Nevertheless, religion was pushed to the background of the revival collection Daredevil: Born Once more. In the identical method that the present put Matt within the courtroom greater than it put him in his satan costume, Born Once more season 1 contained solely occasional references to his Catholicism.
However as Miller and different creators have proven, Matt’s beliefs are central to his character. His sense of justice and overwhelming guilt drives each his daytime actions as a lawyer and his nighttime actions as Daredevil. He typically understands the costume as a option to scare the responsible into reforming, a technique he’s tried again and again with Frank Fortress a.okay.a. the Punisher. Different occasions, he wears the costume as a result of he fears that he’s damned, and combating crime is the one method he can atone for his sins.
In brief, Matt’s religion is a rarity in widespread tradition, a spiritual perception that’s depicted as very difficult and humane, with out judgment for or in opposition to it. And its been a lacking a part of Born Once more, one that can not be ignored if the collection does certainly plan to adapt parts of the Final Rites storyline.
As famous beforehand at Den of Geek, the Netflix collection tailored the Born Once more storyline from the comics for its third season. Whereas the primary season of Born Once more drew extra from later tales by Mark Waid and Charles Soule, the season 2 plotline about Matt resisting Kingpin mirrors each the latest Satan’s Reign arc by Charles Zdarsky (a run that finishes, notably, with Matt becoming a member of the priesthood) and Final Rites, the 1991 sequel to Born Once more that sees Matt getting revenge on Fisk. Whereas Final Rites options a lot of superhero motion, it ends with Daredevil standing over a defeated Kingpin and delivering essentially the most Catholic line of all: “I forgive you.”
If Born Once more does plan to do a model of that scene in its second season, then Easter is the right time to deliver it to the display.
Daredevil: Born Once more season 2 premieres on Disney+ on March 4, 2026.
