The Man Without Fear (2016 TV Series)

The Man Without Fear is an American Action Superhero Drama Television Series, based off of the Marvel Comics superhero, Daredevil, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, and highly inspired by the 2001 Superman prequel series, Smallville, premiering on the CW Television Network, on November 14, 2016. Starring Dylan Sprayberry, Jack Foley, Emilia McCarthy, T Kristin Kreuk, Lamorne Morris, Kira Kosarin, and Jason Statham as the initial main cast, the series follows Sprayberry as young Matt Murdock, after being blind by radioactive waste, and must now hone his superhuman senses and learn to fight crime as he grows up to become Daredevil.

​Premise
In Hell's Kitchen, New York City lives a young twelve year old boy, Matthew "Matt" Murdock, and his father, a boxer named Jack, who urges his son to aim for a future of education and non-violence so that he can get somewhere in life, instead of being nothing like him. Walking home from school, Matt pushes an old man out of the way of a truck carrying radioactive waiste. The truck swerves and the waiste covers Matt, and spills in his eyes. Although it blinds him, the radioactive waiste enhances his other senses to superhuman rates. After refusing to throw a fight for a crime boss he formerly worked for, Jack is murdered and Matt is put inside an orphanage, under the care of Rachel Hewitt and finds a mentor in a martial artist named Stick. Years later, sixteen year old teenage Matt continues to hone his superhuman senses to do incredible things including; his "radar sense" which allows him to "see" things and sense vibration and atmospheric disturbances, also allowing him superhuman reflexes to react quickly to any attack that is thrown his way. He can also smell and hear anything in the city. Not only learning to hone his senses, Matt also learns to defend himself using strength and agility with martial arts, while maintaining a normal life and going through High School with his best friends, Franklin "or Foggy" Nelson and Karen Page, as Foggy and Matt compete for Karen, despite Karen's obvious feelings for Matt. He is driven to bring every criminal he can to justice, and after high school, goes to law school with Foggy, and hope to start their own law firm, in which Matt uses his superhuman hearing as a polygraph, to hear people's heartbeats to tell if they're lying or not. He eventually realizes that won't be enough to rid Hell's Kitchen of it's criminal scum, when Wilson Fisk, better known as the Kingpin, creates a criminal empire to take over the city, so he takes up crime fighting, wearing a red and yellow suit and a pair of batons to become a vigilante. Along the way Matt makes enemies and allies, including, Elektra and the Punisher, as well as his deadliest enemy, Bullseye, as he grows to become the famous superhero, Daredevil, the Man Without Fear.

Cast

 * Dylan Sprayberry as Matthew "Matt" Murdock, a teenage boy that was blinded when he saved a man from a truck containing radioactive waiste, which spills in his eyes. Matt always wanted to be a fighter, but his father, a boxer, wanted him to push for education and non-violence so he can have a better life. He was orphaned when his father was killed by a crime boss for refusing to throw a match. His best friends are Foggy Nelson and Karen Page, who he hopes to create a law firm with. Despite causing his blindness, the radioactive waiste enhanced his other senses to superhuman rates. This allows him to "see" with his Radar sense, a sort of echolocation. The Radar sense allows him to sense vibration and atmospheric disturbances, including quickly reacting to a gun shot and easily dodge it and any attack that comes his way. He can also hear from miles away, and uses this to hear heartbeats like a polygraph. He can smell as well as he hears, smelling food or perfume from blocks away. His enhanced senses can, however, be blocked, mostly by smoke covering the air, or an explosion that disturbes vibrations. His biggest weakness is loud noises due to his superhuman senses. While honing his senses, Matt also learns to fight in martial arts and acrobatics and eventually uses his senses and skills to fight crime as a vigilante. He develops his walking stick into a billy club weapon that can extend or shoot a grappling hook. He mostly wears a combination of red and yellow, mostly red, an allusion to his comic book uniform, which he later recieves in the final season as he works to become the man without fear, Daredevil.
 * Jack Foley as Frankin "Foggy" Nelson, Matt's best friend since Middle school, who always helped him out with school and getting around when he got blinded and was there for Matt when his father died. Despite being Matt's best friend and telling him all of his secrets, Foggy was initially unaware of the superhuman senses that the waiste gave Matt, but eventually learned the truth. Throughout High Scool, he and Matt always dreamed of starting their own law firm, and pushed to accomplish their dreams, by going to law school together. After finishing law school, they finally establish their own law firm "Nelson and Murdock". Despite being best friends, Foggy is often torn between vocational disagreements with Matt, his loyalty to keep Matt's secret, and their rivalry for Karen's heart, which is even worse, due to Karen's obvious feelings for Matt, causing even more conflicts between the two. Although Foggy often disagrees on Matt's methods of crime fighting and client representation, he definitely backs him up and believes that the city needs a hero like Matt to protect it, and often covers for him, explaining his quick exits or periods of absence. No matter what they go through or how bad things get, Matt and Foggy stick by each other and always have each other's backs.
 * Emilia McCarthy as Karen Page, one of Matt and Foggy's best friends, who they met shortly after beginning their Freshman year of High School. She is often curious about the truth and questions Matt on keeping secrets, but her curiosity usually gets the best of her, in which she crosses personal boundaries, often causing fights between the two. She is also the cause of rivalry between Matt and Foggy, who fight for Karen's heart, despite the fact that Karen obviously only has feelings for Matt, but is afraid of what would happen to the trio's friendship if she allowed herself to follow her feelings for Matt. Eventually she and Matt do try to start a relationship, but his constant secrets and both of their friendships with Foggy constantly get in the way, everytime they try. Matt and Foggy hire her as their secretary when they start their law firm, and all agree to stay friends. Eventually her feelings for Matt fade away as she discovers his secret of being the vigilante, which she has been reading about and following up for months. During a battle between Matt and Bullseye, Karen sacrifices herself by jumping in front of Matt and is impaled by his's baton when Bullseye throws it at Matt's head.
 * Kristin Kreuk as Rachel Hewitt, one of the care givers at the orphanage Matt was put into after his father died, and she helped raise him, and it didn't take long for her to be aware of the superhuman senses Matt gained due to all the pain his enhanced senses caused, and appointed him to learn to control his new abilities from an old blind martial artist. She only wishes that Matt has a normal life that's not ensued by revenge, but is always right behind him when it's up to him to use his skills and senses to save a life or stop a criminal. She always does anything she can to protect him, but can also be a little over protective when it comes to his superhuman senses.
 * Kira Kosarin as Elektra Natchio, the daughter of the greek ambassador, Hugo Natchios, who required her to learn self defense from some of the best martial artists to protect herself. When she and her father were kidnapped by terrorist, Matt was able to rescue her, but her father was murdered. Afterward, she started training with Stick, but he saw darkness in her soul and couldn't continue training her, and she sided with the Hand, a sect of ninjas that trained her to be an assassin. On her first mission to kill the criminal Alarich Walenquist, she encountered the vigilante, who intercepted her mission and had to save her from Walenquist. At this time she had a relationship with Matt, who, as the vigilante, convinced her to help him stop the Hand, but couldn't convince her to turn from her violent nature and mercenary life.
 * Lamorne Morris as Ben Urich, a chain-smoking, tough as nails journalist for the Daily Bugle, who first appeared as a disgraced reporter, who tried to prove Matt was superhuman, but Matt convinced him otherwise and help get back on the right path and turn a new leaf. He later returned, when a vigilante showed up again when the vigilante became more known, and vowed to expose his true identity, but the vigilante made an ally in him and used him to get information, or vice versa. Eventually, he does learn that Matt is the vigilante, but keeps his secret. The Kingpin hires Elektra to assassinate him. Despite his best efforts, Matt couldn't save him in time, and vowed to get vengeance on her for the death of his friend, no matter what his feelings are for Elektra.
 * Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, a nurse in Hell's Kitchen, and ally of Matt's. She first encountered Matt when someone from her building brought her a beaten and bruised Matt who failed to stop an attack by the hand. She questioned why she should help a blind young man that dresses up to fight crime, as he begged her not to take him to a hospital. After he was back on his feet and completed his mission, she became an ally to him and often patches him up when he comes back from patrolling the street and takes the alias "Night Nurse".
 * Scott Glenn as Stick, a blind old man that lived near the orphanage. Watching Matt in pain at the sight of his out of control senses, Rachel requested him to help Matt learn control, which he did. He also taught Matt martial arts, for years before he suddenly just disappeared. Years later as Matt started as the vigilante, he returned and began training Elektra, but refused to continue after sensing darkness in her, and warned Matt to watch her and keep her from descending even further and to stop her if it came down to it.​