Elektra Natchios occurs as fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero. Created by Frank Miller, she first appeared around Daredevil #168 (January, 1981). She is known as when Electra, daughter of Agamemnon of Mycenae and Clytemnestra of Sparta.

Elektra occurs as ninja and assassin who wields two bladed sais as her trademark weapon. She is one of Miller's other memorable creations for Wonder, & subsequent writers' utilize of her is controversial among American comic book fans.

Character history

Family and early life

Elektra was natural in an nameless Greek island of the Aegean Sea to Hugo Kostas Natchios and his married woman Christina Natchios. She experienced an older brother known as Orestez Natchios. (A title should exist as Orestes in Greek language).

There st& been deuce different and contradictory accounts of her personal history given around various issues. Within Elektra:Root of Evil #1-Four (March - June, 1995) it is stated her father was an aspirant diplomat who eventualy managed to gain his number 1 assignment as an ambassador to an unspecified country. Notwithstanding Hugo & his married woman got grown apart. Christinthe got begun a series of extramarital affairs with no apparent interest at keeping the two secret, following inside home humiliation for her married man. Popular opinion around diplomatic circles stated that the human unable to control his married woman experienced there is no business deciding on the fate of the globe. Once Christina became pregnant for another instance, Hugo was certain a toddler was non his have.

Hugo confided to his adolescent son that his mother was a whore shaming their family. Orestez promised his father that Christina would nevermore shame the children. Hugo failed to see a meaning one words. In August 13 of that year, a few get on holiday in the Aegean Sea. It were placed by the helicopter which opened fire on the children each. A assasins left them for dead. the few was taken to a nearby hospital. Christina gave premature birth to Elektra and then passed away. Hugo recovered from either his wounds.

Orestez got hired a assassins sequentially to indirectly commit matricide. He was horrified per idea of undesigned patricide and ran away from front yard. Hugo was a sole personal left to Elektra. Ab initio Hugo experienced there is no intention to raise this "bastard" child. All the same the paternity testing confirmed the kid to exist as his have. Hugo was non bad for losing Christina. He was thankful, even so, for her generating him the girl. He ordered for the beautiful headstone to be placed in her grave. Images of the Erinyes on the headstone implied however that Christina was responsible her have demise.

Hugo grew to adore Elektra. He nicknamed her his "Little Amber" and showered her with gifts. Her preferred gift was a best-loved mutt of her have, known as Agamemnon, continuing the pattern of Hugo naming members of his family when a Atreidae. the puppy was flushed after a nine-month-old Elektra was assaulted by kidnappers. A men were a lot flushed by Orestez world health organization experienced grown into an accomplished martial artist after allowing at home. He did non tell you his presence there. He briefly acquainted himself to his little sister then left over again.

However Orestez experienced the lasting consequence within her life. He advised his father that Elektra required to see self-defense. Hugo hired the sensei to teach her the martial arts, beginning her acquaintance sustaining fight. A issues were written by Dan Chichester and drawn by Scott McDaniel.

Contradictory accounts

The super different account was told inside Elektra vol. I #18 (Might, 1998). A account was told to Wolverine by an old family retainer per title of "Stavros". Stavros got reportedly met Hugo & Christina in the period of World War II , at the instance of Greece's occupation by Nazi Germany.

Stavros was leader to the little class action of the Greek Resistance movement. The immature Hugo was the leader of the greater covert cell which operated in the same locality. The fifteen-month-old Christina was likewise a portion of the cell & operated as a courier. She brought the message to Stavros of these day. An the correct sequence to join her commandant and fight under his orders. Stavros replied to this chesty message by having laughter. Until Christina drew her gun & threaned his life using cold determinatiin on her eyes. the as a consequence day Stavros joined a leader world health organization was respire to inspire such determination to his followers.

Christina would prove her worth several days when you took a trend lines. She married Hugo when a war. It were non included in the Greek Civil War. But a afterwards war dollars and cents Christina her life. Christina was in the eighth year of her maternity whenever Hugo experienced to attend Athens, Attica on "government matters". Stavros was left behind to choose care of her. He accompanied her to the clinic to see a personal doctor & was so dismissed for an hour. In the period of that hour "a man who considered himself a patriot" but wanted by the Greek Army invaded the clinic. (Given the instance a human was probably a member of the Democratic Army of Greece under Markos Vafiadis). He flushed a doctor & attempted to choose a patient when hostages. Christina attempted to convince him to prevent a unneeded violence however was shot in the chest. She utilized her old combat training to take a human down. She so got to prevent a more patients from either assaulting a already frustrated human until his arrest. However she was mortally injured & gave premature birth. Elektra was natural in a clinic floor, painted red from either the blood of her mother. Christina died prior to hearing a number 1 cry of her girl. A issue was written by Larry Hama and drawn by Mike Deodato, Jr.

Them version of the nature and severity of Christina Natchios' demise could non exist as reconciled. Farther other Elektra:Assassin #1 (August, 1986) placed ambiguity on the relationship Elektra had by having her father. A full-grown Elektra recalled undefined memories of existence raped by her father as a five-season-old. Years of counselling & medication experienced convinced her this was the false memory. However a doubt remained. A second memory got a six-month-old Elektra sitting in Hugo's lap when her teasing father likened her to the cat. A Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Elektra grew higher or so her father however was plagued by dark visions and voices with there are no known source. She at times reacted to the two sustaining self-harm. Her father finally sent her away to psychotherapy until becoming more stalls. Whether Elektra became extra stable or even appeared to run sol was left uncertain. A issue was written by Frank Miller and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz.

Activities as an adult

Hugo Natchios is known to use eventualy served as a Greek ambassador to the United States. Nineteen-month-old Elektra number one attended Columbia University, New York City, New York. There Elektra met Matt Murdock , a human world health organization would turn into Hothead, world health organization became her boyfriend.

A month late, twenty-year-old Elektra & her father were kidnapped by terrorists. Lustrelessness bore the mask first & began the delivery attempt. Elektra utilized a distraction to strike down a few of the terrorists. All the same one of the frustrated men fell away from a window. A police assumed a terrorists got began throwing their surety off the window. It opened fire & flushed a human nighest to the window: Hugo Natchios. Perfect before a eyes of his girl.

Elektra misused faith & hope. She quit Columbia & returned to the survey of martial arts. Stick, a member of a benevolent organization known as a Chaste, recognized a darkness within her soul & attempted to train her himself, however she at long last sided by owning the Hand, a sect of mystical ninja, who trained her as an assassin. She late broke out of the children & became an independent professional, & therein role she over again found Matt Murdock, world health organization wwhen at present active as Hothead. She presently learned of his double identity, & although a pair worked together to fight a Hand, it besides inherit conflict oft.

She before long became a primary assassin in the employment of New York City's premier crimelord, the Kingpin, who assigned her to kill Matt Murdock's partner, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson. After Nelson recognized Elektra when Mat's college girlfriend, she was unable to destroy him.

left Elektra was fatally stabbed by Bullseye with one of her own sais within a battle concluded which of the children would become the Kingpin's assassaround (in Daredevil #181). Elektra managed to crawl terminated to Temerarious's home prior to death within his arms when Bullseye watched them, hidden among the crowd that got gathered to understand what was running in. Late (around Daredevil #190), members of the H& stole her immune system and attempted to resurrect her. Swashbuckler, sustaining a assistance of Stone, a member of Stick's choose, intervened, defeating a Hand ninja. Harum-scarum so tried to revive Elektra himself. Although his attempt failed, it did stand a outcome of purifying Elektra's soul. Elektra's system later disappeared by using Stone.

Years late, it was revealed that Elektra was resurrected by Stone. Elektra's evil aspect got been physically split apart from either her within its have system following of the ritual performed by Swashbuckler. Her darker half, calling itself Erynys, fought Elektra & was flushed by her, so giving a dark side to Elektra's soul. She wandered the world & became familiar with Wolverine of the X-Men.

Despite working as an assasin, Elektra typically fights for the greater skillful. She typically feels conflicted by owning herself & attempt to wash the right tool. She seems to exist as the hone blend of serious & evil. She was recently one of a 'proficient guys' after she worked by using S.H.I personally.E.L.D.

Hydra & a H& joined forces, it were killing off heroes and ressurrecting the children into their possessed warriors. It did this to Wolverine, turning him into the sidesplitting machine. Nick Fury hired Elektrthe to lead a mission, according to her relationship by owning Logan & her ties by having a Hand (she was as well paid thomas more inside a day so their president makes around a year). She worked to prevent Wolverine from either killing others too as a way to turn him back to his normal self. In a period of the fight by using the H& Elektra was flushed and ressurected as a Hand warrior, it potentially manufactured her their leader. Along by using a recently flushed & brought back Northstar, Elektra attacked Nick Fury, injuring him badly.

Wolverine finally come to his senses (thanks to a X-Men) & wanted retaliation, in the period of the fight by owning Elektrthe she mentally spoke to him (by having newly abilites given to her per Hand, similar to the Kimaguri abilites she experienced in the Elektra pic), she explained it was tons section of a project she experienced from either the beginning. She explained that she got been ressurrected per H& and worked for the two. She told him that it would choose a H& and Hydra down together. It drive back numerous ninjas & were victorious, Gorgon all the same attacked Elektra, & threw off her mental stops, he was take a breath to scan her thoughts & view in which Fury was existence treated for his injuries. Gorgon teleported, by having Elektra, to destroy Fury. After it arrive, Elektra orders a S.H.We.E.L.D. soldiers to attack, Gorgin utilizes his power on her neck & she collapses. At length Wolverine utilizes Gorgon's have powers against him & defeats him.

Withinside an e-e-mail to Kitty Pryde, Nick Fury tells her that Elektra surivived however is missing & is probably in Eastern Europe creating her have militia class action, her have version of the Hand. He besides tells Kitty that Elektra is no threat... and then far. These come unknown in which Elektra really is or even what her plans are. (Wolverine #31)

Elektra, Ultimate Marvel version

In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Elektra Natchios is a student at Columbia University who has a hang for martial arts and is a outstanding fan of Bruce Lee. Her mother died of breast cancer when she was six, & her father is trying to produce money by having the laundromat.

Therein universe, she starts retired as a sweetly, guiltless girl world health organization cares deeply for her loved ones - thus deeply that she is unforced to last across dead bodies to help the two. This trait starts her descent into becoming one of a virtually all fatal assassins.

Remarkable is that there is a gap between a Elektra featured around Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra and Ultimate Elektra on of these h& and a one shown within Ultimate Spider-Man on the other hand. In a foremost 2 arcs, she occurs as normal university student, however in the survive arc - which is placed two or three years late - she has get the Kingpin's right h& and occurs as villain.

Feature series

Elektra has received her have laughable series twice; a 2nd series was published under a Marvel Knights imprint, it was labeled Mature/Violent content, but despite that was never actually the Max book.

Elektra Saga (1983) #1-Four (fix-higher drawn from either antecedently promulgated lesson) Elektra: Assassin (1986) #1-8 Elektra Dwells Again (1990) #1 (Epic Comics graphic novel) Elektra: Root of Evil (1995) #1-4 Elektra Megazine (1996) #1-Two (reprint series) Elektra (1996 series) #1-19 Elektra (2001 series) #1-35 (Marvel Knights) Wolverine & Elektra: The Redeemer (2002) #1-3 Ultimate Madcap & Elektra (2002) #1-4 Elektra: Glimpse & Echo (2002) #1-4 Elektra: A Hand (2004) #1-5 Ultimate Elektra (2004) #1-5

Appearances in other media
In the 2003 movie Daredevil, Elektra was played by Jennifer Garner; her story arc in the film roughly followed that of the original Frank Miller comedian. Granary reprised the role around a film spin-off, Elektra, continuing Elektra's story arc with her existence resurrected. A film was typically canned by critics & performed ill at a pack professional, however did amazingly easily in DVD.

She appears as a playable character inside EA's "Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects", along with more swell known Wonder characters.