Profile: Daredevil

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Jonathan "Battling Jack" Murdock (Father, deceased), Margaret Grace Murdock (aka Sister Maggie, Mother, deceased), Milla Donovan (ex-wife).

• Enhanced Senses: Monstrous rank; Taste, Touch, Smelling and Hearing, Overloading these senses reduce his Intuition by -1CS. Any FEAT against specific attacks are -2CS. Has the following power stunts:
  • Lie Detection: Amazing ability, Murdock uses his enhanced hearing in a power stunt to determine if someone is lying (by listening to their heartbeat).
  • Tracking: Monstrous ability to track by a specific odor or heartbeat.
  • Superhuman Sense of Balance: Monstrous rank Agility; Daredevil's sensory organs have such a high level of development, his inner ear, which controls the equilibrium and motion of the body, aiding him in acrobatic feats.
• Radar Sense: Monstrous rank; Has developed an omnidirectional sense that operates as primitive radar. His Radar Sense reacts to an emission of electromagnetic energy a mutation in his brain has caused, reading the reverberations of this energy as a 360º, 3-D map of objects up to 3 areas away regardless of light conditions. Rapid movements and chaotic conditions reduce the power and Intuition by -2CS. Daredevil cannot be blindsided.
  • Energy Detection: Amazing ability, Daredevil is capable of detecting and identifying any electromagnetic radiation on the standard scale; from radio waves, (which he can only detect, not understand the message) all the way to gamma waves, and everything in between. He is also able to judge the strength of a given radiation and even differentiate between individual colors by the amount of radiation they give off.

• Blind: Murdock is blind and is unaffected by light-based attacks, illusions, and hypnosis.
• Radar Sense Limitations: Daredevil is unable to discern pictures or video images, and he can only guess at colors based on the amount of heat they are absorbing or reflecting. If anyone or anything is not emitting anything that would trigger his heightened senses Daredevil wouldn't be able to detect it, such as Mysterio's hallucinogenic toxin, which was devoid of taste or smell, or prior to his capture by the F.B.I., when a sniper bullet fired outside the range of his sense of hearing was able to badly injure him.
• Radar Sense Disruption: Daredevil's superhuman senses render him extraordinarily vulnerable to excessive sound, odors, etc., which can temporarily weaken his Radar Sense or if he is bombarded by too much sound at once, Daredevil can easily be immobilized, which causes him great pain and leaves him disoriented. Once the disruptive effects wear off, Daredevil's Radar Sense is able to return to its normal calibration.
• Non-Superhuman Physical Conditioning: As Daredevil's powers do not give him any kind of superhuman physical ability, Daredevil is as susceptible to physical injury and disease as any other normal human, often having to rely more on strategy than strength when up against a superhuman opponent.

* Althought not a true limitation Daredevil's identity as Matt Murdock was revealed in a tabloid newspaper, but Murdock has denied the allegations, after all how can a blind man be Daredevil.

Weapons Specialist (Billy Club), Acrobatics, Tumbling, Martial Arts A, B, C, E, Wrestling, Boxing, Law (+2CS), Criminology, Marksman, Oriental Weapons, Thrown Weapons, Thrown Objects, Blunt Weapons, Stealth, Medicine, Anatomy, Engineering, Detective/Espionage, Intimidation/Interrogation, Disguise/Actor, Resist Domination.

His torso, arms, legs and back are covered by scars from gunshot wounds, knive cuts and other weapon attacks.

• Billy Club: Amazing material, Excellent (20) Blunt Damage; Daredevil carries a billy club, disguised as a cane in civilian garb. It is a versatile, multi-purpose weapon that can be configured from a fighting baton into a nunchaku like weapon held together by the extendable cable used as the swing line, Daredevil usually carries two billy club's that can be wielded as a pair of fighting batons or joined together as a staff. The billy club is held by a holster on the side of Daredevil's left leg.
  • Thrown Weapon: Excellent blunt damage. With a successful Agility FEAT, Daredevil can ricochet his billy club off a number of hard surfaces and back to him.
  • Swing Line: It contains 30 feet of aircraft control cable, which is connected to a case-hardened steel grapnel. Internal mechanisms allow the cable to be neatly wound and unwound, while a powerful spring launches the grapnel that lets him swing at 3 areas/round.
• Costume: Gd protection vs Physical attacks.

Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, Ben Urich, Elektra, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Turk Everett, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, The New Avengers.

In compensation for his lost sight, Daredevil’s other four senses have been preternaturally enhanced:
• His sense of touch is sensitive enough to detect the faint impressions of ink on paper, allowing him to read by touch. He is also able to feel minute changes in temperature and pressure, enough to sense a human body at a distance of five feet, due to body heat and air disturbance. His sensitivity to heat allows him to sense the temperature of people and objects in order to determine whether a person is alive, how long they have been dead if they are not, and other changes in body temperature such as blushing or the heating up associated with various emotional states, as well as residual body heat on an object, or how recently a machine has been in use.

• Daredevil’s sense of smell is enhanced enough to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, and remember and identify them no matter how they attempt to mask their scent, as well as track that individual scent through a crowd of people at a distance of roughly 50 feet.

• His sense of taste is sharp enough to enable him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there are at least 20 milligrams of that substance present.

• Daredevil’s enhanced sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of 1 decibel at a pressure level of 7, whereas the average human can only detect a sound as low as 20 decibels. He can even hear people speaking through a standard soundproofed wall. Daredevil is also able to hear a heartbeat from 20 feet away, as well as identify people by their individual beat rhythm, or detect whether they are lying or not by the changes in their heartbeat, though a pace maker or self control will confuse his reading. Not only does Daredevil’s hearing allow him to be constantly aware of his own heartbeat, blood circulation, breathing, physical movements, etc, but he is also able to hear and sense the same attributes in other people. One of the primary ways he does this is by hearing the reverberations made by ambient sounds on objects and people, giving him a sonar-like sense of where things are, and how dense they are. And while he is able to block out a good amount of background noise, he can also be excessively disoriented by unexpected loud noises and can be confused when immersed in the wash of sound from a busy crowd.

Matt Murdock was raised in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, by his father, boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock. From a young age, Matt was pushed to work hard in school so he wouldn't have to fight like his father. His father also worked hard to provide for him so he would have a better life. As boxing work became scarce Jack went to work for a local mobster, The Fixer, moonlighting as an enforcer in addition to taking fights. While his father was away though, Matt secretly started training himself on his father's equipment.

While walking down a street one day, Matt noticed a blind man was about to get hit by a truck. He ran in front of the truck, and pushed the blind man out of the way. However, the truck was carrying radioactive waste, and some spilled out directly onto Matt's eyes causing him to go blind.

With his vision gone, Matt's remaining senses of hearing, touch, taste, and smell became heightened, and he was able to "see" using a "radar" sense, that showed outlines and shapes. The radiation also may have had an impact on his mind as well, allowing him to retain information easily.

Matt continued with his studies and his secret training regime. His hard work paid off when he got into Columbia to study law. It was there that he met his roommate and future business partner Franklin " Foggy" Nelson. During this time, Jack Murdock was enjoying some success in the boxing ring, so Matt got tickets for himself and Franklin to go see a bout. However, before the fight Jack found out that all his matches were fixed, and he was ordered to throw this fight. Jack didn't want to lose his match in front of his son in the audience, so he went against his orders and won the match. The Fixer did not take this well, and had Jack Murdock murdered that night.

Shortly after Matt and Nelson graduated from Columbia University, they started their own law firm called Nelson & Murdock. Matt also had devised a plan to avenge his father's death. He made the Daredevil costume, and brought The Fixer and his second-in-command Slade to justice. And so "The Man Without Fear" was born.