| Lady Bullseye | |
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 Lady Bullseye as seen on the cover toDaredevil #111. Art byMarko Djurdjevic. | |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Daredevil Vol. 2 #111 (September 2008) |
| Created by | Ed Brubaker Marko Djurdjević Clay Mann |
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| Alter ego | Maki Matsumoto |
| Species | Human |
| Team affiliations | Anti-Arach9 Army of Evil Assassins Guild Hand |
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Lady Bullseye (Maki Matsumoto) is asupervillain appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. A female counterpart ofBullseye, she was created byEd Brubaker,Marko Djurdjević, andClay Mann, first appearing inDaredevil #111. She has primarily been an opponent of the superheroDaredevil.
Originally inspired to become a trained assassin when she witnessedBullseye easily kill a number of people, she would later become a member of theHand, although she did not hold their traditions in high esteem. Her alter ego works as a lawyer, opposing Matt Murdock in the courtroom, thereby attacking Daredevil on two fronts. Lady Bullseye's true intentions were to take control of the Hand clan, but instead Daredevil becomes their leader.
Reiko Aylesworth voiced the Maki Matsumoto incarnation of Lady Bullseye in theHulustreaming television seriesHit-Monkey, whileOlivia Munn voicedAkiko Yokohama, a new incarnation and the self-declared nemesis ofHit-Monkey.
Lady Bullseye debuted inDaredevil #111 and was created byEd Brubaker,Marko Djurdjevic, andClay Mann. She was inspired byLady Snowblood, a Japanesefemme fatale.[1]
Born inJapan, the young girl (it has not been revealed whether Maki Matsumoto is her birth name or an assumed one) who would become Lady Bullseye was imprisoned by theYakuza, who planned to sell her and many others into sexual slavery. However,Bullseye, on an unrelated errand, arrived to slaughter the mobsters. The sight of Bullseye effortlessly killing her captors inspired the girl to escape and become a killer.[2]
Years later in the employ of the famous ninja orderThe Hand, she arrives in New York City to spearhead The Hand ninja-lord Hiroshi's plan. However, she has demonstrated little tolerance for The Hand's ritual, interrupting some (who are used to those traditions) off-guard in order to kill her enemies. She kills and resurrects bothWhite Tiger andBlack Tarantula to assist her.[3]
At the same time, it has been revealed that in her civilian guise she is a lawyer, targetingDaredevil by assisting the parents of Murdock's mentally-ill wifeMilla Donovan in gaining custody of her. When one of her associates discovers this, she kills him to prevent the Hand from learning the truth. Hiroshi claims that all she has done has been according to his will. Lady Bullseye offers Daredevil the leadership of the Hand, which he refuses. The organization regroups toSpain, preparing to initiate "Plan B". There, she findsKingpin, trying to live a normal civilian life, and kills his new girlfriend and her kids, and brutally stabbing Kingpin, telling him that this is a message for Matt Murdock.[4]
It turns out that Matsumoto's real goal was to take the leadership of the Hand herself, something she had been promised by Daredevil's allyMaster Izo, who was revealed to have trained her. However, Izo was lying, and instead intended for Daredevil himself to take that post and reform the Hand. This occurring, Daredevil had Lady Bullseye cast out of the Hand for being untrustworthy. Angry, she vowed to kill Izo.[5]
Lady Bullseye is shown to now be allied with the Kingpin against Daredevil, instigating a conflict between Daredevil andNorman Osborn, which ultimately leads to Daredevil declaring Hell's Kitchen the territory of the Hand.[6][7]
Lady Bullseye was hired by an as yet unknown party to injurePepper Potts with a compressed air rifle.[8]
Lady Bullseye was among the villains contracted by theAssassins Guild to targetElektra's allies.[9]
During the "Secret Empire" storyline, Lady Bullseye appears as a member of the Army of Evil and took part in the attack on Manhattan in retaliation forwhat happened at Pleasant Hill.[10]
Lady Bullseye later appears as a member ofOctavia Vermis'Anti-Arach9.[11]
Lady Bullseye has no apparent superhuman powers, but is a master of several martial arts and a proficient hand-to-hand combatant, and specializes in usingkatana andshuriken.[12] She is faster than Bullseye and less powerful than the Kingpin. Regardless, she has defeated Daredevil andBlack Widow on separate occasions, and nearly defeated Daredevil on another occasion. Daredevil has commented that in her costumed form she has little scent and a very low pulse, akin to one performingyoga. She is also skilled in legal matters, being a lawyer in her civilian guise.[13]
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