Nothing remains dead for long in the era of television and movies, especially if it’s a superhero programme. Late last week, it was revealed that Charlie Cox’s Daredevil would be getting a new programme for Disney+, based in the actual Marvel Cinematic Universe and after the character’s brief debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

It’s unclear what this implies for the remaining Marvel-Netflix characters, including Iron Fist. At the very least, there’ll be another possible miniseries to drool over when it premieres in 2023 or 2024.

Only Cox and, presumably, Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin are set to return at the time of writing, leaving plenty of opportunity for what type of programme this new Daredevil will be and what tales it may adapt.

The original programme dealt with Matt Murdock’s first encounter with Kingpin, the reemergence of Elektra (Elodie Yung), and his being Born Again over the course of three seasons. If we assume that the new programme will make it so that those events have actually occurred, or that sufficiently comparable versions of them have, the issue becomes: what tales should the new show tell about Murdock?

Perhaps the most popular narrative that fans would like to see adapted is Shadowland, in which Matt becomes the commander of the Hand while progressively becoming corrupted by the evil creature known as the Beast. (It’s oka

y; he died and recovered.) Matt has gone through a lot in the comics in the years following the original show’s termination, and even during its run: he’s become Mayor of New York, and he’s utilised his experience as a lawyer to achieve a big victory for him and his fellow heroes.

More recently, he went to prison to atone for accidentally killing a man, and he’s started sharing his mantle with Elektra, his on/off girlfriend; the two are about to embark on their own quest to save the world in Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto’s second run for the two characters, which begins in June. There’s enough of ground to cover with the character without feeling like a rehash of previous material.

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