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Matt Murdock
the man without fear

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Matthew Michael Murdock

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C H A R A C T E R B I O

Name: Matthew M. Murdock

Codename: Daredevil

Physiology: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 35

Height/Weight: 6'0"/200 lbs.

Marital Status: Divorced

Family: Jonathan "Battling Jack" Murdock (father, deceased), Grace Murdock (mother, deceased), Milla Donovan (estranged ex-wife, catatonic)

S E X U A L I T Y

Heterosexual: A person sexually attracted to persons of the opposite sex. Or a person who has sexual relations with the opposite sex. Colloquially known as straight.

P E R S O N A L I T Y

Even if Matt is slightly rough around the edges, especially with how he portrays himself, he still has his charm. Humble but arrogant, Matt is semi-humorous with sarcasm mostly, because, of his upbringing in Hell’s Kitchen – and the fact that he grew up being blind. Despite his disability, Matt is independent but known to – once in awhile – let his blindness work for him. Definitely lacks in the area of witty quips unlike his fellow heroes (i.e. Spider-Man), his sense of humor tends to come off a bit dry. Also from time to time, Matt is known for his depression, and sense he fails to truly open up, it is hard for one to determine what is the cause – much less, what he is thinking.

As Daredevil, however, it is all business. No fun and games, seeing as how he needs to get a job done, quick and efficiently.

R E C E N T H I S T O R Y

When ambitious mobster Sammy Silke orchestrated a coup against the Kingpin that lead to the violent revenge by the Kingpin’s wife, Silke, in exchange for protection, gives Daredevil's identity to the FBI, which makes it public in the Daily Globe. This event forced Matt to respond with a libel lawsuit against the newspaper. Around this time frame, Matt cross paths with a fellow blind person named, Milla Donovan and romances her once he felt the sparks.

When Matt discovers that the Kingpin had recovered from the coup’s attempt on his life, sends his nemesis to the hospital after a violent confrontation Daredevil to declare himself the kingpin of Hell's Kitchen. It is only a year later, when the increasingly violent and antisocial Matt takes Milla as his wife while winning his against the Daily Globe, resulting in a multimillion dollar settlement he reinvests into the community. A friend of Matt’s, Ben Urich, who is a reporter, later suggests that Matt had suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by unresolved feelings over the death of Karen Page; because of the fact, Milla files for annulment feeling that she cannot be with a conflicted man.

Incarcerated by the FBI, through the machinations of the Kingpin, Matt cannot stop the apparent murder of Foggy Nelson at Ryker's which had been publicly embarrassed by Matt, while a mysterious new Daredevil appears in Hell's Kitchen. It is during a prison riot that Matt is able to escape with the aid of the Punisher and discovers the ersatz Daredevil to be his friend, Hero for Hire Danny Rand, the superhero Iron Fist. While Matt is away, and with Rand, filling-in as Daredevil during the events of the Superhero Registration, he is captured and imprisoned for not registering only to escape later on with the Secret Avengers.

Once again, villains with the intent to fill the void in the criminal empire left by the Kingpin with Larry Cranston surfacing as Mister Fear, with the Enforcers at his side while providing the criminals of Hell's Kitchen with a drug that causes the user to become psychotic and completely unafraid of death. In an attempt to make Daredevil's life miserable, Cranston also gives the drug to Milla Donovan, Murdock's ex-wife with whom he has reconciled that left her in a catatonic state.

T H E G I F T

His sense of touch is sensitive enough to detect the faint impressions of ink on paper, allowing him to read by touch. He is also able to feel minute changes in temperature and pressure, enough to sense a human body at a distance of five feet, due to body heat and air disturbance. His sensitivity to heat allows him to sense the temperature of people and objects in order to determine whether a person is alive, how long they have been dead if they are not, and other changes in body temperature such as blushing or the heating up associated with various emotional states, as well as residual body heat on an object, or how recently a machine has been in use.

Daredevil’s sense of smell is enhanced enough to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, and remember and identify them no matter how they attempt to mask their scent, as well as track that individual scent through a crowd of people at a distance of roughly 50 feet.

His sense of taste is sharp enough to enable him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there are at least 20 milligrams of that substance present.

Daredevil’s enhanced sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of 1 decibel at a pressure level of 7, whereas the average human can only detect a sound as low as 20 decibels. He can even hear people speaking through a standard soundproofed wall. Daredevil is also able to hear a heartbeat from 20 feet away, as well as identify people by their individual beat rhythm, or detect whether they are lying or not by the changes in their heartbeat, though a pace maker or self control will confuse his reading. Not only does Daredevil’s hearing allow him to be constantly aware of his own heartbeat, blood circulation, breathing, physical movements, etc, but he is also able to hear and sense the same attributes in other people. One of the primary ways he does this is by hearing the reverberations made by ambient sounds on objects and people, giving him a sonar-like sense of where things are, and how dense they are. And while he is able to block out a good amount of background noise, he can also be excessively disoriented by unexpected loud noises and can be confused when immersed in the wash of sound from a busy crowd.

Along with the enhancement of Daredevil’s normal senses, he has gained another sense which he calls his Radar Sense. According to one theory, this sense reacts to an emission of electromagnetic energy a mutation in his brain has caused, reading the reverberations of this energy as a 360º, 3-D map of objects. This “sight” is not perfect, and can only give Daredevil an impression of the exact physical shape of objects, not a literal one. Closely overlapping objects can also confuse this sense.

The mutations that have heightened Daredevil’s level of sensitivity have also increased his awareness of other forms of electromagnetic radiation. He is capable of detecting and identifying any electromagnetic radiation on the standard scale; from radio waves, (which he can only detect, not understand the message) all the way to gamma waves, and everything in between. He is also able to judge the strength of a given radiation and even differentiate between individual colors by the amount of radiation they give off. At very close range, Daredevil is able to detect the micro voltage of a human being’s brain.

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