History Sandbox / MonsterDaredevil

* ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}: Assassin'', written by Creator/FrankMiller: [[AxCrazy Arthur Perry]] is a brutal ComicBook/SHIELD operative [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introduced]] torturing and murdering a possible "subversive" on the flimsiest suspicion of the man being an assassin. Perry's history, which SHIELD deliberately covered up to keep him on as an agent, is far darker, including the murder of his entire family and episodes of rape and murder dating back to the time he was a kid. When he's brought back with an augmented cyborg body after a brush with Elektra, Perry promptly slaughters the man who brought him back and goes about brutally killing every SHIELD agent in his path. Perry's sociopathy attracts the attention of the demonic Beast, and Perry eagerly signs on with the Beast's plans of [[NukeEm destroying all humanity in a nuclear apocalypse]].

** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanDaredevilKingOfNewYork Batman/Daredevil: King of New York]]'', written by Alan Grant: [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] has been [[ArmsDealer running guns]] for [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], from [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] to New York, [[TheStarscream but has his own agenda in mind]]. He hires Catwoman to gather information on Kingpin, seeming making plans to usurp Kingpin's position as New York's reigning crime lord. Daredevil and [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]] team up to stop one of Scarecrow's trucks that was supposed to be delivering guns, but find it is full of bombs instead, with Scarecrow intending to kill Batman and Daredevil, along with the men driving the van. Scarecrow arrives in New York and uses his fear gas to force some of Kingpin's men to work for him. Scarecrow then begins a reign of terror having his men shoot up a restaurant, blow up a jewelry store, set fire to a night club and murder people in gangland killings. However, Daredevil and Batman soon discover Scarecrow's real plan: From the Statue of Liberty, Scarecrow plans to [[SupernaturalFearInducer spread his fear gas]] across New York, leading to untold death and suffering.

** Issues #124-125 & ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilSpiderMan Daredevil/Spider-Man]]'': [[FromNobodyToNightmare Copperhead]] started as Lawrence Chesney, who took the mantle of the Copperhead character and enacted his revenge. Copperhead began killing criminals and killed a cop who tried to stop him, but quickly establishes himself as a creepy killer who put pennies on the eyes of the victims he just killed. Copperhead went to Hell after he died and made a DealWithTheDevil, returning to Earth as an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead lich]]. At this point, Copperhead, fueled by nothing more than a burning hatred of Daredevil, began a [[MobWar violent turf war]] with [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]], which cost the lives of many people. Copperhead used those deaths as sacrifices to the Devil, gathering power from those deaths and using it to transform part of New York into a version of Hell. Copperhead plans to sacrifice Daredevil and [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] to open a portal to Hell and cause the downfall of mankind.

[[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} The Man Without Fear]] has, [[PrintLongRunners since 1964]], been on a crusade against all types of criminals in both his [[CrusadingLawyer civilian]] and [[HandicappedBadass superhero]] identities. As a result, [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock he]] has fought several abhorrent monsters, but [[CompleteMonster several have gone the extra mile]].

[[Franchise/{{Daredevil}} The Man Without Fear]] has, [[PrintLongRunners since 1964]], been on a crusade against all types of criminals in both his [[CrusadingLawyer civilian]] and [[HandicappedBadass superhero]] identities. As a result, [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock he]] has fought several abhorrent monsters, but [[CompleteMonster several have gone the extra mile]].

** ''[[ComicBook/BatmanDaredevilKingOfNewYork Batman/Daredevil: King of New York]]'', written by Alan Grant: [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] has been [[ArmsDealer running guns]] for [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], from [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] to New York, [[TheStarscream but has his own agenda in mind]]. He hires Catwoman to gather information on Kingpin, seeming making plans to usurp Kingpin's position as New York's reigning crime lord. Daredevil and [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]] team up to stop one of Scarecrow's trucks that was supposed to be delivering guns, but find it is full of bombs instead, with Scarecrow intending to kill Batman and Daredevil, along with the men driving the van. Scarecrow arrives in New York and uses his fear gas to force some of Kingpin's men to work for him. Scarecrow then begins a reign of terror having his men shoot up a restaurant, blow up a jewelry store, set fire to a night club and murder people in gangland killings. However, Daredevil and Batman soon discover Scarecrow's real plan: From the Statue of Liberty, Scarecrow plans to [[SupernaturalFearInducer spread his fear gas]] across New York, leading to untold death and suffering.

** ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBatman Batman/Daredevil]]: King of New York'', written by Alan Grant: [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] has been [[ArmsDealer running guns]] for [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], from [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] to New York, [[TheStarscream but has his own agenda in mind]]. He hires Catwoman to gather information on Kingpin, seeming making plans to usurp Kingpin's position as New York's reigning crime lord. Daredevil and Batman team up to stop one of Scarecrow's trucks that was supposed to be delivering guns, but find it is full of bombs instead, with Scarecrow intending to kill Batman and Daredevil, along with the men driving the van. Scarecrow arrives in New York and uses his fear gas to force some of Kingpin's men to work for him. Scarecrow then begins a reign of terror having his men shoot up a restaurant, blow up a jewelry store, set fire to a night club and murder people in gangland killings. However, Daredevil and Batman soon discover Scarecrow's real plan: From the Statue of Liberty, Scarecrow plans to [[SupernaturalFearInducer spread his fear gas]] across New York, leading to untold death and suffering.

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* ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilVsVapora Daredevil vs. Vapora]]'', by Mindy Newell: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Vapora]] is a [[FogOfDoom sapient being made of gasoline vapor]] that relishes in [[ManOnFire setting innocent people on fire]]. Taking advantage of people who carelessly use gasoline to clean their homes, Vapora manipulates the fumes to open sources of heat so she can burn her victims alive. Preferring to [[WouldHurtAChild target children and families]], Vapora burns down an entire apartment building, giving a young girl third-degree burns and killing many of the tenants still trapped inside. She later sets a mother on fire in front of her own baby and attempts to burn down a garage containing two teenagers and a 4-year old girl. [[{{Sadist}} Taking sadistic glee in the pain and suffering of others]], Vapora represents the very worst dangers that gasoline fumes can bring.
* ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilTheManWithoutFear The Man Without Fear]]'' issues #4-5, by Creator/FrankMiller: [[PsychoForHire Larks]] is one of [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]]'s chief enforcers. A [[ProfessionalKiller killer without conscience]], Larks begins murdering his way through a chain of subordinates who have grown sloppy with Larks also being given oversight over what to do with a captive girl named Mickey. It is revealed Larks oversees a division dedicated to [[WouldHurtAChild torturing, raping, and murdering children]] on camera which he delivers Mickey to, before carelessly executing a cab driver once Daredevil arrives.

* ''[[ComicBook/Bullseye2017 Bullseye]]'', by Ed Brisson et al.: [[AxCrazy Teodor Zarco]] is a Columbian drug lord who lords over [[TheCartel the Black Knife Cartel]] with a sadistic, iron fist. Teodor gained infamy when he captured a squad of federal agents investigating his activities and tortured to death everyone who has ever known them in front of the agents one by one. Planning to expand the Black Knife to America, Teodor is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing a man to death as slowly as he can, and later is seen getting ready to butcher dozens of his minions who were stealing some of his drugs, planning to cut them all up and ship them to their mothers in little baggies. Upon being investigated by more federal agents, Teodor captures them all and plans to [[FedToTheBeast feed them to his pet tiger]], before betraying and trying to kill his American partner just for irritating him. Even in a comic featuring the world's greatest assassin Bullseye, Teodor stands out with his sadistically vile actions for a mere drug lord.
* ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}: Assassin'', by Creator/FrankMiller: [[AxCrazy Arthur Perry]] is a brutal ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} operative [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introduced]] torturing and murdering a possible "subversive" on the flimsiest suspicion of the man being an assassin. Perry's history, which SHIELD deliberately covered up to keep him on as an agent, is far darker, including the murder of his entire family and episodes of rape and murder dating back to the time he was a kid. When he's brought back with an augmented cyborg body after a brush with Elektra, Perry promptly slaughters the man who brought him back and goes about brutally killing every SHIELD agent in his path. Perry's sociopathy attracts the attention of the demonic Beast, and Perry eagerly signs on with the Beast's plans of [[NukeEm destroying all humanity in a nuclear apocalypse]].

** ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBatman Batman/Daredevil]]: King of New York'', by Alan Grant: [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] has been [[ArmsDealer running guns]] for [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], from [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] to New York, [[TheStarscream but has his own agenda in mind]]. He hires Catwoman to gather information on Kingpin, seeming making plans to usurp Kingpin's position as New York's reigning crime lord. Daredevil and Batman team up to stop one of Scarecrow's trucks that was supposed to be delivering guns, but find it is full of bombs instead, with Scarecrow intending to kill Batman and Daredevil, along with the men driving the van. Scarecrow arrives in New York and uses his fear gas to force some of Kingpin's men to work for him. Scarecrow then begins a reign of terror having his men shoot up a restaurant, blow up a jewelry store, set fire to a night club and murder people in gangland killings. However, Daredevil and Batman soon discover Scarecrow's real plan: From the Statue of Liberty, Scarecrow plans to [[SupernaturalFearInducer spread his fear gas]] across New York, leading to untold death and suffering.
** ''[[ComicBook/MagdalenaDaredevil Magdalena/Daredevil]]: The Devil in Longhand'', by Phil Hester: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent unnamed demon]] is an ancient being who, after being captured and tortured by a group of monks, decided to make himself more powerful. Setting up a scheme to steal the innocence of [[WouldHurtAChild children]], he kidnapped a dozen of young [[RevengeByProxy descendants of the men who tortured him]]. Turning the children into statues, he made an armor for himself out of their [[YourSoulIsMine souls]] and desired to bind them to himself for eternity. When [[ComicBook/TheMagdalena Magdalena]] and Daredevil tracked him down he used children's souls as a HumanShield and orders his enslaved children to kill them.

** Issues #124-125 & ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilSpiderMan Daredevil/Spider-Man]]'': [[FromNobodyToNightmare Copperhead]] started as Lawrence Chesney, who took the mantle of the Copperhead character and enacted his revenge. Copperhead began killing criminals and killed a cop who tried to stop him, but quickly establishes himself as a creepy killer who put pennies on the eyes of the victims he just killed. Copperhead went to Hell after he died and made a DealWithTheDevil, returning to Earth as an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead lich]]. At this point, Copperhead, fueled by nothing more than a burning hatred of Daredevil, began a [[MobWar violent turf war]] with [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]], which cost the lives of many people. Copperhead used those deaths as sacrifices to the Devil, gathering power from those deaths and using it to transform part of New York into a version of Hell. Copperhead plans to sacrifice Daredevil and ComicBook/SpiderMan to open a portal to Hell and cause the downfall of mankind.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Bullseye}}'', by Ed Brisson et al.: [[AxCrazy Teodor Zarco]] is a Columbian drug lord who lords over [[TheCartel the Black Knife Cartel]] with a sadistic, iron fist. Teodor gained infamy when he captured a squad of federal agents investigating his activities and tortured to death everyone who has ever known them in front of the agents one by one. Planning to expand the Black Knife to America, Teodor is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing a man to death as slowly as he can, and later is seen getting ready to butcher dozens of his minions who were stealing some of his drugs, planning to cut them all up and ship them to their mothers in little baggies. Upon being investigated by more federal agents, Teodor captures them all and plans to [[FedToTheBeast feed them to his pet tiger]], before betraying and trying to kill his American partner just for irritating him. Even in a comic featuring the world's greatest assassin Bullseye, Teodor stands out with his sadistically vile actions for a mere drug lord.

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-->-- '''Bullseye''', ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' Vol. 2 #12

* Multiple volumes:

** Issues #124-125 & ''Daredevil[=/=]ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[FromNobodyToNightmare Copperhead]] started as Lawrence Chesney, who took the mantle of the Copperhead character and enacted his revenge. Copperhead began killing criminals and killed a cop who tried to stop him, but quickly establishes himself as a creepy killer who put pennies on the eyes of the victims he just killed. Copperhead went to Hell after he died and made a DealWithTheDevil, returning to Earth as an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead lich]]. At this point, Copperhead, fueled by nothing more than a burning hatred of Daredevil, began a [[MobWar violent turf war]] with [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]], which cost the lives of many people. Copperhead used those deaths as sacrifices to the Devil, gathering power from those deaths and using it to transform part of New York into a version of Hell. Copperhead plans to sacrifice Daredevil and Spider-Man to open a portal to Hell and cause the downfall of mankind.
** Issues #180 & 333-337: The self-proclaimed "[[AdiposeRex King of the Sewers]]" is a hulking thug with a chokehold on the Manhattan sewer system. Amassing a following of dozens of glassy-eyed, haggard slaves, the King regularly cycles through "[[SexSlave queens]]" to serve his vile pleasures, body and soul, killing them whenever he tires of them. The King has no respect for human life, even that of his own followers; he throws one of his own followers to a sewer monster on a whim, kills two more as they beg for mercy to offer their blood to a malign being known as the Devourer, and threatens to wipe out an entire community of underground-dwelling innocents on his way to killing Matt Murdock.
** Issues #205 & 216-217: [[{{Sadist}} Paddy O'Hanlon]], better known as "the Gael", is a particularly sadistic PsychoForHire who abandoned [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the IRA]] when he realized [[AxCrazy he loved killing more for its own sake]] than the politics. The Gael leaves a trail of bodies behind him in his attempt to kill not only an old associate of his who knows his identity, but the man's daughter as well. In his later appearances, attempting to avenge his earlier defeat at Murdock's hands, the Gael goes on to murder innocent guards, nurses, a bar full of people, and several of his old IRA contacts, always [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming permitting them to scream]] and beg so he can find peace in murder.

* ''Daredevil vs. Vapora'', written by Mindy Newell: [[{{Pyromaniac}} Vapora]] is a [[FogOfDoom sapient being made of gasoline vapor]] that relishes in [[ManOnFire setting innocent people on fire]]. Taking advantage of people who carelessly use gasoline to clean their homes, Vapora manipulates the fumes to open sources of heat so she can burn her victims alive. Preferring to [[WouldHurtAChild target children and families]], Vapora burns down an entire apartment building, giving a young girl third-degree burns and killing many of the tenants still trapped inside. She later sets a mother on fire in front of her own baby and attempts to burn down a garage containing two teenagers and a 4-year old girl. [[{{Sadist}} Taking sadistic glee in the pain and suffering of others]], Vapora represents the very worst dangers that gasoline fumes can bring.
* ''The Man Without Fear'' issues #4-5, by Creator/FrankMiller: [[PsychoForHire Larks]] is one of [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]]'s chief enforcers. A [[ProfessionalKiller killer without conscience]], Larks begins murdering his way through a chain of subordinates who have grown sloppy with Larks also being given oversight over what to do with a captive girl named Mickey. It is revealed Larks oversees a division dedicated to [[WouldHurtAChild torturing, raping, and murdering children]] on camera which he delivers Mickey to, before carelessly executing a cab driver once Daredevil arrives.

* ''Bullseye'', by Ed Brisson et al.: [[AxCrazy Teodor Zarco]] is a Columbian drug lord who lords over [[TheCartel the Black Knife Cartel]] with a sadistic, iron fist. Teodor gained infamy when he captured a squad of federal agents investigating his activities and tortured to death everyone who has ever known them in front of the agents one by one. Planning to expand the Black Knife to America, Teodor is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] torturing a man to death as slowly as he can, and later is seen getting ready to butcher dozens of his minions who were stealing some of his drugs, planning to cut them all up and ship them to their mothers in little baggies. Upon being investigated by more federal agents, Teodor captures them all and plans to [[FedToTheBeast feed them to his pet tiger]], before betraying and trying to kill his American partner just for irritating him. Even in a comic featuring the world's greatest assassin Bullseye, Teodor stands out with his sadistically vile actions for a mere drug lord.
* ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}: Assassin'', written by Creator/FrankMiller: [[AxCrazy Arthur Berry]] is a brutal ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} operative [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first introduced]] torturing and murdering a possible "subversive" on the flimsiest suspicion of the man being an assassin. Perry's history, which SHIELD deliberately covered up to keep him on as an agent, is far darker, including the murder of his entire family and episodes of rape and murder dating back to the time he was a kid. When he's brought back with an augmented cyborg body after a brush with Elektra, Perry promptly slaughters the man who brought him back and goes about brutally killing every SHIELD agent in his path. Perry's sociopathy attracts the attention of the demonic Beast, and Perry eagerly signs on with the Beast's plans of [[NukeEm destroying all humanity in a nuclear apocalypse]].

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}[=/=]Daredevil: King of New York'', written by Creator/AlanGrant: [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] has been [[ArmsDealer running guns]] for [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], from Gotham City to New York, [[TheStarscream but has his own agenda in mind]]. He hires Catwoman to gather information on Kingpin, seeming making plans to usurp Kingpin's position as New York's reigning crime lord. Daredevil and Batman team up to stop one of Scarecrow's trucks that was supposed to be delivering guns, but find it is full of bombs instead, with Scarecrow intending to kill Batman and Daredevil, along with the men driving the van. Scarecrow arrives in New York and uses his fear gas to force some of Kingpin's men to work for him. Scarecrow then begins a reign of terror having his men shoot up a restaurant, blow up a jewelry store, set fire to a night club and murder people in gangland killings. However, Daredevil and Batman soon discover Scarecrow's real plan: From the Statue of Liberty, Scarecrow plans to [[SupernaturalFearInducer spread his fear gas]] across New York, leading to untold death and suffering.
** ''ComicBook/TheMagdalena[=/=]Daredevil: The Devil in Longhand'', written by Phil Hester: The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent unnamed demon]] is an ancient being who, after being captured and tortured by a group of monks, decided to make himself more powerful. Setting up a scheme to steal the innocence of [[WouldHurtAChild children]], he kidnapped a dozen of young [[RevengeByProxy descendants of the men who tortured him]]. Turning the children into statues, he made an armor for himself out of their [[YourSoulIsMine souls]] and desired to bind them to himself for eternity. When Magdalena and Daredevil tracked him down he used children's souls as a HumanShield and orders his enslaved children to kill them.