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Claire Temple is a Marvel Comics character who mostly appears in the Netflix shows set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Claire Temple is one of the Night Nurses. As such, she has dedicated her life to use her vast medical skills and knowledge of medicine to heal superheroes.
She is a recurring ally of the Defenders (Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones). As befitting a Netflix character, she can be quite violent and aggressive when the occasion calls for it, being able to handle herself quite well in a fight.
Claire Temple was created by Archie Goodwin and George Tuska.
First appearing in the Season 1 episode "Cut Man", Claire is an emergency room nurse who helps the blind vigilante Matt Murdock after he is found badly injured in a dumpster. Caught up in Murdock's conflict with Russian gangsters, she is kidnapped and beaten as the criminals search for him. He saves Claire, and the two have a brief romantic encounter before she voices her concern that he may be becoming more and more like his enemies. Realizing that his nighttime pursuits are an obstacle, they resume their previous dynamic of nurse and patient, as Claire continues to worry for him.
The character returns in Season 2. She helps Matt by secretly curing some teenagers who were held hostage and had their blood taken by the Hand. After seeing that the teens were also brainwashed (as one of them killed his own father), the Hand ninjas arrive to reclaim them. During the encounter, a fellow nurse is killed and she knocks one of the ninja out of the window before she's knocked out herself and rescued by Daredevil. When the hospital plans to sweep it under the rug and is more concerned about its financial future than finding out what happened, she quits.
Dawson reprised her role in the Jessica Jones episode "AKA Smile". Claire helps the titular protagonist when the "unbreakable" Luke Cage is seriously injured.
After quitting her job following the events of Daredevil Season 2, she returns to her home in Harlem and reunites with her mother, Soledad. She expresses a desire to help superhumans like Matt and Luke, and comes across Cage in one of the restaurants. She aids Cage in taking on the crime lord Diamondback and drives Luke to Georgia when he's critically injured by specialized bullets. She works together with Noah Burstein (who gave Luke his powers back at Seagate) to aid Luke in his recovery. At the end of the season, she and Luke express their love for each other, but Luke is taken back to Seagate before they can go on their first date. She is last seen interested in Colleen Wing's martial arts training.
Claire Temple on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
Claire Temple (Earth-199999) on the Marvel Database
