The following post contains SPOILERS for the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again. (Sorry about that.)Off topic but: How clever is that helmet design, where the horn gets broken off and leaves behind a big D-shaped hole on the forehead? Thats great.Anyway, Foggy Nelson is dead. (RIP Foggy.)That is the shocking twist in the first episode of Marvels new Disney+ series,Daredevil: Born Again.It is the foundational incidentfor the new show, which continues the old NetflixDaredevil series with a few notable differences. Like, just for example, offing Daredevils best friend in its opening minutes.Daredevil: Born AgainMarvelloading...As Born Againsseries premiere begins, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), and Foggy (Elden Henson) are enjoying a night out at a local bar when they are attacked by Bullseye (Wilson Bethel). Matt fights off Bullseye as Daredevil, but not before Bullseye fatally shoots Foggy. Then the show jumps ahead one year.Mattworks at a new law practice. Wilson Fisk (Vincent DOnofrio) is now at the very center of New York City politics. Karen is largely M.I.A.Foggys death is all the more shocking because by all accounts the character was originally not supposed to appear onDaredevil: Born Again at all. The initial version of the show, which was created and overseen by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, reportedly only brought Cox and DOnofrio back from thefirstDaredevil, and almost functioned as a soft reboot of the franchise, with only vague and limited connections back to the three seasons of the prior Netflix series.Then Marvel looked at the first several episodes that were produced andwere apparently unhappy with the results. They removed Corman and Ord and replaced them with Dario Scardapane. They also added several additional characters from NetflixsDaredevil toBorn Agains cast including Hensons Foggy. (On a practical level, reintroducing Foggy and then immediately killing him offis agoodway to explain his absence in the material theyhad previously shot without him, much of which still appears in other episodes of Daredevil: Born Again.)DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAINMarvelloading...While that gunshot wound looks pretty fatal,this maynot be the true, final end for Foggy. After all, this is comics (or a TV show based on comics), where characters die and come back to life all the time. Hell,Daredevil: Born Agains villain, DOnofrios Kingpin, got shot in the face on an episode ofHawkeyeabout three years ago, and hes now the mayor of New York with nothing more than a little scar over his eye to show for his troubles. In comics, nobody stays dead for long.Theres also a specific comic-book precedent for a potential Foggy resurrection. In an issue ofDaredevil from the mid-2000s, afterDaredevils secret identity had been revealed to the world and Matt was imprisoned, Foggy diedwhile visiting him in jail. A later issue revealed that he had actually faked his death and entered the witness protection program. (You can read more about this on Foggys official Marvel.com biography.)On Daredevil: Born Again, the show jumpsahead from Foggy looking mortally wounded to one year later; we never sawFoggys corpse lying in a morgue or a coffin. Its conceivable that Foggy was revived by EMTs and survived his injuries, then went intohiding just like his comic-book counterpart. Being known as Daredevils best friend can make you a target for his enemies.For now, thatsjust speculation on my part.At this point, thereare seven more episodes left in the first season of Daredevil Born Again.Thats plenty of time for Foggy Nelson to be born again.Sign up for Disney+ here.Get our free mobile app10 Great Movies You Never Knew Were Based on ComicsTime to read up on the source material for these beloved movies.Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky