• Matt Murdock publicly revealed himself as Daredevil in the Born Again Season 2 finale, trading his anonymity to strip Mayor Fisk of leverage.
• The move leaves him facing a public trial and a prison sentence — and sets up a “Devil in Cell Block D” arc for Season 3.
• Only five MCU heroes still operate behind the protection of a secret identity.
• Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, White Tiger, and Scarlet Scarab are the last holdouts in a franchise that has largely gone public.
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens July 31, 2026, and will be the first solo film to fully explore Peter Parker’s magically wiped identity.

When Tony Stark walked up to that podium in 2008 and told the world “I am Iron Man,” he didn’t just change his own story — he set the tone for an entire franchise. The MCU has always been a universe where heroes largely operate in the open: press conferences, congressional hearings, government registries. Anonymity was never really the point. But a handful of characters kept holding the line on that classic comic book tradition, and none held it longer or more stubbornly than Matt Murdock.

That changed in the Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale. In a climactic courtroom confrontation, Matt (Charlie Cox) stripped off the mask — figuratively speaking — and outed himself as Daredevil, choosing to destroy Mayor Wilson Fisk’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) leverage over him rather than protect his own anonymity. It’s a decision that lands him in a prison cell by the end of the episode, sharing space with the surviving members of the Anti-Vigilante Task Force he spent the season fighting. Season 3 is already in production and filming, with that “Devil in Cell Block D” setup clearly driving where the story goes next.

But Matt’s public outing reshuffles something larger across the MCU. With Daredevil now known to the world, only a small group of heroes still relies on the safety of anonymity. Here’s who’s left — and how secure their secrets really are.

5. Scarlet Scarab (Layla El-Faouly)

Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy) didn’t exactly plan to become a superhero. Her transformation into the Scarlet Scarab happened in the chaos of Moon Knight‘s final battle, when she channeled the power of the Egyptian goddess Taweret to help Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) defeat Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke). There were civilians present. But in the middle of a supernatural battle, the odds that anyone clocked her face — let alone her name — are pretty slim.

Layla’s background actually works in her favor here. Her history as an archaeological artifact smuggler operating under falsified documents means she already knows how to keep her real identity off any official record. We haven’t seen her or the Scarlet Scarab mantle since Moon Knight wrapped, but her secret appears intact. For now.

4. White Tiger (Angela Del Toro)

One of the most exciting introductions in Born Again Season 2 was Angela Del Toro (Camila Rodriguez), who stepped into the White Tiger mantle after the murder of her uncle Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes) — himself a vigilante whose amulet grants superhuman speed, strength, and agility. Angela assembled a homemade costume from her late uncle’s gear and threw herself into Daredevil’s resistance movement, fighting alongside him through to the final courthouse battle against Fisk’s corrupt Anti-Vigilante Task Force.

She’s a fan-favorite character from the comics, and Born Again is clearly just the beginning of her story. The people closest to the resistance know who she is, but the broader public — and the authorities — don’t. Her identity is still protected, at least for now, though the more active she becomes, the harder that will be to maintain.

3. Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)

Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) has been juggling high school homework and a secret identity since her Disney+ debut in 2022, and she’s gotten remarkably good at both. Her mutant physiology and cosmic hard-light abilities put her in the Department of Damage Control’s crosshairs almost immediately, which is a big part of why she guards her identity so fiercely. Her family and close friends know — and have her back — but Kamala keeps the wider world in the dark specifically to protect her community from DODC scrutiny.

Even after teaming up with Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) during The Marvels, she came home committed to preserving her anonymity. Right now she’s working on recruiting other young enhanced individuals, building what looks like the MCU’s next generation of heroes — and doing it quietly, from the shadows. The secret identity isn’t just personal for Kamala. It’s structural to everything she’s building.

2. Moon Knight (Marc Spector)

No one in the MCU has a more complicated relationship with identity than Marc Spector — and that’s before you factor in the divine servitude to an ancient moon god. Marc (Oscar Isaac) and his alternate personality Steven Grant share a body while operating almost entirely off the global intelligence grid, using Khonshu’s magic and Marc’s mercenary skills to carry out their missions. The violent nature of what they do demands absolute secrecy; exposure would mean prosecution from international authorities.

And then there’s the third personality, Jake Lockley — a wrinkle that keeps even Marc and Steven unaware of their own total body count. Moon Knight’s whole existence is built around operating in the shadows, as far from a superhero press conference as you can get. His secret identity isn’t just intact — it’s practically baked into the mythology of the character.

1. Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Peter Parker (Tom Holland) already lived through the nightmare of a public outing. When Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) broadcast his name to the world at the end of Far From Home, it cost Peter everything — his college prospects, his friends’ safety, his sense of a normal life. The fix was extraordinary: a universe-wide memory spell cast by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home that wiped Peter Parker from the mind of every living person on Earth.

It worked. Completely. Peter now operates in genuine isolation — hand-sewing his own suit, monitoring police scanners from a rundown apartment, with no Stark Industries backing and no one who remembers who he is. It’s the most thorough secret identity reset in MCU history, and it cost him everyone he loved.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, opening July 31, 2026, will be the first solo film to fully explore what that blank slate actually looks like — and whether Peter can build a life from nothing while still being Spider-Man. Interestingly, the film is also expected to feature Frank Castle’s Punisher, and may include the MCU’s first proper look at The Hand, the ninja death cult that looms large in Daredevil lore and could factor heavily into Born Again Season 3.

That’s the thread connecting all of this. Matt Murdock gave up his secret to take down Fisk, and now he’s sitting in a prison cell while the world he protected keeps spinning. Spider-Man gave up everyone he knew just to get his secret back. The cost of anonymity in the MCU has never been clearer — and the few heroes still holding onto it are doing so knowing exactly what’s at stake if they lose it.

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• Charlie Cox hinted Daredevil could cross over into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, saying it’s now “on the table”
• The Born Again Season 2 finale ends with Matt Murdock in prison — right as Brand New Day’s trailer shows Spider-Man fighting The Hand inside a prison
• Insider Alex Perez claims Daredevil is not in Brand New Day, and the prison breakout is for a different character
• Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is confirmed for the film, maintaining a strong Daredevil-to-Spider-Man thread
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters July 31, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Charlie Cox isn’t saying yes. He’s not saying no. And honestly, that’s more than enough to send Marvel fans into a spiral.

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving July 31 and the Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale still fresh, Cox opened up to The Wrap about the possibility of Matt Murdock showing up in Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man adventure — and his answer was carefully, tantalizingly vague.

“I mean, I went on Jimmy Kimmel last week, the second half of the interview is him trying to get out of me whether I’m in Spider-Man,” Cox said, laughing off the scrutiny. He acknowledged that back in the Netflix days, these kinds of crossovers were essentially off the table from a business standpoint. But things have changed. “Now that we are — having made these kind of mini-splashes with me in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Vincent in Hawkeye and Echo, it’s on the table, it’s on the cards. It’s possible, it’s available, and Jon [Bernthal] now going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day as well.”

He went further: “It’d be so cool to kind of have some kind of crossover with all of the Avengers, with Spider-Man as Daredevil, rather than as Matt Murdock — all of that kind of stuff.”

Fans heard every word of it.

The Born Again Finale Just Made Things Way More Interesting

The timing of Cox’s comments couldn’t be more loaded. The Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale dropped Matt Murdock into an orange jumpsuit and a prison cell after he publicly outed himself as Daredevil to take down Kingpin and save Karen. Wilson Fisk, meanwhile, is forced to step down as Mayor of New York and leave the country — with his Chief of Staff Sheila Rivera (Zabryna Guevara) stepping into the role, a character who also appears in the Brand New Day trailer handing Spider-Man the keys to the city.

The dominoes are clearly falling between these two corners of the MCU. And then there’s the trailer.

The first Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer shows Peter Parker fighting ninjas from The Hand — inside a prison. The Hand, for those keeping score, are classic Daredevil villains who featured heavily in Born Again‘s second season. Put a freshly imprisoned Matt Murdock together with a prison full of Hand assassins and Spider-Man swinging in, and you’ve got a crossover moment practically writing itself.

“Many moons ago, I would’ve believed that Daredevil wasn’t actually in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But no. He’s absolutely in it. There’s physically no world where they don’t overlap,” one fan wrote on X. “It’s literally The Hand in a prison.”

But an Insider Is Pumping the Brakes

Here’s where it gets complicated. The Cosmic Circus’ Alex Perez, who has a track record with Marvel scoops, posted on X urging fans to dial back their expectations. “I’m going to need everyone to place their expectations close to [zero] for anyone expecting Peter to break Matt out of prison in Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” Perez wrote. “This breakout’s for another character [and] Matt’s still in prison when Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 starts.”

He then added a sharper detail: Daredevil “is not even in that prison to begin with.”

That’s a pretty definitive claim — and it tracks with what Cox himself said earlier this year. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he confirmed he wasn’t in the film and doubled down: “Marvel have been clear with me for now, at least, that I’m focusing on the show, that’s our focus. That really is the truth.” He was also deep in production on Born Again Season 2 while Brand New Day was shooting, which is part of why Bernthal was absent from the Daredevil series this time around.

Of course, this being Marvel, “that really is the truth” and a surprise cameo are not mutually exclusive concepts.

The Punisher Is the Real Bridge — For Now

Whatever happens with Daredevil, the confirmed Daredevil-to-Spider-Man pipeline runs directly through Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle. The Punisher is officially part of Brand New Day‘s cast, and the trailer shows Spider-Man addressing him as “Frank” — implying a familiarity between the two that the film will presumably explain. It raises an interesting question about what exactly Peter Parker was doing during Fisk’s anti-vigilante mayoral campaign, and whether Frank was part of that story off-screen.

The full cast for Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, also includes Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Mark Ruffalo. The film picks up four years after No Way Home, with Peter now living alone in a New York that no longer remembers his name — and dealing with what the studio describes as “an unexpected physical change” and a dangerous new wave of crime.

As for Daredevil’s future beyond this film, Born Again Season 3 is already in production, with Cox currently on set. The season is tracking for a March 2027 release, and Cox teased that it draws from a beloved comic run. “There is an excellent Daredevil run in the comics that this season, at least at the beginning, pays homage to,” he said. “When I knew about that, I was very excited, because it’s a very, very cool storyline.”

Matt Murdock may not be breaking out of prison in Brand New Day. But something tells us the Man Without Fear isn’t staying in that cell forever.

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