Matthew Murdock

Matt has a well build and is of average height which causes him to often be eye to eye with many races and creatures.

Blindness: Daredevil is blind. While his superhuman senses help him overcome this, it becomes a problem for him to navigate and fight when his heightened senses are overwhelmed, scrambled, or otherwise cannot detect anything.

Superhuman Sensory System: At his early age, Murdock did not know how to handle his powers until he met Bruce, who became Matt's mentor and taught him to control and enhance them. A testament to the level of skill it requires Matt to even function, demonstrating the scale of psychological training required for Murdock to operate on a normal human level. Matt's various senses allow him to act, fight, and navigate while blindfolded, in darkness, or otherwise sightless.   Superhuman Tactile Sense: Murdock'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, though pages prevent him from touching and thus reading the ink impressions at a much faster pace than a normal person would be able to read. 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.   Superhuman Smelling: Murdock'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. Furthermore, 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 body 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.   Enhanced Tracking: Matt can track others down easily via various means, ranging from scents to footprints. With enough experience, he can follow tracks that are days or even weeks old. He may hypothetically be able to reconstruct a prior event by sniffing around the area.   Superhuman Hearing: Murdock'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, Murdock 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. Matt also utilizes his superhuman sense of hearing as an aid in processing, filtering, and interpreting the feedback of his radar/sonar sense to actually give him a three-dimensional picture of his surroundings. Additionally, Matt's combined use of his super hearing and radar sense can also give him tactical advantages, such as awareness of people hiding around the corners of rooms, walls, buildings, and furniture and makes it virtually impossible to literally blindside Matt.   Superhuman Balance: It is a common misconception that balance isn't a sense, but Murdock's balance centers give him equilibrium nearly on par with Spider-Man's.   Superhuman Reflexes: Matt's reflexes borderline superhuman. A combination of his radar, hearing, and sense of touch allow him to anticipate incoming threats before the average person would, increasing his practical response time. He may also deflect arrows, even when injured, and his reaction time is in the order of magnitude of the microsecond.   Superhuman Agility: Matt's agility and dexterity are similarly exceptional. He even managed to avoid several arrows shots while bad in mid-air.   Illusion Awareness: Due to most illusions affecting mainly eyesight, other senses such as hearing and/or smell have a difficult time succumbing to the illusion. It is also made worse by ignoring use of their other senses. Matt's superhuman senses enable him to remain aware at all times of the true reality around him, potentially seeing through any optical and/or mental illusions that others attempt to deceive him with.   Lie Detection: By listening, feeling, and smelling, Murdock can tell whether a person is lying by sweat, changes in body temperature, and heartbeats (though he can be fooled by those able to keep calm under pressure).   Telepathy: Due to Bruce's training, Murdock has displayed minor telepathic abilities.   Telepathic Immunity: Murdock is skilled in being able to resist psychic intrusions to be able to prevent his mind from being read. Additionally, since he has had to train his mind to navigate his superhuman senses, an unprepared telepath will be overwhelmed by the sudden influx of stimuli if they invade Murdock's mind.   Radar Sense: A form of echolocation via low radio wave projection, according to one theory; an energy wave within certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The signal emanates radio waves from regions of his brain, after which it travels outward, bounces off objects around him, and returns to receiving regions of his brain. With this ability, Murdock can synthesize a very close analogue of three-dimensional three-hundred-and-sixty-degree human sight.   Proximity Sense: An offshoot to radar sense, this ability is the combination of all other senses (excluding radar sense) and can allow Matt to reconstruct his surroundings.   Person Identification: All of Murdock's senses help him identify people by the specific patterns of their heartbeat, smell, touch, sound, and even radar appearance, as it allows to "see" through objects, specifically clothes (albeit obscure).   Blindness: Murdock is unaffected by darkness, smoke, very bright light, or other situations that would obscure a sighted person's vision. Lack of sight also helps protect him from certain kinds of mental control. Being blind also helps him avoid fear; Murdock says when performing astounding acrobatics across buildings, "If I could see what I'm doing, I'd be scared stiff". It also protects his secret identity; others do not know that Daredevil is blind, so do not associate Murdock with the hero.   The Man Without Fear: It is untrue that Matt has never been afraid but through the years of training and experience, Daredevil currently shows a detached ability to fear and emotions bordering on sociopathic. This ability extends to immunity from "fear toxins" and spells, as Daredevil seems to simply be "The Man Without Fear."   Master Attorney: Murdock is a highly skilled and accomplished lawyer, specializing in criminal justice. His legal practice is considered the single greatest source of strength of both emotional stability and his successful war on crime. Murdock's law firm also does a lot of pro bono work as well as the full range of social justice issues such as rape cases, hate crimes, police brutality, wrongful death suits, medical malpractice, whistleblower/witness protection cases, workplace violence, corporate business fraud, LGBT harassment/workplace inequality, child/sexual abuse cases, victims of war crimes/terrorism, food/consumer safety cases, automotive recalls, anti-GMO food lobbying, and even environmental issues.   Devouted: As a devout member of the Paradise Faith Cult, Murdock has the mixed benefits and access to certain resources and contacts/allies through the parishes of Mordor. As a lawyer, Murdock can also access additional assets in the form of safe-houses and sanctuary of the Church for his clients should local law enforcement resources become either compromised and or cannot be relied upon in witness protection cases. Murdock can also make use of contacts in the form of other Paradise Faith members giving him vital information regarding the movements of street gangs, the various Iron Fist troops, pimps, and other elements of the criminal underworld in order to allow Matt to be more successful in battling the criminals of Mordor.   Superhuman Strength: Matt possesses superhuman strength much greater than that of any human.    Superhuman Speed: Matt is capable of running and moving at speeds much faster than the finest human athlete.    Superhuman Stamina: Matt' muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins than the muscles of human beings. He can exert himself at peak capacity for several days before fatigue begins to impair him.   Expert Interrogator: Murdock uses many different interrogation methods to extract information from criminals. His knowledge of criminology and torture is unerring and often overwhelming.   Gifted Intellect: Murdock's intelligence and brain functions have always been apparent, his long-term midnight training and little need of sleep is a testament to that.   Indomitable Will: Daredevil has tremendous determination, fearlessness and strength of will, which makes him an extremely formidable opponent, one who absolutely refuses to ever hunker down and give up, even when placed against seemingly insurmountable odds. Hence, he is one of the extremely few individuals known to possess the willpower to resist mind control, with Daredevil having successfully done so on more than one occasion.   Expert Detective: He has shown to be an expert self-taught detective, using his intellect to figure out complex problems and hyper-senses to find clues and evidence to crime scenes.   Expert Tracker: With the aid of his hyper-senses, Murdock is able to track objects and people from miles away with ease.   Master Acrobat: He is a superb athlete, gymnast, acrobat, aerialist and almost without peer due to the many years of constant training and exercise, first on his own and later exclusively under the tutelage of Dick Grayson.   Weapons Proficiency: Murdock is highly proficient in wielding various martial art weapons through his ninjutsu training, such as swords (katana), chain weapons, stick and staff weapons, combat knives of all types, both ancient and modern military style, and projectiles such as shurikens, throwing knives, bows, and even firearms.   Expert Marksman: He is very skilled marksman, which makes him capable of throwing his billy clubs with great accuracy. Murdock is also skilled with most projectile-like weaponry such as throwing knives, shurikens, and darts, as well as archery.   Master Stick Fighter: He is a masterful expert in wielding all types of stick weapons which include staffs, batons, nunchaku, and paired short sticks.   Master Martial Artist: Murdock is a highly skilled, self-taught boxer both due to watching his father compete and helping him train and prepare for his fights. He has also been very heavily and extensively trained in the ninja arts by Wu, a senior grandmaster and leader of the Light Elven Army. Bruce taught and trained Matt both control of his powers and valuable fighting techniques with stealth, vanishing, to even life-energy(chi/ki)control. Murdock is well-educated in the functioning of the body as well as martial arts techniques that target pressure points, enabling him to paralyze limbs or an individual's entire body altogether. He has disabled eyesight and speech, induced pain, and could possibly know a pressure point for inducing death. Murdock's fighting style is a very balanced and harmonious fusion of Boxing with Ninjutsu, Jiu-jitsu, Aiki-Jujutsu, Savate, Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Judo, Krav Maga, Silat, Karate, Capoeira, Eskrima, Aikido, and Greco-Roman Wrestling.   Regenerative Healing Factor: Matt is capable of repairing bodily injuries with superhuman levels of speed and efficiency.    Superhuman Durability: Matt' body is highly resistant to physical injury. He is capable of withstanding great impact forces, temperature and pressure extremes, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining injury.

black coat, red pullover, dark brown trousers, black boots

Lock-Picking Set: Concealed in the buckle of Matt's belt is a small set of standard lock-picks.

Cisgender

Heterosexual

Village School of the new Village of York

Lawyer, Bard, Acrobat

Insightful, Compassionate, Idealistic, Intuition, Altruistic, Empathetic, Sensitive, Caring, Creative, Deep, Complex, Helpful, Independent, Perceptive, Perfectionism, Organization, Passionate, Sensitive to criticism, Focused, Reserved, Thoughtful, Incurable Optimist