The opening sequence of Daredevil: Born Again depicts the apparent murder of Elden Henson’s Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, the best friend and law partner of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock / Daredevil. However, Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios’ head of streaming, television, and animation, recently disclosed that the character will return in Season 2, and fans now want to know how it will happen.
3 ways Daredevil: Born Again could bring back Foggy Nelson
Foggy’s apparent death has a deep impact on Matt, who nearly kills the perpetrator, Wilson Bethel’s Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter / Bullseye, and decides to step away from his vigilante persona. Accordingly, his potential return will likely be as narratively significant as his purported demise. There are three possible ways that Foggy can come back without it being completely absurd and preposterous.
1. Flashback scenes
The obvious answer to the question of how Foggy can return in Season 2 is via flashback scenes. In franchise filmmaking and general movies and TV shows, they are a frequently used plot device to bring back characters who had died or were written out. Matt carries an immense amount of guilt and grief for the people he has lost, and Foggy’s death has been especially traumatic for him. It makes sense that he might recall his and Foggy’s shared memories in Season 2, leading to flashbacks.
2. Comic-accurate return
Foggy died in Marvel Comics and in somewhat similar circumstances. So, the same thing can happen here as well. Daredevil #87 wraps up the Devil in Cell-Block D arc and reveals that Foggy survived, despite Matt believing that wasn’t the case. Foggy was attacked by prison inmates. Matt came to believe that Foggy died because he could no longer hear his friend’s heartbeat.
However, Foggy was resuscitated in an ambulance. He was subsequently hidden away in protective custody under the alias Everett Williams by FBI operatives in Daredevil #88, The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson. Daredevil #92 discloses that these federal agents were associated with Vanessa Fisk, who orchestrated the entire thing in the hopes that Matt would kill the Kingpin in revenge. The show might follow this blueprint and reveal Vanessa as the mastermind behind what happened to Foggy.
3. Soul Stone
This is perhaps a far-fetched but not completely implausible theory. The orange diamond that appears in Episode 5 seems to have this otherworldly glow that the episode doesn’t really explain. Perhaps this is the Soul Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones, and it might be used to bring Foggy back.
