Why Daredevil: Born Again Doesn't Crossover With The Rest Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Explained By EP

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Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock wears his MCU suit surrounded by blood splatters in Daredevil Born Again image

Published Feb 22, 2026, 3:15 PM EST

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Ahead of the season two premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, showrunner Dario Scardapane opened up about where the series fits into the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. Serving as a continuation of Netflix's Daredevil, which ran from 2015 to 2018, it stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, with the rest of the cast featuring Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Margarita Levieva, Wilson Bethel, and Krysten Ritter.

Daredevil's original run featured several interconnected Marvel shows that existed largely in their own microcosm, including Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The Punisher, and The Defenders. Though their canon status to the broader MCU was questionable at the time, Born Again and several other franchise productions firmly situate Daredevil and the Defenders in the same timeline as the Avengers and so on.

In spite of this, Born Again still maintains the narrower focus of Daredevil, focusing on the MCU's New York specifically. When questioned about the possibility of crossing over with the wider franchise, Scardapane told Deadline: "I’d be into it, because I dig the comics! But no, that’s been kind of a fun and challenging thing."

"We know there’s that huge world out there of the MCU," the writer continued. "This corner of it has crossovers. We’ve seen Daredevil in other shows, there are other characters that are going to be popping up in movies and stuff, and that all goes into the larger MCU of it all."

Scardapane revealed that "the joke [the writers] make is, ‘Oh, those guys are uptown – we’re downtown!’" He then added: "We kind of have a pocket that’s in this world of Hell’s Kitchen, in this world of New York. I always think that maybe these characters take little vacations into the larger world, but the story that we’re focusing on is really granular."

Though Daredevil often keeps to his smaller "pocket" of the MCU, fans have speculated that Cox may cameo in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. After all, he had a brief-yet-memorable cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Jon Bernthal's Punisher is set to make the leap to the big screen in the highly anticipated sequel.

Additionally, Brad Winderbaum, Head of Streaming, Television and Animation at Marvel Studios, fanned the flames by stating: "We are communicating a lot with the team on Spider-Man: Brand New Day to make sure that there's coherence there. We don't want to spoil anything, but it very much exists in the same world, and it is important."

For his part, though, Cox has insisted he will not be crossing over in Brand New Day. "I know that they all think I'm in Spider-Man because I'm filming something in London, but I'm not," Cox said, addressing the rumors. "I'm not in Spider-Man." The Stardust actor also confirmed he would not be in Avengers: Doomsday and he is "just concentrating on [Born Again] right now."

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 premieres on Disney+ on March 24, 2026.