5 Characters Who Need To Appear in Daredevil Season 3

 

We have all seen Daredevil season 2, we can breathe a sigh of relief that it lived up the expectation and was just as good, if not better, than the first season. While the first season had the amazing Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, we were treated in season 2 to the equally brilliant Elodie Yung as Elektra and Jon Bernthal as the Punisher.

The question now is who should face the Man Without Fear in the show’s third season? The showmakers still have a lot of material to mine from the comics, so there are numerous names from Daredevil’s history who they should add to the series next.
So on that note, join me as I explore 5 characters that you might love to see join Matt Murdock in the show’s third outing

1) Echo

After presenting an amazing blind superhero, the next move for Daredevil should be to introduce one of the rare deaf superheroes, Echo. It might seem a slightly gimmicky idea, but Echo would be a great addition to Daredevil’s world for a few reasons. The character has a distinctive visual as well as a lot of story potential. Season two started to deal with how Matt donning a suit to save people has encouraged others to also become vigilantes, too.
If season three was to explore that further, Echo would be the perfect figurehead for this. if it would seem a touch repetitive to have another kickass love interest for Matt straight after Elektra, Echo could have the character arc that Ms. Natchios usually sports being sent to kill Daredevil by Kingpin, before eventually siding with him.

2) Mister Fear

Mister Fear is probably the next most significant Daredevil villain. When your hero is known as the Man Without Fear, it is irresistible that he would come up against someone who challenges that by using fear as his weapon. Yes, Mister Fear is rather like the more famous Batman villain Scarecrow, as both utilize fear gas, but using similar characters has never bothered comic book adaptations before and Mister Fear could be used very differently from that other villain.
An interesting Mister Fear story to adapt could be the comics storyline ‘Without Fear’ in which he used a drug to remove the fear of death from everyone in Hell’s Kitchen, making the population near-psychotic and a danger to themselves. Matt Murdock would definitely have his work cut out if this plotline was used in the next season of the show.

3) Maggie Murdock

In case you didn’t know, the nun who tends to Matt in a flashback scene during season two of the show is hinted to be Sister Maggie, the woman who turns out to be none other than Matt’s mother in the comics. Maggie left the Murdocks when Matt was a baby as she suffered from post-natal depression, leading her to try to hurt her child. Her horror at her actions led her to retire to a convent where she remained out of her son’s life, until fan favourite storyline Born Again” brought her back into contact with Matt.
Her arrival would bring some much needed light into Matt’s life, right when he would need it most after losing Elektra. Maggie’s introduction would also hopefully mean that the season would be adapting “Born Again” which, as one of Daredevil’s seminal storylines, the series needs to tackle sooner rather than later.

4) The Defenders

We all know that these Netflix Marvel shows are heading towards the truly exciting prospect of the team-up series The Defenders. By the time that Daredevil season three arrives we will have met all four members so, while it might just sound like we are being impatient, it should be time by then to start having those characters crossover into Daredevil.
Or at least, if they want to save the full-on crossover for The Defenders, they should up the connections between all the shows. Even though we had to wait until The Avengers for all the heroes to meet, at least we had Nick Fury wandering around the different franchises. Currently, Jeri Hogarth and Claire Temple have appeared in two series.

5) Typhoid Mary

In case you couldn’t tell from Elektra, Matt Murdock has a tendency to fall for the wrong women. And they don’t come more wrong than Typhoid Mary, a woman who suffers from split personality disorder and has superpowers to boot.
The only character would could top Elektra in the ‘unpredictable love interest’ stakes, Typhoid Mary has three distinct personalities. The three have varying levels of telekinesis, pyrokinesis and psionic abilities. It’s fair to say she would make quite an impression if she turned in up in season three.