A group of children sings the starship anthem in sloping tones We Built This City. Spectators of this cringe spectacle is none other than ex-gangster Wilson Fisk (Vincent d’Unofrio), whose distorted smile could give way to an unspeakable act of violence at any moment. Children are not injured, but the tension is unbearable.
No Marvel series has been expected in recent years with as much anticipation and fear as Daredevil: Born Again, which was finally launched on March 5, 2025 at Disney+. After all, one of the most popular superhero series of all time is revived. The change from the former Defenders universe at Netflix to the MCU at Disney+ is not without compromises, but still a Milestone that should become the model for future Marvel series.
Daredevil: Born Again destroys 2 Marvel legends so that they can be born back
The return of the devil of Hell’s Kitchen begins a few years after the end of the Netflix series-with a bang that not only shakes the audience, but also Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in Mark and Beg. The shock is so deep that the blind lawyer gives up his superhero persona Daredevil and devotes himself entirely to his destination as a lawyer.
Daredevil’s archfeind Wilson Fisk, who wants to reinvent himself completely again after his guest appearances in Hawkeye and Echo. The days are over as a nefarious kingpin. Now, as Mayor of New York, he wants to legally design the metropolis according to his ideas. Between court venues and political dramas, Murdock and Fisk try to suppress their shoots for the benefit of the city and to live an honorable life without violence.
But don’t worry: New York City is not a city that granted two broken men a quiet life. Police violence, gang wars, injusticeescalating dangers and annoying bureaucracy processes let the dark sides of Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk boil like a pressure cooker that could explode at any moment. This tension finally discharges in one of the best series that the MCU has brought up so far.
Daredevil: Born Again is even more brutal than the Netflix series
As a dark and down-to-earth comic story, the Netflix series Marvel’s Daredevil delighted for three seasons long with rough action and a degree of violence that was not known from any Marvel series before. Anyone who had feared that the revival on Disney+ would be much more harmless can be calmed down. Because Born Again places in terms of Explicit violent excesses Even one thing.
On the action front, the fights between Daredevil and its opponents are staged tactile and intensively. However, if you expect a permanent fire of fragmented bones, you could be disappointed. Like main character Matt Murdock, Born Again forego several episodes for the most part of violence and confrontations – in order to hit full hardness in the later course of the season.
Born Again has painful moments to offer some. At the latest as soon as serial killer muse and vigilante vigilant Punisher (Jon Bernthal) intervene in the action, the bloodshed really starts. When knives, axes and cartridges meet human meat, the Daredevil series presents itself as hardest McU project Since the Defenders saga. The representation of violence even culminates in an act of violence that puts everything previously existed in the MCU (yes, also deadpool and wolverine!)!
However, reducing the Netflix series to its brutality does not do justice to the celebrated predecessor. On closer inspection of staging, character development or even narrative, they fall Differences between Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again far greater out of.
Daredevil: Born Again wants to be Netflix-Sequel and McU restart at the same time
Although Daredevil: Born Again is directly linked to the Netflix series and its central characters, the story of Matt Murdock is directed in an independent direction after a few minutes, which is particularly different in its narrative structure. While Wilson’s Fisk’s experiences as a mayor lead through the series as a continuous storyline, Matt Murdock’s story of smaller Arcs and individual cases is defined.
With four episodes less than one season of the former Netflix series, Born Again is much more dynamic and faster, but does not do without a clever character development of the two main characters, which once more by Charlie Cox and Vincent d’Unofrio impressively and morally complex be embodied. A gratifying surprise is also Ayelet Zurer’s return as Vanessa Fisk, who can take out her role as a game ball in the conflict of two men and take a more prominent position.
Born Again draws the shorter one in a comparison point. The great strength of the original series was the ensemble of characters, all of whom was given a lot of space for exciting developments and stories. Above all, leave here new supporting characters little impression And the episodic format in some consequences even banishes completely into the background.
However, there is no shortage of interesting new figures. Vigilant Hector Ayala Aka White Tiger (Kamar de Los Reyes) and the opportunistic Fisk Protégé Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) are two fascinating newcomers. The most emotional and thrilling scenes (with rare exceptions) belong to the Netflix returnee: inside, to which Showrunner Dario Scardapane (The Punisher), who took over the project in the course of a creative realignment after six-turned consequences, has far more interested.
Is Daredevil: Born Again?
The series can be seen from the tonality and staging that a large part of the relay (episode 2 to 7) arises from a revised earlier vision that focused on the lawyer’s drama. Despite smaller points of criticism, Daredevil: Born Again in the whole is one of the most impressive MCU series since the beginning of the Disney+ era and one worthy continuation of the masterful Netflix predecessor.
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Showrunner Scardapane proves his feel, especially in the final two episodes, what fans love on the brute original and brings the story to a correct course that promises a perhaps more ingenious season. The series title Born Again is the program: Not only the two Marvel icons Daredevil and Kingpin are taken apart for nine episodes, but also a corner of the Marvel series cosmos, which many have already thought dead.
When a children’s choir in one of the (rare) funny moments by Daredevil: Born Again We Built This City Singing, the message behind it can be clearly seen: Characters like Daredevil and Kingpin built their own New York separated from the cinema MCU 10 years ago, which became a playground for adults, complex and often brutal street level stories. Now the legacy of the Defenders series can finally live on.
The episodes of the 1st season of Daredevil: Born Again have been published every Wednesday at Disney+ since March 5, 2025. The basis for this series check is all new episodes.