History Film / Elektra

* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler: Elektra kills Typhoid Mary by throwing her sai through the bush maze]].

* ScopeSnipe: There is a brief shot of Elektra looking through the scope of a rather complex-looking compound bow.

''Elektra'' is a 2005 {{spinoff}} of the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' film starring Jennifer Garner as Elektra. After being killed in ''Daredevil'', Elektra Natchios is revived by a blind martial arts master called Stick. She is brought to his training compound, but is soon expelled because of her inability to let go of her rage and fear from seeing her mother's killer as a child. She leaves and uses her training to become a contract killer, but becomes reluctant to carry out a hit on Mark and Abby Miller. In helping them escape, Elektra learns that Mark and Abby are not as normal [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye as they appear to be]]. As she faces off against The Hand, an organization that seeks to capture Abby because she is the sacred "Treasure," Elektra soon learns that Kirigi, a member of The Hand, was sent to kill her mother when Elektra was only a child.

* HelloNurse: A member of the Hand council has this reaction on seeing Typhoid. [[DisproportionateRetribution She kills him for it]]

* {{Spinoff}}: This movie is a spinoff of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}''.

* YouKilledMyFather: Both Elektra and Abby's mothers have been killed by the Hand.

* MaleGaze: Blantantly in the first seven minutes of the movie even. After Elektra dispatches TheDragon of her target, the camera then shifts to her exposed backside, then to her ass and stays there for some time

* AnimatedTattoo: Tattoo has the power to make his tatoos come to life.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Abby thinks this of Elektra's name

* AbsoluteCleavage: Typhoid's outfits. A subtle one in the dress she uses to fight, and a blatant one in her casual wear.

* ClothFu: Elektra fights Kirigi in a room full of flying white sheets. The villain seems to be manipulating them somehow to distract Elektra and/or hide his movements. Though as described by Creator/RogerEbert, "we're expecting maybe an elegant ZhangYimou sequence, and it's more like they're fighting with the laundry."

* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Like in ''Daredevil'', Elektra isn't remorseless and actually tries to keep Abby and her father safe.
** While not a villain, Stick was a bit of an asshole. He was a harsh, cynical old man who got his money through hustling and gave Matt a hard time while training him. While he makes questionable decisions here, there's no doubt he's a much nobler person by comparison.

The Elektra and Typhoid kiss.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Typhoid's outfits. A subtle one in the dress she uses to fight, and a blatant one in her casual wear

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Abby thinks this of Elktra's name

* BreakoutCharacter: Elektra was originally a love interest in Daredevil in both the comic and the movie--She later had several spin-off comics and this spin-off movie.

** Kingpin and Roshi are each a CorruptCorporateExecutive and are the ManBehindTheMan. Although unlike Kingpin, Roshi does not get involved in a fight with Elektra, being too busy leading The Hand from Japan. He also lacks any personal vendetta with Elektra that Kingpin did with murdering Matt's father.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Though Elektra first appeared in ''Daredevil'', the film explores her own story that is similar yet different from Matt's. Both are about a character who wears red who's life went downhill after a parent's death. Matt was self taught in his fighting by "watching" his father and using his senses since he was 12. Elektra, before her death, was taught by a different sensei each year since she was 5 and developed her powers as part of her ressurection as an adult. Both are still haunted by their parents' deaths and learn though a seemingly unrelated situation involving a mercenaries and protecting a parent and daughter from them who the killer is. Matt failed to save Elektra and her father, while Elektra only barely saved Abby with those same mystical abilities. Matt decided Wilson Fisk wasn't worth killing, [[spoiler:Elektra doesn't give Kirigi the same treatment as she had become a professional assassin instead of a hero]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roshi. Giving orders from a boardroom. It comes across that the Hand is TheMafia or {{Yakuza}} and not just an evil organization

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Elektra and Typhoid's "[[KissOfDeath kiss]]"

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Most of the Hand's Ninjas would fall under this. Atleast they are now wearing black instead of red
* HitmanWithAHeart: Elektra after she fails to make a kill because she cares for the marks
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Stone uses his superstrength to break the trunk of a tree while attacking Elektra, leaving it barely standing. When he them proceeds to chase after Abby and Mark, [[spoiler: Elektra uses her weight to tip it over onto Stone, crushing him]]

** Elektra Elektra wears skintight red leather for most of the movie, and can be seen in a bikini training to hold her breath underwater.

* NebulousEvilOrganisation: The Hand
* NeckSnap: At least one villain is dispatched this way. One snaps his own neck
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: May or May not be part of Elektra's personal code.
* NinjaSchool: Stick basically run a mix martial school.

* OldMaster: Stick

* PrecisionFStrike: When she learns Kirigi is on the case, Elektra can't help, but say ""shit"". You can't blame her
* ProductPlacement: For Rite Aid. That's right, ''Rite Aid''.

* ScopeSnipe: There is a brief shot of Elektra looking through the scope of a rather complex looking compound bow.

* ShoutOut: Abby and Mark Miller is subtle one to Elektra's Creator Frank Miller
* {{Spinoff}}: This movie is a Spinoff of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}''
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Kimagure --CombatClairvoyance combined with martial arts and the power to control life and death.

* TouchOfDeath: Typhoid has a literal killer touch everything she touches ages, withers and then dies. Which is opposite Stick who can bring back the dead by laying on hands and using Kimagure.

* WellDoneSonGuy: There is a lot of needing fathers approval subtext going on in the movie. Elektra on some level seems to want Sticks approval. Kirigi seeks his father's, Roshi, approval. It can even be read that Abby wants her father's approval. When the title of the movie is Elektra you have to expect some father issues.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Apparently all Hand members are supposed to kill themselves if they failed

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[[caption-width-right:216:Elektra with her [[{{Fanservice}} signature outfit]] and [[SaiGuy weapons]].]]
->''"Her name was Elektra. [[ActionGirl She was a warrior.]] She was also dead. Well, nobody's perfect. Only a warrior can come [[BackFromTheDead back from death]] and even then the second life is never quite like the first."''

A 2005 {{spinoff}} of the ''{{Film/Daredevil}}'' film starring Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a contracted assassin who is reluctant to carry out a hit on Mark and Abby Miller. In helping them escape, Elektra learns that Mark and Abby are not as normal [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye as they appear to be]]. As she faces off against The Hand, an organization that seeks to capture Abby because she is the sacred "Treasure," Elektra soon learns that Kirigi, a member of The Hand, was sent to kill her mother when Elektra was only a child.

* FanService: Elektra wears skintight red leather for most of the movie.
** The Elektra and Typhoid kiss.
** Elektra in a bikini training to hold her breath underwater

* MsFanservice: Elektra
** Typhoid has her moments as well.

A 2005 {{spinoff}} of the ''{{Film/Daredevil}}'' film starring Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a contracted assassin who is reluctant to carry out a hit on Mark and Abby Miller. In helping them escape, Elektra learns that Mark and Abby are not as [[{{Badass}} normal]] [[MoreThanMeetsTheEye as they appear to be]]. As she faces off against The Hand, an organization that seeks to capture Abby because she is the sacred "Treasure," Elektra soon learns that Kirigi, a member of The Hand, was sent to kill her mother when Elektra was only a child.

* WomanInBlack: Typhoid primarily wears black to emphasize that she's evil and dangerous, as well as her association with death.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Stone uses his superstrength to break the trunk of a tree while attacking Elektra, leaving it barely standing. When he them proceeds to chase after Abby and Mark, [[spoler: Elektra uses her weight to tip it over onto Stone, crushing him]]

** Kingpin and Roshi are each a CorruptCorporateExecutive and are the ManBehindTheMan. Although unlike Kingpin, Roshi does not get involved in a fight with Elektra, being too busy leading The Hand from Japan.
** Bullseye and Kirigi are both mercenaries who murdered one of Elektra's parents. Bullseye was an Irish LargeHam who loves murder and tries to accost Elektra during their fight while Kirigi is stoic, showing no attraction to Elektra. Bullseye was bald and wore an all black leather ensemble, Kirigi has long hair and wore a white martial arts gi. Both do manage to get under her skin by bringing up their murdered loved ones, but the only main difference in the end is [[spoiler: Kirigi ends up getting gutted]].

** Bullseye and Kirigi are both mercenaries who murdered one of Elektra's parents. Bullseye was an Irish LargeHam who loves murder and tries to accost Elektra during their fight while Kirigi is stoic, showing no attraction to Elektra. Both do manage to get under her skin by bringing up their murdered loved ones, but the only main difference in the end is [[spoiler: Kirigi ends up getting gutted]].

%%* ImprobableAimingSkills:

* HelloNurse: A member of the Hand council has this reaction on seeing Typhoid.[[DisproportionateRetribution She kills him for it]]

** Elektra in a swimsuit training to hold her breath underwater

* HelloNurse: A member of the Hand council has this reaction on seeing Typhoid.[[She kills him for it]]

** Typhoid as well.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Most of the Hand's Ninjas would fall under this.