Elektra Nachios

They thought she’d been killed, but this Greek woman is one of many whose death was staged and publicized, …helping her get to a life of peace and healing in Inisfree.

 

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Table of Contents:

1. Spec’s
2. Details/History
3. 2nd Profile
4. Powers and Abilities
5. Elektra & Auz
6. 2023
7. Images
8. How She Enjoys Massages in Inisfree

 

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Spec’s:

Alter ego	Elektra Natchios
Place of origin	Greece
Team affiliations	Thunderbolts Code Red[1] The Hand S.H.I.E.L.D. HYDRA The Chaste Heroes for Hire Savage Avengers
Notable aliases	Erynys, Daredevil, Black Sky, Ellie
Abilities	Peak human physical and mental condition Master martial artist Expert with various types of weaponry, particularly her trademark twin sai Low-level mind control and telepathic communication

She stands 5’8″, is 134 lbs., and has perky C-cup breasts.

 

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Details:

Elektra Natchios (UK: /ˈnætʃiɒs/, US: /-oʊs/) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Frank Miller, the character first appeared in Daredevil #168 (January 1981). She is a love interest of the superhero Daredevil, but her violent nature and mercenary lifestyle divide the two.

The character is a highly trained assassin of Greek descent who wields a pair of bladed sai as her trademark weapons.

Family and Early Life

Elektra was born on a Greek island near the Aegean Sea to Hugo Kostas Natchios and his wife Christina Natchios. She had an older brother named Orestez Natchios.

Two contradictory accounts of her family history have been given. In Elektra: Root of Evil #1–4 (March–June 1995), Christina is killed by assassins hired by Orestez, while in Elektra (Vol. 1) #18 (1995), she is killed by an insurrectionist during the Greek Civil War. In both accounts, she gives premature birth to Elektra just before dying.

When a nine-year-old Elektra was assaulted by kidnappers, the men were all killed by Orestez, who had grown into an accomplished martial artist after leaving home. Orestez advised his father that Elektra needed to learn self-defense. Hugo hired a sensei to teach her the martial arts.

In Elektra: Assassin #1 (August 1986), the adult Elektra has vague memories of being raped by her father as a five-year-old. Years of counseling and medication had convinced her this was a false memory, but the doubt remained. Elektra grew up close to her father but was plagued by dark visions and voices with no known source. She occasionally reacted to them with self-harm. Her father eventually sent her away to psychotherapy to become more stable. It was uncertain whether Elektra actually became more stable or merely appeared to be.

Activities as an Adult

Hugo Natchios eventually served as a Greek ambassador to the United States. Nineteen-year-old Elektra attended Columbia University in New York City. There, Elektra began dating classmate Matt Murdock.

A year later, Elektra and her father were kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue attempt by Matt went wrong, and Hugo Natchios was gunned down.^[11]Elektra lost faith and hope. She quit Columbia and returned to China to study martial arts. Stick, a member of the benevolent organization called the Chaste, recognized the darkness in her soul and attempted to train her himself, but she ultimately sided with the Hand, a sect of mysticalninja who trained her as an assassin. She later broke away from them and became an independent agent, and in this role she again encountered Matt Murdock, who was now active as Daredevil. She defeated Daredevil in her mission to kill the criminal Alarich Wallenquist. However, she failed her assignment, and Daredevil had to save her from being killed by Eric Slaughter, revealing his secret identity to her in the process.^[11]Although the pair worked together to fight the Hand, they also came into conflict frequently.

Elektra later battled the Hand alongside Daredevil and Gladiator.^[12] She then battled Kirigi.^[13]

She soon became the chief assassin in the employ of New York City‘s premier crime lord, the Kingpin.^[14] She attempted to kill Daredevil after he tried to stop her from terrorizing Ben Urich.^[15] The Kingpin then assigned her to kill Matt Murdock’s partner, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson. When Nelson recognized Elektra as Matt’s college girlfriend, she was unable to kill him.

Elektra was fatally stabbed by Bullseye with one of her own sai in a battle over which of them would be the Kingpin’s assassin. Elektra managed to crawl to Daredevil’s house before dying in his arms as Bullseye watched the two, hidden among a crowd that had gathered to see what was going on.^[16] Later, members of The Hand stole her body and attempted to resurrect her. Daredevil, with the assistance of Stone, a member of Stick’s order, intervened, defeating The Hand ninja. Daredevil then tried to revive Elektra himself. Although his attempt failed, it did have the effect of purifying Elektra’s soul. Elektra’s body subsequently disappeared, as did Stone.^[17]

Later, Stone somehow resurrected Elektra and then sent her to aid the X-Man Wolverine, at a time when he had been physically and mentally regressed to a bestial form. She helped retrain him to the point where he could think and vocalize as a human once more, and spent time with him thereafter as he returned to his normal form, including taking him with her on a return to her ancestral home.^[18]

Some time after her partnership with Wolverine ended, it was revealed that when Elektra was resurrected by Stone, Elektra’s evil aspect had been physically split apart from her in its own body as a consequence of the ritual performed by Daredevil. Her darker half, calling itself Erynys (/ɪˈrɪnɪs/), fought Elektra and was killed by her, thus returning the dark side to Elektra’s soul.^[19]

She was hired by Nick Fury to assassinate Saddam Abed Dassam, the leader of Iraq who was in league with HYDRA, and retrieve the Scorpio Key from them. Fury hired her as a way to avoid accountability in global political circles. Along the way HYDRA tried to hire her, an offer she refused. They then set the Silver Samurai on to her and it appeared she killed him though he appeared alive and well in other comics. When she eventually obtained the Key, she refused to give it to Fury, believing that he could not be trusted with such a powerful weapon. She instead gave it to the police officer who had killed her father stating that he had a debt to her and he would not let her down.^[20]

Wolverine: Enemy of the State

Elektra worked with S.H.I.E.L.D.^[21]

HYDRA and The Hand joined forces, killing off various heroes and resurrecting them into their possessed warriors, including the X-Man Wolverine, who became their killing machine.^[22] Based on her relationship with Logan and her ties to the Hand, Nick Fury hired Elektra to lead the mission, paying her in excess of $200,000, more money in one day than the (then) yearly salary of the President of the United States.^[23] She worked to stop Wolverine from killing others as well as to try to turn him back to his normal self. During a fight with The Hand, Elektra was killed and resurrected as a Hand warrior, eventually becoming their leader.^[24] Along with the X-Man Northstar and other superhumans killed and resurrected by the Hand, Elektra attacked Nick Fury, injuring him badly and causing the destruction of a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.^[25]

Thanks to S.H.I.E.L.D., Wolverine eventually came to his senses and wanted revenge.^[25] During a fight with Elektra, she mentally spoke to him, using new abilities given to her by the Hand. She explained that being killed by The Hand was all part of a plan she had from the beginning. She explained that she had been resurrected by The Hand and infiltrated the organization, making them believe they had been successful in resurrecting her as a brainwashed warrior. She told him that they would take The Hand and HYDRA down together. They fought off many ninja and were victorious.^[26] Gorgon, however, attacked Elektra and threw off her mental blocks, enabling him to read her thoughts and see where Fury was being treated for his injuries (he also discovered that the Vatican also hired her, to kill him). Gorgon teleported, with Elektra, to kill Fury. When they arrived, Elektra ordered the S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers to attack. Gorgon used his power on her neck and she collapsed. Wolverine eventually used Gorgon’s own powers against him, defeating him.^[27]

In an email to Kitty Pryde, Nick Fury told her that Elektra had survived, but was missing and was probably in Eastern Europe, creating her own militia group, which she intended to be her own version of The Hand. He also told Kitty that Elektra was no threat … so far. It was unknown where Elektra really was or what her plans were, but it was during the time following the destruction of the helicarrier that she was abducted by Skrulls and replaced with an imposter.^[28]

Daredevil and the Kingpin

She resurfaced to help Daredevil with a situation with the Kingpin. The crime lord, in exchange for his freedom, offered the FBI irrefutable evidence that Matt Murdock was Daredevil.

It was revealed that Elektra actually helped Kingpin gain all the needed information back when she was Daredevil’s enemy, and she returned because she felt an obligation to help Matt out of the trouble for which she felt responsible. It was also revealed by the Black Widow that Elektra is now the leader of The Hand.

Daredevil meets up with Elektra, the Black Widow, and the new White Tiger in front of the building that holds the “Murdock Papers” (the evidence Kingpin was talking about). They intended to retrieve the papers before the FBI could get there, but were suddenly attacked by Bullseye. Daredevil and Elektra fought the villain and, after a lengthy and bloody battle, won. However, Daredevil was suddenly shot by Paladin (who was working for FBI operatives) and was left bleeding profusely in Elektra’s arms. Elektra then takes Matt to the Night Nurse, but insists that The Hand should cure him. Black Widow appears and objects. While Elektra and Black Widow fight, The Hand heals Matt Murdock.

Outside the Night Nurse’s medical office, reporters and police gather. Elektra then jumps out the side window, along with The Hand to drive off the police and FBI. She gets in a quarrel with Luke Cage, and quickly exits the scene at Matt’s request.

It was later revealed that this Elektra was actually a Skrull and not the real Elektra.^[29]

Replacement by Skrulls

Elektra seemingly reappears, appearing to be corrupted by the Hand.^[30] She kills, resurrects, and imprisons the vigilante Maya Lopez, intending to use her as a weapon. The New Avengers rescue Lopez and she ends up stabbing Elektra to death.^[31] However, upon her death it is revealed that “Elektra” is actually a Skrull in disguise; its death indicates that the Skrulls have become undetectable to even the heightened senses of New Avengers members Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Doctor Strange. The corpse is given to Iron Man by Spider-Woman.^[32]

Mighty Avengers #16 reveals that Elektra was selected to be replaced by a Skrull imposter named Siri. She was targeted by several Skrull impostors while staying in Japan, however, Elektra fought and killed most of these Skrulls (including Siri), before being blindsided and severely beaten by a Super Skrull manifesting Invisible Woman‘s invisibility and Colossus‘ organic steel armor. A Skrull named Pagon took Elektra’s place since Siri was killed by Elektra. Pagon’s death was planned all along, being their major “reveal” of their intent to take over the world’s superheroes.^[33]

The real Elektra was revealed to be alive upon one of the Skrull Ships and was released during the final battle between the heroes and the Skrulls.^[34] Iron Man immediately orders her held in protective custody at S.H.I.E.L.D.^[35]

Dark Reign

Being the only Skrull captive showing signs of experimentation and torture, Elektra finds herself weakened by multiple injuries. Norman Osborn orders her studied and monitored to obtain information as to why this was the case.^[35] Paladin breaks into H.A.M.M.E.R. (formerly S.H.I.E.L.D.) headquarters intending to kill Elektra for $82 million. She overpowers Paladin and chokes him by spitting her broken tooth down his throat. She forces him to surrender the keys to her to escape. Before leaving the cell, she murders the interrogator who was torturing her for info.^[35] She finally makes her escape after taking down several H.A.M.M.E.R. operatives and manages to reach Matt Murdock’s office to raid his stash of first aid supplies. After being confronted by Foggy Nelson, she collapses from extensive blood loss due to her injuries.^[36]

Elektra wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed in the Night Nurse’s clinic. The nurse explains that she bound Elektra for her own safety, although the ninja easily frees herself. Their conversation is interrupted when a hit woman named Nico breaks in and attempts to kill both of them. Elektra sends Nico flying out the window then arms herself with the ninja’s weapons while telling the Night Nurse to escape. Elektra jumps into the alley and battles Nico, only to find that another hit man named Carmine is also attempting to kill her with a sniper rifle from a rooftop. She manages to defeat Nico while evading Carmine’s shots and obtains some clues from Nico as to why she was being targeted for assassination. On the rooftop, Carmine is murdered by Bullseye (in the guise of Hawkeye), who was sent by Norman Osborn to kill Elektra.^[37]

Elektra climbs to the top of the building to confront the third assassin, only to be taken aback when she discovers that he is Bullseye. Although initially hesitant, she stands her ground and faces her killer. The two begin to fight when Nico manages to reach the rooftop to check on Carmine. Bullseye attempts to kill her with a drug laced arrow, but she is saved by Elektra (who accidentally gets the drugs on the arrow in her system in the process). Bullseye then kicks the seemingly sedated Elektra off the building, but she manages to land safely. Bullseye follows and confronts her on the street, attempting to kill her with her own sai, much like their first encounter. However, this time Elektra outmaneuvers him and stabs him through the back with one of his own arrows. Nico once more interrupts the fight, attempting to shoot a fleeing Bullseye, then confronting a heavily drugged, helpless Elektra. H.A.M.M.E.R. agents enter the fray and shoot Nico, but are ambushed and killed by Wolverine before they can finish Elektra off.^[38]

After escaping H.A.M.M.E.R., Wolverine reveals to Elektra where Nico ran, and Elektra tries to confront the problem head on and peaceably end the conflict. Arriving at the Blackhawk crash site, she discovers that Agent Brothers, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, was the one who put a price on her head. Brothers claims that she was responsible for killing hundreds of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents during the Blackhawk incident. Elektra, having no memory of the incident, denies the accusations and urges both Brothers and Nico to go in peace, stating that it was her Skrull impostor who was responsible for the incident. However, Norman Osborn then appears, and reveals that Elektra was in fact abducted after the Helicarrier attack, although she has no memory of this because she had used a mind trick to “forget” her resurrections and the incidents surrounding them to prevent the Skrulls from accessing them during her abduction. Norman taunts Elektra to undo this mind trick, and Elektra obliges. It is then revealed that Elektra is actually guilty of the accusations. She then proceeds to kill both Nico and Brothers.^[39]

Code Red

Elektra was involved in an incident with the Red Hulk, X-Force, a new villain called the Red She-Hulk and a few other well known mercenaries such as Deadpool and the Punisher.^[40]

Shadowland

In Shadowland storyline, Stick tries to convince Elektra to help stop the Hand from corrupting Matt. However she refuses, because she wanted him to be cold-hearted just like her out of spite for him. She reconsiders when she witnessed the broadcast of Daredevil killing Bullseye.^[41] She joins the Hand so she can gain intel on the Shadowland fortress to help the super heroes infiltrate it. Later upon rejoining the Hand, Elektra visits Daredevil and Typhoid Mary at Bullseye’s grave intending to resurrect him.^[42] She then helps sneak the super heroes into the building, to stop Daredevil from resurrecting Bullseye. A fight erupts and just when Elektra tried to reach out to Matt, the Demon of the Hand finally possesses him. Once he defeats all of the super heroes, Iron Fist used his chi energy on the demon to help heal Matt’s soul. While that was happening, Elektra entered Matt’s mind to encourage him fight the evil presence of the demon. Matt killed himself to stop the demon from causing any more chaos. Elektra later resurrected him.

As part of the 2012 Marvel NOW! branding, Elektra becomes a member of Red Hulk‘s Thunderbolts.^[43]

During the Avengers: Standoff! storyline, Elektra was incarcerated for some unknown reason in Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D. S.H.I.E.L.D. used the powers of Kobik to turn her into Sheriff Eva. During this time, she was in love with Absorbing Man‘s altered human form of an ice cream vendor named Henry. After Baron Helmut Zemo and Fixer started using a machine to turn all the inmates back to normal, Elektra was among those restored. She talked Absorbing Man out to harming the innocent lives at Pleasant Hill.^[44]

During the Civil War II storyline, Elektra applied to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in order to free her conscience of the deaths of the passengers of the crashed Black Hawk. She took the position of field director when Phil Coulson left the group.^[45] When Coulson was trying to interfere with Captain Marvel’s plans to use Ulysses Cain‘s abilities to stop crime before it happens, Elektra discovered that Leo Fitz was Coulson’s mole in her group which Maria Hill was alerted to. At the same time, she also reinstated Grant Ward into S.H.I.E.L.D. and placed an explosive collar on his neck to ensure his loyalty.^[46]

Skills and Abilities

Elektra’s primary abilities are a strong knowledge of martial arts and weaponry. Elektra learned ancient martial arts of China, Siam, and Japan. She is a master combatant with the Okinawan sai, her usual weapon of choice. She is also highly skilled with the katana, daggers, three-section staff, and shuriken. She is a master of many Japanese combat forms including Ninjutsu, Aikido and Karate.^[47] Elektra is an Olympic-level athlete, strong in gymnastics and swimming, with a high level in athleticism, human strength, speed, stamina, agility, dexterity, reflexes and reactions, coordination, balance, and endurance. She is resistant to pain and extreme heat and cold. She is also able to keep to the shadows and move with such speed that she can remain unseen even in daylight.

Elektra has the ability to mesmerize others, and as such make them see illusions or other phenomena.

Elektra also has the ability to “throw” her mind into those of others. For instance, she was able to track down her enemy, Ken Wind, by temporarily “borrowing” people’s minds and acting through them while she hunted around for her prey. This temporary mind control enables her to metaphorically sniff out the psyche, or intent, of her targets. It saw extensive use during Elektra: Assassin, in which she was heavily reliant on only her ninja powers.

Elektra has demonstrated low-level telepathy. She can communicate telepathically with individuals possessing similar levels of mental discipline, such as the Chaste. Elektra mastered this ability during training with The Hand, which mentally links her to The Beast, the demigod of The Hand.

Details here.

 

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Elektra

Status

 Identity

No Dual Identity

 Citizenship

Greek

 Marital Status

Single

 Occupation

Assassin, adventurer, mercenary, former student, dancer

 Education

College graduate; Studied political science at Columbia University, New York City

Characteristics^[68]

 Gender

Female

 Height

5′ 9″

 Weight

130 lbs (59 kg)

 Eyes

Blue

 Hair

Black

Origin

 Origin

Human Ninja

 Universe

Earth-616

 Place of Birth

Unspecified island in the Aegean Sea

 Creators

Frank Miller

First Appearance
Daredevil #168 (January, 1981)

 

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Early Years

Elektra Natchios was born on a Greek island near the Aegean Seato Hugo Kostas Natchios and his wife Christina Natchios. She grew up with her older brother Orestez Natchios. Elektra’s mother was gunned down by enemies of her father while vacationing on a yacht. After her mother’s death, Elektra grew up close to her father but was plagued by visions and voices with no known source. She reacted to them through self-harming herself. Her father eventually sent her away to psychotherapy until becoming more stable. As she grew up, her father required that she train in the martial arts where she excelled.^[6]

Matt Murdock

Her father was later appointed Greek ambassador to the United States of America. She attended Columbia University. This is where she first saw Matt Murdock when he was leaping across rooftops. Matt could sense her from her scent but she took off and he chased her into the park. She left articles of clothing as a trail. The cops arrive and detained him, but when they realized he was blind they let him go, much to Elektra’s amusement. The next day, she pulled up in her car and without a word from either her or Matt, he jumped into the car leaving behind his friend, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, who was still upset that she almost ran them over. Elektra drove like a maniac and Matt enjoyed every minute.

They travel to a cliff and stood at the edge, she told Matt that they are two of a kind, different from everyone else. They live on the brink, drawn to the edge, and sometimes over.^[7] She, however, fell from the cliff and crashed through the ice and into the water. He leaped to her rescue but could not find her in the water. However, Elektra was fine and laughed as she sped away in her car. Foggy told Matt who she was and he went to her mansion where he broke in but was stopped by security. Elektra was playing the piano at a party as the guard crashed through the glass ceiling and right onto the piano. Elektra never stopped playing. The guards took aim and fire up at the window where Matt was standing. When Matt gets home and treats his wounds she was there and the two slept together. She later leaves as Foggy arrived.

On her way home she saw a group of five gangbangers who she overhears them bragging about what they’ve done to innocent women. She lured them into a dark alley. They block off the way out and she begins to undress. She promises not to scream. Two of them go to hold her while another pulls out a knife to cut off what little clothes she has left on. She kicks him in his junk and knees him in the jaw, snapping a vertebra and killing him instantly. The others attack but eventually she kills all of them.

She and Matt start training together, falling more and more in love. Matt couldn’t even concentrate in class. One night Stick wakes Matt up and threatens him and told Matt to stay away from Elektra, that she was dangerous. Matt did not listen to his old mentor.^[8]

Chaste & The Hand

However, after her father was gunned down by assassins, she went to the Mountain of the Chaste to train from them. But she was later dismissed by Stick for bearing too much emotion over the death of her father.^[9] Determined to prove herself to her mentor, she infiltrated the rival organization known as The Hand. Wise to her plan, the Hand instead tricked Elektra into killing the sensei with whom she had studied before Stick. Elektra continued to serve the Hand thereafter, becoming corrupted by their ways. Eventually, she rebelled against her handlers and fled Japan.^[10]

Daredevil

For years, Elektra worked as a bounty hunter and assassin for hire. Having undertaken a contract in New York City, she crossed paths with the blind adventurer Daredevil, whom she learned to be Matt Murdock.^[9] They teamed up to fight Bullseye who was losing his mind due to a tumor.^[11] Daredevil disapproved of Elektra’s chosen profession, but the two still cared deeply for one another. Together, they fought the Hand.^[12] Daredevil is without his radar sense and teamed-up with Elektra against the Hand and their master assassin, Kirigi.^[13] They try to hunt down Stick which led to Elektra’s has a final confrontation with Kirigi.^[14][15]

The relationship changed when Kingpin, the most powerful figure in East Coast organized crime, hired Elektra as his chief assassin.^[16] She was sent to kill Ben Urich and came into conflict with Matt.^[17] Matt stopped her and thwarted the Kingpin’s plans. In retaliation, Kingpin ordered her to kill Matt’s best friend and law partner, Foggy Nelson. When Foggy recognized her, Elektra realized she could not carry out the contract and spared his life.^[18]

Death and Resurrection

Soon after, Bullseye determined that the only way to regain his status as the Kingpin’s chief assassin was to kill Elektra. Bullseye impaled Elektra on her own sai, and she died in Matt’s arms.^[19]

Unwilling to part with one of its most talented operatives, the Hand attempted to resurrect Elektra and place her fully under their control through a magic ritual. Stone, a member of Stick’s order, completed the process, bringing Elektra back to life after Daredevil had purified her spirit through sheer force of will. Now purged of the Hand’s corruption, Elektra left Matt’s side, determined to find her own place in the world.^[20]

Elektra Assassin

She was sent to battle the Beast.^[6] S.H.I.E.L.D. sent it’s the cyborgs to play a life-and-death game of cat-and-mouse with Elektra. ^[21] John Garrett and Arthur Perry, were sent to San Conception as part of Operation: Scrambled Eggs to investigate the assassination on the nation’s president. The assassin, unfortunately, turned out to be Elektra, and after being confronted by the two agents left them to die in an explosion.^[22] Recovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. Garrett was upgraded to a cybernetic body by ExTechOp. John swore revenge against Elektra.^[23] He discovered her next mission to stop The Hand from gaining a presidential foothold over the world with candidate Ken Wind, who’d been possessed by the Hand’s Beast, and so he allied himself with her for the sake of the world.^[24]

Elektra Lives Again

After Elektra’s death and later disappearance of her body, Matt Murdock has been hallucinating about Elektra but it turns out that Elektra is real and alive. Since the Hand is having difficulty finding Elektra, they decided to recruit Bullseye who was currently imprisoned. The Hand, in recruiting Bullseye, killed him in order to revivify him but under the control of the Hand. They were able to kill him but Elektra interfered and prevented Bullseye’s resurrection.^[25]

Fall From Grace

At one time, it appears that Elektra has joined the Chaste in their mountain. The Snakeroot, a part of the Hand, used John Garrett to get Elektra’s essence because John has merged minds with Elektra. The Snakeroot took Elektra’s essence from John and placed it in a corpse of which they name Erynys.^[26] Erynys was tasked to get the About Face Virus for the Snakeroot in order that the merger of the corpse and Elektra’s essence can become permanent. Stone goes to help Daredevil find the About Face virus but Erynys was able to stab Stone from behind preventing him from using his invulnerability against known threats. But before Erynys could end it, Elektra arrives forcing Erynys and John Garrett to flee. Upon finding the virus, the Snakeroot arrives to take it. Daredevil and Elektra fought to prevent the virus from being used by the Snakeroot.^[27] The Daredevil Hellspawn joined in since it is also interested in the virus.^[28]

During the battle, Daredevil decided to use the virus on Hellspawn. As the Hellspawn transforms into a real person, Erynys, angry at the loss of the virus, stabbed the Hellspawn as he comes to life, killing him. Erynys then seek to complete her life by killing the original, Elektra.^[29] During the battle, as Erynys chokes Elektra from behind, she asks Daredevil to kill Elektra so that she could be his lover again. Daredevil, thinking Elektra will find a way, threw her two sais at her. Immediately, using her skills, Elektra was able to reverse their position. However, the sais pierced Erynys body and into Elektra’s shoulders. The evil essence that was Erynys returned to Elektra.^[30]

Root of Evil

Seeking a focus for her life, Elektra recruited her own order of fighters and mercenaries called the Ryu to oppose the Snakeroot. She proved to be a poor leader, however, and the entire Ryu was killed trying to prevent the Snakeroot from assassinating a set of pure souls. Elektra ultimately completed the destruction of the Snakeroot and protection of the last soul alone.^[22]

Solo Adventures

When Wolverine was driven into an animal madness by his mutation, Stick asked Elektra to help him find his humanity once again. She worked with Logan for several weeks to help restore his sense of self.^[31]

Elektra asked King Lau and Mac to help her open a Dojo. But because her trust fund is running low, she decided to join a modern dance company owned by Konrad, whom she helped earlier from some ninja gangsta, to earn some money.^[1]

At this time, the Architect was calling all super-villains to meet in New York for a competition. All for the purpose to have Elektra kill him so that he can be reborn in a new host body. With the help of Dr. Strange, the Architect was killed but his essence was trapped in the body of demon and caged by Strange.^[24]

The Hand

She continued her freelance association with S.H.I.E.L.D.^[32] Hydra teamed up with the Hand to kill and resurrect various heroes as their only personal army, this included Wolverine. He soon became there deadliest assassin ^[33] Nick Fury brought in Elektra paying her in excess of $200000.^[34] She worked to stop Logan from killing others. Elektra herself was killed and resurrected as a Hand warrior.^[35] Elektra, Northstar and other resurrected heroes attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Black Hawk. Logan eventually came to his senses and wanted revenge.^[36]

Secret Invasion

Elektra was replaced by a Skrull who took over The Hand, the goal of which was to attract the attention of the “heroes” and provoke them into discovering the Skrull infiltration.^[37]

Dark Reign

After the invasion was stopped, Elektra emerged from a downed Skrull ship with other people who had been abducted and replaced, and was taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. protective custody. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. was replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R., and she was not dealt with well in custody. She initiated a break out when Paladin attempted to collect an $82 million dollar bounty on her head, and she was able to defeat him and escape.^[38] After taking down several H.A.M.M.E.R. operatives and managed to reach Matt Murdock’s office to raid his stash of first aid supplies. After being confronted by Foggy Nelson, she collapsed from extensive blood loss due to her injuries.^[39]

Code Red

Domino witnessed Red Hulk transform and then survive his attack, General Thaddeus Ross and Doc Samson used a list of superhumans so that they may track down and kill Domino. The list included Deadpool, Punisher, Thundra, Crimson Dynamo, and Elektra forming Code Red. Elektra confirmed Domino’s location, a small bar in Hell’s Kitchen, however, Domino had back the X-Force.^[40]

Shadowland

She was recruited into the Heroes for Hire and helped them take on Daredevil during his reign over Hell’s Kitchen.^[41] She was sent to infiltrate in Shadowland.^[42] But eventually helped the team prevent Bullseye‘s resurrection.^[43]

Heroes for Hire

She continued with the Heroes for Hire. The battled the Puppet Master who was controlling the minds of the citizens of New York .^[44] Which lead to a confrontation with the Purple Man at the Raft^[45] Elektra and the team battle mutated Spider-Mutated New Yorkers during Spider-Island.^[46]

Thunderbolts

She joined the Red Hulk‘s strike-team the Thunderbolts along with Deadpool, the Punisher and Agent Venom.^[47]The team was gathered to fight an infection that “cannot be cured, it has to be cut out”. A team is ready to do the bad things for the good purpose.^[44]

The roster of the team changed as members come and go like Agent Venom, Red Leader, Mercy and Ghost Rider.

The Red Leader manipulated the Punisher into hunting down his teammates. When they found out the truth, they arrested him with the help of Hawkeye and the Avengers.  Ross disbanded the team and went their separate ways.^[48]

Pleasant Hill

At some point, Elektra was arrested and incarcerated at Pleasant Hill, where her mind and appearance were altered by the sentient Cosmic Cube known as Kobik to turn her into a regular citizen of the village, giving her the identity of Pleasant Hill’s Sheriff Eva. While in Pleasant Hill, Elektra fell in love with another inmate, the Absorbing Man, who had been turned into an ice cream vendor named Harold.

When Baron Zemo assaulted the small town, its inhabitants recovered their original appearances and memories. Infuriated for his life having been rewritten, Absorbing Man began to wreak havoc together with fellow inmate Whirlwind. Elektra confronted them and convinced Creel to spare innocent lives.^[49]

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Some point after escaping from Pleasant Hill, Elektra applied to rejoin S.H.I.E.L.D. in an attempt to cleanse her conscience for the deaths she caused when she crashed the Black Hawk.^[50] Her first assignment consisted of taking the reins of former agent Phil Coulson‘s team.^[51] In addition to being tasked with bringing Coulson in for trying to interfere with Captain Marvel‘s plans to use the Inhuman profiler Ulysses Cain for predictive justice, Elektra’s inclusion served the purpose to help S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill find out a mole on Coulson’s team, who turned out to be Leo Fitz. She had also reinstated Grant Ward as an asset, wherein he wore an explosive collar with the detonator in her hands.^[50]

Fitz was actually working with Coulson. They were joined by Quake in preventing one of Ulysses’ visions, Graymalkin detonating a device in a train. When they arrived, they realized that something was wrong. Elektra actually set it up as a trap. She was able to arrest Coulson but Fitz and Quake were able to escape.^[50]

When Jemma Simmons woke up as a Deathlok, she was restricted by Elektra. Simmons easily neutralized her.^[52]

Lending a Hand with the Hulk

Elektra eventually resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D. While in Japan, she got a call from Deadpool asking for help with the Hand. She assisted him and the Avengers Unity Division in preventing the Hulk‘s resurrection. Through Doctor Voodoo‘s magic, one of the ninjas revealed the location of where the resurrection was being held. After being tricked with a decoy, they were too late to stop the ritual.^[53]

They fought a resurrected Hulk. They led him to a pentagram where Doctor Voodoo cleansed him. The Beast let Voodoo choose between his brother or Bruce. When he chose Bruce over his brother, the Beast warned that he “made a powerful enemy.” When Synapse asked about the resurrected Daniel, Elektra offered to give him a merciful death. With that remark, Human Torch implied that Elektra joins the Unity Division. She laughed it off and kissed him then left.^[54]

Hunting down the Fist

Elektra was keeping an eye on the Fist, when she found out that Miguel O’Hara was involved. She attacked him while inside the plane. When she stabbed him, her sai broke. They both decided to talk it over. After learning the location of the Fist, Miguel and Roberta Mendez passed out due to Elektra drugging their drinks. When she was almost at the base, she was confronted by an armored Doctor Sonny Frisco. When Spider-Man (Miguel O’Hara) and Captain America (Roberta Mendez) caught up, they helped her defeat him. The base exploded.^[55]

Elektra interrogated Doctor Sonny Frisco, where they learned that he was brainwashed. After getting the information, the four of them went to Chicago. While inside a Parker Industries corporate Jet, the Fist broadcasted a message that Chicago would be their first target. Elektra, Captain America, and Spider-Man ran to try to prevent it but it was already too late.^[56] Once inside McCormick Place, Elektra engaged the one behind the curse, Medea. With the help of Cap and Spidey, Elektra killed her and broke the curse.^[57]

Always bet on Red

Running from her tumultuous past, Elektra attempted to lay low in Las Vegas, but after meeting Lauren, a bartender abused by her boyfriend, she donned a new suit and taught the people of the casino a lesson.^[58] Unbeknownst to her, she caught the attention of Arcade, soon finding herself in the middle of one of his games.^[59] There, she and some kidnapped celebrities were forced to play till death against Screwball and her crew, but after watching all her teammates die, Elektra lost her temper and killed everyone, except Screwball, who fled the scene. Having impressed Arcade, he revealed the next level would be to rescue Lauren.^[60] Eventually, Elektra got the upper hand, stole Screwball’s helmet, which controlled the whole game, and freed Lauren, but was soon surprised by an enraged Arcade in a Mecha.^[61] She was clearly at a disadvantage and was being beaten hard, but Lauren grabbed the helmet and gave Elektra an upgrade and, thus, allowing her to beat Arcade.^[62]

After discovering Wilson Fisk was behind it all, she returned to New York.^[62]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Elektra was resurrected by the Hand giving her a connection to the demon known as the Beast. This process gave her various enhanced abilities:^[63]

• Assassins Instinct: Nick Fury can attest to the usage of this eerie mind control in person. In the 90’s, he conducted scientific experiments on the captured assassin and found strange morphology in her brain that explained her phenomenal reflexes, yet sane rationale. Elektra moves with heightened primal instincts but the more evolved parts of her brain remain intact, preserving her intelligence. In other words, she thinks like a woman and strikes like a cobra.^[64]
  

  

  

• Mind Switch: Elektra’s strangest gift is her ability to “throw” her mind into those of others. For instance, she was able to track down her enemy, Ken Wind, by temporarily “borrowing” people’s minds and acting through them while she hunted around for her prey.^[38]
  • Discern Target: This temporary mind control enables her to literally sniff out the psyche, or intent, of her targets. It saw extensive use during Elektra: Assassin, in which she was heavily reliant on only her ninja powers. It is unknown how long the effect lasts, but Elektra has gone a full two days or more in another person’s mind while they zoned out in hers.^[63]
  • Discern Location: This “mind jump” ability might explain why Elektra is always a step ahead of her competition or seems to know where her target is at all times. An extreme example would be the time she murdered an ambassador in South America. The man was sitting against the wall when Elektra sought out his mind and trusted her katana to enter his heart in the perfect spot. Unerringly, it did: the sword pierced through thick walling and the politician was slain where he sat. The unusual addition of her telepathic skills make Elektra an accomplished assassin to say the least.^[63]
• Hypnosis: Elektra has demonstrated the ability to mesmerize others, and as such make them see illusions or other phenomena.^[65]
• Heightened Awareness: Demonstrated the ability to detect a threat to her well-being in the immediate vicinity before they commit the action.
• Telekinesis: Elektra has demonstrated telekinetic abilities.^[63]
• Telepathic Communication: She can communicate telepathically with individuals possessing similar levels of mental discipline, such as the Chaste.^[63]
• Precognition: She can have some precognitive visions, and see glimpses of future events.^[63]
• Mind Shield: Elektra has demonstrated an ability to remain hidden and undetected by other telepaths. By using a telepathic technique that she learned during her time with the Hand, Elektra can create a mental shield around her mind keeping herself hidden from not only other psychics but mind locating machines like Cerebro.^[63]
• Silent Scream: A high powered Chi based scream originally used by Shang-Chi, By focusing on her Chi and puckering her lips together Elektra can use this technique to perform a high pitched scream that can render a person permanently deaf, and/or by furthering focusing on one target can kill.^[63]
  

  

Abilities

Master Martial Artist: Elektra is proficient in many martial arts originating from China, Thailand, and Japan. While many of them are unstated, Ninjutsu is the most noticeable one. She won trophies in aikido, kendo, and karate.^[8]

Master Assassin: Elektra has mastered many techniques as an assassin. She was trained in the art of killing by Stick, Members of the Chaste, and The Hand.

Enhanced reflexes: In the pages of Black Widow, issue 3, Elektra showed herself capable of preventing one of Black Widows gunfire bullets from killing her by literally slicing through the bullet with her sai, at point blank range.

Peak Human Physical Conditioning: Elektra is an Olympic-level athlete and gymnast. She had won the competition in both swimming and track from an early age.^[8]

Weapons Master: She is a master of many different weapons. Among the known are Okinawan Sai which are her usual weapons of choice (it is presumed she may have trained with all Okinawan Kobudo weapons), katanas, knives, sansetsukon (3-sectional staff), and (shuriken) throwing stars.^[66]

Master of Stealth: Due to her training as a ninja assassin, she can blend in with the shadows and remain undetected by most humans.^[21]

Expert Acrobat: She is an excellent acrobat capable of many difficult feats..^[8]

Expert Markswoman: Elektra is skilled with throwing weapons and sharpshooting.^[21]

Nervous System Control: She can control her nervous system enabling her to deaden her body to physical pain, control her emotions, and even her bleeding rate.^[21]

Pressure point locator: She can locate different pressure points on a person’s body. She can incapacitate, paralyze, severely injure, or kill a person.^[21]

Strength level

Elektra trains daily and has exceptional strength. She possesses the natural peak human level of a woman of her age, height and build that engages in intensive regular exercise.^[6] While the exact amount of weight she is ultimately lift is unclear, she is at least able to lift 260 lbs, which is twice her own body weight. She is classified as an athlete.^[67]

Weaknesses

Psychic Feedback: It is unclear what the limitations on her psychic ability are. She may be limited by touching distance or to minds easily affected by persuasion; the last time Elektra tried this trick, it was with S.H.I.E.L.D.^[43]Elektra was not born with this interesting gift: she mastered it through training and refinement with The Hand. Their fighters share similar powers, which means each of them — including Elektra — are mentally linked to The Beast, the relentless demigod of The Hand who has haunted her since she broke rank.^[6]

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Twin Sai: Elektra’s primary weapons are her twin sai, long daggers with narrow blades and twin blade guards. She can use them to slash, stab, and throw. Her Sai are protected with synaptic snare with biometric locks keyed to her nervous system that will deliver a shock that paralyzes any other person who touches it for sixty seconds, to ensure nobody can use them against her again.^[66]

She is also proficient with the katana, sansetsukon (three-sectioned staff), and other martial arts weapons.^[66]

Notes

• When she escaped from her cell, Elektra was considered an Omega Level threat to the Helicarrier by H.A.M.M.E.R. agent Commander Brothers.^[39]
• Elektra Vol 2 #16 provides a list of some of the people who Elektra has killed up to that point; Hans Lundin, Pablo Riveria, Helen Krawley, Mark Ellington, Carl Weber, Clark Weber, Roy Simard, Patrick Newell, Tanya Newell, Leo Manning, Kevin Holme, Oliver Callegas, Rafael Arbarca, Alex Stuhr, Scott Nye, Don Watros, Meng Yao, Candy Redman, Chu Paik, Andrew Newheart, Jose Lopez, Krista Lupadi, Keith Louza, Harlan Vanhorn, Koorosh Zaerpoor, Shigeru Yuzuriha, Paul Naylor, Ryan Weatherford, Eugeni Naydenov, Amy Gillette, John Cvetko, Stephen Bechter, Jas Neiger and Derek Ranta. Three issues later in Elektra Vol 2 #19 Elektra states she has killed hundreds of people.

 

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Elektra & Auz:

She was in college when he wasn’t even heading to elementary school.  By the time he’d completed his active-duty military service, she had long-since finished her own training and been an active assassin.  There was much common ground here, though; both had endured nightmarish pasts, accomplished relatives meeting upsetting ends, riches turning to rags, promising university-life being abandoned, brutal and merciless training, years and years spent actively employing the dark arts, overseas travel, international assignments, staggering odds, and tragic romances.  Both had powerful wells of emotion they’d harnessed as effective and lethal tools.

Ushered to the Leviathans facility in China just in time to board before the Rapture waves hit, she’d still not yet met Auz.  Years after those giant ships had set sail to recolonize the world, starting human civilization all over again, he’d finally learned about and reached out to her.  Having heard of her emotional killing sprees, he went with ample and clandestine security, but now… she provides the security for him… whenever she is around, and especially when he visits her home-country, Greece, to study its pre-human ruins.

 

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2023:

She and I (Auz) love going on fuck-dates to club Ninja Princess.

 

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How She Enjoys Massages in Inisfree:

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