Daredevil: Born Again's Muse Explained: Who Is Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk's New Enemy?

While Daredevil: Born Again is simply a continuation of the classical Netflix bid that rekindles the rivalry betwixt Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock and Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk, there's besides a caller subordinate connected the board. Even arsenic the bid explores the struggles some men look successful trying to reinvent themselves, it besides pits them against a sadistic serial slayer with a penchant for creator expression. That slayer is nary different than Muse.

Who is Muse, and wherefore does this superhuman murderer person the quality to marque adjacent bitter rivals similar Daredevil and Kingpin enactment together? Here’s what you request to cognize astir this twisted Marvel villain.

Who Is Muse?

Muse is 1 of the much caller additions to Daredevil’s rogues gallery. The quality was created by Charles Soule and Ron Garney and debuted successful 2016’s Daredevil #11. And successful lawsuit determination was immoderate doubt, Soule himself confirmed that Muse tin beryllium seen successful the archetypal D23 Born Again trailer.

Muse is simply a villain who wouldn’t beryllium retired of spot successful the Hannibal TV series. He’s a prolific serial slayer who sees execution arsenic the highest signifier of creator expression. In his archetypal appearance, Muse paints a mural utilizing the humor of a 100 missing persons. He aboriginal composes a portion by arranging the corpses of six Inhumans successful assorted poses.

Part of what makes Muse truthful unsafe to Daredevil specifically is that his assemblage acts arsenic a benignant of sensory achromatic hole, pulling successful stimuli and efficaciously scrambling Matt Murdock’s radar sense. Coupled with superhuman spot and velocity and a existent knack for murder, Muse is among Daredevil’s deadliest enemies.

Art by Dan Panosian. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Muse rapidly makes an force retired of Daredevil and his caller sidekick, Blindspot. That rivalry intensifies erstwhile Muse gouges retired Blindspot’s eyes. When Daredevil yet brings his caller foe to justice, Muse breaks his ain fingers, purposely robbing himself of the quality to make much art.

However, Muse’s hands are healed, and helium soon escapes and resumes cutting a bloody swath done New York City. Muse becomes obsessed with the city’s vigilantes, leaving twisted monuments to men similar the Punisher adjacent arsenic the recently elected Mayor Wilson Fisk begins cracking down connected vigilante activity.

This triggers a rematch betwixt Muse and Blindspot, with the second tapping into the powerfulness of The Beast (the demonic entity worshiped by the ninja cult The Hand) to decision his hated foe. Lamenting the information that his communicative has go eclipsed by Blindspot’s, Muse commits termination by walking into a fire.

That last confrontation took spot successful 2018’s Daredevil #600, and Muse has remained dormant ever since. But this being the Marvel Universe, it seems lone a substance of clip earlier this accomplished slayer returns to beingness and begins creating his sadistic signifier of creation erstwhile more.

Muse successful Daredevil: Born Again

Warning: this conception contains spoilers for the archetypal six episodes of Daredevil: Born Again!

The Daredevil: Born Again footage screened astatine D23, arsenic good arsenic consequent trailers, confirmed that Muse volition look successful the caller Disney+ series. Muse's MCU plan is astir identical to his comic publication counterpart - a achromatic disguise and bodysuit with red, bloody tears moving down his face. That said, the quality seems to deficiency the superhuman powers and Inhuman practice of his comic publication counterpart.

Even aft six episodes, we inactive don’t cognize who is playing the villain yet. We fishy there's a large uncover to travel regarding Muse's concealed identity.

Muse's beingness successful the bid is simply a wide motion that Born Again, contempt sharing the sanction of an iconic 1986 Daredevil storyline by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, is besides inspired by much modern Daredevil comics. The Born Again comic is astir Wilson Fisk discovering Daredevil’s concealed individuality and utilizing that cognition to systematically destruct Matt Murdock’s life. The show, portion it hinges connected the ongoing rivalry betwixt Murdock and Fisk, seems to beryllium veering successful a antithetic absorption (and let’s not hide that Fisk has already known Daredevil’s individuality for immoderate clip successful the MCU).

As the archetypal play has unfolded, it's go wide that Muse is simply a communal force Matt and Fisk some share. The 2 aren't precisely successful league with 1 another. Fisk made it precise wide successful their reunion aboriginal successful the play that he'll person Matt arrested and prosecuted if he's recovered to person resumed his activities arsenic Daredevil. But Muse represents a wide menace to some men arsenic they effort to reinvent themselves for a caller era.

Art by Dan Mora. (Image Credit: Marvel)

For Fisk, the recently elected politician of New York, Muse is simply a unsafe motion of his weakness. Fisk campaigned connected a level of restoring instrumentality and bid and cracking down connected the city's vigilante problem. But having a serial slayer moving amok and leaving murals painted successful quality humor reflects poorly connected the caller administration.

For Matt, Muse is the azygous top trial of his resoluteness to permission Daredevil successful the past. Matt has done his champion to springiness up being Daredevil, pursuing his gruesome rematch with Wilson Bethel's Bullseye and the tragic execution of Elden Henson's Foggy Nelson. After years spent some upholding the justness strategy and going beyond the tribunal of law, Matt is desperately trying to respect the system. But aft having his resoluteness sorely tested again and again, Matt yet gives successful and becomes Daredevil again successful Episode 6, aft helium learns Muse has kidnapped Angela Ayala (Ruibo Qian).

Thus ensues different knock-down, drag-out brawl arsenic Daredevil battles Muse successful his underground lair portion Angela bleeds out. Daredevil manages to prevention Angela, but Muse escapes. Surely, a rematch is coming earlier the extremity of the season, but what happens erstwhile Fisk joins the fray. Has Matt painted a elephantine people connected his backmost by becoming Daredevil again? The hostility is surely ramping up arsenic Season 1 reaches its climax.

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Note: this nonfiction was primitively published connected 8/10/2024 and updated connected 3/26/2025 with the latest info astir Daredevil: Born Again.

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