The porta two episodes ofDaredevil : Born Againset the stage for another explosive scuffle between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk — but before we even got to all that , the unexampled Marvel streaming show give up off with onehell of an initiative .
“ Heaven ’s Half Hour ” start out witha shameful attackby none other than Bullseye , who fatally shootsFoggy Nelsonas he and Karen Page are leaving Josie ’s Bar , having slaughtered a bunch of other bystanders while fighting Daredevil and on the face of it assassinate one of Foggy ’s clients . It ’s the egg on incident of the whole serial publication , one that sees Matt give up being Daredevil for over a yr , and for Karen to get out him and New York alike for a life-time of her own in San Francisco .
But it ’s also one that fans are now on the spur of the moment scrambling to find oneself a path out of … and they conceive that may have found it in the destination of Matt , Foggy , and Karen ’s jurisprudence firm .
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Nelson, Murdock, and Page’s AddressMightBe a Comics Clue
Established formally at the very end of the NetflixDaredevilseries , we briefly see Nelson , Murdock , and Page ’s address in the possibility episode ofBorn Again : while we do n’t see the street itself , we do see it ’s housed at act 468 . As of writing , across eight intensity between 1964 and 2025 there have been680issues ofDaredevil . Although Marvel has reset the counter on issues multiple prison term over the course of those volumes , whenDaredevilwas going to pass 500 issues in 2009 the party reverted to legacy issue numbering .
It ’s a trend that returned again , interestingly , starting in November 2017 withDaredevil#595 — the kickoff of the “ Mayor Fisk ” arc by Charles Soule , Stefano Landini , Matt Milla , and Clayton Cowles thatBorn Againis currently adapting in its first season . Anyway , what does all that number crunch have to do with it ? Well , it means thatDaredevil#468 ( by Ed Brubaker , David Aja , Frank D’Armata , and Cory Petit ) was published in August 2006 asDaredevil#88 , telling an interstitial story between arcs titled “ The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson . ”
A tarradiddle about how Foggy had really get by being murdered , and was now in witness security .
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How Did Foggy Cheat Death in the Comics?
“ The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson ” comes at a turn power point in a major plot line inDaredevil . During the events of the prior electric arc , “ The Devil in Cell Block D , ” Matt Murdock had been put on trial by the FBI , incriminate of a serial publication of crimes that connect him to being the alter egotism of the vigilante Daredevil . Through an raiment of sneaky , underhand raft , Matt is send to Ryker ’s Island ( the name used for the genuine Riker ’s Island in Marvel Comics persistence ) to be detained as a potential flight of stairs risk , in a long - winded attempt to have Matt either prove that he ’s Daredevil in an endeavor to survive , or have him killed by the other yardbird , which eventually admit the Kingpin , also cop for his many crimes in the process ..
With Foggy acting as defence mechanism in the case , during a sojourn he makes to Matt at Ryker ’s he ’s led to an coming upon with some inmates by a corrupt guard , alongside private investigator Dakota North , where Foggy is in the end stab in the catgut . While the reader and Matt alike are lead to believe that Foggy has indeed been killed for a few issues , Daredevil#468 divulge that , while on the operating table , Foggy made a deal with the FBI to enter witness protection as “ Everett Williams , ” in an endeavor to keep him safe while they investigate his attempted slaying .
Through a complex number of loops , Matt eventually handle to get out of prison house during a thigh-slapper with the assistance of the Punisher , is effectively exonerated in the cognitive process due to corroboration from Ryker ’s warden and public evidence of Daredevil remain in operation while Matt was held without bail ( in actually Danny Rand , the Iron Fist , wearing one of Matt ’s spare costumes , and inadvertently hired by a lawyer with connections to Foggy ’s death ) . He then flees to Europe to try and track down connections to Foggy ’s killer .
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After evenmorecomplex shenanigans , Matt eventually uncovers that it was Vanessa Fisk — dying of a terminal unwellness and seeking revenge on both Murdock and her husband likewise — that was behind the faking of Foggy ’s dying , pop the question him one last hatful . In commutation for getting Fisk exonerated , she will destroy evidence of Matt ’s operation across Europe as Daredevil , further strengthening his defence against the FBI charges . Although he ab initio turn away , Vanessa destroy the pictures anyway , dying days after Matt returns to the U.S. with the charge against him dropped , and find out for himself that Foggy was alive all along , establishing a new jurisprudence house together once more with Foggy ’s adjunct Becky Blake as their partner .
Could Foggy Have Really Survived inDaredevil: Born Again?
For as utter an opportunity as this picky Easter egg might play out as , there is a pretty significant remainder in the way “ The Devil in Cell Block D ” and “ Heaven ’s Half Hour ” portray Foggy ’s deaths : the latter is much more denotative in presenting that Foggy cash in one’s chips from his wounds at the fit . In the comics , the instant of Foggy ’s “ death ” is much more undefined . At the end of the issue he ’s attacked , Daredevil#82 ( bequest issue # 462 ) , Matt can still hear Foggy ’s heartbeat with his extrasensory abilities , and although the undermentioned issue then cut to his funeral , we eventually see in go past dialog from Dakota that Foggy had appeared to stabilise in the ambulance that recovered him from Ryker ’s . There ’s enough vagueness in how it ’s framed for the shock reveal six issues down the line to still make out together .
bear Againleavesverylittle room for vagueness in its own rendering of Foggy ’s demise . Both Karen , by Foggy ’s side , and Matt , using his senses from up on the rooftops above , receive the minute Foggy phlebotomize out , and although we do n’t see much of the medical response to the scene in the aftermath , it certainly does n’t look like there ’s any endeavour to steady him . Beyond the 468 number as a possible allusion to the comics , Born Againseems to be reasonably adamant that Foggy is really gone .
That may change , of course , as the season progresses . It ’s not like there have n’t been supernatural direction to cheat death in eitherDaredevil‘s history on Netflix or in the MCU as it exists now , thatBorn Againis part of . There are plenty of ways that even a really sealed death could be undo , even if does n’t play out as exactly as the switcheroo in “ The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson ” did . For now though , we do n’t really have a lot of grounds point to a way out for poor Foggy in the MCU , beyond a number and a fugitive dreaming .
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