Matt Murdock – aka Daredevil! – is back for Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again on March 24, but he’s sporting a new look this time around… a costume the show’s producers are calling the “blackout” suit. It’s a unique look for the Man Without Fear, featuring an all-black version of his familiar armored costume… but, perhaps most importantly to fans (and to series star Charlie Cox), it also finally features the MCU version of the hero with the iconic “DD” logo on his chest.
“Obviously, I’ve hinted over the years that I’d love to graduate to the DDs on the chest plate,” Cox recently told me. “My costume is interesting because there’s what is so cool and such a delight and an honor to wear, and then there’s what feels good. So I’m pulled in two different directions. There was a day on set in Season 2 … where I was putting on the costume, and it was late at night. I’d had too much dinner. I was squeezing this thing on and feeling dreadful and probably pretty grumpy about it. And then I walked outside and there were a ton of fans, and I could literally hear the gasp of seeing the black suit with the DDs. And suddenly I was reminded, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool!’”
How the Daredevil Blackout Suit Happened
Executive producer Sana Amanat explained that the blackout suit came about when the production team realized that they could simply spraypaint the old red suit and make it black, but stencil the DDs so that they remained in red.
“And that’s how we’re going to get the DDs out of it,” she says. “And we’re really excited about the way it came together.”
There’s also an in-story reason for the change in attire, of course. Season 1 of Born Again ended with Matt and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) on the run after Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) bans vigilantes. Daredevil is now among the hunted.
“Their life is in danger,” says Cox of where the characters are at the start of Season 2. “They are literally squatting above a restaurant. They only go out at night. That’s how dangerous the city of New York has become for vigilantes, and for Matt Murdock in particular. So he’s painted his red suit black. That’s the reason for it. But over the course of the season … as more action takes place, the black starts to strip away and the red comes through underneath. It’s such a great idea.”
