History Characters / MCUMattMurdock

** He shows up briefly in ''Echo'' where he fights the titular character along with some of Fisk's goons and wins.

* TheCameo: He appears in a [[SmallRoleBigImpact very brief but important]] role in ''Spider-Man: No Way Home'' where he serves as a lawyer for Peter Parker and gets the charges against him dropped.

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!!''[[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock]] / ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''

* GutturalGrowler: Similar to [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Christian Bale's Batman]], he adopts a much gruffer and growlier voice than normal when he's in costume. In ''Daredevil'' season 2, this has faded and he uses his normal voice, albeit with a more intense tone than Matt uses normally.

* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Matt frequently disarms his opponents of their firearms, and [[PistolWhipping hits them with it]] or [[ThrowingYourGunAtTheEnemy throws it at them]].

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Spider-Man: Freshman Year''

[[folder:Freshman Year Matt Murdock]]

** Becomes an outright RunningGag in ''She-Hulk: Attorney At Law'' at this point. As Matt and Jen raid Leap-Frog's Lily Pad, Matt begins his assault in a proper show of badassery in, naturally, a long, dark hallway full of bad guys to beat up. But before he can finish off the rest of the mooks, [[{{Pun}} She]]-[[JustForPun Hulk]]-[[HurricaneOfPuns Smashes]] right down through the ceiling and dispatches the hench-goons instantly, completely stealing his thunder in the process.

* CatchPhrase: Tends to favor "Not so much" when out of costume, "We good?" when in it, and "I'm going to ask you again. Think about your answer" when he's interrogating someone.

-->'''''Jen:''''' ''Bruce [Banner] smashes buildings. I smash fourth walls and bad endings. And sometimes Matt Murdock.'' [[NoFourthWall (smirks at the camera)]].

* WeakButSkilled: Compared to Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Matt lacks SuperStrength or endurance and has a tougher time against multiple opponents. However, he is by far the most skilled in combat, training in a variety of styles such as Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Aikido, Capoeira, Wushu, Kung Fu and Brazilian JiuJitsu, with his heavy experience in fighting and decades of training more than making up for what he lacks in raw power.

-->'''Matt''': Who are you? \\
'''Dex''': [[EvilKnockoff I'm Daredevil.]]

!!''Matt Murdock / ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''

* ExtremityExtremist: He's very fond of using powerful kicks from Taekwondo, Muay Thai and Capoeira in battle.

* WeakButSkilled: Compared to Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Matt lacks SuperStrength or endurance and has a tougher time against multiple opponents. However, he is by far the most skilled in combat, with his heavy experience in fighting and decades of training more than making up for what he lacks in raw power.

* SanitySlippage: In ''Daredevil'' season 3, he starts hallucinating Fisk and is much more prone to rage.

* HurtingHero: His rough childhood, attempting to push the people he cares about away to try and protect them, and losing some of the people he cares about to his enemies clearly give him a lot of pain and anguish in his own series.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' | ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' | ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' | ''Series/{{Echo}}'' | ''Series/DaredevilBornAgain''

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''atthew '''M'''ichael '''M'''urdock. Doubly alliterative: His alias is '''D'''are'''d'''evil. Bonus points for being played by '''C'''harlie '''C'''ox.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Serves as the MCU equivalent to both Batman (both being crusading vigilantes with traumatic childhoods, secret identities, and make use of TerrorHero tactics to use fear as a weapon) as well as to the ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' version of Oliver Queen (helped a lot by the shows being similar in tone and style). In particular, his costume, at least in style, is not dissimilar to [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Christian Bale's Batman costume]].

* BreakoutCharacter: Daredevil has been one of the lesser-known Marvel heroes for quite a while, never quite reaching the popularity of heroes like Franchise/SpiderMan or the Franchise/XMen. After the acclaim of the Netflix series, his popularity has skyrocketed, with his series being considered one of the ''best'' Netflix shows. Daredevil's role in the Marvel TV-verse has even been compared to the way ''Film/IronMan1'' ended up kicking off the MCU. It's no wonder that he was the first character from the Marvel Netflix shows to be introduced in a proper MCU film, specifically ''No Way Home''. It's quite telling that his upcoming series on Creator/DisneyPlus is revealed to come with ''18 episodes'' which is by far the most amount of episodes in any Marvel Creator/DisneyPlus show so far.

!!!'''Voiced By: '''Creator/YuyaUchida (Japanese dub), Sebastián Plaza and Óscar Olivares, Creator/ConsueloPizarro (young) (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Sebastián Rosas (Latin-America Mexican Spanish dub), Manuel Gimeno, Marta Ullod (young) (European Spanish dub), Philippe Maia (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Creator/BernardGabay (Netflix series, European French dub), Creator/FannyBloc (''Daredevil'', young, European French dub), Creator/SylvainAgaesse (Marvel Studios films & series, European French dub)

* FriendsRentControl: Jessica wonders how he can afford his spacious corner apartment, even though he's now a pro bono lawyer and thus earning less money than he was earning at Nelson & Murdock. Like with Karen in the first episode who had the same question, Matt points out to Jessica the billboard across the street makes the value of the flat absolutely plummet in value, so rent is quite cheap, despite the comparatively luxurious living space. It's also been implied that Matt may have inherited Elektra's money after her death.

* CrisisOfFaith: After almost dying during the events of ''The Defenders'' and losing half of his hearing Matt spends most of ''Daredevil'' season 3 bitter at God for constantly making him suffer even comparing himself [[Literature/BookOfJob to Job]] "God's perfect soldier" who got nothing but misery for his trouble. It's left ambiguous at the end of the season if he has resolved his issues with God but he at least isn't cursing his name anymore so things seem better.

* TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: Daredevil was never a team member of ''ComicBook/TheTDefenders'' in the comics, a highly different team from the MCU-version where Daredevil was a founding member. However, after the show came out, a new team called the Defenders was introduced to the comics, including Daredevil.

* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: His first outfit is all black (with a bit of red piping), in an {{Homage}} to a costume from Creator/FrankMiller's ''Man Without Fear'' OriginsEpisode. Melvin eventually builds him a red devil costume in the Season 1 finale, though it does sport black armored parts. In Season 3, he goes back to the black outfit after his red one was destroyed from the Midland Circle collapse in ''The Defenders''. Then, by the time of ''She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'', he has a new suit made that is red and yellow.