We already posted the brief history of the character from three of the four upcoming new series that Marvel and Netflix are intended on adapting to the small screen, Iron Fist (here), Luke Cage (here), and Jessica Jones (here), now it’s time for the final piece of the puzzle before tackling the miniseries where all these characters will join forces and form The Defenders.
The character history is at its purest, since there
are more arcs and stories in the character’s comic book run.
Of all the other characters in the Marvel/Netflix
pipeline, Daredevil is probably the best known character, mainly because of the
2003 film with Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Ferrell, Jennifer
Garner, Ellen Pompeo, Jon Favreau and Joe Pantoliano.
With no mother in sight, Matt Murdock was raised by
his father, the boxer “Battling Jack” Murdock in Hell’s Kitchen. One day while
trying to save a man from an oncoming truck, the radioactive cargo that the
truck was transporting got spilled over him. The radioactive spill made him
blind but also heightened his other sense to a superhuman level, which he
mastered thanks to the help of the blind martial arts master Stick.
At Columbia University Law School, Matt learns that
his father was murdered by goons sent by the Fixer, because he refused to throw
a fight. Enraged at the legal system because it failed to bring the Fixer to
justice, Matt makes a costume out of his father’s old boxing robe and goes out
as Daredevil in search of those that killed his father.
Matt alongside his old friend Franklin “Foggy” Nelson,
open a small law firm in New York, and is then that he promises to serve the
law by day as Matt Murdock the attorney and to fight what the law can’t by
night as Daredevil. Over the years he fought other masked criminals like Mister
Fear, Purple Man, Jester and crime lords like Kingpin or the Owl. Daredevil had
at least two love interests, the Black Widow and Elektra.
Daredevil formed the team Moon Knights with Luke Cage,
Moon Knight, Shang-Chi, Black Widow and Dagger to hunt down the Punisher, because
he thought the Punisher’s way of justice, which ended up with the villain
killed, was too brutal.
More recently Daredevil had his secret identity
revealed and hires Luke Cage and Jessica Jones as bodyguards. He was
incarcerated by the FBI and placed in a prison where he had many of his
enemies, but before anything happens the Punisher romps in, saves Murdock and
both escape.
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