10 MCU Storylines We’ll Never Get Closure On
7. Bullseye Is Alive And Well And Madder Than Ever
Daredevil’s excellent season three gave us an origin story for a man who really didn’t need one - the Marvel Universe’s most annoying sadist and master assassin Bullseye, the Man Without Fear’s comic book nemesis.
Having said that though, it was a great story: managing to set up Ben ‘Dex’ Poindexter as a truly scary natural killer while eliciting a degree of sympathy for the villain in seeing how far the Kingpin pushes him around the bend before he breaks.
Brilliantly played by the magnetic Wilson Bethel, the climax saw Kingpin break Bullseye’s spine, only for the coda to reveal the psychopath under the knife… said knife being wielded by Kenji Oyama (more of a mad scientist than a surgeon), replacing it with ‘cogmium steel’. Cue crash zoom into a bullseye swirling in Poindexter’s mad eye - and credits.
The scene was set for Bullseye to become the feared antagonist in the TV show that he was in the comics - but that shot was Daredevil’s last, because Netflix cancelled the show six weeks later (although you have to figure that they came to the decision months earlier).
The likelihood of Daredevil being picked up by something like Hulu in a year or so is greater than the other Netflix shows: Jessica Jones went out on its own terms, and Luke Cage and Iron Fist don’t have the same name value and weren’t as well received. Still, the odds aren’t good. Chances are we’ll never see this amazing version of Bullseye on TV again.