Melvin Potter, better known to the world as "The Gladiator" was a costume designer who held a grudge against costumed superheroes and dreamed of one day defeating them. He constructed a new costume which featured deadly wrist blades, razor boots, body armor and a helmet and then went under the guise as "Gladiator" When Foggy Nelson went to Potter to make a Daredevil costume to convince Karen Page, the girl of his dreams, that he was actually the crimson hero. However, when he faced Potter in combat, he was knocked out in a single blow, after the real Daredevil arrived, the Gladiator was soundly defeated.[1]Gladiator vs Daredevil
After his defeat at the hands of Daredevil, he joined forces with the mysterious Masked Marauder.[2] He also once joined Electro'sEmissaries of Evil to battle Daredevil together as a Team. After several continued failed attempts for Daredevil's demise, and after the Marauder's death, Melvin Potter then occasionaly antagonized Daredevil. It wasn't until a woman named Betsy helped him and convinced Melvin to give up his criminal career and he then served as a bodyguard to a blind lawyer named Matt Murdock who was ironically Daredevil.
He was coerced into betraying Daredevil when he killed two inmates and a guard and found an old Gladiator suit in his hideout in the sewers.
He is a superb martial arts fighter and very physically powerful. Potter is an accomplished clothing designer, proficient in drafting, design and sewing.
He wore a thick metal armor with a helmet and metallic gauntlets, and was armed with an arsenal of edged weapons and whirling, jagged circular blades made of titanium steel, one mounted on each gauntlet; small rotors in the gauntlets cause the blades to rotate at high speeds.
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