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'''Daredevil''' is a [[Marvel Comics]] [[Superhero]] created by [[Stan Lee]] and Bill Everett, with artistic input from [[Jack Kirby]] and Wally Wood. Daredevil was an attempt to recreate Lee's earlier success with the archetypal "everyman" hero Comicbook/Spider-Man, this time with an adult central character and a somewhat [[Darker and Edgier]] tone. The new character first appeared in ''"Daredevil''" #1 (April, 1964)
Daredevil has the ultimate in [[Disability Superpower]] - he's blind, but his other senses are [[Hyper Awareness|superhumanly sharp]]. This is the result of his having been blinded by a radioactive substance whilst rescuing a blind man (oh, the irony) from the path of an oncoming truck. He is also a superb gymnast and martial artist, having been trained from an early age by a mysterious blind sensei called Stick as well as showing him how to control his senses to live normally. His [[Secret Identity]] is that of Matt Murdock, attorney-at-law.
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Part of the reason for the character's relative lack of popularity may lie in the fact that, Bullseye and The Kingpin (and possibly Mr. Fear and Mr. Hyde) aside, he has been lumbered with arguably the least impressive [[Rogues Gallery]] in comics, including such threats to Western civilization as Shotgun (a guy with a gun), Ammo (a guy with ''lots'' of guns), The Jester (a bargain-bin [[The Joker|Joker]] knockoff), The Owl (a gang boss who can fly - v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y), the Matador (whose entire gimmick revolves around [[Shooting Superman|making you unable to see him]]), and Stilt-Man (who unfortunately is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|just what he sounds like]]). Luckily, in recent years the writers have been working to remedy this (see Echo, Purple Man and Typhoid Mary).
A [[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil film]] was released in 2003, starring [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Jennifer Garner]], but despite being one of the most faithful comic-to-screen adaptations ever made--it lifted whole scenes and even entire chunks of dialogue from Miller's run--and some strong (if [[Race Lift|idiosyncratic]]) casting, it was a critical failure, in no small part due to being a vehicle for [[Evanescence|nu-metal]] and having severe [[Executive Meddling]] done to it; the director's cut is far better received. Some people prefer to believe that it [[Fanon Discontinuity|never happened]], though many liked Colin Farrell as Bullseye and Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin. Despite it making back more than double its budget at the box office, they did not do a direct sequel but a spin-off starring Garner as ''Elektra''. It didn't go over well. On a lighter note, Garner and Affleck (who met on the first film) later married in real life, have had two children, and are still together, and reportedly quite happy as of this writing.
In 2015, a ''Daredevil'' [[Daredevil (TV)|TV series]] premiered on [[Netflix]], the first of a set of five series set in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].
Daredevil is quite arguably one of the most underrated superheroes at Marvel, but hardcore Marvel fans do tend to give the character a lot of respect thankfully. The character was also one of two characters created by Stan Lee to have never been an [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avenger]], until he was added to the [[New Avengers]] line-up in 2011.
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: Daredevil, who's a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type II]]
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Matthew Michael Murdock.
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**** DD also tends to hit people hard enough to send them flying several meters, parallel to the ground. Although, how he does so without killing them is anybody's guess.
* [[Clear My Name]]: As a defense lawyer, Matt Murdock often does this in his day job. He's also one of the few people who's done it to members of his own [[Rogues Gallery]]. When he was appointed as Mister Hyde's attorney, Matt made an effort to prove that Hyde was innocent of the crime he was accused of. And Hyde really ''was'' innocent this time, even though he's otherwise a sadistic monster who gets his jollies from beating up people who can't fight back.
* [[Climb, Slip, Hang, Climb]]: Used as a central metaphor in the classic Elektra story, where the monastery of the heroic ninjas is atop a forbidding cliff that only the spiritually pure can climb.
* [[Costume Copycat]]: As noted below, Foggy tried to use a Daredevil costume to keep up the lie that he was really Daredevil.
** Then there was the time that Matt was exposed as Daredevil and sent to prison, and another person mysteriously took up the Daredevil mantle while he was behind bars. {{spoiler|Though it later turned out to be [[Immortal Iron Fist|Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist]], who was just filling in as a favor to his friend Matt}}.
** There's also the time during the "Born Again" arc where a murderous maniac was given a DD suit and told to go crazy on Matt's friends. This in turn leads to a CMOA, as Matt {{spoiler|beats the living shit out of the psycho, and takes AND USES the psycho's costume and billy club for the rest of the arc (as all of Matt's belongings had been destroyed earlier)}}
* [[Sonar Sight]]: Though his ability is portrayed as passive generally speaking.
* [[The Cowl]]: Just look at the page image.
* [[Cradle of Loneliness]]: After Elektra's death, one cover showed a grieving Daredevil hugging the headstone of her grave.
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* [[Fallen Hero]], see "Break The Cutie"
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Kingpin, having discovered Daredevil's true identity, manages to make Matt Murdock's life a living hell. Murdock has [[Despair Event Horizon|no hope left.]] Having nothing more to hold on to means that he [[Suicidal Overconfidence|has nothing to lose.]]
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* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: The Hand is a whole bunch of these. Not to mention Elektra, the [[Stripperific]] [[McNinja|Greek ninja]].
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Ben Urich
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