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No one should date Daredevil, in the comics or on TV.
You might think that the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again should be about Matt Murdock putting on a bright red devil costume and leaping along the rooftops of buildings to fight supervillains like Stilt-Man and Mr. Hyde. After all, the show is based on a Marvel comic book, and superhero comics are primarily concerned with good guys and bad guys punching each other in the face.
Deborah Ann Woll told The Direct that her character Karen Page and Matt Murdock, played by Charlie Cox, will find themselves getting even closer in the show’s second season, not necessarily in the way they would have hoped. “I think from where we left everything off last season, they have a really big job ahead of them. Matt and Karen are both loners, and so they are pretty much the only other person that the other one has left,” she explained. “And so I think there’s a dependence and a reliance and a support of one another that you know will be interesting to see how that plays out.”
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That will probably play out badly, for a number of reasons, not least of is that Matt is dating therapist Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva). The two certainly seem to be headed for a breakup at the end of season one, for reasons that include Heather’s new job working for Mayor Fisk and her research, which takes a skeptical view of masked vigilantes in general. But the biggest reason they’re going to end is the same reason that Karen and Matt find themselves together again: because Matt Murdock sucks at relationships.
Matt’s inability to keep a steady girlfriend comes directly from the comics. Unlike Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, or Superman—people who more or less always end up with Mary Jane, Steve Trevor, or Lois Lane—Matt Murdock has never truly had a single partner. Karen Page was introduced in that role way back when 1964’s Daredevil #1 called her “Gorgeous Karen Page” on the font cover. Yet, she eventually fell away, replaced by various other love interests, including Heather Glenn (a troubled socialite in the comics, not a therapist), assassin Elektra Natchios, District Attorney Kirsten McDuffie, and more. And each and every time, the relationships end badly.
The relationships fail because of an aspect of Matt’s personality that Frank Miller underscored in his reinvention of the character in the 1980s, an aspect that’s driven all of the great Daredevil runs that followed. Matt Murdock is a man against himself, a guilty Catholic who dresses up like the Devil. There’s a self-destructiveness to Daredevil that makes him both alluring and untenable, someone who women cannot resist, but who they must leave for their own well-being.
As Woll’s comments indicate, leaving Matt is going to be difficult in the second season of Born Again. The first season ended with Mayor Fisk declaring martial law in New York and sending his Anti-Vigilante Task Force against anyone who crosses him, especially Daredevil. As she and Matt both continue to grieve their late friend Foggy Nelson, and as Fisk turns up the heat on both of them, Karen will once again be stuck with Daredevil.
They’re sure to have some passionate times together, but it will just as certainly end as badly as every other Matt Murdock relationship, in the comics or on TV.
Daredevil: Born Again season two premieres on Disney+ on March 24, 2026.
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