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* [[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.
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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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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Not always, but she has her moments of this.
* [[Badass]]
* [[Back
* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
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* [[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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=== 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 on the Writer]]. Once outsmarted [[Iron Man]], despite the latter being far more intelligent, by tricking him into taking out some of his rivals. While in prison.
* [[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]]
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* [[It's Personal]]: Both Fisk and Murdock can go to pretty extreme lengths to get at each other. Both have went out of their way to ruin each others businesses, several times. Fisk has set Matt up with girlfriends who were secretly assassins after Daredevil; Matt made Fisk miss his own wifes funeral; Fisk has Matt's friends beaten up; Matt beats up Fisk...it goes on. On at least two occasions Kingpin was on the verge of getting his old empire back, and Matt stopped him by ''taking it for himself''. Both were [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moments- he did it mainly just to screw Fisk over.
* [[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 by Proxy]]: The Aunt May example, but he's went after Matt by attacking Foggy Nelson before, and through his girlfriends and other associates.
* [[Rogues Gallery Transplant]]: Perhaps the most successful example of this trope. Started out as an A-list [[Spider-Man]] villain, then was promoted to Daredevil's [[Arch Enemy]].
* [[Self-Made Man]]
* [[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 on the Writer|sometimes]]) and will treat his underlings with respect so long as they [[You Have Failed Me...|don't fail]] or betray him.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Previously.
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* [[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 by Their Nickname]]: We've never found out his real name.
* [[Professional Killer]]: Assassin.
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* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: He will find You even if it takes him to the ends of the earth.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Details about where and when vary, but he does often state how he murdered his parents.
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'''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]]
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=== 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]]
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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) ===
* [[It's Personal]]- His motive is revenge against Matt Murdock everything else is irrelevant to him.
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]
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* [[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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* [[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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