Ultimate Daredevil
- See also: Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra for information on the two starring miniseries.
Another version of Daredevil has appeared under the Ultimate Marvel imprint, which updates and re imagines Marvel characters without linking them to previous Marvel Universe continuity. Ultimate Daredevil has appeared in two different limited series Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra, written by Greg Rucka, and Ultimate Elektra, written by Mike Carey. These both focus on Daredevil's beginnings, with Matt Murdock as a law student at Columbia University. Converse to 616 continuity, Daredevil and Spider-Man are not friends in this continuity, with Daredevil even encouraging the adolescent Spider-Man to give up crime-fighting.
An older Daredevil has also made guest appearances in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2, and the "Blockbuster" storyline in Ultimate X-Men. This version of Murdock also acted as Bruce Banner's attorney in Ultimates 2. On Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2 and #106, The Man Without Fear has begun recruiting heroes such as Moon Knight, Shang-Chi and Spider-Man as a team to take down the Kingpin. It is revealed in Ultimate Spider-Man #109 that Jack (Murdock's father) was a boxer killed by the Kingpin (a.k.a. Wilson Fisk) when he wouldn't throw a match as opposed to the Fixer of 616 mainstream. Later, after the Kingpin burns down his law offices, a crazed Daredevil breaks into Fisk's apartments and threatens to murder the comatose Vanessa Fisk by snapping her neck, but is convinced not to by Spider-Man.
During Magneto's flooding of New York during Ultimatum, in which millions of people are killed, Daredevil's corpse is found by Spider-Man and the Hulk.
In Ultimate Comics: Avengers, a new, 12-year-old Daredevil named Ray Connor is discovered and trained by Stick after experiencing an accident similar to the one that gave his predecessor powers. On a somewhat related note, Conner is a fan of Spider-Man. Sometime after being publicly known as the new Daredevil, he and Stick are attacked by vampires. This Daredevil becomes a vampire and bites Captain America. Just when he was about to kill Blade, the second Daredevil perished when Captain America had teleported the Triskelion to the desert of Iran.
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