Posted by AshFan at msp-65-25-198-76.mn.rr.com on February 19, 2003 at 10:37:01:
In Reply to: Some Daredevil Questions...(spoilers) posted by TrentReno on February 19, 2003 at 10:17:00:
: First of all, everyone has a right to an opinion so I'm not going to thrash this review. I on the other hand liked the film.
: I loved Marvel comics but Daredevil is one I never really got into. Now that I've seen the movie (which has a lot of the Frank Miller story I understand), I'm curious: how does Elektra wind up coming back to life in the comics, and what's going on with her?
: Also, in the movie, did Elektra leave the braile necklace for Matt before she died, or is it there to imply that she's still alive and left it to show him that?
: Ralphy
Elektra first appeared in Daredevil #168, during Frank Miller's influential run. Miller's concept included Elektra's roots as the daughter of a Greek ambassador; as a college flame of Matt Murdock during his education, who vanished for years after the assassination of her father; and as an assassin herself in the service of the Kingpin after connections with martial/religious orders like the Chaste (who rejected her) and the Hand (who took her in).
After some carrying on, including emotive encounters between the red-suited superhero and his onetime flame, the Marvel villain Bullseye, himself a sometime assassin, did Elektra in. This death served to move an entire story arc in the Daredevil franchise
Post-Elektra, Daredevil enjoyed a number of bizarre funks and idiosyncratic bouts of dementia. More than one player, including Daredevil himself, pursued schemes to exhume Elektra's cadaver, for various, not always rational, ends. Daredevil himself sought to attempt to reanimate her body by means of ninja magics of which his martial arts training had made him aware.
That the death of Elektra had any effect at all on Daredevil readership should have served as a clue that Marvel wouldn't stay with it. Before many comics readers had even heard of Elektra, let alone her death, Marvel's imaginary-story title, What If? began printing stories dealing with Elektra's survival.
Miller began dropping hints about Elektra's resurrection beginning in 1981-1982, after Daredevil's supposedly ineffective resurrection scheme.
In the "Fall From Grace" storyline in Daredevil #318-325, Elektra officially returned from the dead and begins working towards redemption.