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The case causes Matt and Foggy to break up their firm and friendship (now they must call each other Matthew and Foggopher). After all that trouble, Punisher ends up escaping from jail after like one day in there anyway. Meanwhile, Elektra is being stalked by some ninjas who think she’s a mystical weapon. She sacrifices herself to save Matt, and also to get those ninjas off her back … but it doesn’t work. They continue pestering her, even in the eternal slumber. They steal her body and place it in a device, and … 

Interlude: Defenders Season 1

Elektra lives! And then she dies again when a building falls on her and Matt. 

Season 3: Poindexter Rising

Matt survives the building fall and basically becomes a hobo. An angry one, too. Meanwhile, Fisk, technically still in jail, manipulates the FBI into giving him a penthouse and becoming his personal servants so gradually that they don’t even notice. This season also features one of the most fearsome Daredevil enemies ever: Benjamin Poindexter. That sounds like an accountant, but “Dex” is actually an FBI agent with … let’s say “mental issues” who is manipulated into becoming a supervillain (more specifically, Bullseye) by Fisk. His transformation is hard to watch. 

Matt, who is having a personal and vocational crisis, at one point announces he’s gonna kill Fisk, but ultimately decides not to do it — he simply turns Dex against Fisk and sends him, a dangerous psychopath, to Fisk’s wedding, where he comes close to killing his new wife. 

At the end of the season, Fisk goes back to real jail and promises to leave Matt’s friends alone if Matt won’t go after his wife (legally; they say nothing about approaching her in other ways). Matt reunites with Foggy and Karen, and they restart the law firm, setting the stage for Matt’s cameo in No Way Home. As for Fisk, it’s unclear why he’s out of jail in Hawkeye or why he’s suddenly cartoonishly strong, but we’re glad to see him anyway. 

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