How Daredevil: Born Again Sets up Ms. Marvel’s Young Avengers/Champions Team

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How Daredevil: Born Again Sets up Ms. Marvel’s Young Avengers/Champions Team

Daredevil: Born Again Episode 5 is now streaming on Disney+, and people are wondering whether it hints at Ms. Marvel’s (Iman Vellani) Young Avengers team. Kamala’s father, Yusuf Khan (Mohan Kapur), appears in this episode as the assistant bank manager who gently denies Matt’s (Charlie Cox) request for a loan. However, Matt admits this is the “nicest no” he has received yet. During their conversation, Yusuf mentions Kamala and her current whereabouts, seemingly teasing the Young Avengers.

Is Kamala Khan recruiting Cassie Lang for Young Avengers during Daredevil: Born Again?

In the fifth episode of Daredevil: Born Again, titled “With Interest,” Matt visits a bank named New York Mutual, seeking a loan to fund the rapid expansion of Murdock & McDuffie. Yusuf works there as an assistant manager. During their conversation, Yusuf’s phone buzzes. He picks it up and apologizes to Matt for interrupting their conversation. Yusuf reveals that it’s his daughter, Kamala, who is at present in California, “visiting some friends there.”

This is most likely the continuation of the setup for Young Avengers that began with the 2023 superhero feature The Marvels. In the final scene of the movie, Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop returns home to find Kamala there. In a scene that is clearly a throwback to the first meeting between Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury from the 2008’s Iron Man, Kamala asks Kate if the latter thinks she is the only kid superhero in the world. When Kate points out that she is 23, Kamala assures her that she knows and that she has been reading up on her. Kamala declares that Kate has just become part of a larger universe, which, she admits, it’s just her at this point. She says that she is putting together a team and asks Kate to join it.

Kamala also mentions Scott Lang’s daughter, Kathryn Newton’s Cassie Lang. We know that Cassie currently resides in San Francisco. It’s possible that the reason Kamala is in California is to recruit Cassie for Young Avengers. Although it hasn’t been confirmed that the team is part of the MCU’s expansive plans, several of its members have already debuted in the franchise, and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has talked about the “potential being endless” while addressing the subject.

New episodes of Daredevil: Born Again stream on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm ET.