Daredevil's New Redesign Is One of the Grossest Hero Transformations Ever

take Spoilers for Daredevil ( 2023 ) # 20!Daredevilhas function throughmany dissimilar persona designs over the decades , but his latest look is straight - up organic structure horror , as he ’s transformed into something not - quite human by a unexampled foe . Matt Murdock is survive to have to shinny to literally retain his humanity as he face down a new threat that he ca n’t just plug .

InDaredevil#20 , written by Saladin Ahmed , with nontextual matter by José Luis Soares Pinto , Daredevil is infected by a mysterious fungus , with his subdivision warping in a gross new transmutation .

In the issue , Matt enquire the fade of a young womanhood , eventually realizing that multiple the great unwashed have disappeared from the new flat complex " Propertunity Tower . ' regrettably for Matt , he ’s been spending time there himself , since it ’s wherehis flaming Nyla Skin lives . This arrive to a headspring when Matt succumbs to the foreign itchiness he ’s been feeling as his sleeve transforms into fungus and he ’s kidnapped by bad guys in hazmat suits .

MCU’s Daredevil with his Marvel Comics counterparts behind him.

Marvel Just Put Daredevil Through A Disturbing Fungal Transformation

Daredevil#20; Written By Saladin Ahmed; Art By José Luis Soares Pinto; Ink By Oren Junior; Color By Jesus Aburtov; Lettering By Clayton Cowles

significantly for this story , the bad guy rope in inquiry intelligibly do n’t knowthat Matt is temerarious , and while he ’s wearing part ofhis classic 1990s black and red armorunder his even wearing apparel , he ’s been kidnapped as Matt Murdock , not as a superhero . As the issue ’s final page show , Matt ’s far from the only victim , as he ’s floor in a pile of other victims , all horrifically transformed even further than Matt himself . If he ca n’t discover a way out of this , it is likely that whatever this infection is will fully consume Matt before too long .

Daredevil ’s superpowered sentiency are unmated , but a new , genuinely distressing scoundrel is prove Matt Murdock ’s powers are actually a disgusting oath .

For a lineament often associated with ‘ realistic ’ grounded stories , Daredevil has had a number of run - Immigration and Naturalization Service with forces that have transformed him into something insensate . Most famously is the period where Matt turned Hell ’s Kitchen into ‘ Shadowland ’ after taking over the hand in the belated 2000s . While it seemed to readers , and potentially to the writer as well , thatMatt had just gone bad , it was finally revealed that he was possessed by the Beast , a devil worshipped by the Hand . If Matt could sway that off , then surely a little fungal infection is nothing .

daredevil seeing his own skeleton with his powers

This Fungus Problem Is Just Daredevil’s Latest Problem With Bodily Autonomy

The Latest Step In Matt Murdock’s Journey

Fascinatingly , Matt ’s current shift feels like a turn around of what came immediately before . In the prior spark of the story , Matt ’s soul was fractured , with each shard becoming infected by a representation of one of the seven deathly sinning , and each possessing someone crucial to Matt . Now it ’s Matt himself taint by an out-of-door force and fall behind his bodily autonomy . WhileDaredevil canbe gestate toinevitably overcomeand overcome whatever this novel threat is , it will be interesting to see how it might change his cerebration on the unplanned possessions that he still feel hangdog about .

Daredevil#20is available now from Marvel Comics .