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[Daredevil S2] The Hand -- Matt's problem? How is this explained?

Several questions (feel free to answer one, or two, or none. Just going through a rewatch):

1) Matt can smell what Foggy ate like 60 hours ago, he can feel everything spatially, like space (the absence of an object) and an object. He's so good at it that while a car is swerving and an arrow is shot at him he catches it bare handed despite all the air blowing by his ear drums and the arrow traveling fast. 

**How can he detect all these things but not the smell or space that the Hand Ninjas take up?**

He can hear Stick whisper from 3 stories up but can hear even footsteps? Or even the clothing being chafed? 

Even if they were literally silent at 0 decibels....how is it that he can't detect where they are? He doesn't need heartbeats from inanimate objects to sense where they are. 


**While inspecting a crime scene, he literally poked a bullet hole in the wall right on target, no feeling around.**

If he can detect bullet holes surely in a tunnel he can detect 4-5 Ninjas hanging around. Spatially he should be able to tell that something is there; they can be literally invisible but if they have mass and take up space -- Matt should be able to detect that occupation of space if he can detect a bullet hole in a BRICK WALL, which doesn't vibrate so there's basically no room for sound or an echo in the hole. 

2) **Why would then Ninjas train like that?** 

They're not training to be invisible to the naked eye, as they're easier to see. 

They're training literally for blind supernatural people. 

Elektra was able to spot every single ninja in the dark tenement using her eyes -- doesn't that make them terrible Ninjas to 99.999999999999% of the population (yes, that's a higher percentage than there are living people, but I assume that Matt is one in many generations type of superhero). 

Why would they train for a superhero who had never existed before, ie to be undetectable, but then fail to train to be undetectable to eyesight?

Hiding heartbeats, hiding sounds, etc....Ninjas are supposed to be stealthy, and lack of sound audible to the normal person is enough -- they trained so they'd be inaudible to a *dog*, as Matt's hearing is arguably stronger than a dog if he can hear the TV broadcast in a hospital room 2-3 floors down. 

And he can smell things. Feel things. 

Hell, I had a terrible habit of using Q tips to clean my ear canal in college, and it led to all this ear wax being hardened and built up such that it stuck to my ear drum. I thought I went deaf and busted an ear drum; it turns out, there was like 2cm of HARD ear wax abutting it. 

And in hallways, I could move around ok. But when playing baseball outside, it was hard to even walk or run because we don't realize how much we use our non-optical senses to get our bearings. I remember feeling like I was partially blind since I couldn't hear above 10% in my right ear. It affected the way i threw, caught, and ran. 

Then I went to the doctor and the doctor said it was the thickest impaction he had seen. The nurse was surgical in her removal of it. And instantly, it was like my world went from black and white to color. I remember going from 10% to 100% hearing. It was too much at first. **I honestly felt like I had spidey senses for 10 minutes**. 

I could hear every little thing, but walking was the biggest trip. I could "hear" an open elevator with the doors having already opened as opposed to closed ones -- I could sense that vacuum in the wall. It made me feel like I had a superpower for 10 minutes, since I went 2-3 months deaf in one ear. 

So, for Matt, it must be that x 1000. He can sniff ammunition from 30 feet away. Hear can hear and smell like a super-dog. 

But how often does/did the Hand face someone like that? Why even wear red?  Are they more scared of one hypothetical super sensed blind dude or 100 fighters with normal vision with the same strength?

The Ninjas don't even attack much like Ninjas. Swords? Face to face? Wouldn't an armored knight defeat a ninja like 9/10 times in close quarters? The ninja may tire the knight out, sure, but if the ninja is fighting close quarters face to face, it takes just one sword poke to kill one. 

**Their entire training is based around a previously hypothetical super sensed deaf guy who got powers from a radioactive accident...and not just that, learned martial arts AND happened to become an enemy of the Hand!**

3) speaking of the Chaste -- **Why recruit the ONE type of fighter they've trained for?**

It's like a bunch of Ninjas with Kryptonite swords and clothing and recruiting Superman to fight them. Sure, he's fast, but all it takes is a ninja blindly hacking as Superman flies at them and Superman is literally sliced in half.   

Elektra could spot the exact count using moon light. That is just bad ninja training, but great training against Daredevil. 

4) **How do they hide heartbeats?** 

As I understand it, the more exertion your body takes, the more oxygen the muscles need, and inhalation/exhalation is key -- but so is a heartbeat. 

The heart cannot "*silently*" beat fast. **Their hearts are so silent that a stethoscope couldn't measure it**. 

And none of this "zombie" crap if they're breathing. If they're undead, fine, no heartbeat -- but no breathing either. 

Also. When one gets throat slit, blood gushes everywhere. That's a heart beating fast and hard. Are their hearts beating normally at like 20BPM with like 60/36 blood pressure while doing flips and fighting for their lives? Even at that level Matt should hear the random heartbeats. 

5) **How does Stick fight them?**

He can't hear heartbeats, but he can feel the thread count on a bed by putting his palm 3 feet above it. He even asks Matt to use "his hearing" to listen for Elektra's heartbeat. 

So what is he relying on?

Clearly the Hand didn't train for him, since it has failed, but it's also different from Matt's detection. 

Can Stick hear inhalation? How can he hear that but Matt couldn't until Stick whispered it through 2 solid floors while Matt was defending himself?

I mean, how does Stick get his powers? He can aim a cross bow by sound -- but he's not superpowered. Just trained. Presumably. 

Maybe he spent 50 years since he was 4-5 years old to learn how to get around blind while learning MMA. And then at age 55-75 he's been a fighter? I can buy that. 70+ years of specifically learning how to maximize your other senses? I buy it at this stage, even if he's not at physical peak --- he doesn't need to be with swords. Only worry is recovery time and agility and running speed, but not strength or skill. 

6) For Matt it was a gift. He could learn at age 10 the fighting. But after maybe 6 months max, he learned all that ninja fighting in that span? It's not like he could use YouTube to suddenly learn how to fight more. Nor would classes teach him. He'd need a private tutor, which he only got through the few months of Stick. 

**Basically, how did Matt learn so much MMA in so little time with so little experience and virtually no sparring from age 10 until his first real fight with the first guy who made him spit blood?**

Also, I can understand him fighting low level thugs who don't know a lick or MMA or even boxing. 

But for him to jump from beating on child molestors and purse snatchers to Ninjas who are invisible to him? That's a huge leap. 

Like going from 8th grade basketball to the NBA All Star fame. Going from school yard fights to MMA champ bouts. Going from whiffle ball to the majors. Going from mini golf to the PGA. Etc. 

In S1, he met 3 skilled fighters who basically almost killed him the 3 times. Fisk was just a gorilla; a monkey can slap a gorilla here and there but once the gorilla catches you, you're crushed. They were likely the first and only actual fighters he faced before the Hand.
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Matt's powers are rooted in the laws of physics, but The Hand employs magic - they don't remain hidden purely on skill, but on ritual. Matt can't easily detect them because their body and their movements are supernaturally quiet.