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* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Massively subverted. Matt refuses to represent anyone who is guilty and he can always tell.
* [[Anti
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Works as a lawyer by day.
* [[Badass Normal]]: His super senses are his only real power. Everything else (His incredible athletic ability, his amazing strength) is all his.
* [[Being Good Sucks]]: Especially if you're named Matt Murdock.
* [[Blessed
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Matt could seriously challenge Spider-Man's place as the "Most Unlucky Hero". If something good happens, You can bet it won't last and will be swiftly followed by an enexpected punch to the gut, spiritually speaking. "Born Again" is the most famous example but there are many, many others.
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* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: He's a normal person who is strong enough to lift and turn over a limo.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Almost always wears his sunglasses when not fighting crime.
* [[Covered
* [[The Cowl]]
* [[Crusading Lawyer]]: And he puts the rest to shame. Lots of fictional hero attorneys will bend the law or risk their lives for the sake of their innocent clients, but how many will kick the ass of crime lords, ninja zombies or superhuman assassins in the process?
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: He's usually very stoic and serious but when he wants to, he can easily outsnark the likes of his good friend Spider-man.
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Death
* [[Disability Superpower]]
* [[Fighting Irish]]: Matt is Irish-American and definitely one of Marvel's tougher heroes. Which is not to say he enjoys inflicting violence at all.
* [[Fire
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Is an accomplished lawyer who can also hold his own in a fight against a good portion of the MU.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]
* [[Hell
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Matt often faces against enemies who are a lot more powerful and capable of incredible damage, physically and personally. He even refuses to defend guilty clients, which is why his law firm is usually broke.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: You could probably count the number of times Matt's been happy on one hand. He could be written as a villain and you'd still be sympathetic to him. Despite this, he keeps on going. This trope could probably be renamed "Knight in sour red leather".
* [[Living Lie Detector]]: He can determine if someone is lying by listening to their heartbeat.
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* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]
* [[Sunglasses
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: While it was a [[Silver Age]] rule, it fits very well with Matt's Catholic side and his father's moral advice. It's still abided by even as his stories get darker.
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* [[Badass Bookworm]]: OK, he's not really a great physical fighter, but when it comes to standing up for Matt, nobody does it better than good old Foggy.
* [[Fat and Proud]]: Not extremely fat, but definitely a bit chubby
* [[Jerk
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Secret Keeper]]
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* [[Cool Uncle]]: To his sometime superhero nephew Phil (at least, until Phil went [[Ax Crazy]], did a [[Face Heel Turn]] and became the newest Hobgoblin).
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]
* [[Secret Keeper]]: For Matt. He may also know that Peter Parker is [[Spider
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=== [[Elektra]] ===
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Anti
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Not always, but she has her moments of this.
* [[Badass]]
* [[Back
* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Daredevil and Elektra's relationship
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Guns
* [[Kung Fu Wizard]]: Has some minor [[Ki Attacks]] and magical abilities, most of which are used to enhance her battle prowess, as well as some low-level [[Psychic Powers]]. Most of these come from training with the mystical evil ninja sect The Hand.
* [[Knife Nut]]
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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: You sold your ex-boyfriends [[Secret Identity]] to his [[Arch Enemy]] for a drug fix, thats what you did.
* [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]: The second of Matt's girlfriends to be killed by Bullseye.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Bullseye was aiming for Daredevils' mom (didn't ''know'' it was her, but didn't care either). For once, he isn't bother that he missed.
=== [[Black Widow (
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Anti
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[Distracted
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Fiery Redhead]]/ [[Redheaded Hero]]
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=== Echo / Ronin (Maya Lopez) ===
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Anti
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Like Typhoid Mary, she dates Matt Murdock while trying to kill Daredevil. Unlike her, she only does so because she was tricked.
* [[Deceptive Legacy]]: The Kingpin murdered her father, but honoured the dying man's wish that he take care of her and raise her as his own. [[Manipulative Bastard|Then he told her that Daredevil killed her father.]]
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: While Matt Murdock is blind, Echo is deaf.
* [[Multiethnic Name]]
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]] / [[Laser
* [[Photographic Memory]]
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Deaf, part-Hispanic, part-Native American.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Believed this to be Daredevil, later learnt it was actually the Kingpin.
=== Milla Donovan ===
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* [[Fourth Date Marriage]]: One of the many, many reasons it didn't work out.
* [[The Good Wife]]
* [[
* [[Love Hurts]]
* [[Love Martyr]]
* [[Revenge
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Marrying a guy with a long list of crazy ex-girlfriends and psychopathic enemies right around the time his [[Secret Identity]] is exposed to the world was not the smartest move in the world.
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=== The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) ===
* [[Acrofatic]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: One of two with Bullseye, though between the two the war between Fisk and Murdock is a closer example of this trope.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Can hold his own against actual superhumans, though how well is [[Depending
* [[Bald of Evil]]
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Can veer into this at times, though it was more prominent when he was a Spidey villain.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: He's always this, but in his prime in particular he controlled nearly all organized crime on the East Coast, and even had a general in his pocket.
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: His wife and son, even after both tried to kill him.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: He seems to really have it in for costumed crimefighters and can never simply try and "kill" them; he has to utterly humiliate them and ruin their lives first. [[The Dog Bites Back|This goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sometimes. His reaction to the [[Never Found the Body]] trope is "[[Oh Crap]]".
* [[
* [[Large and In Charge]]: 6'7 and 400lbs of pure muscle.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: When Spidey, Daredevil and other heroes had their first fights with him, what surprised them most was how damn ''fast'' he was.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Necessarily Evil]]: He was once forced into retirement by his wife after she found out about his life of crime; he was then forced back ''out of'' retirement because of threats against him and his family, {{spoiler|made by an underling who thought he was doing Fisk a favour. Which was a textbook case of [[Too Dumb to Live]].}}
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: In ''Born Again'' his underlings kept calling him out on it- [[Too Dumb to Live|this was a mistake]], but they were right and his revenge scheme blows his plans to move into legitimate business out of the water as they result in him being publicly exposed as a crime lord. In ''Civil War'' he has Spidermans' Aunt May shot, to goad Spidey into a fight so he could show all the goons in prison he was still in charge- Spiderman [[Curb Stomp Battle|beats the hell out of him]], and warns the crowd if he or anyone tries something that again he'll come back and ''kill'' them.
* [[Revenge
* [[Rogues Gallery Transplant]]: Perhaps the most successful example of this trope. Started out as an A-list [[Spider
* [[Self
* [[The Syndicate]]
* [[Villainous Valor]]: Can be generally counted on to keep his word; genuinelly cares for his own family; sees his enemies in [[Worthy Opponent]] terms ([[Depending
* [[Villain
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* [[Badass Normal]]: He is at the absolute peak of human physicality and possesses astonishing skill with weapons but has no real powers.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Previously.
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Currently, now with a bonus [[Department of Redundancy Department|bullseye]] that was once [[Tattooed Crook|tattooed]] but is now [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scarred]] onto his forehead.
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: He had tremendous potential as an athlete and Baseball player due to his expert marksmanship but his psycopathic nature came out and he killed a player. He actually does make a lot of money as an assassin but he never spends any of it (He believes he may have more money than Norman Osborn from his jobs).
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[The Dragon]]: To Kingpin.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Daredevil. He represents the path Matt could have gone down with similar circumstances and abilities.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Bullseye is a paid mercenary and earns a sizable fee for his murders.... But he recently revealed he barely ever spends it since he'd rather spend his time killing ''even more'' people. He even states that he's gotten so much cash over the years for his various jobs [[Fiction 500|he's probably richer than Norman Osborn.]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: They don't call him "Bullseye" for nothing.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Things that Bullseye has used as weapons include, but are by no means limited to, playing cards, paperclips, toothpicks, paper airplanes, golf balls, peanuts, and [[Serial Escalation|several of his own teeth]].
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Listing all the things he can kill you with would take up this entire page.
* [[Knife Nut]]: He's an expert marksman and uses firearms on occasion but prefers to use blades and improvised weapons instead.
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Ask him for his backstory and he'll give a different story each time. The only thing that ever remains consistent any time he talks about his past is that he had [[Abusive Parents]], that he kills his parents and that he was a baseball player before becoming a Killer for Hire.
* [[Only Known
* [[Professional Killer]]: Assassin.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: At one point, he reveals that he has spent basically none of the money he has made from his assassinations over the years. Money is just a handy way to keep score.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: He will find You even if it takes him to the ends of the earth.
* [[Self
{{quote|
'''Bullseye''': Yes, until I was fourteen.
'''Psychologist''': Hmmm. I see. And what happened then.
'''Bullseye''': (kills psychologist with [[Improbable Weapon User|a voice recorder]]) [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|I killed him.]] }}
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: He's done some stuffing in his time. Running tally of hero's girlfriends gruesomely murdered: {{spoiler|Daredevil - 2 (Elektra and Karen Page) The Sentry - 1 (Lindy Reynolds)}}
* [[Villain
=== Stiltman ===
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Never explained why he couldn't use his engineering skills to make money legitimately.
* [[Harmless Villain]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: According to [[Spider
=== Typhoid Mary ===
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Anti
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Matt does this with a lot of his female villains
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: The Bloody Mary persona
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* [[Mutant]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The Typhoid Mary persona
* [[Split Personality]]
* [[Talkative Loon]]: At least when Bendis writes her.
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=== Mr Fear (Larry Cranston) ===
* [[
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]
=== Purple Man ===
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Go on, just guess where he got his name.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: To [[Alias (Comic Book)|Jessica Jones]] and her husband, [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire|Luke Cage]].
* [[Back
* [[Color Character]]
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Invoked. He retired for a while in [[The Seventies]], when he realized he didn't need to be a villain for the money when he could just make people give him what he wanted.
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* [[The Hedonist]]: Since coming back from retirement, he is rarely seen without a mind-controlled woman (or a harem of them) on his arm.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: He once stopped an entire restaurant from breathing so he could eat his eggs in peace.
* [[Love Is in
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Medium Awareness]] In Alias.
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* [[Mind Rape]]: Lots of people, but what he did to his wife and Jessica Jones stands out.
* [[Morality Pet]]: Subverted. Learning he has a daughter seems to have made him worse, since he thinks she'll love him if he can conquer the world.
* [[Not
* [[Oh Crap]]: In the first ''New Avengers'' arc, Purple Man appears and intends to use his powers to make Luke Cage attack the other assembled heroes. He also makes obvious threats toward Jessica Jones and her and Cage's unborn child. Cage then informs the unaware villain that his food contained special drugs designed to negate his powers. Purple Man has a look of sheer terror before Cage moves in on him.
* [[Psychic
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: One of the reasons why he is regarded as such a vile villain.
* [[Resignations Not Accepted]]: When he tried to retire from villainy, [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] like the Kingpin and [[Doctor Doom]] kept pulling him back in.
* [[Take Over the World]]: His motivation since coming out of retirement.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Turn Out Like His Father|Turn Out Like Her Father]]: One of several very good reasons why his ex-wife kept his daughter far away from him.
** Of course in the new Alpha Flight book, she did a [[Face Heel Turn]] and now calls herself Purple Woman...So the apple didn't fall far...
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