Elodie Yung Suits Up as Elektra in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 and Her Redesigned Costume Has Fans Losing Their Minds

The next season of ‘Daredevil: Born Again‘ has increasingly taken on the feel of a full-blown Defenders reunion, with Marvel steadily folding iconic Netflix-era characters back into the fold. Production on Season 3 has been underway in New York City for months, and set photos have been trickling out with a consistency that suggests Marvel is leaning fully into the nostalgia while raising the stakes considerably higher than before.

Set photos already confirmed that Mike Colter and Finn Jones would be returning as Luke Cage and Danny Rand, and Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones had been set to reprise her role after her featured appearance in Season 2. Each new reveal has pushed fan anticipation a notch higher, but one crucial piece of the original Defenders puzzle had remained frustratingly absent from every update. That absence has now been corrected in spectacular fashion.

Elodie Yung was spotted filming on the ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 set in Dumbo, Brooklyn, confirming her return as Elektra Natchios following her last appearance in 2017’s ‘The Defenders’. The @_DaredevilShots account on X shared Getty Images photos giving fans their clearest look yet at the character, and the reaction across social media was immediate and electric.

The new costume features considerably more red than the suit Elektra wore during the Netflix era, and it carries a noticeably more comic-accurate energy, with Yung also sporting the bandana around her head that the character is known for from the source material. The full look blends her classic comic-book appearance with the grounded, tactical aesthetic of the MCU era, pairing a sleeveless leather-style vest with red accents, black leather pants, combat boots, and red forearm wraps with fingerless gloves.

Elektra’s fate had been left deliberately ambiguous since the climax of ‘The Defenders,’ where she and Matt Murdock were both trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsing Midland Circle building. While Matt survived, Elektra’s outcome was never resolved, leaving the character in a strange narrative limbo for years.

The character had a complicated arc in the Netflix era, dying and being resurrected by The Hand as their ultimate weapon, a storyline that many fans felt undersold what Yung was capable of in the role, making this MCU-era return feel like a genuine second chance.

With Matt Murdock now behind bars heading into Season 3, speculation is running hot that Elektra could step into the void he leaves in Hell’s Kitchen, and her new costume bears a striking resemblance to the Daredevil suit Elektra famously wore in the comics. An insider report also suggests that Season 3 will feature a fight sequence between Bullseye and Elektra, with the stunt actor associated with Bullseye already spotted near Yung on set.

Fan reactions to the set photos have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, with social media users praising the redesigned look and particularly celebrating the inclusion of the red headband, one comment reading “Welcome back queen, Elektra” while another remarked that the costume is “pretty comic accurate.” With ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 currently targeting a premiere in March 2027, the wait for Elektra’s full story to unfold is still a long one.

Whether Elektra returns as a reluctant hero, a resurgent Hand leader, or something far messier and more morally complicated in the tradition of her best comic runs, what do you think her role in Season 3 should be, and does this new costume have you fully convinced she is ready to claim Hell’s Kitchen for herself?