There are a few references to the Daredevil movie in this film. Besides Jennifer Garner returning to the role of Elektra Natchios from the first film, there is a deleted scene in the DVD area of the film which involves Elektra having a dream sequence once she is cured from Typhoid's poisonous kiss where she sees her ex-lover, Matt Murdock, the alter ego of Daredevil in the previous film, say he wants her to come back to live with him. Elektra's agent, McCabe, asks Elektra one time in the film if she "ever got laid," implying the act of sexual copulation, which she did commit with Matt Murdock. The final reference is a flashback sequence which shows Stick reviving Elektra back from the dead after she was killed by Bullseye in the first movie. In the flashback, Elektra is still wearing the costume she wore in the original film.There is also a graffiti drawing of Daredevil outside the biker bar.

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Cast

Actor	Role
Jennifer Garner	Elektra Natchios
Terence Stamp	Stick
Will Yun Lee	Kirigi
Goran Visnjic	Mark Miller
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Roshi
Colin Cunningham	McCabe
Jason Isaacs	DeMarco (uncredited)
Hiro Kanagawa	Meizumi
Natassia Malthe	Typhoid
Jana Mitsoula	Young Elektra's Mother
Kirsten Prout	Abby Miller
Bob Sapp	Stone
Chris Ackerman	Tattoo
Edison T. Ribeiro	Kinkou
Ben Affleck	Matt Murdock / Daredevil (DVD deleted scene)

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Character development

Just as Daredevil was for Matt Murdock, the film is about Elektra coping with her childhood experiences and putting them behind her. Throughout the film we are shown her childhood self discovering her mother's murder. The memory appears to be hazy and the assassin she sees becomes clearer every time the memory is shown. Towards the end of the film, the memory properly surfaces and she realises it was Kirigi who killed her mother, just as Daredevil realized it was the Kingpin who killed his father.

There are also a few scenes in reference to her father. This man does not seem to be similar to the one shown in Daredevil (who treats his daughter well) as he is shown forcing her to tread water without use of her hands for long periods of time. However, it is likely that Elektra's father might have changed toward her, probably because Kirigi killed his wife.

It is suggested that the death of her mother and the behavior of her father caused deep emotional problems for Elektra, possibly causing the OCD. She denies having OCD to Abby toward the end of the film.

There are also many similarities between Abby and Elektra. Both have lost their mothers at an early age, both are good martial artists, and both may suffer from OCD. It is possible that, in Abby, Elektra sees and begins to understand her childhood self, allowing her (as Stick says in the film) to forget her rage and anger.

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Critical reaction and box office response

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Elektra garnered a mixed reaction from critics and fans. (film sold well on DVD^{[citation needed]}. An extended and slightly refined 2-disc edition director's cut DVD was released in October 2005. The director's cut features a different cut of Elektra detailed for a home video.

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Canceled video game

Elektra was also supposed to have a video game based on the movie, or the comics. It would go into the comics just like any other comic book movie, but it was never released, as publishers felt it would not be popular enough. However, there is a game based on the movie that was released for mobile. There is a petition online by a publisher, who said the only way they would make it is if a lot of people signed up for Elektra: The Game.^[2]

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See also

• Elektra: The Album

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References

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External links

• Elektra at Marvel.com
• Official site
• Elektra at the Internet Movie Database

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