Stick
Powers: Enhanced senses including a radar sense. He can also manipulate chi, astral project and is skilled in martial arts.
Stick became the master of an elite order of warriors known as the Chaste, who made their base atop a mountain in an unidentified location. Stick himself was a brilliant master of martial arts and took his name from the long stick that he utilised in combat. The Chaste's members also developed mental abilities of either a psionic or mystical nature, such as the power to communicate telepathically. It was required of the Chaste that they rid themselves of destructive emotions, such as hatred. For years, Stick's warriors battled against the Hand, a Japanese-based criminal organisation of ninjas who acted as mercenaries and assassins and who served the demonic entity known as the Beast.
After Matt Murdock was accidentally exposed to radiation and went blind Stick found him and taught him how to control his newly heightened senses, master his radar sense and trained him in hand to hand combat.
After Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios broke up due to her fathers death she was accepted as Stick’s pupil and trained with him for year. During this time, she improved her combat skills even further and also began learning to develop and use the same mental powers possessed by the members of the order. Finally, though, Stick expelled her, since she was unable to rid herself of the destructive emotions that had filled her since the murder of her father. Stick realised that Elektra might join the Hand as a result, as indeed she did. Still later, Elektra left the Hand and became an independent mercenary assassin.
During a final battle with the hand Stick sacrificed himself to allow Daredevil (Murdock) and Black Widow to escape.
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