Bullseye (comics)

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Bullseye
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Bullseye
Promotional art by Mike Deodato
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Daredevil #131 (March 1976)
Created by Marv Wolfman
John Romita, Sr.
In-story information
Alter ego Lester
Team affiliations Thunderbolts
Dark Avengers
Notable aliases Benjamin Poindexter, Leonard, Daredevil, Hawkeye
Abilities
  • Expert marksman with perfect accuracy
  • Expert martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant
  • Peak-level human condition
  • Spinal column and various other bones laced with Adamantium

Bullseye is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. A psychopathic assassin, Bullseye uses the opportunities afforded by his line of work to exercise his homicidal tendencies and to work out his own personal vendetta against Daredevil.

Although he possesses no superpowers, Bullseye is able to use almost any object as a lethal projectile, be it weapons like shuriken and sai or seemingly harmless objects like playing cards and pencils. His aim is uncanny, at a nearly preternatural level, but he has been known to miss moving targets.

In the Daredevil live-action film he is portrayed by actor Colin Farrell.

IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bullseye as #20.[1]

Contents

Publication history [edit]

Created by Marv Wolfman and John Romita, Sr., he was drawn by Bob Brown in the character's first appearance, Daredevil #131 (March 1976).[2]

Bullseye's real name and origins are unknown. He has used the name "Benjamin Poindexter" on several occasions, but there are also instances where his name is given as “Lester.” The miniseries Bullseye: Greatest Hits (2004) developed the character's back-story, but also revealed that some or all of it has been fabricated, probably by Bullseye himself. In this series, Bullseye's name was Leonard.

Following Civil War, Warren Ellis took over writing Thunderbolts and Bullseye became one of the core members of the new team line-up.[3]

In the Secret Invasion aftermath storyline Dark Reign, Bullseye becomes a member of the Dark Avengers, under the alias Hawkeye[4] and features in a five-issue limited series Dark Reign: Hawkeye, written by Andy Diggle, with art by Tom Raney.[5] As a member of the Dark Avengers, he has a major role in the crossover Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, written by Matt Fraction.[6] He appeared as a regular character in the Dark Avengers series from issue #1 (March 2009) through issue #16 (June 2010).

Bullseye is killed by Daredevil in Shadowland #1, but is later confirmed alive in issue #26 of the third Daredevil comic book series.

Fictional character biography [edit]

Early life and back-story [edit]

Bullseye grew up in The Bronx, where he lived with his brother and his abusive father. His brother's main form of recreation was playing with rifles, leading Bullseye to become an expert shot. When he was 10 years old, his brother started a fire in their home in an unsuccessful attempt to kill their father. Shortly thereafter, Bullseye was placed in a foster home, and became a baseball player in high school. Bullseye was an extremely talented pitcher, and was offered a scholarship, but instead opted to enter the minor leagues. After three games, he was called up to play a sold-out Major League game. He had surrendered no hits the entire game, and in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, he became bored and requested the coach pull him from the game. The coach refused, and insisted that he finish the game. The opposing team's batter mocked him, accusing him of cowardice. Bullseye threw the ball at his head, killing him. As the ball struck, he said only one word: "Bullseye". He was barred from professional baseball and convicted of manslaughter.

This is a retcon of a previous origin story from Elektra #2, which depicts Bullseye growing up as a below average student in a trailer park with an alcoholic, physically abusive father. In this version of events, Bullseye fakes his father's suicide using a handgun set off by a toy arrow. None or all elements of this version may be true since it describes his father as possibly recovering from a recent divorce, fitting in perfectly with Daredevil's taunts in their confrontation during the "Hardcore" storyline.

His cold demeanor and unique skills, however, meant subsequent recruitment by the National Security Agency as an assassin was inevitable, and he was soon assigned to train Contras in Nicaragua. By the time he arrived, however, he claimed to have already been planning to leave the NSA. He had planned on robbing the Contras blind and fleeing, but soon discovered they were desperately poor. Bullseye made the best of the situation: within seven hours of being informed of their poverty, he had led the Contras in seizing a landing strip that the Colombian cocaine smugglers were using as a staging area before moving on to the United States. Without use of the airfield, the smugglers were unable to send new shipments. Bullseye set up Paolo, his hapless Nicaraguan translator, as the leader of the new force controlling the airfield, and let the word spread around. However, Paolo was nothing but a patsy. Bullseye planned to invite several organized crime heads to the airfield to broker a new deal with him as Paolo's supposed "right hand man". He would take their money and disappear, presumably leaving Paolo to suffer the wrath of the Mafia, Russian Mafia, Yakuza, and various other criminal elements. This outcome is unknown, as before the deal could be finalized, the Punisher (Frank Castle) arrived.

Castle killed all the organized crime leaders in a fiery explosion from which Bullseye barely escaped. The two engaged in a fierce battle in which Bullseye was able to wound the Punisher and evade or disable several of his weapons. Bullseye then used some blood-reddened mud to paint a bull's-eye on his forehead, mocking Castle's inability to hit him. The fight concluded when Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrived, and the Punisher fled. Bullseye turned himself in to the D.E.A. agents and soon was assigned to infiltrate the Kingpin's criminal empire. He obtained a costume, fled yet again, and became one of the most dangerous hitmen in the world.

All of the above information was given by Bullseye during a subsequent interrogation by US intelligence. Just prior to escaping from custody, Bullseye confessed he made up some or all of his story to amuse himself; for example, he claims that he was really the one who started the fire which burned down his childhood home. The whole capture was a plan by the assassin to gain access to the prison where his father was being held. The story ends with Bullseye finally getting revenge on his father, leaving him to burn as the prison's security systems torched everything inside.

Costumed criminal career [edit]

Bullseye battled (and defeated) Daredevil at a circus in order to establish his reputation as an extortionist.[7] Shortly after, Daredevil by chance heard him in the midst of an extortion attempt and captured him.[8] Bullseye was later hired by Maxwell Glenn to kill Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson, and Daredevil interfered. Although Bullseye defeated him again, Daredevil escaped with his life,[9] and Bullseye's professional reputation was damaged as a result. Seeking to regain his credibility, he challenged Daredevil on live television, but was soundly defeated.[10]

Smarting from this even harsher blow to his reputation, Bullseye hired Eric Slaughter's gang and kidnapped Daredevil's ex-girlfriend, the Black Widow, to bait him into a revenge bout.[11] Daredevil defeated him again, and the despair of this repeated humiliation drove him to a mental breakdown.[12] It is later revealed that this breakdown was in part caused by a brain tumor, which began causing migraines, paranoia, and hallucinations that everyone he meets is Daredevil.[13] He escaped from prison, but was recaptured by Daredevil, and the tumor was successfully removed.[13] The symptoms of the tumor quickly disappeared, and defense lawyers were able to have him freed on the argument that his criminal behavior was caused solely by the brain tumor. He was hired to assassinate the Kingpin, but met with repeated failure.[14] Inexplicably, this convinced the Kingpin to employ him as his chief assassin, but he fired him the same day when he witnessed his humiliating defeat at Daredevil's hands.[15] Bullseye's repeated failed attempts to regain this briefly-held position became a running joke of the Daredevil series.

Daredevil #181. Cover art by Frank Miller.

While in prison, he learned that the Kingpin had employed a new chief assassin: Elektra, Daredevil's former lover. After escaping prison, Bullseye attacked Elektra and impaled her on her own sai. This failed to convince the Kingpin, who said he would only rehire him if he kills Daredevil.[16] Bullseye then attempted to ambush Daredevil, but their battle ended with his arch-foe dropping him from atop a telephone wire. The multi-story fall broke Bullseye's back, paralyzing him.[16]

During Bullseye's extended hospital stay following the fall, Daredevil broke into his hospital room and forced him to participate in a two-man variation on Russian roulette. The revolver used in the game was secretly unloaded, but Daredevil had Bulleye take the even-numbered turns so that he would feel sure that the last shot was going to kill him.[17] Bullseye has repeatedly cited this incident as his greatest grudge against Daredevil.[18][19]

Japanese scientist Lord Dark Wind liberated Bullseye and had him brought to Japan, where he laced his bones with adamantium, thus restoring his mobility. Lord Dark Wind did this so that Bullseye will do assassinations for him in return, but despite the favor done him, Bullseye refused to work for free.[20] He instead made another play to regain the position of chief assassin for the Kingpin, who again said he would give him the position if he kills Daredevil, knowing he would fail.[18] Bullseye was imprisoned for several years.

Bullseye eventually escaped prison,[21] and then battled Captain America.[22] He battled Crossbones in an attempt to assassinate the Red Skull to regain his position with the Kingpin.[23]

Bullseye then encountered an amnesiac Daredevil.[24] He took advantage of Daredevil's amnesia by impersonating him and committing robberies in an attempt to destroy his image.[25] In one of his early heists he was caught by his mark's disillusioned trophy wife. He became enamored of her, and when she pleaded with him to take her away with him, he kept her in his derelict hideout as his lover, attempting to flatter her by showering her with stolen money and jewelry. However, she came to realize that he is mentally weak, and frightened by one of his psychotic outbursts, she left him.[26] Gradually Bullseye became so immersed in his Daredevil impersonation that he believed himself to truly be Daredevil, a confusion which the real hero took advantage of in order to defeat him.[27]

Bullseye later had another run-in with the Punisher when he is part of Frank's frame-up scheme that ends with Bullseye getting both of his hands shot and losing a finger to the Punisher's brutality. Bullseye encountered Deadpool [28] and Gambit [29] during another long interval in which the character is seldom used.

Bullseye was hired by the villain Mysterio to attack and confuse Daredevil. In the course of their battle, Bullseye killed Daredevil's longtime love interest, Karen Page, with one of Daredevil's own billy clubs.[30]

Bullseye was then recruited to steal the Identity Disc, purported to be in possession of AIM and have vital information on the world's superheroes, along with Deadpool, Sabretooth, the Vulture, and Juggernaut.[31]

Bullseye offered to kill Daredevil for Kingpin, later entering Daredevil's apartment and attempting to kill his old enemy's new girlfriend, Milla Donovan. Enraged and already near the breaking point, Daredevil attacked Bullseye and threw him out the window. During the fight, the hero revealed to Bullseye that he knows his origin: that his real name is Lester, his mother was a prostitute, and that he never knew his father.[32] He mocked the assassin's new 'Bullseye' tattoo and carved a new one over it with a rock.[33]

Bullseye from the story arc, "The Murdock Papers".

Bullseye sought purported documents confirming Daredevil's secret identity. After a brutal fight with Daredevil and Elektra, Bullseye fled into open traffic where he was hit by a truck, sustaining severe injuries.[34]

Thunderbolts [edit]

Bullseye, along with many other villains, is recruited into the New Thunderbolts by Iron Man and Mister Fantastic to hunt down anti-registration superheroes in the Marvel Civil War storyline.[35] Afterwards he is recruited by Norman Osborn into the reformed team led by Moonstone. He operates invisibly and is not seen by the public. He is used as a last resort and has a nano-chain fed into his system, so if he disobeys orders, he will receive an electrical shock.[19]

Bullseye fights American Eagle after having been deceived by Songbird and told that she has disabled his nano-chain. During the fight, he simultaneously receives an electrical shock from the nano-chain in his system on order of Moonstone and is attacked by American Eagle. American Eagle beats him severely, mocking him throughout for purposely avoiding fights with superpowered foes, and finally breaks Bullseye's neck. As a result of the damage sustained from both being attacked by a man with superhuman strength and being shocked by the nano-chain, Bullseye is paralyzed, is unable to speak, and has incurred severe brain injury.[36] Bullseye is later shown walking due to nanomechanical surgery, then goes on a killing spree using scalpels to "get some target practice in."[37] Later, he joins the Thunderbolts in their efforts to assassinate Moon Knight.[38]

Bullseye was with the Thunderbolts when they fought the Skrulls in Washington DC.[39] He took advantage of a recently apparently resurrected Andrea von Strucker being distracted by Moonstone to kill Andrea, and nearly kill Moonstone.[40]

Bullseye travels along with the other Thunderbolts to Central Park and joins the final battle against the main Skrull force. Obtaining a missile launcher from the Zeus, he fires a rocket through the right eye of the Yellowjacket Skrull, disabling him from engaging other heroes.[41]

Osborn orders Bullseye to kill Songbird, finally giving Bullseye the chance for revenge on her.[42] Bullseye nearly succeeds, but is incapacitated by the Swordsman, who helps her escape.[43]

Dark Avengers [edit]

As a reward from Norman Osborn for his role during the Skrull invasion, Bullseye is placed on the Dark Avengers and given the costume and codename of Hawkeye.[44]

Norman Osborn hires Bullseye to eliminate Deadpool, from whom Norman stole data about "how to kill a Skrull queen," but Bullseye is unsuccessful.[45]

On the Dark Avengers' first mission, he kills Morgana le Fey (who had just died by the hands of Sentry and returned) only for her to return yet again with an army of demons.[46]

The Dark Avengers fight a rogue Hulkbuster robot, and "Hawkeye" disables the robot after killing its pilot. The robot falls, killing thirty-six civilians. When Osborn reprimanded Bullseye for his part in the deaths, Bullseye demanded credit for his kills. "Hawkeye" then goes out and saves a woman from being attacked by three men. He kills them, and the woman as well. At this point it is questionable whether or not he intended to kill the woman as well as the criminals; originally he told her he is a "hero" and was there to help her. She apparently inadvertently infuriated him by referring to Norman Osborn as "his boss". After he killed her, he noticed a news crew in a helicopter who happen to be filming the action.[47] He then silenced the news crew by blowing the helicopter up.[48]

Bullseye has been used to take out his old partner, Deadpool. Although successfully incapacitating him and proving to be a worthy opponent, Deadpool eventually gained the upperhand and stabbed him through the chest with a meathook. He later woke up in a hospital and went after Deadpool again. Deadpool easily avoided Bullseye's attacks, including dodging an RPG fired at him while he was driving a vehicle by maneuvering the vehicle in such a way that the RPG passed through the open windows of the car without exploding. Deadpool then ran Bullseye down, stopping with the one of the vehicles tires on Bullseye's leg. Deadpool then jumped out of the vehicle, said "cool to park here?", and started a chainsaw, clearly intending to decapitate the helpless Bullseye. Bullseye then quickly paid off Deadpool (under the pretense that his boss, Norman Osborn, told him to do so) to save himself from death by chainsaw.[49]

Elecrtra stabbed Bullseye with his own arrow.[50]

Bullseye is later given the order by Osborn to eliminate Daredevil, who has been discovered leading the Hand.[51] Daredevil, who is going through the trials needed to join the Hand, and Bullseye clash, but it is inconclusive. At the end, Bullseye booby-traps a building with one hundred people in it. Daredevil continues to battle Bullseye unaware that the building is rigged and that Bullseye has the detonator. When the building explodes, Bullseye escapes and leaves Daredevil to his grief, mocking that if Daredevil had chosen to kill him the people in the building might have been saved.[52]

Molecule Man turned Bullseye into a pool of water to subdue him; however as a liquid he still tries to attack Molecule Man causing him to remark, "That is angry water".[53] He is restored by the Sentry.[54]

He is also part of the team when they go to Manhattan to look for Noh-Varr. Sentry has found him first but was distracted and left the battle later to find Noh-Varr gone.[55]

Norman Osborn later assigns Bullseye with the duty to kill Sentry's wife Lindy.[56] He takes her for a helicopter ride, and strangles her and dumps her body in the ocean. When the Sentry questions him about Lindy's whereabouts, Bullseye claims she committed suicide over the countryside by jumping out of the copter, and the Sentry flies off to find her.[57]

Shadowland [edit]

In the aftermath of Siege, Bullseye is incarcerated and sent to the Raft. However in the process of transferring him there, he manages to kill his captors and escapes. He makes his way back to Hell's Kitchen and arrives at Shadowland, Daredevil's fortress and is confronted by him and a legion of Hand ninjas. Bullseye effortlessly defeats the ninjas, and turns his attention to Daredevil. However, Bullseye is unprepared for his enemy's newfound ruthlessness as Daredevil dislocates both his shoulders and then stabs him through the heart with his own sai, in much the same way Bullseye had done to Elektra years ago.[58] Later, a group of Hells Bikers would put together a funeral service (unauthorized, as J. Jonah Jameson had expressly forbade it) for Bullseye. Ben Urich is dragged along, as well as Danny Deaver. Deaver however keeps getting visions of Bullseye, and it is not clear whether or not it is the real ghost, or just part of Deaver's psychosis. The funeral service is interrupted by Daredevil and the Hand, as a massive brawl breaks out, almost killing Urich.[59] Daredevil is later seen exhuming Bullseye's corpse, intending to resurrect him as a soldier loyal to the Hand.[60] The heroes interrupt the ceremony, preventing Bullseye's resurrection.[61]

Return [edit]

It was later revealed that Bullseye was still barely alive as his body disappeared after the battle, but due to his injuries he has become an invalid who has to rely on a metal lung in order to survive. To get revenge he is revealed to be the mastermind behind Klaw, Coyote, and Ikari's actions against Daredevil.[62]

Powers and abilities [edit]

While Bullseye technically has no superhuman powers, he has an innate ability to throw virtually any object as a projectile with incredible accuracy and with enough force to be lethal. He can accomplish many feats with thrown projectiles that are impossible outside of fiction. Some of his accomplishments include lacerating a person’s throat with a thrown playing card, spitting his own tooth through a human skull, tossing a paper airplane to a distant rooftop, and killing a person with a toothpick thrown through a window from a hundred yards away.[63]

Aside from his ability to throw projectiles with lethal accuracy, Bullseye is also an expert martial artist and is extremely talented in the use of edged/throwing weapons and conventional firearms.

Bullseye has exceptional physical conditioning, with the agility, reflexes, stamina, and speed of a professional athlete.

Due to injuries from a multi-story fall, many of Bullseye's bones have been reinforced with strips of adamantium.[64] This has increased his resistance to injury in unarmed combat. This reinforcement also allows Bullseye to utilize acrobatic maneuvers impossible for an ordinary human, as his bones are protected from fracture. While Wolverine's adamantium was implanted using only stolen, incomplete notes on the bonding process as a guideline,[65] and thus only his mutant healing factor allowed him to survive the process, Bullseye's surgery was performed properly by Lord Dark Wind himself, and thus included the special herb treatment which prevents the body from being destroyed by the implantation.[64]

Bullseye has a compulsive need to study his targets' histories, abilities, and relationships before engaging them. He employs this information to attempt to anticipate his opponents' movements in combat. This compulsion often crosses from the professional into the personal, such as Bullseye's obsession with Elektra.

Due to a mutual head injury, Bullseye was able to sense Daredevil's presence psychically for a brief time.[66]

Other versions [edit]

Age of Apocalypse [edit]

In the 1994 arc of a different timeline, Bullseye is seen as one of the humans' greatest soldiers. Using a machine gun and hitting every enemy target, he fights on the side of "good." He does not wear his original costume, and does not act insane.[67]

Mutant X [edit]

A version of Bullseye appears in the Mutant X continuity, Bullseye is still a notorious supervillain. Bullseye showed up at the courthouse where The Brute was on trial for murder charges of Man-Spider and The Green Goblin to assassinate The Brute. He was beaten by Elektra.[68]

PunisherMAX [edit]

A version of Bullseye appears in Jason Aaron's run on PunisherMax starting with issue #6. This version of Bullseye is hired by Kingpin to kill The Punisher. In keeping with the realistic, non-superhero re-imagining of the this comic this version of Bullseye does not wear a costume or possess superpowers but is still be talented at marksman and has a bullseye tattooed on his forehead.[69] His real name is revealed to be Sheldon Pendergrass.[70]

This version of Bullseye is completely psychopathic/sociopathic to the point of having a calm lack regard for all life and extreme obsessive compulsion toward his targets. He is said to have gassed an entire elementary school when some children were witness to a mob hit and then killed the rest of the town with bombs at the mass funeral. Obsessing with getting inside the Punisher's head, Bullseye kills the father of a suburban family and takes the wife and children hostage, forcing himself as their new husband and father. He then arranges for gunmen to kill the rest of the family in front of him in a park to recreate The Punisher's origin. Lacking all empathy, he fails to feel why The Punisher was upset by this occurrence and says he'll have to try again.[71] Off-panel Bullseye repeats the same experiment with three more families, to the shock of Kingpin.[72]

Eventually Bullseye realizes what the last thing The Punisher said to his wife was. This realization sends the Punisher into shock and sends a near-death Bullseye into a smiling coma.[73] Many issues later Punisher finds Bullseye's coma bed and shoots him in the head.[73]

Marvel 1602 [edit]

In the Marvel 1602 universe (Earth-311), Bull's Eye appears as an assassin/first mate for the villainous Captain Wilson Fiske (The King's Pin). He is heavily tattooed around the face and arms, and possesses the mainstream Bullseye's abilities.[74] He is sent by his captain with orders to kill Peter Parquagh aka the 1602 version of Spider-Man. However, before he could fire the killing shot, he is attacked by the 1602 version of the Lizard and presumeably perished.[75]

House of M [edit]

The Bullseye who appears in the House of M timeline is in the employ of Wilson Fisk, alongside several other assassins. He was tasked with killing Black Cat when the Kingpin decided to reveal the Black Cat as a traitor, though failed to kill the Cat. He also assisted the Brotherhood in taking out sapien groups throughout the city, specifically targeting Shang-Chi's Dragons, killing Swordsman in the conflict. He was last seen in the confrontation with the Avengers, where Hawkeye shoots him in his hands.[76]

Marvel Zombies [edit]

In Marvel Zombies, a zombified Bullseye appears alongside several other undead supervillains attacking and attempting to eat the invading Galactus. After the zombies were done eating Galactus, he was next obliterated by the zombified Daredevil.[77]

Ultimate Bullseye [edit]

In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Bullseye appeared in Ultimate Elektra as an assassin named Benjamin Poindexter. He works for the Kingpin and was his prime assassin until Elektra beat him in direct hand-to-hand combat.

This version employs disguises on his hits (he was seen masquerading as a police officer when he first appeared) and at one point donned a variation of his regular Marvel Universe incarnation's classic costume, sans mask. He has a bulls-eye tattoo on his forehead, similar to the tattoo and later scarring of the mainstream Marvel version and the brand of the movie version. He also has a bulls-eye tattoo on his chest over his heart.[78]

Amalgam Comics [edit]

In the Amalgam Comics community, Bullseye was combined with DC's Deadshot to create Deadeye.[79]

Daredevil Noir [edit]

In Daredevil Noir, Bullseye is a woman named Eliza who is known as the "Bullseye Killer." She was Daredevil's love interest until her identity as the Bullseye Killer was revealed in issue #3. Daredevil did battle with her and the two fell into the sea where he was about to drown her, but was unable to due to the fact that he still loves her. Eliza was left on the docks unconscious and was taken into police custody.[80]

In other media [edit]

Film [edit]

  • Actor Colin Farrell portrayed Bullseye in the Daredevil film adaptation. Bullseye has an Irish background, and his traditional costume was dropped in favor of a biker/metalhead style appearance: a reptile-skin duster (trench coat), leather pants, black tank top, dark goatee, tattoos, multiple earrings, and a shaved head with a bull's-eye branding on his forehead, although he does jokingly request a costume from Kingpin. Prior to the film's release, the comic book version of Bullseye adopted a near-identical appearance but has since reverted to the traditional look, retaining only the scar. Director Mark Steven Johnson credited Joe Quesada for talking him out of using the traditional costume.[81] In the movie, Bullseye uses shurikens carried in his belt buckle as his main weapon, although he uses many small objects, including peanuts, paperclips, playing cards, Daredevil's billy club, shards of broken glass, and a pencil as back-up. He is hired by the Kingpin to kill Nicholas Natchios. Bullseye kills him with Daredevil's billy club, causing his daughter Elektra to believe Daredevil is the killer. Bullseye begins to perceive Daredevil a personal challenge, because he is the only target he has ever missed. Later, Elektra attacks Daredevil, seeking revenge, but soon realizes Bullseye killed her father. Elektra and Bullseye battle, and he kills her with one of her sai (in the Director's Cut, Bullseye deals more injuries to her and while impaling her, gives her a kiss by biting down on her lower lip). Daredevil chases Bullseye to a church, and they battle until Daredevil maneuvers Bullseye's hands to be shot by a S.W.A.T. sniper, leaving him with wounds resembling stigmata. Daredevil grabs him and throws him out of a window, crashing onto the hood of Ben Urich's car. A final scene shows him hospitalized but still able to flick a hypodermic needle with enough force and accuracy to impale a fly. Colin Farrell was attached to the role in December 2001.[82] Farrell, who had adopted an American accent for most of his previous films, was encouraged to keep his Irish accent.[83] Farrell had to read Frank Miller's Daredevil comics to understand Bullseye "because the expression on the character's faces in the comic books, and just the way they move sometimes, and the exaggerations of the character I'm playing […] he's so over-the-top that you do draw from that. But it's not exactly a character you can do method acting for... you know, running around New York killing people with paper clips."[84]

Video games [edit]

  • Bullseye appears as a boss in the Daredevil game for the Game Boy Advance. In it, he waits for Daredevil at a construction site. Daredevil reveals to Bullseye that the bounty on Daredevil's head was a fraud. Bullseye believes him, but he reveals to Daredevil that he was in league with the Kingpin. At the top of the construction site, Daredevil defeats Bullseye. Unlike his movie and comics counterpart, Bullseye uses a handgun as his weapon.
  • Bullseye is a prominent villain in the 2005 Punisher video game for PC, PS2, and Xbox, voiced by Steven Blum. He appears during the Fisk Industries level. Bullseye is beaten by the Punisher and is thrown from high atop the Kingpin's building. He later appears after the end credits that play when the game is completed. He is in bandages and almost crippled.
  • Bullseye appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 voiced by Brian Bloom. He is among the supervillains that end up under the control of the Control Nanites used by S.H.I.E.L.D. In the Anti-Registration campaign, the players assist Colossus in fighting Bullseye at Geffen-Meyer Chemicals. In the cutscenes later following that, Bullseye (alongside Green Goblin, Lady Deathstrike, and Venom) end up attacking S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents when something goes wrong with the Control Nanites in them. At Prison 42, he assists Moonstone in fighting the heroes when they come to rescue Firestar from being added to the Fold's ranks.

Toys [edit]

  • The Marvel Legends toy line created 2 Bullseye action figures. The normal figure is scowling, while the variant has a sinister grin. The variant also features gray symbols instead of white. He is also featured in the new Marvel Universe toy line.

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