Gadflies, the Golden Rule, and Getting Justice “Right” - The Animating and Cautionary Features of Daredevil: Born Again (2025)

Martin, J. (2026, February 11). Gadflies, the Golden Rule, and Getting Justice “Right” - The Animating and Cautionary Features of Daredevil: Born Again. 

• Explores the ways events from Daredevil: Born Again (2025) highlight two variations of the reciprocity principle. One more self-focused and reactive, and the other more other-focused and proactive.

• Draws parallels between the series’ depictions of these variations and how they appear throughout the gospels.

“The principle of reciprocity undergirds social relations, and its application is a major concern within both sacred and secular domains. It is also fundamental to understanding what it means to be moral persons co-constructing just societies. Born Again’s interrogation of this principle through competing social and moral considerations provides its audience the opportunity to reflect on what types of actions will and will not work within such a just society.”