This incarnation of Elektra Natchios, unlike the version seen in the comics, was just a young woman who rarely had good things happen to her. As shown in this film and her own spin-off, her entire life seemed like pure struggle. As a child, her father put her through rigorous training that only worsened at age 5, when she saw her mother murdered before her eyes, her innocent mind imagined a demon killing her. As she grew older, her father put her through a different sensei each year and still had security watch over her, limiting her freedom. Although she enters a romantic relationship with Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk decided to have her father killed and, because of his motto of killing the entire family, made her a target as well. After her father is killed in front of her, Elektra, thinking Daredevil responsible, shoots at him before her gun empties and she breaks down into tears over her father's dead body. Now without either parent, Elektra ends her relationship with Matt to focus on revenge. She hunts down and mortally wounds Daredevil, only to learn he is Matt and the real killer, Bullseye, is watching her. Despite her best efforts, Elektra is humiliated and murdered by the insane hitman. After being forced to look him in the eye and, in the director's cut, being kissed by Bullseye, Elektra could only give Matt a weak "help me" before dying. Resurrected by a man named Stick, Elektra was cast out of his school due to being unable to let go of her rage. Although she does overcome her issues, she is still alone in the world, and due to her film's poor reception and the Daredevil rights returned to Marvel, never reunited with the man she loves or able to claim her revenge.
In fact, she refuses to believe that Daredevil wasn't responsible...until she unmasks him. On finding that it's Matt, she is horrified; realising she may have just killed the only other person she has left.
In the backstory to Matt's childhood, he gets into a fight with another kid who says his father works for Fallon. Jack reassures him that he has an honest job down at the docks, as well as telling him he should focus on schoolwork to avoid doing the same. Then we're shown Matt visiting the docks, asking for his father, and being told Jack hasn't worked there in months. Knowing his father lied to him, Matt drops a report card with all As in a puddle.
Matt then comes across Jack threatening someone who owes Fallon money. Jack's look of shock and shame as he sees Matt watching him is heartbreaking. And Matt gets blinded right after this, so not only is Jack responsible for Matt's disability, the last thing his son ever saw him doing was threatening someone.
In the hospital, Jack starts crying as he apologises to Matt for letting him down. Heartwarmingly, Matt forgives him
Matt's internal monologue about his father's death, and how it deeply affected him for years.
I waited outside the Olympic for my father. In some ways, I'm still waiting. Nobody cared much about the death of a washed-up prizefighter... nobody but me.
While she's an offscreen character, Matt's ex-girlfriend Heather sounds so exhausted as she has to break up with him on his answering machine, especially as she sighs and says "you're never there".
Matt confronting the Kingpin. Rather than being out for revenge, he says the following with defeated confusion.
"You killed the only two people I ever loved. Why?"
