[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again’s first episode.]

Knowing something is coming doesn’t make it any easier to accept when it happens. That’s how I felt watching Daredevil: Born Again kill off Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) in the opening scene.

There had long been rumors of Foggy’s demise, but I went into the Disney Plus revival hoping they were greatly exaggerated. However, the series wasted no time in crushing those dreams. Viewers are given mere minutes of nostalgia watching Matt (Charlie Cox), Karen (Deborah Ann Woll), and Foggy tossing back drinks at Josie’s before Bullseye (Wilson Bethel), the antagonist of Daredevil’s third season, storms the bar in a quest for revenge and fatally shoots Foggy.

As soon as Foggy’s heart stops beating, Matt throws an already incapacitated Bullseye off Josie’s rooftop, a horrific violation of his previously strict no-kill code of ethics. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how honest Matt is with himself), Bullseye survives, and is sentenced to life in prison for Foggy’s murder. By then, the damage is already done. Matt has retired his devil horns and decided that the best way he can help New York City is through wielding the power of the law, not billy clubs, and Karen has moved to San Francisco rather than stand by while a grieving Matt ices her out.

In killing Foggy and........

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