Daredevil: Born Again (2025) is back for season 2 and off to an impressively strong start. A decade after Netflix's Daredevil (2015), the beloved show experienced a revival with Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again. In the show, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) finds himself forced to revive Daredevil when Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) makes a bid for Mayor of New York City.
Season 1 pulled fans into its intriguing story as Fisk takes over New York City and the NYPD, launching an Anti-Vigilante Task Force to take down vigilantes like Daredevil. Now, season 2 has hit the ground running with a premiere filled with surprises and teases of big things ahead. Use our guide to find the five biggest surprises and what they mean for Daredevil: Born Again season 2.
Daredevil’s Black Suit Entrance
Daredevil: Born Again’s season 2 premiere started with a surprise that, while small, probably had Daredevil fans squealing with excitement. In the opening scene, Daredevil infiltrates the cargo ship, Northern Star, intercepting its shipment of weapons to Mayor Fisk. It’s quite the entrance as the vigilante appears in a sharp new suit, which is an all-black version of his familiar armored suit.
The detail that made me pump my fist was the red double D’s on his chest. Finally, after 11 years on screen, Daredevil’s wearing the comic-book-accurate logo on his chest for the first time. Not only is the logo exciting, but the black suit gives us a hint at Daredevil: Born Again’s direction. The dark suit fits well with the need to go undercover, but the DD logo and the hints of red peeking beneath the black are a sign that Daredevil isn’t afraid of Fisk and wants him to know exactly who he is.
Matt and Karen Are Properly Together
Since the original Daredevil series, Matt Murdock and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) have had a complicated relationship. Their brief romance in Daredevil never had a label and was soon interrupted by the revelation of Matt’s alter ego and then his presumed death. In Daredevil: Born Again season 1, the pair had never been further apart as they processed their grief over Foggy (Elden Henson) separately.
Although Fisk’s mayoral bid and Bullseye’s (Wilson Bethel) prison escape bring Karen and Matt back together, we still weren’t anticipating their romantic relationship would be in full swing in Daredevil: Born Again season 2’s premiere. Yet, the pair are hiding out and training together, and are very much a couple. After years of shipping, they’re properly together, and seeing Matt light up around Karen is sweet to watch. However, it makes us wonder how Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) will react, given his complicated relationship with Karen.
That Shocking ‘Thunderbolts*’ Connection
Daredevil: Born Again season 1 was self-contained and largely separate from the wider MCU. Hence, I was shocked when Daredevil: Born Again season 2’s premiere name dropped one of the MCU’s most prominent long-term antagonists: Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). The CIA director who recently established the New Avengers in Thunderbolts* (2025) is apparently also in cahoots with Fisk.
In the episode, State Attorney General Steverud (Ty Jones) shows resistance to Fisk’s Safer Streets Initiative to combat vigilantism. However, he changes his stance instantly after receiving a phone call from none other than de Fontaine. It appears she also sent the mysterious CIA operative and logistics expert, Mr. Charles (Matthew Lillard), to intervene after the Northern Star’s destruction. Fisk is more dangerous than ever with someone as powerful as de Fontaine supporting him, especially since her status may get him federal protection as he launches his takeover of New York City.
Heather Glenn’s Dark Developments
In Daredevil: Born Again season 1, I wasn’t sure where the story was going with psychiatrist Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva), who unwittingly counseled The Muse (Hunter Doohan) and dated Daredevil. After the Muse nearly kills her, she accepts Fisk’s offer as his Mental Health Commissioner. I suspected season 2 to see a conflicted Heather struggle to work under Fisk as his corruption became unmistakable. While she’s a bit conflicted, Daredevil: Born Again season 2 seems to be going a surprisingly darker route.
The episode reveals she’s seeing hallucinations of Muse and drinking to try to relieve the visions. As Fisk pressures her to botch interviews with vigilantes, you get the sense she’s spiraling. The surprising development gave me an eerie feeling that she may snap under the emotional toll of everything, making her much more dangerous and intriguing. Fan theories are already speculating on whether she’ll become the new Muse.
Bullseye Saves the Day
Daredevil: Born Again season 2’s premiere saves the best surprise for last. In a heated, gritty final battle, Daredevil arrives to save his friend Cherry (Clark Johnson) from Fisk’s Anti-Vigilante Task Force. However, he becomes momentarily distracted when he realizes Cherry is having a heart attack. The task force agents overwhelm Daredevil and tear off his mask. As they prepare to kill him, an unseen assailant swiftly kills each agent with throwing knives.
The final knife lands beside Daredevil, carved with a bullseye logo and the words, “You’re Welcome.” The bullseye and precision of the throwing knives could only come from one person: Bullseye. Bullseye and Daredevil are sworn enemies, especially after Bullseye killed Foggy. However, Daredevil: Born Again’s surprising premiere gives us a sense of where Bullseye’s priorities lie. Fisk and his wife, Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer), did Bullseye dirty last season, and it seems his hatred of them may even outweigh his hatred of Daredevil.
