r/Daredevil • u/hatefulveggies • 7h ago
MCU Born Again TV series: Karen’s gonna die at some point, isn’t she?
Reading between the lines here and I’m not happy about it because I genuinely enjoy TV Karen and her relationship with Matt Murdock but - isn’t it quite likely that she’s gonna meet the same fate as her comic book persona?
For starters, her character’s been dead for 30 years now so that piece of canon is always gonna hurt her chances of survival.
Secondly and most importantly, the original plan for the Born Again series was (marking it as a spoiler for those who don’t like reading showrunner interviews) that both Foggy and Karen would die offscreen between series. Now that plan was scrapped and only Foggy got the fridge treatment - for now - but that being the original plan doesn’t exactly bode well for Karen either.
There’s also other little cues from a storytelling perspective, IMO.
First; them having a fully actualized loving relationship rather than just a sweet summer memory 10 years prior feels like an intentional choice to make Matt hurt like hell when / if she dies (and to make it clear to the audience why he’ll be hurting so much in the next phase of his arc).
And secondly, the way she told Matt (when he prevented her from killing Dex) that his no kill rule lets the bad guys walk while good people die sounded a whole lot like foreshadowing. Would not be surprised at all if (just like in the comics) it’s Bullseye who kills her, which would make Matt in some ways indirectly responsible for her death.
It’d be extremely bleak and cruel but I can’t help but feel like this truly devastating narrative is being set up for poor DD.
Thoughts?