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Real Name: Matthew Michael Murdock
Occupation: Legal Consultant
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with no criminal record
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Jonathan (father, deceased), Grace (mother, deceased)
Base of Operations: Hell’s Kitchen, N.Y.C., N.Y.
Past Group Affiliations: Partner of the Black Widow
Known Powers:
Enhanced Senses: Daredevil’s senses of taste, hearing, and smell have been enhanced to the Monstrous rank. He can identify substances by taste, read raised printing on a page, or track by a specific odor on a Power rank FEAT roll. Overloading these senses (excessive noise, for example) reduces his Intuition by -1CS and any FEATs against specific attacks are at -2CS. Daredevil uses his enhanced hearing in a Power stunt to determine if a character is lying (he listens for an erratic heartbeat) with Amazing ability.
Radar Sense: In addition to his enhanced senses, Daredevil has developed an omnidirectional sense that operates as primitive radar. He can “see” three-dimensional images up to 3 areas away, regardless of light conditions. Rapid movements and chaotic conditions reduce this Power and Intuition by -2CS. Daredevil cannot be blindsided.
Billy Club: Daredevil carries a Billy Club made of Incredible Strength material that he wields or throws for Excellent Blunt damage. He can throw it up to one area away and ricochet off multiple targets or hard surfaces with a Power Stunt.
Blindness: Daredevil is blind. As such, he is unaffected by any light-based/visual attacks, illusions, and hypnosis for this reason.
Talents:
Daredevil is a master of Acrobatics and possesses Martial Arts A, B and E. He is a Weapons Specialist with his Billy Club and receives a +2CS to hit with it. Though disbarred, Murdock retains his legal training.
Contacts:
Murdock’s old partner, Foggy Nelson, is still active in law but the two are not on good terms at this time. Murdock is also close to reporter Ben Urich of The Daily Bugle, and has extensive contacts in the criminal world, including a small-time hood named Turk Barrett. Murdock has acted as a lawyer for the Avengers and Heroes for Hire.
Role-Playing Notes:
Daredevil cares about people. His love for justice has been tempered recently by the machinations of the Kingpin so that his primary concern now is to help the victims of crime rather then visit justice upon the criminals.
History:
Matthew Murdock was the son of “Battling Jack” Murdock, a small time prizefighter who had promised his wife on her deathbed to make a better life for young Matt than the one he led. Hence, the elder Murdock urged his son to pursue his studies rather than become an athlete. Matt Murdock became an excellent student, but one day, after being taunted by others as a weakling, and mocked with the name “Daredevil,” he decided to train himself athletically in secret, so his father would not know.
One day the young Murdock saw a truck about to hit a blind man. Hurling himself in front of the truck, Murdock managed to save the man and himself from being struck. However, a canister of radioactive waste materials that the truck was carrying broke open nearby and Murdock was bombarded by radiation. This unknown radiation blinded him but also mutagenically heightened his other senses. Young Murdock later met a blind martial arts master known as Stick, who taught him how to use his augmented senses and trained him as a fighter.
Matt Murdock attended Columbia University with Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, who became his lifelong friend, It was at Columbia that Murdock met and fell in love with Elektra Natchios, the daughter of a Greek ambassador. The first reported case of Murdock using his abilities to fight crime came when he fought terrorists who had captured Elektra and her father. The ambassador was accidentally killed, and the anguished Elektra left Columbia. She would return to Murdock’s life years later in her role as a costumed assassin.
In order to finance his son’s college education, “Battling Jack” Murdock, now past his prime as a boxer, had made a deal with the promoter Roscoe Sweeney, alias the Fixer (who is not to be confused with the costumed criminal of the same name). “Battling Murdock” was very successful under the Fixer’s management, but did not realize that all of his fights had been “fixed” by Sweeney. Finally, the Fixer ordered Murdock to lose in his next fight. A highly honest man, who especially did not want to humiliate himself in a fight his son was watching, “Battling Murdock” instead won the fight. In retaliation, the Fixer had the elder Murdock gunned down by a thug named Slade.
The grief-stricken Matt Murdock finished his studies, and he and Nelson opened their own law office. Murdock was determined to bring his father’s killers to justice, but could see no way of doing so through ordinary legal means. Hence, Murdock decided to adopt the guise of a costumed vigilante, and called himself “Daredevil,” the name with which he had been taunted years before. Murdock’s heightened senses more than compensated for his blindness, and thus gave him an advantage in fighting criminals. Daredevil confronted and pursued the Fixer and Slade. Daredevil captured Slade, who confessed to the police. The exertion of fleeing from Daredevil gave the Fixer a lethal heart attack.
Murdock continued to fight crime as Daredevil. His greatest adversary has proved to be the Kingpin, the most powerful figure in East Coast. organized crime. Daredevil eventually came to fight Elektra, who entered the Kingpin’s employ. But Elektra was finally murdered by the criminal Bullseye, and died in Murdock’s arms. The death of Elektra, the woman he still greatly loved, had a tremendous emotional effect on Murdock which continues to this day. Upon the recent discovery of Daredevil’s secret identity, the Kingpin acted to revenge himself upon Murdock by robbing him of his fortune and legal standing. Daredevil has since formed “Legal Aid and Drug Hotline” with Karen Page as his partner.