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[[folder:In General]]
!!''The Chaste''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

->''"Some say it was just a kid, Hand comes into his village, kills everyone, almost. Kid pulls the knife from the breast of his dead mother, and goes to work. He cuts down some of the Hand's finest warriors, they're lying dead, kid's standing. They give him a name, the Chaste. Kid grows up, rounds up every warrior he can, men, women, young, old, doesn't matter as long as they kick ass and they do, without mercy."''
-->-- '''Stick'''

A clan of warriors formed centuries ago when the Hand's leaders were expelled from K'un-Lun, swept across Asia killing all who stood in their way. A single boy who survived the massacre of his village managed to slay many members of the Hand and he became known as the Chaste, whom the organization was later named after. In ''Daredevil'' Season 1, their presence is hinted when Stick travels to New York in search of something known as the Black Sky, which is highly sought by their enemies. In the following season, their background and role are fully unveiled.
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* ArcWelding[=/=]ConnectedAllAlong:[[spoiler: ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' reveals The Chaste serves the Order of the Crane Mother, actively fighting the Hand while the Iron Fist defends the city of K'un-lun.]]
* AncientTradition: They have operated in secret for centuries.
* ChildSoldiers: They recruit and train prepubescent boys and girls. This also prevents its members from developing personal attachments.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:By ''The Defenders'', all of its members have been wiped out, except for Stick, and he dies towards the end too. Unless Stick was mistaken or someone decides to rebuild it (which is unlikely), it's the end of the Chaste.]]
* {{Foil}}: To K'un-L'un. Both factions are sworn enemies of the Hand and are [[GoodIsNotNice absolutely ruthless in their methods]]. The difference is that the Chaste are far more proactive in hindering their enemy's plans, while K'un-L'un is content to sit back and let the Hand overrun the world as long as they leave them alone. [[spoiler:Later subverted when it's revealed they're the foot soldiers of K'un-Lun.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Their training is brutal and they are willing and expected to carry out assassinations, but are ostensibly on the side of good.
* McNinja: Their fighting styles are ninja-like, and they are multi-racial.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Some of the members' name appear to be just a nickname, such as Stick, Stone, Star, and Shaft.
* SecretWar: Involved in one with the Hand.
* TheSpartanWay: Apart from the brutal training, they are expected to sever and avoid personal or sentimental attachments and devote entirely to the fight against the Hand.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Severely downplayed and only hinted at, as when Stick tells Matt to focus more on his meditation, that it'll do things like accelerate his healing. It's not until ''Iron Fist'' that we start getting confirmation that this is how the Chaste and K'un-Lun operate.
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!!Leaders and Trainers

[[folder:Stick]]
!!''Stick''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You know what they call stuff like that? Gifts. The special kind. The kind that very few people have. Or deserve."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScottGlenn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Paulo Castro (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

->''"You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you?"''

A blind man who trained a young Matt Murdock to fight after realizing the boy has SuperSenses. He is a key leader of The Chaste, and as such has been spearheading the war against The Hand for many, many years. Also served as somewhat of a foster father to Elektra.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Stick in the comics, for all his rough talk and behavior, believed in the sanctity of human life and only killed when necessary. This Stick advocates killing as a matter of course, [[spoiler: and even tries to kill Iron Fist at one point as he knew the Hand needed him for a purpose.]]
* AffectionateNickname: As much as an asshole that he is, Stick does care a great deal about Matt and Elektra and calls the both of them, Matty and Ellie respectfully.
* AnArmAndALeg: In ''The Defenders'', he chops off his hand in order to escape The Hand.
* ArchEnemy: To Alexandra. The two have been waging war for a very long time and have a very personal animosity. Alexandra taking his surrogate daughter [[spoiler:Elektra and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy turning her into the Black Sky]] is just the icing on the cake.]]
* BadassBaritone: A superb fighter and assassin with a deep voice.
* BadassNormal: A master fighter in a world of superhumans. He doesn't even have the chemicals that enhanced Matt's other senses, but he's still taking Matt to school in the main narrative. And according to him, he was killing immortal Hand ninja as a child while armed with nothing but a knife and pure rage. [[spoiler:Of note, he was able to get the upper hand on the resurrected and superpowered Elektra, with one hand, and only lost the fight because he hesitated when he had her at his mercy.]]
* BadassTeacher: He trained both Matt and Elektra in fighting and he's equally strong as well.
* BigGood: He's a lead authority figure for the Chaste, the one organization that has kept the Hand at bay. He also acts as a wise mentor/Nick Fury type character for the ''Defenders'', informing them of their purpose.
* BlindWeaponmaster: He's blind and a skilled swordman.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Matt notes that his sense of morality is strange. For instance, befriending a nurse that can be both TheMedic and a SecretKeeper is bad because relationships of any kind are weakness; cotton sheets feeling like sandpaper is good because it keeps the sleeper tough.
* BrokenPedestal: Between abandoning him and his contrasting world view it'd be an understatement to say Matt no longer looks up to him.
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Is killed by Elektra in Episode 6 of ''Defenders''.]]
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His own incredible physical abilities and those he passed on to Matt were entirely gained through training, unlike Matt, who was seeminlgy mutated by the chemicals that blinded him. [[spoiler:And he's been killing the Hand since he was a child.]] However, given he's a member of [[spoiler:the Chaste]], who serve [[spoiler:the monks of K'un-Lun and Shou-Lao the Undying]], he may have mystical connections as well, as hinted at by his talk of meditation.
* ChildSoldiers: Every trope that applies to Stick's interactions with Matt, applies to Elektra as well. Matt even accuses Stick as being a Cult leader that picks up lost and hurt children to train them in his made up war.
* CompositeCharacter: Uses the general attitude of the comics version of Stick, but the weapon and attitude toward killing of [[OldMaster Master]] Izo, a [[BlindWeaponmaster similar character]] who is also a sensei to Matt Murdock and associated with the Chaste. The combination make for [[AdaptationalJerkass a significantly darker take on the character]]. (In the comics, Stick is a [[KnightInSourArmor foul-mouthed, abusive asshole]], but he believes that all life is sacred and considers the loss of even one life, no matter whom, to be a tragedy. [[PragmaticHero Not that this stops him when he deems it necessary.]])
* CoolOldGuy: Said by his actor to be in his late 90s but still has the strength of a man in his 20s.
* CrypticConversation: Much to Matt's annoyance, Stick can never seem to be clear when he talks about the "oncoming war".
* CynicalMentor: He is upfront in letting his student know that the world is unfair and dangerous, and certainly doesn't mollycoddle Matt despite his youth.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a petty crook in his youth and spent some time in jail (and points out how being blind made it even worse), before the Chaste took him in.
* DeadpanSnarker: Oh yes.
-->'''Young!Matt:''' ''[sensing a woman on a date]'' Her skin's too hot, Her heart's beating fast. Is she sick?\\
'''Stick:''' Worse. She's in love.

-->'''Sowande:''' That army you used to fight alongside... the Chaste. They captured me once. This was years ago. Long before you were born. I had been captive three days when they heard my soldiers approach. The fortress fell silent. The gate remained locked. The Chaste couldn’t comprehend it, but the soldiers outside, they were following my orders. They sealed the gates, allowed no one in or out. On the third day, your soldiers turned on each other. By the fourth, they’d run out of water. By the sixth, no food. I believe it was the tenth day when they knelt before me. Begging to make it stop.\\
'''Stick:''' Well... if I kneel before you right now, shithead, will you shut up?
* DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler: He loses one of his hands in ''Defenders'' and is killed in it too.]]
* {{Determinator}}: The other thing Stick shares with Matt, after teaching Murdock to use his SuperSenses. After Matt stops him from killing the Black Sky, Stick tracks the boy down and finishes the job off screen. ''An ancient blind man with a bow and arrow manages to catch up with a caravan of automobiles on foot and assassinates a human weapon being guarded by half a dozen yakuza with machine guns.'' Then he escapes without a scratch.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Maiming, coldly threatening and subsequently beheading a Yakuza boss all while complaining he's [[TheSpartanWay a disgrace for his weakness]]. That's how we first meet Stick.
* FakeGuestStar: He's more or less a member of the Defenders in all but name. He's with them one episode after the Defenders first meet, continues fighting alongside them and guiding them all the way until [[spoiler:his death.]] The only reason he isn't an official Defender is because he didn't have his own show and backstory to build up until ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''.
* FatalFlaw: His all-or-nothing attitude is repeatedly shown to be so detrimental to his mission and his well-being that it's basically self-destructive. Best shown when [[spoiler: he knocks out Luke Cage with some laced incense so that he can quickly kill Danny and stop the Hand from using him. This bites him hard when Electra appears and Stick has to fight her off one-handed without anyone to back him up. While he does over-power her, she ultimately kills him.]]
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:After being captured by the Hand members, he is tortured by having little bamboo sticks being shoved under his fingernails.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: He's crass, caustic, and [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] to offensive levels. And those are his ''good'' points. But you'll never find a stauncher ally against the forces of evil.
* GracefulLoser: Once Matt manages to inflict a significant amount of damage on him, he backs down and grins, commenting maybe Matt isn't entirely lost yet.
* HandicappedBadass: He is blind, and unlike Matt he was born that way, using it to show him there are some people less lucky than he. [[spoiler:He later loses a hand in ''The Defenders'' and is still capable of putting up one hell of a fight, including getting the upper hand on the resurrected and superpowered Elektra.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He's been traveling the world killing bad guys linked to some mysterious plot involving the Black Sky.
* HyperAwareness: He has the same degree of awareness as Matt only without Matt's SuperSenses.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his talk to Matt about severing emotional attachments because they make a person, Stick lets his fondness for Elektra get the better of him, and his hesitation when she comes to capture Danny allows her to kill him.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: How Elektra finishes him off with her sword.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: A blind archer is going to have these by default, and it's best displayed when he ricochets a bottle cap around the room and into the bin. He's also incredibly capable with a crossbow while in a moving car, killing a Hand ninja while shooting [[OffhandBackhand ''behind'' him]].
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Strongly believes in averting this trope, and teaches Matt to do the same.
* {{Jerkass}}: He really is quite an asshole, and even Matt can barely stand him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Broke off training with Matt when Matt gave him a bracelet he made, showing that Matt was growing too attached. When he turned up 20 years later, he and Matt got into a fight and trashed Matt's apartment. [[spoiler:After Stick left, Matt found the bracelet in the wreckage, showing that Stick had carried the bracelet around for all those years and that the feeling was mutual after all. He also seemed to sound impressed with the whole fight before leaving.]]
** Comes up again in ''The Defenders''. [[spoiler:For all his talk that Elektra wasn't Elektra anymore and needed to be killed, he hesitated when he had her at his mercy. This gets him killed.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him cleanly cutting off a man's hand and head with his katana.
* KnightInSourArmor: You will not find a savior with less faith in humanity than Stick.
* KnightTemplar: He's dedicated to a his own cause on behalf of an order, with talk of an upcoming ominous war and the need for soldiers.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:He cuts off his right hand to escape Alexandra's imprisonment.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Doesn't really seem bothered by [[spoiler: the loss of his hand]] ''at all''. Jessica's a little unnerved by this.
* MasterOfYourDomain: uses meditation to heal injuries and live longer than he has any right to.
* McNinja: A Caucasian martial arts expert and stealthy assassin.
* MeaningfulName: Alongside the other leader of the Chaste, Stone. Sticks and Stones will break your bones.
* MentorArchetype: A grizzled fighter who trains Matt from a young age to use his gifts.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Elektra ends up killing Stick.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Killing is often his first answer to most problems, which puts him at odds with Matt a lot. [[spoiler:He comes to the conclusion that killing Danny is the only way to keep the Hand from using him and the Iron Fist to achieve their goals. He also thinks that the resurrected Elektra can't be saved and must be put down. To his credit, his hesitation to kill Elektra when he gets the chance to do so ends up getting him killed.]]
* NoNameGiven: Everyone just calls him "Stick", even the show credits.
* NotBloodSiblings: So that makes it okay that he sent his daughter to seduce his son.
* OlderThanTheyLook: According to Creator/ScottGlenn, Stick is in his late 90s yet has the strength and physicality of a twenty two year old.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Just call me... Stick," he says when he talks with Matt. And true to his words, everyone does.
* TheOrder: Stick belongs to the Chaste, an order of warriors dedicated to stop the Hand and had waged a long war against them.
* PapaWolf: While he has a bad way of showing it, he is extremely protective of both Matt and Elektra. [[spoiler: When a Chaste member realizes what Elektra is and says she needs to be killed, Stick kills him instead.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Unwittingly becomes one to Matt. When he finds out about this, he leaves because it interferes with his spartan method of teachings. [[spoiler:He was also one to Elektra too, only much nicer to her than he was to Matt.]]
* PetTheDog: When he and young Matt started having genuine affection for each other, he decided to stop training Matt to be one of the Chaste and leave him to grow up semi-normally.
** [[spoiler:Stick displays some genuinely fatherly affection towards Elektra when she is a child. He is the only one among the Chaste to show her kindness, while everyone else fears and is repulsed by her due to Elektra being a Black Sky. After she kills one of the students in self-defense, the Chaste sentences her to die and Stick saves her by delivering her to a wealthy Greek couple to keep her safe.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:his hesitation to kill her after she's brought back by the Hand leads to her killing him instead.]]
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: It's entirely possible that he was always an asshole and just happened to eventually become a senior. Either way, he's full of vicious insults, cynicism and obscenities.
* ShadowArchetype:
** To Matt. He is what Matt is afraid of becoming, a pure soldier with no trace of humanity.
** To Nick Fury. Both serve as mentors to their respective {{Super Team}}s, both have eyesight disabilities, both are in charge of organizations that directly fight the main villainous force (SHIELD for Nick Fury, The Chaste for Stick), and both have resorted to morally questionable means. Nick Fury personally visits and recruits the Avengers one by one, while Stick only had history with one of the Defenders. Nick inspires the Avengers to be heroes by reaching for their inner goodness, while Stick pushes them to be hardened soldiers who must do what is necessary to fight a war.
* SherlockScan: Best demonstrated when he deduces the contents of an ice cream right down to how many different dairies the milk came from and the habits of the guy who sold it to them, and he teaches Matt to do the same.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: He doesn't go easy on Matt - what we see of his training could qualify it as TrainingFromHell. To his credit, Matt adapts quickly to his style.
* SirSwearsALot: A significant number of his lines contain the word "shit" or "asshole" in some way.
--> '''Stick:''' (''to Sowande after a BreakingSpeech'') Well...if I kneel before you right now, shithead, will you shut up?

--> '''Stick:''' (''moments after revealing he serves the Iron Fist'') Because, this one, the immortal Iron Fist, living weapon and protector of the ancient city, is still ''a thundering dumbass.''
* SoleSurvivor: Stick claims that by "The Defenders" all the members of The Chaste are dead, except for him. Then [[spoiler: he also dies by the end of the miniseries]].
* SoProudOfYou: In Season 2, he tells this to Matt after [[spoiler:learning how to detect the Hand ninjas with their breathing and managing to save him just in time.]]
* TheSpartanWay: He's a believer in this, and even stopped training Matt when the kid started looking at him as more than a combat instructor. He even mentions the Spartans when criticizing Matt's current life.
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: He employs a bow and arrow when he needs to kill someone from a distance.
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:By the end of Season 2, his relationship with Matt improved after working together to bring down the Hand in New York.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's every bit the remorseless killer for his cause that Matt isn't.
* WouldHurtAChild: Indeed, he would. In fact, he would kill one.
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[[folder:Stone]]
!!''Stone''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jasson Finney
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DavidSobolov
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

->''"Will he be ready when the doors open?"''

Another member of the Chaste, working with Stick.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Is traditionally Stick's second-in-command in the comics, but his single appearance implies him being senior in this incarnation.
* BadassBaritone: Due to being voiced by David Sobolov, whose voice is deep enough to voice [[Series/TheFlash2014 talking gorillas]].
* CoveredInScars: His back is a road map of old wounds.
* TheUnreveal: His face is never shown onscreen.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? Shows up at the end of the seventh episode of the first season of Daredevil; is never seen or even heard from again. In ''The Defenders'', Stick claims that all the Chaste aside from himself are dead, meaning it's possible he was KilledOffscreen by [[spoiler:Elektra]] or another member of the Hand.
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[[folder:Star]]
!!''Star''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LaurenceMason
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A member of the Chaste who helped Stick oversee Elektra's training.
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* CommanderContrarian: Calls Stick out for enlisting Elektra, [[spoiler:a Black Sky]].
* RaceLift: In the comics, he's either Asian or white (his face is never shown).
* ScaryBlackMan: He's a large black man and a member of the Chaste.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Stick [[spoiler:kills him to protect Elektra]].
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!!Warriors and Operatives
[[folder:Elektra Natchios]]
!!''Elektra Natchios''
-->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHand Hand]] page
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[[folder:Jacques Duchamps]]
!!''Jacques Duchamps''
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GillesMarini
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

An agent of the Chaste sent to kill Elektra after she goes rogue.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Fights Elektra in a suit.
* CanonForeigner: There's no Jacques Duchamps in the comics.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Killed with his own sais.
* HonorBeforeReason: Chooses to fight Elektra head on instead of stabbing her in the back when he has the chance.
* RaceNameBasis: Other Chaste members call him the Frenchman.
* SaiGuy: Uses them against Elektra, who takes them after she kills him.
* TooDumbToLive: Has Elektra convinced that he's just some rich French guy looking for a girlfriend. Instead of taking her off somewhere and killing her when she doesn't expect it, he ANNOUNCES that he knows who she is and that he's there to kill her. This ends predictably for him.
* VillainBall: Despite having all but seduced her already, he decides to reveal to Elektra who he is and that he is going to kill her, which ends in his own death.
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[[folder:Quinn]]
!!''Quinn''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ben Thompson
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''

A member of the Chaste operating in New York under Stick's guidance.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: He's mortally injured by Elektra but manages live long enough to to drive and crash outside Matt Murdock's apartment.
* CanonForeigner: There's no member of the Chaste named Quinn in the mainstream Marvel Comics.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He appears alongside a nameless member of the Chaste who perishes alongside him.
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[[folder:Shaft]]
!!''Shaft''
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Marko Zaror
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''

A member of the Chaste operating in Cambodia.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears all black clothing but fights on the side of good.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He appears for a single scene, in which he's killed by [[spoiler:Elektra]].
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* SupernaturalMartialArts: Severely downplayed and only hinted at, as when Stick tells Matt to focus more on his meditation, that it'll do things like accelerate his healing. It's not until ''Iron Fist'' that we start getting confirmation that this is how the Chaste and K'un-Lun operate

* SuperNaturalMartialArtists: Severely downplayed and only hinted at, as when Stick tells Matt to focus more on his meditation, that it'll do things like accelerate his healing. It's not until ''Iron Fist'' that we start getting confirmation that this is how the Chaste and K'un-Lun operate

-->See the [[Characters/MCUTheHandFiveFingers The Five Fingers]] page

-->''"You gonna spend your life crying and rocking yourself to sleep at night? Or are you gonna dig deep and find out what it takes to reshuffle those cards life dealt you?"''

-->''"Will he be ready when the doors open?"''

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Jasson Finney, Creator/DavidSobolov (voice)

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Laurence Mason

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse? Shows up at the end of the seventh episode of the first season of Daredevil; is never seen or even heard from again. In ''The Defenders'', Stick claims that all the Chaste aside from himself are dead, meaning it's possible he was KilledOffscreen.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His own incredible physical abilities and those he passed on to Matt were entirely gained through training, unlike Matt, who was seeminlgy mutated by the chemicals that blinded him. [[spoiler:And he's been killing the Hand since he was a child.]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/Daredevil2015'' | ''Series/TheDefenders2017''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil 2015}}''

* {{Foil}}: To Nick Fury. Both serve as mentors to their respective {{Super Team}}s, both have eyesight disabilities, both are in charge of organizations that directly fight the main villainous force (SHIELD for Nick Fury, The Chaste for Stick), and both have resorted to morally questionable means. Nick Fury personally visits and recruits the Avengers one by one, while Stick only had history with one of the Defenders. Nick inspires the Avengers to be heroes by reaching for their inner goodness, while Stick pushes them to be hardened soldiers who must do what is necessary to fight a war.

* ShadowArchetype: By the end of his self-titled episode, it's clear that he's what Matt is afraid of becoming; a pure soldier with no trace of humanity.

* BigGood: He's a lead authority figure for the Chaste, the one organization that has kept the Hand at bay. He also acts as a wise mentor/Nick Fury type character for the ''Defenders'', informing them off their purpose.

--> '''Young!Matt:''' (''Sensing a woman on a date'') Her skin's too hot, Her heart's beating fast. Is she sick?\\

--> '''Sowande:''' That army you used to fight alongside...the Chaste. They captured me once. This was years ago. Long before you were born. I had been captive three days when they heard my soldiers approach. The fortress fell silent. The gate remained locked. The Chaste couldn’t comprehend it, but the soldiers outside, they were following my orders. They sealed the gates, allowed no one in or out. On the third day, your soldiers turned on each other. By the fourth, they’d run out of water. By the sixth, no food. I believe it was the tenth day when they knelt before me. Begging to make it stop.\\
'''Stick:''' Well...if I kneel before you right now, shithead, will you shut up?

* FatalFlaw: His all-or-nothing attitude is repeatedly shown to be so detrimental to his mission and his well-being that it's basically self-destructive. Best shown when [[spoiler: the Hand captured him, he resorted to cutting off his right hand at the wrist to escape. This action was not only rash but rather unnecessary, as breaking - or, more drastically, cutting off - his ''thumb'' would have allowed him to escape and not risk shock or blood lose or, y'know, ''lose a limb''.]] This bites him in the ass later when [[spoiler: he faces a brainwashed Elektra, and he doesn't have his other hand to rely on.]]
** Granted, he had very little time to attempt either of those maneuvers as he would have died before then. And anyway, it is not this act that gets him killed, but ultimately his compassion.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Gilles Marini