8 Superheroes Who Had Their Identities Exposed

1. Daredevil

Although no one knows who Daredevil really is in current Marvel continuity, the opposite was the case for over a decade.

During Brian Bendis' and Alex Maleev's revered stint on the Man Without Fear, they shook up the status quo in a way that could be described as irreversible. Well, not entirely, given the superhero genre isn't short of convoluted ways to retcon big character changes, but still, it lasted for a long time all the same.

Declaring himself to be the new Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, Murdock spirals into a pit of darkness and gradually gets pushed to his limits. Then, in the Murdock Papers, Kingpin reveals to the Bugle and FBI who the Man Without Fear really is, and for once, Matt's blindness doesn't prove to be a stumbling block for people to accuse him of being a vigilante.

Afterwards, Murdock went to prison and even asked Iron Fist to impersonate Daredevil to prove his innocence. He was legally exonerated, but the world still believed he was the Man Without Fear, all the way up until the Purple Children wiped everyone's memory of the events surrounding Kingpin's testimony in 2015.