Here is why Bullseye is missing a tooth in the Daredevil: Born Again's mid-season trailer

The mid-season trailer of Daredevil: Born Again was released online on March 25, 2025, as we were waiting for the fifth and sixth episodes to stream. This trailer offers interesting teases for what's to come in the remaining three episodes of the series. One of the most exciting things that has fans hyped is the team-up between Frank Castle/The Punisher and Daredevil.

Other than that exciting team-up, another important moment from the recently released trailer is one featuring a toothless Benjamin Poindexter/Bullseye. While on the surface, it seems like a creepy, disturbing moment because of the lack of teeth and Poindexter smiling, people who have read the comics know that Bullseye has used even his own teeth as a weapon against his opponents.

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Explaining Bullseye's lack of teeth in the Daredevil: Born Again trailer:

The moment seen in the trailer is taken directly from the 2004 comic book Bullseye: Greatest Hits. In that series, Bullseye is incarcerated (just like he is in the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again). His hands are handcuffed so that he can't use them to create a weapon using them. It must be noted that both in the series and the comics, Bullseye can turn anything into a lethal weapon.

In Greatest Hits, something similar happens where Bullseye uses his teeth as a weapon despite his hands being cuffed. An angry guard punches Bullseye, breaking his teeth. However, despite being handcuffed, Bullseye spits out the broken teeth as a projectile towards the guard's head, instantly killing the latter. This moment established Bullseye as one of Marvel's most dangerous and deranged killers.

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Who is Bullseye from Daredevil: Born Again?

FBI Agent Benjamin Poindexter (the name being one of Bullseye's monickers in the comics) is introduced in the third season of the original Netflix series. He is an unstable man who can kill using anything. Wilson Fisk, who controls the FBI in that season using coercion, manages to convince Poindexter to join his side and dress up as Daredevil to tarnish the vigilante's name.

However, in the season 3 finale, Benjamin discovers that Fisk had Julie Barnes, the woman he was obsessed with, killed and turns on him. He crashes Vanessa and Wilson's wedding and attempts to kill her. However, Daredevil saves her life, and Fisk breaks Poindexter's spine. The closing moments of the finale show him under back surgery.

After that, we finally meet Poindexter in the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again, as he supposedly goes by the codename "Bullseye." There, he delivers a crushing blow to Matt by killing Foggy. This pushes Matt over the edge and throws Bullseye off the roof, who manages to survive the fall. He is arrested, though, and a year later, the court sentences Bullseye to life imprisonment.

That was the last we saw of Bullseye/Benjamin Poindexter in Born Again. But given this moment from the new trailer, it is safe to assume that this is not the last we see of Bullseye in the show, and he will manage to escape incarceration and continue wrecking Matt's life even further.

The official synopsis of the series reads,

"In Marvel Television’s 'Daredevil: Born Again', Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course."

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The fifth and sixth episodes of Daredevil: Born Again were released together on Disney+ on March 25, 2025.