CALAVERA

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Drug runner

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Billy, Sheriff Cole, Drake, Javier, Lane, Manito, Peabody, Pike

Enemies: Daredevil (Matt Murdock)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: (Mentioned) Daredevil Reborn#2 (April, 2011); (seen) Daredevil Reborn#3 (May, 2011)

Powers/Abilities: Calavera possesses black eyes that allow him to awaken the deepest fears in those within his line of sight (even those who can't see his eyes), and they experience their fears as overwhelming psychic nightmares. "I can split open your soul, and show you what I find there." Calavera is also good at throwing knives, is a good marksman, and commands lots of armed men.

History:

(Daredevil Reborn#2 (fb) - BTS) - Governed by Calavera, Lane and his partner began taking guns from the government, arms that had been seized from criminals and selling them back to Calavera, fudging the paperwork.

(Daredevil Reborn#4 (fb) - BTS) - In a small New Mexico town, a man named Cole and his men, including Peabody, Drake, and Pike, murdered the police force and buried them in the quarry. They then posed as officers themselves and took martial control of the town. The police captain had been Billy's father, and the shot that killed him, fired by Pike, rendered Billy blind.

(Daredevil Reborn#3 (fb) - BTS) - Mexican heroin dealer Calavera, who inspired fear in the hearts of others with his super-powered stare, formed an arrangement with the town in New Mexico, trading his heroin for their guns.

(Daredevil Reborn#1 - BTS) - Matt Murdock (Daredevil) wandered into the small New Mexico town and befriended young blind Billy. He was accosted by Pike and his boys, shown out of town by Sheriff Cole, then hunted down by deputies Drake and Peabody.

(Daredevil Reborn#2 - BTS) - Murdock defeated the deputies, who returned to Cole, then Murdock intercepted Lane's truck full of arms but was captured. In the warehouse, Murdock escaped and a massive firefight broke out.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy. Murdock got in the truck and drove through the door, nearly hitting Cole, Drake, and Pike, who quickly jumped into their cars to pursue him. They fired on him, but Murdock got them to crash into each other instead. Pike worried that Calavera would actually kill them. Calavera and his men, including Manito and Javier, arrived and found Murdock at the lake, where Murdock had submerged the truck full of weapons. Calavera questioned Murdock, while his men kept Cole and the others at gunpoint, and then he used his powers on Murdock, who was overcome with fears from his past. He then shot Murdock in the head and watched his body fall off into the river.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Back at the warehouse, Calavera ordered Cole to rob the armory of the ATF, telling him to blow someplace else up as a distraction. He used his powers on Cole, who was accosted by the corpses of his victims in the vision, while Murdock snuck in the other room, knocking out Javier and another. When Murdock revealed himself, Calavera threw a knife at him, but it struck a bag of heroin, clouding the others with powder. Murdock began knocking the men out one by one. Pike, Cole, and others rushed him, but he defeated them easily. Calavera used his powers on him again, but Murdock was able to resist them. He knocked aside four fired bullets with his billy club, then hit Calavera in the head. All the criminals were later arrested and Murdock was never implicated. The authorities held Calavera up on multiple murder charges.

Comments: Created by Andy Diggle and Davide Gianfelice.

Profile by Chadman.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Calavera has no known connections to

• any characters not mentioned in this profile.

Billy

(Daredevil Reborn#4 (fb) - BTS) - Billy's dad was the police captain in a small town with deputy, Cole. Cole got involved in an arms smuggling ring, trading the arms for heroin out of Mexico. Cole and his allies, including Pike, killed all of the police, including Billy's dad.

(Daredevil Reborn#2 (fb) - BTS) - One of the shots fired by Pike set off a muzzle flash in front of Billy's eyes that left Billy blind. Pike threatened Billy's mom and started sleeping with her for cash. She started drinking heavily. 

(Daredevil Reborn#1) - Billy sat outside the Busy Bee Cafe flipping his coin, but kept missing the catch of it until stranger Matt Murdock taught him how to do it by listening to the sounds. As they bonded, Pike and his boys showed up to escort the stranger out of town, but they ended up savagely beating him. Sheriff Cole broke up the fight by firing his gun into the air, and Pike and his boys left. Cole took the man away, though Billy wanted him to stay.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - Billy turned the TV up loudly to avoid hearing Pike and his mom having sex. He begged his mom to remember his dad, move out of the city and start over, but she was too scared and started drinking, telling Billy to stay away from the windows or he'd get hurt.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - With his mom passed out, Billy noticed a procession of cars drive past his home.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Billy was shocked to find a bloody Murdock in his bathtub. After helping him clean up, they talked about their respective pasts. Billy was thrilled to give Daredevil some of his dad's old gear, knowing Murdock would fight back. Murdock defeated all the criminals and they were arrested. Billy's mom supported him in denying that he knew who Murdock was.

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (4 (fb) - BTS, 2 (fb) - BTS, 1-4

Sheriff Cole

(Daredevil Reborn#4 (fb) - BTS) - Billy's dad was the police captain in a small town with deputy, Cole. Cole got involved in an arms smuggling ring, trading the arms (delivered by Lane) for heroin out of Mexico (run by the frightening Calavera). Cole and his allies, including Pike, killed all of the police, including Billy's dad.

(Daredevil Reborn#1) - When a stranger (Matt Murdock) was seen talking to Billy outside the Busy Bee Cafe, Pike and his boys roughed the man up until Cole broke up the fight with a gunshot in the air. He claimed he couldn't arrest Pike's men as he didn't know who started it all, and he encouraged the man to get out of town, but decided to take him to the bus stop instead to stay the night there, especially when the man showed no forms of id. On his way out, he took a picture of the stranger and returned to his office, where Drake and Peabody, his deputies, discovered the man might be Daredevil. He ordered the men to find Murdock and kill him.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - Cole started worrying that the two men had skipped when they didn't call in, but he soon got a call from Murdock who told him they'd locked them in the old quarry and asked to be left alone. Cole freed the men, assured they hadn't talked, had them help rebury some skeletons, and then prepared for the arrival of the arms' truck and Calavera. Lane and his man drove the truck into the warehouse as usual, where Pike, Cole, Drake, Peabody, and the others waited. Cole ordered Lane and his men on their knees and planned to kill them as they were no longer needed, but Murdock used the guns in the truck to open fire on the crowd and they all turned on him.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy. Murdock got in the truck and drove through the door, nearly hitting Cole, Drake, and Pike, who quickly jumped into their cars to pursue him. They fired on him, but Murdock got them to crash into each other instead. Pike worried that Calavera would actually kill them. Calavera and his men, including Manito and Javier, arrived and found Murdock at the lake, where Murdock had submerged the truck full of weapons. Calavera questioned Murdock, while his men kept Cole and the others at gunpoint, and then he used his powers on Murdock, who was overcome with fears from his past. He then shot Murdock in the head and watched his body fall off into the river.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Back at the warehouse, Calavera ordered Cole to rob the armory of the ATF, telling him to blow someplace else up as a distraction. He used his powers on Cole, who was accosted by the corpses of his victims in the vision, while Murdock snuck in the other room, knocking out Javier and another. When Murdock revealed himself, Calavera threw a knife at him, but it struck a bag of heroin, clouding the others with powder. Murdock began knocking the men out one by one. Pike, Cole, and others rushed him, but he defeated them easily. Calavera used his powers on him again, but Murdock was able to resist them. He knocked aside four fired bullets with his billy club, then hit Calavera in the head. All the criminals were later arrested and Murdock was never implicated. The authorities held Calavera up on multiple murder charges.

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (4 (fb) - BTS, 1-4

Drake

(Daredevil Reborn#1) - Sheriff's deputies Drake and Peabody were ordered by Sheriff Cole to look up information on a stranger that had come to town. They found the stranger to be Matt Murdock, accused of being Daredevil, and they were ordered to go and kill him. They found him at the pit of bodies and tried to run him down, then drew their guns to find him.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - Murdock violently defeated the men, despite their firing on him multiple times, and he put them in a car and hung it over a cliff. He tried threatening the men, but they convinced him to back down as they knew he was wanted by the feds, so he locked them in the old quarry. Cole freed the men, assured they hadn't talked, had them help rebury some skeletons, and then prepared for the arrival of the arms' truck and Calavera. Lane and his man drove the truck into the warehouse as usual, where Pike, Cole, Drake, Peabody, and the others waited. Cole ordered Lane and his men on their knees and planned to kill them as they were no longer needed, but Murdock used the guns in the truck to open fire on the crowd and they all turned on him.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy. Murdock got in the truck and drove through the door, nearly hitting Cole, Drake, and Pike, who quickly jumped into their cars to pursue him. They fired on him, but Murdock got them to crash into each other instead. Pike worried that Calavera would actually kill them. Calavera and his men, including Manito and Javier, arrived and found Murdock at the lake, where Murdock had submerged the truck full of weapons. Calavera questioned Murdock, while his men kept Cole and the others at gunpoint, and then he used his powers on Murdock, who was overcome with fears from his past. He then shot Murdock in the head and watched his body fall off into the river.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Back at the warehouse, Calavera ordered Cole to rob the armory of the ATF, telling him to blow someplace else up as a distraction. He used his powers on Cole, who was accosted by the corpses of his victims in the vision, while Murdock snuck in the other room, knocking out Javier and another. When Murdock revealed himself, Calavera threw a knife at him, but it struck a bag of heroin, clouding the others with powder. Murdock began knocking the men out one by one. All were later arrested.

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (1-4

Javier

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Calavera and his men arrived in New Mexico to contain a difficult situation. Calavera tended to Matt Murdock.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Murdock defeated all of the men, knocking Javier out very first.

--Daredevil Reborn#3 (3-4

Lane

(Daredevil Reborn#2 (fb) - BTS) - Governed by Calavera, Lane and his partner began taking guns from the government, arms that had been seized from criminals and selling them back to Calavera, fudging the paperwork.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - On his arms' delivery into New Mexico, Lane and his partner pulled over when they saw an empty cop car in the road. Matt Murdock rushed out as Lane drew his gun and tried warning them that Sheriff Cole was going to steal his truck. They opened the truck up, showing him the guns, then knocked him out and locked him in it. They drove the truck into the warehouse as usual, where Pike, Cole, Drake, Peabody, and the others waited. Cole ordered Lane and his men on their knees and planned to kill them as they were no longer needed, but Murdock used the guns in the truck to open fire on the crowd and they all turned on him.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy. Murdock got in the truck and drove through the door, nearly hitting Cole, Drake, and Pike, who quickly jumped into their cars to pursue him.

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (1-3

Manito

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Calavera and his men arrived in New Mexico to contain a difficult situation. Manito kept Sheriff Cole at gunpoint while Calavera tended to Matt Murdock.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Murdock defeated all of the men.

--Daredevil Reborn#3 (3-4

Peabody

(Daredevil Reborn#1) - Sheriff's deputies Drake and Peabody were ordered by Sheriff Cole to look up information on a stranger that had come to town. They found the stranger to be Matt Murdock, accused of being Daredevil, and they were ordered to go and kill him. They found him at the pit of bodies and tried to run him down, then drew their guns to find him.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - Murdock violently defeated the men, despite their firing on him multiple times, and he put them in a car and hung it over a cliff. He tried threatening the men, but they convinced him to back down as they knew he was wanted by the feds, so he locked them in the old quarry. Cole freed the men, assured they hadn't talked, had them help rebury some skeletons, and then prepared for the arrival of the arms' truck and Calavera. Lane and his man drove the truck into the warehouse as usual, where Pike, Cole, Drake, Peabody, and the others waited. Cole ordered Lane and his men on their knees and planned to kill them as they were no longer needed, but Murdock used the guns in the truck to open fire on the crowd and they all turned on him.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy (seemingly Peabody).

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (1-3

Pike

(Daredevil Reborn#4 (fb) - BTS) - Billy's dad was the police captain in a small town with deputy, Cole. Cole got involved in an arms smuggling ring, trading the arms (delivered by Lane) for heroin out of Mexico (run by the frightening Calavera). Cole and his allies, including Pike, killed all of the police, including Billy's dad.

(Daredevil Reborn#2 (fb) - BTS) - One of the shots fired by Pike set off a muzzle flash in front of Billy's eyes that left Billy blind. Pike threatened Billy's mom and started sleeping with her for cash. She started drinking heavily. 

(Daredevil Reborn#1) - After being warned by the waitress at the Busy Bee Cafe, Pike and his boys went down to show outsider Matt Murdock out of town. Pike, without provocation, punched and kicked the man before they started beating on him, to Billy's horror. Sheriff Cole arrived and broke the fight up by firing his gun in the air, and Pike and his boys sauntered off.

(Daredevil Reborn#2) - After having relations with Billy's mom, Pike teased the boy on the way out, ignoring the fact that Billy had heard them having sex (which Pike paid for). Lane and his man drove the truck into the warehouse as usual, where Pike, Cole, Drake, Peabody, and the others waited. Cole ordered Lane and his men on their knees and planned to kill them as they were no longer needed, but Murdock used the guns in the truck to open fire on the crowd and they all turned on him.

(Daredevil Reborn#3) - Murdock evaded the gunfire from all nine men, knocking Lane back with a piece of thrown shrapnel. Murdock threw a smoke bomb and knocked out Peabody, then Cole accidentally shot a deputy. Murdock got in the truck and drove through the door, nearly hitting Cole, Drake, and Pike, who quickly jumped into their cars to pursue him. They fired on him, but Murdock got them to crash into each other instead. Pike worried that Calavera would actually kill them. Calavera and his men, including Manito and Javier, arrived and found Murdock at the lake, where Murdock had submerged the truck full of weapons. Calavera questioned Murdock, while his men kept Cole and the others at gunpoint, and then he used his powers on Murdock, who was overcome with fears from his past. He then shot Murdock in the head and watched his body fall off into the river.

(Daredevil Reborn#4) - Back at the warehouse, Calavera ordered Cole to rob the armory of the ATF, telling him to blow someplace else up as a distraction. He used his powers on Cole, who was accosted by the corpses of his victims in the vision. When Murdock revealed himself, Calavera threw a knife at him, but it struck a bag of heroin, clouding the others with powder. Murdock began knocking the men out one by one. Pike, Cole, and others rushed him, but he defeated them easily. All the men were later arrested.

--Daredevil Reborn#1 (4 (fb) - BTS, 2 (fb) - BTS, 1-4

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Appearances:
Daredevil Reborn#1-4 (March-June, 2011) - Andy Diggle (writer), Davide Gianfelice (penciler/inker), Stephen Wacker (editor)

Last updated: 10/27/11

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