If Daredevil: Born Again‘s debut season introduces a roster of new supporting characters, then Season 2 showrunner Dario Scardapane doesn’t let his foot off the gas, incorporating key figures from Netflix’s original Daredevil series and its sister shows. Aside from Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), Benjamin Poindexter (Wilson Bethel), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and the upcoming Danny Rand (Finn Jones), the latest leaked set photos confirm Scardapane has also added Elektra Natchios (Élodie Yung) to Season 3’s tableau.
The infamous assassin felt like the last major missing piece from Netflix’s legacy. Elektra and Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) are irrevocably intertwined in Marvel Comics lore (depending on who you ask, she’s either Matt’s soulmate or his second-greatest love), she’s a tremendous solo force on and off the page, and it’s been 10 years since her live-action TV counterpart first taunted Matt from the shadows while lounging in one of his apartment chairs. Her return almost undoubtedly triggers a domino effect — unbridled chaos, attempts at redemption, or ushering in other Netflix-era MCU characters who deserve their own resurrection.
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 Can Improve Elektra’s Inconsistent Characterization
Elektra joining the Disney+ universe arrives not a moment too soon. With that said, she stands to benefit from a more refined portrait. Daredevil presents her in a contradictory light, and not always in a coherent or admirably subversive fashion. Season 2 predominantly juxtaposes Elektra against Karen as a shorthand that represents Matt’s conflict between his darker urges and his altruistic convictions. She isn’t merely the “crazy” ex-girlfriend archetype; moments of complex humanity blaze through as she shifts from antagonist to ally to renewed love interest to an unlikely hero. Still, one walks away with the sensation that even the last several episodes’ heavy-lifting doesn’t sufficiently deconstruct her stereotypical introduction. Season 2’s overall framing remains as reductive now as it was in 2016.
Collider Exclusive · Marvel Personality Quiz Which MCU Hero Are You? Spider-Man · Daredevil · Iron Man · Punisher · Thor · Cap
Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. Will you swing, fly, or thunder your way to glory?
🕷️Spider-Man
😈Daredevil
🤖Iron Man
💀Punisher
⚡Thor
🛡️Cap
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What drives you to do what’s right? Choose the answer that feels most like you.
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It’s 2 AM. Where are you? Your answer says more about you than you’d think.
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How do you handle a villain who keeps escaping justice? Every hero has a method. What’s yours?
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How do you feel about keeping a secret identity? The mask — or the lack of one — says everything.
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You’ve lost someone important because of your heroism. How do you carry that? Every hero pays a price. The question is how they pay it.
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What’s your role when working with a team? Who you are under pressure is who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line between justice and revenge? The answer defines what kind of hero you really are.
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When you’re not saving the world, what does life look like? The person behind the mask is always the more interesting story.
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What keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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The battle is lost. You’re outnumbered, outgunned, and exhausted. What do you do? This is your tiebreaker — choose carefully.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your MCU Hero Is…
Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values, and instincts has been revealed.
Queens, New York
🕷️ Spider-Man
You carry the weight of the world on shoulders that are younger than they should have to be — funny, loyal, and endlessly self-sacrificing.
You do the right thing not because it’s easy, but because no one else will.
You understand that responsibility isn’t a burden you choose — it’s one that finds you.
Whether it’s a neighbourhood mugging or a multiverse crisis, you show up.
Peter Parker’s lesson — that great power demands great responsibility — isn’t a slogan to you. It’s the code you live by, even when it costs you everything.
Hell’s Kitchen, New York
😈 Daredevil
You fight in the shadows between law and chaos, guided by a fierce moral compass that refuses to let the guilty walk free.
You use every tool available — your mind, your body, your faith — to protect those the system overlooks.
You’ve looked into the darkness and chosen not to become it, though the line has never been easy.
Matt Murdock’s duality — champion in the courtroom, devil in the alley — mirrors your own.
Relentless, conflicted, and unwilling to stop. That is exactly you.
Stark Industries, Malibu
🤖 Iron Man
Brilliant, driven, and occasionally insufferable — but always the person who solves the unsolvable problem.
You lead with your mind and back it up with resources, innovation, and a stubbornness that borders on heroic.
You started out looking out for yourself, but somewhere along the way the world became your responsibility.
Tony Stark’s arc — from ego to sacrifice — is your arc too.
You build, you plan, and when the moment comes, you’re willing to give everything. Because in the end, you’re Iron Man.
New York City
💀 The Punisher
You’ve been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What’s left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief.
You don’t ask for forgiveness, and you don’t expect gratitude.
You see a corrupt, broken world and you’ve decided to do something about it, consequences be damned.
Frank Castle’s war is born from love twisted by loss — and so is yours.
Uncompromising and unflinching — the world may not agree with your methods, but your conviction is absolute.
Asgard · Protector of the Nine Realms
⚡ Thor
Powerful, proud, and on a lifelong journey to become worthy of the legend you carry.
You lead with strength but have learned — sometimes painfully — that true greatness comes from humility and growth.
You’re larger than life, yet more vulnerable than you let on.
Thor’s story is one of transformation: from arrogant prince to worthy king, from isolated warrior to beloved protector.
You bring the storm when it’s needed — and the warmth when it matters just as much.
Brooklyn, New York · The Avengers
🛡️ Captain America
You believe in something bigger than yourself — and you fight for it even when the world has moved on and nobody else will.
You don’t bully the small guy, and you never stop when it gets hard.
Steve Rogers didn’t become a hero when he got the serum — he was always one. So were you.
Your strength isn’t in your fists; it’s in your refusal to compromise what’s right, no matter the cost.
In a world full of people taking the easy road, you’re the one who picks up the shield and stands up — every single time.
Doing maximum justice by Elektra means granting her more narrative momentum and agency, specifically a life independent of the men who seek to impose themselves upon her power — both the self-made kind she’s honed, and her status as the Black Sky. That twist, although based in canon, arguably dilutes her nuance by obscuring whether her hedonistic bloodlust is a side effect of her destiny as a vessel for evil or a trait indisputably born from her clear-eyed choices. The Elektra of the comics secured her legacy as a woman defined by her duality and then some: an exceptional, ruthless mercenary with a temptress streak and a morally conflicted anti-hero taken aback by her capacity for mercy. She stumbles through her formative trauma, searches for inner peace, escapes the Hand’s manipulations, and temporarily assumes the protective Daredevil mantle in Matt’s absence.
In retrospect, The Defenders leaving Elektra for dead unintentionally gives Born Again a creative buffet. Where’s she been for this long? Did she regain her memory? What about her current ideology? Can the former child soldier look at her reflection in the mirror yet? Elektra’s motivations embody opaqueness on her best days, but the extent to which she involves herself in Matt’s Born Again Season 3 predicament — a helping hand capable of biting, another chaotic thorn in his side — deserves as much transparent narrative cohesion as Matt receives.
Yung warrants no less consideration. Her spectacular performance exudes a tiger’s calculating intelligence and violent allure, as well as a haunted vulnerability. Something unnamed always simmers, unsatiated, beneath Elektra’s skin: paradoxical ethics, resentment, defiance, devil-may-care indulgence. The same excellence applies to Yung’s chemistry with Cox; they’re sizzling, combative, and as tender as two regretful souls who match each other’s brokenness, but only to a point. Reopening Matt’s Elektra-shaped scars could prove cathartic or send his stable convictions for a loop.
Elektra’s Return Could Usher More Familiar Faces Into ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3
As long as we’re discussing stand-out women, Jessica’s return and Matt’s arrest organically open the door for Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss). With the latter in legal hot water, who better to defend that man than an unflinching lawyer with her own firm, a near-peerless track record, and who’s no stranger to representing costumed crusaders? She’s unapologetically ambitious, insightful, manipulative, defensive against perceived weakness, vicious when betrayed, and confronting death on a daily basis through her ALS.
Meanwhile, the last viewers saw of Colleen Wing (Jessica Henwick), she’d assumed Danny’s duties as the Iron Fist. Colleen’s friend, Detective Misty Knight (Simone Missick), would have more than a few harsh words regarding police corruption and Fisk’s Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Similarly, the grounding perspective Matt’s mother, Sister Maggie (Joanne Whalley), brings is sorely missed. Daredevil: Born Again lives up to its name as Matt Murdock’s show, first and foremost. Every familiar face should be relevant, not a distracting nostalgic roll call. Simultaneously, the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen never fares quite as well without his better angels or his living demons.
