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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''Defenders & Their Allies''' ([[Characters/MCUDaredevil Matt Murdock]] | [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] | [[Characters/MCULukeCage Luke Cage]] | [[Characters/MCUIronFist Danny Rand]] | [[Characters/MCUThePunisher Frank Castle]] | [[Characters/MCUKarenPage Karen Page]] | [[Characters/MCUElektraNatchios Elektra Natchios]]) -]]]

* [[Characters/MCUDaredevil Matt Murdock / Daredevil]]

* [[Characters/MCUIronFist Daniel Rand-K'ai / Iron Fist]]

-->See [[Characters/MCUThePunisher The Punisher]].

!!''[[ComicBook/{{Elektra}} Elektra Natchios]]''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''I don't care about good or bad. Truth is, I've never felt more whole, more alive, than right now."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' Greek
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Chaste (formerly), Columbia University (formerly), Hand
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElodieYung, Lily Chee (young)
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Judith Noguera (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

->''"The battle has begun, Matthew. There's nothing we can do now but fight."''

Matt's old flame from college, who also happens to be a Greek assassin hunting members of a criminal organization known as "the Hand".

* ActionDressRip: Elektra does this before she and Matt start fighting the Yakuza in "Regrets Only".
* ActionGirl: From a young age, she was trained by the Chaste to become a formidable warrior.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Her comic counterpart has blue eyes, but this adaptation of Elektra possesses dark brown eyes instead.
* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, Elektra was born to Hugo and Christina Natchios, her biological parents. While in the MCU, she is ConvenientlyAnOrphan, then taken in by Hugo and Christina at Stick's request, and they raised her as their daughter.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: This Elektra is a lot more flirty and cheekier than her usual portrayal, who is typically quite calm and composed.
* AdaptationalBadass: Comics Elektra is undoubtedly formidable and dangerous, but the MCU version is given the status of a Black Sky, a prophesied LivingWeapon that is sought by the Hand, making this depiction of her far more dangerous.
* AdaptationalModesty: Elektra's pre-resurrection outfit has pants and some more coverings on the torso. Post resurrection, she gets a suit closer to her iconic red bathing suit/leotard but with black leggings to tone down the {{Stripperiffic}} nature of the outfit. She often wears a long black coat over it to further tone things down.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Her powers in the comics were more psychic in nature, possessing abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, hypnosis, and precognition. In the MCU, she has a superhuman physiology instead, possessing powers such as SuperStrength, SuperToughness, and SuperSpeed. She also ages much slower than a normal human.
* AdaptationalVillainy: This version of Elektra seems to be TheSociopath, but without her father's comic-book death as the catalyst.
* AffablyEvil: Despite being an assassin who has zero compunctions about killing, she's pretty playful and personable.
* AffectionateNickname: Stick calls her "Ellie".
* 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.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She wasn't well-liked by the other initiates of the Chaste. [[spoiler:Because she was a Black Sky, and they knew it.]]
* AntiHero: She's an assassin, but is hunting members of a criminal organization that doesn't care if they destroy entire cities.
* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler:She's the Black Sky that the Hand have been hunting down for years.]]
* AssassinOutclassin: Stick sends Jacques Duchamps to assassinate her as punishment for her decision to leave the Chaste and possibly to prevent the Hand from using her as a Black Sky. It ends as well as you would expect when you try to have an assassin assassinated.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Elektra profiled Matt in their first meeting based on his wingtip shoes. Likewise, Matt profiled her based on the fact that she was profiling him by his shoes.
* AxCrazy: Elektra tolerates killing more than Matt does.
* BackFromTheDead: The Hand brings her back to life in ''The Defenders''.
* BadassNormal: Elektra is a deadly martial artist without any kind of superpowers who can utilize any form of weapon. The Resurrection Elixir turns her into an EmpoweredBadassNormal.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Inverted. In "Fish in the Jailhouse", Elektra uses her sais to grab Danny's wrist as he attacks her with the Iron Fist.
* BatmanGambit: In "Fish in the Jailhouse", Elektra goads Danny into attacking her with the Iron Fist, and maneuvers herself so she's standing in front of the wall and them [[DeadlyDodging guides the Fist into the barrier]].
* 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.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Not even ''death'' detracts from Elektra's good looks when the Hand exhume her corpse at the end of "A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen".
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: [[spoiler:Goes from fighting the Hand to becoming its leader.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:She dated Matt in college on Stick's orders, with the intention of drawing him back into the fold in the war against the Hand, but instead fell in love with him.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Karen's Betty for Matt.
* BifurcatedWeapon: After getting ressurected by The Hand, she chooses two wazikashi short swords that can be combined into one as her weapon of choice.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Becomes this for the final two episodes of ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' after killing [[DiscOneFinalBoss Alexandra]].]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. [[spoiler: It's clear that Murakami, Madame Gao, and Bakuto aren't too happy with Elektra's takeover and plan to kill her once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she has used Danny to get them the substance]]. It's ''also'' quickly clear that Elektra doesn't give a shit about the Hand either and really just wants to [[EvilFeelsGood give in to her darker impulses and be free]]... and, of course, she wants to get the attention of Matt.]]
* BigEater: We see her constantly eating and drinking. When she and Matt eat at a diner following a fight with ninjas, she has an entire plate of food, pie, coffee, and a glass of water. When Matt takes away her pie, she has a moment of actual anger.
* 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.
* BlatantLies: Two lines, two lies.
-->'''Elektra:''' [sais in hand] We need to talk.\\
'''Stick:''' [raising sword] I'm all ears.
* BloodKnight: She is always up for a good fight.
* CameBackWrong: When she is revived by the Hand, she has amnesia and doesn't even remember who Matt is... which isn't really an example, since the Hand specifically resurrected her to be exactly like that and tell her [[ThatManIsDead she should act like the person she was before is basically dead]]. Played straight later on when [[spoiler:she ''does'' get her memories back, and turns on them for her own end]].
* CameBackStrong: Getting resurrected as the Black Sky by The Hand, enhanced her physiology to a SuperSoldier level. She's strong enough to send people flying with her blows and durable enough to survive getting hit by a car and get up almost immediately.
* CastingGag: This is not the first time Elodie Yung [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation played an assassin who frequently wears red, dual wields blades and is the apprentice of a]] MasterSwordsman.
* ChildSoldiers: [[spoiler:Her role as the Black Sky would have been a child soldier turned human killing machine. Even both the Hand and the Chaste took interest in her when she was a little girl, training her to become that weapon. Only Stick didn't see it that way and [[GiveHimANormalLife gave her a good life]].]]
* CombatPragmatist: She's willing to use anything she can to defeat her opponents. This includes [[PistolWhipping emptied submachine guns]], a corkscrew, a rebar, and [[UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem even stealing her opponent's sais to kill them with it.]]
* CoolCar: During the night she and Matt first meet, she drives away with him in a red convertible sports car that she stole.
* TheCorrupter: While Matt was in college she tried to make him a killer by presenting him with the man who ordered his father's death. [[spoiler:On Stick's orders, it turns out]].
* CostumeEvolution: Before their final showdown with Nobu on the roof, Matt personally has Melvin Potter tailor Elektra an upgraded suit. After Elektra is resurrected by the Hand, she gets a new version in red that evokes her classic comics outfit.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Both her hair and her irises are dark brown.
* DangerTakesABackseat: Elektra hides in the back of Stick's car to ambush his two underlings.
* DarkActionGirl: She's seen beating up dozens of criminals, leaping off rooftops, and generally going toe-to-toe physically with a highly trained vigilante like Matt. After her resurrection, she becomes Alexandra's main assassin, until she kills Alexandra and declares herself in charge of the Hand.
** Even in the flashback scenes that show her early relationship with Matt show signs of this. If her facial expressions are anything to go by, she appears to be getting a sexual thrill from the idea of Matt executing his father’s murderer.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Elektra confesses to having committed her first kill at the age of twelve, with no other justification [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior than to see what it felt like]].
* DeadpanSnarker: She's got a bit more "snark" than "deadpan", considering how she loves getting under peoples' skin like this.
* DeathOfPersonality: Following her resurrection, Alexandra tells Stick that Elektra is dead and all that remains in her "vessel" is the Black Sky.
* DemotedToExtra: As a result of Stick taking his place as Elektra's paternal figure, Hugo Natchios is given far less prominence here. In the comics, [[DaddysGirl she was very close to him]] and his death deeply affected her. In the MCU, he was merely her adoptive father and his death doesn't affect her as much as it did in the comics.
* DestinationDefenestration: After killing Stick and knocking out Matt, Luke, and Jessica in "Ashes, Ashes", Elektra escapes with Danny by jumping out a window, [[CarCushion using a car parked below to break her landing]].
* DestructiveRomance: Her relationship with Matt is ultimately this. When the two dated in college, Matt almost ruined his future because of Elektra's toxic influence on him as the two constantly broke into places and committed crimes together. When she comes back into his life after ten years and enlists his help, his law firm and romantic relationship with Karen Page fell apart because of their working together getting in the way of both. And it's not just a one-way street: Matt's ''positive'' influence has a ''negative'' effect on Elektra; she struggles with self-loathing because Matt's restraint makes her feel like a monster, her strive to be a better person because of him causes her to reject Stick's teachings and puts her in the crosshairs of the Chaste (who, by virtue of her being the Black Sky, consider her too dangerous to leave as a WildCard), and ultimately results in her death and resurrection by the Hand when she chooses to side with Matt against them.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In Season 2, she reveals to Matt that Nobu's group, the Hand, never left New York. They just froze their operations and waited for Matt to take out the competition. Now, with Fisk in jail, Madame Gao leaving, and everyone else dead; Hell's Kitchen is ripe for the taking.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: By killing Alexandra Reid, Elektra has threatened a big part of the Hand's public connections, from corporations to organized crime. She flat out states she doesn't care.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Elektra gets stabbed by Nobu instead of Matt, leading to her death while Matt cradles her in his arms. Subverted following her resurrection.
* TheDogBitesBack: The Fingers really shouldn't have implied to Elektra that she was replaceable.
* TheDragon: To Alexandra. [[spoiler:Until [[TheStarscream she kills her and takes over]] anyway.]]
* DualWielding: Her weapons of choice are a pair of sais. After getting revived by Alexandra, also wields two wakizashi short swords that she can combine into one before switching back to her sais.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Referenced via flashback in "Nelson v. Murdock" by Foggy as that "[[GorgeousGreek Greek chick]]" Matt dated in college. In Season 2, we see some of their college dating life.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: In "Regrets Only", Elektra checks out Matt as [[ShirtlessScene he changes into his tuxedo]] in the back of the vehicle. In turn, quite a few people check out Elektra as she enters the room in a [[LadyInRed red dress]]--Matt notes several elevated heart rates.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Elektra is already a badass ActionGirl from the start. [[spoiler:After she was resurrected with the Resurrection Elixir, she gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability.]]
* 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.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he started off as just another target, she genuinely fell in love with Matt. Even when their relationship was at its most hostile, it's easy to see she never stopped loving him. While her relationship with her parents (adopted or otherwise) isn't really shown, it's clear from flashbacks that she also genuinely loved Stick (a sentiment he returned) and was heartbroken when he had to leave her. [[spoiler:Despite the latter, she is ultimately the one to kill him in Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}.]]
* EvilBrit: Elektra sports an RP accent that's blended with Elodie Yung's natural accent. The "evil" part kicks in after she's revived by Alexandra.
* 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.]]
* EvilFeelsGood: Elektra is mildly aroused by killing Alexandra.
* EvilIsEasy: Part of her wants to be good if only because Matt wants her to be good, but her darker nature means that she can't help but enjoy fighting and killing [[spoiler: and this ends up leading to her taking over the Hand even after her memories return and she breaks free of Alexandra's control and kills her.]]
* EyeScream: In "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", Elektra uses her new sai in one of the ways it's best suited, putting out someone's eye.
* FightingYourFriend: In "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", Elektra goes after Stick for sending an assassin after her.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Takes over the Hand for the last two episodes of ''The Defenders''.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Most people call Matthew Murdock "Matt" or "Matty", but Elektra never calls him either of those nicknames and always calls him by his full first name.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Karen Page. Both are love interests for Matt, both have very troubled childhoods, both have a "my way is the right way" attitude towards what they do, and both have killed people. Where they differ is that while Karen is wracked with guilt over killing James Wesley, Elektra has no remorse and actually enjoys killing.
** To Danny Rand. Both are skilled warriors trained since childhood and command considerable wealth. Elektra was raised as an orphan before Stick arranged for her to be adopted by Hugo Natchios and his wife. Danny was born rich and became an orphan. Both were seen by their masters as nothing more than weapons, called "The Iron Fist" and "The Black Sky" instead of their names. But, where Elektra is amoral and self-serving, Danny is altruistic and social. Fittingly, while the rest of the Defenders fight the remaining Fingers of the Hand, Danny and Elektra face off, and Elektra even tries to manipulate Danny over to her side by using their commonalities.
** To Colleen Wing. Both began as a love interest of a main character (Matt; Danny) and both are very influential on that character. Where they differ is that Elektra was a negative influence on Matt and caused him to neglect his actual friendships with Karen and Foggy, whereas Colleen provided moral support that made Danny a better person. Likewise, Colleen started Iron Fist as a recruiter for the Hand, but broke ways with them after getting a crash course on how terrible they truly are; Elektra started her arc in Daredevil as a member of the Chaste, but then died at the hands of Nobu and was resurrected by the Hand as an assassin.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The color scheme of her outfit (black with red highlights) is very similar to the Hand ninjas outfits in season 2.]]
* TheGadfly: She really enjoys getting under Matt's skin.
* GeniusBruiser: She's both an incredibly deadly assassin and an extremely clever manipulator who's fluent in multiple languages.
* GetOut: Said word for word by Elektra not once, but twice towards Stick in "Guilty as Sin".
* GoodFeelsGood: Says as much when [[spoiler:she's dying.]]
* GorgeousGreek: Naturally, it wouldn't be Elektra without this trope. While she is still very beautiful, [[spoiler:she is ethnically Asian from an indeterminate origin that is only Greek by adoption]].
* HeadTurningBeauty: Elektra insists that if they work together there will be no sex. Matt is exasperated by her arrogant assumption that every man she meets wants to sleep with her, only for Elektra to point out that in her experience every man ''does''.
* TheHeavy: Serves this role [[spoiler:for the Hand during ''The Defenders'' as she serves as the most active member of the group and is directly responsible for the Hand getting access to both Danny Rand and the dragon bones needed to create the Substance.]] [[spoiler:Fittingly she ends up becoming the BigBad of the final two episodes after killing Alexandra.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: In "Guilty as Sin", Elektra attempts to do this when she sends Stick away and decides to stay with Matt. However, shortly afterward she kills again.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* IAmAMonster: Elektra realizes this after she kills the teen Hand ninja in "Guilty as Sin".
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By Nobu, leading to her temporary death. She then uses this tactic to kill Alexandra Reid.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** While fighting Hand ninjas alongside Matt in Midland Circle, she picks up and uses a rebar to fight off their swordsmen.
** She picks up a corkscrew and uses it in her fight against Jacques but Jacques quickly disarms her of it.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Elektra seems very... ''excited'' by Matt's beatdown on Roscoe Sweeney after the man taunts him about killing Matt's father. [[spoiler:She also gives an exhale of satisfaction when killing Alexandra]].
* InstantExpert: Because she is [[spoiler:a Black Sky, Alexandra]] says that she will master any weapon she chooses.
* InTheBack: She stabs Alexandra from behind while she's chewing out the other founders of The Hand for their incompetence and then takes her role as their leader.
* ItIsDehumanizing:
** Elektra takes extreme offense at Nobu calling her "it". It's worth noting however that the Hand nonetheless treat her with reverence, indicating that to them, calling the Black Sky "it" is simply the proper form of addressing such a powerful entity.
** Elektra grows tired of Alexandra treating her as an "it" and Alexandra refers to Matt by his nighttime alias instead of by name and makes this clear.
-->'''Elektra Natchios:''' His name is Matthew. ''[pulls her sai out of Alexandra]'' And my name...is Elektra Natchios. You all work for me now. ''[decapitates Alexandra's dead body]'' Any questions?
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her ruthlessness, Elektra does have a kind heart and cares about Matt.
* [[KickTheSonOfABitch Kick The Bitch]]: [[spoiler: She mortally stabs Alexandra in the chest while she's in the middle of arrogantly boasting about having captured Danny]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler:She decapitates Alexandra's fresh corpse after claiming her leadership of the Hand]].
* KlingonPromotion: Elektra kills Alexandra Reid in "Ashes, Ashes", then takes her place as the leader of the Hand.
* LadyMacbeth: She was a 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.
* LadyInRed: She ''loves'' wearing red and the color red in general. It's the color of all of the dresses she wore in the series, the color of her bathrobe, the ninja outfits she wears, and she even colors her nails red. Even the sports car she stole and took a joyride with Matt in was colored red.
* 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.
* LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:It is ultimately Matt's love that convinces her to go against the Hand instead of joining them]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Though not really touched upon, it's clear the Elektra was Matt's first love and the one he seriously wanted to spend his life with. Even after all the shits she puts him through (and discovering she's a Black Sky) in Season 2, he ''still'' chooses to be with her. When she is killed by Nobu (and gone forever after ''The Defenders''), he is left devastated and her memory still haunts him, as Matt knows damn well that try as he might, no other woman will understand him the way she did.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: She was a very dark version of this for Matt in college, and still is to a degree.
* ManipulativeBitch: Matt flat-out accuses Elektra of manipulating him and he's not wrong. When Matt turns down her ask for legal help, she pays the money anyway, knowing that Matt will be driven to find out what she's up to. In the past, she arranges for them to break into the house of the man who murdered Matt's father, then 'accidentally' let slip Matt's name in the hope of forcing Matt to kill him to protect himself. When Matt visits her to ask her about this, it turns out she's known all along that he's Daredevil and has created a scenario where they'll have to fight side-by-side to survive.
* 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.
* MoeGreeneSpecial: While fighting off Hand assassins in "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", she kills one of them by stabbing them [[EyeScream in the eye with her new sais.]]
* MoralityPet: She's this to Stick, but [[{{Jerkass}} getting him to admit it is a completely different story.]] Tragically, his soft spot for her winds up costing him his life.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: She wears black clothing with touches of red, rather than her completely red comics getup, when doing assassination work. Post-resurrection, she gets her iconic red comics costume, paired with a long black cloak.
* 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 glimpse of her underwear.
* 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.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "Ashes, Ashes", Elektra gives a brief glance back at Matt and appears to have a remorseful look on her face before escaping out the window with Danny.
* MysteriousPast: It is revealed in "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel" that Elektra's diplomat parents were a family that Stick placed her with to hide her from both the Hand and the Chaste. Stick refuses to say where he found her originally.
* MythologyGag: Kills an assassin sent to kill her with his own sais, referencing her own death in the comics. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she takes his sais for herself, and her comics fate comes to pass]]. Her traditional comic outfit gets one during ''Daredevil'' in the form of the red dress she wears while infiltrating the Yakuza party. It's not the exact same as her classic Hand outfit, but it's close, and the resemblance is punctuated [[ActionDressRip when she intentionally rips the side of it to move more easily]], mirroring the open sides her comic outfit has. Then she gets that traditional comic outfit for real once she is resurrected by the Hand.
* NeckLift: Grabs John Raymond in this way when she tracks him down to Jessica's apartment, but John shoots himself rather than let her strangle him.
* NeckSnap: Does this to one of Sowande's henchmen to prove to him that she really is the Hand's ultimate weapon.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Jacques Duchamps was comfortably winning his fight against her until he brought out his sais, [[UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem which she quickly takes from him and kills him with.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Elektra's body was never found after the collapse of Midland Circle in "The Defenders".]]
* 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.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She tries to help Matt out by strong-arming the crooked medical examiner into admitting that he falsified the death certificates on Frank Castle's family. However, because she got him to confess under duress, his confession (and thus Matt's best chance of getting a mistrial) are inadmissible, causing Matt and Foggy to have a fight because Foggy believes Matt was behind Elektra's actions. Matt is EXTREMELY pissed at Elektra for this.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She gives one to the last sparring partner she fought when Stick had her fight multiple grown men as training. It had gotten so brutal that Stick had to step in and restrain her to prevent her from killing him.
* NotBrainwashed: Elektra ''claims'' this in "The Defenders", but Matt doesn't buy it.
* NotSoDifferentRemark:
** Elektra is drawn to Matt because of the darkness she senses in him, and suggests he feels the same for her.
** Elektra tries to use this on Danny, stating that they both decided to ScrewDestiny. However, Danny counters that no, [[NotSoSimilar they are not at all alike]], since Elektra killed her masters and Danny's masters taught him loyalty.
* OffWithHerHead: Elektra decapitates Alexandra after impaling her through the back. She likely did this to prevent her from coming back because Hand members will come back to life if they aren't beheaded.
* {{Omniglot}}: She's fluent in Greek, English, Japanese, and French. She also took Spanish classes at Columbia University.
* OneWomanArmy: As [[spoiler:the Black Sky]] Elektra is established as being one of the best fighters in the world to the point that [[spoiler:Alexandra]] tells her that she has more power and skill in combat than anyone can learn in a single lifetime. [[spoiler:This is proven in ''The Defenders'' as she can take on all four members of the team, both individually and as a group, and that by the time of the FinalBattle she is considered the most dangerous opponent the group has to beat.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: As a child, she was able to take down several opponents who were all bigger and stronger than her with nothing but her skills as part of Stick's harsh training.
* 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.
* ProfessionalKiller: She works as an assassin, killing the enemies of the Chaste.
* RaceLift: Élodie Yung is French-Cambodian, but Elektra's characterization firmly establishes her as being Greek. [[spoiler:In this continuity, Elektra was an Asian child who was adopted by Ambassador Natchios and his wife, so she's only Greek by adoption]].
* 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.
* RedIsViolent: Elektra tends to wear a red scarf and red clothing, and she can be highly vicious in battle.
* RichBitch: How Matt sees her at first.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Stick tried to have her murdered, she goes on a bloody warpath to try and kill him. She slaughters every Hand and Chaste member in her quest for vengeance and even threatens to kill Matt if he stands in her way. Fortunately, Matt was able to talk her out of doing so.
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** Elektra is presented as a siren as per her Greek ancestry. Matt's first indication of her presence is aural (the jangling of her bracelets), and she's shown to have a disturbing influence on Matt, inciting him to increasingly reckless and criminal acts in the past, while in the present day [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness her mere pretense makes him agitated]] as if he's constantly fighting the effect she has on him.
** The scene where Matt and Elektra are discussing marriage involves her hand feeding him from the tip of a large kitchen knife. That shows such a marriage would be more UnholyMatrimony than HappilyEverAfter.
** When Elektra hands Sweeney's torture over to Matt in the flashback, faint thunder rumbles in the background.
* {{Sadist}}: She definitely has shades of this. She becomes aroused when [[spoiler:Matt brutally beats the man who killed his father]], and is positively ''giddy'' the entire time, even though Matt is practically in tears. Matt eventually calls her out on this when she keeps showing that she enjoys killing.
* SafetyInIndifference: She acts pretty nonchalant about everything, and working with Matt seems to be more of a game than anything else. But as we learn more about her it comes increasingly obvious this is [[StepfordSmiler just a mask]] she uses to prevent herself from being hurt. She genuinely loves Matt but knows he could never love the real her, and also like Matt, Stick managed to give her some abandonment issues.
* SaiGuy: She is one in the comics, but uses other weapons in the show. Until later on in the season, that is, when she takes a pair from a would-be assassin. [[spoiler:Post-resurrection, she again starts out using bladed weapons, but as her memories start returning to her she once again gravitates towards the sais.]]
* SecretKeeper: Elektra knows full well that Matt is Daredevil.
* 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.
* SlashedThroat:
** She does this to a Chaste member who tried to kill her when she was a child.
** She also does this to a young member of The Hand who attacked Matt in his own apartment.
* SociopathicHero: Her actress even describes her [[https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/18/daredevil-the-punisher-and-elektra-will-make-matt-murdock-question-his-role as a sociopath]], stating that the world is a game for her adns he'll get what she wants from it by any means necessary. She's willing to refrain from killing for Matt's sake, but it's made clear she quite enjoys killing. [[spoiler:This is the first clue that she is the Black Sky, and she was like this even while being trained.]]
* TheStarscream: In ''The Defenders'', [[spoiler:she eventually kills Alexandra and forcefully takes over The Hand. The surviving leaders allow her to do as she wants while plotting to deal with her when the time comes]].
* StealthHiBye: Elektra pulls such an entrance on ''Matt'' in the ending of "Penny and Dime". Matt being in a bit of a lovesick daze after kissing Karen is the most likely reason he doesn't notice her right away.
* 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.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Subverted in that, after her resurrection, she seems to fight Luke and Jessica with ease, yet fights on par with the BadassNormal ones, but ultimately gets the better of Danny during their fights and holds back when fighting Matt.
* 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.
* SuperStrength: Elektra's resurrection grants her superhuman strength that allows her to send a person flying with one hit.
* SuperToughness: She managed to get back on her feet not long after Jessica [[CarFu rammed into her with an SUV]].
* TaintedVeins: On Elektra's neck while she's dying of poison.
* 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.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Matt helps her fight bad guys, but he isn't happy about it due to their past and her attitude toward life.
* ThatWomanIsDead: Following her resurrection, Elektra, as she was, is no more, for she has become Black Sky.
* TimeShiftedActor: Lily Chee plays a twelve-year-old Elektra during 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.
* TogetherInDeath: She's entirely willing to spend the rest of her life and the NothingAfterDeath with Matt, whether fighting against him or alongside him.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:She's actually a Black Sky child whom Stick abducted and tried to raise on the side of good]].
* TrespassingToTalk: She breaks into Matt's apartment to ask for his legal help in her dealings with Roxxon Corporation. In truth, however, she needs more than just his legal expertise.
* TroubledFetalPosition: In "Take Shelter", Elektra lies down this way while going to sleep on Matt's bed, slowly regaining her memories.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She killed her first victim at the age of twelve, all because she wanted to know what killing somebody felt like.
* 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.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Elektra kills Stick and Alexandra, seeking to be free from any restraints and obligations. She even tries to appeal to Danny and persuade him to follow suit.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: While Alexandra Reid was also quite dominant, she at least listened to the other Fingers of the Hand. Elektra flat-out tells them that she doesn't care at all about what they think and directly threatens them.
** Which doesn't stop them from preparing to dispose of her as soon as she gets them what they need.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She's last seen getting caught in the collapse of Midland Circle in ''The Defenders'', but as Matt survived, she may well have too]].
* UptownGirl: Matt is from the middle-class whose law firm frequently struggles financially while Elektra's incredibly rich as a result of being adopted into a very wealthy family.
* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Elektra kills Jacques by stabbing him with his own sais, and promptly claims said sais for herself.
* TheUnfettered: She has no problem with killing, unlike Matt, and in fact is willing to kill him too if he gets in the way of her mission.
* 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.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Not above threatening Matt's witnesses to help him or killing anyone who attacks him. When Alexandra orders her to kill him alongside the other Defenders, she responds by stabbing her InTheBack and ''decapitating her.''
* WeCanRuleTogether: Elektra offers an alliance to Danny in "Fish in the Jailhouse". He turns her down.
* WhatTheHellHero: Gets one from Matt after she ruins Frank Castle's trial by threatening a witness.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath:
** In "Guilty as Sin", Elektra gets her white shirt splattered when she gives the ninja a SlashedThroat.
** In "The Man in the Box", Elektra is a white SweaterGirl of Death after killing Jacques Duchamps.
* WorfHadTheFlu: Elektra during much "Guilty as Sin" is weakened after being injured by the Hand ninjas with poisoned weaponry. Likewise, Matt gets shot from behind with an arrow at the start of the fight, slowing him down.
* WorkingWithTheEx: She teams up with Matt to fight the Hand, despite the two of them being a couple and then breaking up while in college.
* WouldHurtAChild: Elektra slashes a Hand ninja's throat in "Guilty as Sin", despite him [[JustAKid being a teenager]].
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Elektra taunts Danny about the way the Chaste soldiers screamed when she killed them.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:After regaining her memories after her resurrection, Elektra wants to remain immortal, but also still wants to be with Matt. However, she also continues to fight him because "the game is fun". By their final fight in "The Defenders", the confrontation descends from fighting to flirting. By the time the bomb goes off, Matt and Elektra are actively making out]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler:Matt seems to be the only one who thinks this, and in the end, it's his belief in her that keeps her from joining the Hand after being revealed as the Black Sky]].
* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler:Elektra notes that even if they defeat Nobu, the Hand will keep coming after her. Matt decides that if Elektra is going to spend the rest of her life on the run, he'll go with her, because despite his love for New York, Elektra is the only one who can understand Matt and his world. It doesn't work out that way]].
* 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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!! Introduced in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}''
[[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]]
!!''Malcolm Joseph Ducasse''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I don’t want powers. I mean, I do not want to be on the receiving end of them either, but I don’t know, I just like people too much."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Citizenship:''' American
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Kilgrave Victim Support (formerly), Cheng Consulting Management (formerly), Hogarth and Associates (formerly), Alias Investigations
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EkaDarville
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DarwinLeRoy (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Alexandre Drummond (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

->''"So what, it's just every man for himself, then, huh? Everything I learned in church, all the praying that my mom did for the sick and the dying, all the... all the community projects my dad worked on, basically, everything that they taught me... it was all bullshit? They're idiots and I'm just the only asshole in the world who didn't know?"''

A social worker who lives down the hall from Jessica and is her assistant at Alias Investigations.
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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''Defenders & Their Allies''' ([[Characters/MCUDaredevil Matt Murdock]] | [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] | [[Characters/MCULukeCage Luke Cage]] | [[Characters/MCUIronFist Danny Rand]] | [[Characters/MCUThePunisher Frank Castle]] | [[Characters/MCUKarenPage Karen Page]]) -]]]

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Her powers in the comics were more psychic in nature, such as telepathy, telekinesis, hypnosis, and precognition. In the MCU, she has a superhuman physiology instead, possessing powers such as SuperStrength, SuperToughness, and SuperSpeed. She also ages much slower than a normal human.

* LadyInRed: She ''loves'' wearing red and the color red in general. It's the color of all of the dresses she wore in the series, the color of her bathrobe, the ninja outfits she wears, and it's even the color of her corpse's nails as seen when the Hand exhumes her corpse to ressurect it. Even the sports car she stole and took a joyride with Matt in was colored red.

* NeckSnap: Does this to one of Sowande's henchmen to prove to him if she really is the Hand's ultimate weapon.

* ImprovisedWeapon: While fighting Hand ninjas alongside Matt in Midland Circle, she picks up and uses a rebar to fight off their swordsmen.

* 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.