Matt Murdock's best friends and law associates, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page, were almost left out of the upcoming MCU show Daredevil: Born Again. However, showrunner Dario Scardapane was "willing to lose a job over this one",

Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane has explained why he pushed for Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page to return and says that, before the overhaul, the show was "trying to blaze a new trail."

Daredevil: Born Again is bringing the The Man Without Fear back into the center of his own series, and the way the show is being structured, among other developments, makes the return of Daredevil’s fellow Defenders from the Marvel-Netflix era a virtual necessity.

Daredevil: Born Again nearly didn’t include two of the most important characters in Daredevil franchise, but showrunner Dario Scardapane wasn’t about to ditch them. When Scardapane joined the project,

Born Again, it became clear that the Disney+ revival series wasn’t quite going as planned. During the 2023 writers’ strike, the show underwent an overhaul – bringing in showrunner Dario Scardapane (The Punisher),