One of the biggest perks of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that heroes who make their introduction in separate projects can come together in a heartbeat to save the world. These crossovers can take place at any given moment, and we get to see no shortage of exciting Easter eggs and nods through their buildup. However, there are also some key disadvantages to sharing a big interconnected narrative.
There's the classic case of superheroes missing out on world-ending events taking place in their own city. Where was Spider-Man when Sentry started to attack New York as a whole? Or why didn't a single hero try to talk some sense into Wanda during the events of WandaVision? There's also a case to be made that the timeline placement of some projects doesn't quite make sense. For example, if there are a total of 21 movies and TV series between the events of Eternals and Captain America: Brave New World, why did none of them address the giant Celestial frozen in the ocean?
Unfortunately, Daredevil: Born Again season 2 also suffers from these two problems. After all, Marvel has officially revealed its official timeline placement, which could make some fans scratch their heads in confusion.
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 takes place after Thunderbolts*, so how will the show address those events?
Thunderbolts* is an important superhero movie for many reasons, but one of the biggest ones is that its events affected the entirety of New York. In it, we see how Bob Reynolds' dark persona, The Void, starts to consume the city as a whole. Thousands, if not millions, of people are suddenly turned into shadows, with their consciousness trapped in a place where they are forced to live through their biggest traumas over and over again.
One of the biggest questions audiences had when this moment happened was: Where was Spider-Man during all the chaos? However, we now have even more doubts after finding out that Daredevil: Born Again season 2 takes place after the events of Thunderbolts* and Captain America: Brave New World, as revealed by Marvel itself.
Let's start by addressing the elephant in the room: There's little the Devil of Hell's Kitchen could've done to prevent a superhuman from turning the city into a big, endless void. However, this kind of event is exactly what Wilson Fisk would use as leverage to frame vigilantes and metahumans as little more than criminals and a danger to common citizens.
At the time of writing this, only one episode of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 has been released. With that in mind, there's a chance the show will eventually address the events of Thunderbolts*, as well as the narrative of Captain America: Brave New World, in which the president was turned into a Hulk and destroyed a considerable part of Washington, D.C.. However, knowing that Wilson Fisk is likely to be overthrown as the city's mayor, there's a chance that he never resorted to such a tactic in the first place to get citizens' approval.
The street-level Disney+ shows have been largely ignored by the rest of the MCU (with Ms. Marvel being the one exception). Granted, the rest of the heroes are dealing with multiversal threats, so it makes sense that they aren't up to date on "smaller" crimes and acts of corruption. That being said, it would make perfect sense for those street-level stories to acknowledge the big, world-ending events that happened before them, yet that rarely happens.
Only time will tell whether Daredevil: Born Again season 2 will acknowledge how New York City was turned into a big, dark void or if it will ignore that tragedy altogether. But with a bit of luck, it will be the former.
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is now streaming on Disney+.