Matt Murdock is a blind lawyer in Hell's Kitchen, New York who was blinded as a child but gained heightened senses. He fights crime as the vigilante Daredevil using martial arts and his billy club. His love interest Elektra is the daughter of a wealthy man targeted by the Kingpin, a powerful crime boss. The Kingpin hires the deranged assassin Bullseye to kill Elektra's father. Daredevil battles both villains to defeat them and bring justice to Hell's Kitchen.

1. Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson 2003)

2. • Matt Murdock -
lawyer
• Friend and partner-
Foggy Nelson -
comedy character
• Powers- blind but
other senses are
exaggerated work
out where things are
with soundwaves etc.
• No super strength
but he’s agile and fit
• Uses martial arts
• Has billy club - can
swing from buildings

3. Origin
• Origin blinded by radioactive material that heightened
senses - As a child, Matt was blinded by a toxic waste
spill. The accident enhanced Matt's other senses and
gave him sonar to "see" via sonic vibrations
• Matt's father, boxer Jack "The Devil", was killed after
refusing to turn in a fixed fight for the mobster (who
has connections to the Kingpin) who had employed
him earlier. After his father's death, Matt promised to
stop all crime that controlled Hell's Kitchen, New York
as the vigilante crime-fighter "Daredevil".
• Matt now fights for justice

4. Elektra – love
interest
• Elektra – strong female character –
featured in her own film after this one
• Daughter of Greek millionaire who’s
connected to the |Kingpin through
business deals and no longer wants
anything to do with him
• Attractive, independent, skilled at martial
arts
• Matt fancies her/ she fancies him - flirt by
fighting
• Bullseye kills her dad with DD’s billy club
but she blames Daredevil who was
distracted
• She fights him but is killed by Bullseye –
who DD goes after

5. Bullseye
• Bullseye deranged hit man who can turn anything he
throws into a weapon – even a paper clip
• DD defeats him by dragging his hands in front of a
sniper’s bullet and sending him crashing through a church
window where he falls on top of a car but at the end of
the film, he is getting his powers back and we see him kill
a fly with a syringe needle lands on the writers car

6. The Kingpin
• Kingpin – mobster - tough and muscular
‘business’ who has become rich through
criminal activity, especially the drug trade.
• Sees himself as the ruler of Hell’s Kitchen –
the area of New York that Daredevil lives and
works in
• Hires Bullseye as an assassin to kill Elektra’s
father
• Defeated by Daredevil
• Earlier DD allows a criminal who didn’t get
convicted to die on the underground tracks
• Later allows kingpin to live jail as if he
learned during course of film DD said, I'm not
the bad guy the kid don’t hurt me when DD
was beating up a thug
• Key theme justices how it’s carried out police
see him as a vigilante police can’t take down
the kingpin