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3 years ago

daredevil/matt murdock has THE funniest secret identity situation in marvel comics ever. the first time he almost gets outed, he decides to invent an entire fake twin brother to get around suspicion. then he kills that fake twin after having a triple identity turns out to be too tedious. then a newspaper outs him, and his response is to fake his death and make up a new identity, but this leads to him having a full blown identity crisis-induced mental breakdown which ends with him going back to his old life with barely an explanation and no one even thinks to question why he was dead. a newspaper outs him again and this time his response is to sue them and gaslight everyone into thinking he's not daredevil by vehemently denying it every time he's asked. he keeps up this denial for over a year and at one point it becomes clear that everyone knows he's daredevil and he knows everyone know so he starts messing with them intentionally e.g. the "i am not daredevil" sweatshirt, but no one ever confronts him about it publicly because then he'll sue them too. finally, finally he reveals himself fully in court only because another guy threatened to out him with proof so he decided to do it first out of spite. he gets disbarred and moves to a new state and becomes a celebrity and even gets a book deal for an autobiography. then he saves a group of superpowered babies who reward him by brainwashing the entire world into forgetting all of that ever happened, thus effectively bringing him back to square one secret identity-wise. like where else am i gonna find a superhero who somehow comes up with a more and more convoluted solution every time he's revealed


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