Awesome / Born Again

There will be a reckoning...

• Plenty of them throughout the series, but the one that stands out is when Nuke attacks New York and Murdock finally puts on the Daredevil costume again... Nuke's handlers give him coloured pills to control him (red to fire him up, white to cool him down, blue to keep him docile) After bombing a building he reaches back to his handler with...
  Nuke: Gimme a red!
  • Turn over to a final-page splash of Matt, back in red and silhouetted against a wall of flame, with a single caption box: "NEXT: ARMAGEDDON"
• Even Foggy Nelson gets one, when he manages to drive away a mugger by tossing a bowling ball (It was a Christmas gift for a friend) at his face.
• Ben Urich pistol whipping a dirty cop to death.
  • Urich gets a great understated one in another issue. Throughout the issue, he's been intimidated by the Kingpin's agents into not even thinking Matt Murdock's name. This includes one of his agents breaking Urich's hand and forcing him to listen while she strangles a witness to death. Even after J. Jonah Jameson gives a Rousing Speech, it does nothing, and it's revealed Urich's hand healed a while ago. Cut to Urich sitting on a snowy, cold park bench, remembering Kingpin's assassin, before he finally slips the cast off his wrist and says the two first words he's said since hearing the witness die:
    Ben Urich: Matt Murdock.
• A major supporting character's moment comes when Nuke breaks out of his chains, overdoses his Red stimulants and goes berserk shooting everyone inside the military base as a kind of representation of America as a mindlessly destructive behemoth. Then, he hears his bullets bounce off a star surrounded by red and white concentric circles as the symbol of the USA at its most noble, Captain America, charges in to stop this maniac.
  • Even before you see the iconic shield, you see Nuke's horrified - and awed - expression as he sees what he's shooting at.
  • "I'm loyal to nothing, General — except the Dream" - Captain America. Just by saying that, Cap proves why he's a guy whose voice can command gods.
  • Why does Daredevil's gambit of bringing Nuke's body to the Daily Bugle work? Captain America is on the roof, taking out Kingpin's assassins.
    • Another great sums-up-everything-you-need-to-know-about-him line from Cap: "He wears the flag."
  • It's also perhaps Thor's best 80's moment not written by Walt Simonson. He doesn't even do anything—he just stands in shadows making it rain—but the threat is there that even if Nuke can take out Cap and Iron Man, he's not even close to finished.
• You want to know how scary Kingpin can be even when he doesn't kill someone? How about when an underling raises an objection to his plans, and Wesley mentions that the underling likes to ski. To that, the Kingpin simply says "Compound fracture, both legs." and that's when Fisk is being merciful in his point of view.
• The entire first part of the Born Again arc was a CMOA for Kingpin.
  • Special mention goes to what happens when Daredevil learns that it's Kingpin who is behind the efforts to destroy his life. In response, as Matt Murdock, he goes to face Kingpin over it. Despite Matt striking him in the face with a weapon, Kingpin takes the pain and beats Matt unconscious. The only reason he doesn't kill him is because he wants to avoid drawing attention to himself by killing a man in his personal gym. Instead, he orders his men to make it look like Matt died in a car accident.
  • And when Matt manages to escape Kingpin realizes how bad he's messed up with just four words playing through his head

Fisk (internal monologue): There.Is.No.Corpse

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