Marvel Studios TV boss Brad Winderbaum sent fans’ heads spinning after he acknowledged what looks like a Watcher Easter Egg in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2.
The Disney+ continuation of the Charlie Cox-led series left fans’ jaws on the floor for more reasons than one when Episode 4, Gloves Off, premiered last week. As what turned out to be an eventful hour of television came to an end, viewers spotted the familiar outline of the cosmic being known as the Watcher in a recently shattered window.
“Obviously it’s just the lights in the gym but the way that glass broke and the framing of the camera really makes it look like Uatu,” one Reddit user said, referring to the Watcher by his name, days after the episode premiered April 7. “Do yall think this was intentional or just a coincidence?”
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The Watcher is a well-known character from the Marvel universe who made his first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) appearance as a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and went on to play a larger role, mostly as a story teller, in the animated What If…? spinoff series. He’s mostly stayed out of the live-action world in recent years, but select audience members have spent the past few days wondering if the Watcher truly made an appearance in Daredevil: Born Again, or if it’s just a bizarre coincidence.
As MCU die-hards argued about the potential Easter Egg, Winderbaum, the head of streaming, television, and animation at the comic book company, took to Instagram to add fuel to the theory fire yesterday. The caption on his post simply includes hashtags for Daredevil and What If…?, with the image itself acknowledging the moment that has fans second guessing what they’ve seen.
