Wilson Fisk

## The Kingpin

**Wilson G.** "**Willie**" **Fisk**, also known as the "**Kingpin**", is both a fictional character and antagonist of the *MDC's* *Spider-Shock* series created by Steve Ditko and Dwayne McDuffie. He is New Dakota's notorious crime boss & gang lord.

He' also Static and Spider-Man's long-time adversary and the original arch nemesis from the earliest days of their superhero career.

He is finally defeated and taken into custody by the duo after years of unpunished crime. However, his absence soon creates a power vacuum that ultimately leads to a chain of events and causing the entire city to descend into chaos.

1 year later, he sends his men to Harlem in an attempting effort to purchase the land in contribution to regrowing his empire. He is eventually apprehended by Spy-D and receives additional years on his jail sentence as punishment.

"*Idiots! I'm the one who kept order in this city! One month! In one month, you'll both wish you had me back!*"

—Kingpin, warning Static and Spider-Man upon being arrested, and foreshadowing of the following events to come.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Travis Willingham (English), Tesshō Genda (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Mikhail Sushkov (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Carlos Galindo (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Appearance

Wilson's appearance can be described in one word as "imposing". He towers over most people and has the weight of over two average men. In his normal business attire, he generally wears a dark suit with a lapel and striped tie.

During her first ever meeting with Willie as a junior reporter, MJ described it as "standing next to a creature out of folklore or from another world", labeling him as "tall, broad and built on a massive scale than anybody she'd ever seen". His colossal stature is further exemplified by "when they shook hands, she had a memory of her father playing with her, when she was a little kid pretending to shake a troll's hand".

* Hair Color: N/A (Bald)
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 6′7″ (2.01 m)
* Weight: 220lbs

## Personality

Fisk is a calculating and ruthless individual, tolerating neither failure from his employees nor inconvenience by his enemies. He is generally calm, losing his temper only after repeated failures, and has a tendency to speak down towards his enemies. Fisk seems to have an affinity for Japanese culture: his office at Fisk Tower and auction house are filled with Japanese statues, paintings, and armors (implied to have been illegally smuggled in).

While ruthless and aggressive, Fisk has a sense of duty, acknowledging that his presence kept the criminal underworld in check. He believed that his strictly regulated and highly organized variation of the criminal underworld actually kept most civilians safe from being harmed by hardened criminals. And upon his arrest, he correctly proclaims that within a month, Spider-Man will wish he was back.

This turned out to be true, as since Wilson's arrest, a zealous Tong organization, began terrorizing Manhattan and Dr. Octopus unleashed a plague on the city with the help of his Sinister Six. These events led to Sable International establishing a totalitarian regime as well as Ryker's inmates establishing themselves in the city. Sable International's totalitarian regime even inspired Hammerhead to instigate a Maggia Civil War.

## Abilities and Powers

Despite Wilson's overweight appearance, his body is mostly composed of muscle rather than fat, granting him strength and far higher durability than the average human. He has been shown to be strong enough to break stone, smash a wooden desk, cave in steel pipes, and hurl grown men through brick walls, all with his bare hands, as well as survive falling from several stories and having large blocks of concrete thrown at him.

Aside from the advantages of near-superhuman strength, Wilson is a skilled fighter. He seems to have some skill with swordplay. During his final fight with Static and Spider-Man, he also displays some form of acrobatic prowess. Wilson is fearless and shows great mental fortitude, determined to retain his criminal empire and simply refusing to give up.

A formidable strategist, Wilson "always has a plan". He is highly skilled and knowledgeable in the organization and management of criminal and legal business operations, utilizing a dense network of professional and social contacts to further both his business and criminal ambitions.

This is seen through his influence of prominent politicians, other powerful companies in the city such as Oscorp, powerful intelligence agencies like the NYPD (enlisting several corrupt officers on his payroll), as well as his many covert moles and pawns in various places that enact his malevolent bidding for him. His leverage has also allowed him to keep his master-criminal status and his empire booming, covert, and under control for nearly a decade.

Even after his incarceration, Wilson seems to remain confident in his eclectic network, continuing to remain in contact with his enforcers whilst securely imprisoned.

### Abilities

* **Peak Strength:**: The Kingpin has peak human strength, being able to cause holes to rupture in steam pipes just by punching them and throwing Spider-Man straight through a wall.
* **Peak Durability**: Due to his body being made of pure muscle, the Kingpin was immune to innumerable punches and kicks to the head and stomach from Spider-Man. He also does not get injured from falling several stories or even having large chunks of concrete thrown at him.
* **Peak Physicality**: The Kingpin has trained himself to be able to use his exceptional physical stature and even displays superior acrobatic prowess when fighting Spider-Man.
* **Swordsmanship**: Mary Jane mentions that Fisk sliced open Peter with a Katana once, indicating Fisk's swordsmanship.
* **Criminal Organization**: Wilson is a Master of Criminal networking, with his influence extending to politicians, corporations, for profits and even law enforcement agencies within New Dakota. His influence even extended and works despite his secure imprisonment. He also possesses incalculable resources and finances, as he was able to easily procure advanced weaponry for his men and even provide grants for Oscorp's GR-27 Project.

### Weapons

* **Fists**: Being a brawler, the Kingpin usually fights with his bare hands and is a formidable fighter.
* **Turrets**: When confronted in his office, the Kingpin tried and failed to kill Spider-Man using hidden turrets.
* **Katana**: According to Mary Jane, the Kingpin once used a katana to fight Spider-Man.

## History

### Past

#### Early Life

Fisk was born on the year 1970. At an unknown point, he started a spice business, where he made his fortune. By 2010, he had become one of the most powerful crime bosses in New Dakota City, secretly controlling the city's organized crime families as the feared Kingpin. As part of his criminal empire, Fisk used several warehouses throughout the city to house resources and men, while operating out of Fisk Tower. Publicly, he posed as a wealthy philanthropist and legitimate businessman.

At an unknown time, Wilson was approached by Norman Osborn to construct a facility for Project GR-27's production. Fisk agreed to build the facility, but at an unknown point learned about the nature of GR-27. Referring to the serum as "Pandora's Box", Wilson kept a file on his discoveries hidden in a Nioh statue, likely to blackmail Osborn should the mayor ever threaten his position.

Somewhere around 2010, Fisk, at the age of 40, learned that one of his enforcers was beaten up and arrested by two young vigilantes. Despite managing to get his enforcer out of prison via bail, Wilson knew that Spider-man and Static would be threats to his operations and made it his mission to kill him. In their first fights, Wilson consistently defeated them, at one point even injuring Spider-Man badly with a stab wound from a sword, keeping his criminal operations secret.

As a result, Wilson remained in control of his empire until eight years later.

## External links

* Kingpin *Wikipedia*
* Kingpin *Marvel Animated Universe Wiki*
* Kingpin *Marvel Database*
* Kingpin *Marvel's Spider-Man Wiki*
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* Kingpin *Villains Wiki*