Origin

Elektra was born on a Greek island on the Aegean Sea. Her father, Hugo, was a diplomat and was successful. Her mother, Christina, grew apart from her father and started to have affairs. She let her affairs be known public which humiliated him. When Hugo rants to his son, Orestez, and tells him his mother is shaming the family, his son would hire an assassin and they attack Hugo and Christina when they were at home. Christina died while giving birth to Elektra, at first Hugo did not want to raise a baby that was not his but after test results finds out she is really his daughter. Orestez realized his father did not want him to kill his mother so he ran away. Elektra and her father grew close together and he would shower her with gifts. One day kidnappers came and assaulted Elektra, but her brother returns an accomplished martial artist and saves her. He introduces himself to his little sister and tells his father that Elektra needs to learn self-defense. Orestez leaves soon after and Hugo would hire a martial artist to train Elektra.

the assassin

Origin rewritten

The first rewrite was written by Larry Hama. In his version, Hugo and Christina met and served during World War II for a Greek Resistance movement. After the war they got married. Hugo would later go away on government matters and left an 8 month pregnant Christina and a bodyguard to look after her. When she went to the clinic to check on Elektra, the hospital was taken hostage. Christina successfully stopped the terrorist but was wounded in the process. Christina would give premature birth to Elektra and die right afterward.

The next version was written by Frank Miller and it seemed to continue right where Huma left off talking about Elektra’s relationship with her father. It starts with an adult Elektra having memories of her father raping her when she was 5 years old. She would be counseled about this and would later believe that this memory was fake. When Elektra was young she had dark visions and heard voices. Her father would send her to psychotherapy.

Assassin

assassin style

Elektra would grow up and attend Columbia University in New York City. She meets Daredevil for the first time and they would start dating. When Elektra was 20 years old, she and her father were kidnapped by terrorists. For the first time, Matt wore a mask and tried to save them. When the police thought the terrorists were throwing their hostages out the window, they opened fire and killed Hugo right in front of Elektra.

Elektra quit school and began studying martial arts. She would eventually encounter a man named Stick and saw all the anger within Elektra. He decided to train her himself to try and keep her good. Elektra would eventually join The Hand where they would train her to become an assassin. She would later quit the Hand and team up with Daredevil after finding out he was Matt Murdock. They defeat the Hand together.

Bullseye stabbing Elektra leading to her first death

Elektra would become employed by the Kingpin. One of her assignments was to kill Foggy Nelson but she was unable to go through with it once he recognized her as "Matt's Girl". When Elektra battled Bullseye to see who would be the Kingpin’s main assassin, Bullseye stabbed Elektra with her own sai. Elektra gathers enough strength to crawl all the way to Matt’s house and dies in his arms.

The Hand would steal her body in an attempt to resurrect her. Daredevil along with a member of Stick’s group named Stone, interrupted the Hand and defeat them. Daredevil would try to resurrect her himself but was unsuccessful. However, her soul was purified and her body would disappear right afterwards.

Elektra would later mysteriously return to help Wolverine when he turned into a beast. She successfully retained him and would eventually help him turn back to normal. After she stopped working with Wolverine, it was revealed that Stone resurrected Elektra and as a consequence to what Daredevil did, split Elektra into a good and evil body. Elektra would defeat her evil self and it went back inside her, returning her to her original self.

Working with Wolverine

Elektra and Daredevil

When the Hand and Hydra joined forces they brainwashed Wolverine into their killing machine. Elektra was hired by SHIELD to stop Wolverine, and while trying to stop him she was killed. The Hand took her with them and resurrected her to be another killing machine. She would fight Wolverine (who was back to normal) but mentally speaks to him and tells him this was part of his plan. They defeat the ninjas and when they teleported back, Gorgon went with them and was ambushed by SHIELD soldiers. It seemed like Gorgon had killed Elektra by making her neck collapse. Soon Wolverine would reveal that she was alive but missing.

Kingpin again

When the Kingpin offered to prove Matt Murdock and Daredevil were one, Elektra came back to help Matt. It was later revealed that Elektra helped Kingpin get all the documents on Matt and felt obligated to help him. They met up with Black Widow to retrieve the papers and would be attacked by Bullseye. They win but Daredevil was shot, Elektra would take Matt to the Night Nurse. Elektra disappears and returns with the Hand ninjas. The Hand heals Matt and everyone leaves quickly. Elektra has become corrupt because she was the leader of the Hand. Elektra had kidnapped Ronin of the New Avengers and would try to torture her. The New Avengers bust in to save Ronin. The Hand and them would eventually clash. The actual fight between the two teams resulted in the death of Elektra by the hands of echo. When Elektra was killed it was revealed to be a Skrull named Siri, who has been masquerading as Elektra since the events of Wolverine : Enemy of the State.

Powers

Elektra began learning martial arts when she was ten years old, after she was rescued from an attempted kidnapping by her older brother. She was a black belt by the age of twelve. She is an expert with most weapons, particularly her trademark sais. Similar to the Punisher, she is immune to most pain, and can face several trained, seasoned warriors and defeat them within minutes. Elektra can mentally possess someone else for up to an unknown limit of time, and can make others see illusions and hypnotize them. Her speed, agility and reflexes are incredible, letting her fight multiple opponents and dodge bullets. Elektra has peak human strength and flexibility. Elektra's endurance is borderline superhuman, letting her do feats that seem impossible.

Characteristics

Catsai (left) with partner Dare the Terminator (right)

Alternate realities

Earth-1610

In the Ultimate universe Elektra starts out as a university student studying martial arts, harassed by a fellow student, Trey Langstrom, until one day she fights back. He retaliates by destroying her father's laundromat, and she gravely injures him and forces him to admit his crime. Elektra turns to her cousins, who are in organized crime, to help her father financially. She tracks down their book keeper, who threatened to turn them in, and recovers the evidence just before the book keeper is assassinated by Bullsye.

She is next seen in Ultimate Spider-Man as an assassin for the Kingpin. She has lost virtually all of her innocence seen in Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra, and is similar to her mainstream counterpart. During a fight with the Black Cat, Spider-Man, Hammerhead, and Moon Knight she was struck in the head by Moon Knight before she could murder Black Cat.

Earth-9602

In the Amalgam Universe, on Earth-9602, Catsai is known as a mercenary / assassin-for-hire. Her real name is Elektra Kyle and she is an amalgam of Marvel Universe's Elektra and DC Universe's Catwoman. She has teamed up with Daredevil (an amalgamation of Daredevil and Deathstroke the Terminator) to take out The Big Question(The Kingpin and The Riddler) in Assassins. Lives in New Gotham City.

Earth-2149

In the Marvel Zombies reality Elektra is turned into a zombie.

Earth-1720

In this universe, the Earth is controlled by HYDRA and the leader is Susan Storm. Elektra is the lover of Reed Richards, and she appears to be similar to her 616 counterpart. With the help of the Exiles, Elektra and Reed were able to save their Universe from Sue and her HYDRA.

Earth-982

In the MC2 reality Eletra has a daughter with Wolverine - Rina Logan. Wild Thing. Not much is known about her aside from being involved in her daughter's life and training Spider-Girl in martial arts, as well as having massive amounts of money.

Earth-1298

In the Mutant X reality Elektra Stavros is the bodyguard of Havok's and Madelyne Pryor's son Scotty.