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In the first of two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again that debuted today, we got a guest appearance from everyone’s favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) character: Kamala Khan…’s (Iman Vellani) father, Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur). And while it’s exciting and all to find out where Ms. Marvel’s dad works, it’s more exciting to get some potential teases, for both Young Avengers (or Champions) and maybe Ms. Marvel, Season 2.
Spoilers for the episode past this point. In the fifth episode of Born Again, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is trying to get a loan for the law firm of Murdock & McDuffie. That’s why he’s at the bank in New York City where Yusuf works as Assistant Manager… When they’re robbed by an Irish gang looking to steal a butterscotch-colored gem from the bank’s vault.
However, the plot of the episode, which appropriately takes place on St. Patrick’s Day, is not as important as the little hints and teases Yusuf drops throughout the episode. So let’s get into how Daredevil: Born Again might bring up the “young heroes banding together” plotline that’s been sprinkled through the MCU; and how it might tease a second season for Ms. Marvel. Maybe.
Towards the beginning of the episode, Matt Murdock meets Yusuf, who is extremely proud of his daughter, Kamala, as well as — totally coincidentally — Jersey City’s hometown hero Ms. Marvel. To the point that Yusuf has a sparkly custom Funko Pop! on his desk at work.
However, Pop!s aside, the most important thing Yusuf notes here is the whereabouts of Kamala Khan. “My daughter, Kamala, she’s visiting some friends in California. La La Land, as they say.”
So, who is Kamala visiting in California? There are two possibilities here. The first is her friend Bruno Carrelli (Matt Lintz), who left at the end of Ms. Marvel Season 1 to join a program at Caltech. The second is Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), aka Stature from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
There’s — unfortunately — a of timeline weirdness to unpack here first, so bear with me. The first season of Ms. Marvel, in the MCU timeline, took place in 2025. The next time we saw her was in The Marvels, which takes place in 2026. And Daredevil: Born Again‘s current episodes take place in 2027. Specifically, March 2027 (hence St. Patrick’s Day).
Why do I bring this up? Well, because by this point, if Bruno started Caltech in the Fall of 2025, by the time this week’s Born Again episode hits, he’s been in school for nearly two years. That seems a reasonable amount of time for Kamala to head to California to visit him in Pasadena (where Caltech is located), and he would still be in school at this point.
However, it also links up nicely with the timeline of The Marvels ending scene. In it, Kamala breaks into Kate Bishop’s (Hailee Steinfeld) apartment to approximate the classic Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) end-credit scene from Iron Man, looking to recruit the archer to her team of young heroes. She explains the team is just her at the moment, though she has “feelers out” and adds, “Did you know Ant-Man has a daughter?”