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* TimeShiftedActor: Lily Chee plays Elektra as a child during the flashbacks in the episode "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", while Elodie Yung plays Elektra when she was a teenager and an adult.
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* LadyMacbeth: She was a corrupting influence on Matt during their college years, with the two of them breaking and entering into other places and Elektra encouraging Matt to give into his violent urges. Even in the present day, Matt struggles to resist her influence in him.
* LightningBruiser: Following her resurrection, Elektra gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability.
* LightningBruiser: Following her resurrection, Elektra gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability.
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* LadyMacbeth: She was a corrupting corruptive influence on Matt during their college years, with the two of them breaking and entering into other places and Elektra encouraging Matt to give into his violent urges. Even in the present day, Matt struggles to resist her influence in him.
* LightningBruiser: Following her resurrection, Elektra gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability. Danny and Colleen best sum it up in this exchange:
-->'''Danny:''' Whoever she was, she moved faster than anyone I've ever seen. \\
'''Colleen:''' Yeah. She hit like it, too.
* LightningBruiser: Following her resurrection, Elektra gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability. Danny and Colleen best sum it up in this exchange:
-->'''Danny:''' Whoever she was, she moved faster than anyone I've ever seen. \\
'''Colleen:''' Yeah. She hit like it, too.
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* SuperSpeed: Elektra became a ''dangerous'' LightningBruiser being bought back from the dead by The Hand with the Resurrection Elixir. She was able to overwhelm opponents such as Daredevil and Iron Fist on one-on-one fights with her inhuman agility and speed and kill multiple ninjas in less than 30 seconds. Danny even said that she moved much faster than anybody he's ever encountered.
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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Unlike in the comics, Hugo and Christina Natchios aren't her biological parents and instead adopted her at Stick's request so she could be safe from The Hand.
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* SuperToughness: She managed to get back on her feet not long after Jessica [[CarFu rammed into her with an SUV]].
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* GeniusBruiser: She's both an incredibly deadly assassin and an extremely clever manipulator who's fluent in multiple languages.
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* StrongAndSkilled: She was already a natural in martial arts and assassinations, but getting revived as the Black Sky gives her a superhuman physiology that allows her to apply her fighting skills masterfully. She's able to easily curbstomp Jessica Jones and Luke Cage because while they're as powerful as her (maybe even more powerful in Luke's case), they're nowhere near as skilled in combat.
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* StrongAndSkilled: She was already a natural in martial arts and assassinations, but getting revived as the Black Sky gives her a superhuman physiology that gives her the ability to master any weapon she chooses to wield and allows her to apply her fighting skills masterfully. She's able to easily curbstomp Jessica Jones and Luke Cage because while they're as powerful as her (maybe even more powerful in Luke's case), they're nowhere near as skilled as her in combat.
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* BattleCouple: She's this with Matt when they're taking on The Hand, but they don't really play the couple part straight until the end of the season.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: While fighting Hand ninjas alongside Matt in Midland Circle, she picks up and uses a rebar to fight off their swordsmen.
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* NewOldFlame: Much like in the comics, she's this to Matt. This causes tension for Matt as he had [[LoveTriangle recently started dating Karen]] and true enough, it became one of the catalysts for their relationship falling apart.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: Her outfit as The Black Sky looks quite similar to the [[https://preview.redd.it/exku3io9fdg71.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=297215c260d56d62af46e0bb4dd97e693cbc1d7e outfit Melvin Potter made for her but with the colors inverted.]]
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* PistolWhipping: While fighting off Hand members pretending to be Yakuza in Bay Ridge Rail Yard, she takes two emptied submachine guns from them and uses them as melee weapons.
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* HijackedByGanon: In the antepenultimate episode of ''The Defenders'', she suddenly kills Alexandra and takes control of The Hand, usurping her place as the new BigBad of the series.
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* ShadowArchetype: While Karen Page shares a lot of positive qualities with Matt, Elektra has shares more of his darker qualities and even has a more similar backstory. Both were orphans who were trained by Stick, both are very talented in fighting, enjoy the thrill of violence which is why they go out at night fighting other criminals as vigilantes, and even have an inner darkness they feel in one another. The difference is that Matt refuses to give in to this darkness [[ThouShaltNotKill by avoiding killing]] while Elektra has no such compunctions and even enjoys killing people.
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* ShadowArchetype: While Karen Page shares a lot of positive qualities with Matt, Elektra has shares more of his darker qualities and even has a more similar backstory. Both were orphans who were trained by Stick, both are very talented in fighting, enjoy the thrill of violence which is why they go out at night fighting other criminals as vigilantes, suffer from attachment issues because of Stick, and even have an inner darkness they feel in one another. The difference is that Matt refuses to give in to this darkness [[ThouShaltNotKill by avoiding killing]] while Elektra has no such compunctions and even enjoys killing people.
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* ShadowArchetype: While Karen Page shares a lot of positive qualities with Matt, Elektra has shares more of his darker qualities and even has a more similar backstory. Both were orphans who were trained by Stick, both are very talented in fighting, enjoy the thrill of violence which is why they go out at night fighting other criminals as vigilantes, and even have an inner darkness they feel in one another. The difference is that Matt refuses to give in to this darkness [[ThouShaltNotKill by avoiding killing]] while Elektra has no such compunctions and even enjoys killing people.
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* HitmanWithAHeart: Despite being a dangerous and sadistic assassin, she genuinely did fall in love with Matt despite being sent by Stick to seduce him in an attempt to recruit him to the Chaste.
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: She gains superhuman strength, speed, durability, and other attributes after being brought back to life with the Ressurection Elixir while still retaining her slender physique from before she got killed and revived.
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* EroticAsphyxiation: While they were having sex on the boxing ring in Fogwell's Gym, Matt grabs her by the neck while she's on top of him, much to her arousal.
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* ATankardOfMooseUrine: She takes a bottle of German beer from Matt's fridge and tells him they taste like piss, [[{{Foreshadowing}} which is what Stick also said about the drink.]]
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* CoolCar: During the night she and Matt first meet, she drives away with him in a red convertible sports car that she stole.
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* TheAgeless: One of the superpowers the resurrection elixir The Hand used to raise her from the dead is an unnaturally long lifespan, which means she ages far slower than the average human and can allow her to live for many centuries.
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* MasterSwordswoman: She's incredibly proficient in using swords in combat as seen when she fights using two wazikashi swords. Justified in that she's a Black Sky and she can thus master any weapon she chooses in armed combat.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She killed her first victim at the age of twelve, all because she wanted to know what killing somebody felt like.
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* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Not above threatening Matt's witnesses to help him or killing anyone who attacks him.
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* YoungAndInCharge: She takes control of the Hand after murdering Alexandra. The other founding members are several centuries old while she had a natural lifespan until her recent death and resurrection, making her this trope.
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* BifurcatedWeapon: After getting ressurected by The Hand, she chooses two wazikashi short swords that can be combined into one as her weapon of choice.
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* HeroKiller: She kills several members of The Chaste after being revived by The Hand during the events of ''The Defenders'' and eventually manages to kill Stick.
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* BlackBraAndPanties: When assassins come to her penthouse to kill her, she takes of her silk bathrobe that show that she was wearing black underwear underneath before getting dressed.
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* DualWielding: Her weapons of choice are a pair of sais.
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* MsFanservice: Basically any time Elektra is in her costume counts, not to mention the flashback scene in which she's dressed in formfitting black and when Matt visits her at her penthouse, she's wearing a red silk dressing gown, and then proceeds to get changed, resulting in the audience getting a moment of toplessness from behind.
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* MsFanservice: Basically any time Elektra is in her costume counts, not to mention the flashback scene in which she's dressed in formfitting black and when Matt visits her at her penthouse, she's wearing a red silk dressing gown, and then proceeds to get changed, resulting in the audience getting a moment glimpse of toplessness from behind.her underwear.
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* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Elektra kills Jacques by stabbing him with his own sai, and promptly claims said sais for herself.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Later in Season 2, she takes a liking to DualWielding a pair of sais she takes off a rival assassin.
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* TruerToTheText: She is more in line with her comic counterpart than Jennifer Garner's iteration of the character, from resembling her comic counterpart more to her moral ambiguity and violent personality.
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* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: In the season one finale, she wears headphones and plays a song at max volume to prevent Kilgrave from commanding her, as his commands would require whoever he's trying to command be able to hear them.
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* InTheHood: She wears a hoodie to disguise herself as Jessica to fool Kilgrave in the season one finale.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After seeing Kilgrave command his parents to kill themselves, she attempts to shoot him but this ends up breaking the soundproof cell he's being held in and gives him the opportunity to escape. He even attempted to kill Trish herself by commanding her to shoot herself, but fortunately her revolver had run out of ammo.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Trish has Rachael Taylor's natural blonde color. However, [[MythologyGag she wore a red wig]] in the ''It's Patsy'' days, much to her annoyance. She has to don one to perform at a kid's birthday party in Season 2 as a favor for a Metro-General staffer.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Trish has Rachael Taylor's natural blonde color. However, [[MythologyGag she wore a red wig]] in the ''It's Patsy'' days, much to her annoyance. She has to don one to perform at a kid's birthday party in Season 2 as a favor for a Metro-General staffer. She also has her actress' green eyes instead of her comic book counterpart's blue eyes.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of Jessica Jones. She has the most screentime after the titular character, has the second most appearances (as she was only absent in one episode), and is overall the second most-significant character in the entire series.
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* AllergicToEvil: His superpower. He gets headaches when being around evil people. The more evil they are, the worst the headache, with the very worst people causing him to ''bleed from his eyes'' if they touch him.
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* DetectEvil: His superpower. He gets headaches when being around evil people. The more evil they are, the worst the headache, with the very worst people causing him to ''bleed from his eyes'' if they touch him.
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* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She makes her debut in the second episode of the first season of Daredevil.
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* RagsToRiches: She was an orphan taken in and raised by Stick at a young age, but was later adopted by Hugo and Christina Natchios, a wealthy couple who couldn't have a child on their own. Getting adopted into a rich family gave Elektra a life of affluence and luxury and she even took control of her father's business when he passed away.
