![]() ![]() Anti-Climactic Unmasking: In an early issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter is unmasked by the Kingpin and his thugs, but his face means nothing to them.In the Punisher MAX continuity, he is arch enemy to The Punisher. He actually began as one of Spider-Man's worst enemies, but this changed in the 70's, when Frank Miller identified him as a useful Big Bad in Daredevil stories. Arch-Enemy: To Daredevil one of two with Bullseye, though between the two the war between Fisk and Murdock is a closer example of this trope.Affably Evil: He's usually polite and somewhat soft-spoken.Adipose Rex: He's the King of New York Crime and he's bulky (some would say fat.Octopus, most notably in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But in certain incarnations, he is portrayed as being much more explicitly superhuman to the point where he's much more powerful than Spider-Man and takes greater precedence as the Big Bad than Peter's more iconic rogues like Green Goblin or Dr. Adaptational Badass: Normally he's portrayed as a Badass Normal with the kind of Charles Atlas Superpower which can take on superhuman foes like Spider-Man.Confirmed by Daredevil who compared hitting Kingpin to hitting a brick wall (some sources say that his bulk is only 2% fat, even though that's impossible). However, Kingpin himself said that very little of his body mass is actually fat, so we can assume he's replaced all the fat he used to have with muscle. Kingpin is big and wide, yet is agile enough to fight Spider-Man and Daredevil hand to hand. Acrofatic: Subverted technically, played straight visually.He also made an appearance in Spider-Man (PS4), voiced by Travis Willingham. In 2018, he made his animated film debut in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Liev Schreiber. In 2015, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the main villain of Daredevil (2015), where he is portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio. He was portrayed by Michael Clarke Duncan in the 2003 Daredevil film, and reprised the role in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series. He was voiced by Roscoe Lee Brown in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, where he was a recurring villain almost to the level of Big Bad. He was played by John Rhys-Davies, in his first live-action appearance in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, a sequel telefilm to The Incredible Hulk (1977). The first actor to play him was Tom Harvey, who voiced him in the Spider-Man (1967) series. He temporarily retired from crime, and the family moved back to Japan, until the existing New York gangs lured him back to New York in hopes of getting files he was known to have on the various high ranking individuals which contained "irrefutable evidence of various crimes" against them. Vanessa did not know that Fisk was a criminal when she married him, and when she found out, she threatened to leave him if he did not give up his life of crime. He eventually met a woman named Vanessa, whom he married and had a son with, Richard Fisk. While Fisk was a powerful crime lord, he posed as a legitimate businessman, one who made donations to charities, and seemed like a generous, wealthy man. ![]() ![]() With the criminal world in chaos, Fisk was able to step in and take back control. After earning enough money, Fisk returned to New York and started gang wars, in an attempt to bring down the Maggia. There, he started a spice business in order to regain his wealth. The two groups teamed together to oppose Fisk, causing him to flee to Japan. Kingpin enjoyed a long tenure in his new position, but he had made enemies such as the Maggia crime syndicate and the terrorist group Hydra. Eventually, Fisk killed Don Rigoletto and took control of his criminal empire, immediately becoming one of the most powerful figures in New York's underworld. Fisk became Don Rigoletto's bodyguard and right-hand man. He was eventually discovered by crime lord Don Rigoletto. Fisk began training himself in physical combat, using his new-found strength to intimidate the bullies into joining his gang. He ranked tenth on IGN's list of top one hundred comic book villains in 2009.įisk began his life as a poor child in New York City, bullied by his classmates due to his obesity. His nickname, Kingpin, is a reference to the title of crime boss in mafia slang nomenclature. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita, Sr., he made his debut in The Amazing Spider-Man #50 (July 1967). His over-sized appearance and personality are based on Sydney Greenstreet, a Hollywood actor famous for his roles as criminal masterminds in films such as The Maltese Falcon. Wilson Fisk, otherwise known as the Kingpin, is a fictional crime boss, supervillain, and Arch-Enemy of Daredevil, while also an antagonist to Spider-Man and The Punisher. Spider-Man: The Animated Series, " The Spider Slayer" ![]()
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