DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Star Charlie Cox Says Kingpin/Donald Trump Similarities Are "Purely Coincidental"

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Star Charlie Cox Says Kingpin/Donald Trump Similarities Are "Purely Coincidental"

Daredevil: Born Again's Charlie Cox has weighed in on the comparisons that are made between the show's Kingpin of Crime and President Donald Trump, dismissing the idea that any similarities are deliberate.

By JoshWilding - Oct 01, 2025 06:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil
Source: IGN

In Daredevil: Born Again season 1, a convicted felon, Wilson Fisk, becomes New York City's Mayor. The Kingpin of Crime then uses his power to profit from his position and weaponises law enforcement against his enemies.

Comparisons have been made by fans and journalists to the current occupant of the White House, President Donald Trump. However, Charlie Cox echoed comments from Vincent D'Onofrio when asked about any real-life parallels.

"I think it's really, really important at this point to say that those similarities, if people see them, are purely coincidental. That really is the case," the actor told IGN. "If you think about it, Vincent D'Onofrio built that character in 2014. In 2014, if you just said the name of the president and the word president, you'd have been laughed at."

Bullseye actor Wilson Bethel was also on hand to say, "Season 1 of Born Again was written before our current president was president. So I mean, look, what the show clearly explores in some really profound, interesting ways are what can happen if too much power gets in the wrong hands."

"You can look into that how you will," he continued. "Certainly, there's been plenty of examples of that throughout history. But we may or may not be in one."

Cox then chimed in to say, "Every time you have a scene with Frank Castle in the 10 years we've been doing it, every time there's a scene, someone's going to say, 'It doesn't feel like it's a very good time to be shooting a hero who's got a gun.' You know what I mean?"

"I feel like it's really important to allow, and chuckle at, and enjoy some coincidences that may be there," the Daredevil: Born Again star added. "But it's also important to stipulate that they are entirely accidental."

In the Devil's Reign comic book, Fisk is eventually defeated and removed from political office. However, that only comes after he considered mounting a run for U.S. President, a storyline that D'Onofrio previously said we aren't likely to see in the MCU. 

"I don’t think so. I don’t really think of him as a political person; I think of him as a corrupt person. I guess that could happen. I doubt seriously that he’ll take that path," he pointed out earlier this year. "I guess you’re saying that because of what’s going on in real life, and we’re not attaching the show to anything that’s going on in real life. So I don’t think that path is going to be taken."

If anything, it seems more likely that we'll see both Matt Murdock and Fisk behind bars, adapting Ed Brubaker's acclaimed Daredevil run in season 3.

Many fans are eager for Daredevil: Born Again to move on from the Man Without Fear's rivalry with The Kingpin. After all, there are plenty of great villains from the comics who we still haven't seen on screen. 

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 will return to Disney+ early next year. The series has also been renewed for a third season

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elgaz
elgaz - 10/1/2025, 6:25 AM
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JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 10/1/2025, 6:28 AM
That's how you put out the fire. Let's all be cool.

Now if only they would make Season 2 good....User Comment Image
Matchesz
Matchesz - 10/1/2025, 6:39 AM
Bruh they cant even write anything these days without some sort of Trump reference in everything. They legit lack the creativity so i’m disappointed that charlie cox would lie to the fans like this and I wish they’d give Trump credit for keeping hollywood alive
TheyDont
TheyDont - 10/1/2025, 7:03 AM
@Matchesz - How can they write a criminal in power without similarities to Trump?
TheyDont
TheyDont - 10/1/2025, 7:07 AM
@Matchesz - He'll still be the bad guy in power, which is still the same as Trump.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 10/1/2025, 7:11 AM
@TheyDont - by making somebody else the main bad guy instead of Kingpin for the third damn season. Like oh idk how about the mf who killed Matts best friend ?
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 10/1/2025, 7:22 AM
@Matchesz - What part of the narrative differs to any significant degree to what was in the comic when they did Mayor Fisk that was written before Trump was elected as anything far as I recall? IF there is an issue, it is that it is so easy to see aspects of the Trump administration in a narrative which is mostly always either on the viewer seeing things that are not there/intended or on the administration doing things that are widely open to questioning. It is akin to saying you can never do any narrative involving guns without being accused of being 'lacking creativity' simply due to there always going to be a RL case involving gun violance that some may percieve parallels with.

IF the issue with this is ONLY about abuse of power for personal gain with authoritarian tendancies, there will always be a RL leader somewhere that could be accused of that and oft thrown at the/a leader in America regardless if R or D so your basicaly saying they can never do a narrative where a criminal seeks political power for personal gain when that is SUCH a rich narrative to explore if/when done well.

As an aside, how exactly has/is Trump keeping Hollywood alive, not American but don't see how he has helped that specific industry at all. I certainly can't see how a tariff on films would help it in any way when US films dominate the domestic and international markets already (outside of China and India at least).
Drace24
Drace24 - 10/1/2025, 7:24 AM
@Matchesz - Trump can barely keep himself alive, both in terms of aging and driving his own people into violent maniacs that kill each other. This man can't go five minutes without making everything about himself, demanding the entire world to massage his big fat ego and abuses his power every chance he gets. So when he gets the attention he craves but not in a positive way, Magats don't get to complain. Sit down!
Matchesz
Matchesz - 10/1/2025, 7:32 AM
@Apophis71 - all I imagine the writer did was sit down and turn on a Trump speech then looked at his cat and said “hey, what if Melania Trump was the one who’s pulling the strings?” And thats how we got this BS half assed born again script.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 10/1/2025, 7:34 AM
@Drace24 - Yall hate trump I hate dumb uninspiring writing we are not the same
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 10/1/2025, 7:37 AM
@Matchesz - TDS is very, very real, and it’s infected Hollywood since 2016. Those who used to love the “Bad Orange Man” flipped and went insane. What’s really crazy is that if you get past his (to me hilarious) style and his trolling, most of his policies, like a sovereign nation and only legal immigration, were pushed or strongly supported by the Dems les than 15 or so years ago. But because the party has gone so far to the Left and the messaging and non stop propaganda has been repeated continuously (a Marxist tactic like accusing the other side of that which you yourself are guilty of) much of the public (but not the majority) has been Pavlovian-like conditioned to hate, hate, hate.

The fact is this insanity is ruining entertainment and one of the reasons many of these films fail is because they inject hard Leftists ideologies or one sided political messaging and it automatically turns the audience off.
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/1/2025, 7:26 AM
No one makes connections to Biden when he was president
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2025, 7:31 AM
I mean , the Mayor Fisk story is from the comics so if anything then it was Charles Soule/Chip Zdarsky who made him into a Trump parallel if intentional since the show takes inspiration from that…

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Regardless it’s hard not to be influenced or inform by things going on currently since we are so mired in it now whether it be intentional or not.

Anyway , DD:BA S1 was solid so looking forward to season 2!!.

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