I have had a lot of request for a write-up on this character so I give you Daredevil, your comments are welcome!




Daredevil
Matthew Michael Murdock

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A) In40
S) Gd10
E) Ex20
R) Gd10
I) Mn75
P) Gd10

Health: 110
Karma: 95
Resources: Gd
Popularity: 6

Height: 6'0"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Relatives: Jonathan "Battling Jack" Murdock (Father, deceased), Maggie Murdock (aka Sister Maggie, Mother), Milla Donovan (ex-wife)
Affiliation: New Avengers; formerly: partner of Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Defenders, S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel Knights, Secret Avengers (Civil War), Hand leader.
Base Of Operations: Hell's Kitchen, New York, New York, Shadowland (formerly).
Citizenship: Citizen of the United States, with no criminal record.
Marital Status: Divorced; Milla Donovan (ex-wife).
Occupation: Adventurer, Vigilante, Attorney at Law, Leader of the Hand (formerly).
Education: Undergraduate at Columbia University, Law School at Harvard.
Place of Birth: New York City, New York State


_Powers_
— Enhanced Senses: Mn 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: Am ability, Murdock uses his enhanced hearing in a power stunt to determine if someone is lying (by listening to their heartbeat).
*Tracking: Mn ability to track by a specific odor or heartbeat.
— Radar Sense: Has developed an omnidirectional sense that operates as primitive radar. He can "see" 3-D images 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.

_Equipment_
— Billy Club: Amazing material, Excellent Blunt Damage. Has the following power stunts:
-Throws for 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: Shoots a line that lets him swing at 3 areas/round.
— Costume: Gd protection vs Physical attacks

_Limitations_
— 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.

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

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


_Background_
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.









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Pretty spot on I'd say
Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't recall w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm remembering his enhancements as the result of a chemical accident, or something like that. Anyway, niiice!

Impressive, but I think he's a bit more powerful than this.

From Marvel Wiki power descriptions:

Superhuman Senses: Daredevil has superhuman senses of smell, taste, touch, balance, and hearing.

Superhuman Sense of Touch: Daredevil's sense of touch is so acute that his finger can feel the faint impressions of ink on a printed page, allowing him to read by touch. The rest of his skin is equally sensitive, enabling him by concentration to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him. Even with his senses of smell and hearing blocked, he can feel the presence of a person standing five feet away from him simply by his or her body heat and disturbance of air. A side effect of his sense of touch is Daredevil's ability to manipulate his muscles and internal organs. The sense of touch is not just external, but internal too (central nervous system), thereby giving him the ability to have total body control, increasing his strength and reflexes to near peak human levels and increasing his agility to enhanced human levels.

Superhuman Sense of Smell: Daredevil's sense of smell is so acute that he can distinguish between identical twins at twenty feet by minute differences in smell. He can detect odors of an atmospheric concentration of thirty parts per million. Further, his ability to remember smells enables him to identify any person he has spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, no matter how he or she might try to camouflage his or her natural odor. His powers of concentration are such that he can focus upon a single person's smell and follow it through a crowd of people at a distance of fifty feet.

Superhuman Sense of Hearing: Daredevil's sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of one decibel at a pressure level of seven decibels (whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is twenty decibels.) He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of over twenty feet, or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproofed wall. Through practice, Daredevil is able to control his hearing acuity, mentally blocking out specific sounds like his own breathing and heartbeat, all ambient sounds to a normal human level of perception, or all sounds but a particular sound he is concentrating upon.

-- Lie Detection: Daredevil can tell whether a person is lying by listening to changes in his or her heartbeat (though he can be fooled by a pacemaker or those able to control their own heartbeat.)

-- Person Identification: Daredevil can identify people by the specific patterns of their heartbeats.

Superhuman Sense of Taste: Daredevil's sense of taste enables 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 twenty milligrams of that substance present.

Superhuman Sense of Balance: It is a common misconception that balance isn't a sense, but Daredevil's balance centers give him equilibrium on par with Spider-Man.

Radar Sense: Daredevil can also sense the proximity and arrangement of objects about himself. According to one theory, Daredevil's "radar sense" functions via his brain's generation of energy within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal emanates from sending regions of his brain, after which it travels outward, bounces off objects around him, and returns to receiving regions of his brain. Another theory is that this sense functions more closely to sonar in which Daredevil hears the faint echoes of sounds as they bounce off nearby objects. His sense may operate by a combination of these techniques or by other, unknown means. In any event, via this ability, Daredevil synthesizes a very close analogue of three-dimensional human sight. After he lost the Radar, Matt's instructor Stick retaught him his Radar/Senses through special training. Stick told Matt the radiation gave him a "free ride" but now he must develop it like everyone else. Its resolution is not very fine, probably on the order of several feet at a distance of one hundred feet. By repositioning his head and adding input from his other senses, Daredevil is able to resolve the image of an average flagpole (three-inch cylinder) at a distance of over eighty feet.

Telepathy: Due to Stick's training Daredevil has displayed minor telepathic abilities.

He may have finally achieved AM Agility and RM Endurance now.

Telepathy I'd rate at Feeble to Poor.

He doesn't have the demonic "Beast" powers he did when he led the Hand, but that gave him Ultimate Skill MA: A, B, C, and E and RM Regeneration too....

Former Powers
Demonic Powers: While he was possessed by The Beast during the Shadowland arc, Matt's physical abilities combined with his combat capabilities were enhanced to where he could overpower fellow martial artists Iron Fist and Shang-Chi, both of which whose combat skills are on par with Matt's. He also gained other demonic abilities as well, such as regeneration and possible immortality having surviving from being stabbed by Wolverine's claws. After the Beast was removed, Daredevil's physical abilities returned to their original statistics.

For Talents, he's missing Marksman and Martial Arts C.

For Equipment, the "horns" in his mask are antenna for a shortwave police band radio integrated into his costume. He does listen to police communications and such in Hell's Kitchen.


Otherwise, a very good writeup. I just think DD is a bit more of a bad-ass than he's getting credit for here, particularly with more of Stick's tutelage.

Relic Wrote:
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> Pretty spot on I'd say
> Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't recall
> w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm
> remembering his enhancements as the result of a
> chemical accident, or something like that. Anyway,
> niiice!
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Relic you are correct, Daredevil did gain his powers from radioactive chemical waste!


Dead Sidekick, thanks for the additional material on Daredevil. I did not know about the Telepathy power, would you say more Empathy then Telepathy (I have not followed the Daredevil comics in years)?

You are correct on adding Marksman & Martial Arts C for talents, I will be updating the write-up when I upload it to the Character Profile Section.







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Very nice now are you going to post him in the characters profile section?

The_Skycutter Wrote:
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> Relic Wrote:
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> > Pretty spot on I'd say
> > Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't
> recall
> > w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm
> > remembering his enhancements as the result of a
> > chemical accident, or something like that.
> Anyway,
> > niiice!
> __________________________________________________
> ____
>
> Relic you are correct, Daredevil did gain his
> powers from radioactive chemical waste!
>
>
> Dead Sidekick, thanks for the additional material
> on Daredevil. I did not know about the Telepathy
> power, would you say more Empathy then Telepathy
> (I have not followed the Daredevil comics in
> years)?

It probably is more Empathy than Telepathy, but it's low level. Definitely less than Typical rank. Broadcasting and reading emotional states rather than messages and detailed information.



> You are correct on adding Marksman & Martial Arts
> C for talents, I will be updating the write-up
> when I upload it to the Character Profile Section.

Do you think he's up to Amazing Agility and Remarkable Endurance yet? His experiences while possessed by the Hand's Beast demon made him really powerful, but when that left him, he still retained a more intuitive understanding of his own body and capabilities. He's moving as agile as Spider-Man these days.

Here is the updated version of Daredevil posted in the Character Profile Section!
[www.classicmarvelforever.com]







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I like DD's write-up but must say, for some reason I've never been too fond of the format of those Newer profiles. Not really sure what it is but they feel cluttered and busy to me; as a result I rarely even look at them and in fact still have the Old profiles bookmarked as primary reference. I even like how you present DD here in the first post as opposed to the format in the profile section, but then again this is just imo.

Kick-ass write-up regardless

The quality of these post are just getting better and better.

Lookin forward to more.

Hate to say this but DD's strength level is way above 400lbs....

Ullr Wrote:
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> Hate to say this but DD's strength level is way
> above 400lbs....

Yeah, DD turned over a very big car with 3 people in it in one story...

The write-up is great, nontheless.

However, Good psyche is a joke. On many occasions, he resisted mind control and fear-related powers that had an affect on other superheroes. Psyche should be Remarkable or Incredible.

"Costume: Gd protection vs Physical attacks"

For me, this sounds a little bit exaggerated. There are enemies with Good strength who can clearly hurt Daredevil while in his costume.
I'd prefer to give him Poor or Typical protection for his costume.

But then again, I'm someone who thinks that most protection coming from costumes is a little bit overrated in the stats (Punisher, Captain America etc.).

The_Skycutter Wrote:
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> Relic Wrote:
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> -----
> > Pretty spot on I'd say
> > Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't
> recall
> > w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm
> > remembering his enhancements as the result of a
> > chemical accident, or something like that.
> Anyway,
> > niiice!
> __________________________________________________
> ____
>
> Relic you are correct, Daredevil did gain his
> powers from radioactive chemical waste!
>

You are both correct..It was the same radioactive chemicas that gave Splinter and the Turtles their humanoid traits.

Gene Wrote:
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> The_Skycutter Wrote:
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> > Relic Wrote:
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> > > Pretty spot on I'd say
> > > Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't
> > recall
> > > w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm
> > > remembering his enhancements as the result of
> a
> > > chemical accident, or something like that.
> > Anyway,
> > > niiice!
> >
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> > ____
> >
> > Relic you are correct, Daredevil did gain his
> > powers from radioactive chemical waste!
> >
>
> You are both correct.. It was the same radioactive
> chemicals that gave Splinter and the Turtles their
> humanoid traits.
The Secret of the Ooze!

Soulassassin Wrote:
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> > > > Pretty spot on I'd say
> > > > Q: Is DD considered an Altered Human? Can't
> > > recall
> > > > w/100% accuracy but for some reason I'm
> > > > remembering his enhancements as the result
> of
> > a
> > > > chemical accident, or something like that.
> > > Anyway,
> > > > niiice!
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> > > Relic you are correct, Daredevil did gain his
> > > powers from radioactive chemical waste!
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> >
> > You are both correct..It was the same
> radioactive
> > chemicals that gave Splinter and the Turtles
> their
> > humanoid traits.
> The Secret of the Ooze!

Too bad we'll never see a Daredevil/TMNT crossover, that would be hilarious. 'My sons I recognize this man, he was the young man that saved the pedestrian and caused the chemicals to fall into the sewers and make us what we are today.'

Never understood why DD's Fighting wasn't at Amazing level

Soulassassin Wrote:
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> Never understood why DD's Fighting wasn't at
> Amazing level

Because he's just not the ultimate peak of human potential as a fighter, he's exceptional but its his bonuses from his powers that let him compete as if he were, just as Spider-man fights as if he's peak human fighting ability because his powers make up for his not being at peak level.

Spot On!

Billy Club: Amazing material? I think that is a reach unless he's using something different these days. Good write up.

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The_Skycutter

Dead Sidekick, thanks for the additional material on Daredevil. I did not know about the Telepathy power, would you say more Empathy then Telepathy (I have not followed the Daredevil comics in years)?
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First off, this is a truly outstanding write up. I just have one question: Is it possible that DD's enhanced senses, experience, and training, simulate a weak form of Telepathy? Something that allows him to sense the presence of others, determine their current emotional state, and anticipate their actions?

I have read (not officially) that Daredevil may possibly possess a form of Telepathy or even Empathy just as Dead Sidekick mentioned.







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