Elektra Respect Thread (Blog Back-up)
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This thread is a back-up and summary of my main Elektra respect thread. Comic Vine has recently screwed up its spoiler blocks, but they work in blogs, so I'm putting the content here where it can be seen in their correct format.
I am posting the main 616 summary thread here, plus the movie and Netflix summaries in the next posts.
This post gathers all the feats for 616-comics Elektra that are in this thread and organizes them by characteristic (strength, speed, etc.). It also includes many other feats for her that are not in this thread. This list will stay here at post 34 from now on.
The original posts may include more context on the feats and go into them in more depth (for instance, in the instance where she stabs Hulk in the eyes, the original post has a supporting scan that shows that same version of the Hulk was able to withstand Johnny Storm's Nova blast with no problem).
This post is where to find the main feats without context, but organized in a comprehensive, easier-to-use fashion.
Images/scenes will often be listed under more than one category, depending on their content. This is not an attempt to pad the list, but an attempt to be exhaustive about categories.
***Almost all of the scans in this post are mine, but I did include some from the Killer Movies respect thread in order to be more comprehensive, so credit for those scans goes to the creator of that thread***
ALL FEATS, ORGANIZED BY THEME
STEALTH
Disappears in front of Stick’s Ghost
Stealth on a jeep (disappears and reappears multiple times in plain sight)
Appearing and disappearing in front of Nick Fury and multiple SHIELD agents
Disappears while fighting Skrulls
Sneaks up on Spider-man 2099, who has enhanced senses.
Drugs Spider-man 2099 and Captain America 2099, despite his senses.
Elektra catches a sick Daredevil by surprise and smacks him in the head with a thrown sai
Hunts down rich dude (continuously avoids detection)
Takes a suitcase a guy is guarding, and then returns it, without him or anyone else noticing
Runs across the snow without leaving a trace (Assassin)
She runs on the snow without a mark at the age of 12, confirming Assassin’s similar scene.
She pranks Garrett on multiple occasions, using mind-clouding psi powers and/or stealth. Here she shot his beer can, stole his pistol out of his shoulder holster, and took a gun out of the floor and made it fall apart when he picked it up without him knowing she was there at all. Here she steals his gun again. Here she plants drugs on him and steals his plane ticket—while he is specifically looking for her. (Assassin)
Disappears directly in front of Daredevil and his enhanced senses.
In a dream sequence by Daredevil--where he would presumably not dream this if it were not true, he says "she never makes any sound at all. Not unless she wants to."
She leaves Daredevil: "Then Elektra's gone, silent as she came. Her ninja ways invisible to even his senses."
She throws a sai as a calling card when she arrives; Daredevil notes that "her heartbeat caught my hypersensitive ear a split second before the sai found its mark."
Disappears in front of a guy at a casino.
Kills a bunch of guards without any of them firing a shot.
Disappears out of an alley when she was just ahead of two guys.
Even standard Hand are great at stealth. Here, two ex-Hand members are amazed that a whole troop of Hand appear as if "they're coming out of thin air."
SPEED (see also under Agility and Deflection)
Fights Taskmaster, parts 1 and 2, at least in part by out-speeding him
One-shots each of the Four Winds (dodges speedy throwing stars)
Elektra stabs snake in the desert while almost dead
Hunts down rich dude (speedily invades compound)
Fights Iron Man 2099. Dodges a blast while he comments on her speed.
Described as "fantastically quick, and inherently dishonest, feinting and faking."
An ex-SHIELD agent says, "She's fast."
Wolverine, who has enhanced speed, comments, "Man, she's fast."
She runs a fair distance from an ex-SHIELD agent she beat up then climbs a 4-story building in what is clearly a very short time: one, two
Repeatedly strikes feral Wolverine without being hit in return, or leaps past him without being hit: one, two, three, four
Steals Northstar's body from under the noses of Iceman, Polaris, and Dani Moonstar so fast they barely even register it ("What the hell was that?"): one, two, three
Knocks a guy out via nerve strike, and disarms him, in mid-sentence.
Has a psychic conversation with Gorgon "at the speed of thought," before SHIELD agents are able to react: one, two
Catches an arrow at 12, semi-confirming a similar scene in Assassin about catching a bird in flight.
Catches Punisher's thrown knife, says she can do this all day
Outruns Punisher to a tree, even though he started out closer
Runs through a group of guys faster than they can finish a sentence
Says she's faster than Cape Crow
Takes the Punisher's gun from him without his noticing until she points it out, while standing several feet away (MAY be a chi feat)
Various examples of Elektra blitzing through guards at high speeds
Defeats several agents before they get off a shot. (Assassin)
She knocks away a gun that was pointed at her head before he can shoot. (Assassin)
She can catch a bird in flight as a child. (Assassin)
Here she swings a sword faster than a camera can record, and kills four SHIELD agents in 2 seconds. (Assassin)
Here she kills six agents in six seconds. (Assassin)
Here she quickly punches a guy’s nose into his head and then breaks another guy’s arm more quickly than Garrett can see—while underwater. (Assassin)
Storms a militia camp. Blitzes two guards right in front of the child leader without him seeing her, then kills three in one run, looking like a blur without them being able to react. Then starts killing and intentionally scaring off the rest of the pretty huge army, being able to kill handfuls at a time without them reacting. By morning they are all dead or run off.
AGILITY (see also Dodging)
Jumps 315' down from the antenna of the Empire State Building to the 86th floor observation deck.
Elektra vs Bizen of the Hundred Poles (fights while jumping on poles)
Kills the Architect (extra high jump)
Breaks into SHIELD and dodges lasers (jumps through lasers)
Vs Lyle possessed by the Beast (dodges tentacles and swords)
Balances and flips around: one, two, three, four
Jumps past feral Wolverine: one, two
Jumps out of a helicarrier and steals the parachute off a HAMMER agent who jumped out 7 seconds earlier (while in terrible shape after continuous torture by Skrulls and HAMMER, and just having been shot twice and getting a broken ankle): one, two
RUNS ALONG A SWORD WHILE IT'S IN MID-AIR
Does a crazy jump from one plane to another
Falls many, many stories and lands with no problem
Jumps out of a helicopter she crashes into a bunch of guards, dodging machine guns as she jumps.
Flipping-around style fighting.
Exhibits equal athleticism with Matt Murdock here, and then makes a fool out of him here, and then here she jumps off a cliff into ice, then when he follows her down, he suddenly discovers she is already back at the top of the enormous cliff.
DODGING
Dodges bullets while surrounded (at least 11 guns circled around her)
Dodges more gunfire (close enough to then close and disarm)
Dodges gunfire (while jumping off motorcycle)
Flashback Issue (dodges gunfire with little experience)
Dodges point-blank pistol shot
While in terrible shape after being continuously tortured by the Skrulls and the HAMMER, she dodges a long-range, scoped rifle three times: one, two, three
While in terrible shape after being continuously tortured by the Skrulls and the HAMMER, she dodges double-machine gun fire from maybe 10' away at most: one, two
While in terrible shape after being continuously tortured by the Skrulls and the HAMMER, she dodges double-machine gun fire from maybe 15' away.
Dodges continuous shots by robot
Dodges shot by the Black Widow (who Daredevil calls one of the three best shots he knows) from point blank range
Dodges throwing stars, gas, heat blast from the Four Winds
Repeatedly dodges feral Wolverine's attacks
Dodges multiple machine gun bullets.
Jumps over close-range pistol shot.
Easily dodges projectile darts from some Hand-operated powered armor.
DEFLECTION (also often examples of Weapons Control)
Blocks point-blank shots from Paladin with a pipe
Deflects NUMEROUS continuous machine-gun-style shots from a giant robot.
Cuts a bullet in half that was fired by the highly-accurate Black Widow from point blank range
Deflects multiple shuriken from Lady Bullseye
Deflects continuous machine-gun fire with sai
Deflects one of Boomerang's boomerangs with a thrown sai and knocks it into Bushwhacker's gun arm
Perry shoots a laser at her, and she deflects it back at him with her sword. (Assassin)
Deflects a shuriken with her sai back at the thrower.
Deflects a bunch of shuriken from Star, the Chaste member who specializes in throwing stars.
ENDURANCE/DURABILITY
Ignores deadly wound from magical ice sword, says she heals quickly
Wolverine and Elektra fights vs Shikaru the Mute (fights against creature who KOs Wolverine)
Fighting with Drake (fights for 6 hours)
Is punched a long distance by a giant robot and is fine (and able to dodge attacks right after)
When she finds out Lady Bullseye can become incorporeal, she lets her stab her in the abdomen with a giant longsword, moving her body so all the important organs are out of the way. She seems completely fine after this, and even goes on to easily defeat Jack O'Lantern, Tiger Shark, and Whiplash, and then kill the leaders of the Assassins Guild as if she is completely uninjured. I need to emphasize that no matter how you move your organs out of the way, being stabbed completely through your abdomen should be a lethal injury, the fact that not only did she survive this at all, but acted as if she was totally fine, is an amazing feat of durability, not to mention pain tolerance.
An enhanced Bullseye beats her down, to the degree that she can't move, her skull is broken, she has a brain hemorrhage, and is blind in one one, and eventually needs a steel plate in her head. This is the definition of beaten beyond the ability to fight. And then (full fight including getting hurt) she gets up out of pure willpower and beats the crap out of a bunch of Hand, their magical leader, and Bullseye.
Is blasted three times by a Skrull with Cyclops powers and while hurt is still able to kill it.
Bulletproof when so desired: She deflects a bullet with the back of her hand—and moves fast enough to intercept it, for that matter, in a clear bullet-timing example. (Assassin)
She manages to hang on to a helicopter while it’s hit by a rocket. Then it’s hit by another direct hit, crashes, and she’s largely fine (I didn’t show the repercussions, but she basically just gets up). (Assassin)
After Perry breaks her leg and partially breaks her spine, she still ends up defeating him (the fingers through the brain scan above). (Assassin)
CONTROL OF BODY
ARTISTIC APTITUDE AND INTELLIGENCE
STRENGTH
Elektra swings Nina above her head with one arm
Holds a guy out of a window with one arm
Holds Iron Man 2099 in the air with one arm for a sustained amount of time (granted he is a Little Person).
Waiting to be trained with Drake (holds 2 paint cans at arms’ length for a long time)
Rips super-strong robot’s arm off
Throws a guy through a truck window from the inside, which would take enormous force
Swam through what Wolverine called "hundred mile an hour" torrents of water: one, two, three
Breaks Punisher's hand while enveloping it in hers
Lifts up two men she has impaled with sai
Holds on to stalactites, without sliding off, for a while, pretty serious grip strength.
STRIKING POWER
Vs Daredevil: hits him hard enough to almost take his head off; kicks him hard enough to kill him if she didn’t pull it
Breaks through 7 concrete blocks
Deforms thick steel door, curving it inward
Breaks Hulkbuster armor with her hands
Knocks two multi-ton rock monsters off a ledge with one kick.
Punches through a guy and the wall behind him (possibly my favorite of the various times she has punched through people)
Punches through guy and pulls out his heart
From Elektra Lives! (non-canon, but fun for continuing the theme): punches all the way through a ninja's chest
Stabs through two Hand with a blunt pipe
Casually embeds a sword into brick
Rams a blunt pipe all the way through Paladin
Punches through Arcade's escape sphere
Throws some SUPER-SMALL medical parts at Night Nurse's knee hard enough to knock her down (one, two)
Stabs through the back of a movie seat (including the hilt bars of the sai): one, two
Elektra stabs Hulk in the eyes, clearly piercing his eyes with her sai.
She crushes a guy’s skull, or at least his jaw. (Assassin)
Stabs through a guy’s throat and “her fingers cut the floor” while she is in terrible shape. (Assassin)
In the same context, she crushes a skull, likening it to an eggshell, and also crushes a throat. (Assassin)
In the same context, she “shoved her hand through a guard—punched holes in a surgical team—left a doctor with two scalpels in his eyes.” (Assassin)
Breaks through a door. (Assassin)
While being tasered, she is still strong enough to punch through a guy’s body armor—not just his body—and was reaching for his heart. (Assassin)
Her punch is likened to being hit by a Mack truck. (Assassin)
She pulls out a guy’s heart. (Assassin)
Cuts the head and hand off Perry, a nearly indestructible cyborg. (Assassin)
Worms her hand up through the inside of Perry's nearly indestructible head to destroy his brain. (Assassin)
Knocks out Morbius with double hits to the sides of his head with her sai handles. This era of Morbius has a significant healing factor, for instance being stabbed solidly through the torso by Stone, then being fine a few hours later.
Two different versions of a scene where she slices a guard's torso in half with a sai.
She rips some of the armor on this Hand armored suit ("Skriiiiip"), then pierces it and takes it down in one strategic hit. This armor is bulletproof.
ACCURACY/WEAPONS CONTROL
Disarms a Hand with a shuriken
Elektra vs Shang-Chi: cuts head off fly
Pins Spider-God by the neck with sai
Throws sai into cable from a distance
Throws sai into already-aimed pistol.
Throws a sai into one gun barrel while simultaneously disarming the other with a shuriken
Throws shuriken into camera from a distance while running
Throws sword across room to incapacitate robot.
Uses two ashtrays to disarm two guns from one robot (same fight as above).
Angry that she only hit 3 out of 4 small targets.
Hadn't missed a shot in five years.
Stabs the back end of a bullet with a sai to make it shoot at Bullseye
Chokes Paladin by spitting her tooth down his throat
This is an example of accuracy as well as speed: Deflects NUMEROUS continuous machine-gun-style shots from a giant robot.
Cuts a bullet in half that was fired by the highly-accurate Black Widow from point blank range
Able to accurately throw some SUPER-SMALL medical parts at Night Nurse's knee (one, two)
Shoots down a flying capsule with an energy rifle while in a jetpack
Knocks a guy with with a thrown sai that rebounds off a wall
Cuts a guy's arms and legs off so they don't fall off, and he stays in one piece, alive, until he's touched--which would take incredible skill
Cuts the Architect in half without him knowing it
Flips over the running Nina (a ninja) and cuts her handband in half, without cutting her forehead at all--again, incredible weapons control
Kills four Hand hidden in the drapes with one toss of shuriken
Throws a sai into Ben Urich from across the street: one, two
She shoots a guy in the neck with a crossbow from several hundred yards away while she is on a carnival ride rotating one direction and the target is on a ride rotating the other direction. The narrator emphasizes the skill it takes to do this. (Assassin)
She shoots an arrow into a gun barrel. (Assassin)
After stealing SHIELD security details, she goes behind the wall where her target is sitting and stabs him through the heart (without any direct physical sensation of where he is). (Assassin)
Throws some shuriken to cut through a guy's flamethrower tubes.
HER SAI
Are booby trapped so they give a paralytic shock to anyone else but her (one, two)
Unlike normal sai, they usually have sharp edges (just a couple examples: they can cut through a grenade or cut a bullet in half [you can see the edge of the blade there], or effortlessly cut this guy's shirt)
Although sometimes, as seen here, they're pointy but do not have sharp edges.
UNUSUAL WEAPONS/WEAPONS KNOWLEDGE
Uses two ashtrays to disarm two guns from one robot.
Kills a guard with a thrown ashtray
Has a garrote wire in her sash.
Uses poisoned shuriken (again)
Elektra kills with poisoned syringe.
Elektra uses some sticks of bamboo to kill some wanna-be assassins who have advanced energy weapons
Kills multiple Hand with thrown ice.
She throws shards of glass and takes out multiple SHIELD agents. (Assassin)
Fights with a pipe ripped off a rooftop.
Chokes Paladin by spitting her tooth down his throat
Defeats all the guards of SHIELD's best prison, just with paintball guns.
Knows a grenade won't explode when she slices it in half
Throws some SUPER-SMALL medical parts at Night Nurse's knee (one, two)
NERVE STRIKES/BREAKS ETC.
One-shots two superhumans on Raft
One-shots two superhumans on Raft
Nerve strike on a guy's face that makes him vomit out blood (while simultaneously stabbing another guy)
Nerve strike on a guy's neck to knock him out.
FIGHTING SKILLS/SMALLER FIGHTS
Elektra and Daredevil vs American Samurai, 1 and 2
One-shots each of the Four Winds (including reflecting throwing stars at opponent)
Pulls out guy’s eyeball with little training
Defeats Dictator who has Scorpio Key
Fighting super-powered Hand ninjas
Elektra's fight with Tiger Shark in comparison with Spider-Woman vs Tiger Shark
One-shots two superhumans on Raft
Elektra and Shroud vs Purple Man
Both the Wolverine and Elektra fights against Shikaru the Mute (Elektra does better against Shikaru than Wolverine does on his first attempt, where Wolverine is completely beaten)
Vs Lyle possessed by the Beast (quickly defeats Hand’s champion)
Defeats several more armed mobsters.
Vs Avery, a girl with Wolverine-style enhanced speed, strength, durability, and healing factor.
Defeats 3 of Arcade's card-themed super-strong robots.
Kills the "immortal" Greek-god-powered Medea.
Elektra kills some wanna-be assassins with advanced energy weapons with some sticks of bamboo.
Repeatedly strikes feral Wolverine without being hit in return, or leaps past him without being hit: one, two, three, four
Kills 24 supervillains in 24 hours
Stabs Wolverine in such a way that she knows it will take longer for him to heal and make it hard for him to fight back (as seen by the fact that he stays on the ground and she is up and about on the next page): one, two
Defeats at least 15 Hand while, as they point out, almost naked and unarmed.
Beats up a squad of HAMMER agents, with some aim dodging, despite being in terrible shape due to continuous torture by the Skrulls and HAMMER (as pointed out), and in the process then being shot twice and having her ankle broken. She also starts off with only a knife.
Beats up two ex-SHIELD agents, despite all the injuries listed immediately above, and again having only her basic hand weapons against machine guns and a rifle.
Has a psychic conversation while beating up some mobsters.
Has a psychic conversation while beating up some Hand.
Fights with a pipe in one hand and a sword in the other--two very differently-weighted weapons, with very different styles
Defeats all the guards of SHIELD's best prison, just with paintball guns.
Beats a bunch of yakuza with Punisher.
Effortlessly beats Punisher in sparring while holding back.
Beats Punisher in fight and various challenges
Kills Kirigi, an immortal champion of the Hand (some background on him, and some more background)
Fights the Silencer (he has teleportation and intangibility powers and enhanced strength) and then she and Spider-man beat him in the rematch using strategy
Elektra kills numerous soldiers in the desert
Defeats two SHIELD Hulkbuster robots
A Chaste says "already, she is a mighty warrior" after only a year of training.
Quickly beats Boomerang and Bushwhacker at once
Blind fighting: Elektra and Shroud vs Purple Man (fights while in Darkforce as well as Shroud)
Disarms Chastity after surviving a crashed helicopter. (Assassin)
Chastity confirms that Elektra has an “inhuman combat ability,” “an excellent sense of strategy,” and “paranormal powers.” (Assassin)
Here she quickly punches a guy’s nose into his head and then breaks another guy’s arm more quickly than Garrett can see—while underwater. (Assassin)
The Beast tries to kill her with its magic, but she resists and stabs it with a spear, temporarily defeating it. (Assassin)
Kills four heavily-armed mercenaries in 37 seconds, and uses poisoned shuriken.
At twelve years old, after only two years of martial arts training, she beats her sensei.
She gets out of the invulnerable Stone's grip by using a painful head butt and throw.
Beats 11 skilled martial artists she is training (off panel)
Quickly beats off attacks from the Chaste masters Flame, Star, and Claw.
A college-era Elektra brutally takes out five thugs, including throwing one guy at least 15' using only one arm, and potentially using one of her patented "punching through the body" techniques, given how the guy is bent over and bleeding from the stomach after she punches him in the belly, although that detail isn't clear.
BIGGER FIGHTS
First fight with Daredevil. She wins via prep, then throws sai into Ben Urich
Vs Daredevil in 2016 1, 2 (See above for context; he says he "survived that...barely") [I had the wrong link on here for ages, and just fixed it--SORRY!]
Fights Taskmaster, parts 1 and 2, now with more context
Elektra, Daredevil, Shang Chi, and Ghost Maker parts 1, 2, 3
Fights Wolverine in Redeemer: Main fight. Short interrupted fight later.
Fights Wolverine in Enemy of the State. The fight starts with both of them knowing the other is there; there is no surprise. She incaps him with a nerve strike which he only gets out of due to an explosion, then strikes him again in such a way that it takes him a while to heal so that he is on the ground and she is up and about, and he comments on her speed and thinks that "another two seconds and I'm...", clearly implying "dead." Knowing he's going to lose, he runs off and decides to try to drown her, saying that's his "only way."
Elektra and Wolverine kill hundreds if not thousands of Hand. This is one of the most impressive fights against "fodder" that I've ever seen. Except they're not fodder, because these same Hand just defeated a Sentinel robot with just swords. Elektra clearly fights as well as Wolverine here, and in fact he would not have started the fight because he thought there were too many. (See post 23 above for estimates on their numbers).
In two parts (one, two) she brutally beats a bunch of Hand on jetpacks, plus two Hand that call themselves the "Sons of Death" and have magic powers. Then she steals their dragon.
In a montage, beats Blizzard, Crossbones, Whiplash, Shocker, Boomerang, Jack O'Lantern, Blackout, Whirlwind, and Tiger Shark in groups of ones and twos--all Iron Man, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Namor, and Captain America villains.
Beats Lady Bullseye in their first match.
She beats Lady Bullseye, who has been enhanced so she can become incorporeal. again.
She fights enhanced versions of Whiplash, Tiger Shark, and Jack O'Lantern all at once, and pretty much one-shots each of them. These are Iron Man, Namor, and Spider-man villains, and they've had their powers enhanced by the Assassins Guild. Also, this is pretty much right after she was stabbed in the torso by Lady Bullseye. How badly did she beat them? The League of Assassins said she "dropped them like prom dresses" and that their "new abilities didn't matter a lick."
Easily beats and almost solos the Serpent Squad (she gets a little help from Matchmaker): Black Mamba, Sidewinder, Death Adder, and Anaconda, the last two of which are physically very formidable, and Black Mamba has tough psychic powers.
Fights Bloody Lips the first time (interrupted by psychic attack on them both)
Fights multiple Skrulls with super-powers. She kills three: one with martial arts skills with Ghost Rider powers; one with Wolverine powers; and one with Daredevil, Nightcrawler, and Cyclops powers. She is finally beaten by one with Invisible Woman, Colossus, and Thing powers.
Fights Iron Fist to a draw until he unleashes a major chi explosion.
FIGHTS AGAINST BULLSEYE
Elektra has fought against Bullseye four times in canon. I will include all of them here for comparison's sake. She was killed by him the first time, and has roundly defeated him each time since then. In the most recent battle, he admitted that "you were always better than me, Elektra." And "Me in my prime, you in yours? You'd beat me, every day of the week and twice on Sunday. So there is no question that she is currently far superior to him.
(Any other fights between them are not canon, and are either alternate universe fights like Elektra Lives!, or they are actually the Skrull Pagon, such as the fight in the Murdock Papers arc in Daredevil vol. 2. The following four fights are the only canon fights.)
Fight One: She has the advantage over him (7 landed attacks against 4) until he throws a card at her throat, disabling her, and then kills her. So it's kind of a cheap-shot win. Here is Daredevil's fight against Bullseye right after for comparison (5 hits by Daredevil vs 2 by Bullseye, not counting any of the bullrushes since it's less clear who gets the advantage from them, before they get on the wire and Daredevil drops him. So about the same hit ratio).
Fight Two: He trains for months specifically to defeat her, aided by a group that gives him holograms of her to spar against and an extensive database on everything about her. He knows everything about how she moves and fights. In short he is as ready as he will ever be to fight her. He wins for a while, then she trounces him.
Fight Three: She has just escaped from a HAMMER Helicarrier. Immediately previous to this, she had been tortured by the Skrulls, and then HAMMER, for months each, with many narrative notes about how she is in terrible shape. She just woke up at Night Nurse's place, got shot at, and then fights Bullseye. He tricks her into getting poisoned, which he notes is so lethal a poison that he can't believe she can stand. Then she falls off a four-story building (height shown in another scene). Then, when he thinks he's got her, she gets the hell up and acrobatically flips over Bullseye and stabs him in the back, in a mirror of how he killed her, completely defeating him. He's almost dead and only rescued by an ambulance.
Fight Four: Bullseye has been magically enhanced by the Hand to become faster and stronger. He admits (see links above) that he could normally never beat her. But, with his enhancements, he does beat her to the ground, severely, so she's half blind and has brain and skull injuries. Then she get gets the hell up and shakes it off (like in the previous fight) and proceeds to beat a bunch of Hand, the magic-powered white and black Hand leaders, and Bullseye (using the magic black ninja's skull to remove Bullseye's Hand enhancements and super-age him) for a complete victory.
ESCAPE SKILLS/INFILTRATION
Elektra escapes strait jacket while drugged and brainwashed
Can slip out of a strait jacket even when in her Beast-mind-controlled semi-conscious state. (Assassin)
Successfully infiltrates SHIELD's best prison, just with paintball guns.
OTHER ABILITIES
Disassembles gun with just a touch
She can make a healing poultice from jungle ingredients (Assassin)
She is somehow able to breathe underwater and gave Garrett the same ability. (Assassin)
Here she disguises herself as a prison inmate so she can protect Karen Page over an extended period of time while Karen is on trial.
STRATEGY/PREPARATION/LEADERSHIP
Hunts down rich dude (strategically takes him down over a long period)
Elektra vs Silencer 1 and 2 (figures out how to beat Silencer with magnets at same time as Spider-Man)
Elektra jumps out of a high-rise building’s window with a parachute.
5 minutes of prep is called “an eternity” for Elektra.
Leads an army of resurrected supervillains to successfully crash a helicarrier that was protected by Nick Fury and Wolverine: one, two, three
Fights strategically by disarming a Hand with a shuriken
Comes up with "three perfect ideas" for capturing Wolverine while in the middle of a fight
When she fights Lady Bullseye, who has been enhanced so she can become incorporeal, she tricks her into becoming physical and intentionally lets her stab her in the abdomen in order to beat her!
Beats Cape Crow through prep (her sai are booby trapped)
Beats Bloody Lips by tricking him into absorbing her traumatic psyche
She and Spider-man beat the Silencer by noticing his weakness to magnetism
Chastity confirms that Elektra has an “inhuman combat ability,” “an excellent sense of strategy,” and “paranormal powers.” (Assassin)
Using strategy, she pretends to be dead, then cuts through a major ninja’s throat using a bow string.
After stealing SHIELD security details, she goes behind the wall where her target is sitting and stabs him through the heart (without any direct physical sensation of where he is). (Assassin)
PERCEPTION
PSYCHIC/CHI/MAGIC POWERS
Makes a SHIELD agent think he killed her
Stealth on a jeep (disappears and reappears multiple times in plain sight)
Appearing and disappearing in front of Nick Fury and multiple SHIELD agents
Speaks to the dead on their plane
Resists Shatterhead's psychic powers.
Shields herself from Jean Grey's psi-probe (in circumstances where Jean's powers are a bit fuzzy from the environment)
Heals herself through meditation
Her SHIELD/HAMMER file says she has powers of "mind transference" and "possession" (in a reference to Elektra: Assassin)
Initiates a psychic conversation with Wolverine
Is able to quickly shake off the Hand's mind-control from her (second) resurrection. This mind control worked effectively for a very long time on Wolverine, getting him to carry out effective strikes on the Fantastic Four and X-Men, and was only able to be removed via intensive and lengthy official de-conditioning, despite his psychic defenses and healing factor. It also worked on hundreds of supervillains. One, two.
Has a psychic conversation with Gorgon "at the speed of thought," before SHIELD agents are able to react: one, two
Has a psychic conversation while beating up some mobsters.
Has a psychic conversation while beating up some Hand.
Resists Black Mamba's formidable powers, saying "no one can infiltrate my mind--when I'm prepared."
Chastity confirms that Elektra has an “inhuman combat ability,” “an excellent sense of strategy,” and “paranormal powers.” (Assassin)
She psychically visits Daredevil’s Beast-controlled mind and communicates with his true self.
Hears her parents’ conversation while in the womb.
Mind-controls several Hand very soon after joining the Hand.
Using her chi, she makes several stalactites fall off a cave roof.
Telepathically communicates with the Chaste, including Stick against his will. (Assassin)
She reads Stick’s mind without his permission at 12. This is again confirmed later in the series. Confirms Assassin’s similar scene.
Telepathically communicates with Garrett, a SHIELD agent she mind-controls. (Assassin)
When she has a vision of the Beast’s plans, she is able to send the vision “like a movie” to Garrett. (Assassin)
Switched places with Sandy, a girl in a coma. This meant BOTH inhabiting Sandy’s body with Elektra’s mind, AND making Elektra’s body look like Sandy. Eventually the Beast, the Hand’s super-powerful demon lord, helped Sandy, and Elektra was almost trapped in Sandy’s body. (This is just a selection of pages from a very long episode.) (Assassin)
Psychically kills Sandy, despite the Beast’s powers, and escapes.
Switches bodies/creates illusions around SHIELD agent Chastity McBryde. She made Chastity look like Elektra, so Garrett shot Chastity. Then they took “Elektra” into custody, did a bunch of tests, and only after a long time did they realize that it was actually Chastity, which shows the power of her illusions. (Assassin)
Confirmation of what happened while possessing/switching places with Chastity. (Assassin)
Creates a long-lasting mind control over Garrett (this is a non-sequential series of examples). (Assassin)
Confirmation that she can do mind control and hallucinations (Assassin)
Silent shout--a physical blast that can knock someone backwards and out. (Assassin)
She is captured by SHIELD and they try to read her mind with a machine. Instead she simultaneously mind-controls Garrett and probes their security details through the computer, learning everything she needs to know about SHIELD. (Assassin)
When she gets out, she kills the SHIELD agent using the machine through psychic feedback. (Assassin)
At the end of Assassin, she seems to switch the minds of Garrett and presidential candidate Ken Wind. Garrett then becomes president in Wind’s body. However, in Daredevil’s Fall from Grace arc, it turns out that she actually just created a permanent delusion in Garrett’s mind that he was president, and also imparted part of her own tainted soul into his body. (Assassin)
After stealing SHIELD security details, she goes behind the wall where her target is sitting and stabs him through the heart (without any direct physical sensation of where he is). (Assassin)
She pranks Garrett on multiple occasions, using mind-clouding psi powers and/or stealth. Here she shot his beer can, stole his pistol out of his shoulder holster, and took a gun out of the floor and made it fall apart when he picked it up without him knowing she was there at all. Here she steals his gun again. Here she plants drugs on him and steals his plane ticket—while he is specifically looking for her. (Assassin)
She telekinetically moves a roulette ball.
For context on what kinds of chi abilities the Hand have, here are some examples of the abilities of Hand ninjas Thought (a telepath), Pain (a little unclear, but it seems like his strikes cause added pain), and Shadow (stealth, doesn't reflect in mirrors).
DETERMINATION/INTENT/POWER OF MIND
Kills the Architect (able to cut through Architect’s shield)
Breaks out of Dr. Strange’s holding spell
Hunts down rich dude (intentionally doesn’t kill target to make it last)
Resurrection scene (reaches Chaste after previous failures)
Elektra is willing to kill a fourteen-year-old girl just for seeing her.
Starts a fight with hundreds if not thousands of Hand about which Wolverine thinks, "You're out of your mind! There's way too many!"
When Bloody Lips absorbs her psyche, he goes crazy trying to deal with it all. This is after he has absorbed plenty of other crazy people's minds with no problem. And yet she is able to deal with this mental trauma as part of her daily life.
REPUTATION
Scares Killer Shrike just by her presence
Gets Sidewinder to beg for mercy.
It costs $2 million per kill to hire her
Made $400,000 a day when working for SHIELD
She respects Wolverine and he respects her. He brings her to Silver Fox's grave, and she brings him to her home in Greece.
At the end of her fight with Wolverine in Enemy of the State, Wolverine clearly believed she was going to defeat him, saying, "Another two seconds and I'm--."
Wolverine thinks the only way he's going to beat her is to drown her. In other words he doesn't think he can win by fighting. If that doesn't work he has to hope he can run away: "Have to drown her. It's the only way. Hope it slows her down and gives me a head start at least." She clearly thinks she could beat him too: "You think a locked door is going to save you?"
Gorgon, who is a genius, and Elsbeth von Strucker, who is a genius, as well as Wolverine, want a new partner, and explicitly choose Elektra over Daredevil. (This is not due to her willingness to kill, as their mind control would make anyone willing to kill or fight their friends, as it did with Northstar and Wolverine.) So all these people think Elektra would be the most effective person in creating havoc in the world and attacking the world's super-teams and security forces. When they end up losing Wolverine but gaining Elektra, Gorgon and Elsbeth clearly consider it a net win, meaning they think she is better than Wolverine, despite the fact that he has been carrying out successful strikes against the Fantastic Four and X-men, and has had "half the the world's security forces on red alert."
Elektra and Wolverine vs Gorgon. While Elektra and Wolverine are thoroughly beaten, it is worthwhile to point out that Wolverine and SHIELD chose her to be his partner in this attempt out of all the other heroes in the world.
Even the Vatican will hire Elektra.
Punisher compliments her fighting style in many ways, saying he is outclassed.
The Hand’s name for her is “Perfect Death"
Comic tagline is “World’s Most Dangerous Assassin” and "Most Dangerous Assassin in the World"
Nick Fury says Shang Chi is “at least her equal”
Is called an "Omega-level threat" to a helicarrier even while she is in terrible shape from extended torture from the Skrulls and HAMMER
Tony Stark, Director of SHIELD, calls her the "most dangerous assassin on the planet."
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