If there's one thing Marvel has done in the last five years, it's messed up your concept of time. Multiversal issues aside, we finally know when the upcoming Disney+ series is coming Daredevil: Reborn takes place in the Marvel timeline and things are a little more confusing now.
The final season of Netflix Daredevil The series is set in 2017, a significant amount of time before Thanos ended up vaporizing half of the Earth Avengers: Infinity War. As reported by Collider, Daredevil: Reborn Actor Wilson Bethel recently told Fan Expo San Francisco that the upcoming Disney+ series is set five years after the last Netflix season. With so much time passing, we can expect fully formed characters who have been through a lot.
“Five years later it starts. So in theory these are characters who have all five years of life behind them and all the twists and turns that you experience in between.”
Daredevil: Reborn Lead actor Charlie Cox spoke about these changes for the first time during a film Rich interviewThe new show's timeline states: “Matt has made peace with his role as a lawyer and vigilante.” Although this could be a new development for the Daredevil series itself, it will not be fully part of the Marvel canon. Cox appeared on Marvel's She-Hulk: Lawyer, which takes place in 2023 and also appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home which will take place at the end of 2024. That would classify what is to come Daredevil Series as a predecessor to these two appearances.
In these two performances we get a glimpse of this newfound balance of identities. In She Hulk, We see Cox as lawyer Matt Murdock advising his fellow lawyer Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) to use her superhero powers as She-Hulk to dispense justice when the law doesn't work, showing that he comes to terms with the duality of his role in the world has come to terms with it. He also displayed this balance after having sex with her and parading Marvel's first superhero walk of shame in full costume.
The same applies to his appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home as he gave Peter Parker legal advice and reflexively grabbed a brick thrown through Parker's window. When Parker, who usually has the fastest reflexes in any room he's in, asks how he did it, Murdock reiterated the balance between lawyer and vigilante, saying that his superhuman performance was the result , to be a really good lawyer.
That's all well and good, but Daredevil: Reborn will have to show us how it fits in with all the events that have happened in the five years since the Netflix series. We still don't know who Daredevil The universe was affected by Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet snap. The series also takes place before the events of Avengers: Endgameas everyone who had previously been vaporized was brought back. Since the series takes place before Thanos' genocidal actions were reversed, at least we now know that Daredevil survived the incident.
With Daredevil: Reborn Set between two of the biggest moments in MCU history, there's potential for a lot of cool Easter eggs throughout the series that draw on this story. These moments should give us a sense of time, even if that time is Marvel's confusing version of it.
