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Marlene Fisk (mother; deceased);
Vanessa Fisk (wife; deceased),
Richard "Richie" Fisk (son),
Rosetta "Rose" Fisk (daughter);
Maya Lopez (legal ward and daughter figure)
History
You were right, Mister Dutton... In every prison, there's only room for one kingpin... And when I leave this cage, I will harness this power to save this city from unsculpturous scoundrels like you who corrupted it, as well as the masked menaces who drove it into disarray...
- — Kingpin
- — Kingpin
Early Years
Wilson Grant Fisk (born summer 1960) was the son of a warmhearted mother and an abusive father, whom the latter was eventually killed by a young Wilson after realizing how much he and his mother were suffering for too long under his unstable household, subsequently working with his mother to cover up the murder for years. Growing up with the ambition to clean up the streets of his city from people like his father along with the very corrupt neighborhood which he grew on, he grew up to be a powerful and morally crooked financier & businessman with interests in the overall stability and bright future of New York City by willingly controlling the many countless crime waves which brought him into conflict with some of his partners who unexpectedly betrayed him.
In the aftermath of the Battle of New York in 2010, Wilson took the opportunity to oversee and manage his different criminal operations in the United States by returning and residing once more in Hell's Kitchen, wherein he finally faced in person the superhero vigilante, Daredevil — in which his alliance with fellow superhero Spider-Man — had recently exposed and taken down the activities of his rival Don Rigoletto, whom Wilson had effectively framed to be the Kingpin of Crime amidst Wilson's absence, in the past year. Wilson's largest corporation at the time, the Union Allied Construction, supervised a large part of the government contracts while using the company as the front for the illicit activities and money laundering operations.
It is also at this point that Wilson had met Vanessa Marianna, a beautiful art dealer whom he meet in an art gallery, whose love gave Wilson the peace he sought after his constant struggle for power in his collective criminal empire. His merciless attempt to destroy and rebuild Hell's Kitchen was ruined when his hidden criminal activities were leaked to the FBI by those who deemed to take him down influenced by the heroic actions and the motivations of the Guardian Devil, his fellow knights across the city of New York who came to help him, leading to his eventual arrest around late 2013, now that his crimes are finally exposed to the authorities, thanks to the last efforts of Nelson and Murdock that ensured his trial and incarceration, but not before he was able to give a hefty sum of his fortune to Vanessa as she fled overseas under his wishes, only returning once he had finally dealt with his own imprisonment.
Kingpin of Crime
Within his momentary imprisonment in Ryker's Island, Fisk had to struggle — both physically and mentally — leaving a menacing impression and demeanor to the rest of the inmates before he began building up a loyal band of criminals and came to run the prison in the span of a few months, facing off against those who had been secretly running the prison as the top of its hierarchy as the so-called Kingpin. Seeking to destroy the crime competition in New York by the time he got free, Fisk used his power on the inside and intentionally assisted in the Punisher's escape only several days after his trial, as he constantly desires to eliminate single competing every criminal empires with his own ruthless secret organization, as the new Kingpin of Crime throughout the most of New York City. Even outside prison, Fisk gained an alliance with the Tracksuit Mafia and forged a partnership with one of its commanders and an old friend of Fisk that was William Lopez, the former assassin known as Crazy Horse. Fisk also grew closer to Lopez's daughter, Maya, and Kazi Kazimierczak, who called him Uncle.
Learning from his mistakes that led to his punishment in prison, Fisk's second chance had given him the opportunity to carefully plan and plot his next goals behind scenes and further away from the laws reach, deeming to manipulate it with his own influential power if truly necessary. As Fisk’s reputation began to grow with wealth, influence, and power, so did the competition with other well-known organized crime. Even according to several organizations who experienced and witnessed Fisk and his empire's ultimate power first-hand, he was also fearfully labelled as the most infamous "king of mobsters," controlling organized crime on the East Coast with an "iron fist" with the help of his cooperative criminal empire, even while he was still in imprisonment.
Back in Business
Due to the slow but steady and progressive power that Fisk had efficiently gained and used throughout the years during his imprisonment within Ryker's Island, an opening began to grow for his ultimate chance to find a way out of prison sooner in a more non-violent manner, and finally continue the very core mission he had started for the city of New York. That day eventually came for Fisk, when an unknown sponsor whose identity kept themselves only known to Fisk alone, the one that was apparently contacted by his surviving subordinates who temporarily served as the "acting, front superiors" to Kingpin's secret criminal empire during his imprisonment, claiming to immediately process a so-called "contract" in ending Fisk's sentence in the next following days, much to Fisk's delight that his decision waiting patiently was indeed, worth it.
Financing the Ultimate War
The Movement was also indirectly, "spiritually" founded by another diabolical figure who was Nathaniel Essex, the seemingly immortal and genius mutate geneticist, idealist, & revolutionist (usually declaring himself as a "mutant" to fool the public, due to his frequent involvements with and against the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants) often going by his infamous epithet of Mister Sinister. Followed by Sinister as the second founder and leader of the Movement Alliance, comes the third leader who was thought to be Norman Osborn, the infamous and monstrous Green Goblin.
In reality, however, Osborn had his own agendas (mainly leading the Sinister Seven against Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the Defenders) and was merely an appointed associate to a more influential and powerful figure, Fisk, especially when it comes to a political and economical standpoint in the state of New York, considering that he is one of the few people who loves New York more than any other person there was throughout its history. That figure would later be revealed to be none other than Kingpin himself, who secretly played the role as the third main commander of the Movement, with his base of operations mostly taking place in the heart of the state. As a powerful triumvirate, Schmidt, Essex, and Fisk became the "supreme leaders" of the Movement Alliance.
A few years later since his last publicly aware mission across New York, Fisk's reverent archnemesis Daredevil and the reformed Defenders, along with the rest of the heroic Ultimates, have come off to face the very notorious and dangerous Crime Syndicate of New York, a formerly clandestine large gang and criminal organization consisting the state of New York's deadliest and malevolent criminals, led by the Kingpin himself, along with several terrorist organizations whom they made dealings with, including the likes of A.I.M. and the Ten Rings. The heroes had become triumphant and victorious against the syndicate, but at the cost of many innocent lives, most notably Daredevil's love interest, Karen Page, who died at the hands of the Devil's most twisted and sadistic foe, Bullseye, as an act of saving her most special loved one from getting killed in the mercenary's last-second attempt.
Despite this loss that he had to painfully accept for the rest of his life after Karen's death, Murdock was able to be strongly motivated by Karen's last words and advice for him as Daredevil and Murdock, and although he and the Defenders weren't able to put Fisk behind bars once more, they were successful in taking down the entire foundation of the Kingpin's Criminal Empire in the very end of the war, but at cost of almost losing his life. Despite his, Fisk was genuinely devastated by Karen Page's death, but he nevertheless remained to stand not to be responsible for her assassination, as it was turned out that Bullseye's assault on Daredevil's allies and loved ones was morbidly done based on his sadistic temperament. In the ruins of New York, Fisk took the advantage of the ensuing depression and willingly used his resources to help the innocent during this time, solely so people would revere him with gratitude and respect of his leadership over the city of New York once the people got to slowly recover over the crisis that shook the country apart.
Rising Amidst a Dark Reign
After a few years of being on the run, Fisk's return amassed him more political influence that he was able to manipulate a corrupt faction within the FBI to drop all of their charges on himself and his fiancée, Vanessa Marianna, allowing her to come home as they got married and had two children: Richard in 2016 and Rosetta in 2018. With it, the Kingpin began to help out his fellow citizens in New York with sincerity, although it was also a part of his new and improved goal to focus gaining political power when Wilson worked as a philanthropist and public servant until he gained a position in the New York City Council as its Economic Development Director, who maintains a strategic focus on a city's economic development and oversees and plans the economic development, assessing threats and looking for opportunities to both recover and improve his city that his results and reputation ended up getting praised by the public and the authorities. With his astounding sum of wealth, Fisk bought a small-sized skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan to serve as his residence and main headquarters and a convincing front for his government-centered activities, appropriately rebranding it the Fisk Towers.
During the events of Dark Reign which was orchestrated by Norman Osborn as the director of the S.H.I.E.L.D.-rebranded H.A.M.M.E.R., Fisk's short-lived but alliance with the Hand's de-facto leader, Tomi Shishido, helped each other regain city wide power without garnering attention. At the time, Fisk had Elektra Natchios as one of his right-hand assassins — until her eventual defection — who even trained Maya Lopez after Wilson had secretly killed her father at the hands of the terrorist-turned-mercenary, Swordsman, around late 2015 in order to take the fall of his leadership over the Tracksuit Mafia, making it seemed like Fisk was "an enforcer against crime", helping authorities take down some of the organized crime which Fisk had allied himself with as the Kingpin. However, when Maya realized that Fisk had in fact ordered the murder on her father himself, Maya attacked him in revenge by shooting him several times, the most vital parts being his left eye and legs, before running away from him and his criminal empire.
Blinded on his left eye, Fisk had to receive surgery to treat it among his other injuries and use a special cane to walk properly in the following years. It was not the last time he tried to find and meet his protégée and daughter figure, until she finally denounced him later, around 2022, when he found her and attempted to have her family killed in her hometown of Tamaha. With her newfound powers, Maya stopped Fisk and tried healing his trauma with his father, making him emotionally vulnerable for a moment as the experience stunned and bewildered him enough to leave Maya and her family alone for good.
Kingpin: Mayor of New York
By 2024, Wilson Fisk is officially elected as Mayor of New York City
In this highly respected and well-esteemed government position, he vocally offered his insights against the observation that the growing presence and activities of superheroes and supervillains have slowly reemerged since the aftermath of Ultimate War, even publicly showing his support for the enactment of the Superhuman Registration Act, promoting and enforcing it from 2016 until it was abolished in 2017 due to the events of the Skrull Empire's Secret Invasion. Around 2019, Fisk found himself among those who luckily survived Thanos' snap to decimate half of all life in the universe. Despite becoming bitter and vengeful against the heroes and blaming them for losing his family, Fisk became the Deputy Mayor of New York City, taking the position in the absence of his greatest villains, and used his resources to help the innocent during this time, as people would hold him in high reward, while also gather the remaining factions of criminals across New York to work for him in secret as part of establishing peace and unity in a world where half the population was gone.
However, even when the alliance of heroes were able to undo the cosmic snap and subsequent defeat the Mad Titan, it only assured Fisk to take advantage of his new status especially now that his family has returned, thus he was determined to run for mayor as an independent candidate by late 2023. Ever since Fisk's wife, Vanessa, had come back from the Snap, she eventually convinced to her husband that she wants to be included into his world and his ultimate mission, rather than simply admire it at she has been doing in their years of relationship. It was on that moment Fisk's utmost love for Vanessa and their children led him to granting her wish in the later years of their lives as the Kingpin and the year when he ran for Mayor, thus making Vanessa Marianna-Fisk the first "Queenpin," as some of Fisk's closest subordinates had described her.
While Fisk's charm and heart of gold to help the innocent earned him substantial support, he won by fixing the vote on the day of election, thanks to the alliance he had gained with other wealthy crime lords and efficient mercenaries whom Fisk had deemed worthy of sharing his power as the Kingpin and strengthening his empire in different cities and states: Typhoid Mary, Bushmaster, Jigsaw, Black Tarantula, Odessa Drake, and Lady Cortés. Having built a solidified trust and collaboration with the aforementioned criminals, Fisk took this situation as his greatest advantage of not getting frequently involved as the Kingpin, remaining in power across the criminal underworld of the United States while he ensures his positive image and reputation in the government as he has officially become the Mayor of New York City.
The Kingpin's Final Stand
Despite having consistently covered up most of his past as the crime lord Kingpin and revise his public record as Wilson Fisk for years due to diplomatic immunity among other political and economic ties, as well as sharing most of his criminal title, power, and influence as the Kingpin with other crime lords across the east coast of the United States as one united empire, Mayor Fisk faced his final ordeal in spring 2028 during his final term, with determined and truth-seeking veteran journalist Ben Urich, who, with the help and mutual assistance of heroes around New York (most notably the Kingpin's archnemesis Daredevil) finally had enough irrefutable evidence to expose their two-faced mayor, thanks to the secret alliance having caught his final involvement with funding Miles Warren's experiments under Fisk's different bank account, which sparked the Genetic Vendetta in the past year against various street-level heroes such as the Defenders, who were known for thwarting Warren's vengeful and erratic experiments in the form of enhancing willing superpowered villains.
Through many tricks and trials set by the alliance of the Kingpins with other powerful figures in an attempt to trample his enemies and shut their mouths in the process, the heroes' perseverance and astuteness nevertheless achieved justice and victory albeit at the cost of Ben getting killed at the hands of Fisk himself when the former brought up the countless crimes of other Kingpins, most especially Fisk's beloved wife Vanessa, who was among the casualties from the burst of chaos as she was reluctantly shot down and killed by the authorities, after threatening to silence the heroes' loved ones as she sent a group of temporarily enhanced hitmen to kill them, but to no avail thanks to the protection provided by Misty Knight and her department. Fisk would later realize that while Vanessa was his source of composure and voice of reason, she had also grown to become greedy, obsessed, and extremely faithful to Fisk and her family that she was willing to hire anyone just to take out anyone who dares to defy him or betray him and ruin his image, something that only filled him with guilt and sorrow when he was finally confronted by Daredevil and some of the Defenders.
While the cornered Fisk had the last resort to juice himself up with an experimental serum — a concentrated version of Calvin Zabo's Hyde Formula — he was no match for the heroes who were well coordinated to stop him in the end of their final brawl, which started at the top of the Fisk Towers and plummeted down to the streets of Manhattan, exposing the true rageful colors of Wilson Fisk to civilians in his shredded clothes and weakening appearance, yet emanating the same persisting hostility and menacing demeanor, albeit worse due to the momentary state of rage, as the heroes had seen him since the beginning. In the end of his tragic defeat, many realized that it was during his peak as the most powerful and influential man in New York, the Kingpin swiftly fell from power as he and most of his associates were toppled by the alliance of heroes and was apprehended by the authorities as both parties were devoted on exposing Fisk's true colors and taking down the Kingpin of Crime after more than a decade of his gradually changing reign and power from the shadows.
Powers and Abilities
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Abilities
- Peak Human Strength
- Master Martial Artist
- Criminal Genius
- Expert Businessman
- Indomitable Will
- Multilingual
Strength level
Class 15+
Weaknesses
- Loyalty to Vanessa Marianna
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Kingpin's Special Cane
- Concentrated Hyde Formula (formerly)
- Kingpin's Body Armor (formerly)
- Epinephrine Drug
Transportation:
- Various owned automobiles
- Grand Limousine
- Private Jets
Weapons:
- Obliterator Cane
- Diamond Stick Pin
- List of Kingpin's Henchmen
- Various conventional firearms
- Various classified firearms
Notes
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- ↑ Modern Comics: Daredevil Vol 1 1
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Wilson Fisk (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Wilson Fisk (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Wilson Fisk (Earth-61615)
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