Daredevil Born Again episode 7, another dissatisfying end to a character?

Now before I begin, I must specify that in the previous Blog post I wrote the name of Angela Del Torro as Angie as well as Angie Kim as Angie... now that is not exactly intentional, because in my head, I did mean Angela, but I wrote Angie, cause of course I did.

ITS CONFUSING!

Now am I going to go back and change the article? Nope, anyone who doesn't read this and comments is giving me engagement, and engagement is engagement to the algorithm, and the idea of people reading the blog and being confused gives me a chuckle, hehe.

Anyways, now that we are past that, let's talk about the elephant in the room and in the title, and in the thumbnail, Muse is dead, okay then...

Now, in my first few posts about this series I had made the speculation that perhaps Daredevil and Kingpin will be forced to team up in order to take down this new looming threat, I was indeed proven wrong, what actually happened is Daredevil distracted him while Heather Glenn, his new girlfriend and the current therapist of both the Kingpin-Vanessa couple and This guy called Bastian Cooper, shot him dead with three shots straight to the chest.

Who is Bastian Cooper? Why Muse of course and he also appeared earlier in this scene over here during one of Heather's book signing.

So he did appear without his mask, in small pieces, just like he did with his mask.

And now he is dead, and while in the context of the show, his death, like that of the White Tiger's plays a greater role in the Story, namely giving Fisk an easy win to push on his Anti-Vigilante Task Force(AVTF) and since Muse forced Daredevil to return, Fisk also has an easy Target to give the AVTF in Daredevil.

So as a plot Device, Muse is amazing.

For those who are watching only the show, Muse is still amazing, it shows, like the beginning of this series that Marvel is completely able and willing to kill off well established characters who might have future potential, Marvel isn't playing it safe.

And in that context it is also like the death of the White Tiger, who came and went from our lives way too soon.

Muse is also an indication of how the city has gotten just like White Tiger shows the good Vigilantes can do, Muse shows the need for them, surprisingly the best argument that Muse's presence gives for the vigilantes to exist is given by Fisk.

So yeah, for a show only viewer Muse is pretty great and played his part, his death is now the final nail in the coffin for the inevitable confrontation between Fisk and Daredevil.

But, for those who read the comics.... well...

In the Comics Muse is an Inhuman and since the Inhumans haven't been introduced in the MCU, one can certainly see why they did not go that route, especially given the actual atrocious performance of the Inhumans series, remember that?

Yeah I wouldn't blame you if you forgot about it, because Marvel Certainly did.

The one with that really strange selection of Heroes because the Heroes in this show are the Royal Family who run a dystopian society where every year they Force Adolescents to go through exposure to the Terrigen Mists awakening their Latent Inhuman capabilities.

If they get a good power like Flight or something, then they get to be a part of the Rich elite, or else in case of a lame power like Projector eyes they go to work in the Mines.

The one where Ramsay from Game of Thrones played the villain but like, he actually had a point, like he was completely in the right?

How that was supposed to be a movie, then it was a show, and how shows such as Agents of Shield propped the Inhumans up by introducing characters such as Daisy Johnson?

I mean I am assuming that's what they were doing, see just like the Defenders shows, I never bothered to watch Agents of Shield because even though it had brought our beloved Phil Coulson back ruining a perfectly good death and a really good emotional moment, which was responsible for the formation of the Avengers...

Yeah the Show that did all that, I didn't watch because one, why would I want that moment ruined, two, I found out it even existed way too late and by then it was too taxing to start, and three it was in that zone of soft canon that all Marvel T.V. Shows were at the time because Kevin Fiege didn't own them.

No they were owned by Ike Perlmutter, the nutter who sat atop Kevin Fiege and who took this really ominous photo with Trump, and if you believe Mr. Sunday Movies, this picture always emits an eerie sound and there is nothing you can do to Stop it.

So why would I ever watch all of that, now that Fiege is bringing back Daredevil perhaps it's time to watch all those as well? But Agents of Shield is a different story... No way Coulson was alive and this active and the Avengers didn't find out...

The Inhumans T.V. Show which picked up this build up was part of Marvel's big plan to push Inhumans in place of the Mutants as they were owned by Fox, so any new Mutant became an Inhuman, one victim of that was Ms.Marvel or Kamala Khan, who was corrected to a Mutant in the MCU.

Surprisingly Kamala was mentioned heavily in last weeks release... And now another should have been Inhuman is no longer Inhuman or Human, cause he dead.

Anyways...

Moving on from that Tangent, as far as we know, Muse in the comics, is an Inhuman with the abilities of sensory deprivation, i.e. around him he creates an Area where all senses stop working even Daredevil's and so Daredevil can't sense him.

Not only that, he doesn't appear in Photos, Daredevil can't see, Muse can't be seen.

And not only that, I would have forgiven Muse not being all of these Super powered things if they had simply added one line, ONE LINE! Which they totally had the ability to, and didn't.

When Heather asks, if Muses doesn't feel for his victims, in the comics Muse says that he does, and that is why he must make them into works of Art, immortalizing them.

THEY DIDN'T ADD THIS IN THE SHOW, WHYYY??? THEY WERE SO CLOSE!!!

But regardless, I cannot be too mad, in the comics too, there is a story line where Muse dies, goes to hell and returns, and since Marvel has already started going towards the Hell Dimension with things such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness where he uses the souls of the Damned as a cape when they attack him for Dream walking into a corpse.

And so perhaps, now that they have built up Muse, he will go to hell and return, like there are already Rumors that he does have a Larger role to play, even the killing felt like the beginning of something, not an end, maybe that was just the AVTF gaining power, but maybe Muse will be back.

Anyways, why am I not so hung up on the Deaths of Foggy and the White Tiger?

Well, Foggy unlike Muse had his run, and also, there are like Muse, Rumors that Foggy will return, also like Muse there was a Story line in the comics where Foggy faked his death for various reasons.

Read more about that in the Secret life of Foggy Nelson.

So that is covered, the White Tiger actor is dead so no way they continue with Hector Ayala without recasting him, and a recast this early in a role may not be accepted and Marvel set a precedent with T'chala so perhaps it is best that this White Tiger stay dead.

I say this White Tiger because once again in the comics, Angela Del Torro and later Ava Ayala takes on the mantle of the White Tiger, so White Tiger will also remain.

Muse of all these three hurts the most cause he has the most wasted source material, and because they were so close to making it so much better, and now it all hinges on a resurrection and people tend to dislike those...

Regardless, let's focus on the actual purpose of the episode, cause it does have that, like I mentioned, this episode acts as a final nail in the coffin sealing the fates of both Daredevil and Kingpin to clash again.

Now, Kingpin could expose matt, but he doesn't because he wants to be in control, he wants to bring down daredevil, make him the villain, get his full revenge, make him feel everything he felt.

Matt is also feeling the effects of Daredevil as his other life adds to his Struggles in the relationship department, both because now Heather could be a potential Target(and she is already at risk without being one as Muse clearly showed) and because he can't be with her and still hide his second life...

His second life also ties him closely to Foggy and Karen, someone he still struggles with his feelings for, and if he reveals his second life, he not only potentially pushes Heather away, but also puts her at odds with her beliefs that anyone with a Mask is a coward, because now she is Dating one.

And if I am picking up on it right, she is very close to figuring it out.

The last thing to talk about is the Vanessa-Kingpin Set up, as Vanessa sets up Luca to be murdered and for it to be framed as self defense as she pings him Kingpin's location lying that he is alone and Kingpin sits there with the entire restaurant booked which he did every time he met up with Vanessa.

He even makes a call to Vanessa to ask if she wants something, so essentially, she may not be there with him physically but she is there in spirit.

And Kingpin and his wife are a master of framing words to manipulate people. Like kingpin frames Daredevil beating up his thugs as a masked criminal beating up on honest hardworking people.

And he frames the catching of Muse to prop up his Task Force which if you think about it really is just his legally sanctioned Gang.

And if I am correct by the end they will tattoo the Punisher Logo on their vests, cause he doesn't wear a mask, and he dishes out Justice cold and raw, just like Kingpin would like his own personal "Task Force" to be.