Tschuuu-Schuuu! Do you hear him?This is the spoiler train!If you don't have a ticket, you should now get out. Because as soon as he has started, you can find out how episode 3 of Daredevil: Born Again comes from. Doesn't tell the conductor later, you would have known nothing!
Is it really?Episode 3 of Daredevil: Born Again ended with a really nasty cliffhanger. Fans now break his head whether the unknown is really the one who seems to be the symbol on his top.
We are talking about Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal), better known to many under his pseudonym:The Punisher. His return to the Daredevil cosmos now seems to be a clear thing due to the end of episode 3. But we say: not so quickly!Because there are clear indications that speak against the fact that this Halunke is really Frank in episode 3.
A happy ending of short duration
In episode 3 of Born Again, the wrongly accused Hector Alaya (Kamar de Los Rayas) is acquitted by the jury for murder of a police officer.
This is owed to this at night as a superhero named White Tiger husband not only a great plea by Matt Murdock (he is a really good lawyer), but also his honorable attitude demonstrated at the witness stand that he cannot look away if wrong happens.
All's well that ends well?No, unfortunately not. When Hector Alaya coincides with the white tube costume the following night and opposite a call for help in a dark road, he is murdered up close with a head shot.
When the perpetrator turns to the camera, we see on the topThe iconic skull emblem of the Punisher.
Who really has White Tiger on his conscience?
We have known since the official trailer: Frank Castle (played again by Jon Bernthal) will appear in Born Again. At first glance, a teaser would make sense to return at the end of episode 3.
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But some of this act simply does not match Frank's admittedly very idiosyncratic idea of morality and ethics:
- No coward: Frank Castle is a man who is looking for direct confrontation. He opposes his opponents of face to face and would not crouch in the shade and wait for him to strike unseen.
- No reason: The Punisher practices vigilante justice, does not care about laws and has set itself the goal of switching off criminals with plenty of firepower, the knife or with the bare hands. Hector Alaya as a White Tiger also ensures order on the streets. There is simply no reason why Frank would want to clear him out of the way.
- No good procedure:Frank would have noticed that Hector Alaya von Matt was defended as a lawyer. Since the Punisher knows about the true identity of the devil of Hell's Kitchen, he would have definitely contacted Matt before his crime to confront him.
We are therefore sure:The man at the end of episode 3 was not the real Punisher.But who was it then?
The police, your friend andhelperHenker
Already in the first two episodes and especially during the court proceedings against Hector Alaya, we saw that there are some civil servants within the New York police who tend to go to vigilante and do not shy away from violence. Your identifier: a Punisher tattoo on the body, mostly on the neck or on the forearm.
This group within the authority is revered by Frank Castle to hire the law in his own hands - they have no idea why Castle is acting and how exactly he ticks. The consequence: they reject their model, but at the same time pull their name into the dirt.
Since Hector Alaya was acquitted as an alleged murderer of a colleague, the conclusion is obviousthat one of the Punisher supporters within the police end the fatal shot.
A story that is unfortunately not just fiction
Anyone who now thinks that this self -justice of the police is pure fiction of Born Again's screenwriters is unfortunately wrong. Marvel takes up a story here - probably consciously - that actually happened in the United States.
For the first time in 2020 in the course of the Black-Lives-Matter protestsAllegationson the fact that American police officers and military people who had noticed through racist or radical right-wing acts wore a symbol of Marvel's Punisher logo on their uniforms.
When the storm on the Capitol took place in 2021, civil servants were againTo see with the emblem.
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Marvel was asked by fans to change the Punisher logo-what the comic giantIn 2022 too. Since then, the symbol has been reminiscent of an Oni, a Japanese demon.
In Born Again, on the other hand, we still see the old Punisher symbol.Above all, probably in order to illuminate the misuse of the police officers - and thus refer a piece of real history.
By the way:Frank Castle already in the comic in 2018A clear messageTo all police officers who are misused.
Incidentally, fans of the Frank Castle embodied by Jon Bernthal can also go to Born Again on a reunion with the hazardous bobbin. The actor has already confirmed that its own Punisher special for the Disney Plus streaming service is planned for 2026. What exactly it will be about is not yet known.
