Matthew Murdock (Earth-1111)

{{Character Template Jonathan "Battlin' Jack" Murdock (father, deceased); Margaret Grace Murdock (mother); unnamed grandmother
 * Quote                  = Lot of decisions I'd give anything to go back and change. But I can't. None of us can. It's like I told Foggy; all we can do is... move forward. Together.
 * Speaker                = Matt Murdock
 * Image                  = Daredevil_(Earth-1111).jpg
 * RealName               = Matthew Michael Murdock
 * CurrentAlias           = Daredevil
 * Aliases                = Matt, Matty, Scarlet Swashbuckler, Nameless One, The Man Without Fear, The Guardian Devil, DD, Red, The Daredevil, Horned, Black Mask, The Man In Black, The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, Horns, Double D
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Nelson and Murdock; Knights
 * Relatives              =
 * Universe               = Earth-1111
 * BaseOfOperations       = Hell's Kitchen, New York City


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 6'0"
 * Weight                 = 200 lbs
 * Eyes                   = Brown
 * Hair                   = Red
 * UnusualFeatures        = Blind
 * CharRef                =


 * Citizenship            = American
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Adventurer, vigilante, Attorney at Law
 * Education              = Undergraduate at Columbia University, Law School at Harvard


 * Origin                 = Became Daredevil when he got his powers by losing his sight at the age of 9, and because a criminal had his father Jack Murdock murdered because he wouldn't throw a boxing match.
 * PlaceOfBirth           = New York City, New York State
 * Creators               =
 * First                  = Astonishing Spider-Man Vol 1 1


 * HistoryText            =

Early Life
Matt Murdock's life is a mix of joy and tragedy. The story of Matt Murdock began with his father. Jonathan "Battling Jack" Murdock raised his son alone, claiming Matt's mother had died. Jack wanted his son to be more successful than him. He impressed upon Matt the need to constantly study instead of playing sports with other kids. Jack hoped that Matt would become a doctor or a lawyer instead of an "uneducated pug" like himself. This led the neighborhood kids to bully the "cowardly" Matt as "Daredevil." Matt took out his frustrations by secretly training in his father's gym.

Blinded
One day, Matt saw a blind man crossing the street towards an oncoming truck containing a prototype chemical compound in an attempt to recreate the Super Soldier Serum being shipped to Fisk Industries. Matt pushed the man out of the way. The truck crashed and a radioactive isotope spilled out, striking Matt across the face and blinding him. While recovering in the hospital, Matt discovered his hearing, smell, taste, and touch were amplified to superhuman degrees. He also developed a "radar sense" that formed a mental picture of his surroundings.

While in the hospital, Matt was approached by a blind ninja named Stick who offered to train him and to hone his abilities, Matt agreed to be trained. Meanwhile, Jack Murdock was desperate to fight. He reluctantly joined with a crooked fight promoter known as the "Fixer." The Fixer set up Jack to be a heavyweight contender, just to have him take a dive. Jack refused and won his fight. Later that night, Jack Murdock was shot dead by the Fixer and his men. Matt swore to find the people involved in his father's death.

Becoming Daredevil
After the events of the Mole Man Invasion, Matt graduated university and starting up his law firm with his college roommate and best friend Foggy Nelson. Matt donned a black makeshift costume to hunt down for his father's killers. Matt spent months working his way through the top and eventually earning the name the Devil, Matt found the Fixer, Matt was intent on killing him but then decided it'd go against everything his father stood for. Matt sent the Fixer to prison and decided he'd use his powers to help others.

Sometime later, Matt met a man named Melvin Potter who offered to make combat armor for Matt since now he'd entered a time in his superhero career where he'd battle Enhanced individuals.

Encountering Black Cat
After receiving his new suit from Potter. That same week while patrolling, he saw a woman in black leather emerging from the rooftop of Oscorp Industries, noticing that she had stolen something from there, he followed her and entered a fight with her. Their fight eventually found its way to the streets where a teenager witnessed the whole fight, Daredevil knocked the object she stole (a spider) out of her bag where the teenager, believing he could help, took it and ran away. Black Cat attacked the boy and before she could hurt him Daredevil attacked her once more. Black Cat attempted to flee and Daredevil followed only to realize she had escaped. "There are other ways to see."
 * Powers =

- Matt Murdock


 * Superhuman Senses: Murdock possesses four senses (besides sight) on a superhuman level. He claims to constantly feel numerous things, including balance, direction, minuscule changes in air density, vibrations, and blankets of temperature variations. That, combined with his acute hearing and olfactory senses, allows Murdock to see what he describes as an "Impressionistic painting" of the world around him, which, according to him, looks like "the world on fire."
 * Superhuman Hearing: Murdock's hearing is so acute, that he can clearly hear people converse at great distances away, hear people's heartbeats, and hear Claire's bones shifting as she breathed. Murdock can focus on what he hears; in a crowded courtroom with the judge speaking, Murdock heard a juror's heartbeat accelerate when James Wesley entered the room. Hearing the changes in people's heartbeats allows Murdock to predict how they feel and what actions they'll take, such as attack or run. He was also able to memorize the pattern of Wesley's watch so he could follow the latter.
 * Lie Detection: Murdock's hearing is so acute, that he can tell whether people are lying or not, based on the rate of their heartbeats.
 * Superhuman Smell: His olfactory senses are so good, that he can smell a man's scent of stale cigarettes and cheap cologne three floors above him and through several walls. When he was a boy, his sense was already so acute, that he could smell that an old man sitting at a bench across from him had cancer. By smelling an old cigarette, Murdock could tell that whoever smoked it previously had rotten teeth. He was even able to smell that Foggy Nelson had onions in his lunch, at the time, two days ago.
 * Superhuman Taste: Murdock was able to tell that Claire Temple had ripped open some of the stitches on her back, due to tasting copper in the air from the blood of her open wound. Stick taught him how to train this sense, allowing him to pick out every individual ingredient of the ice cream he was eating, including that the milk used came from three different dairy farms, and that the man who served him used a certain type of soil in his garden.
 * Superhuman Touch: Murdock can feel the presence of those around him through vibrations, air currents and body temperatures. He can dodge attacks and even bullets by feeling them cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by him. He locates enemies through walls and from different floors by feeling the vibrations they make from moving, such as their footsteps. Murdock could even feel the heat generated from the blood spilling from the gunshot wound on Vladimir Ranskahov; to one-half of a degree, he was able to distinguish the difference in temperature.
 * Superhuman Balance: Murdock's sense of balance is superhuman, giving him perfect equilibrium, greatly increasing his agility and refining his movements.

"That sounds pretty bad, but I don't speak asshole."
 * Abilities              =
 * Master Martial Artist: Despite being blind, Murdock was trained in martial arts by Stick at a young age, and excelled in it. He continued training himself, despite Stick giving up on him, and Murdock eventually used his skills to fight crime as the vigilante Daredevil. By the time he met Stick again, Murdock rivalled his former mentor in skill, managing to keep up with him in an intense one-on-one duel and ultimately overpowering him, earning Stick's praise. Even Nobu acknowledged Daredevil as a worthy opponent, and was only able to gain the upper hand against the latter by repeatedly cutting him with his shoge hook. Though with some difficulty, Murdock was ultimately able to also overpower Wilson Fisk, a man of immense brute strength. Daredevil's fight style incorporates boxing, Muay Thai, grounding-and-pounding, Kung Fu, Judo, Aikido, Capoeira, Taekwondo, tricking, and pro-wrestling.
 * Master Acrobat: Murdock incorporates gymnastics and acrobatics into his fighting style as he battles opponents, and could already do several agile flips as a child. He is able to quickly move over rooftops and climb buildings, managing to keep up with a car this way.
 * Expert Marksman: Because of his enhanced senses, Murdock has an increased awareness of where objects are, allowing him impressive marksmanship with both firearms and throwing weapons.
 * Staff Mastery: Taught by Stick, Murdock is highly skilled in using both a pair of eskrima sticks, or a single staff in combat.

- Daredevil


 * Multilingualism: Murdock speaks fluent English and Spanish, having studied the latter at college. However, he cannot speak or understand Russian.
 * Master Lawyer: Murdock is a persuasive and trained lawyer, having graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University.
 * Meditation: Murdock uses meditating to improve his abilities and heal his injuries faster. This greatly impressed Claire Temple with the immense amount of punishment that he could take and recover quickly from.


 * Strength               = For a "normal" human, Matt has demonstrated remarkable physical strength. Daredevil is an Olympic-level weightlifter and possesses the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build that exercises intensively and regularly. Matt has demonstrated that he can lift and handle a 400 lbs. barbell as though it were fifty pounds, has overturned a limo full of people, and has picked up and used a mail drop-box as a blunt instrument. At his peak, Daredevil possesses sufficient strength to press lift approximately 450 lbs.


 * Weaknesses             = Blindness: Daredevil is conventionally blind. While his senses help him overcome this, it becomes a problem for him to navigate and fight when his heightened senses are scrambled or can't detect anything.


 * Sense Precision: Daredevil's extent to discern pictures or video images are limited, and he can only guess at colors based on the amount of heat they are absorbing or reflecting. If nothing is being emitted (By a person or thing) that would trigger his heightened senses Daredevil wouldn't be able to detect it, like when a sniper bullet fired outside the range of his sense of hearing was able to badly injure him.


 * Sound and/or Smell Peak: Daredevil's superhuman senses render him extraordinarily vulnerable to odors and/or excessive noise, which can temporarily weaken his Radar Sense. Under extreme circumstances he can be easily immobilized, suffer great pain and/or left disorientated. Once the disruptive effects wear off, Daredevil's Radar Sense is able to return to its normal calibration.

Radar Sense Disruption: Though uncommon-- in unique situations (where multiple objects, sounds, temperatures, and smells, are in close proximity) Daredevil's Radar has been known to fail leaving him to rely on his other senses.

Non-Superhuman Physical Conditioning: As Daredevil's powers do not give him any kind of superhuman physical ability, Daredevil is as susceptible to physical injury and disease as any other normal human, often having to rely more on strategy than strength when up against a superhuman opponent.

Anger: When provoked or under extreme stress, Daredevil can lose control of his inner rage, making him act reckless and stop thinking clearly. Because of this, when angered, he is far more susceptible to falling into traps.

"Thing about red, they can't tell how much you're bleeding."
 * Equipment              =
 * Armored Suit: In their first fight, after being severely injured by Nobu, Murdock noticed Kingpin's impermeable armored suit and decided to take Claire Temple's advice to get some body armor of his own. He located Melvin Potter, who made Fisk's suit, and persuaded him to make a red and black suit with a facemark and helmet resembling a devil, leading to his new name.

- Matt Murdock


 * Vigilante Suit: Murdock bought a black suit with red stiching online to wear in his vigilante activities. He also wore a black mask over his head, eyes and nose, leaving only his mouth uncovered. He also had padding which he wore underneath the suit, so that the beatings would not hurt as much, but they did not stop him from being seriously injured.


 * Transportation         = * Daredevil usually travels by foot across city rooftops through the art of parkour (the art of movement), and by the grappling hook and cable in his billy club.


 * Weapons                = *Billy Club: When Murdock asked Melvin Potter to create an armored suit for him, Potter also created a special Billy Club. It can be used as a short staff and be split in two individual short sticks for close quarters combat joined by a high tensile wire for grappling. It is kept in a holster on the suit's left thigh.
 * Wooden Sticks: At young age, Murdock was trained to be an expert stick fighter by Stick, but he stopped using the weapons after Stick left, preferring to fight unarmed. He began using them again at Stick's insistence when the mentor returned to New York City.

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