History MythologyGag / Daredevil2015

* Wilson Fisk is trying to rebuild Hell's Kitchen after [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the invasion.]] In the comics, he was the co-owner of Damage Control, a company that repairs damage done by battles involving superhumans.

* Before Claire learns Matt's real name, she calls him "Mike." In a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic storyline, Matt posed as a fictional twin brother named Mike Murdock. Within the show proper, it's Matt's ''middle name''.

* Wesley's death scene is basically recreating Karen’s death scene from "Guardian Devil". She grabs Bullseye’s gun and tries to shoot him, but discovers that it’s out of bullets. The same situation is teased in the show, but this time, the gun ''is'' loaded, and Wesley even tries to bluff her, arguing, "Come on, do you really think I would put a loaded gun on the table where you could reach it?" But in this instance, Karen’s courage and initiative is rewarded, and she is able to defend herself.

* Showrunner Steven Deknight mentioned in an IGN interview that in the comics, The Owl had a father who was in high finance. Hence it's possible that the Leland Owlsley in this series is not The Owl himself, but his father.

* In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E13Daredevil Daredevil]]", Wilson Fisk makes his getaway in an Atreus Plastics freight truck which takes him to a garage where he makes a switch to a Summerville Department Stores freight truck. In Daredevil issue # 184 first printed in July of 1982, Atreus Plastics is a nefarious organization that is involved in the creation of high-grade plastic explosives. This same issue is part of a story arc that involves Daredevil in opposition of The Punisher. In standalone Punisher comic issue # 49 first printed in June of 1991, The Punisher goes on a rescue mission to save the kidnapped heiress of Summerville Department Stores. On the Summerville truck, the tagline below the logo says "Proudly serving America for over 75 years!" a nod to Marvel's 75 years of existence.

* As in the comics, Karen is from the tiny rural town of Fagan Corners, Vermont, and comes to New York City in search of a new life. In the “Death’s Head” arc (Daredevil vol. 1 #56-57), she returns home and is confronted with chaos and pain related to her family. While the circumstances are much different in the show (in the show, Karen had a brother; in the comics, she was an only child), Karen’s past and family are upsetting topics for her. Season 3 will be digging deeper into this aspect of her story, so it remains to be seen how much inspiration will be drawn from these issues.
* The scene where Matt visits Fisk in prison is visually reminiscent of Ed Brubaker’s Daredevil vol. 2 #93. The fact that Fisk is being held in cell block D is another Brubaker reference, invoking the “Devil in Cell Block D” arc in which Matt and Fisk end up in prison together.

* Between the back part of season 2, ''Series/TheDefenders2017'', and the start of season 3, the show follows a repeating trend from the comics of Matt and Foggy separating. They go their own ways several times, but the scenario most like the show is in early volume 1, when Matt and Foggy have a falling-out and Foggy is elected District Attorney. This is the arc in which he comes to realize his own self-worth and skill as a lawyer, via working on his own and having a job that is much more high-profile than Matt’s; in fact, Matt actually works as Foggy's assistant for a while. Netflix Foggy does the same thing, just swap out the 'district attorney' job with a job at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.
* The show doesn't adapt the tedious love triangle between Matt, Karen, and Foggy (…and sometimes Mike) from early volume 1, but still makes sly little references to it, such as when Karen is serving her lasagna to Matt and Foggy and says "So I know it's not much in the form of repayment, but it is my grandmother's recipe and she made me promise only to serve it to my future husband." Along these same lines, the show also embraced the source material’s slow development of Matt and Karen’s initial romance, with them not even going on a date until partway through Season 2, their romance being put on the backburner during the back half of season 2 and ''The Defenders'' as the Elektra storyline runs its course, then resuming in Season 3.

* In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E12TheOnesWeLeaveBehind The Ones We Leave Behind]]", after killing Wesley, and DrowningHerSorrows, Karen jokes to Foggy that she's thinking of quitting drinking in favor of "the hard stuff" (drugs). A bit dark, considering Karen's biggest comic story was ''ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain'', where she becomes a heroin addict who sold Matt's identity out to Wilson Fisk for a fix.

* Fisk has an all-new wardrobe beginning in episode 7. Namely, he now sports the white blazers and suits he's known for wearing in the comics.
* Fisk forces Melvin to create a Daredevil suit for Dex, who then goes out committing crimes to discredit Matt's name. In "Born Again," Fisk did this with an insane patient broken out of an asylum. That it's Dex doing the impersonation here. Which itself is a reference to vol. 1 #285 from the Ann Nocenti run [[http://pluckyredhead.tumblr.com/post/156716435512/daredevil-101-the-blind-boxer-comes-home where Bullseye, of his own accord, impersonated Daredevil to destroy his reputation]], and [[BecomingTheMask got way too invested in the impersonation]]. The real Daredevil's way of snapping him out of his delusion was to dress in Bullseye's normal costume.
* Like vol. 1 #48-130, Foggy is running against Blake Tower for District Attorney, much like he did in the 1970s comics. A big difference is that Marci Stahl is taking the role of Deborah Harris, Foggy's longtime girlfriend (and wife).
** Foggy's attire in season 3 actually is very much reminiscent of stuff Foggy wore during that time period.

* Season 3 Episode 4 ends with a reinvented version of the cab scene from "Born Again" (where Fisk tries to kill Matt by putting him into a taxi that's driven into the river). Here, it's done more realistically, as rather than try to make it look like Matt went on a blind joyride (as the original version went), Fisk just pays a driver to get the cab up to speed, then has the driver jump out of the cab before it flies into the water.

* Felix Manning, Fisk's new fixer in season 3, is responsible for delivering Dex to Melvin Potter's workshop so Dex can be outfitted in a new Daredevil suit. He did the same thing with a random asylum patient in "Born Again". Unlike in the comics, though, Felix isn't killed by Dex.

* Matt starts out wearing an outfit based on the black prototype costume he used in the ''Daredevil: Man Without Fear'' limited series, and the TV movie ''The Trial of Series/{{the Incredible Hulk}}'', before upgrading to his usual red costume.

* Between the back part of season 2, ''Series/TheDefenders'', and the start of season 3, the show follows a repeating trend from the comics of Matt and Foggy separating. They go their own ways several times, but the scenario most like the show is in early volume 1, when Matt and Foggy have a falling-out and Foggy is elected District Attorney. This is the arc in which he comes to realize his own self-worth and skill as a lawyer, via working on his own and having a job that is much more high-profile than Matt’s; in fact, Matt actually works as Foggy's assistant for a while. Netflix Foggy does the same thing, just swap out the 'district attorney' job with a job at Hogarth Chao & Benowitz.

* As the SequelHook at the end of ''The Defenders'' established, "Born Again" would be a source of some material for season 3's storyline. Among things from "Born Again" that happen in season 3 are: Maggie nursing Matt back to health, Matt battling the Kingpin after losing everything, an imposter dressed as Daredevil whose costume is provided by Melvin Potter,[[note]]Although in the original story, the imposter wasn't Bullseye, it was some random guy Fisk broke out of an asylum; the storyline where Bullseye impersonated Daredevil was an unrelated arc that happened later on[[/note]] and Matt spending a significant period of time out of the Daredevil suit. In this arc, Foggy unknowingly takes a lucrative job working for Wilson Fisk. Foggy's run for District Attorney, and Fisk looking to gather pawns and allies, allows for a similar take.

* As the SequelHook at the end of ''The Defenders'' established, "Born Again" would be a source of some material for season 3's storyline. Among things from "Born Again" that happen in season 3 are: Maggie nursing Matt back to health, Matt battling the Kingpin after losing everything, an imposter dressed as Daredevil whose costume is provided by Melvin Potter,[[note]]Although in the original story, the imposter wasn't Bullseye, it was some random guy Fisk broke out of an aslyum; the storyline where Bullseye impersonated Daredevil was an unrelated arc that happened later on[[/note]] and Matt spending a significant period of time out of the Daredevil suit. In this arc, Foggy unknowingly takes a lucrative job working for Wilson Fisk. Foggy's run for District Attorney, and Fisk looking to gather pawns and allies, allows for a similar take.
* Like in "The Murdock Papers", Fisk makes a deal with the FBI to give up information in order to get himself out of prison. However, he doesn't give up Matt's identity here. Instead, he gives up information on rival criminals in exchange for charges against Vanessa being expunged.

* Fisk forces Melvin to create a Daredevil suit for Dex, who then goes out committing crimes to discredit Matt's name. In "Born Again," Fisk did this with an insane patient broken out of an asylum. That it's Dex doing the impersonation here is a reference to vol. 1 #285 from the Ann Nocenti run [[http://pluckyredhead.tumblr.com/post/156716435512/daredevil-101-the-blind-boxer-comes-home where Bullseye, of his own accord, impersonated Daredevil to destroy his reputation]], and [[BecomingTheMask got way too invested in the impersonation]]. The real Daredevil's way of snapping him out of his delusion was to dress in Bullseye's normal costume.

* The church fight from "Guardian Devil" is incorporated into season 3. It even starts the same way as before where you think that Karen's going to die the same way she did in "Guardian Devil", only for Dex to instead kill [[spoiler:Father Lantom]]. At the end of the fight, after Karen knocks Dex off the balcony to stop him from finishing off Matt, the episode ends with her crying and cradling a lifeless Matt in her arms, staged to look exactly like Karen's comics death panel, but with Matt and Karen switching places.

* Perhaps the most controversial part of "Born Again" is Karen selling out Matt's identity to Fisk for a shot of heroin. Creator/DeborahAnnWoll was promised upon taking the role that this wouldn't happen on the show, and that promise is kept, though she does still end up giving Fisk the final confirmation of his suspicions from a YouJustToldMe trick. And the bit of Karen being an addict is relegated to her backstory in Fagan Corners.

-->“... Bullseye was placed in a foster home, and became a baseball player in high school. Bullseye was an extremely talented pitcher, and was offered a scholarship, but instead opted to enter the minor leagues. After three games, he was called up to play a sold-out Major League game. He had surrendered no hits the entire game, and in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, he became bored and requested the coach pull him from the game. The coach refused, and insisted that he finish the game. The opposing team's batter mocked him, accusing him of cowardice. Bullseye threw the ball at his head, killing him. As the ball struck, he said only one word: "Bullseye". He was barred from professional baseball and convicted of manslaughter.”

* Fisk forces Melvin to create a Daredevil suit for an impersonator who then goes out committing crimes to discredit Matt's name. In "Born Again," Fisk did this with an insane patient broken out of an asylum. In the show, he does this with Bullseye...which references vol. 1 #285 from the Ann Nocenti run [[http://pluckyredhead.tumblr.com/post/156716435512/daredevil-101-the-blind-boxer-comes-home where Bullseye, of his own accord, impersonated Daredevil to destroy his reputation]], and [[BecomingTheMask got way too invested in the impersonation]]. The real Daredevil's way of snapping him out of his delusion was to dress in Bullseye's normal costume.