DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Star Royce Johnson Shares New BTS Photos; Seemingly Confirms [SPOILER]'s Season 2 Return

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Star Royce Johnson Shares New BTS Photos; Seemingly Confirms [SPOILER]'s Season 2 Return

After recently confirming his MCU return in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, actor Royce Johnson may have inadvertently spoiled another familiar character's appearance in the series.

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By JoshWilding - Dec 27, 2025 07:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil

After racking up appearances in Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and The Punisher, many fans were disappointed when Royce Johnson's Detective Sergeant Brett Mahoney was missing from Daredevil: Born Again Season 1.

The NYPD had a sizeable role in the Disney+ relaunch, but as the show was envisioned as a reboot before its creative overhaul, it's not overly surprising that the most honest cop in Hell's Kitchen fell by the wayside. Fortunately, we've known for some time that he'll return for Daredevil: Born Again's upcoming second season.

Johnson has taken to Instagram to tease his MCU comeback, sharing a few behind-the-scenes photos where he's pictured alongside Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock/Daredevil), Clark Johnson (Cherry), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page)...and Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle/The Punisher).

Unless Johnson has also shot a cameo role in The Punisher Special Presentation, this seems to confirm that Frank will have a role to play in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 after escaping from Mayor Wilson Fisk's makeshift prison. 

The vigilante's Special Presentation doesn't have a confirmed release date, but is expected to bridge the gap between Daredevil: Born Again and next summer's Spider-Man: Brand New Day. In the latter, The Punisher will team up with the wall-crawler. 

"The landscape was open, and that was so liberating," executive producer Sana Amanat said in a recent interview. "We were like, 'We can do whatever we want.'"

"What does it mean for Fisk when he’s gotten everything he wants?" Amanat said of Fisk successfully cracking down on superheroes with his Safer Streets Initiative. "When you give a person whose thirst cannot be quenched his most valued treasure, is it enough? Or does he squeeze his treasure too hard?"

While she's only expected to have a small role, Season 2 will see Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones team up with Daredevil. "[Jones] isn’t necessarily a team-up kind of person," Amanat teased. "So the reason she’s back is because it feels like it’s very personal. She brings edginess and lightness — Daredevil can be very dark and dramatic, and she cuts through the BS in a really fun way."

Check out Johnson's Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 post below.

In Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again Season 1, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavours in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

The series also stars Wilson Bethel, Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, and Tony Dalton, with Ayelet Zurer and Jon Bernthal. Season 2 additions include Krysten Ritter, Matthew Lillard, Lili Taylor, and Royce Johnson. Dario Scardapane is the showrunner.

"A masterpiece of epic proportions, Daredevil: Born Again delivers a powerful, unmissable take on the Man Without Fear," we said in our review. "Putting street-level heroics on the map in a way that promises to change the MCU forever, the show is sublime superhero storytelling on a whole new level."

All episodes of Daredevil: Born Again are now streaming on Disney+. While Season 2 is confirmed to premiere in 2026, Marvel Television has yet to share an official launch date.

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Spike101
Spike101 - 12/27/2025, 8:48 AM
It’s very pleasing to see all these characters returning to these new shows. To me it’s critically important to maintain them and their backstories if the new shows are to have the same level of quality that their predecessors did.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 9:57 AM
I mean, this series made hero cops the bad guys and scumbag criminals misunderstood victims so there really wasn’t a place for any characters who humanized law enforcement. Disney gonna Disney.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 11:34 AM
@Bucky74 - By "hero cops" are you referring to Fisk's taskforce... You might want to review some of the things they did.
Amaru
Amaru - 12/27/2025, 11:45 AM
@IAmAHoot - To someone like him those are probably "hero cops".
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 11:54 AM
@IAmAHoot - No, that’s the point. Actual corruption like that hasn’t existed in the NYPD since the 70”s early 80’s and is so cartoonishly over the top it’s ridiculous. Most PD cops get in trouble if they use bad language while arresting violent criminals in 2025.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 12:00 PM
@Amaru - No idiot, to someone “like me” those are scumbag criminals which is the point. Punisher killed zero mob bosses or actual criminals last season but a bunch of “corrupt cops.” Disney only knows how to push their propaganda. No actual cops would or could be that corrupt in 2025 NY. It’s literally impossible with all the oversight and criminals on this show are portrayed as innocent victims. It’s literally the inverse of reality. Trust me, I’ve worked in law enforcement and lived in Brooklyn NY (working in some of the most dangerous areas) almost my entire life. The law abiding residents in those communities were always glad to see the police and called if they were victimized. Travel around anywhere in East NY/Brooklyn North this summer at night and I promise you’ll want to see the police.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 12:22 PM
@Bucky74 - "Actual corruption like that hasn’t existed in the NYPD since the 70”s early 80’s..."

That's a really nonsensical and irrelevant argument in this piece of fiction. Does Wilson Fisk command heroes to you?
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 12:30 PM
@IAmAHoot - No, but Disney making police officers the bad guys while portraying most criminals as victims is on brand for “The message”. I’d have no problem if they made it clear these were cops set to be fired for corruption or something before Fisk recruits them, but there is a clear agenda here.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 12:56 PM
@Bucky74 - The officers were already disgraced for highly improper conduct when he recruited them.

And Muse was never portrayed as a victim.
If you want to call White Tiger a criminal for that subway interaction, have your fun.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 1:31 PM
@IAmAHoot - All the other criminals Matt represented were portrayed as victims and Matt showed nothing but disdain for cops when his entire Daredevil gig demands he literally beat up criminals without due process.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 1:57 PM
@Bucky74 - Give examples cause they most certainly were not all portrayed as simple victims. Several of them were flat out unlikeable but we still have to be on Matt's side of defending them.
Shmokey20
Shmokey20 - 12/27/2025, 1:59 PM
@Amaru - Lol, right, he would root for the task force 😆
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 5:07 PM
@IAmAHoot - The guy who stole the cereal immediately comes to mind, as does the conversation he had to plead it down with the ADA. Even the venom with which Matt spits out the word "cops" is ridiculous. What's funny is that not only does absolutely no one go to prison for petty theft in NY, we have hyper-violent repeat offenders here who walk consequence-free again and again after committing violent felonies like assault and robbery, only to victimize again and again at will. The reality is the exact opposite of that fiction, but they want you to believe you get sent to prison for stealing a box of Coco Puffs or a bag of weed. That's called an agenda.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 5:59 PM
@Bucky74 - Have fun with your attack on fiction. And don't forget to bow when you pray to Trump later. Good lord, you clearly have your own agenda that you're dragging into the show.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 6:47 PM
@IAmAHoot - Lol, “Pray to Trump.”
Obviously the big Orange guy lives rent free in your TDS afflicted head.

I have no agenda and want none in my entertainment. That’s the point. Obvious propaganda is obvious propaganda. You’ll realize that when you grow up a bit, Skippy.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 7:07 PM
@Bucky74 - You used all the right verbiage to prove my point, genius. You're the one who can't separate the show from reality.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 7:28 PM
@IAmAHoot - “Right verbiage” lol, you’re a loon. I’m pointing out how intentionally ridiculous the show’s portrayal of police officers are (yes, to push the agenda of the activists working at Disney writing these low rated slog-fests) and explaining why and you can’t handle it.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/27/2025, 7:34 PM
@Bucky74 - It’s called a disagreement, you brilliant mind. And the show is about a select group of officers under the Kingpin’s control.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/27/2025, 11:06 PM
@IAmAHoot - Fair enough. I'd still rather they make that clearer and not vilify cops again, but let's agree to disagree.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/28/2025, 3:32 AM
@Bucky74 - While they could have done well more with it, I think it's also why they very distinctly made the police commissioner so vehemently against Fisk.
(Sorry to keep this nonsense going; it was just one point I had forgotten to mention.)
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/28/2025, 10:35 AM
@IAmAHoot - I forgot about that too, and I did appreciate that they are least did that. The reality is that in 2025 (2030 in DD) in the NYPD, police officers can’t sneeze the wrong way without losing vacation days or being suspended/fired. There is oversight of the oversight and truly “bad cops” are fired, weeded out in the preliminary investigation, or suspended immediately even when they do everything right and something goes slightly wrong. Meanwhile, you’d be shocked by how many hyper violent criminals, with arrests for things like Felony assault and armed robbery (many with dozens and in some cases hundreds of priors), are freed to walk the streets and victimize at will by Judges and DAs who do t care. I’d just like that reality to be somewhat reflected
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/28/2025, 11:00 AM
@Bucky74 - I'm willing to separate this show as just that, a separate show. But I do understand where you're coming from. The few bad apples have ruined the apple cart in the minds of far too many people. NYPD much (if not most) of the time aren't being viewed with respect; even though the logic behind not wanting them around doesn't even make sense. I'm happy to see more officers stationed around the city and especially in train stations. I deal with the NYPD at work on a weekly or even nightly basis. Admittedly, some do raise some red flags but it's comparatively rare. And if they're coming to my job there's a chance they dealt with a properly stressful situation beforehand anyhow; so I don't immediately cast stones but it's easy to suss out some of their character before they leave.

But, anyhow, best I can say in my defense is that you watched a show about a crooked lawyer and crooked cops; neither side was ever going to be represented justly, haha.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/28/2025, 11:16 AM
@IAmAHoot - Lol, great way of looking at it. I don’t mention it often here but I’m a retired NYPD Sergeant that’s why I take it more personally, lol. Almost all that I’ve worked with were honest and had high integrity especially on patrol where it’s a grind and the stress (both externally and internally from the bosses) is extreme. PD is very short staffed and when people see a cop just sitting there he’s either posted at that location and can’t leave or is between jobs (we even had to fight to get a meal break most days and sometimes you works around the clock with no sleep). The bad few bad cops I’ve met were always weeded out and fired unless what they did wasn’t that bad (then they just lost vacation days or were transferred to an undesirable gig). I’ll assume the MCU has more corruption than our NY.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/28/2025, 11:43 AM
@Bucky74 - I'm glad we carried this conversation on long enough for me to be able to say legitimately and with no sarcasm my hat's off to you, sir.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/28/2025, 11:55 AM
@IAmAHoot - Thank you, Sir.
There is no excuse for a cop being a dick. That said, we do have some really bad days sometimes (I thank God I’m retired). And there actually is some real corruption at the top (not the rank and file) where deputy inspectors and chiefs fudge their overtime and the crime numbers to make it appear crime is lower than it is, which I hate. Most at the very top get away with that, although I did have a CO who got caught stealing overtime and took the quick way out when the walls were closing in. Again, not the rank and file and I was always honest and respectful to the public unless the situation escalated or was dangerous and order had to be maintained for safety.

If you work in the city be careful (I’m on Staten Island the last 13 years but loved most of my life in Brooklyn in an apartment building on Nostrand avenue and avenue U by Brennan and Carr, the roast beef place). Mamdomy is basically proposing eliminating most cops and legalizing crime. I’d abound the subways at all costs.
Bucky74
Bucky74 - 12/28/2025, 11:58 AM
@Bucky74 - “Avoid the subways”. Stay safe!
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 12/28/2025, 12:03 PM
@Bucky74 - Lifelong New Yorker.
Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 12/27/2025, 10:47 AM
Yeah they need another coined side kick.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/27/2025, 12:00 PM
I’m so glad to have Brett back tbh…

I thought Cherry was fine in DD:BA S1 but I honestly wish Mahoney was in his place as Matt’s investigator in hindsight but oh well.

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Anyway in regards to Bernthal’s Frank , I know one of the producers has said he’s not in S2 and maybe he’s not with the picture of the 3 taken between takes as he shot his Punisher special…

However I have a hard time buying Frank would just sit by or go into hiding when the city is under martial law by a criminal so unless he’s busy with something else (which the Special could address) then I think he’ll be in BA S2 for an episode atleast.

Also truly amazing that he’s in 2 (if not 3) out of the 6 MCU live action projects next year!!.
Timerider
Timerider - 12/27/2025, 2:04 PM
I wonder if Sadie Sink makes a cameo in Daredevil season 2 or alongside The Punisher.

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