Post by Daredevil on Jun 23, 2008 1:16:06 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): Marvel
Characters civilian name: Matthew Murdock
Code names/Aliases: (The) Daredevil
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Superhero
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Gender: Male
Age: 26
Apparent Age: 26?...
Hair: Brown
Eyes: White...I'm guessing...
Height and weight: 6' 200 lbs.
Appearance: In civilian form, he either wears a suit and carries a briefcase around with him because of his job at being a lawyer, or he wears street clothes when it's his day off. He usually walks with his cane no matter what in civilian form.
In her mode, red spandex =D. Sexy mama. It forms to his body, defining his muscles. He has the double D emblem on his chest, and his most notorious feature is the two horns on his head.
Picture [if available]:
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Super Powers:Daredevil's four remaining senses are heightened far beyond human levels, due to exposure to radiation. Although Murdock is blind, he can "see" by means of his "radar sense". This radar sense allows him sense the proximity of objects and persons around him, which allows him to react to attacks and launch his own attacks much faster than normal humans. This also enables him to dodge most ranged and close combat attacks with reliability. Daredevil's radar sense, combined with his super hearing enable him to instantly map the trajectory of a projectile (i.e., bullet or arrow) enabling him to dodge attacks with relative ease. He can also detect pulse fluctuations which serve as early warnings to physical attacks.
His sense of touch is sensitive enough to detect the faint impressions of ink on paper, allowing him to read by touch. He is able to feel minute changes in temperature and pressure 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 living or dead and, if dead, for how long.
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. He can also determine the ingredients of food and drink down to concentrations of 20 milligrams by their scent. His sense of taste is sharp enough to enable him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel.
Daredevil's enhanced sense of hearing enables him to detect acoustic pressure changes that ordinary humans cannot. Daredevil can often hear gunshots in time to avoid them, if the shooter is far enough away. He can hear human voices through soundproofed walls and the steady rhythm of a heartbeat from several feet away. Daredevil's sense of hearing makes him constantly aware of his own heartbeat, blood circulation, breathing, physical movements, etc. This skill is often employed by Murdock to serve as a lie-detector for his career as an attorney and as Daredevil. Other superheroes have sought Daredevil's aid at times for the expressed purpose of using him as a lie-detector.
Daredevil possesses super humanly acute powers of concentration, allowing him to sift through his sensory input and concentrate on any one specific stimulus to the extent of the exclusion of all others.
Daredevil's senses grant him a superhuman level of kinesthetic awareness, which greatly enhances his fighting skills. Daredevil has extensive knowledge of pressure points, due to his training and radar sense. Due to his training by Stick he uses ninja stealth/vanishing and has control of his chi, to his own self training. Daredevil is a master of a unique martial art from a blend of ninjutsu, aiki-jujutsu, judo, gymnastics, and American-style boxing. Although Wolverine and Captain America are considered the top fighters in the Marvel Comics Universe, Daredevil could easily be considered the third best, rivaling even Iron Fist and Shang-Chi, and indeed he has fought Wolverine, Black Panther, Task Master, and Sabretooth to a standstill in single combat. Daredevil is also a very intelligent fighter, in the sense that he often uses his wits to overcome opponents with superior power, such as Electro, Klaw, and the Absorbing Man.
Daredevil is a superb athlete and gymnast, possessing extraordinary agility, endurance, skill and balance. Because a person's sense of balance is linked with their sense of hearing (similar to the way that taste is linked with the sense of smell), Daredevil's superhuman hearing also grants him superhuman balance. He has been known to run across and even jump up and down on hydro wires. This 'super balance' enhances Daredevil's acrobatic skills beyond even what a highly skilled but sighted athlete would possess.
Daredevil's signature weapon is his specially designed billy club, which he created. Disguised as a blind man's cane in civilian garb, it is a versatile, multi-purpose weapon that contains thirty feet of aircraft control cable 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. The handle can be straightened for use when throwing. The club can also be split into two parts, one of which is a fighting baton, the other of which ends in a curved hook. Daredevil has extreme accuracy when throwing his club, and can hit multiple enemies with ricochets.
Learned Abilities:As Matt Murdock, Daredevil is also a highly skilled criminal defense attorney with an extensive knowledge of the American legal system, even going so far as to defend some of his former adversaries in court. As he believes very strongly in the justice system, he has gone so far as to defend criminal murderers against other superheroes who would kill them for their crimes, battling Wolverine and the Punisher and winning on both occasions.
Equipment:Multi-purpose baton XD Many uses. Grappling hook, extension for a weapon, walking stick...etc, etc,
Weaknesses (Must Have):
Extremely loud noises (or other extreme forms of sensory input, including visual) cause Daredevil considerably more distress than the average person; beyond a certain size, crowds of people cause too many sensory impressions for him to sort through without great difficulty.
Background:
Irish-American Matthew Murdock was raised by single father and fading boxer "Battling Jack" Murdock after his mother, presumably a nun named Maggie, left both Jack and Matthew in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Jack instilled in Matt the importance of education and non-violence with the aim of seeing his son become a better man than himself. Though Jack's intentions were noble, Matt is left unprepared to handle the bullying he received at school, and is branded with the sarcastic nickname, "Daredevil". Matt vented his frustration and anger by training in secret.
In the course of saving a blind man from the path of an oncoming truck, Matt was blinded by a radioactive substance that fell from the vehicle. Though the act of heroism robbed him of sight, the radioactive exposure heightened his remaining senses beyond normal human thresholds, enabling him to detect the shape and location of objects around him. A mysterious man, Stick, became his mentor, and taught him to control his new abilities while honing his natural aptitude in acrobatics and martial arts. Stick, also blind, taught Matt how to form a mental image of the objects around him, and Matt developed a "radar sense" to make up for his sight. Still in school, Matt continued to honor his father's wishes by excelling in his studies, and ultimately enrolled in the Columbia School of Law.
Back in Hell's Kitchen, Jack struggled and became an enforcer for small-time crook and boxing manager, the Fixer. In exchange for his services, the Fixer rigged a series of matches and provided "Battling Jack" a late-life boxing renaissance, resulting in the once near-destitute fighter becoming a title contender. On the night of the title fight against "Crusher" Creel, the future Absorbing Man, with his son in the crowd, Jack ignored the Fixer's demands to take a dive and wins by knockout. For his disobedience, the Fixer had him murdered.
In college, Matt met and fell in love with Elektra Natchios, the daughter of a Greek diplomat. When Elektra and her father were kidnapped by terrorists, Matt donned a mask for the first time and fights to save the two. In the mayhem that followed, Elektra's father was accidentally shot and killed by a SWAT team member. Overcome with grief, Elektra broke Murdock's heart by leaving America behind and returning to the study of martial arts.
Matt was devastated by the loss of his father and the judicial system's failure to convict the men responsible. Mindful of the childhood promise he made to his father not to lead a violent life, Matt donned a new identity for providing justice. Adorned in a costume made from his father's boxing robes, renamed with the moniker of his childhood derision, and using his superhuman abilities, Matt confronted the killers and avenged his father as the superhero Daredevil.
Personality :Matthew is very gentleman like. He likes to rationalise sometimes, and he always thinks three steps ahead of the game.
Other:
I wasn't really sure if I needed other character's permission to use them in my bio. DX
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Brief Sample Roleplay
The Daredevil was standing on the roof of a condemned building when he began his patrol of the night. It was raining and thundering, making it a little more difficult for Matthew to get a feeling and hearing for everything around, but he still had it. He picked up a patrol car's sirens going off about ten blocks away and he sped off to help.
He ran across the roof-tops of buildings and noticed that the patrol car was chasing a red mustang. Matt picked up that there were two men in the car, one firing rounds at the patrol car."Won't tonight be fun?" He said, as he jumped down onto the top of the speeding car. He caused it come to a screeching hault, while the driver pulled out his gun and fired shots at him.
He was too clever to be hit by the foolish man's outburst, and he jumped onto the top right when he pulled out the gun. He broke the driver side window and pulled the man out of the car. The man smelled of blood and death, and Matthew threw him against the wall of a brick building, knocking him unconcious.
Meanwhile, the patrol car stopped and a police man got out and ran up to the passenger side of the car, ordering the man to get out. The passenger got out of the car, and followed the police man's instructions of placing his hands on the hood, but then the police man's attention was diverted to the thud of the man being thrown against the brick wall. It was a mastake. The passenger of the car spun around and shot the police man in the stomach, point blank.
Matthew didn't notice anything wrong until the shot was fired. He turned around and wacked the man in the head with his billy club. The man grabbed his head in pain as he fell down to the ground."You made a big mistake buddy." He jumped off the car and landed right in front of the man. He noticed the man wasn't going to get up anytime soon, so he kicked the gun to the sidewalk and turned to the police officer.
He knelt down next to him, taking his pulse. The police man's heat was going down drastically, but there was nothing Matt could do about it. He heard sirens of other patrol cars coming his way, he thought the police man would recover in time.
He put the to men together, wrapping them up against a street pole so the police would aprehend them. He grappled his way up to the roof of a building, then looking down to see the patrol cars come near and call an ambulance.
"All in a night's work"
