This series of posts will be looking at some of Daredevil’s more questionable – or downright wacky – abilities. We’ll start with the power that often gets listed on various sites (such as Marvel’s character wiki), but has never actually, to my knowledge, been seen in the pages of Daredevil: being able to sense the microvoltage of the human brain. This power is also left out of the last three versions of the Marvel Universe Handbook. Really, if anyone out there has seen this demonstrated anywhere, please let me know.

I think this may have been introduced as an idea early on, back when it seemed like a good idea to just have Daredevil’s radar sense be able to pick up any kind of electromagnetic radiation. That, incidentally, is another ability which has rarely been demonstrated since the early days. However, one reason for writers’ obvious lack of enthusiasm for anything having to do with the microvoltage of the human brain is probably that it’s a completely useless power to have. In terms of general usefulness, it’s on the same level as being able to tell the number of grains of salt on a pretzel.