The explosive first season of Daredevil: Born Once more has rather a lot in widespread with the Marvel Comics story Satan’s Reign. In each tales, Wilson Fisk turns into mayor of New York Metropolis and wages warfare in opposition to his enemies, particularly Daredevil. On the finish of the funny story, Luke Cage turns into the brand new mayor, which has raised hopes that Mike Colter could be reprising the character he performed on Netflix.
As of but, there’s been no information about Mike Colter reprising his function as Luke Cage for Born Once more or another Marvel present. Nevertheless, Colter is already pitching concepts for a return, and he’s drawing from a Daredevil story that isn’t Satan’s Reign. “I positively would need to see him discover out what it’s prefer to have the facility and full management of the neighborhood,” Colter advised The Direct; “and see if he can do the precise factor and on the identical time, maintain his palms from getting soiled.” That premise makes lots of sense for Cage, particularly the model that Colter performed for 2 seasons on Netflix. But it surely additionally sounds rather a lot like two basic Daredevil storylines, one beloved and the opposite remembered, however not fondly.
Within the remaining pages of 2003’s Daredevil #50, by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, and a number of visitor artists, Daredevil throws the battered physique of Wilson Fisk onto the ground of Josie’s Bar. “That is your Kingpin!” he shouts to the assembled thugs, earlier than declaring his new place. “I’m right here to say: when you folks so badly want some kind of Kingpin, somebody to lord over you—nicely, any more, it’s me.”
The problems that adopted noticed Matt experiencing preliminary success, preserving Hell’s Kitchen protected by turning into the brand new Kingpin. Nevertheless, even earlier than issues started to unravel and Fisk plotted his return, his pals expressed concern concerning the soiled manner that Daredevil introduced order. A gaggle of different heroes arrive to confront Matt, together with Spider-Man, Mister Incredible, Physician Unusual, and, sure, Luke Cage. They warn Daredevil that his strategies will compromise his morals, and though he rejects them at first, they become proper.
