‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Just Properly Crossed Over With the MCU — Here’s How

“Daredevil: Born Again” marks the official entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for most of the characters in the show — save for Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock, who first appeared via “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and then again in “She-Hulk,” and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk, who appeared in “Hawkeye” and “Echo.”

The original Netflix series was technically set within the larger MCU, but rarely even indulged in references and kept mainly to its own corner of street-level heroes. Up until this point, “Born Again” has followed suit and hasn’t featured any major crossovers with the MCU at large, aside from a couple of references here and there.

Well, that changed with Episode 5, but if you haven’t kept up with the other Marvel shows on Disney+, you might be a little confused about how.

To be fair, “Born Again” technically connected itself to the larger universe with a brief glimpse of the Broadway marquee for “Rogers: The Musical,” which we first saw back in ‘Hawkeye.” But beyond that, there have been no major character appearances outside of those from the original Netflix “Daredevil” series.

And really, we wouldn’t call episode 5’s surprise character major. In fact, he’s kind of an unexpected choice to weave things together. But in a weird way, it worked. The character in question? Yusuf Khan, played by Mohan Kapur.

In the most recent episode of “Daredevil: Born Again,” now streaming on Disney+, Matt Murdock (Cox) heads to the bank to try and secure a loan for his law firm. He’s supposed to speak to the manager, but unfortunately, the manager isn’t in that day, which puts Matt at the desk of the assistant manager, Yusuf.

As he and Matt chat, Yusuf proudly boasts about his daughter Kamala Khan — better known now as the superhero Ms. Marvel. But, Daredevil has never heard of Ms. Marvel.

Now, if you watched the “Ms. Marvel” series on Disney+, or “The Marvels,” you definitely know who Kamala Khan is. But if you haven’t, here’s the short version: she’s a mutant, who can manipulate energy. Yes, a mutant. No, she’s not part of the X-Men.

She’s mostly known in Jersey City, but we also learned at the end of “The Marvels” that she’s hoping to put together her own team. And, if Yusuf’s offhanded comment to Matt about Kamala being in Los Angeles at the moment is anything to go off of, she might be doing just that.

Perhaps we’ll learn a little more if Matt ever makes it to Jersey City for dinner at the Khan household, as he was invited to do. But for now, “Daredevil: Born Again” has simply had its first official crossover with the larger world it exists in.

“Daredevil: Born Again” is now streaming on Disney+.

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