AMANDA FALLOWS

Real Name: Amanda Fallows

Identity/Class: Human mutant

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Daredevil (Matt Murdock), three unidentified friends/guards, probably townsfolk (Sheriff, others)

Enemies: Freedom Force (Blob/Fred Dukes, Pyro/St.John Allerdyce, Spiral/Rita Wayword), unidentified snitch

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unidentified town somewhere in the U.S.A. (see comments)

First Appearance: Daredevil I#269 (August, 1989)

Powers/Abilities: Amanda possessed telekinesis. She was able to lift Daredevil's entire body and tear a large church bell from its moorings to cause it to drop. She has had minimal training to develop her powers, and per her description of her powers and the examples shown she was (at least at that point) unable to move objects with any sort of precision, but instead only able to pull them towards her.

Height: 4'11" (by estimation)
Weight: 90 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black

History: (Daredevil I#269 (fb) - BTS) - Amanda Fallows was a mutant with the ability to make objects move towards her via telekinesis. When the United States passed the Mutant Registration Act, she failed to sign up, and instead was hidden by friends in the small town where she lived. Unfortunately, somehow the authorities learned that she was an unregistered mutant, and assigned the job of locating her and forcing her to register to Freedom Force. The task was delegated within the group to Pyro and the Blob, who were dropped off in town by Spiral via her teleportation power. Presumably alerted by others, Amanda took refuge in the town's bell tower, guarded by three friends while the sheriff and some of the townsfolk distracted the intruders. With Amanda in hiding, Blob and Pyro issued an ultimatum demanding she be handed over to them by sundown or they would destroy the town. While waiting, the pair went to the White Horse Tavern, where they were observed by Daredevil, who by chance happened to be passing through town in his civilian identity as Matt Murdock. Figuring from what he was overhearing that he might soon have to fight them both, he deliberately plied them with alcohol, getting them drunk to even the odds. As a result the hero overheard one of the locals sell Amanda's location to Pyro.

(Daredevil I#269) - Daredevil raced to the bell tower, knocked out Amanda's guards (because they wouldn't have trusted a stranger and he had limited time to evacuate her), and got Amanda out of the bell tower a split second before Pyro engulfed the interior in flame. Amanda watched as Daredevil and Pyro battled, shocked to be the cause of all the destruction and that a complete stranger had come to her defense. However, eventually Pyro stunned him with a fiery explosion and took Amanda prisoner.

(Daredevil I#269 - BTS) - Pyro took Amanda to a barn, apparently intending to sexually assault her (see comments). Having lost track of where Pyro had taken Amanda while he was knocked out, Daredevil returned to the bar as Murdock and deliberately goaded Blob, telling him that his partner had taken Amanda. Angry because Pyro had promised him this girl would be "his," Blob tracked down Pyro by the smoke his fires were giving off.

(Daredevil I#269) - Blob burst into the barn to find Pyro holding Amanda by the arms, and they began to fight over her, giving Amanda the opportunity to flee. When they spotted she was gone, the paused their fight to hunt her, and ran into Daredevil in the street outside. Amanda watched as Daredevil disabled Pyro's arms by throwing his billy clubs into the nerve clusters in the mutant's shoulders. The the vigilante attacked Blob, but his blows were ineffective against the almost invulnerable mutant. The superhumanly strong Blob stunned Daredevil by clapping his ears, and was about to stamp on his head, killing him, so Amanda used her powers to yank the hero to safety. Recovering slightly, Daredevil told Amanda "the bell" then resumed his battle. The girl realized her savior was maneuvering his foe beneath the burned out bell tower and used her telekinesis to make the immense bell fall on Blob. This dazed him long enough for Daredevil to tell Amanda to flee the town. Amanda left for parts unknown, wishing she could have gotten to know Daredevil better.

Comments: Created by Ann Nocenti, John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson.

   I wish we'd learn more about the fates of some more of the obscure mutants, rather than watching the same 20-30 fight it out every month.

   Amanda's surname was revealed in Pyro's handbook entry.

   This profile originally presumed that Amanda's unidentified town was somewhere in the mid-West. However, I think somewhere in upstate New York or Connecticut is more likely. In Daredevil I#267 Matt Murdock leaves NYC on a train heading north, with a ticket which will take him "north of Albany." He jumps off the train partway through that journey, and then spends the next two issues walking and/or hitchhiking, so he probably doesn't travel very far. Then in the issue after the one where he meets Amanda, Daredevil runs into Spider-Man, who was taking a Greyhound back to NYC after visiting his friend Jeff Wainwright. Since Wainwright lives in Massachusetts and on the coast, that narrows down the bus route to passing through at most four states - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York.

   As the main image shows, Amanda's head is disproportionately large in comparison to her body - she's about six heads high, compared to the normal adult who is around 7.5 heads high. Combined with her short stature (ignoring her spiky hair she's only as tall as the bottom of the neck of the 6' tall Daredevil), that strongly suggests Amanda is either a child or a dwarf. Per the rules of artistic figure drawing, children between 5 and 11 are six heads high (with between 6 and 9 being the majority), and given she'd developed her mutant powers, which most commonly activate with the onset of puberty, I'd lean towards the upper end and 11 years old. Regardless of the specific age, if she's a child, and a pre-teen one at that, Blob and Pyro's overt sexual interest in her becomes really creepy. Let's hope she is a dwarf. In real life, given the Marvel method where the writer only provides a rough guideline of the scenes, then the artist draws them, and only after that does the writer nail down all the dialogue, I suspect that John Romita Jr. just assumed that Amanda was a kid and so drew her that way without specific instructions to do so from Ann Nocenti, and that when she wrote the dialogue to the story it was at that juncture that Nocenti added the lecherous element to the two Freedom Force members without realizing Amanda had been drawn so short and hence so young. There's only a few panels where the body proportions/diminutive stature can be spotted, none very blatant, and it took me a couple of read throughs of the story before I spotted it, so I can believe Ann Nocenti missed it. It's also the case that the way Amanda talks doesn't suggest she's a 6th grader (her final thoughts definitely suggest she's got the hots for Daredevil and expresses those thoughts in a way that reads like an adult), and none of the characters call her a child, so a writer/artist miscommunication where the latter thought the character was a kid while the former didn't is more than feasible.

   In case there's any question as to what Blob interrupted in the barn: Before locating Amanda both Blob and Pyro discuss how attractive she looks in the photo they've been given, and Blob angrily insists that she's his, since Pyro "always gets the girls." A generous assessment of this comment would be that Pyro is a charmer and woos the ladies in social situations; a more damning one is that the pair have been taking advantage of, possibly outright forcing themselves, on female mutants they apprehend while enforcing the Mutant Registration Act. Then when Pyro captures Amanda, rather than returning with her to the bar where Blob is and the pair taking her back to their bosses to be registered, Pyro takes the girl to a deserted barn. When Blob catches them there he finds Pyro holding Amanda by the arms, and states "you touched her! You ruined her!" Ruined is a very disturbing choice of words in that context, carrying serious connotations when linked to romantic/sexual encounters. So while it's not explicitly laid out, I think it's a reasonable assumption that Pyro was intending to force himself on Amanda. It is fair to say that I think this is the only time it's even hinted at that Blob and Pyro might be rapists - they are scummy in a lot of their stories, but not to that level, so this is out of character. But it does look like that's the case here, which would be gross enough on its own, but is made even worse by the possibility that she's a child.

   It seems unlikely that Amanda was hiding in the bell tower long term, given the lack of facilities. It's more probable that the very public display Pyro and Blob made upon arrival alerted Amanda and her friends; the sheriff and other townsfolk confronted the pair, which may well have been done to keep them distracted long enough for Amanda to be moved to the bell tower as a temporary hiding place.  

   A small inconsistency - in the first couple of panels that show her feet Amanda's sneakers are yellow with red highlights, then in later panels the sneakers are white with red highlights. - Loki

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Amanda Fallows has no known connections to:

Amanda's friends

While hiding out in the bell tower Amanda was guarded by three of her friends, wearing a red, green and tan jacket respectively. Since others in town knew about this, the guards present might have been part of a larger group taking shifts. Aware someone else in town had sold out Amanda's location Daredevil knocked out the guards so he could get Amanda out. Pyro filled the tower with fire moments later, but Daredevil and Amanda escaped just ahead of the flames. The vigilante's enhanced senses confirmed that the heat woke the three men, but also that Pyro controlled his flames so that they all got out unhurt.

--Daredevil I#269

Sheriff and townsfolk

The sheriff and other townsfolk confronted Blob and Pyro shortly after they arrived in town and tried to drive them out of town. However the two mutants' powers proved more than the locals could handle, and after cowing them with a show of force the Freedom Force members flashed their federal credentials and demanded the townsfolk hand over the fugitive mutant they were hiding by sundown or see their town destroyed.

--Daredevil I#269

Unidentified snitch

An unidentified man wearing a baseball cap with Kent on it approached Pyro in the White Horse Tavern and offered to sell him the location where Amanda Fallows was hiding out.

--Daredevil I#269

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Daredevil I#269, p24, pan5 (main image, recolored to remove sunset tint and shadowing)
Daredevil I#269, p22, pan4 (headshot)
Daredevil I#269, p9, pan4 (hanging on to Daredevil's back)
Daredevil I#269, p9, pan2 (face to neck with Daredevil)
Daredevil I#269, p12, pan2 (full body image, unaltered)
Daredevil I#269, p8, pan1 (friends, tan jacket's head hidden)
Daredevil I#269, p8, pan6 (friends, tan jacket's head visible)
Daredevil I#269, p3, pan3 (sheriff and other townsfolk)
Daredevil I#269, p7, pan3 (snitch)

Appearances:
Daredevil I#269 (August, 1989) - Ann Nocenti (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Al Williamson (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)

First Posted: 12/19/2001
Last updated: 11/06/2026

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