'Daredevil: Born Again' Ruined This Comics Character

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for the Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 finale.Daredevil: Born Againintroduced a plethora of characters from the Daredevil mythos to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among them was Cole North (Jeremy Isaiah Earl), a police officer who joined the Anti-Vigilante Task Force headed up by the Man Without Fear's archnemesis Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio). As a fan of Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto's Daredevil comics, which introduced North into Marvel Comics canon, I was excited to see the character and figured that he would eventually become the ally to Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) that he is in the comics. Daredevil: Born Again's Season 1 finale "Straight to Hell" dashed those hopes into the ground with the revelation that North was the police officer who shot Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes), which is a development that isn't just the antithesis of the character he was in the comics — it also actively ruins storylines that Daredevil: Born Again could have used.