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

Zoltan Drago was a psychologist and psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology (the effects of drugs on one's mind) who worked closely with the New York City District Attorney Office. Thanks to his contact with several criminals, he became fascinated with the idea that criminals seemed to thrive on the fear they caused in others. Engaging in unorthodox research into this seeming phenomenon, Drago distilled and concentrated the common pheromones put out by people (usually imperceptible to humans due to their greatly atrophied sense of smell, compared to other animals), focusing on the pheromones that caused fear in others. He used his own pheromones for this project, unwilling to share the research with anyone just yet. Working late in his home lab one night, Drago fell asleep while monitoring the distillation of the latest batch. Unchecked, this distillation proceeded far beyond what he had planned, creating a super-concentrated fear pheromone powder. Intrigued by these results, he created a number of pills from the powder and swallowed several of them. The next day at the office, he found himself avoided by most of his coworkers, and found through concentration that he was able to induce heightened levels of fear in anyone he wanted. By the end of the day, however, these effects were fading. A second dose of the pills boosted his abilities back up to where they were originally. Inspired by the rash of costumed criminals making their debuts, Drago devised the identity of Mister Fear. In his first outing, he used his new fear powers to induce the criminals Ox and Eel to assist him in a number of robberies. During this altercation, he fought Daredevil, who thwarted the criminals, sending them to prison. Zoltan Drago was one of the criminals who escaped the Ryker's Island correctional facility during the mass breakout led by the Rhino. Daredevil believes it is only a matter of time before he faces Mister Fear again.