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Elektra Natchios

"I know who I am. The Hand did not reduce me to this. This is who I've always been."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: Greek

Affiliation(s): Chaste (formerly), Columbia University (formerly), Hand

Portrayed By: Élodie Yung, Lily Chee (young)

Voiced By: Judith Noguera (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub)

Appearances: Daredevil | The Defenders

"I don't care about good or bad. Truth is, I've never felt more whole, more alive, than right now."

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

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• Above Good and Evil: The quote on her page image. She says that after Matt tries to get through to her by telling her that he feels goodness in her.
• Action Dress Rip: Elektra does this before she and Matt start fighting the Yakuza in "Regrets Only".
• Action Girl: From a young age, she was trained by the Chaste to become a formidable warrior.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Her comic counterpart has blue eyes, but this adaptation of Elektra possesses dark brown eyes instead.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, Elektra was born to Hugo and Christina Natchios, her biological parents. While in the MCU, she is Conveniently an Orphan, then taken in by Hugo and Christina at Stick's request, and they raised her as their daughter.
• Adaptation Personality Change: This Elektra is a lot more flirty and cheekier than her usual portrayal, who is typically quite calm and composed.
• Adaptational Badass: Comics Elektra is undoubtedly formidable and dangerous, but the MCU version is given the status of a Black Sky, a prophesied Living Weapon that is sought by the Hand, making this depiction of her far more dangerous.
• Adaptational Modesty: 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.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: 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 Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, and Super-Speed. She also ages much slower than a normal human.
• Adaptational Villainy: This version of Elektra seems to be The Sociopath, but without her father's comic-book death as the catalyst.
• Affably Evil: Despite being an assassin who has zero compunctions about killing, she's pretty playful and personable.
• Affectionate Nickname: Stick calls her "Ellie".
• The Ageless: 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.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's drawn by Matt's inner darkness and greatly approves when he becomes violent and bloodthirsty. It's later Played With though as she also becomes drawn to Matt's good influence on her and decides to reject her destiny as the Black Sky because of him.
• All of the Other Reindeer: She wasn't well-liked by the other initiates of the Chaste. Because she was a Black Sky, and they knew it.
• Ambiguously Human: It's never really specified what a Black Sky is. Elektra looks human enough, but she's a bloodthirsty killer even as a child and after her resurrection she's inhumanly fast and strong, and the Hand need her help for reasons that are never really clear.
• Anti-Hero: She's an assassin, but is hunting members of a criminal organization that doesn't care if they destroy entire cities.
• Apocalypse Maiden: She's the Black Sky that the Hand have been hunting down for years.
• Assassin Outclassin': 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.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: 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.
• Ax-Crazy: Elektra tolerates killing more than Matt does.
• Back from the Dead: The Hand brings her back to life in The Defenders.
• Badass Normal: 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 Empowered Badass Normal.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Inverted. In "Fish in the Jailhouse", Elektra uses her sais to grab Danny's wrist as he attacks her with the Iron Fist.
• Batman Gambit: 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 guides the Fist into the barrier.
• Battle Couple: 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.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: 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".
• Became Their Own Antithesis: Goes from fighting the Hand to becoming its leader.
• Becoming the Mask: 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.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Has loads of these with Matt. He insists that he's fully moved on from her and many of her attempts to flirt with him end up annoying or making him angry, but it becomes clear that they enjoy fighting together and despite Matt's insistences, it's clear that he still has lingering feelings for her.
• Beta Outfit: Her vigilante outfit for most of the second season consist of a black vest, black pants, and a red sleeveless turtleneck. In the season finale, Melvin Potter makes her an upgraded red and black outfit that provides her more protection.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Karen's Betty for Matt.
• Bifurcated Weapon: After getting ressurected by The Hand, she chooses two wakizashi short swords that can be combined into one as her weapon of choice.
• Big Bad: Becomes this for the final two episodes of The Defenders after killing Alexandra.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Downplayed. It's clear that Murakami, Madame Gao, and Bakuto aren't too happy with Elektra's takeover and plan to kill her once 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 give in to her darker impulses and be free... and, of course, she wants to get the attention of Matt.
• Big Eater: 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.
• Black Bra and Panties: 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.
• Black Cloak: After being resurrected by the Hand, she wears one to conceal her identity.
• Blatant Lies: Two lines, two lies.
  Elektra: [sais in hand] We need to talk.
  Stick: [raising sword] I'm all ears.
• Blood Knight: She is always up for a good fight.
• Came Back Wrong: 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 she should act like the person she was before is basically dead. Played straight later on when she does get her memories back, and turns on them for her own end.
• Came Back Strong: Getting resurrected as the Black Sky by The Hand, enhanced her physiology to Super-Soldier levels. 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.
• Casting Gag: This is not the first time Élodie Yung played an assassin who frequently wears red, dual wields blades and is the apprentice of a Master Swordsman.
• Child Soldiers: 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 gave her a good life.
• Color Character: She's the Black Sky.
• Color Motif: The majority of her outfits, her bathrobe, and the car she stole to take Matt out on a joyride are red.
• Combat Pragmatist: She's willing to use anything she can to defeat her opponents. This includes emptied submachine guns, a corkscrew, a rebar, and even stealing her opponent's sais to kill them with it.
• Cool Car: During the night she and Matt first meet, she drives away with him in a red convertible sports car that she stole. She also drives a dark green Ferrari on the way to Roscoe Sweeney's mansion to break into it with Matt.
• Cool Sword: Post-resurrection, she wields a wakizashi sword that can split into two.
• The Corrupter: While Matt was in college she tried to make him a killer by presenting him with the man who ordered his father's death. On Stick's orders, it turns out.
• Costume Evolution: 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.
• Curtains Match the Window: Both her hair and her irises are dark brown.
• Danger Takes a Backseat: Elektra hides in the back of Stick's car to ambush his two underlings.
• Dark Action Girl: 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Elektra confesses to having committed her first kill at the age of twelve, with no other justification than to see what it felt like.
• Dating Catwoman: She's the Catwoman of the arrangement, being an incredibly toxic influence to Matt in their younger years and remains one to him when they reunite in the present day.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's got a bit more "snark" than "deadpan", considering how she loves getting under peoples' skin like this.
• Death of Personality: Following her resurrection, Alexandra tells Stick that Elektra is dead and all that remains in her "vessel" is the Black Sky.
• Demoted to Extra: As a result of Stick taking his place as Elektra's paternal figure, Hugo Natchios is given far less prominence here. In the comics, 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.
• Destination Defenestration: After killing Stick and knocking out Matt, Luke, and Jessica in "Ashes, Ashes", Elektra escapes with Danny by jumping out a window, using a car parked below to break her landing.
• Destructive Romance: 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 Wild Card), and ultimately results in her death and resurrection by the Hand when she chooses to side with Matt against them.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: 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.
• Didn't Think This Through: 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.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Elektra gets stabbed by Nobu instead of Matt, leading to her death while Matt cradles her in his arms. Subverted following her resurrection.
• The Dog Bites Back: The Fingers really shouldn't have implied to Elektra that she was replaceable.
• The Dragon: To Alexandra. Until she kills her and takes over anyway.
• Driven to Suicide: After finding out of her true nature as a Black Sky, she contemplates killing herself by jumping off a building. Matt manages to talk her out of it.
• Dude Magnet: She tells Matt that every man she's ever met has wanted to sleep with her. True to form, Matt senses the heartbeats of several partygoers at the Yakatomi Building elevate after she takes off her coat to reveal her red dress.
• Dual Wielding: 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 near the end of the series.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Referenced via flashback in "Nelson v. Murdock" by Foggy as that "Greek chick" Matt dated in college. In Season 2, we see some of their college dating life.
• Eating the Eye Candy: In "Regrets Only", Elektra checks out Matt as 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 red dress—Matt notes several elevated heart rates.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Elektra is already a badass Action Girl from the start. After she was resurrected with the Resurrection Elixir, she gains superhuman strength, speed, and durability.
• Enfant Terrible: She murdered her first victim at age twelve as she wanted to know what killing somebody felt like.
• Erotic Asphyxiation: 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.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: 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. Despite the latter, she is ultimately the one to kill him in The Defenders.
• Evil Brit: Elektra sports an RP accent that's blended with Élodie Yung's natural accent. The "evil" part kicks in after she's revived by Alexandra.
• Evil Costume Switch: Her outfit as The Black Sky looks quite similar to the outfit Melvin Potter made for her but with the colors inverted.
• Evil Feels Good: Elektra is mildly aroused by killing Alexandra.
• Evil Is Easy: 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 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.
• Eye Scream: 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.

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• Femme Fatale: She frequently uses her stunning good looks for infiltrations and assassinations.
• Fighting Your Friend: In "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", Elektra goes after Stick for sending an assassin after her.
• Final Boss: Takes over the Hand for the last two episodes of The Defenders.
• 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:
  • The color scheme of her outfit (black with red highlights) is very similar to the Hand ninjas outfits in season 2.
  • After taking a drink out of the German beer in Matt's refrigerator, she tells him it tastes like piss. Which is how Stick describes it too.
• The Gadfly: She really enjoys getting under Matt's skin.
• Genius Bruiser: She's both an incredibly deadly assassin and an extremely clever manipulator who's fluent in multiple languages.
• Get Out!: Said word for word by Elektra not once, but twice towards Stick in "Guilty as Sin".
• Good Feels Good: Says as much when she's dying.
• Gorgeous Greek: Naturally, it wouldn't be Elektra without this trope. While she is still very beautiful, she is ethnically Asian from an indeterminate origin that is only Greek by adoption.
• Head-Turning Beauty: 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.
• The Heavy: Serves this role 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. Fittingly she ends up becoming the Big Bad of the final two episodes after killing Alexandra.
• Heel–Face Turn: 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.
• Hero Killer: 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.
• Hijacked by Ganon: In the antepenultimate episode of The Defenders, she suddenly kills Alexandra and takes control of The Hand, usurping her place as the new Big Bad of the series.
• Hitman with a Heart: 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.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Nobu kills her with her sais.
• Honey Trap: She was sent by Stick to seduce Matt so he can be recruited into The Chaste's war against The Hand. Unfortunately for Stick, she genuinely ends up falling in love with Matt.
• I Am a Monster: Elektra realizes this after she kills the teenage Hand ninja in "Guilty as Sin".
• Immortal Assassin: Getting resurrected by the Hand made her The Ageless and turned her into an even more dangerous assassin.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Nobu, leading to her temporary death. She then uses this tactic to kill Alexandra Reid.
• Improvised Weapon:
  • 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.
• In Love with the Mark: She was sent by Stick to seduce Matt in order to recruit him into the Chaste but fails because she genuinely fell in love with him.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Elektra seems very... excited by Matt's beatdown on Roscoe Sweeney after the man taunts him about killing Matt's father. She also gives an exhale of satisfaction when killing Alexandra.
• Instant Expert: Because she is a Black Sky, Alexandra says that she will master any weapon she chooses.
• In the Back: 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.
• In the Hood: She wears a dark hooded robe after being revived by the Hand.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing:
  • 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 night-time alias instead of by name and makes this clear.
  Elektra: 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?
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her ruthlessness, Elektra does have a kind heart and cares about Matt.
• Jury and Witness Tampering: An unintentional example, as she frightens Gregory Tepper, the medical examiner, into confessing that he forged fake documents and covered up the truth behind the deaths of Frank Castle's family. Unfortunately, this renders his admission inadmissible because it was made under duress.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: She decapitates Alexandra's fresh corpse after claiming her leadership of the Hand.
• Klingon Promotion: Elektra kills Alexandra Reid in "Ashes, Ashes", then takes her place as the leader of the Hand.
• Lady Macbeth: 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.
• Lady in Red: 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.
• Lightning Bruiser: 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.
• Love Confession: When revealing to Matt that she was sent by Stick to seduce him in order to recruit him into the Chaste, she tells him that she failed because she genuinely fell in love with him.
• Love Redeems: It is ultimately Matt's love that convinces her to go against the Hand instead of joining them.
• The Lost Lenore: 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.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She was a very dark version of this for Matt in college, and still is to a degree.
• Manipulative Bitch: 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.
• Master Swordswoman: She's incredibly proficient in using swords in combat as seen when she fights using two wakizashi swords. Justified in that she's a Black Sky and she can thus master any weapon she chooses in armed combat.
• McNinja: She's an Asian assassin who's not from Japan and has Greek citizenship.
• Moe Greene Special: While fighting off Hand assassins in "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel", she kills one of them by stabbing them in the eye with her new sais.
• Morality Pet: She's this to Stick, but getting him to admit it is a completely different story. Tragically, his soft spot for her winds up costing him his life.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: 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.
• Ms. Fanservice: Basically any time Elektra is in her costume counts, not to mention the flashback scene in which she's dressed in form-fitting 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.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: 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.
• My God, What Have I Done?: 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.
• Mysterious Past: 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.
• Mythology Gag: Kills an assassin sent to kill her with his own sais, referencing her own death in the comics. 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 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.
• Neck Lift: 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.
• Neck Snap: Does this to one of Sowande's henchmen to prove to him that she really is the Hand's ultimate weapon.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Jacques Duchamps was comfortably winning his fight against her until he brought out his sais, which she quickly takes from him and kills him with.
• Never Found the Body: Elektra's body was never found after the collapse of Midland Circle in "The Defenders".
• New Old Flame: Much like in the comics, she's this to Matt. This causes tension for Matt as he had recently started dating Karen and true enough, it became one of the catalysts for their relationship falling apart.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: 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.
• Not Brainwashed: Elektra claims this in "The Defenders", but Matt doesn't buy it.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • 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 Screw Destiny. However, Danny counters that no, they are not at all alike, since Elektra killed her masters and Danny's masters taught him loyalty.

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• Off with Her Head!: 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.
• One-Woman Army: As the Black Sky, Elektra is established as being one of the best fighters in the world to the point that Alexandra tells her that she has more power and skill in combat than anyone can learn in a single lifetime. 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 Final Battle she is considered the most dangerous opponent the group has to beat.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: She fatally stabs Alexandra in the chest while she's in the middle of arrogantly boasting about having captured Danny.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: 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.
• Pistol-Whipping: 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.
• Playing Drunk: She and Matt pretend to be a drunk couple looking for privacy to fornicate in order to fool the security in the Yakatomi Building during their infiltration.
• Prefers Proper Names: 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.
• Professional Killer: She works as an assassin, killing the enemies of the Chaste.
• Race Lift: Élodie Yung is French-Cambodian, but Elektra's characterization firmly establishes her as being Greek. In this continuity, Elektra was an Asian child who was adopted by Ambassador Natchios and his wife, so she's only Greek by adoption.
• Rags to Riches: 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 adoptive father's business when he passed away.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Becomes this after being resurrected as the Black Sky in The Defenders, wearing a new red and black costume that resembles her previous one but with the colors inverted.
• Red Is Heroic: Becomes this when she decides to help Matt in the Season 2 finale.
• Red Is Violent: Elektra tends to wear a red scarf and red clothing, and she can be highly vicious in battle.
• Rich Bitch: How Matt sees her at first.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: 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.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • 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 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 Unholy Matrimony than Happily Ever After.
  • 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 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.
• Safety in Indifference: 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 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.
• Screw Destiny: Matt convinces her to spurn her destiny as the Black Sky and help him take down the Hand. Unfortunately, she gets killed while doing so and the Hand revives her to make her the Black Sky not long afterwards.
• Secret-Keeper: Elektra knows full well that Matt is Daredevil.
• Shadow Archetype: 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 at 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 abandoning them at a young age, and have an inner darkness they feel in one another. The difference is that Matt refuses to give in to this darkness by avoiding killing while Elektra has no such compunctions and even enjoys killing people.
• Slashed Throat:
  • 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.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of the Chaste to be seen so far.
• Sociopathic Hero: Her actress even describes her 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. This is the first clue that she is the Black Sky, and she was like this even while being trained.
• The Starscream: In The Defenders, 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.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: 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.
• Strong and Skilled: 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.
• Strong as They Need to Be: Subverted in that, after her resurrection, she seems to fight Luke and Jessica with ease, yet fights on par with the Badass Normal ones, but ultimately gets the better of Danny during their fights and holds back when fighting Matt.
• Super-Senses: As the Black Sky, she was able to take on and kill several Hand ninjas in a dark room without much difficulty.
• Super-Speed: Elektra turns into a dangerous Lightning Bruiser after being bought back from the dead by The Hand with the Resurrection Elixir. She's able to overwhelm opponents such as Daredevil and Iron Fist in one-on-one fights with her inhuman agility and speed and kill multiple Hand ninjas in less than 30 seconds. Danny even said that she moves much faster than anybody he's ever encountered.
• Super-Strength: Elektra's resurrection grants her superhuman strength that allows her to send her opponents flying with one hit.
• Super-Toughness: She managed to get back on her feet not long after Jessica rammed into her with an SUV.
• Super Window Jump: After killing Stick and capturing Danny, she makes her escape by crashing through a window.
• Tainted Veins: Has these on her neck after being slashed in the stomach by a Hand ninja's poisoned blade.
• A Tankard of Moose Urine: She takes a bottle of German beer from Matt's fridge and tells him they taste like piss, which is what Stick also said about the drink.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Matt helps her fight bad guys, but he isn't happy about it due to their past and her attitude toward life.
• That Woman Is Dead: Following her resurrection, Elektra, as she was, is no more, for she has become Black Sky.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Lily Chee plays a twelve-year-old Elektra during flashbacks in the episode "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel" while Élodie Yung plays Elektra as an adult.
• Together in Death: She's entirely willing to spend the rest of her life and the Nothing After Death with Matt, whether fighting against him or alongside him.
• Tomato in the Mirror: She's actually a Black Sky child whom Stick abducted and tried to raise on the side of good.
• Trespassing to Talk: 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.
• Troll: She loves annoying Matt and getting under his skin.
• Troubled Fetal Position: In "Take Shelter", Elektra lies down this way while going to sleep on Matt's bed, slowly regaining her memories.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She killed her first victim at the age of twelve, all because she wanted to know what killing somebody felt like.
• Truer to the Text: 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.
• Turned Against Their Masters: 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.
• Twofer Token Minority: Elektra's female and a person of color.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: 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.
• Uncertain Doom: She's last seen getting caught in the collapse of Midland Circle in The Defenders, but as Matt survived, she may well have too.
• Uptown Girl: 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.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Elektra kills Jacques by stabbing him with his own sais, and promptly claims said sais for herself.
• The Unfettered: 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.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: 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.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: 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 In the Back and decapitating her.
• We Can Rule Together: Elektra offers an alliance to Danny in "Fish in the Jailhouse". He turns her down.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets one from Matt after she ruins Frank Castle's trial by threatening a witness.
• White Shirt of Death:
  • In "Guilty as Sin", Elektra gets her white shirt splattered when she gives the ninja a Slashed Throat.
  • In "The Man in the Box", Elektra is a white sweater of death after killing Jacques Duchamps.
• Worf Had the Flu: Elektra during much "Guilty as Sin" is weakened after being injured by the Hand ninjas with poisoned weaponry. As a result, she can barely walk and is entirely helpless in a fight. When a Hand ninja attacks Matt in his apartment, her attempt to step in and help gets quickly thwarted by the ninja as a result of her weakened state. Had she been fully healthy, she would have easily killed the ninja on her own.
• Working with the Ex: She teams up with Matt to fight the Hand, despite the two of them being a couple and then breaking up while in college.
• Would Harm a Senior: She pulls no punches fighting Stick when she finds out he tried to have her assassinated. In The Defenders, she ends up killing him and later kills Alexandra to take control of The Hand.
• Would Hurt a Child: Elektra slashes a Hand ninja's throat in "Guilty as Sin", despite him only being a teenager.
• Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Elektra taunts Danny about the way the Chaste soldiers screamed when she killed them.
• Wrestler in All of Us: While fighting Yakuza thugs with Matt in the Yakatomi building, she takes out one of them with a clothesline.
• Yandere: 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.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: 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.
• You Are Worth Hell: 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.
• Young and in Charge: 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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