If the rumors we’ve heard coming out of Hollywood are true, Daredevil fans will have a long wait before Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 starts streaming. How long? Think 2018. That’s largely because of the pending Marvel Universe projects that Netflix has in the pipeline: Iron Fist, The Defenders, Jessica Jones Season 2, and possibly The Punisher. While The Man Without Fear is slated to appear in The Defenders, leading his Netflix family of heroes in a New York street-level superteam, we won’t be seeing Daredevil in the solo spotlight for more than a year.
That gives us ample time to speculate, suggest, and imagine which villains we’d like to see square off against Matt Murdock, his alter-ego, and his friends in 2018’s Season 3. The Daredevil comic book has been around in one form or another since 1964 and, in 52 years, Daredevil has accumulated quite the rogue’s gallery. We’ve come up with a list of our choices of villains we’d like to see cross over from the printed page to the streaming screen.
- Elektra
Yes, Elektra may have already made an appearance on the Netflix show, but not as a villain. At the end of Season 2 (SPOILERS FOLLOW), we see Elektra Natchios step in front of her own sai to save Daredevil from The Hand bigshot Nobu. She dies a hero’s death but her body is whisked away in the night by The Hand ninja and placed in a mysterious urn where, presumably, she will be resurrected into the superweapon referred to as “Black Sky.” I think we can safely assume she will be making an appearance in Season 3 as a major baddie slash love interest for Matt to defeat slash save.
- The Jester
Seemingly a cross between the Joker, Riddler and Creeper, the Jester started out as a mediocre actor who turned to a life of petty crime after being criticized in scathing reviews for his portrayal as the lead in an off-Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Rather than work on his craft and take acting lessons, he instead took up gymnastics and martial arts, and had another villain, the Tinkerer, fashion him a small arsenal of gag weapons: exploding popcorn, a killer yo-yo, artificial trick hands, gimmicks that even the Joker might find lame.
- Bushwacker
If you’re into Japanese body horror or David Cronenberg films, then Bushwacker just might float your boat. This ex-priest-turned-assassin has a cybernetic gun arm which transforms into several different modes of death: shotgun, grenade lobber, full-auto crowd killer, even a finger pistol. To reload, Bushwacker eats lead, literally. Pop a few rounds into his mouth and he’s ready to shoot. He’s been battling the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen since 1987 but has also been known to pick fights with the Punisher and everyone’s favorite mutant Canuck, Wolverine.
- Typhoid Mary
For a superhero gifted with heightened senses, Daredevil can be an idiot when it comes to women. Case in point: Typhoid Mary. A telekinetic mutant with deadly sword skills and dissociative identity disorder, Typhoid Mary was dating Matt Murdock and fighting Daredevil in more or less the same time frame. Another one of the Kingpin’s favorite lackeys, she has also faced Netflix darlings Luke Cage and Jessica Jones in the comics, which makes her supremely qualified to appear on the small screen Marvel Universe.
- Bullseye
Apart from the Kingpin, no other villain has plagued the life of Matt Murdoch as much as the assassin-for-hire Bullseye. First appearing on the pages of Daredevil in 1976, Bullseye is responsible for the deaths of two of the most important women in Daredevil’s life, Elektra Natchios and Karen Page. He possesses no superpowers, just exceptional physical conditioning, advanced martial arts skill, and an uncanny ability to use anything – anything – as a projectile weapon. Though knives and guns are his staple weapons, he has eliminated targets with playing cards, pencils, and has even killed by spitting a tooth through someone’s head. As a long-time henchman of the Kingpin, he is a natural choice to be a killer proxy while Netflix Fisk remains behind bars.
Honorable Mention: The Purple Man
If Elektra can be resurrected, then perhaps we can hold out some hope for David Tennant’s Zebediah Kilgrave, last seen on Netflix dying ignominiously at the lovely hands of Jessica Jones? Going by the name of Purple Man on pulp, this sadist with mind control powers and an unhealthy obsession for Krysten Ritter started out as a Daredevil villain, where he really did have purple skin.
Got any more villains to suggest? Let us know in the comments! ADVT
