Daredevil in other media

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Original sourceComics published by Marvel Comics
Adaptations of Daredevil in other media
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Created byStan Lee
Bill Everett
Jack Kirby
Original sourceComics published by Marvel Comics
First appearanceDaredevil #1 (April 1964)

The Marvel Comics character Daredevil has appeared in various other media since his debut in Daredevil #1 (April 1964).

Live-action

  • In 1975, Angela Bowie secured the TV rights to Daredevil and the Black Widow for a duration of one year and planned a TV series based on the two characters. Bowie had photographer Terry O'Neill take a series of pictures of herself as Black Widow and actor Ben Carruthers as Daredevil (with wardrobe by Natasha Kornilkoff) to shop the project around to producers, but the project never came to fruition.[1]
  • In 1983, ABC planned a Daredevil pilot. Writer Stirling Silliphant completed the draft, but it was not aired.[2]
  • Daredevil appears in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, portrayed by Rex Smith. This version was inspired by a police officer to become a hero. Additionally, he wears a black ninja-like outfit, a variation of which would later appear in Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.'s 1993 Daredevil: The Man Without Fear miniseries.[3]

Animation

  • Matt Murdock appears in a flashback in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Attack of the Arachnoid", voiced by Frank Welker.[4]
  • In the 1980s, ABC had planned a Daredevil television series that would have featured a guide dog named "Lightning the Super-Dog".[5][6] Television writer Mark Evanier said in 2008 that he was the last in a line of writers to have written a pilot and series bible, with his including Lightning as a regular guide dog.[5]
  • Daredevil appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, voiced by Edward Albert.[4] This version's blindness occurred after he accidentally witnessed his father Jack Murdock taking part in crime.
  • Daredevil appears in the Fantastic Four (1994) episode "And a Blind Man Shall Lead Them", voiced by Bill Smitrovich.[7]
  • Production stills for a proposed Daredevil animated series meant to air on Fox Kids were made.[8]
  • Daredevil makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the X-Men '97 episode "Tolerance is Extinction - Part 3".[9]

Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Matt Murdock / Daredevil is portrayed by Charlie Cox in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[11]

Cox's appearances as Daredevil in the MCU include the television series Daredevil (2015–2018), The Defenders (2017),[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022),[21] Echo (2024),[22] and Daredevil: Born Again (2025–present),[23][24] and the film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).[25] He also voices an alternate version of the character in the first season of the Disney+ animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025).[26][27][28][29]

Video games

Merchandise

Miscellaneous

References

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