Marvel's The Defenders: 10 Ways It Sets Up Daredevil Season 3

10. Relationships Repaired

Matt's friendships at the end of season two were... strained, to say the very least. Foggy had all but abandoned the Nelson-Murdock partnership, and Karen - frustrated by Murdock's emotionally distant attitude - was well on her way to abandoning him altogether. Revealing his actual identity didn't seem to help things either, so it's clear that the character was in a bad place.

Cut to The Defenders, where Matt - now a solo attorney with a continuing reputation for helping out the little guy - is laywering the sh*t out of everything pro bono. He rekindles a romance with Karen, mends a friendship with Foggy, and actually grows as much as they do. Both Karen and Nelson accept that Daredevil is needed (at least for a moment), and they await Matt's return with open arms.

Except he doesn't return, and things are pretty sad. It's clear that Karen isn't ready to accept Matt's 'death', and Franklin can't shake the feeling that he was complicit in his demise. They'll be in for a surprise when Matt does, eventually, seek them out again, but it remains to be seen if this instability begets a warm reaction from the pair.

It's a long-running tradition in the comics that when Matt's life is at its best, things tend to go awry. And while it remains to be seen how his return will be handled, one would imagine that Murdock will be reluctant to reenter their lives having put them in danger previously.