Marvel and Netflix made a splash when their first collaboration landed in 2015. Daredevil was everything that Ben Affleck's 2003 movie wasn't – that is to say, not a complete joke.

Charlie Cox gave us a brooding but charming Matt Murdock – the blind lawyer who dresses up in black and beats criminals black and blue by night – with a funny and likeable supporting cast worthy of the superhero.

Surprising no one, Daredevil is coming back for a second season, and here's everything you need to know to prep yourself for a return to the grittiest corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

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Daredevil season 2 release date: It won't be long now

First up in 2016 is Daredevil season 2. In standard Netflix fashion, the show will land in its entirety on March 18.

Rumours had it that it would actually be landing on the same day as DC's Batman v Superman: The Justice of Doom – which would have been quite the showdown.

But Warner Bros's superhero showdown is out the next week on March 25, so we'll just have to imagine who would have come out on top in that battle of the titans (hint: it would have been Daredevil).

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Daredevil season 2 cast: Old faces and new

Charlie Cox will be re-donning his Daredevil costume as Hell's Kitchen premier vigilante for the second season of Marvel and Netflix's origin team-up show.

Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson and Rosario Dawson will be back too as Matt Murdock's colleagues and allies Karen Page, Foggy Nelson and Claire Temple.

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A second cameo has also been promised from Scott Glenn as Daredevil's ornery mentor Stick, hinting at more ninja plotting action and mystical mysteries.

Stephen Rider will also be joining the cast as lawyer and oft-times superhero ally Blake Tower, and – most notably – The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal as the brutal vigilante the Punisher and French actress Élodie Yung as Matt's ex-turned-ninja-assassin Elektra.

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Daredevil season 2 plot: The assassin and the vigilante

Season two will be focusing around Daredevil's relationship with the Punisher and Elektra, with Matt and the brutal vigilante coming to blows over their conflicting approaches to crime fighting – which is to say that the newcomer is known for shooting everyone that gets in his way, making him even less friendly to the rule of law than our attorney hero.

The Punisher is taking out criminals across Hell's Kitchen, dismissing Daredevil as a "half measure" who doesn't make any real change.

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The Punisher is sticking to his 'vengeance for the murder of his family' motivation, and if Karen is to be believed Daredevil and co's actions might in some way be related to his vigilante actions.

Yung has described Elektra as a "kind of a sociopath", which gives you some idea of the trouble that she might have in store with her ex. And his romantic entanglement with her – which dates back as far as university – apparently prevents him from being able to use his 'human lie detector' trick to know if she is telling the truth. Daredevil's got it bad.

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And to make matters worse for Matt, there's more organised crime flooding in to take the place of Wilson Fisk. And Stick shows up again to warn Daredevil about the Hand.

Those are the mystical ninja types we saw in season one, and they have a big role in Daredevil lore as well as the story of Elektra. The time might soon come that Matt and co will be wishing that all they had to worry about was a simple, megalomaniacal crime lord like Fisk.

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