Matthew Murdock (Earth-9997)

Matt was born to "Battlin' Jack" Murdock, a boxer who worked protection for the mob and was paid to lose fights. Jack made a deal with the criminal underworld to pay for Matt's college, hoping his son wouldn't have to become a fighter like him. But Matt could not help but take after his father, and spent his nights learning how to fight. As a child, Matt was in an accident which cost him his sight, but granted him superhuman senses.^[2]

After graduating from college, Matt formed a law firm with Foggy Nelson.^[2]

When he became an adult, Matt became a vigilante known as Daredevil. Matt was trained by a man known as Stick, who prepared Matt to face the dark forces his order guarded against, such as the Hand. As a college student, Matt had become acquainted with a woman named Elektra Natchios, whom he quickly fell in love with. Elektra was also a student of Stick, but became a ninja of the Hand. She was hired by the Kingpin, a criminal and bitter enemy of Daredevil, to assassinate Matt's partner Foggy. Matt managed to turn Elektra to his side, before her apparent death at the hands of Bullseye, an assassin obsessed with Daredevil.^[2]

At some point, Matt and Foggy went into business with She-Hulk, creating a joint law firm.^[1] At some point, Elektra also returned to life.

Mutation of Humanity[]

After the world's population was mutated, Matt and other heroes in New York did their best to continue helping the mutated populace. Matt used his enhanced abilities to monitor the city, coordinating other heroes and helping to look for a way of reversing the mutations. John Blaze alerted him to the presence of David Jarrett, the last unmutated human on Earth, whom he had rescued from Ohio and brought to New York. Matt had Spider-Man save him, and helped bring him to Reed Richards and the other super-scientists and heroes taking refuge in the Baxter Building.^[3]

When David was killed during a storming of the building by a mutated mob, Daredevil was deeply affected by his loss.^[4]

Some time later, Matt and Elektra Natchios grew tired of being constant targets of various foes. Matt learned how to use the Hand's technique of body swapping to switch bodies with his old foe Bullseye, and killed him, making it appear as though Daredevil had died, and allowing Matt and Elektra to live together in peace. Ultimately the two lovers died and their souls would end up in the Realm of the Dead. There they would live out their afterlives in constant combat with other super-beings^{[citation needed]}.

Realm of Death[]

In the ream of the dead, Murdock would be recruited by Mar-Vell in his quest to destroy Death. Following the destruction of Death, Mar-Vell created Paradise, a new realm for those in the Land of the Dead. There Murdock would be selected to be a member of the Avenging Host, a group of super-humans handpicked by Mar-Vell to act as guardians of Paradise, as well as ushers to those who accepted their deaths and were thereby allowed passage into Paradise.^{[citation needed]}

Unlike the other members of the Avenging Host however, Murdock was not transmorphed by Mar-Vell and was charged with the task of holding the shards of the Cosmic Cube. The shards would allow whoever consumed a shard to create their own ideal reality. Soon the Avenging Host became suspicious of Mar-Vell's motives when they learned that with each new soul collected, Paradise expanded and had rapidly begun swallowing up the Negative Zone.^{[citation needed]}

When Murdock became aware that Wilson Fisk had rejected Paradise so that he could return to the Realm of Dead to lord over the deceased, Murdock decided to deal with the problem personally. He would attack Fisk in a representation of his old office tower, bringing him into conflict with Elektra and Bullseye, who had not chosen to become part of Paradise and thus remained unaware of their deaths. Defeating them, and Fisk, Murdock punished Fisk in the only way he could: convincing his wife Vanessa that she was dead and taking her to Paradise, leaving Fisk behind to live out eternity without his beloved.^{[citation needed]}

Returning to Paradise, Murdock would join the other members of the Avenging Host in confronting Mar-Vell over his plans. At this point Mar-Vell killed the members of the Host just as a Kree army invaded Paradise. This invasion was stopped by the combined efforts of Thanos, 4-D Man, Benny Beckley, and others. Following the defeat of the Kree army, Mar-Vell would transfer his vast powers over to Reed Richards, who would use them to restore the Avenging Host to life, including Murdock.^{[citation needed]}

Attributes

Powers

While he was alive, and living in the Realm of the Dead, Murdock had the same powers as his Earth-616 counterpart. However, in addition to this, he learned the Hand's technique to switch bodies. He used this on his old foe Bullseye, and as a result continued his life in Bullseye's body. Presumably he had the same physical enhancements as the Bullseye.
Upon becoming a member of the Avenging Host, Murdock did not appear to gain any additional or modified super-human abilities. However, when he was in the Realm of the Dead, he could make himself appear in any of his old costumes.

When in his Daredevil persona, he used the same equipment and weapons as his Earth-616 counterpart. As a member of the Avenging Host, Murdock carried shards of the Cosmic Cube. When individuals consumed a portion of the Cube, they were given the ability to create their own reality which they could manipulate in anyway they desired.

Links and References

Earth X #7 (Death's Realm)
Paradise X #0

References

[Marvels_X_Vol_1_2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Marvels X #2

[Paradise_X_Vol_1_10-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Paradise X #10

[Marvels_X_Vol_1_4-3] Marvels X #4

[Marvels_X_Vol_1_6-4] Marvels X #6

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Matthew Murdock (Earth-9997)

Contents

History

Early Life[]