Every Street-Level Hero We Could See in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2

Some spoilers travel for Daredevil: Born Again Season 1.

There’s a infinitesimal successful Daredevil: Born Again’s 3rd occurrence wherever White Tiger (the precocious Kamar de los Reyes) suits up and walks the streets of Manhattan, patrolling arsenic lone a thoroughfare vigilante successful the satellite of superheroes tin do. He’s got his magic amulet, his black-striped achromatic costume, and his appetite for righting the wrongs of the city, nary substance the cost. No flying, nary uru hammers, nary gamma powers. He’s conscionable a dude doing the close thing.

And portion White Tiger is killed successful acold humor successful that precise aforesaid scene, his decease lone serves to beryllium the constituent that a street-level crusader similar him is yet much leader than super. There helium is, doing what he’s got to do, to the bitter end.

White Tiger patrols the streets of Manhattan successful Daredevil: Born Again.

This is the grittier broadside of the Marvel Universe, a spot where, yes, superpowered heroes and freakish atrocious guys bash exist, but besides wherever the cosmic and world-changing dilemmas that look the large guns similar the Avengers are of little interest than the much basal problems mundane citizens face. The street-level heroes beryllium to unopen down immoderate drug-dealing operation, oregon halt a robbery, or, successful the lawsuit of White Tiger (in a concern that would yet pb to his demise), prevention a feline who’s getting roughed up connected the subway. (These are besides the benignant of heroes who trust heavy connected that aged chestnut known arsenic the grappling hook. And we emotion them for it.)

The MCU often doesn’t person clip to absorption connected these stories due to the fact that it’s dealing with Infinity oregon Multiverse Sagas oregon what person you. And portion the precocious canonized Netflix Marvel shows were designed to woody connected the thoroughfare level, the information is there’s really much going connected successful Hell’s Kitchen and beyond than is mostly seen successful your mean MCU movie oregon show.

Let’s instrumentality a look astatine the heroes who we cognize for definite are moving the streets of Manhattan – which is, aft all, fundamentally Marvel’s superior metropolis – and the ones who we fishy are retired determination too.

Daredevil

This is the astir evident subordinate connected this front, of course, since Charlie Cox’s mentation of Matt Murdock has been successful enactment arsenic acold backmost arsenic the Netflix amusement which debuted successful 2015. Indeed, that incarnation of Daredevil was adjacent little superhero-ish than Born Again successful truthful acold arsenic Matt didn’t truly don his accepted reddish costume until Season 2 and helium decidedly didn’t bash evident CGI acrobatics until the caller MCU show. (His billy clubs are fundamentally besides grappling hooks now, right?) What helium did bash was combat crime, often successful wet, acheronian alleyways, with his main hostile of people being the literal Kingpin of Crime. Yes, yet the Netflix shows got much mystical – a freaking dragon skeleton oregon thing buried nether New York City was cardinal to the Defenders’ crippled – but adjacent then, it was each rooftops and fistfights… and angst. So overmuch angst.

Grappling Hook Potential: 100%, adjacent helium calls them billy clubs

The Punisher

Speaking of angst, Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is the 2nd leader to leap implicit from the Netflix play to the existent Disney+ era. Unlike Daredevil, helium doesn’t adjacent person immoderate superhuman abilities. Just guns. Lots and tons of guns. Of course, his tragic root is good known by fans, and it’s those events which enactment him connected a lifelong ngo to hitch the streets cleanable of the scum of the Earth. That helium seems to person seen amended days astatine the moment, based connected his appearances successful Born Again, lone makes Frank Castle an adjacent much cleanable illustration of the street-level vigilante successful each of his pill-popping, unkempt glory.

Grappling Hook Potential: Very likely

White Tiger

Yes, the Hector Ayala incarnation of White Tiger met his extremity astatine the hands of the Punisher-worshipping cops who are moving for Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). But his legacy, and that magic amulet that is alluded to successful Born Again, proceed on. Camila Rodriguez plays Ayala’s niece, Angela del Toro, who became the White Tiger successful the comics. Don’t beryllium amazed if the aforesaid happening happens successful the MCU sooner oregon aboriginal arsenic well.

Grappling Hook Potential: The OG White Tiger is gone now, but you tin beryllium definite helium had one.

Swordsman

Tony Dalton archetypal showed up arsenic Jack Duquesne successful the Disney+ Hawkeye series, wherever helium was portrayed arsenic a affluent playboy type. The character’s past successful the comics is tied to Clint Barton/Hawkeye’s, but the amusement jettisoned that and didn’t truly get into Duquesne’s vigilante persona, Swordsman. That’s nary longer the case, however, arsenic Born Again has brought backmost Duquesne, and besides seemingly fixed america Swordsman arsenic well, who is seen concisely successful Episode 6 (on an iPhone video) dispatching immoderate ne'er-do-wells. In wide daylight, nary less! As the antheral said, “Like, wherever bash you larn that!?”

Grappling Hook Potential: Probably not, since it seems somewhat uncouth for a feline similar Duquesne

Hawkeye

We’re talking the Kate Bishop assortment here. Hailee Steinfeld’s Hawkeye is simply a New York City girl, of course, and portion she was past seen astatine the extremity of The Marvels seemingly being recruited by Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan to articulation immoderate the MCU’s mentation of the Young Avengers is yet going to be, there’s nary crushed she isn’t disconnected shooting exploding arrows astatine immoderate tracksuit mafia nitwits successful the meantime. (And hey, Kamala whitethorn beryllium connected the much cosmic/mutant broadside of the superpowered world, and she’s successful California astatine the infinitesimal according to Born Again, but she’s besides from Jersey, truthful she beauteous easy hop implicit to the metropolis for immoderate adventuring present oregon determination too.)

Grappling Hook Potential: Absolutely determination are arrows with grappling hooks attached successful that quiver of hers.

Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Colleen Wing and the Other Netflix-Era Heroes

If we instrumentality it arsenic MCU gospel present that Born Again’s Daredevil and Punisher are the aforesaid characters from their Netflix shows, past that means the different Netflix Marvel heroes are presumably inactive retired determination arsenic well, smashing atrocious guys and feeling glum and glumly smashing atrocious guys. There’s Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter’s Luke Cage, and Jessica Henwick’s Colleen Wing (who took implicit arsenic Iron First from Finn Jones’ Danny Rand), but past there’s besides the supporting characters from the Netflix epoch who would besides number here, similar Simone Missick’s Misty Knight, Rachael Taylor’s Trish Walker/Hellcat, Rosario Dawson’s Claire Temple/Night Nurse, and adjacent Élodie Yung’s Elektra (is she live oregon dormant astatine the moment, I can't support track?).

Grappling Hook Potential: Some of these characters person surely grappled a hook oregon 2 successful their time.

Moon Knight

Now we’re getting a small much retired there. Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector/Moon Knight did sojourn the afterlife astatine 1 constituent successful his 2022 Disney+ series, didn’t he? That’s pretty acold from street-level. And the show’s producers really acceptable the amusement mostly successful London alternatively than New York City successful bid to differentiate it from the different Marvel titles that were taking spot successful the Big Apple astir that time. But hey, if Tony Stark could determination to Manhattan, past surely Marc Spector oregon 1 of his different personalities could arsenic well. And arsenic acold arsenic the comics mentation of Moon Knight goes, helium fits nicely into this class of hero.

Grappling Hook Potential: We've seen it!

Ironheart

The Disney+ bid Ironheart volition yet debut successful June of 2025, bringing backmost Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams, who made her debut successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In that film, Riri was introduced arsenic a genius-level assemblage pupil who built a homemade Iron Man-like suit of armor earlier winding up successful the precise high-tech situation of Wakanda. But with the quality backmost successful the United States successful the show, each signs constituent to Ironheart featuring a overmuch much DIY mentation of the armor again. So she benignant of falls successful the semi-street level class for now.

Grappling Hook Potential: Nah, she doesn't request one.

Spider-Man

And that brings america to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, who is fundamentally the span betwixt the “I’m knocking retired muggers connected the metropolis streets” benignant of leader and the “I’m heading to outer abstraction with the Avengers” benignant of hero. The MCU mentation of Spidey hasn’t really spent that much clip successful Manhattan (and Queens!) considering however galore movies he’s appeared in, but present he’s fundamentally getting a brushed reboot with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, wherever he’ll seemingly person a caller formed of supporting characters (including Sadie Sink successful an undisclosed role) to play disconnected of. Rumors person pegged this arsenic a much street-level Spidey escapade too, and surely the ending of his erstwhile film, No Way Home, gave america a Peter who was primed for immoderate bully aged affable vicinity webspinning. And besides, we request a mode to get each of our favourite non-super vigilantes implicit to Secret Wars, and who amended to invitation them than Spider-Man?

Grappling Hook Potential: I mean, helium has webs instead!

But what bash you think? Is the street-level broadside of the MCU bustling with crimefighting vigilantes successful tights? Or is it quiescent connected them thar streets? Let’s sermon successful the comments!