Will Daredevil’s Greatest Enemy Come to the MCU?

Marvel just announced that Matt Murdock is going to return in the series Daredevil: Born Again--alongside his arch enemy, Wilson Fisk--The Kingpin. But what about Daredevil's OTHER arch-enemy, Bullseye? Bullseye's origin story played out across daredevil Season 3, but now we want to see him in the MCU, with his adamantium-infused spine! Here's how it can happen.

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One defining characteristic of the MCU’s Phase 4 has been the return of some familiar faces, both from Earth-616 (Batroc, the Abomination, Trevor Slattery) as well as from other worlds in the multiverse like the Sinister… Five. I’m going to talk about one major Marvel villain who almost definitely is going to show up at some point–and probably soon. If you guessed Bullseye, you’re right on target.

We just saw Daredevil teased in the new she-hulk trailer. And the announcement of a new series called Daredevil: Born Again, which is a whopping 18 episodes long. For a series that long, you know that Daredevil’s number one enemy is going to appear once again.

Today I’m going to talk about Bullseye, where we last saw him on screen, and how he might show up again–and what it could mean for a possible Thunderbolts or Dark Avengers storyline in the MCU.

For those of you who haven’t heard of him… yet… Bullseye is one of the key villains in Daredevil’s rogue’s gallery, and in the comics has fought several other heroes, including The Punisher. Bullseye is a psychopathic assassin who, like Hawkeye, is an incredibly accurate marksman. Unlike Hawkeye, Bullseye doesn’t stick to a particular weapon of choice, but can pretty much turn anything into a weapon, able to kill his victims by throwing anything from playing cards to pencils to airline peanuts.

Like most comic book characters, the backstory of Bullseye is kind of all over the place–even his actual name is up for debate, with his alias either being Lester, or Leonard, or Benjamin Poindexter. A common thread is that, before he became a hired killer, he tried his hand at playing baseball, using his skills to become an unstoppable pitcher. However, after getting bored striking out player after player, he argued with his coach, and ended up killing another player with the ball.

In the Netflix series Daredevil, Bullseye kills his coach with a pitch as a child, ricocheting the ball off a pole so it looked like an accident. This Bullseye goes by Benjamin Poindexter, or Dex for short, and shows up in season 3 as a primary antagonist for Matt Murdock. These characters are MCU-adjacent, along with the other Netflix original series that includes Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and the Punisher–and they inhabit a darker, grittier universe alone that still closely resembles the look and history of the MCU we see in the films and Disney Plus shows.

Dex, the Bullseye of this world, is an army veteran and FBI agent assigned to transport Kingpin from jail, and saves Wilson Fisk from an assassination attempt. Seeing how valuable his skills could be, Fisk does what he does best and breaks Dex psychologically, manipulating him into becoming one of his hired mercenaries. Dex steals Matt Murdock’s red Daredevil suit and begins framing him for assault and murder, before eventually battling both Matt and Kingpin in a no-holds barred brawl.

After Bullseye tries to kill Vanessa, Fisk loses all control–you know how much he loves Vanessa–and rams Dex into the corner of a brick wall, shattering his spine. This is one of the final scenes of Netflix’s Daredevil series, and besides one quick scene we’ll get to in a minute, this is the last we’ve seen of Bullseye.

So, if he only appeared in one season of a show that’s technically not even canon, why is Bullseye definitely going to show up again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? A year ago, maybe this would seem far-fetched. But since then, the other two fighters in that bloody three-way fight–Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk–have already appeared in the MCU proper. Murdock appears briefly in Spider-Man: No Way Home as a lawyer, not as a superhero.

And Wilson Fisk gets even more screen time in the Disney Plus series Hawkeye–revealed as, well, the Kingpin behind the other criminals in the story. This might be a good time to acknowledge that while we don’t know for sure that Matt Murdock and Kingpin are not the exact characters we watched on Netflix, it’s a pretty solid assumption at this point.

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