The Defenders
2015–2019 · 4 series · 4 sequences
Four series sharing one city and one design idea: dissolve the hero into the substance that defines them. Blood pouring upward into a skyline, purple watercolour bleeding through Hell's Kitchen, Harlem projected onto unmarkable skin, and a skull drawn in gun smoke.
In order of first broadcast
1 sequenceDaredevil
2015–2018NetflixCrime
Blood-red liquid pouring upward into the shapes of New York — the courthouse, the church, the skyline — then the scales of justice and a man who cannot see any of it.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceJessica Jones
2015–2019NetflixCrime
Purple watercolour bleeding across Hell's Kitchen while a noir trumpet plays — the colour of the villain seeping into every frame before he is named.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceLuke Cage
2016–2018NetflixCrime
Harlem projected onto a man's skin — brownstones, crowds and streets mapped across a body that cannot be marked. The one Marvel Netflix opening that is about a place rather than a mood.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceThe Punisher
2017–2019NetflixCrime
A skull assembling out of gun smoke and muzzle flash, with the ordnance doing the drawing. Blunter than its siblings, deliberately.
- Seasons 1–2