Who are the villains of ‘Daredevil: Reborn’?

The first two episodes of ‘Daredevil: Reborn’ are now available in the Disney+streaming platform catalog. Fixing the hero’s entrance into the Marvel cinematic universe, the production promises to follow the reunion of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with high melee combat skills and the former leader of the Mafia Wilson Fisk.

Who is Wilson Fisk?

Lived by Vincent D’Onofrio In the series, Fisk is the main antagonist in history. He, who has a dark past, since the son of a dysfunctional family and ended up killing his own father, found a new purpose when he returned to his hometown, New York, as a powerful businessman and responsible for controlling the crime of the region, including alliances with groups such as Yakuza, the hand and triad, among other entities. His prominent position made him known as the King of Crime and, of course, had his destination crossed with that of Daredevil.

In Netflix’s “Daredevil”, Fisk discovers the hero’s real secret identity and uses information to be able to keep his control in the city. However, at the end of season three, the villain ends up arrested. Since then, he has not only been able to get out of jail but also becoming the mayor of New York, bringing a new challenge to Matt Murdock in the new project, as Fisk now also has political protection to continue reigning in the underworld.

But Wilson Fisk, who was presented in “The Amazing Spider-Man” #50, 1967, is not the only villain in the series: there is still a mercenary and muse.

Mercenary’s past

Starting with Wilson Bethel’s figure in the series, he is a rent killer who becomes a great enemy of Mudock, having emerged in “Daredevil” edition 131, launched in 1976. In comics he acts as a psychopath and shows no sign of redemption, so much so that he becomes responsible for taking the lives of two important people for the cold blood Daredevil: Elektra and Karen Page, two of the interests, two of the interests loving hero.

In comics, however, there is no story of origin defined for the character. But in the 2015 plot, it changes, as it is presented as a former FBI agent who is responsible for the name of Benjamin Poindexter, who turns out to be a psychopath capable of killing using any object he finds along the way.

In this Enrendo, he is hired by Fisk to destroy Daredevil’s reputation, but the plan ends up suffering a turnaround, and the king of crime ends up leaving him paraplegic. Still, he can undergo experimental surgery to recover the movements.

Muse powers

Now Muse was presented in “Daredevil” #11, released in 2016, as a macabre artist who painted a mural using the blood of one hundred people who have disappeared, after all, he is a serial killer who turns his victims into art. His alter ego has never been revealed and unlike other antagonists, he has powers on humans as super strength, overwhelming reflexes and improved stealth, making him a true killing machine.