10 Unbelievable Retcons That Changed Comics For The Better
7. Daredevil Was Trained By Stick
The Hand, the Chaste and Stick are all fixtures of the Daredevil mythos. How else could a blind 15-year-old learn how to do all the kick-ass things that Daredevil can? Simply put, he taught himself. In the original Daredevil #1, there was no Stick and no grand design outside of a couple of panels of young Matt Murdock training himself to fight.
It wasn't until Frank Miller’s Daredevil: The Man Without Fear that those fantastical ninja elements were incorporated into the character's backstory. Matt was struggling in his life due to his altered senses, and Stick came into the picture not necessarily to help him but to train him as a weapon to fight against the Hand.
Granted, Man Without Fear was never meant to be anything more than a potential movie script that happened to become one of the defining bibles in Daredevil’s history, so there’s still some general tweaking of the new backstory that happens every so often to fit whatever story is being told, but there's a reason the origin has stuck for as long as it has.