13 New TV Characters We Can't Wait To Meet In 2018

7. Sin-Eater - Daredevil

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There are few more exciting returns this year than that of Daredevil, which is coming back after a year break - albeit one that saw its title character have the strongest arc in Netflix's Marvel team-up The Defenders.

All the familiar faces you'd expect will be returning, with a clash between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk likely to be at the heart of Season 3, with an at least partial adaptation of the comic storyline Born Again.

Slotting right into that will be Wilson Bethel (Heart of Dixie), who has been cast in an unnamed role, reportedly as an FBI agent who has a critical part to play in the conflict between the two. The speculation is that this will end up being Sin-Eater, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who becomes a lethal vigilante. That could easily be reworked into an FBI agent, especially with the casting call mentioning a "darkness' within him, and he could serve a few different purposes: he might be filling a gap left by Daredevil, or even be inspired by the Punisher, but with Born Again on the horizon he might be fulfilling the role of Nuke (who was teased on Jessica Jones), and used as a weapon by Kingpin. Either way, he should make for another great antagonist for The Man Without Fear.

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