After the trailer for the new Daredevil series dropped yesterday, its serious tone and bloody nature has given me faith that Disney could revive Punisher.

It’s a full gallery of characters on display, from a retired (temporarily) Matt Murdoch to a now-mayor, still-violent Kingpin. We also see the return of Foggy and Karen, who were originally cut, and maybe even killed offscreen, when the first draft of this show was written, and eventually thrown out. Thank god.

The clues began in earnest yesterday when Marvel posted an Instagram Story with the simple words (in small type, top left corner “Marvel Daredevil” and then, in larger, blood-red type against a solid black background,

The Marvel Netflix Universe was a major milestone in comic book TV, giving fans a dark, gritty, and very mature look at street-level Marvel heroes like Daredevil and The Punisher. Shows like the Netflix Daredevil series expanded and redefined what fans expected from the Marvel brand in live-action,

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Despite bringing back many characters from the Netflix series, Marvel has gone back and forth on if Born Again continues that same story.

With Wilson Fisk/Kingpin about to make a comeback in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Vincent D'Onofrio has given us a sneak peek into his character's storyline in Daredevil: Born Again. In a recent interview,