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| “ | (to the tune of the Spider-Man theme) Doo-be do. Doo-be do. Yub-yub, doo-bee do, doo-bee-do. Watch out! Here comes the Spider-Man! You like my new toy? Cost me a fortune but, hey, can't take it with you, right? You came all this way. Watch the test. It's a helluva freakin' light show, you're gonna love this. | „ |
| ~ Kingpin's introduction. |
| “ | It’s not always about the money, Spider-Man. | „ |
| ~ Kingpin justifying his collider experiments to his universe’s Spider-Man. |
| “ | The real Spider-Man couldn't even beat me! You're nothing! You took my family. And now I’m gonna make sure you never see yours again! | „ |
| ~ Kingpin before he slams Miles Morales, and his villainous breakdown. |
Wilson Grant Fisk, better known as the Kingpin, is the overarching antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Verse film trilogy.
He is an infamous crime lord and one of Spider-Man's greatest nemeses who secretly dominated New York City. As the benefactor of Alchemax, he built a Super Collider that can access alternate universes to reunite with his wife and son after they were killed shortly following a battle with Spider-Man.
He was voiced by Liev Schreiber, who also played Stu Wargle in Phantoms, Sabretooth in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ted Winter in Salt, Ray Donovan in the series of the same name, Colonel Vosch in The 5th Wave and the Storm King in My Little Pony: The Movie, and by Tesshō Genda in the Japanese dub (who also voiced Younger Toguro in Yu Yu Hakusho, Kurama in Naruto, Impostor Captain Tennille in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, VIRM in Darling in the Franxx, Kaido in One Piece as well Grunbeld, Emperor Ganishka and Adon Coborlwitz in Berserk Millennium Empire Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War)
Appearance[]
Similar to the mainstream Kingpin, Wilson is an extraordinarily large man whose body is mostly made of pure muscle, making him immensely powerful in physical strength. He also wears a black suit with a tie, pants and shoes.
Personality[]
Wilson Fisk is a ruthless man who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants and will kill anyone in his way. He does, however, possess immense love for his wife and son, and was devastated when they tragically died in a car accident after seeing him fight Spider-Man.
This led him to spend a fortune building a device capable of breaching parallel realities in hopes of reuniting with another version of his family, and acknowledges the potential dangers it could have without bothering. He also does not tolerate disobedience; for instance, he shot The Prowler for not killing Miles. Therefore, while Wilson's love for his wife and son makes him sympathetic, his attempts at reuniting with them makes him more dangerous than he already was. Furthermore, he never acknowledges that it is his fault that his family left him, choosing to blame Spider-Man and not take responsibility for their deaths when he had nothing to do with it, contradicting the value of responsibility that the Spider-Men embraced in their lives.
Overall, this version of Fisk, despite being a tragic figure, is also highly selfish and indifferent towards the amount of suffering he has caused. Despite his love for his family, he has no problem endangering millions of people if it meant being reunited with them, making him one of Sony Pictures Animation's deadliest villains to date.
Biography[]
Past[]
Kingpin with Vanessa and baby Richard.
At an undetermined point in time, Wilson Fisk became the head of the company, Fisk Industries, while secretly becoming a major crime lord known as "The Kingpin". He also met and fell in love with a woman named Vanessa and with her fathered a son named Richard, though it is unknown just when this happened and whether Fisk was a criminal by then or not.
Eventually, Kingpin also started to benefit the science research and development company known as Alchemax, with its CEO being Doctor Olivia Octavius, and one of the scientists being Jonathan Ohnn. He would also amass a group of several supervillains that he hired to be enforcers and henchmen on his payroll, such as Green Goblin, Scorpion, Tombstone, and Miles' uncle, Aaron Davis, otherwise known as the Prowler.
His criminal activities also ended up making him a major enemy of Spider-Man during the latter's ten years as a superhero, and, during one of their battles, his wife and son walked in on the two of them fighting. Horrified by her husband's true nature, a terrified Vanessa hurriedly left with Richard, leaving a distressed Kingpin and Spider-Man behind. Unfortunately, as a result of their quick getaway, the two of them ended up dying in a car accident, severely traumatizing Fisk.
Building the Super Collider and Killing Spider-Man[]
Kingpin during the first test of the Super-Collider.
Some time after this, Kingpin, despairing over the loss of his family, began a top-secret Alchemax project that involves building a device called the Super Collider, which he believed would allow him to access alternate universes and thus allow him to reunite with his wife and son at long last. Catching wind of his plot, Spider-Man attempted to stop him, as the device was unstable and, even if successful, could destroy all of New York City. Spider-Man ended up fighting with the Green Goblin and Prowler in doing so, while also coming across Miles Morales, who had stumbled into the scene, and realizing that they share the same powers. As Kingpin's two henchmen and Spider-Man fight while Tombstone and the Alchemax scientists watch from the testing area's control room, Kingpin himself arrives and introduces the Super Collider to his enemy, before having the scientists activate it. However, much to Kingpin's distress, Green Goblin ends up shoving Spider-Man into the Super Collider's energy in an attempt to kill him, causing the experiment go awry and the Super Collider to explode, killing Green Goblin and gravely injuring Spider-Man in the process. At some point of time before the first test, scientist Johnathon Ohnn was experimenting with a radioactive spider with the collider, accidentally replacing it with one from Earth-42 which bit the Miles Morales of Earth-1610, depriving that universe of its Spider-Man and causing Miles to constantly experience distortion whenever he's outside his home universe.
Kingpin after killing Spider-Man.
Following the explosion, Kingpin, Prowler and Tombstone search for the injured Spider-Man, who gives a USB drive designed to destroy the Super Collider to Miles, asking him to escape and destroy the machine for him. Kingpin then finds Spider-Man, who reveals that he knows why he is trying to use the Super Collider but insists that it won't work. Rather than listen to Spider-Man, Kingpin kills him in a fit of rage, subsequently ordering his enemy's body to be disposed of and the Collider to be rebuild. Upon noticing that an unseen Miles had witnessed the murder, Kingpin orders Prowler to kill him, though Miles ultimately escapes. News of Spider-Man's death quickly rocks New York, leading to Miles becoming fixated on following through with his promise to destroy the Super Collider. Unknown to Kingpin, an older, fatter and more disheveled version of Spider-Man from an alternate universe is summoned due to Spider-Man's DNA coming in contact with the Super Collider, and he and Miles decide to team up to stop the Super Collider and return the former to his universe.
Conflict with the Other Spider-Men[]
Kingpin hears Doctor Octopus's report on the Spider-People.
Going to Alchemax to create a new version of the USB drive (which had previously broke), Spider-Man leaves Miles behind while he infiltrates the building. However, Miles decides to come along upon seeing Kingpin and Tombstone enter the building. Kingpin begins to pressure Alchemax's CEO and the head of his Super-Collider project Olivia Octavius (Doctor Octopus) into finishing the alternate dimension-travelling machine, while, at the same time, Miles and Spider-Man begin to take the information they need, leading to them stealing Olivia's computer and its system unit while being chased down by her and the Alchemax scientists. After Spider-Man and Miles escape with the computer thanks to Spider-Gwen, Kingpin is seen with Tombstone overlooking the forest while recalling how he lost his family. When Doctor Octopus returns without the computer, he asks why he saw two Spider-Men, despite him killing the hero before he is told and that there are actually three. He is enraged at her for failing, though she insists that the appearance of more Spider-Men from other worlds only confirms that the Super Collider will work and that he will be able to summon as many alternate versions of his family as he wants once it is working again. Kingpin sees her point and has her get to work before leaving.
Kingpin murders Prowler.
Later, after Miles finds out that his uncle Aaron is really the Prowler and escapes from his apartment, the latter tracks him down and leads Kingpin, Tombstone, Doctor Octopus and Scorpion to Aunt May's house, where they and the other Spider-Men summoned by the Super Collider (Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker and SP//DR, and Spider-Ham) start to fight for the USB drive. Once Prowler gets a hold of Miles and prepares to kill him, only to back down upon realizing that he is about to kill his nephew, Kingpin notices his hesitation and orders him to kill Miles. Ultimately, Prowler backs down, unable to harm his nephew, and Kingpin shoots him in the back fatally for it. Kingpin turns the gun on Miles, though Peter B. Parker kicks him away and has Miles escape along with his uncle who dies of his wound. Upon his uncle's death, Miles' desire to stop and get revenge on Kingpin is driven even further, but, fearing that Miles' inexperience would get him killed, Peter webs him down in his dorm and leaves with the other Spider-Men to destroy the Super Collider, planning on sacrificing himself by staying behind to insert the drive.
Final Battle and Defeat[]
Kingpin fighting Miles Morales.
That night, Kingpin hosts a gala ostensibly in honor of the fallen Spider-Man, even inviting his widow Mary Jane Watson to the affair, but in reality only uses it as a distraction while his scientists finish rebuilding and reactivate the Super Collider to summon an alternate version of Kingpin's family. The Spider-Men manage to sneak into the affair and make their way below Fisk Tower to destroy the Super Collider, but end up getting ambushed by Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Tombstone and Kingpin's mobsters (Kingpin and the other supervillains having anticipated that they would come and foil the plot). However, Miles, now fully embracing his role as Spider-Man, quickly arrives to help, and they succeed in defeating them all. Enraged at the Spider-Men for interfering with the Collider again and ruining his chances of reuniting with his family, Kingpin jumps in to stop them after all but Peter had been sent home, the latter deciding to leave Miles to deal with the villain, fully confident that he will be able to win and shut down the Collider. The two proceed to fight within the Collider, and in that moment, alternate versions of Vanessa and Richard appear, who are all equally horrified at his actions just as the others had been.
Kingpin's defeat.
Blaming Spider-Man for taking his family from him once again, Kingpin brutally beats Miles down, sadistically remarking that he's going to make sure he never sees his own family ever again. However, encouraged by his father, Miles stands up to Kingpin, and remarks that he will never be separated from his family, before delivering a venom blast which seemingly incapacitates Kingpin and ends up destroying the Super Collider for good. Afterwards, Miles webs Kingpin up and leaves him to be arrested by the New York City Police Department, who discover him shortly after Miles and his father make amends.
Equipment and Abilities[]
Wilson Fisk is a criminal genius who possesses extraordinary physical power due to his near-superhuman physiology.
- High Intellect: Wilson Fisk is a genius businessman and a genius criminal mastermind. He funded and orchestrated for several supervillains to be hired. He is also capable of understanding the workings of Olivia Octavius' scientific developments. He is also a strategic master of manipulation and deception, able to trick the people of New York City by posing as a benevolent businessman. Despite his intellect, Fisk is very arrogant, as he keeps foolishly blaming Spider-Men for taking his family from him when he didn't, as well as being at fault for driving them away himself after witnessing his cruel actions before they died, even blaming Miles when he didn't take anything from him, even when the alternate family was never his to begin with.
- Peak Physical Prowess: Fisk's physical abilities are at the pinnacle of human potential. Therefore, His strength, speed, stamina, senses, agility, reflexes, accuracy, longevity, durability, healing time, flexibility and combat skills are practically superhuman. His large size, iron willpower, sheer stubbornness and combative power allows him to surpass his human limitations to go toe-to-toe or occasionally stomped with superhumans like Spider-Man in physical confrontations.
- Master Combatant: Despite his lack of superpowers, Fisk is a strong and powerful world-class fighter with tremendous and savage powerful physical strength in levels that no one can even imagine. At an undetermined point, He was able to go toe-to-toe with his world's Spider-Man and could have killed him if his wife and son didn't walk in on the two of them fighting. Fisk was able to brutally beats Miles Morales down and dodged as well as blocked some of his blows and webbing. The way he fights seems to be a mixture of sumo wrestling, professional wrestling, street fighting, bare knuckle boxing, shuai jiao and his own sheer strength mixed together, making him somewhat of a mixed martial artist.
- Indomitable Willpower: Fisk possesses an astounding sense of willpower and stubbornness, able to exceed his strength expectations against superhumans like Spider-Man himself. He is unflinchingly willing to restore his family by any means necessary even if one of the means may include losing some of his wealth to fund the workings of the Particle Collider that would bring alternate versions of his loved ones and cause universal destruction. His unparalleled strength of will also allows to take hits that should kill a normal human. He is also fearless to a fault, willing to fight Spider-Man within the malfunctioning collider despite the unstable and unpredictable effects around the two.
- High Pain Tolerance: Due to his immense stature, peak physical prowess and unbending mental fortitude, Fisk has a practically inhuman endurance to pain. He took direct hits from Earth-TRN700's Spider-Man and later Miles Morales who both possesses superhuman strength and kept fighting. During his fight against Miles, Fisk had a taxi flung at him, bumped into a crane (noticeably and massively denting it), and landed onto Brooklyn Bridge with Miles’ small body to break his fall yet none of them were enough to even tire him out. He was struck by Miles’ Venom Strike and then hurled into the ceiling of the super collider, destroying it in the process but Fisk survived although was unconscious till after being webbed up by Miles.
- Immense Resources: Wilson Fisk possesses incredible resources and this allows him to hire several supervillains and even fund Alchemax's research and development projects. Said resources also helped him retain good relations with the public before some of his crimes got exposed or at the very least, make it hard to convict him.
Quotes[]
| “ | Kingpin: I’d say it’s nice to see you again, Spider-Man. But it’s not. Peter: Hey, Kingpin. How’s business? Kingpin: Booming. Ha! Peter: Nice. |
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| ~ Kingpin talking to Peter Parker/Spider-Man. |
| “ | You're not stopping this! Not today! | „ |
| ~ Kingpin's confronting Miles Morales. |
| “ | I can’t wait to kill one more Spider-Man! | „ |
| ~ Kingpin about to finish off Miles Morales. |
| “ | What? | „ |
| ~ Kingpin to Miles Morales in their battle and also Kingpin's last words before being defeated. |
Trivia[]
- A crime-map at the Spider-Man base shows that Kingpin is affiliated with his universe's versions of the Shocker, the Enforcers, Hammerhead, and the Rose. In the Earth-616 universe however, Rose is actually Kingpin's son who dies as a child in Into the Spider-Verse itself, so this character's identity is unknown.
- Kingpin is Schreiber's third animation voice role. The first was My Little Pony: The Movie where he voices the Storm King and the second is Isle of Dogs where he voices Spots.
- His vocal effects were provided by Lex Lang, who did the voice of Dr. Neo Cortex from Crash Bandicoot.
- Kingpin can be considered the dark counterpart to Miles, both of them who lost their love ones. Particularly Miles losing his uncle, Aaron Davis, to Kingpin. And the latter losing his wife and son to a car crash. However, while Miles does eventually move on from his uncle's death, Kingpin never moves on as he willing to put innocents lives at risk to get what he wants. Kingpin serves as an example of what Miles would've become if he hadn't learnt to get over with his loved ones' death.
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Original Trilogy Amazing Duology Home Trilogy Spider-Verse Trilogy Venom Trilogy Morbius Madame Web | ||