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Off the theory that the sniper that shot Detective Blake is supposed to be Bullseye. Bullseye is known to be an expert sharpshooter. Off that, I could say that it was Fisk's plan all along for Blake to be shot non-fatally and then be poisoned by Hoffman in the hospital. Given Wesley's background research, they'd know how far back Blake and Hoffman go, so they knew from the get-go that Hoffman might not be at ease about Blake getting shot. Which is why they set up this scenario, to test Hoffman's loyalty to Fisk.

* Jossed, they don't meet face to face again until the finale when Fisk is long out of prison.

* Confirmed, she lives and Lantom dies in her place, literally.

[[WMG:Melvin had already designed the Daredevil suit by the time Matt first found out about his existence because he's a "Devil Worshipper" of sorts]]

There's a rather short turnaround time between when Matt first visits Melvin Potter in the eleventh episode of season 1, and when he has the suit completed just in time for Matt's final fight with Fisk in the finale. Only maybe a little over a week had passed between the two events. A suit like that would take some time for Melvin to first conceptualize and then actually design.

So perhaps Melvin had already created the suit. Likely, he saw the news coverage about the Devil of Hell's Kitchen following the bombings, thought that the outfit Matt was wearing looked pretty basic, and decided to create an actual devil-themed costume in his spare time. By the time Matt met him, Melvin had already built a prototype (in secret, to keep Fisk from finding out). From glancing over Matt, he was then able to get Matt's physical dimensions down, and he only then needed a few days to modify the parts that needed to be tweaked for the suit to fit someone with Matt's build.

* In the first episode of season 1, when Matt offers to let Karen stay at his place, he says “I will keep you safe, Karen.” And he literally saved her from being killed by the knife-wielding assassin Fisk had sent to her apartment.

[[WMG: Leland Owlsey will be a CompositeCharacter with either Don Rigoletto or Alexander Bont.]]

[[WMG: Vanessa will become pregnant with Richard Fisk, her son with Kingpin from the comics. ]]

[[WMG: Richard would not be Vanessa's son, but instead the Kingpin's son from some previous relationship.]]

[[WMG: The Jester's civilian identity of John Powers will appear in an episode.]]

[[WMG: Kingpin's men will be based on minor villains.]]

[[WMG: Daredevil and Spidey will crossover]]

[[WMG: Minor Spider-Man villains will appear on the show.]]

[[WMG: Claire's ex-boyfriend is Mike Peterson.]]

[[WMG: Madame Gao is from K'un-L'un]]

[[WMG: Madame Gao is Crane Mother]]

[[WMG: Stick is also not from Earth]]

[[WMG: Bullseye]]

[[WMG: Owlsley's son will be the MCU version of the Owl]]

[[WMG: The Atlas office across the hall is an Atlas Foundation front]]

[[WMG: Characters introduced in the series may come BackFromTheDead or be revealed to be NotQuiteDead later on]]

[[WMG: The Hand will be the BigBad of the Defenders.]]

[[WMG: "Ben Urich" will become a Legacy Character.]]

[[WMG: Ben Urich's dissatisfaction with the New York Bulletin comes from knowing that he's supposed to be at the Bugle.]]

[[WMG: Next season will feature at least a few done-in-one stories.]]

[[WMG: Stick thought Matt was going to be the next Iron Fist]]

[[WMG: Wesley is Richard Fisk/Rose.]]

[[WMG: Madame Gao is one of the Inhuman Elders that [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Jiaying and Gordon]] answer to.]]

[[WMG: There is a perfectly valid InUniverse reason for Matt's PermaStubble.]]

[[WMG: Matt and [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Skye]] knew each other as children, due to St Agnes orphanage.]]

[[WMG: Vanessa will take over Fisk's empire or at least be TheFace of it while Wilson is in prison]]

[[WMG: Wilson Fisk murdered the hell out of Don Rigoletto]]

[[WMG: If she appears, Typhoid Mary will be another IGH experiment]]

[[WMG: ComicBook/GhostRider (Johnny Blaze) will make his debut in the series.]]

[[WMG: The Taxi Driver in the cab Daredevil got into in the season finale was Comicbook/MoonKnight]]

[[WMG: Fisk will be DemotedToDragon in the Defenders series.]]

[[WMG: Bullseye will be the BigBad of Season Three -- assuming it happens.]]

[[WMG: That was Frenchie's brother ordered to kill Elektra.]]

[[WMG: Season Three will be based off on the Born Again storyline.]]

[[WMG: Matt will be apprehended, and will retain HC&B's newest associate: Foggy Nelson]]

[[WMG: The Punisher's War on Crime will eventually have him Cross paths with the Hand on more than one occasion, eventually causing him and Daredevil to join forces to put them to rest.]]

[[WMG: Kirigi will appear in Season 3.]]

[[WMG: Matt's mother will appear in Season 3.]]

[[WMG: Elektra will be[[spoiler: [[CameBackWrong resurrected by the Hand, now completely under their control. ]] ]] ]]

[[WMG: The Blacksmith is the MCU version of Luke Cage's enemy Gideon Mace.]]

[[WMG: Whatever the Hand use [[spoiler: to resurrect people from the dead.]] is completely alien.]]

[[WMG: That was a fake weight Wilson Fisk was lifting in the prison]]

[[WMG: Elements from the more recent Daredevil comics will be adapted in Season 3.]]

[[WMG: Master Izo will appear]]

[[WMG:ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain will be the plotline used for the base of season 3]]

[[WMG: Elektra will be the Typhoid Mary of the MCU]]

[[WMG: The Hand are going to bring Ben Urich back to life]]

[[WMG: Karen and Foggy will have a relationship.]]

[[WMG: Bullseye will take the place of the "Fake Daredevil" in Season Three]]

[[WMG: Another MCU hero might show up in season 3.]]

[[WMG: Karen's past will be explored]]

[[WMG: If Fisk is making a comeback, then it will be revealed to the others that Karen [[spoiler: killed Wesley]] ]]

[[WMG: Fisk's plan will be similar to ''Born Again'', but will be done differently due to the state the show is in]]

[[WMG: Nuke's role in the Born Again-inspired storyline will be given to another villain]]

[[WMG: Matt will get his nose broken.]]

[[WMG: Matt will get arrested and have his alter ego exposed.]]

[[WMG: Matt will fight Fisk in prison.]]

[[WMG: Karen will NOT die in season 3.]]

[[WMG: Dex died during his experimentation.]]

[[WMG: Potential candidates for designing DD's red suit.]]

[[WMG: Claire will 'travel' between all the Netflix shows, and become the link between them all]]

[[WMG: Theories on what Black Sky was...]]

[[WMG: The Punisher is a red herring and will be stopped in the first three episodes of season 2]]

[[WMG: Season 2 will be an adaptation of ''The Elektra Saga'' and Season 3 will be ''Comicbook/DaredevilBornAgain'']]

[[WMG: Matt and Karen will be broken up prior to the story.]]

[[WMG: The series will undergo reshoots so that Urich works at the Daily Bugle.]]

[[WMG: There will be an episode told from Urich's POV.]]

[[WMG: Who is Peter Shinkoda's Hachiro?]]

[[WMG: Matt and [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Gordon]] will become friends]]

[[WMG: Karen is a CompositeCharacter]]

[[WMG: Atlas Investments becomes Alias Investigations.]]

[[WMG: in season 2, Karen will find out Matt is Daredevil; the twist is she will work it out for herself, rather than being told or by accident.]]

[[WMG: Matt will fight Ultron's army but we won't get to see it onscreen.]]

[[WMG: The Blacksmith is The Mandarin.]]

[[WMG: Frank Castle was resurrected by The Hand]]

* Sam Chung aka Blindspot: An illegal Chinese immigrant that Matt takes as his vigilante apprentice in the [[ComicBook/CharlesSoulesDaredevil current run]]. With the show (as well as ''Series/IronFist2017'', really the MCU in general) already under scrutiny for its portrayal of Asian characters, Sam could potentially be an AuthorsSavingThrow.

As this was the only cliffhanger that was LeftHanging due to the show's cancelling, and in the event that it may remain so, [[RealityEnsues it's safe to assume that Poindexter ended up dying quick from the skeletal experiments he had went through.]] An AntiClimax, yes, but a clinically accurate one.

* Turk Barrett and Grotto will be two street thugs who work for him, acting as ThoseTwoBadGuys.

** Jossed with the release of Series/ThePunisher - Schoonover was talking about Operation Cerberus and all the nasty shit they did, including the murder of Ahmad Zubair and smuggling heroin back to America in dead soldiers' corpses. No sign of the Hand anywhere.

Maybe Melvin will also make the suit a bit more red. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' and the ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' movie have demonstrated that a bright red superhero suit CAN look good in live action. While Matt will probably not go for candy-apple red, it will probably more like a slightly less maroon version of the season 2 suit. Perhaps we will also see Matt finally get the interlocking D's, which might encourage people to actually call him Daredevil instead of The Devil of Hell's Kitchen.

* Jossed. IGH was exposed in the second season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015''. Meanwhile, Typhoid Mary made her debut in ''Series/IronFist''.

** Jossed. Typhoid Mary is set to appear in ''Series/IronFist''.

* Jossed. IGH was exposed in the second season of ''Series/JessicaJones''. Meanwhile, Typhoid Mary made her debut in ''Series/IronFist''.

** Jossed at least in terms of Nuke's involvement. He is dead as of the second season of ''Series/JessicaJones''.

As this was the only cliffhanger that was LeftHanging due to the show's cancelling, and in the event that it may remain so, [[RealityEnsues it's safe to assume that Poindexter ended up dying quick from the skeletal experiments he had went through. An AntiClimax, yes, but a clinically accurate one.

[[folder:Post-Season 3]]

[[WMG: Frank Castle was resurrected by The Hand]]
When Karen tracks down the nurse that tended to Frank Castle, he describes Frank "dying, for like a minute, and then his heart just kickstarted again and just wouldn't stop." He also mentions that people in suits pulled for the DNR forms to be pushed through. At first, it sounds like TheMenInBlack from the government, but the nurse never really confirms that, aside from the mention of ear pieces, which isn't that solid.

Now jump over to ''Series/IronFist2017'' (and the end of season 2 of ''Daredevil'', with the Hand appearing in full force, and being introduced as a primary ''Daredevil'' antagonist). The Hand's resurrection process is explained more fully. Unlike what we saw with Elektra, the process can be administered before death, and causes the subject to become more aggressive, less predictable and more violent. This is the case with Harold Meachum; he was given the 'gift' of being able to return from the dead, courtesy of Madame Gao and The Hand. Madame Gao mentions that it is a gift that has only been given to a precious few. After the resurrection from Ward stabbing him, Harold is a lot more unstable and a lot more violent, killing Kyle when the guy just asks for vanilla ice cream instead of a gourmet flavor, and throwing a glass to the floor when Joy refuses to drink with him, etc.

It gives the impression that Frank Castle had been resurrected by the Hand. Watching him a second time, he comes off as very much like Harold. As an aside, all of his target gangs (cartel, Dogs of Hell, Kitchen Irish) were either enemies of Wilson Fisk or other upstarts looking to take Fisk's place, at a time when the Hand was still trying to do whatever they were trying to do with Madame Gao's super-heroin, and probably didn't want any other competition. From a planning perspective, Frank would have had the dual effect of not forcing the Hand to reveal themselves in force to destroy their enemies, and potentially discrediting Daredevil/masked vigilantism and turning the legal system against him more fully as a general response as well; and all without any hint of their own involvement. Frank would just appear to be carrying out his vendetta. And it explains why he goes after the Blacksmith following his escape: the Blacksmith's crew are rivals of the Hand as well, competing with them in the drug trade. And it explains why the Hand don't start operating out in the open (the hospital attack, kidnapping Karen) until after Frank is initially arrested.

Also worth noting: at Frank's trial, during "Semper Fidelis," Dr. Gregory Tepper says in his Elektra-coerced testimony that he altered the original medical reports about Frank and his family at the threat of unknown persons who threatened Tepper and his own family. That sounds a lot like the Hand's M.O., as there wouldn't possibly be anyone else with an interest like that in Frank and that kind of inclination to violence with the money to have run of a whole hospital wing. (It's also appropriate if this turns out to be the case, since on a thematic level, "Semper Fidelis" also sets up Matt and Elektra's first real confrontation with the Hand.)

A third thing worth noting is that Frank seems to have a superhuman level of endurance for pain and heals faster than the average person. In "Penny and Dime," Finn Cooley drilled through his foot. That's a pretty serious injury, and even though he did spend some time in the hospital after his arrest, Frank didn't even have a cast on that foot during his trial, and not once after that is he shown limping or having any trouble walking.

It reads of the possibility that when the Blacksmith, in his final moments, mentioned that they won't let go of whatever happened in Kandahar, he's talking about Frank having a run-in with the Hand while he fought in the special forces. Meaning Frank, like Harold, has the 'gift' of resurrection. It also explains his "I'm already dead" line to Karen's "You do this, you're dead to me!" right before he kills the Blacksmith: he is already dead because he's died and come back to life many times before. This also would be a nice nod to how in the comics, he made a deal with the devil in Vietnam.

They two were flirting quite a bit in the first season and there was a time in the comics when they were together. Now that Matt is believed dead, Karen and Foggy will find solace in each other.

* Bullseye has yet to appear but with him teased for so long and Season Three being more or less confirmed to be ''Born Again'' (an arc that featured Fisk dressing a mental patient up in Daredevil's costume at one point), this will be the perfect opportunity to introduce Bullseye and have him wear the suit. In fact, there was a different story in the comics in which Bullseye dressed up as Daredevil and started killing people so it works within the mythos.

* In the original ''Born Again'' storyline, Captain America had a guest appearance to help Matt out against Nuke. While Captain America obviously exists in the MCU, it doesn't seem likely that Chris Evans will be showing up anytime soon. So, assuming any other heroes show up at all, who would it be?
** '''Jessica Jones''': If Nuke shows up in season 3, then Jessica might show up too, in order to take him down. After all, Nuke first showed up in her series and she has a personal beef with him.
*** Jossed at least in terms of Nuke's involvement. He is dead as of the second season of ''Series/JessicaJones''.
** '''The Punisher''': Frank and Matt already have a history and Frank could easily fill the role of Cap, being a military man himself.
** '''Danny Rand''': At the end of The Defenders, Danny seemed driven to take up the mantle of New York vigilante in honor of Matt. If there's an impostor Daredevil running around as there was in the original Born Again storyline, he might show up to take down the villain. Or he might think Matt himself is an impostor.
** '''Steve Rogers''': In a super surprising move, Chris Evans himself turns up anyway. After the events of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Steve is no longer Captain America, but he might show up in plain clothes to lend a hand.
** '''Elektra''': If Matt survived, there's a chance she did as well. With the rumor that Bullseye will show up in season three, we might get to see that famous Elektra/Bullseye rivalry on the small screen.
** '''Luke Cage''': Foggy is currently Luke's lawyer and a bit of a friend. If he is in trouble, Luke might come to his rescue. Unless his inheriting of Harlem's Paradise has rendered him more likely to be on the side of the criminals.

We really don’t know how Marci and Matt regard each other. And on the outside, Marci does comes across as a little prickly and insensitive (like her malicious misnaming of Elena as "Mrs. Carnitas"). However considering that she really does love and admire Foggy, and it doesn't seem like Foggy and Karen were talking at all during the events of ''The Punisher'' or ''Luke Cage'' season 2, Marci was probably his rock during that whole year he was grieving. It's really hard to tell what kind of a person Marci Stahl is on the inside since she's barely been explored beyond a surface level.

* Jossed. Rigoletto is mentioned to be deceased prior to the start of season 1.

We know she’s a top notch lawyer. We know she likes to be noticed and complimented. We know she’s very committed to her career. We know she has expensive taste, and that teasing Foggy is her favorite pastime ("Look at you still playing lawyer!"). Yet at the same time, Marci has come through for Foggy on more than one occasion. Foggy does have a way with getting Marci to see things neutral, like when he persuaded her to help him and Matt bring down Fisk, putting her career on the line in the process. The fact that she even did that demonstrates the level of affection and loyalty she has for Foggy. Another example is that she brought Foggy a dressed-up teddy bear when she visited him in the hospital after he got shot.