Fan Casting Elektra in Joe Carnahan's Daredevil: The Man Without Fear

Elektra Nattchios, the daughter of Nikolas Nattchios, a Greek businessman, was attending college at Harvard when she met fellow student Matt Murdock. Elektra's mother had been killed when she was a small child, much as Matt's father had been; Elektra had been the one to find her body. Sensing kindred souls in each other, Matt and Elektra became very close. Tragedy struck in their third year together at Harvard. While at a high society party at the Hellfire Club mansion in Manhattan, at which Matt was going to propose to her, her father was brutally murdered by an assassin in front of her. Distraught, she fled the party, dropping out of sight. Elektra traveled the world for a short time before finding herself in Japan, where she was found by the secretive ninja clan known as the Hand. The Hand had once been one of the staunchest defenders of Shogunate Japan, but had fallen under the influence of an oni, or Japanese demon, before World War I. The Hand taught her to use the pain, anger, and hate she felt, corrupting her. Within a short time, Elektra lived solely for the hunt and the kill, becoming the Hand's best assassin. During this time, Elektra had become the lover of Kirigi, the son of the Hand's leader. At one point, Elektra was sent by the Hand to assassinate a martial arts instructor in America who went by the name of Stick; ironically, Stick was the same man who had helped train Matt in the use of his enhanced senses. Stick, although blind, held Elektra at bay and managed to knock her out long enough to begin a ritual intended to cleanse her soul of the Hand's corruption. Stick was only partially successful; Elektra escaped halfway through the ritual.