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Wilson Fisk , a.k.a . Kingpin , has had his backstory explored in great contingent in theMCU . After debuting as Wilson Fisk in Marvel Television’sDaredevilseries , Vincent D’Onofrio reprise the part of the iconic Marvel supervillain during the MCU ’s Multiverse Saga . Fisk made his first appearance in the MCU right in 2021’sHawkeye , and returned again in 2024’sEchoahead of his starring office alongsideDaredevilalum Charlie Cox ’s Matt Murdock inMarvel Studios ' upcomingDaredevil : Born Again . Kingpin is one of the most recognisable and beloved villain in the MCU , and has perhaps the most fertile , brutish and well - develop history .
While Charlie Cox ’s Daredevil has confront several villains , including Frank Castle ’s Punisher , Benjamin Poindexter ’s Bullseye and Eugene Patilio ’s Leapfrog , Kingpin has been his most persistent and dangerous adversary . While Cox and D’Onofrio have n’t yet reunite in the MCU , the fact that Marvel Television’sDefenders Sagamay now be canon to the MCUmeans that their unrecorded - action feud now goes back almost a X . Marvel Studios has n’t confirm the canon position of theDefenders Saga , but integrating the franchise into the MCU ’s official Disney+ timeline suggestsWilson Fisk ’s backstorymay be hold back , which allows viewing audience to search his entire MCU timeline .
Vincent D’Onofrio returned as Wilson Fisk ’s Kingpin in Phase 5 ’s Echo , though his current MCU storyline may stand a biz - changing power possibility .
Wilson Fisk Grows Up In An Abusive Household & Kills His Father (1960s-1970s)
Daredevil Season 1 (2015)
Wilson Grant Fisk was born in the early-1960s , and was raised in an scurrilous household , as Fisk ’s founding father , Bill Fisk , would abuse Wilson ’s mother , despite being seen as a strong public figure by his son . Fisk was raised in a house of violence , particularly after his Father of the Church lost the running play for New York City Council . Bill Fisk descended into drunkenness , exacerbating the abuse , which prompted a 12 - year - honest-to-god Wilson to murder his father with a malleus . Fisk and his mother cut up Bill Fisk ’s soundbox to hide the criminal offence , before Fisk moved to a farm and spend several years traveling around Asia .
Wilson Fisk Cares For Maya Lopez (2007)
Echo (2024)
By 2007 , Wilson Fisk had returned to New York City and had begun to build his reprehensible imperium , planning to pull out down Hell ’s Kitchen before building it back up . Among Fisk ’s recruit were theTracksuit Mafia , direct by William Lopez , andFisk ended up building a close relationship with Lopez ’s indifferent daughter , Maya . Fisk was fabulously protective of Maya , even going so far as to viciously beat an frappe cream vendor who mocked her deafness and refuse to sell her frosting cream . Without prompting , Maya fall in in with Fisk ’s assault on this man , marking the beginning of her violent tendencies .
Wilson Fisk Recruits Eleanor Bishop (2012)
Hawkeye (2021)
Derek Bishop had take a loanword from Fisk prior to the Battle of New York , and worked for Fisk in exchange , butafter Derek ’s expiry during the Battle of New York in 2012 , this debt passed on to Derek ’s married woman , Eleanor Bishop . Eleanor notice that she would happily take over Derek ’s role to clear his debt to Fisk , but that she did n’t require to go for Fisk forever . While Fisk agreed that Eleanor would n’t be indebted to him forever , pay off Derek ’s debt would take geezerhood , and Eleanor would in fact still be under Fisk ’s ovolo over a decennium afterwards .
Hawkeye ’s Kingpin twist create a plot gob at the heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ’s Phase 4 , and it all comes back to Black Widow .
Union Allied Construction Is Established (2012)
In the wake of the Battle of New York , Fisk image an opportunity to put his plans in motion . He established Union Allied Construction to oversee administration declaration rebuilding New York after the Chitauri invasion , but this was also a front for various vicious activity , include money laundering . Karen Page discovered grounds of these criminal activities , and when she shared the data with colleague Daniel Fisher , Fisk had Fisher killed and Page framed for the murder . When theMasked Man , a.k.a . Daredevil , avail to display Union Allied Construction , however , Fisk liquidate the business and eliminate anyone who could implicate him .
Wilson Fisk Meets Vanessa Marianna & Matt Murdock (2015)
In the thick of the Union Allied debacle , Wilson Fisk meet prowess bargainer Vanessa Mariannaat the Scene Contempo Gallery while looking at a snowy house painting name " coney in a Snowstorm . " Fisk and Marianna went on several date , during which she learned of Fisk ’s criminal empire . Instead of being scared off , however , Vanessa urged Fisk to involve her completely . Vanessa ’s young involvement in Fisk ’s life would land her into the path of Matt Murdock , and in act would see Murdock and Fisk inaugurate themselves to each other , though Fisk did n’t know that Murdock was the Masked Man at this point .
Wilson Fisk Becomes A Public Figure (2015)
accede a newfangled stage of his life at Vanessa ’s prompting , Wilson Fisk held a closet conference to reveal his work , hoping to gain support to rebuild Hell ’s Kitchen . During this , Fisk condemn the vigilante justice of the Masked Man , and claim that the Masked Man had been hear to bilk his plans to help the metropolis , even charge his own bombing of the city on the vigilante . Fisk became a celebrated military personnel in New York City , and begin to build a political hunting expedition , though attacks on his assistant and close protagonist James Wesley and Vanessa get Fisk ’s path to self - destruction .
Daredevil & Kingpin Battle (2015)
After former tainted cop Carl Hoffman was rescued by the Masked Man , he extend to the police and provided information on all of Fisk ’s criminal activities , lead to Fisk ’s arrest by the FBI during his marriage proposal to Vanessa . However , Fisk ’s recruits help oneself with his escape from an armoured caravan , and Fisk began making his way to Vanessa so the couple could leave New York together . The Masked Man , now in his Daredevil costume , got in the way , separating Fisk and engaging in an larger-than-life and intense battle . Daredevil managed to knock Fisk unconscious , allow him to finally be contain .
Wilson Fisk Takes Control Of Ryker’s Island & The Punisher (2015)
Daredevil Season 2 (2016)
Wilson Fisk was far from powerless in prison , however , as he get down to work up a pretender - imperium within the walls of Ryker ’s Island . WhenFrank Castle was transport to Ryker ’s , Fisk met with him and convinced him to question another inmate name Dutton , who had command of the prison house . After Dutton confessed to broker the drug business deal that ended with the murder of Castle ’s family , Castle slaughter Dutton and his crowd . Fisk then had Castle freed from prison in the hopes that he ’d pass over out the crime rings in New York , meaning he ’d have no rivals when he eventually left prison .
The Punisher is set to make his MCU debut in Daredevil : Born Again , but recent development make his reappearance more exciting than they already were .
Wilson Fisk Makes A Deal With Ray Nadeem (2017)
Daredevil Season 3 (2018)
While in prison house , Fisk start devising a way to insure his freedom , most prominently by manipulating FBI agent in the New York Crime Division to recruit them into his reason . Fisk also purchased the Presidential Hotel , which the FBI used for sign of the zodiac hitch , under a shell corporation . Fisk then made a deal with Ray Nadeem to ply insider information on the Albanian Syndicate , and faked an character assassination attack , prompting the FBI to move him out of prison house and into the Presidential Hotel ’s Penthouse . On their agency , however , they were ambush by the Albanians , though Fisk was bring through by Benjamin Poindexter .
Kingpins Learns Of Daredevil’s Identity (2017)
During his meter at the Presidential Hotel , Fisk start to regain some semblance of a normal life story , particularly with so many FBI agent under his thumb . He also used this time to investigate the Devil of Hell ’s Kitchen , who render to New York following his convalescence after theevents ofThe Defenders . When Matt Murdock traveled to Ryker ’s Island to question inmates about Fisk ’s actions there , Fisk was watch on security footage as Murdock demonstrated his telling temerarious skills . Fisk and Murdock briefly spoke on the telephone set , before Fisk had a taxi driver make an attack on Matt Murdock ’s life.
Kingpin Uses Benjamin Poindexter To Frame Daredevil (2017)
During his transport to the Presidential Hotel and the Albanians ' fire , Fisk was saved byFBI special agent Benjamin Poindexter , who expose his accurate marksmanship . Poindexter was assigned to guard Fisk in the hotel , which leave Fisk with the chance to manipulate him . Fisk collected file on Poindexter which divulge the FBI agent to be a psychopathological Orcinus orca . Fisk used this , and Poindexter ’s obsession with Julie Barnes , to coerce Poindexter into work for him . Fisk dress Poindexter in a Daredevil costume and had him assail the New York Bulletin and Clinton Church , hoping to disbelieve Daredevil in the public eye .
Wilson Fisk & Vanessa Reunite & Get Married (2017)
At a pack boss sit down - down , Wilson Fisk formally became the Kingpinof crime in New York before being clear from his preceding crimes thanks to his powerful connections in legal philosophy enforcement . Fisk spoke to New York , once again claim Daredevil to be the dead on target criminal , before Vanessa Marianna was returned to the United States and the duo reunited . fear that Ray Nadeem would unwrap the truth of Fisk ’s plans , Vanessa grade his death , once again becoming involved in her fiancé ’s business . The pair get hitched with in the Presidential Hotel , but a television of Nadeem exposing Fisk was leak , angering the Kingpin .
Kingpin Battles Daredevil & Bullseye (2017)
At the marriage ceremony , Benjamin Poindexter threatened Vanessa ’s life , but Matt Murdock ’s Daredevil saved her . This culminate in a three - manner struggle between Fisk , Daredevil and Poindexter , during which Poindexter was paralyzed . Daredevil wangle to make the upper hand , beating Kingpin despite his persist in threats that he would never end chasingKaren Page and Foggy Nelson . Instead of toss off Fisk , Murdock present a deal : Fisk would n’t chase Page and Nelson , and would keep his identicalness secret , and in return , Murdock would n’t reveal Vanessa ’s part in Nadeem ’s blackwash . Fisk and Vanessa were arrested , and their hold over New York appeared to be over .
Kingpin Informs Ronin About The Tracksuit Mafia & Takes Control Of Maya Lopez (2021)
Hawkeye (2021) & Echo (2024)
Wilson Fisk survivedThanos ' snap inAvengers : Infinity War , and by 2021 had begin to rebuild his condemnable conglomerate after being released from prison house . Fisk resume his alliance with the Tracksuit Mafia , and founded Sloan Limited and Fisk Shipping as new front . Fisk ’s plan were interrupted by Clint Barton ’s Ronin , however , though Fisk provided him with a tip to spare his own sprightliness , leading to Ronin bolt down William Lopez . This allowed Fisk to assume restraint over Maya Lopez , making her the new leader of the Tracksuit Mafia . Her exploit bring her into conflict with Daredevil , though she hold her own .
The Marvel Cinematic Universe ’s late issue with cameo since Avengers : Endgame can well be fixed , and Marvel Studios just proved how to do it .
Kingpin Battles Kate Bishop & Is Shot By Maya Lopez (2024)
In December 2024 , Fisk had become disturbed that an Avenger , Clint Barton , was cut across him following the murder of Armand Duquesne III , so had Eleanor Bishop hire Yelena Belova to eliminate him . Eleanor declare her debt had been paid , though his insistence that their deal was n’t done climax in a struggle against Eleanor ’s daughter andBarton ’s protégé , Kate Bishop . Bishop managed to handicap Fisk , but the Kingpin exist . Unfortunately , Maya had learned the truth about her father ’s death , which prompted her to make an assassination attempt on Fisk , shooting him in the eye , though he also survived this brutal onset .
Wilson Fisk Ambushes Maya Lopez In Oklahoma (2025)
After five calendar month , Wilson Fisk tracked Maya Lopez to her hometown of Tamaha , Oklahoma . There , he declare oneself her the keys to his imperium in exchange for return with him to New York City . He empathize with Maya about the fact that he had been contain her for her whole life , and that she only wanted to be detached , but she refuse to make another attempt on his life . Instead , Maya , now Echo , discovered her ancestral power , which she used to contribute Kingpin down , making him relive the store of his father ’s maltreatment , which led to him depart Tamaha without Maya .
Wilson Fisk Thinks About Becoming Mayor (2025)
While train to leave Oklahoma to come back to New York City , Fisk see a news broadcast regarding the metropolis ’s Mayoral race . NY1 news anchors Pat Kiernan and Errol Louis suggested that the metropolis does n’t ask another politician , but would benefit from a"bare - fisted brawler,“and that there was still clock time for a surprise candidate to give themselves . This limit up a hugefuture for Wilson Fisk’sKingpin , perhaps an adaption of Marvel Comics’Devil ’s Reign , which saw Mayor Fisk outlaw vigilantism in New York . Fisk ’s story will go on inDaredevil : assume Again , and belike in several other coming street - level projects .
