History Characters / Daredevil

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* FadSuper: In her early appearances, where she was part-investigator, part-supermodel, she was [[UncertainAudience trying to cash in on both the Buddy Cop trend and Vogue's popularity]].

* ClarkKenting: While his costume covers his body, most people figure out he is Daredevil anyway. Lampshaded by Spider-Man, who calls it "The worst kept secret identity since Hannah Montana". The trope itself is an aversion since his SecretIdentity and costume in and of themselves are both very efficient.
** In this case, it's because -- in one of the most groundbreaking {{story arc}}s in superhero fiction during Bendis's run -- his identity was discovered by a mid-level gangster and publicly exposed to the entire world. He eventually "proved" in court that he wasn't Daredevil, but the damage had been done and by the end of the ordeal nearly all of his allies and enemies knew who he really was, and still do. Not to mention civilians.

* {{Determinator}}: In some respects, ''this'' is Daredevil's defining character trope. He's had to adjust to being blinded and having his senses dramatically enhanced, having his secret identity exposed and his girlfriends murdered, losing his law license and practice, being possessed by demons, and fighting villains and [[LetsYouAndHimFight heroes]] who by all rights should be completely out of his league. But no matter what, Matt Murdock just Keeps. On. Going.
** Matt goes so far with this trope, it actually enabled him to save New York City when he ended up fighting Namor the Sub-Mariner. Although Daredevil lost the actual fight, Namor was so impressed with Daredevil's refusal to give up that he decided to spare the city.
** Did the same with the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, lasting long enough for the green guy to calm down and end his rampage. DD went straight to the hospital, but it worked.

* DisabilitySuperpower: He was hit in the face by a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive canister]] and went blind. His other senses [[SuperSenses became super-powerful]], and he acquired a "radar sense" that let him "see" objects, much like echolocation. (Creator/FrankMiller's influential run took him closer to this trope, partially explaining the radar sense as a CharlesAtlasSuperpower resulting from training with his enhanced senses.) He can also read normal books by feeling the ink, because his touch is so sensitive.
** Interestingly, late in Miller's run, Daredevil's mentor tells him that EVERY human has the potential to experience sense the way he does, it's just an ability that's become dormant. The radiation didn't give him his powers, it just unlocked them. Sadly, Stick is killed soon afterward, and this plot point was never brought up again.

* HurtingHero: Matt is only second to ComicBook/IronMan on this. If something good happens, you can bet it won't last and will be swiftly followed by an unexpected punch to the gut, spiritually speaking. "Born Again" is the most famous example, but there are many, many others. Many issues have shown him as being so emotionally damaged that he is almost incapable of feeling happiness and he feels like he can do little more than brace himself for the next trauma or humiliation.
** The last couple of writers on Daredevil (Bendis and Brubaker) have seemingly competed to see just how much pain they can put Matt Murdock through. Just in the last two runs, he's gone though a mental breakdown over the death of his longtime girlfriend Karen Page, his secret identity was blown and he was sent to a high security prison (filled mostly with crimes he'd put away) for obstruction of justice, his wife was driven insane by a supervillain and committed to a mental hospital and his best friend was stabbed and assumed to be killed.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:His exceptionally violent and brutal murder of Bullseye was supposed to show he had gone off the deep end, but considering who Bullseye is, there isn't a person alive who can fault Matt for doing what he did]].
** Most of the negative reactions from others fall less into "how is that action morally justifiable" and are more concerned with how ''out of character'' the action was.
* KnightInSourArmor: You could probably count the number of times Matt's been happy on one hand. He could be written as a villain and you'd still be sympathetic to him. Despite this, he keeps on going. This trope could probably be renamed "Knight in sour red leather".
** Starting with Mark Waid's run, he starts subverting this because he felt like his attitude was a self-fulfilling prophecy, outright telling Foggy "I didn't want to be that guy anymore."

* MesACrowd: In the 2019 run, pretty much half of Hell's Kitchen imitates his Daredevil persona. Matt even notes that some are pretty convincing.

** SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} was not all that impressed with Daredevil on hearing about his first meeting with (the girl who would become) Typhoid Mary.

* FatAndProud: Not extremely fat, but definitely a bit chubby.
** A running gag in Waid's run is Matt putting Foggy on a diet and exercise regimen, and Foggy's attempts to get out of it. He does it in part because Foggy is an ''extremely'' loud chewer and it disrupts Matt's senses.
** He finally does lose weight during Waid's run due to cancer, however.

* HonorBeforeReason: Wont throw a fight, even if it means [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his death.]]

* ActionSurvivor: How many times this guy has risked his life?

* PutOnABus: Twice. First, after appearing for almost the entirety of {{Creator/Frank Miller}}'s run, she's not seen for almost fifteen years until a brief cameo in the late 90's. She then disappears again until the mid-Aughts when she becomes a partner at "Nelson, Blake and Murdock", becoming a core cast member again.
** And again after {{Comicbook/Shadowland}}.

* {{Hustler}}: In his spare time, Stick would hustle people at Josie's Bar. He challenge them to games of pool, playing up the fact that he was blind and then completely humiliate them over the course of the game, taking their money in the process.

* CaptainErsatz: During her initial solo book, she was a near copy of [[PunnyName Ms. Tree]], an indie comic character by Max Collins and Terry Beatty. This would get lampshades years later by Ms. Tree parodying the original covers for Dakota North's book.

* [[XMeetsY/ComicBooks X Meets Y]]: Her solo series was ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' meets ''Vogue Magazine''.
** Alternatively, as a character she can also be seen as one between Comicbook/PatsyWalker and {{Comicbook/Alias}}.

* DefectorFromDecadence: He defected from the Hand once they saw they became corrupt and cruel. A similar process happened with The Chase, which he left after realizing they were going through a HeWhoFightsMonsters phase regarding the Hand.

* FirstLove: Though it was later {{retcon}}ned to be Elektra, the trope still applies. Matt fell in love with her the moment he met her, and held a torch for her long after she left. When she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone returns to New York after selling him out]], he instantly forgives her and picks up right where they left off. Her death causes Matt to have a HeroicBSOD, and he clearly still hasn't gotten over her, as he unconsciously compares all his subsequent girlfriends to her.

* StuffedInTheFridge: The second of Matt's girlfriends to be killed by Bullseye.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Both her and Matt have played both roles at different time.
** When they first started dating, Matt tried to be the perfect boyfriend, looking past Heather's [[BastardGirlfriend rudeness towards him and his friends]], and tolerated her constant partying.
** Later, when Heather [[BrokenBird lost her father]], despite very clearly being in an emotionally vulnerable state, Matt [[BastardBoyfriend strong armed her into living with him]] and [[ForYourOwnGood cutting her off form her former socialite friends.]] Even Foggy and Glorianna called him out on it.

* YouKilledMyFather: Believed this to be Daredevil, later learnt it was actually the Kingpin.

* AscendedExtra: His role is expanded upon in {{Creator/Frank Miller}}s ''Daredevil: The Man Without Fear'' miniseries and the ''"Battlin'" Jack Murdock'' prequel comic.

* {{Archenemy}}: Stan Lee created him to fill this role, though he's fallen by the wayside since thanks to the presence of better known and more thematically appropriate candidates like Kingpin, Bullseye, and the Hand. That said, of the long-running Daredevil villains he's still consistently portrayed as the most dangerous, with even Kingpin treading lightly about him, and has the best claim to the title of any of them.

* FatBastard: In the Silver Age.

* VillainsNeverLie: The Owl has a admitted distaste for lies, so he tends to be straight with Daredevil. Which of course doesn't impede him from using MetaphoricallyTrue statements.

* WolverineClaws: Possesses both steel gauntlets that roughly resemble those of yours truly and implanted talons in place of his nails ala Sabretooth.

* AscendedExtra: Has a prominent role in Kingpin's ''Civil War II'' arc.

* KnowsWhenToFoldThem: In Infinity Wars, he willingly surrenders the Mind Stone to Dr. Strange after realizing that possessing an Infinity Gem tends to attract enemies that are WAY outside of his scope.

* VillainDecay: As an ordinary {{Mook|s}}, Turk was always pretty badly outmatched against Daredevil, but his first couple appearances portrayed him as reasonably competent and pragmatic. Later issues had him taking levels in [[TookALevelInDumbass dumbass]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]] to the point where he actually tried to team up with the ''Punisher'' just to make a rep.

A old school crimelord who had largely retired from organized crime until Bullseye hired him to help set a trap for Daredevil. Slaughter, viewing Bullseye as unstable and unreliable, [[GoneHorriblyRight takes charge of the operation himself]], and officially comes out of retirement for the challenge of fighting Daredevil.

* NobleDemon: Eric is a ruthless crimelord, but it's sometimes shown he has his own code of honor. Once he refused to attack Daredevil after Bullseye set a trap for him, because it wouldn't have been fair.

* KarmicDeath: After establishing himself as a cold, merciless killing machine hidden behind dark sunglasses, he meets a pre-Daredevil Matt Murdock, who establishes himself as a cold, merciless fighter hidden behind a dark mask as he easily makes his way through all of Lark's goons. With his cold exterior melted away, he breaks down and tries to shoot Matt, only to have his own bullets deflected back at him, hitting [[PrettyLittleHeadshots right between the eyes]], shattering his sunglasses.

* ItsPersonal: While he does have a personal vendetta against the Kingpin and wants him dead, he is arguably more obsessed with the witnesses to his attempted murder, both for not coming to his aid and as they are now the only living people who can identify him.

* {{Archenemy}}: Of the organisation known as The Chaste, of whom Matt's mentor, Stick, was member. The group as a whole is third on Daredevil's hit parade after Wilson Fisk and Bullseye. They've fought him many times, a number of his enemies (Elektra, Lady Bullseye, Kingpin) have been members of the group or have tried to take control of it, they're linked to his mentor, and they want Matt to be their leader.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A favorite tactic of theirs; they kill you, and then resurrect you as a StrawNihilist AxCrazy BloodKnight loyal to them. Elektra went through this twice, though the second time she apparently had developed a resistance to it and OutGambitted them. They've also done it to Wolverine and Northstar, and tried doing it to Echo.

* NebulousCriminalConspiracy: They have a long, complex history with HYDRA and the latter is more or less a breakaway group of the more politically minded members, though they still co-operate from time to time. They often ally with other evil groups, and a branch are controlled by the Kingpin.

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: They've fought pretty much everyone at this point, from Matt and Elektra to Wolverine, the Avengers, and beyond.

* BadassNormal: She has no apparent superhuman powers, but she in an expert martial artist. It has been noted that she is faster than both Bullseye and the Kingpin. However, she is also less powerful.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: As young girl, she was imprisoned by the Yakuza, who planned to sell her and many others into sexual slavery. However, Bullseye, on an unrelated errand, arrived to slaughter the mobsters. The sight of Bullseye effortlessly killing her captors inspired the girl to escape and become a killer.

* DoesNotLikeMen: The side effect of her past where she has risked to become a sexual slave. The only man she seems to respect is Bullseye.

* ManipulativeBitch: As lawyer, she targeting Daredevil by assisting the parents of Murdock's mentally-ill wife Milla Donovan in gaining custody of her.

Bakuto would make his debut in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse during the first season of Series/IronFist2017 as the sensei to Colleen Wing.

* KilledOffForReal: Killed in battle by White Tiger.

* DrivenToSuicide: By the 2016 ''Jessica Jones'' series he's become so burnt out that he seeks Jessica out because as the only one who "understands" him he believes that she can help him find some kind of purpose in life or remove his abilities or assist him with relearning how to be good and normal. After repeatedly pestering her to aid him or at least tell him what to do, Killgrave apologizes for everything and then kills himself after Jessica just keeps telling him to "go."

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His ex-wife and their daughter Kara,[[Comicbook/AlphaFlight known as Persuasion]], though both hate him [[MindRape for]] [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe good]] [[DisappearedDad reason]] and while Killgrave would like to reconcile with them, he's made no real effort to and it's been made clear (via [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] reading his mind) that he prioritizes taking over the world and continuing to do things ForTheEvulz over them. And while he was initially fond of the Purple Children, that got thrown out the window when they turned on him, leading him to abandon his EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily plans for them in favor of just weaponizing or outright killing them.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Any A-list or B-list hero with psionic abilities could crush him effortlessly (he's no threat to the likes of Jean Grey or Psylocke, and he'd be an amoeba next to Charles Xavier). However, he's a significant threat because he's pitted against "street level" heroes like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, being smart enough to avoid drawing the attention of the larger fish in the sea.

* OhCrap: In the first ''New Avengers'' arc, appears and intends to use his powers to make Luke Cage attack the other assembled heroes. He also makes obvious threats toward Jessica Jones and her and Cage's unborn child. Cage then informs the unaware villain that his food contained special drugs designed to negate his powers. has a look of sheer terror before Cage moved in on him and proceeded to deliver a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and from the looks of it, possibly might have killed him if Captain America did not interfere

* {{Pheromones}}: The Purple Man secretes pheromones that can be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. They allow him to control affected creatures with verbal commands. And for [[PowerPerversionPotential extra-special-squick]], he used it to father at least one daughter with a mind-controlled lady friend. That daughter, known as the Purple Girl, inherited the power, and used it to mind control [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight NorthStar]] in her first appearance (though unlike her father, she didn't take it past going swimming together).

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He's faced off against S.H.I.E.L.D, The Avengers, and other Marvel folks several times. And to say nothing for Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In his first appearance, the Matador presented himself as a Robin Hood-like GentlemanThief, gaining the admiration of the New York City public. Daredevil was eventually able to defeat him and show the Matador for the {{Jerkass}} he was.

* ButtMonkey: Nothing good ever happened to Stilt-Man, his equipment is even tagged "Loser" instead of his villain name in SHIELD storage. Although he did eventually marry [[UglyGuyHotWife Princess Python.]]

* LegacyCharacter: Now, while Stilt-Man may be dead, his legacy lives on in... Lady Stilt-Man! Her first appearance consisted of being mocked by Spider-Man (who thanked her for improving the miserable day he was having), and being defeated by stepping into an open manhole. Even Spider-Man felt sorry for her when she started crying. This change in her next appearance in "Villains for Hire", where she upgraded her armor and TookALevelInBadass.

* BerserkButton: During their run-in with the All-New X-Men, Frog-Man flips his lid when Nightcrawler calls him "herr frog".

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Initially Daredevil and Spider-Man foes, they have since done battle with the ComicBook/XMen, and even the Great Lakes Avengers.

* BreaktheCutie: Poor gentle Melvin suffers another mental break down after being manipulated by both Alexander Bont and Mr. Fear.

A former toy inventor, Vincent Patilio set out to make some money by embarking on a criminal career after he created a pair of electrically-powered jumping coils. Encountering Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Iron Man, a string of comically embarrassing defeats soon followed, which caused him to retire eventually. Buford Lange, an abusive father, later found an abandoned Leap-Frog costume, adopted the persona and began robbing small-time businesses. Lange managed to be even more of a loser than his predecessor though, as he got electrocuted by his own autistic son and fell from a rooftop to his death.

* {{Abusive Parent|s}}: Lange is very abusive towards his son Timmy, though Vincent Patilio is a actually a good father and kind towards his son Eugene.

* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Jester thinks of himself as this, having got a role in Cyrano de Bergerac which was panned by critics, after which he couldn't get any roles besides being a side kick on a kid's show. However, it's a bit of a {{Subversion}} in that Jester has no real talent as an actor and refused to take acting lessons.

* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheJoker, but more silly and less dangerous.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: During ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Powers apparently retires from his former role until he is arrested as part of an entrapment operation set up by undercover police officers despite the fact that all he was doing was talking about his old days rather than actually planning a crime. Despite ComicBook/SheHulk making a passionate argument about the need to believe in redemption and not condemn someone for their thoughts, Powers is sent to prison where he is stabbed during a riot a couple of days later.]].

* ThePrimaDonna: Male example. He was a struggling actor of huge ego who finally got his lead break as the leading character in an off-Broadway revival of ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' that end in a flop and Powers was fired after one performance. He turned down suggestions that he take actual acting classes, insisting that he already had more raw acting talent than anyone who'd ever lived. Still, Powers was only able to find employment as a stooge in a children's television show taped in New York and this lead to the criminal road.

* ALoadOfBull: He's been turned into a humanoid minotaur.

* WouldHitAGirl: Tried shooting Stature during the events of ''Siege''.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/{{Batman}} DC's Scarecrow]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: Thinks he's strong enough to take on the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Subverted, as Matt is fully aware of he and his dads financial situation, and understand that his father must work late.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Subverted, as Matt is fully aware of he and his dad'a financial situation, and understand that his father must work late.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: After ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Spider-Man asking if anyone knew where she'd gone; and again with her reappearance when Luke Cage and Jessica Jones were looking for a Nanny, as she angrily asks if Cage even remembers that she used to be on the team.

* SmallRoleBigImpact

** In Infinity Wars (2018) he manages to get his hands on the Mind Stone and ends up becoming a somewhat important player in the event before making a deal with Dr. Strange.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A favorite tactic of theirs; they kill you, and then resurrect you as a StrawNihilist AxCrazy BloodKnight loyal to them. Elektra went through this twice, though the second time she apparently had developed a resistance to it and OutGambitted them.

* ProductPlacement: His costume is adorned with advertisements for evil criminal organizations. It does it's job, as he is popular on social media.

* BadassNormal: Well, He's basically Daredevil with sight.