Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

## Summary

Born in the gritty or crime-ridden, working-class Irish-American neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City, **Matthew "Matt" Michael Murdock** is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from a truck after he pushes a man to safety from the oncoming vehicle. While he no longer can see, the radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability and gives him a "radar sense". His father, Jack Murdock, supports him as he grows up, though Jack is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight. After donning a yellow and dark red costume (later all dark red), Matt seeks out revenge against his father's killers as the superhero **Daredevil**, fighting against his many enemies, including Bullseye and Kingpin.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **High 8-C**, possibly **8-A** | At least **8-A**

**Name:** Matthew Michael Murdock , Daredevil

**Origin:** Marvel Comics

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Likely in 60s

**Classification:** Human

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Base
* Shadowland
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Senses, Instinctive Reaction, Analytical Prediction, Information Analysis, Martial Arts, Weapon Mastery, Pressure Point Strikes, Pain Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Limited Chi Manipulation, Body Control, Acrobatics, Stealth Mastery, Limited Telepathy, Healing, Regeneration (Mid-Low), Indomitable Will and Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Possession, Madness Manipulation and Fear Manipulation. Limited Resistance to Poison

Same from before but enhanced; Energy Manipulation and Absorption. Resistance to Mind Manipulation and Pain Manipulation

**Attack Potency:** **Large Building Level**, possibly **Multi-City Block Level** (Fought Winter Soldier. Fought against Kingpin. Defeated Punisher several times) | At least **Multi-City Block Level** (Defeated Luke Cage and Spider-Man. Casually beat Iron Fist and Shang-Chi)

**Speed:** **Subsonic** travel speed (Can move at FTE speeds. Covered two city blocks in seconds). **Relativistic+** combat and reaction speed (Dodged lightning. Dodged a bullet in a microsecond. Dodged Captain America's shield even while being affected by an anti-radar chaff, then proceeds to dodge him a lot of times while not being touched. Faster than Bullseye). **FTL** perception speed (Can perceive information at one nanosecond)

**Lifting Strength:** **Class 5** (Stated to be able to push 420 pounds, or the equivalent of 204 kg. Tore off some metal scraps. Moved a car. Can bend metal bars. Swung a man around and threw him. Caught a wrecking ball thrown by Absorbing Man in diamond form) | At least **Class M** (Comparable to Spider-Man and Luke Cage)

**Striking Strength:** **Large Building Level**, possibly **Multi-City Block Level** | At least **Multi-City Block Level**

**Durability:** **Large Building Level** (Endured a large explosion), possibly **Multi-City Block Level** (Took hits from Kingpin and Winter Soldier) | At least **Multi-City Block Level**

**Stamina:** Superhuman (Held breath underwater for long periods of time. Can physically exert himself for several hours before showing any fatigue. Extremely tolerant to pain, surviving being knocked around in a car by Nitro, surviving after slowing himself down during a multi-story fall and being hit by a car. Kept fighting after being immolated by Typhoid Mary while the same attack severely hurt Jessica Jones. Continued functioning for five days without sleep. Continued functioning despite having suffered gunshot through both hands that grazed his head. Landed on hood of a taxi uninjured following a controlled fall and kicked the windshield hard enough to penetrate it and strike the driver. After laying outside with no medical assistance, Daredevil passed away only to utilise chi to supercharge his bodily healing with the help of Stick, regulating heart and respiration to revive himself, sealing cuts, setting the bone in right leg and healing other unspecified bone injuries. After being found and hospitalised, under demonic attack, he was strong enough to fend off the assault and run from his room to join the fight against demons invading New York City. Took on a demon that had formed from the structure of a subway train, walk against its blast of soul-attacking "hellfire", spear it with rebar, hurting and frightening the demon enough to force it to flee from him, before collapsing from exhaustion. Has high level of mental training to control senses, a testament to the level of skill it requires Matt to even function would be seen, when he fought Psylocke, as she was overwhelmed when she tried to read his mind and found herself experiencing all the information he received through superhuman senses, demonstrating the scale of psychological training required for Murdock to operate on a normal human level)

**Range:** Standard melee range. Tens of Meters with billy club. Tens of kilometres with hearing and Radar Sense

**Standard Equipment:** Specially modified billy club with a grappling hook inside made of aircraft control cable with a steel hook, which is spring-loaded. Can split in two parts, a baton for melee combat and a bladed hook weapon.

* **Billy Club**: Daredevil carries a billy club; as Matt Murdock, he carries it disguised as a blind man's cane. The cane separates into two parts. The lower section contains a metal shaft and can be Used as a weighted fighting baton. Daredevil formerly used the top section as a grappling hook, which contained a long cable. Variant early versions of Daredevil's billy club could be converted into a boomerang or reconfigured into a rifle. His standard billy club housed an extendable "snooperscope" (a directional shotgun microphone further augmenting his enhanced hearing), a miniature tape recorder, a spring-reel grappling cable, and other items such as look picks and gas capsules.
* **Daredevil Suit**: Daredevil wears a stretch fabric (Lycra) costume, woven with steel fibers, and soft leather boots and gloves. For a time, he briefly wore a costume composed of biometric materials, woven in the code of orb-weaver spiders, with a bricklike crystal pattern in abalone shell and twisted wire stands. This costume was gray and red, and protected him by both sharP and blunt trauma. Early in his career, daredevil sometimes wore a cowl lined with a radio receiver (the cowl's horns serving as antennae) which picked up radio signals and amplified his radar sense.
* **Optional Equipment:** Smoke bombs

**Intelligence:** Gifted (Highly skilled and accomplished lawyer, specialising in criminal justice. Legal practice is considered the single greatest source of strength of both emotional stability and his successful war on crime. Law firm does a lot of pro bono work as well as the full range of social justice issues such as rape cases, hate crimes, police brutality, wrongful death suits, medical malpractice, whistleblower/witness protection cases, workplace violence, corporate business fraud, LGBT harassment/workplace inequality, child/sexual abuse cases, victims of war crimes/terrorism, food/consumer safety cases, automotive recalls, anti-GMO food lobbying, and even environmental issues. In law school, Murdock had a very particular focus in U.S. Constitutional Law. Intelligence and brain functions have always been apparent; long before he was affected by radiation, his long term midnight training, A+ morning schooling and little need of sleep is a testament to that), Genius in combat

**Weaknesses:** Radar Sense becomes useless underwater and doesn't know where amplified sound is coming from and because the sound is more than 4 times faster underwater, it's hard for his brain to process the information, though both these weaknesses were ignored, as he said the advantage of being underwater is the faster sound speed. When exposed to loud sounds, such as devices made to incapacitate him, he is gonna feel pain and likely will be knocked out. Attacks on head renders Radar Sense disabled. Senses won't work very well when on crowded place

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Radar Sense:** A form of Human Echolocation via low wave projection, according to one theory, energy within certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal emanates from sending regions of his brain, after which it travels outward, bounces off objects around him, and returns to receiving regions of his brain. In any event, with this ability, Murdock synthesises a very close analog of three-dimensional 360% human sight. Stan Lee stated Daredevil's Radar Sense is better than Spider-Man's Spider-Sense.
	+ **Radar Substitute:** An offshoot to Radar Sense this ability is the combination of all other senses (Excluding Radar Sense) and can allows increasing the stability of it as well as to be used as a sub-par replacement.
	+ **Person Identification:** All of Murdock's senses help identify people by the specific patterns of their heartbeat, smell, touch, sound, and even Radar appearance as it allows them to "see" through objects, specifically clothes (Though albeit obscure).