a character become a villain? There is a version of Dex who could have been a prominent member of society, saving people’s lives as a marksman on the FBI SWAT team. But due to Fisk’s corrosive nature, Dex is drawn to the dark side, and… the rest is history. And he leaves us wanting to see more villains, and for him to come back and come back this new one. One of the main challenges of Daredevil is that the villains always have to be more powerful than your hero for there to be any real dramatic tension. And in the end the hero wins. Because that’s what fiction is for.
The Netflix series deserved a fourth season for the brave choice not to kill off Fisk. Throughout the third season, Matt comes to understand that it is the fear of abandoning him that has driven everything he has been doing. God abandoned him at the beginning of the season, then he abandoned everyone he cares about, he lost Elektra, in his past his father was killed, his mother abandoned him, so there’s a deep fear of losing anyone who gets close to him. And he’s pissed off, but he’s able to pull himself together. Angels win over demons.
And that decision left more stories about Kingpin, Bullseye and Vanessa… As there were also more stories about Foggy and Karen and, of course, Matt, but there are more stories about all three together. Foggy is afraid of failing his family, Karen is afraid of not being a good person, Matt is afraid of being abandoned…and they’re all realizing that they’re happiest when they work together to help people in need. That was the core of the series. And Karen has grown up. They had so much ahead of them, so much. Will Marvel get that back now at Disney? It is impossible to know. But it is worth knowing where the series comes from and why the public liked it.
