Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will put a newly introduced Marvel hero at the heart of its story — and answer a longstanding question that fans have had since their Netflix show ended eight years ago.
Speaking on the season 2 finale edition of the Daredevil: Born Again Official Podcast, showrunner Dario Scardapane and Marvel’s Head of Television Brad Winderbaum gave a small but significant tease for the series’ next installment. And, according to the pair, the Marvel project’s third chapter will spotlight a specific superhuman who’s been referenced through this season’s latter half.
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The individual Winderbaum and Scardapane are talking about is, of course, Luke Cage.
Played by Mike Colter in Netflix’s universe of Marvel TV shows, all of which are now considered canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Cage makes the briefest of appearances in Daredevil: Born Again‘s season 2 finale.
That cameo comes after Colter fielded many months’ worth of questions about him reprising his role in the MCU — queries that began to arrive after Krysten Ritter was revealed to be coming back as Jessica Jones in Born Again season 2 last May. Then, more recently, Colter was confirmed to be returning as Cage after he was snapped on a real world location set for season 3, alongside Ritter and fellow returnee Finn Jones as Danny Rand/Iron Fist, in late March. Colter followed up those photographs by announcing his return on his own Instagram page earlier this month.
Krysten Ritter, Finn Jones and Mike Jones on set of Daredevil: Born Again S3 from r/LeaksAndRumors
It doesn’t sound like Cage will only have a minor supporting role in Daredevil: Born Again season 2’s sequel season, either.
Indeed, discussing Cage’s role in Born Again season 3, Winderbaum teased: “I’m comfortable saying it: Luke Cage is going to be a big part of season three”. So, we can expect to see plenty of Harlem’s unbreakable hero in the Marvel Phase 6 TV show’s third outing.
How Daredevil: Born Again season 3 could answer some big questions about Luke Cage’s past
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Understandably, Colter’s long-overdue return as Cage has prompted three big questions: What has he been up to since we last saw him in his self-titled Netflix series? How did this result in him working for Matthew Lillard’s nefarious Mister Charles until, as Cage reveals in season 2 episode 8, he’s been relieved of his duties? And, when did he get back with Jessica, have a kid, and then get pulled away from them before finally being reunited with his family in the season 2 finale?
The former is arguably the most important of that trio, mainly because it’ll help to answer the other two.
Indeed, Luke Cage season 2 ended with the eponymous hero taking over Harlem’s Paradise, aka the high-end nightclub owned and run by crime boss Cornell ‘Cottonmouth’ Stokes. At the time, it appeared that Cage would start to walk a darker path, and either become an anti-hero or an outright villain. However, with Luke Cage canceled soon after its season 2 debut, fans weren’t given closure over this particular storyline.
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It’s here where Born Again season 3 could — and, by the sounds of it, will — fill us in on what Cage has been doing since that series drew to an unceremonious close. As part of the Cage-centric discussion on the aforementioned podcast’s latest episode, Scardapane said: “In one little moment at the end of this episode, there is an entire story yet to be told.
“And, the funny thing is — this is kinda like hiding an Easter egg — if you know these characters’ [Cage and Jones] history, and you know some of the comic book runs, you’ll know what’s happening.”
I guess we should prepare for plenty of Cage and Jones-based flashbacks, lots of familial melodrama, and specific references to the former’s Netflix show that’ll further tie it to Daredevil’s Disney+ show, then! While we wait for season 3’s arrival, read my Daredevil: Born Again season 2 ending explained piece to have your biggest questions answered about this season’s eighth and final episode.
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