Stilt-Man

Stilt-Man, born Wilbur Day, is an American villain in New York City who wears a defensively potent armor attached to a pair of incredibly long, hydraulically powered legs as his eponymous stilts to commit crimes.

In 1965, Day was a competent but unremarkable lab worker at Kaxton Laboratories, overseen by the abrasive Carl Kaxton. Kaxton himself was a brilliant inventor, and Day coveted his success. In particular, Day sought a molecular condenser that Kaxton had invented and kept in his home. When fired at a target, the condenser would shrink it to apparent nothingness. Day stole the hydraulics and armoring technology that would power his stilts from Kaxton, and used them to commit robberies across New York as Stilt-Man. Day looked to ruin Kaxton entirely, and to do so he went to a lawyer claiming that Kaxton had stolen his hydraulic technology: naturally, this accusation would ideally lead to framing Kaxton as Stilt-Man. The lawyer he hired was Matt Murdock, secretly the masked superhero Daredevil. Murdock took the case, and eventually the two went to Kaxton's home to investigate Day's accusations. The hypersensitive Murdock figured out that Day was lying, but not before Day knocked out Kaxton and stole the molecular condenser. Murdock suited up as Daredevil and the two fought, resulting in Daredevil accidentally aiming the condenser at Day himself, causing him to shrink and blip out of visibility, stilts and all.