Daredevil: Born Again Just Teased 5 Different Costumes – Here Are What They Look Like in the Original Comics

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Fans of Daredevil were thrilled January 15 when Marvel Entertainment dropped a trailer for ol’ Hornhead’s MCU return in Daredevil: Born Again. The trailer is packed with reveals, including looks at new villain Muse and superhero the White Tiger, as well as Matt Murdock quitting the vigilante game and Wilson Fisk’s Kingpin becoming mayor of New York. However, one of the most tantalizing images comes near the end – a flash of five different Daredevil cowls, hinting at multiple costumes fans haven’t yet seen.

Thankfully, with Daredevil’s long comic history, fans don’t have to wait around in the dark – each of the cowls in the trailer can be traced back to a comic-book costume, offering more clues at Matt Murdock’s secret makeovers between the original Netflix series and the MCU revival.

Here are each of the cowls featured in the Daredevil: Born Again trailer, and the comic costumes they hint Matt has worn in the gap between his Netflix and MCU adventures.

Daredevil’s Original Red Suit

Fans Already Saw This Suit in the MCU

The trailer includes two red cowls, directly referencing the costumes worn by the superhero in 2015’s Daredevil series. These costumes directly adapt Daredevil’s most iconic comic look. The classic red suit wasn’t Matt’s first (we’ll come to that shortly), debuting in Daredevil Volume 1 #7, from Stan Lee and Wally Wood. The suit added a second ‘D’ to Matt’s logo, as well as including a holster for his billy clubs on the hero’s thigh. Open the image gallery below to see Daredevil’s original red costume in action.

While this version of Daredevil’s costume is often drawn with heavy black detailing, this is canonically shadow, and the suit itself is red all over. In Daredevil #7, Matt explains that he created the red costume to be more “comfortable” and “distinctive” than his first costume, but doesn’t mention the color change. Later stories have established that Daredevil embraced the all-red look to evoke his devilish persona and strike fear into the criminals of Hell’s Kitchen – a decision which ultimately attracted the attention of Mephisto himself, who has plagued Matt multiple times over the years.

Daredevil’s First Yellow Costume

The Costume Appeared in She-Hulk

The Born Again trailer also showcases Daredevil’s yellow cowl, which fans saw in 2022’s She-Hulk series. Interestingly, this was actually Matt Murdock’s first costume in the comics, debuting in his first appearance – Stan Lee and Bill Everett’s Daredevil Volume 1 #1. This suit is made out of the boxing robes of Matt’s father, Jonathan ‘Battlin’ Jack’ Murdock. Matt first suited up as Daredevil after his father’s murder by the gangster known as the Fixer, who killed Battlin’ Jack after he failed to throw a boxing match. Matt’s choice of materials were therefore tied into his original mission.

Daredevil has worn the yellow suit sparingly since its debut, and its most famous comeback was in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Daredevil: Yellow. The series uses the framing device of Matt writing a letter to the dead Karen Page to retell his origin story and early career, including encounters with the Fantastic Four and longtime villain the Purple Man.

Daredevil’s Black Costume

This Helm Has a Major Connection to Upcoming Villain Muse

Daredevil has had two major black costumes in Marvel Comics, with the first debuting in the Shadowland event series from Andy Diggle and Billy Tan. This series saw Matt take over the Hand, attempting to use the ninja death cult to do good in Hell’s Kitchen. However, Daredevil was gradually possessed by the Hand’s demonic patron, known as the Beast, and became a tyrant.

The Shadowland costume is black with a red logo and billy club holster, and uses stylized initials. It also gave Matt new wrist-mounted blade weapons. As Matt was corrupted, he took on a purple hue and a more monstrous appearance, with his limbs and horns growing longer. Thankfully, Marvel’s heroes were able to purge Matt of the Beast and save New York from his ninja army.

The black costume returned in Daredevil Volume 5, from Charles Soule and Ron Garney. This time, the black costume was complemented not just by a red logo (now with fiery/horned lettering), but by a red belt, red lace-up boots, and red wraps on Matt’s hands and feet, as shown below.

Daredevil Volume 5 is notable because it appears Born Again will partly adapt this volume of the hero’s adventures. It was Soule’s run on Daredevil that debuted the art-obsessed serial killer Muse, as well as depicting Kingpin’s rise to power as New York’s mayor. Fans shouldn’t be surprised to see Daredevil in this black suit at some point in the show.

Other instances of Daredevil technically wearing a black suit include his pre-superhero costume, which fans saw in Netflix’s Daredevil. This suit is a retcon added into Daredevil lore by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.’s Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which updated Matt’s origin story and early life as a hero before becoming Daredevil.

Perhaps the most bizarre black costume in Daredevil’s comic past is that of Laurent LeVasseur. Debuting in Scott Lobdell and Cully Hamner’s Daredevil #376, this suit comes from a story where Matt goes undercover in Paris. Given a new identity by SHIELD, Matt puts aside his devilish theme while keeping his iconic colors and billy clubs.

Finally, Daredevil got a black redesign in Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto’s Daredevil #26, when he was infected by a symbiote as part of the epic King in Black event (as was his deadly foe Typhoid Mary.)

Daredevil’s Second Red Costume

The Man Without Fear Has a LOT of Red Suits

Born Again‘s second red cowl appears to be from the costume Matt Murdock wore in Echo, representing the second change to his basic Netflix suit (with the first seen in season 2, adding more black panels.) This is true to the character’s comic history, where the basic red suit has been interpreted by a range of artists and creative teams. Most recently, Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto’s Daredevil Volume 6 reimagined the red suit, as shown below. Checchetto includes red piping and arm wraps, while also imagining Daredevil’s pants as baggier, referencing his boxer father.

This is easily the most minor redesign Zdarsky and Checchetto’s Daredevil run gave the hero. After abandoning his life as Matt Murdock, Matt grew a long beard and began wearing an armored, black and red costume as the leader of the Fist – an anti-Hand group co-run with Elektra. Matt’s ally and former lover Elektra got her own Daredevil suit in this run, taking over the codename while Matt served a prison term for accidentally killing a burgler.

Other redesigns have taken the red costume far further. During Mark Waid and Chris Samnee’s Daredevil Volume 4, Matt wore a red suit, mocking the fact that his superhero identity had become public knowledge. Daredevil 2099 (from Robert Kirkman, Karl Moline and Mike Perkins) gave a shared descendant of Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk an Iron Man-style automated suit, while various variant covers have imagined Daredevil as a futuristic warrior, the new Ghost Rider, and an outright nightmare.

Matt Murdock’s Armored Era

The most interesting inclusion in the Born Again trailer is a silver cowl. This cowl has no direct referent in the comics, but there are two likely options on the table. The first is Daredevil’s armored costume, which debuted in Daredevil #321, from D.G. Chichester and Scott Mcdaniel. This costume was red and black, while also adding metallic armor to Daredevil’s shoulders, wrists, and legs.

While the armor is officially black (indeed, it was most recently brought back in 2024’s Daredevil: Black Armor, from Chichester and Netho Diaz), it’s generally depicted with a silver sheen, while the metallic parts match the color of the cowl fans can see in the trailer. This suit allowed Daredevil to shrug off bullets and fight Venom hand to hand, but he also believed it encouraged him to become more and more violent. This costume’s appearance in the trailer is intriguing, as it suggests that Daredevil may have gone off the rails since fans last saw him – a major theme of his Netflix show, which focused on Matt’s immense reserves of anger.

Another possibility is that the silver cowl references Daredevil’s ‘purified’ white costume. At the conclusion of Zdarsky’s Daredevil run, Matt ventured into Hell to combat the Beast of the Hand. Matt found himself burned down to his core, gaining a shining white suit which caused holy energy to erupt from his billy clubs, turning them into swords.

Recently, in Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder’s Daredevil Volume 8, Matt began wearing the white costume once again, after Doctor Strange helped him gain clarity, arming him to confront the demonic sins which followed him back from Hell after his rebirth. It’s unlikely that the silver cowl in the trailer represents this costume, as Matt certainly doesn’t seem to have had his soul purified, but anything’s possible.

Those are the costumes referenced in the thrilling trailer for the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again – fans will learn more about Matt’s new MCU-canon costumes when the series debuts March 4, 2025, on Disney+.

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