Charlie Cox’s involvement in a major future Marvel Cinematic Universe project may have been revealed. Cox has received extensive acclaim for his portrayal of Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Netflix’s Daredevil series, which was abruptly canceled after season 3. He has now reprised the role in the MCU’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Echo, and in the highly anticipated Daredevil: Born Again series debuting on Disney+ in 2025.
As shared by DFRNT Health & Fitness on Instagram, Cox is training for an Avengers movie. If true, Cox is likely to appear as Daredevil in Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars. It is also possible that Cox is training for Daredevil: Born Again season 2. However, Cox’s involvement in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars has not yet been officially confirmed, nor has Daredevil: Born Again getting a season 2. Check out the post below:
What This Means For The MCU
Daredevil May Have A Prominent Role In Doomsday Or Secret Wars
If Cox is training for Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars, this has potentially major implications for the upcoming stories. Daredevil could play a significant role and even become part of the Avengers’ line-up in Doomsday. This would be Cox’s largest role yet in an MCU movie, as other than one scene in which he helps Peter Parker (Tom Holland) with a legal issue in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he has exclusively been a television character for the MCU.
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With Doomsday and Secret Wars‘ plots being deeply grounded in the multiverse, it is also possible that Cox will be playing a different version of Daredevil and Murdock than the one that he has played in the MCU thus far. Cox could even be playing a more villainous version of the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen. This would build off the confirmed and shocking casting of Robert Downey Jr. playing the villainous Doctor Doom instead of the heroic Tony Stark/Iron Man in Doomsday and Secret Wars.
Our Take On Charlie Cox’s Potential Next MCU Project
More Daredevil In The MCU Is A Good Thing
Given the previous uncertainty about Daredevil’s future after the Netflix series was prematurely canceled, it is satisfying to see Cox now continuing to play the character in many other projects. Getting his own series again with Daredevil: Born Again is the best part of it all, but playing a pivotal role in an Avengers movie is arguably just as exciting. If Daredevil is set to appear next in Doomsday, it will be intriguing to see how Daredevil: Born Again season 1 ends, with the finale potentially setting up the character’s next Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance.
Source: DFRNT Health & Fitness (Instagram)
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The monolithic franchise that kicked off with Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is one of the industry’s longest-running and largest cinematic franchises. Based on the heroes from Marvel Comics, the MCU is a new way for fans and newcomers alike to enjoy the ever-expanding universes of some of the world’s most famous superheroes. Releasing as “Phases,” Marvel Studio’s first three Phases came to be known as “The Infinity Saga,” which surrounded the formation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and their showdown with the Mad Titan known as Thanos as he sought to collect the Infinity Stones. With his ultimate goal of indiscriminately wiping out half of all life in the universe, this plot ultimately reveals itself over ten years of films, ending in a two-part finale that changed the world’s fate – and the core cast forever. Currently, the MCU is preparing to enter the fifth phase, focusing on Kang the Conquerer as the new core series villain.