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

3. The Character Is Literally Reborn

Although it was a tad predictable, it was nice for the show to assuage fears that Matt really was dead with the reveal that he was recovering in a chapel somewhere, surrounded by nuns and, in particular, a past relation.

This 'rebirth' certainly preempts any systematic destruction at the hands of Kingpin, which is fine, really. For the purposes of The Defenders it made a lot of sense; Matt had been wrestling with himself over his obligations to fight The Hand for a year, and his 'destruction', if you will, provided the necessary base with which the character could rebuild. His bed-bound recovery in a place of worship completes this rebirth.

The Defenders was a bit on the nose with its foreshadowing and its visual cues, to say the least. Elektra constantly brushes her sai in choosing a weapon (a hint that she was fully aware of her past for a while), Alexandra talks of fighting for life as a panoramic shot brushes over a cemetery, and Matt? Well, this is as deliberate a cue as any, and one that confirms at least one kind of rebirth going forward.