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What is Karen Page up to? Only Deborah Ann Woll knows for sure.

Karen Page was an integral character in Netflix’s Daredevil, but when the series was revived as Daredevil: Born Again for Disney+, Woll only appeared in three episodes of the first season. After the death of Foggy Nelson, Karen is absent for a portion of the show’s storyline before returning towards the end of the season.

In truth, this was because the show was heavily retooled and the original scripts didn’t contain Karen. But what’s the canon reason for Karen’s absence, and what was she up to while she was gone? Woll has some ideas, and she’s shared them with Marvel Studios.

“It interested me, because there was a lot of restructuring, and figuring out what had to be done and so we had to come up with reasons why characters would make decisions,” Woll says during a panel at Dragon Con. “What I liked, when Karen is at her strongest, she dives in headfirst. When she’s at her weakest she runs. So, I think back to the death of her brother, and the responsibility that I felt for that, that the only instinct as a 19-year-old, as a child, was to run.”

“When we talked about the fallout from Foggy’s death, and the way that Matt and Karen instead of turning towards each other, turned away. And so, they were both utterly alone. In that space, where she has no family, where she’s lost her closest friend as well, and the other one person she cares about won’t talk with her. It was another lowest moment, and she ran. And I think she then took that time being by herself and figuring out who she was without Foggy and them to then come back in her strong place so she could dive in headfirst again. I enjoy that, and obviously I don’t know if we’ll ever see that time in her life. I have ideas about what it was, but if we do, I’m excited to explore what the writers think that was.”

Daredevil: Born Again season two premieres on Disney+ in March 2026.

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