Now that you've all been floored by Netflix's exceptional Marvel's Daredevil (What? You haven't finished/started? Get to work!) it's time to look ahead and sort through our wishlist for Season 2.

Marvel's Daredevil: Season 1 Review

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When Netflix first announced their plans with Marvel - four separate "street level" superhero seasons capped off with a Defenders miniseries - we still had a lot of questions. What were these shows' chances, based on their own merits, of getting a second season? And when would we find out about said seasons? Well, two weeks after Daredevil launched came word that Season 2 was a go!We're creating this list knowing that Season 2 is slated to air in 2016. Sometime after AKA Jessica Jones and possibly before Luke Cage. But, it seems, definitely before Iron Fist and Defenders. So, in the same way we had two Iron Man movies before Avengers, we'll have two seasons of Daredevil before the big team-up show.So let's bust out the best stuff that we'd love to see featured in Daredevil's second go around Hell's Kitchen. The arcs, the villains, the backstories. Here's what we really want to witness in Season 2.As Daredevil's world opens up more and more to things like crazy villains, mystical magic, and superpowers, the show might start to feel fundamentally different. It took 13 episodes for Matt Murdock to finally don the classic red suit from the comics and get labeled "Daredevil," so we truly hope that the series maintains its slow burn pace as it pertains to some of the more fantastical elements of the MCU. Daredevil, tone-wise, is currently kind of the MCU's Dark Knight Trilogy.

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And while it makes sense that most of the more grounded elements of any hero's story will be held within his or her origin/startup saga, we'd love for Daredevil to stay dark, gritty, realistic(ish), and rooted. Sure, Matt's now beyond his days of taped, bloody fists, but that shouldn't mean that his physical struggles stop. Or that the show should take an unearned leap into different aspects of the MCU that don't quite align with its hard-hitting, darker qualities. With series writers Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez stepping in as the new showrunners, we remain hopeful.It was great that Season 1 left us with still a lot to learn about crusading Karen Page. It showed admirable restraint and confidence not to thrust her into either a love triangle or barf out her backstory right out of the gate. It gave her an air of mystery and allowed us all the chance to imagine who she used to be in her previous life. In fact, it was specifically because we knew so little about her life pre-pilot that her big moment with Wesley at the end of "The Path of the Righteous" worked so well. Because Wesley's own ignorance about her past life/breadth of experiences caused him to underestimate her. So let's dig in and find out what Ms. Page is all about. And why arrogant Wesley wasn't the first person to cause her to shoot a gun.Speaking of backstories, there's still quite a bit to fill in between the day Stick left Matt high and dry and him first meeting Foggy in their dorm room. And some of it isn't even known to Matt. Most notably, who and where is Matt's mother? It seems likely that the woman Jack called at the end of "Cut Man" (after he decided to try to win his match against Creel and changed his bet) was Maggie - Matt's troubled mother who left her son and husband due to a bout of postpartum depression. Jack told her that if things went wrong, Matt would need her more than ever. So did she come through for her boy after Jack got gunned down? If so, it was in a hands-off way that Matt, with all of his heightened senses, seemed to have no clue about. Again, like with Karen, there's so much stuff to explore here. A rich landscape ready to be farmed for Season 2.Okay, enough about tone and various character histories, let's bring in freakin' Elektra! There were a ton of fun Easter Eggs all throughout Season 1, but this was the one that got the most succinct "squees" out of the fandom.Obviously, Matt had to spend some time fighting in between his lessons as a young boy and his first outing as a masked vigilante. Foggy even asked him as much in "Nelson v. Murdock," though Matt never quite answered fully. So bringing the character of Elektra Natchios back into Matt's life would not only upend his whole world, but it would also come with its own set of flashbacks designed to help us explore a new area of his life. Plus, it would help fill in/explain the whole "Sexual Rain Main" label that Foggy's given to Matt due to his attraction to "stunning women with questionable character."

13 Best Daredevil Easter Eggs

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Crime and Punishment

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We could list off all the cool villains and characters we'd love to see pop up on Season 2 based on all the Easter Eggs we saw during the first 13 episodes. Gladiator, Stilt-Man, the Owl (It'd have to be Owlsley's son), but Elektra would be the big get. Plus, with Elektra comes The Hand, who've already been established. And also Bullseye, who we may or may not have caught a quick glimpse of in "Condemned." And given the patience the show's already displayed, she wouldn't even have to get killed off in the same season she debuted in a rush to blow through an "Elektra arc." She could stick around and help keep the series feeling fairly Frank Miller-era.I know most everyone's itching to get into Elektra and Bullseye, but with all of Season 1's focus on morality, mortality, and Matt's limits when it comes to killing, Frank Castle's lethal, blood-spilling vigilante would make a superb addition to Daredevil. Perhaps even as a means to get him his own series.After fans saw how dark and violent Daredevil was, many people immediately thought "This - THIS - is the right way to go with Punisher." As a particularly off-brand Marvel hero, Punisher's severely struggled over the course of three movies to to gain any sort of traction with viewers. But in the Netflix/Marvel-verse, he could thrive. And offer up a really interesting obstacle for Matt on both a physical and ideological level.

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity