Penguin vs. Kingpin

## Description

*Their difficult childhoods didn't stop them from becoming powerful crime lords, but only one will win a Fatal Fiction.*

## Interlude

Hiro: The worlds of DC and Marvel are packed full of all-powerful crusaders of justice, so it takes a special kind of ferocity to rise to the top as a crime lord.

**MBStarscream: It's not easy when you're not a mutant or metahuman, but these two, with nothing but their plus-sized physiques, run tight syndicates.**

Hiro: Oswald Cobblepot, Penguin of Gotham.

**MBStarscream: And Wilson Fisk, Kingpin of New York.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Penguin

Hiro: Despite being born in a middle class background, Oswald Cobblepot had a hard time growing up. Getting dropped on the head by his own father was just the start of his torment.

**MBStarscream: He had his mother's love, but only disgust from his father and brothers, and other children would mock him for his short, stubby appearance and distintive nose that Gru totally copied. His only solace came from the wild birds that would visit his greenhouse, and he quickly developed an affinity with them.**

Hiro: Oswald would embrace the hatred and disgust from his family or school mates thereby turning it against them as a means of justice, because even though penguins are clumsy creatures in an environment that isn't their own, they are adaptable to new surroundings and when threatened, a penguin's retribution can be swift and decisive.

**MBStarscream: And that's how he got the name Penguin. You call someone the same thing their whole lives, they're gonna call themselves that.**

Hiro: Under his new moniker, Oswald used his family fortune to set up a socialite hang out club called the Iceberg Lounge. He has been involved in several criminal enterprises, from being an illegal boxing promoter, and a prominent criminal on the Gotham black market.

**MBStarscream: No doubt one of Batman's most intelligent villains, equal to such criminals as the Riddler, Penguin is a superb criminal mastermind. Penguin is a brilliant planner and can make almost every situation fall in his favor, to the point of even his archenemy admitting the clever bird’s intelligence.**

Hiro: Like Catwoman with cats, Penguin has been known to have an almost psychic connection with birds, and yet again, very much like Catwoman, they both use their favored animals in assisting their various burglaries and robberies. Despite not being the most intimidating fighter appearance-wise, Oswald is actually an expert in Judo and has been trained in bare-knuckle boxing.

**MBStarscream: Being one of Batman’s most dangerous foes and one of his most persistent ones, Penguin has been known to be able to make all sides go against each other, and the only winner in the end is Cobblepot. The foul-feathered fowl is a great manipulator in that regard, and has come out the winner in many situations. In his early years, he was known to be able to escape Batman multiple times.**

Hiro: But Penguin's main weapon is his classic umbrella, given to him by him by his overprotective mother in his childhood. He uses the umbrella as a cane to help him walk, but it also acts as a sheath for a hidden blade.

**MBStarscream: He's gotten a LOT more umbrellas since. Umbrellas that can blow things up, shoot explosive shells, poison someone, ignite flames, shoot blasts of heat, break down doors with a laser-cutter, emit an electric shock, emit knock-out gas, shoot out sneezing gas, make a victim choke, tase someone, launch out a flare, shoot out tongs to snatch people from a short distance, and be used for various getaways.**

Hiro: Penguin has escaped justice by turning his umbrella into a helicopter, glider, jet, pogo stick and a parachute. He's used umbrellas as a torch, machine gun and a net trap, umbrellas that shoot out bolas, spiky darts and poison darts, umbrellas that can temporarily blind or hypnotize people, umbrellas that launch heat-seeking missiles, an umbrella that doubles as a shield and rifle, remote control umbrellas, and umbrellas that can tie people up in wires, hide trained birds underneath them, shoot out paint, and cut glass with the tip.

**MBStarscream: I want ALL these umbrellas!**

Hiro: Other weapons Penguin uses include egg bombs and a machine gun. He is a master marksman, accurate enough to blast people from the backseat of his car.

**MBStarscream: Penguin's cunning, weaponry and connections make him one of Batman's deadliest foes. He's strong enough to break a guy's nose with his umbrella, and Batman admits he's fast in combat. Penguin is quite tough as well; he's been slammed into walls and bath tile hard enough to break them after Dick Grayson nearly drowned him, and was even fine after his car was blown up by an RPG.**

Hiro: But Penguin does have his drawbacks. While not quite as insane as the Joker, Penguin can still lash out impulsively and recklessly. He is psychopathically obsessed with getting revenge on anyone who insults him, an aftereffect of his traumatic childhood, and has little to no physique as a result of his bird-like appearance.

**MBStarscream: But the Cobblepot family has nonetheless created one of the most powerful men in Gotham City. It was quite a rocky road to get to the top, but Oswald got there.**

Hiro: It just goes to show that society can create its own monsters, and with Gotham under the thumb of the Penguin, they've also made one of the greatest foes of their Caped Crusader.

*Penguin: Hi. I believe the word you're looking for is "AHHHHHHHHHHHGH!"*

## Kingpin

Hiro: Before he was the Kingpin of Crime, young Wilson Fisk lived in recluse, his overweight appearance making him a source of ridicule. Witnessing the normal lives of others gave Fisk a unique perspective. What if he could use others to meet his own ends?

**MBStarscream: This was the very first step towards Fisk's criminal career that followed him throughout his entire life. Dedicated to be the best there was, Fisk would find himself committing his first murder at the age of twelve and strongly believed that brute strength was the only way to become successful within the criminal underworld.**

Hiro: Fisk trained himself rigoriously, turning him into a massive force of brute strength. Fisk would also build his education by learning from various stolen books and taking a strong interest within political science. With the combined strength and knowledge, Fisk quickly became a dominating force over the local gangs who intimidated other unwilling children and bullies into joining his gang.

**MBStarscream: From then on, he was only known as Kingpin, a name that would catch the attention of other well-known crime bosses within New York. Impressed with Fisk's gained reputation, crime boss Don Rigoletto recruited Fisk to serve as his personal right-hand man, but Fisk’s dedication to be the best eventually found Fisk killing Rigoletto and taking over his gang as his own.**

Hiro: Fisk was now the most feared and successful crime lord within New York, and his extraordinary skills have only cemented that reputation. Since childhood, Fisk has dedicated himself in training the martial arts of sumo, hapkido, and others. These were combined with his physical prowess to create his own fighting style.

**MBStarscream: Over the years Fisk has also adapted other fighting styles such as wrestling, street fighting, and other more. On a daily basis, Fisk trains himself with at least six hired martial artists; some armed with weapons and with instructions to never hold back their attacks against Fisk. Throughout his career, Fisk has bested other well-known martial artists and fighters like Daredevil, Punisher, Spider-Man, Captain America and the Red Skull.**

Hiro: Fisk is also extremely fast, agile, and incredibly strong for a man his size and weight. Capable of easily lifting a full-sized oak desk and using it as a weapon, and able to stand toe-to-toe with superpowered individuals, Fisk's physique makes him an extremely dangerous opponent. Aside from his physical capabilities, Fisk’s padded body also protects him from several lethal attacks, such as stab wounds and occasionally gunshots to non-vital areas.

**MBStarscream: Even though Fisk participates within the fields of business for illegal means, he's a very skilled financier, planner, and a successful founder of several companies that's under his name. Aside from his life of crime as the Kingpin, Fisk has helped New York on several occasions by opening businesses to increase the city's status and funding several charity campaigns to increase a positive view from the population.**

Hiro: Because of this, many people find it difficult to believe that Fisk is responsible for the crimes he's accused of and that he's a victim of vigilantism from heroes like Spider-Man, Punisher, and Daredevil. Even though Fisk has barely involved himself with politics and electoral campaigns, he's also experienced within the fields of political science and other government funded activities.

**MBStarscream: Aside from his knowledge as a major figure within the world business, Fisk is also a skilled criminal mastermind. However Fisk later preferred to refrain himself as a mastermind such as the likes of Doctor Doom and Red Skull, seeing how his goals were unrealistic and almost ended his long built career.**

Hiro: Fisk mostly refrains from his criminal activities and strictly acts through his criminal proxies and hired assassins to do his bidding. It's very rare for Fisk to be physically involved in attacking his enemies unless he's provoked, confronted, or prefers to handle an opponent himself, having connections with government agencies, businesses, specialists, scientists, henchmen, pushers, law enforcement, criminal gangs, terrorist groups, villains, and heroes who all served Kingpin through fear, dedication, and manipulation.

**MBStarscream: Mentally skilled and disciplined, Fisk is also immune to hypnotism or anything that results him losing his will. Even the will-sapping Purple Man found himself unable to control Fisk or have the him under his influence.**

Hiro: A trademark weapon that Fisk uses is his walking stick that conceals various weaponry. Inside the stick is a charge that compresses and stores energy within the stick, which is only released from a hidden button located on the upper portion of the stick. The bottom portion of the stick consists of a rare metal that steers the blast in the desired location. Depending on the amount of energy is stored within the stick, the blast can range from simply knocking out a person to vaporizing anything it hits.

**MBStarscream: The glass head of the stick conceals compressed knockout gas that can be released from a separate button on the upper portion of the stick. The third feature is how the stick acts like a remote for various traps, equipment, or other appliances that Fisk owns, and he also carries a diamond stick pin on him that also sprays knockout gas.**

Hiro: With all this in mind, it's little wonder Fisk is as feared as he is. He's traded blows with Spider-Man and Daredevil, survived getting shot and falling off a bridge, took leadership of The Hand, and waged gang wars with the likes of Maggia, Hydra and Norman Osborn.

**MBStarscream: But Fisk is not a perfect kingpin. He's lost his fair share of battles with Daredevil and Spider-Man, even being killed by them as well as Punisher in alternate universes, also proving that he's still human at the end of the day. He can only fare against Spider-Man as well as he does because the latter is always holding back due to his aversion to killing.**

Hiro: But Fisk *has* endured beatings from a Spider-Man pushed beyond his limits, so it's going to take a lot more than a spider vigiliante to topple this kingpin of crime.

*Kingpin: It means that I'm not the Samaritan. That I'm not the priest, or the Levite. That I am the ill intent... who set upon the traveler on a road that he should not have been on!*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: The Kingpin comes face to face with the Penguin in his natural habitat to determine the superior crime lord.

**MBStarscream: You should be in an animal documentary, Hiro.**

Hiro: Perhaps.

*Iceberg Lounge, Gotham City*

On a snowy night in Gotham, a black car pulled up in front of a posh-looking nightclub, the words "ICEBERG LOUNGE" proudly displayed above the front door. Out of the car and onto the snow stepped a hulking colossus of a man in a white suit, a small cane in his large hand.

"Let's get down to business."

Wilson Fisk, better known as the **Kingpin**, opened the door.

Every head in the nightclub turned towards the newest visitor, one man particularly curious. He had just been scrubbing a wine glass upstairs when he heard the door open. He wore a monocle, top hat, and morning suit, and had a rather long nose. His large physique was probably why he was called either Oswald Copplepot or the **Penguin**.

"Sorry to interrupt your night out, boys, but there's someone here I'm looking for." Kingpin announced. Even the penguins and seals in the pool were watching him.

"Small guy, carries an umbrella? Calls himself the Penguin?"

"That would be me." Penguin called from above before descending the stairs. "You got business with me? Otherwise, get outta here. Last I saw, you weren't on the list."

"Business is what brings me to your nightclub, sir." Kingpin said.

"Then we'll have lots to talk about, eh?"

"I'm sure." Kingpin chuckled.

"Follow me, then. Let me get ya something."

The gentlemen were soon seated at a private table and talking away while waiting for their drinks. "So you wanna discuss business with me, is that it?" Penguin started.

"Precisely."

"Fellow crime boss, I take it?"

"The one and only Kingpin'a New York, pal."

"Oh, I've got a New Yorker in my nightclub!"

"And this one's on top of 'em all!"

They shared a laugh as a waitress came with a tray of two bottles of champagne and placed it on their table. Both reached for their bottles and poured into their tiny glasses. "Well, here's to a new partnership, huh?" Penguin said as he raised his glass.

"Heh, you got it."

They clinked their glasses together and drank down.

"Never did get your name. 'Side from "Kingpin of New York." Penguin inquired.

"You can call me Fisk."

"Okay, Fisk. Tell me: Did you really come here just to have a drink with me in my own nightclub?"

"There was something I wanted to discuss with you over a drink, remember? You've your city under order, don't you?"

"Yes, and?"

"And I have mine. Imagine us together."

"You want Gotham as well?"

"We can *both* have Gotham, and you can have some of my place. We'll both have power over our cities and be truly unstoppable. With our combined might, no one could take us down. Whaddya say, Penguin?" He raised his glass for a deal even though it was empty. Penguin stared at him, considering the opportunity before him. This guy really wanted to collaborate with him and share authority?

He poured his bottle into Fisk's glass, and then into his own, before putting down the bottle and holding his glass. Kingpin waited.

"I think... you're wasting your time, Fisk."

He downed his glass and put it back on the tray.

"I have everything I could ever want, you see. Gotham doesn't need any more order, because it gets enough from me. This, this city's all mine. And isn't New York all yours, Fisk?"

"You wouldn't share power?"

"We both have enough that we don't *need* to share it amongst ourselves. Thank you for the opportunity, though. Perhaps we could collaborate in a different way. You could always come back to discuss things further."

Kingpin just looked at him before he raised his glass to his lips. Once he was finished, he threw his glass aside and stood up as it shattered on the floor. "It's a real pity, Penguin." He said disappointedly. "We coulda ruled together. Guess Gotham's gonna have to settle for one."

He reached for Penguin's throat and lifted him off his chair. Everyone instantly fled the bar, with the penguins and seals jumping into the water. Penguin flailed his legs as he struggled to free himself from Kingpin's grasp, gasping for air.

"I liked you, Penguin."

Kingpin then slammed him through the table, breaking it to pieces. Penguin groaned in pain as he lay in a heap, surrounded by broken wood and shattered glass. Champagne had spilled all over the floor. Kingpin looked down at him before turning to leave.

A shot ran through the nightclub, and pain erupted in Kingpin's shoulder as he doubled over, hissing. Behind him, Penguin struggled to his feet, smoke smouldering out of his umbrella. "You're not walkin' away just yet, sir." He said. "The night's still young."

Kingpin turned while holding his shoulder. "So let's make this quick, shall we?"

"Whenever you're ready."

**FIGHT!**

Kingpin charged across the nightclub and rammed Penguin with his shoulder, knocking him back. Penguin got up and aimed his umbrella at Kingpin, firing another bullet from its hidden gun. Kingpin, however, pulled a table in front of him and used it as a shield while charging at his small opponent once more. Penguin lunged out of the way as Kingpin swung the table furiously, then shot bolas at Kingpin's foot. Kingpin dropped the table and erached down to rip the bolas off his foot, but Penguin lunged forward as a blade unsheathed from his umbrella.

He stabbed it into Kingpin's gut and laughed as the blade electrified, violently shocking Kingpin. But Kingpin reached down and grabbed the umbrella, lifting it up to punch Penguin away. He picked up the table from earlier and threw it at Penguin, who nimbly ran to the left to dodge it. Penguin took out a pair of automatic rifles and fired a barrage of shots from them at Kingpin, making him duck for cover. He then took out bird food and threw it as Kingpin peeked out from behind a table, causing it to hit his face. Some of it even got in his eyes.

On cue, several birds swarmed him to get at the food, distracting Kingpin long enough for Penguin to retrieve his umbrella which had fallen. Unsheathing the umbrella's hidden blade once more, Penguin charged and stabbed Kingpin in the back before slashing him several times. Kingpin turned and slammed his fist downward, but Penguin blocked with his umbrella. Kingpin threw more punches at him as Penguin held up his umbrella to shield himself the best he could against his more brutish opponent.

Kingpin put his fists together and swung them three times, ending with a powerful double-axe handle that smashed Penguin into the ground. As he stopped to adjust his tie, Penguin got up and threw a pitiful punch at him, leading him to pick him up and toss him across the nightclub. Penguin tossed an egg bomb at him, but Kingpin caught it and threw it aside just before it exploded.

As they charged at each other, Penguin expertly slid underneath Kingpin and picked his umbrella off the floor, holding it up as spinning helicopter blades emerged from it, causing him to soar up into the air before stopping to hover in place. He flew towards Kingpin in a flying dash, with his umbrella pointed in front of him to slash at him. Kingpin grabbed the blade and threw it along with its wielder towards a wall like a dart on a dartboard. Penguin pulled his umbrella out of the wall and aimed it at Kingpin as he charged at him, firing a cloud of gas that sent Kingpin into a coughing fit.

Penguin whacked Kingpin several times in the gut with his umbrella, then dodged a punch from him and continued his attacks. He kept dodging Kingpin's blows and sneaking in hits of his own until Kingpin slammed both fists onto the ground, shaking the entire nightclub. As Penguin tried to keep his balance, Kingpin grabbed and squeezed him, then headbutted him and slammed him into the ground face-first.

He lifted him by his head to reveal that Penguin's monocle and nose had been broken, covering his lower face in blood. Kingpin slammed him into the ground two more times, then turned him onto his back to jab his cane into his stomach. He pressed a button on the cane, tazing Penguin. He stomped on him several times before proceeding to brutally pummel his floored foe.

Grabbing Penguin by the foot, Kingpin threw him towards the counter. Penguin weakly grabbed the counter and used it full himself up, pulling out a machine gun and aiming it at Kingpin. Kingpin in response aimed his cane at him. Penguin pulled the trigger as a laser beam was fired from Kingpin's cane, phasing through the bullet and the machine gun, causing Penguin to drop it in shock.

Penguin ducked behind the counter just before Kingpin fired another laser out of his cane, destroying it and exposing him to his sights. Penguin frantically dodged more lasers, each blast causing an explosion. He even resorted to jumping in the pool, startling the penguins and seals there. Kingpin only chuckled before walking towards the pool, which was quickly running red from Penguin's blood.

He reached into the water and pulled out... one of the penguins. It thrashed in his grip, completely terrified. Kingpin ended up dropping it back into the bloodied water, hearing a familiar laugh come from behind.

"Gotcha!"

The next thing Kingpin was a rifle round to the chest that sent stumbling backward, causing him to fall into the pool. By now, the penguins and seals had scattered, having deemed the reddened water unfit for them. Kingpin broke out of the surface to find that Penguin was now nowhere to be seen. He climbed out of the pool and searched the nightclub, not noticing Penguin hiding under a table that hadn't been smashed, blown up or knocked over.

A blast of fire suddenly hit Kingpin in the back, making him fall to his knees while screaming in pain. Penguin walked to his left side and pressed the tip of his umbrella against the side of his head, ready to blow him away. "Well, Fisk, this was fun." Penguin said mockingly. "But all good things must come to an--"

Kingpin grabbed the umbrella and broke it in two with a clench of his fist.

"--end?" Penguin finished, now quite afraid.

"Couldn't have said it better myself, Penguin."

He grabbed him by the head and slammed him into the ground before throwing him aside. As Penguin got up, he felt his leg blow to pieces at the knee as a laser fired out of Kingpin's cane, making him fall to the floor in agony. He feebly tried to crawl away before Kingpin dragged him backward by his remaining foot and slammed him onto his back. Kingpin picked him up and squeezed, breaking bones.

Gas suddenly sprayed out of the diamond stick pin on Kingpin's chest, and Penguin was out like a light within seconds. Kingpin carried Penguin's body over the pool and dropped him into the water.

"The penguins shall keep you company." Kingpin said before he departed.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: Guess he'll be sleeping with the penguins.**

Hiro: Penguin had a major advantage in versatility and long range, and was no slouch in speed, but could only keep up with Kingpin for so long.

**MBStarscream: Kingpin was obviously way, way stronger. He's lifted up a large staircase, crushed a rock in his bare hands, and overpowered Captain America, who could pull down a moving helicopter!**

Hiro: Durability was more even, but still went to Kingpin via taking blows from Spider-Man that would quote, "put most men in the hospital for a month". In regards to speed, Penguin's only noteworthy feat in this category is Batman being impressed by his combat speed. Kingpin had a lot mroe to offer in terms of speed, catching *Deadpool* off guard with his speed and dodging multiple bullets while running at the group of mobsters firing at him.

**MBStarscream: Both crime lords were incredibly intelligent and have shown large amounts of cunning and strategy, but Penguin was also outclassed in fighting skill. Kingpin's taken down multiple trained ninjas at once, quickly dismantled eight of the world's finest martial artists and defeated Punisher in a fight!**

Hiro: Now, Kingpin has shown no resistance against chemicals and poisons, so Penguin's umbrellas were quite effective here, plus his helicopter umbrellas gave him an edge in maneuverability around the hulking Kingpin. But in the long run, none of these mattered against Kingpin's better physicality and fighting skill.

**MBStarscream: Penguin had a *pin* put in his chances of overthrowing the king. Pin!**

Hiro: Kingpin wins.

## Advantages

### Kingpin (Winner)

* Stronger
* Faster
* More durable
* Superior fighting skill