After several failed attempts, noticing that Daredevil can easily move through the dark, Maya easily figures out Daredevil's weakness and exploits this by having a fight in a place where Daredevil's heightened senses are useless. Maya proves more than a match for Daredevil, having watched videos of Daredevil and Bullseye fighting. On her face, she paints a white handprint, similar to the bloody handprint left by her dying father. She later takes on the "Echo" guise to hunt down Daredevil. As Maya believes Fisk, it would not appear to be a lie when she tells Matt. Maya is sent by the Kingpin to prove Matt Murdock's weakness, telling her that Matt believes Fisk is a bad person and that she is the only way to prove him wrong. She is subsequently sent to another expensive school for prodigies.
There, she manages to completely replicate a song on the piano. Believed to be mentally disabled, Maya is sent to an expensive school for people with learning disabilities. Kingpin honors his dying wish, caring for her as his own daughter. Crazy Horse dies, leaving a bloody handprint on Maya's face and a last dying wish: that the Kingpin raise Maya well. Maya Lopez was a young girl when her father Willie "Crazy Horse" Lincoln was killed by the Kingpin (Wilson Fisk). However, Avengers: The Ultimate Guide revealed Ronin to be Maya Lopez weeks before the slightly delayed release of The New Avengers #13, where Ronin's true identity was belatedly revealed. Fan speculation was high, with the most common guess that Ronin was Matt Murdock Bendis eventually revealed this to be the original intention despite initially denying that this was the case. The Ronin identity was an attempt by Bendis to create a mystery after the apparently male character was depicted on several comic book covers, including issues of The New Avengers and one The Pulse issue. 2005), created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Finch. She first appeared as Ronin in The New Avengers #11 (Nov. 1999), created by writer David Mack and artist Joe Quesada.
A Native American and one of the few deaf comic characters, her "Echo" guise includes a white handprint that covers most of her face.Īlaqua Cox portrays Maya Lopez in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, debuting in Hawkeye (2021) and then starring in her own spin-off series Echo, both on Disney+.Įcho first appeared in Daredevil #9 (Dec. The adoptive daughter of the Kingpin, the character has been depicted as a supporting character of Daredevil. Echo ( Maya Lopez) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.