What's Going on With Foggy in Daredevil? Marvel Actor Denies All Knowledge of What's to Come, Despite Popular Fan Theory Around His Return

What mightiness Marvel person successful store for Daredevil: Born Again sidekick Foggy Nelson? Amid speculation implicit the character's future, histrion Elden Henson has responded to suggest helium has "no idea" what's to come, contempt a fashionable instrumentality mentation — and a large in-show hint — that determination whitethorn beryllium much going connected than meets the eye.

Warning! Spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again play 1 follow.

As Daredevil: Born Again fans volition know, the series' Disney+ revival dramatically kills disconnected Matt Murdock/Daredevil's loyal person and ineligible spouse Foggy Nelson successful its opening episode.

Or does it? While the character's decease is played consecutive connected screen, Marvel fans fed connected years of fake-outs and resurrections judge this isn't the extremity for Foggy.

One widely-discussed instrumentality mentation centers connected a storyline from the archetypal Daredevil comics, wherever Foggy fakes his ain decease aft being stabbed and enters FBI witnesser protection. The reveal, respective issues later, that Foggy survived the ordeal was a daze some to readers and, in-universe, Matt Murdock himself, who genuinely believed his person had died. Could thing akin hap here?

Of course, plentifulness of things person happened successful the comics that person not appeared connected surface (fellow sidekick Karen Page has besides died successful the comics — and stayed dead) but there's an added wrinkle here. Born Again's archetypal occurrence shows an code for the team's caller instrumentality steadfast — Nelson, Murdock, and Page — astatine #468. And which Daredevil comic contented did Foggy instrumentality from the dead? #468.

Elden Henson arsenic Foggy. Image credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Disney.

And past there's the beauteous wide reply from Marvel TV brag and Daredevil enforcement shaper Brad Winderbaum, who antecedently said that Elden would beryllium backmost successful immoderate capableness for Born Again's upcoming 2nd play — though whether done flashbacks oregon akin is unclear.

"I spot Karen and Foggy arsenic being intrinsically tied to Matt," Winderbaum antecedently told YouTuber Brandon Davis. "I don't deliberation there's a Matt Murdock communicative without those 2 characters, and I'm excited to spot them some successful play 2 arsenic well."

Asked for much detail, Winderbaum simply said: "Both Deborah [Ann Woll] and Elden are coming backmost for play two."

With each of this successful mind, here's what Elden has present said to a instrumentality erstwhile asked astatine a normal if Foggy had faked his ain demise.

"A batch of radical brought that up," Elden says of his character's instrumentality successful the Daredevil comics. "But I don't truly cognize that overmuch astir it to beryllium honest. When we started the show, the archetypal one, I conscionable didn't person a batch of clip to prepare, you cognize what I mean. So the reply is, I person nary idea."

Elden appears to beryllium suggesting present that due to the fact that helium did not primitively person overmuch clip to hole for the relation of Foggy successful Daredevil anterior to the Netflix season's archetypal play successful 2015, helium is present unclear whether his quality could travel backmost connected Born Again a decennary later.

"They killed maine disconnected the amusement truthful I'm not a portion of it anymore," Elden continued. "So I don't truly know, adjacent if determination was thing going on."

It's intriguing to see Elden's connection present successful airy of Winderbaum's erstwhile comments that Elden would return. Perhaps thing has present changed, and Elden truly isn't returning — oregon possibly Elden is simply trying Andrew Garfield's method of denying thing that would different beryllium a large spoiler.

Disney has yet to denote a merchandise day for Daredevil: Born Again play 2, but showrunner Dario Scardapane has told fans to expect much episodes successful March 2026.

Image credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Disney.

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