About Daredevil Character
Daredevil
is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books
published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor
Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input
from Jack Kirby,and first appeared in Daredevil (April 1964).
Living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, Matt Murdock
is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from an oncoming
vehicle. While he no longer can see, the radioactive exposure heightens
his remaining senses beyond normal human ability. His father, a boxer
named Jack Murdock, supports him as he grows up, though Jack is later
killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight. After donning a
yellow and black, and later a dark red, costume, Matt seeks out revenge
against his father's killers as the superhero Daredevil, fighting against his many enemies including Bullseye and the Kingpin.Daredevil's nickname is "the Man Without Fear".
Although Daredevil
had been home to the work of many legendary comic-book artists —
Everett, Kirby, Wally Wood, John Romita, Sr., and Gene Colan, among
others — Frank Miller's influential tenure on the title in the early
1980s is particularly remembered, having cemented the character as a
popular and influential part of the Marvel Universe. Daredevil has since
appeared in many various forms of media including several animated
series, video games, merchandise, and a 2003 feature-length film.
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Powers and Abilities
Although
blind, the character's remaining four senses function with high levels
of superhuman accuracy and sensitivity, giving him abilities far beyond
the limits of a sighted person; few know that the hero cannot see.
Daredevil developed a radar sense,which is similar to echolocation.
According to Stan Lee, due to the fact that Murdock's sensory organs
have a superhuman level of development, his inner ear, which controls
the equilibrium and motions of the body, is also preternaturally
developed, aiding him in acrobatic feats that surpass even Olympic-level
athletes..
When Frank Miller expanded most of Daredevil's abilities,
he attempted to make them "extraordinary enough to be exciting, but not
on par with Superman", noting Superman's distinctly unbelievable
powers.When Miller joined the title in 1979, the first thing he did to
the character was "revamp" his radar sense and made it less distinct and
more believable; he wanted Daredevil to have the "proximity" sense that
most martial artists claim to have.Because of this, he created an
ability for Daredevil to hear the Hulk's heartbeat four blocks away. Due
to the character's sensitive sense of touch, Daredevil can read by
passing his fingers over the letters on a page.(though laminated pages
prevent him from reading the ink) Daredevil has also commonly used his
superhuman hearing to serve as a lie detector for interrogation by
listening for changes in a person's heartbeat. However, this ability can
be fooled if the other person's heart is not beating at a natural rate,
such as if they have a pacemaker.
However, just as Daredevil's
other senses are stronger, they are also sensitive; his main weakness is
his vulnerability to powerful sounds or odors that can be used to
temporarily weaken his radar sense.This weakness is often used to
immobilize Daredevil if he were bombarded by too much sound, which will
cause him great pain and disorient him.Additionally Daredevil needs to
detect something with his radar to know it is there or it will remain
invisible to him, which makes it possible to have something get past his
radar if he is unable to detect it. In one instance the hallucinogenic
drug that Mysterio created was designed with no taste or smell so
Daredevil could not tell he was drugged until he consulted Doctor
Strange who was able to discover it from the small cross that Mysterio
gave to Daredevil in disguise which contained the drug and magically
cured him.When Daredevil fought Psylocke during the war between the
Avengers and the X-Men, he briefly gained an advantage when she tried to
read his mind and found herself overwhelmed by the sensory input she
received from his enhanced senses, reflecting the scale of psychological
training required for Daredevil to operate as he does.
Though he has no superhuman physical attributes beyond an enhanced sense of balance, Daredevil is a master of martial arts.
Having been trained by Stick, Daredevil is a master hand-to-hand
combatant. His typical moves are unique blends of the martial arts of
Ninjutsu, Aikijujutsu, Jujutsu, Kung Fu, capoeira, Judo, Aikido,
wrestling and stick fighting combined with American-style boxing while
making full use of his gymnastics capabilities.
Daredevil's
signature weapon is his specially-designed billy club, which he
created.Disguised as a blind man's cane in civilian garb, it is a
multi-purpose weapon and tool that contains thirty feet of aircraft
control cable connected to a case-hardened steel grapnel. Internal
mechanisms allow the cable to be neatly wound and unwound, while a
powerful spring launches the grapnel. The handle can be straightened for
use when throwing. The club can also be split into two parts, one of
which is a fighting baton, the other of which ends in a curved hook.
In
his civilian identity, Murdock is a skilled and respected attorney with
an encyclopedic knowledge of law, especially New York statutes. He is
also a skilled detective, tracker, and interrogation expert, as well as
being an expert marksman.
In Other Media (Television and Movie/Film)
- In 1975, Angela Bowie secured the TV rights to Daredevil and the Black Widow for a duration of one year and planned a TV series based on the two characters. Bowie had photographer Terry O'Neill take a series of pictures of herself as Black Widow and actor Ben Carruthers as Daredevil (with wardrobe by Natasha Kornilkoff) to shop the project around to producers, but the project never came to fruition.
- Daredevil makes his first animated television appearance as Matt Murdock only in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode, "Attack of the Arachnoid" voiced by Frank Welker.
- In the 1980s, ABC had planned a Daredevil animated television series that would have featured a guide dog named "Lightning the Super-Dog".Television writer Mark Evanier said in 2008 that he was the last in a line of writers to have written a pilot and series bible, with his including Lightning as a guide dog without superpowers.
- Daredevil, portrayed by Rex Smith, appears in the 1989 television movie, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. When David Banner (Bill Bixby) gets arrested, Matt Murdock helps to prove Banner's innocence. Daredevil tells his origins to Banner, which in this version involves Murdock being inspired by a police officer to become a hero. Later, with the help of Hulk, he battles the Kingpin (John Rhys-Davies), called only Wilson Fisk here.While remaining fairly true to the source material of the Daredevil comic books, the largest change was that Daredevil's traditional costume, including his horns, was replaced with a black ninja-like outfit.
- Daredevil appears in the 1990s Fantastic Four episode "And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them" voiced by Bill Smitrovich.He helps the powerless Fantastic Four get into the Baxter Building when Doctor Doom takes it over.
- Daredevil appears in the Spider-Man: The Animated Series double episode "Framed" and "The Man Without Fear" voiced by Edward Albert.J. Jonah Jameson hires Matt Murdock to defend Peter Parker when he is framed for industrial espionage by Richard Fisk. These episodes were later incorporated into the direct-to-DVD animated film Daredevil vs Spider-Man.
- In the Iron Man: Armored Adventures episode "The Hammer Falls", Matt Murdock is mentioned to be representing Killer Shrike in a legal trial after Iron Man had apprehended him following Titanium Man attacking Killer Shrike and Unicorn.
- In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the title characters are being chased through a movie studio backlot and interrupt the shooting of a fight scene for a Daredevil film, which includes the title character himself.
- In 2003, 20th Century Fox released the film Daredevil, written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Actor Ben Affleck starred as the title character.
- A deleted scene in the 2005 Elektra movie, later included in the Director's Cut, has Affleck briefly reprising the role in a dream sequence.
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