Marvel's The Defenders: 10 Ways It Sets Up Daredevil Season 3
5. More Religious Symbolism
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As most of DD's hardcore will tell you, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Born Again storyline is positively littered with religious imagery. Matt Murdock is, after all, a devout Catholic, and the story itself borrows heavily from Jesus' own resurrection during Easter.
And, although it might've been difficult to spot, there was a lot of religious imagery in The Defenders. Matt kicks things off with another confession, and the series' final moments take place in two places of worship, with Karen and Foggy sitting in Matt's local church that, in no small way, bears many of the same colours featured on the cover of Born Again.
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The religious elements behind Daredevil have only been given brief moments of exploration in the Netflix series, but that looks set to change with season three. With a veritable rebirth on the cards, these scenes serve as yet another indicator of the direction that the showrunners will be taking next year. If so, expect both 'Born Again' and 'Guardian Devil' to inspire the thematic basis in which it proceeds.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
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