Marvel's Luke Cage

Series Similar to Marvel's Luke Cage

If you enjoyed Marvel's Luke Cage, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Daredevil: Born Again

   2025 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · returning

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Matt Murdock finds himself on a collision course with Wilson Fisk when their past identities begin to emerge. 

2. Marvel's Jessica Jones

   2015 · Action, Crime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, also on Netflix.

   Haunted by a traumatic past, Jessica Jones uses her gifts as a private eye to find her tormentor before he can harm anyone else in Hell's Kitchen.

3. Watchmen

   2019 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Based on the DC Comic graphic novel, Watchmen is an alternative history series following a group of costumed crimefighters investigating the murder of one of their own.

4. The Boys

   2019 · Action, Fantasy, Adult · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile, highly rated (8.3).

   In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centres on a group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

5. Marvel's The Punisher

   2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Netflix.

   After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York's criminal underworld. Now known throughout the city as The Punisher, he must discover the truth about injustices that affect more than his family alone.

6. Powers

   2015 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   Combining the genres of superhero fantasy, crime noir and police procedural, Powers is set in a world full of people with superhuman abilities and where all of those powers are just another catalyst for mayhem and murder. The series follows Detective Christian Walker, who is in charge of protecting humans like us and investigating cases involving the God-like men and women, referred to as Powers, who glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire and who clash above cities in epic battle, oblivious to the mortals below.

7. Marvel's Daredevil

   2015 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Netflix.

   Matt Murdock, a Marvel Comics hero who's a lawyer by day but fights the bad guys at night to avenge the murder of his father, a boxer. But what sets Matt apart from most superheroes isn't his back story it's his handicap. Matt is blind, the result of a childhood accident that removed his ability to see but gifted him with heightened senses of touch, taste, hearing and smell.

8. The Umbrella Academy

   2019 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on Netflix.

   Reunited by their father's death, estranged siblings with extraordinary powers uncover shocking family secrets — and a looming threat to humanity.

9. Jupiter's Legacy

   2021 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, also on Netflix.

   After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world's first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents' legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.

10. Marvel's The Defenders

    2017 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Crime profile, also on Netflix.

    Marvel's The Defenders follows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. A quartet of singular heroes with one common goal - to save New York City. This is the story of four solitary figures, burdened with their own personal challenges, who realize they just might be stronger when teamed together.