Now that Netflix has canceled Iron Fist, and we`ve gotten a firsthand look at Daredevil Season 3 in all its glory, our hype for the original Netflix-Marvel universe show is higher than ever. And that`s not least because of the impending introduction of a new, classic Daredevil villain: Bullseye.Let`s not pretend that we all didn`t know Daredevil season 3 was going to feature Bullseye even before it was officially `confirmed` this weekend during New York Comic Con. People have been speculating about his eventual entrance into the Netflix MCU since Daredevil Season 1, so even without the heavy handed foreshadowing and early guesses, this is a payoff that has been a long time coming.But now that we know we`re getting him, we`re going to need to learn about him. Who the hell is Bullseye, really? And why does he matter to Daredevil so much? The answer is, like most things in superhero comics, a little bit complicated.Bullseye got his start in Daredevil #131 in 1976 and was honestly kind of a joke for a while. He didn`t really aspire to be much other than an extortionist thug and assassin with really good aim. He had a number of cheap money making murder schemes, including a contract to assassinate Matt Murdock, but Daredevil was largely able to beat him and send him to prison just about every time he showed up. These repeated defeats gave Bullseye a bit of a complex and he basically became a running gag for his early years. He`d show up, pull some grand gesture like kidnapping Black Widow to get Daredevil to fight him, Daredevil would beat him, and he`d get sent to jail.After a minor health scare (he got a whole plot about having a debilitating brain tumor, you know, as you do), Bullseye was hired by Kingpin to be his assassin on retainer--a confusing business move for someone like Wilson Fisk, considering Bullseye had basically proven over and over again to be a really, really bad assassin. Fisk promptly realized his mistake when Bullseye got his ass kicked by Dared ...
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