History Characters / MCUBenjaminPoindexter

* SuperOCD: The first episode to focus on him, "The Perfect Game", opens with him eating breakfast. The scene varies between a very subtle {{Undercrank}} to make his movements seem alien, and showing him perfectly stacking his finished newspapers, making sure his cleaned coffee cup is parallel to its neighbor, and going back into his apartment to fix a photo thrown off-kilter by him closing his front door.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Bullseye was a PsychoForHire from the off, never had any sort of career in law enforcement (though he [[MultipleChoicePast potentially]] was an NSA contractor), and showed zero inner conflict. Here, Dex is an FBI agent (albeit a CowboyCop) and while he's most certainly still psychotic, he has a desire to fix it and takes steps to deal with his disorder, which causes him no shortage of pain.

* BeingEvilSucks: In contrast to the comics where [[CardCarryingVillain he revels in his evil and sadism]], Dex absolutely hates his sociopathic nature and takes active steps to overcome it.

* FauxAffablyEvil: A variant in which his rather flimsy attempts at being polite and sociable (relying on stock phrases like "that's really hard") are reflective of a desire to mask his nature because he hates it rather than as a way to mislead people. He is capable of genuine kindness and affection but mostly relies on his stick phrases in everyday life.

** Even while obviously threatening Nadeem upon turning up at his house, he acts very politely and cordial in the presence of Nadeem's wife and kids. He later seemed reluctant to assassinate Nadeem, though Ray forced him to go through with it.

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* {{Foil}}: To Wilson Fisk. Dex and Fisk each have some AmbiguousDisorder, but Fisk is absolutely a loving member of his family and devoted to the idea of helping his community while Dex is TheSociopath who enjoys bullying people and has no qualms about killing people, even doing so for the pettiest reasons. However, Fisk has embraced his role as the villain and declared ThenLetMeBeEvil, while Dex has spent his life desperately trying to find a MoralityPet to help him be a good person. Hell, Dex's apartment is entirely decked out in black, white, and gray, just like Fisk's.

* WeaponOfChoice: While he's willing to use any object that can hurt his targets when thrown, he has a special fondness for handguns and will use it whenever he gets the chance to. He mentions how he took a liking to the M11 pistol during his time in the U.S. Army, he uses a Glock-17 as his standard gun as an FBI agent which he would use to kill multiple Albanians during their attempt to assassinate Fisk and would later use it to kill Ray Nadeem, he disarms Karen of her own .380 so he could use it to assassinate Jasper Evans, owns an FNS pistol that he tries to kill Daredevil and Ray Nadeem with when they break into his apartment, and during the final battle, picks up a Glock-19 from one of the fallen FBI agents to shoot his superior Tammy Hattley when she tries to reach for her gun.

!! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

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* RogueAgent: In the finale, he is fully willing to take down an FBI agent who gets in his way to kill Fisk, though he at least doesn't kill any of honest FBI agents, even giving one of them (Agent Lim) a chance to walk away because he was good friends with him.]]

* SecretIdentity: He maintains one when Fisk has him impersonate Daredevil to discredit the real one - Matt Murdock. [[spoiler:Nadeem's dying declaration exposes him as a fake, restoring the real one's reputation.]]

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* TheSociopath: One of the most comprehensive ''clinical'' examples on the show. He's diagnosed at an early age with borderline personality disorder with psychopathic tendencies, which is the textbook definition of a sociopath (this begs the question of exactly how he got a job with the FBI in the first place, as his background check and psych evaluation should have thrown up more red flags than a Soviet parade). He needs to ''fake empathy'' when confronted with the feelings of others, repeatedly falling back on "It's hard, real hard." as a mundane platitude because he doesn't know what else to say. He shows no remorse for killing people, always finding a way to [[NeverMyFault shift the blame]] to them for angering him, getting in his way, or simply inconveniencing him. Once Fisk corrupts him and he embraces his role as Fisk's executioner, he ''relishes'' any chance to flaunt his power over others with impunity, killing and maiming almost at will, and with no regrets. However, he's not a ''complete'' monster. He's capable of forming attachments (such as with his therapist, Julie, and Nadeem), even if they're twisted, and he's reluctant to kill ''sometimes'' (as when he has to be pushed to kill Nadeem at his home).

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* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The fact that Dex wears an armored Daredevil suit when acting as Fisk's assassin, while Matt has gone back to his original off-the-shelf ski mask and black sweater, significantly helps level the playing field between the two of them.

* BatmanGambit: On the receiving end of one. Matt reveals to him that Fisk had Julie killed, knowing that this will drive Dex angry enough to come after Fisk himself and kill everyone who gets in his way, giving Matt the opportunity to get to Fisk while Dex is busy fighting every FBI agent protecting Fisk. The plan almost fails when Dex successfully takes down every FBI agent and manages to arrive in the final battle to fight both Matt and Fisk himself, but gets taken out during the fight thanks to Fisk breaking his back.

* BatmanGambit: On the receiving end of one. Matt reveals to him that Fisk had Julie assassinated knowing that this will drive Dex angry enough to come after Fisk himself and kill everyone who gets in his way, giving Matt the opportunity to get to Fisk while Dex is busy fighting every FBI agent protecting Fisk. The plan almost fails when Dex successfully takes down every FBI agent and manages to arrive in the final battle to fight both Matt and Fisk himself, but gets taken out during the fight thanks to Fisk breaking his back.

* BrokenAce: He's one of the best marksmen and hand-to-hand combatants the FBI has to offer, being able to take down a whole group of other FBI agents with his marksmanship during the final battle and in close-quarters combat during the Bulletin Massacre, but he's also an incredibly unstable man who's struggling to control his severe mental issues.

** He's also unlike the other villains in the previous season in which he has no background in organized crime prior to joining Wilson Fisk. Fisk himself was a powerful crime lord, Nobu Yoshioka and Madame Gao were part of an ancient criminal organization in which the former took part in human trafficking while the latter made and distributed heroin, and Ray Schoonover was a powerful drug lord who killed people or had people killed to cover his tracks. Even some of his fellow FBI agents including his boss Tammy Hattley were forcibly under Fisk's thumb even before the season began.

* DeathFromAbove: During the final fight with Matt and Fisk, he tosses a metal stick at a chandelier to drop it on the two but Matt manages to kick Fisk out of the way and evade it himself.

* TheDreaded: After his first real fight with him at the Bulletin, Matt ''dreads'' the idea of having to face him again, even openly panicking to Sister Maggie about how deadly he is. For the most part...Dex lives up to the dread in every subsequent encounter. It's telling that Matt never actually beats him, but rather Fisk exploits a cheap opening and breaks his back in the final battle.
* DrivenToSuicide: He's on the verge of doing this after he is made a scapegoat by the FBI when their investigation into his conduct in killing the Albanian hit squad after Fisk is leaked to the press (by Fisk) and he is put on administrative leave. Feeling betrayed, he was planning on shooting himself on his kitchen table before getting a phone call from Fisk, who had orchestrated Dex's suspension and has Felix Manning waiting outside Dex's apartment to take him to the tailor to be outfitted for a Daredevil costume.

* EnterStageWindow: After the Bulletin massacre, he enters his apartment through the window because entering through the front door in a Daredevil costume would have alerted people.

* FriendshipMoment: Despite his utter lack of empathy and sadism, Dex genuinely seems to appreciate people who are there for him. He's moved when his fellow FBI agents have his back in the face of the agency throwing him under the bus and gets visibly choked up when Nadeem hires a lawyer to sue the agency and have him reinstated. [[VillainousBSOD He's devastated]] upon finding out it was all a manipulation by Nadeem just to break into his apartment, [[SanitySlippage and doesn't take it very well to say the least.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: His assertion that he would have be called a hero if he was wearing a mask while gunning down the Albanian gangsters who killed multiple FBI agents and tried to assassinate Fisk isn't far off the mark considering how much praised the likes of Daredevil and Spider-Man get from New Yorkers until they were framed for things they didn't do.

** He's also an evil version of Hawkeye. Works for the government (originally), fights bad guys, skilled marksman. Clint, like Dex, can turn anything he gets his hands on into an accurate projectile weapon. But Clint is also extremely perceptive, and TheEveryman moral center of the Avengers, while Dex is a psychopath desperately ''trying'' to act normal while indulging his sadistic urges. Their bosses are a black spymaster in black clothing, and a white criminal in white suits, both with shaved heads. Dex even claims his behavior would be lauded if he were wearing a mask, and in the comics Bullseye doubled for Hawkeye on the Thunderbolts.

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