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Daredevil: Born Again is the new chapter of the MCU that fans have been praying for ever since the original Netflix Daredevil series ends. However, if recent comments about the show's timeline are to be believed, the series is exploring territory fans have already encountered - or at least, it's set during a period of history that the current MCU has already surpassed. Those comments, made by Bullseye actor Wilson Bethel, seem to put Born Again in between the universe-altering events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Let's back up a moment. The comments we're referencing here came from Fan Expo San Francisco, where both Bethel and Charlie Cox were chatting about the upcoming Disney+ series. Reported on by Collider, the Bullseye actor had this statement to make in regards to the show's timeline:

"The show doesn't pick up the day after we last saw it. It picks up five years later. And so in theory, these are characters who have all lived five years of life and all of the twists and turns that you take in the meantime."

That gives us a rough number to tack on to the end of Netflix's Daredevil season 3, thereby giving us an estimate of the year in which the new series will take place. But to do that equation, we first have to ask:

When in the MCU timeline does the original Daredevil take place?

Admittedly, time is a funky thing in the MCU - not only because of its characters' frequent multiverse-hopping and time-traveling adventures, but because human writers are fallible and, hypothetically, can misplace the occasional event in the Sacred Timeline. However, this very helpful Marvel timeline from GamesRadar, as well as this researched Reddit thread from user u/vizslavoid, puts the events of Netflix's Daredevil season 3 in 2017. Add five years to that, and you get 2022...

A full year before the events of Avengers: Endgame, when Earth's Mightiest Heroes defeated Thanos and unsnapped half of reality back into existence.

If you're a bit staggered by the implications of this placement on the timeline, you have reason to be. After all, we've seen both Daredevil and Wilson Fisk after the events of Endgame. Does this imply that what we're about to see in Born Again comes before Matt Murdock offers his legal services to Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home? Or that Wilson Fisk is set to become Mayor of New York City before making Kate Bishop's life infinitely harder? 

With Marvel's ever-evolving timeline and canonicity, it's difficult to say. Even though Daredevil: Born Again's reportedly darker mood would technically fit the tone of a post-Snap MCU, we may learn someday that its events are less in-canon than we once previously expected. And as we've alluded to earlier, there's another reason we can't be entirely sure of the idea we're proposing: simple human error.

After all, the fact that Bullseye never misses doesn't mean the man behind his mask couldn't.

Daredevil: Born Again debuts on Disney+ March 4, 2025.

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