Daredevil (2003)

As a child, young Matt Murdock is accidentally blinded by toxic chemicals shortly after witnessing his father—washed-up prizefighter Jack “The Devil” Murdock—extorting money for local mobster Fallon. Despite losing his sight, Matt’s remaining senses are dramatically enhanced, giving him superhuman agility and sonar-like hearing. Feeling responsible for his son’s accident, Jack is inspired to give up his life of crime and recommit to his boxing career, leading to a dramatic comeback. Later, after Fallon reveals that he enabled Jack’s comeback by bribing his previous opponents to let him win, he attempts to bribe Jack to throw his next match, and has him murdered when he refuses.

Years later, an adult Matt works as an attorney in Hell’s Kitchen with his friend Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, but fights crime by night as the costumed vigilante “Daredevil”. Ben Urich, a New York Post reporter who chronicles Daredevil’s exploits, attracts attention for a series of articles on “The Kingpin”, a shadowy underworld figure who allegedly controls all of New York’s organized crime. Unbeknownst to Urich, the Kingpin is actually Wilson Fisk, a brutal mobster who poses as a legitimate businessman. Matt falls in love with Elektra Natchios, a Greek-American woman skilled in martial arts, unaware that she’s the daughter of Fisk’s lieutenant Nikolas Natchios. Later, when Natchios attempts to end his relationship with Fisk, Fisk hires Bullseye—a hitman with preternatural aim—to kill him. When Daredevil unsuccessfully attempts to save Natchios from assassination, Bullseye manages to frame Daredevil for his murder by stealing Daredevil’s distinctive baton and impaling Natchios with it. Afterward, Urich deduces that Matt is Daredevil after realizing that he disguises his baton as a white cane.