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The cancellation of the Daredevil Netflix show in 2018 was brutal. And even though Charlie Cox's character lives again with Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, there's an even more upsetting detail about what the original Netflix show would have grown to become, if it was left to flourish. Netflix's Daredevil season 3 showrunner Erik Oleson, had some stellar plans for seasons 4 and 5 of the show as just now revealed to TheWrap.

“The Season 4 I had planned was quite different," Oleson said. "It was a Typhoid Mary story. It was going to go into a different direction. And then I was going to circle back to the Bullseye storyline in Season 5."

Typhoid Mary! Gah. Well, while we'll never know how Oleson and the rest of the Netflix Daredevil team would have characterized Typhoid Mary for season 4, there's a good chance that they would have done a better job with the iconic villainess than the Elektra movie or Netflix's Daredevil sibling show Iron Fist did.

Every so often, I wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and remember that Iron Fist used Typhoid Mary as a sophomore-season villain. Played by Alice Eve, the Typhoid Mary from the Iron Fist show had little to no resemblance to the fierce, sword-wielding villain with razor blade shoulderpads from Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr.'s Daredevil run. In fact, she didn't even have Mary's big hair or dramatic facepaint. Now, I'm not usually a stickler for adaptations needing to resemble their source material, but come on. Half the fun of Typhoid Mary is that she embodies this razor-sharp femininity that sliced through the misogynist tropes that dominated comic books when she was created in the late 1980s. Typhoid Mary's outlandish look was also an extreme expression of her dissociative identity disorder. 

Still, there's a chance that Typhoid Mary could debut on Daredevil: Born Again. She was in 'Devil's Reign,' the crossover event by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto that Born Again pulls a lot of material from. In Zdarsky and Checchetto's run on Daredevil and then later in their Devil's Reign event, Typhoid Mary was Wilson Fisk's wife. Since things aren't looking too great between him and Vanessa right now, who's to say that he can't get together with Typhoid Mary in the future? And, to top it off, she's also a mutant, and has powers in pyrokinesis, telekinesis, and mind control. 

Since the MCU has slowly been rolling out mutants, now's the time for a touch of Typhoid. 

Fear not, we have the essentials when it comes to Marvel's Daredevil - especially with Marvel Studios' Daredevil: Born Again. Check out:

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