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Shows that feel likeMarvel's The Defenders (2017)

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a sinister conspiracy threatens New York City.

If you loved Marvel's The Defenders, the closest series we have are Marvel's Luke Cage (2016), Daredevil: Born Again (2025) and DC's Stargirl (2020). All three share Marvel's The Defenders' kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is X-Men '97 (2024).

★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗1 season · Netflixcreated by Doug Petriecerebraldreamlikekineticepicgritty
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If Marvel's The Defenders hit the spot, these will too

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Marvel's Luke Cage
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2drama · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

Both are built on the same subject: superhero

The difference: Trades the ideas of Marvel's The Defenders for an angle of its own

Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

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Daredevil: Born Again
2025– · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.1drama · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: superhero

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Marvel's The Defenders does

Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

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DC's Stargirl
2020–2022 · 3 seasons · The CW
★ 7.1sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaMax

Common ground: superhero team

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Marvel's The Defenders does

Courtney Whitmore, a smart, athletic and above all else kind girl, discovers her step-father has a secret: he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. "Borrowing" the long-lost hero’s cosmic staff, she becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.

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Arrow
2012–2020 · 8 seasons · The CW
★ 7.5crime · drama · action & adventure

One thread runs through both: superhero team

Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

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Marvel's Runaways
2017–2019 · 3 seasons · Hulu
★ 6.8action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

The same mix in both: ideas, then dream logic

Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013–2020 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.5drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Both land momentum and scale at once

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

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Marvel's Inhumans
2017 · 1 season · ABC
★ 4.9drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Sci-fi & fantasy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself.

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016–2022 · 7 seasons · The CW
★ 6.7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Both lean on dream logic more than on action & adventure

When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?

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Jupiter's Legacy
2021 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · dramaNetflix

Crime built on momentum, twice over

As the world's first generation of superheroes (who received their powers in the 1930s) become the revered elder guard in the present, their superpowered children struggle to live up to the legendary feats of their parents.

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Marvel's Iron Fist
2017–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.4action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Epic sci-fi & fantasy, and it commits to that

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

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Titans
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · DC Universe
🍅 50%★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyMax

Cerebral action & adventure in both cases

A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

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X-Men '97
2024– · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Dreamlike crime, and it commits to that

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

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