The following contains major spoilers for Daredevil #2, available now from Marvel Comics.

Despite his tendency to keep close to home when it comes to his career as a superhero, Matt Murdock is no stranger to life-altering events or ominous prophecies. Unfortunately for him, the latter is the source of both of his biggest problems at the moment. Not only is Daredevil headed for a long-fated showdown with The Hand, but he is also being haunted by the worst kind of guardian angel, and it's beginning to look like his entire life has always been by someone else's wicked design.

Daredevil #2 (by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Matthew Wilson, Rafael DeLatorre, Alex Maleev, Paul Azaceta, Phil Noto, Chris Samnee, Klaus Janson, Mike Hawthorne, John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, and VC's Clayton Cowles) finds the titular hero reeling from his latest confrontation with Robert "Goldy" Goldman. It turns out that Matt's old law school acquaintance, in spite of his otherwise amicable demeanor, was actually the mastermind behind the all too recent train crash which seemingly took the life of Kirsten McDuffie. Somehow, Goldy always knows exactly where to be and exactly what to do to cause untold damage, all in the hopes of nudging Matt in the "right" direction. Even worse, Goldy has been doing just that ever since the two first met.

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Goldy reveals that although he has had his powers since his teenage years, he never really put them to much use before meeting Matt at Columbia Law School. From that moment forward, he became obsessed with ensuring that Matt followed the path set forth by the voices that guided him. It was those same voices that showed Goldy how to manipulate events so that Elektra's father would be killed and Matt's identity would be made public. In spite of how unbelievable Goldy's claims of being a guardian angel might be, everything that he has said and done lends that idea far too much credence for comfort.

Goldy may not really be a guardian angel, but he is absolutely attuned to some sort of divine or demonic source with big plans for Matt Murdock. There simply isn't any other explanation for what he has accomplished, and it isn't all that farfetched of one for what Daredevil is already dealing with. Thanks to an ancient tome uncovered by Matt and Elektra's old mentor Stick, the trio now know that the Daredevils are destined to lead a group known as The Fist to ultimate victory over The Hand. The fact that no one involved has so much as batted an eye at the possibility of this prophecy being true is proof that they are all more than willing to accept concepts such as destiny and divine providence.

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As such, Matt shouldn't be questioning if what Goldy says is also true, but rather how wildly he has misinterpreted it all. There is certainly some chance that Goldy is genuinely acting on behalf of God himself, yet that isn't nearly as likely as him being an agent of another, less benevolent being. Considering how many various deities inhabit the Marvel Universe, there isn't any way to definitively say which one is helping or hampering Daredevil's efforts.

If he really is so important that his ultimate fate must be assured at the cost of countless lives, then everyone in his life will have vastly underestimated how much Matt actually means to the world, if not the entire universe. The Hand has always been an ever-present and undying threat, and though it has thankfully never succeeded in unleashing the Beast they worship upon the world in full, they are now closer than ever to achieving precisely that. Assuming the Beast would truly reap Hell on Earth, Matt's own success in defeating them might very well have been worth Goldy's clandestine reign of terror. That is if Goldy and his god are really on Matt's side, to begin with.