Matt’s inability to keep a steady girlfriend comes directly from the comics. Unlike Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, or Superman—people who more or less always end up with Mary Jane, Steve Trevor, or Lois Lane—Matt Murdock has never truly had a single partner. Karen Page was introduced in that role way back when 1964’s Daredevil #1 called her “Gorgeous Karen Page” on the font cover. Yet, she eventually fell away, replaced by various other love interests, including Heather Glenn (a troubled socialite in the comics, not a therapist), assassin Elektra Natchios, District Attorney Kirsten McDuffie, and more. And each and every time, the relationships end badly.
The relationships fail because of an aspect of Matt’s personality that Frank Miller underscored in his reinvention of the character in the 1980s, an aspect that’s driven all of the great Daredevil runs that followed. Matt Murdock is a man against himself, a guilty Catholic who dresses up like the Devil. There’s a self-destructiveness to Daredevil that makes him both alluring and untenable, someone who women cannot resist, but who they must leave for their own well-being.
As Woll’s comments indicate, leaving Matt is going to be difficult in the second season of Born Again. The first season ended with Mayor Fisk declaring martial law in New York and sending his Anti-Vigilante Task Force against anyone who crosses him, especially Daredevil. As she and Matt both continue to grieve their late friend Foggy Nelson, and as Fisk turns up the heat on both of them, Karen will once again be stuck with Daredevil.
They’re sure to have some passionate times together, but it will just as certainly end as badly as every other Matt Murdock relationship, in the comics or on TV.
Daredevil: Born Again season two premieres on Disney+ on March 24, 2026.
