Appearing in "Pariah"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Matt Murdock ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Jack Murdock (Voice only) (Only in flashback)
- ⏴ Maggie Murdock ⏵ (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- ⏴ Foggy Nelson ⏵
- ⏴ Glorianna O'Breen ⏵
- ⏴ Karen Page ⏵
- ⏴ Ben Urich ⏵
- ⏴ Nick Manolis ⏵
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) ⏵
- ⏴ Turk ⏵
- ⏴ Grotto
- Lois Franklin ⏵ (First appearance) (Unnamed)
Other Characters:
- Paulo Scorcese ⏵ (First appearance)
- Rosalind Sharpe (Mentioned)
- Cindy Nelson (Mentioned)
- Becky Blake (Mentioned)
- "Porkchop" Peterson (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Midtown (Main story and flashback)
- Hell's Kitchen (Main story and flashback)
- Rockefeller Center
- Kips Bay
- Lower West Side
- Midtown (Main story and flashback)
- East River
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- Mexico
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Ireland (Mentioned)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "Pariah"
Matt Murdock is now homeless thanks to what the Kingpin did to him, and after a while he begins suffering from paranoia and extreme aggression. All the while, he is continuously followed by the Kingpin's subordinates, who also provide the Kingpin with frequent updates on Murdock's mental state, as Fisk has become obsessed with the fruits of his scheme to destroy Murdock. Driven by thoughts of revenge himself, Murdock finally confronts the Kingpin in his office, and in the end is brutally beaten by the crime lord to the point where people think him dead, though he is still alive. To avoid an investigation into his apparent death, the unconscious Murdock is drenched in whiskey by the Kingpin and strapped into a stolen taxi cab, which is then pushed into the East River. Before it can crash in the water; however, Murdock regains consciousness, breaks out of the cab, and swims to safety. Badly injured, he stumbles through Hell's Kitchen, eventually finding his way to the gym where his father Battlin' Jack once trained as a boxer. There he is found by his mother, who, having not been in Matt's life for several decades, has become a nun at a local church. She nurses him back to health.
Notes
Continuity Notes[]
- In this issue, Turk stabs Matt Murdock critically wounding him.
- The burly nurse who debuts in this issue is identified as "Lois" in Daredevil #231.
- First appearance of Matt Murdock's mother the Nun "Maggie".