Gaia name: sapphire_spider
Character Name: Wilson Fisk
Codename: Kingpin
Alignment: villain
Origin:
Wilson Grant Fisk never had a normal childhood because of his overweight appearance and was known to be unpopular among other children. Fisk quickly became nothing more than a mere target for bullies and pity because of his pathetic status. Fisk would live his young life in reclusive who was forced into witnessing the normal lives of others, because of this Fisk would develop a unique perspective by using others to meet his own needs. 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 twelve and strongly believed that brute strength was the only way to become successful within the criminal underworld. Instantly Fisk trained himself in body-building and sumo to build his body and strength that eventually turned the young Fisk into a massive force of brute strength for his young age. 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. Displaying uncanny leadership abilities and organization skills has found itself earning Fisk the nickname known as “kingpin of crime”, a title that he gained as a teenager.
Fisk’s brutal and successful reputation would finally catch the attention of other well-known crime bosses within New York City. After finding himself 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. Fisk now became the most feared and successful crime lords within New York City.
Successfully building his gang into an army, Fisk carefully planned and plotted his goals behind scenes and further away from the laws reach. As Fisk’s reputation began to grow with wealth, influence, and power, so did the competition with other well-known gangs, mostly the Maggia. Later Fisk decided to hide his criminal campaign by investing his wealth as a legitimate businessman after investing in spice from the far east. With crime slowly building up within the streets, nobody would ever suspect that the humbled spice dealer was the actual leader of the events and that the business helped Fisk increase his wealth to take down other competitive gangs. It would be during this time where Fisk met the young Vanessa and both Fisk and Vanessa would instantly fall inlove and later be married. Fisk would be emotionally moved by Vanessa to where he was finally at peace from his struggle for power. A year later Vanessa would give birth to Richard Fisk, who desperately tried to hide the child from his father’s criminal activities. With Richard growing up in a life where his father constantly despised him because of how he saw him weak and pathetic, Vanessa would send Richard to Europe to attend schooling and further avoid him from her husband’s abusiveness and criminal lifestyle. It would be after Richard graduated from school where he remained in Europe and faked his death in an attempt to cease his connections with his family. After receiving news of his son’s death, even though Fisk suspected foul play, he still hid the news from his wife
As a businessman, Fisk found himself in competition with one his own partner who was a Cheyenne known as Willie Lincoln A.K.A. Crazy Horse. Killing the man in order to advance in his position, Fisk would adopt Crazy Horse’s daughter, Maya Lopez as his own child after recognizing her display of photographic reflexes. Fisk would later find himself sending Maya to a special school where she would spend great portion of her life under Fisk’s distant supervision. As Fisk’s influence began to rise, so did the costume heroes that would later be a threat for Fisk’s reputation. Almost encountering Spiderman after hiring a mutant girl to sabotage a construction side, Fisk would see an opportunity with the rising heroes. Recognizing how careless their battles with villains are when destroying valuable property and possessions, alongside with Tony Stark and Anne-Marie Hoag, all three would form the government operated Damage Control. Stark would later sell his share of the company after feeling uneasy with partnering with Fisk after learning his secret reputation. Later Fisk would drop out from Damage Control and take his share with him, leaving Anne-Marie as the sole founder.
Skills & Abilities
Fisk takes great pride on using his overweight appearance as an advantage over his unsuspected enemies who see's him as a simple fat man.
Kingpin has no extraordinary skills or abilities. As a human he does have a unique physique that he proudly displays himself as a simple overweight man. Even though he physically does have an overweight appearance, Kingpin’s body mass is mostly made of pure muscle rather than fatty tissue. Kingpin is also extremely fast, agile, and incredibly strong for a man his size and weight. Easily lifting a full –size desk and using it as a weapon and capable of standing toe-to-toe with super-powered individuals, Fisk’s physique does make him an extremely dangerous opponent for others. Aside from his display of physical capabilities, Fisk’s body also protects him from several lethal attacks such stab wounds and gunshots blasts.
Since childhood, Fisk has dedicated himself in training the oriental arts of sumo and inventing his own form of fighting style. Over the years Fisk has also adapted other fighting styles such as wrestling, street fighting, and martial arts. On a daily basis Fisk trains himself with at least six hired martial artists who are sometimes armed with weapons and doesn’t hold back on their attacks against Fisk. Throughout his career Fisk has easily bested other well-known martial artists and fighters like Daredevil, Punisher, Spiderman, and the notorious villain known as the Red Skull.
Even though Fisk participates within the fields of business for illegal means, he's a very skilled financer, 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 City on several occasions by opening businesses to increase New York City’s status and funding several charity campaigns to increase a positive view from the population. 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 Spiderman, 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. 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 Dr Doom and Red Skull seeing how his goals were unrealistic and almost ended his long built career.
Mostly Fisk physically refrains himself from his criminal activities and strictly acts through his criminal employers 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.
Mentally skilled and disciplined, Fisk is also immuned towards 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.
Kingpin of Crime
The title known as “The Kingpin of Crime” first began as a simple nickname that was given to Fisk during his teenage years and later became a self-proclaimed title that was feared throughout the East Coast. Even though several crime bosses were unsuccessful on forming a massive coalition under their control, Fisk’s self-proclaimed title became legit after managing to form almost all of gangs and organizations (non-Maggia) under his command. As a title that was instantly desired by competing crimelords and villains, Fisk would be the only man who successfully controlled the title and the power within the criminal underworld. As the Kingpin, Fisk would position himself as a man who controlled almost all crime within New York at a standard balance. Meaning that if he was removed from his position, an all out gang war would most likely breakout, as other leaders would compete each other for the title.
Even though Fisk was later removed from his position, other people would later claim the title for themselves. People such as Alfredo Morelli who later couldn’t handle the position as the Kingpin, Robbie Parker who used the title after forming a massive army of super-villains, and even Daredevil on an desperate attempt to have the title end with him. But out of all the men who held the title, only Fisk would dedicate his life to the dangers and responsibilities as the Kingpin of Crime.
Weapons and Equipment
During the Silver Age and early Bronze Age of comics, Fisk carried concealed weaponry that he mostly kept on himself and other funded equipment that involved brainwashing or draining one’s life force.
Obliterator Cane
Fisk usually carried a walking stick that acted as his main weapon for offensive purposes during the Silver Age of Comics. 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. 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 could range from simply knocking out a person to vaporizing anything it hits. 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. However the knockout gas can only be used for close encounters due to it’s short range after being released. Third feature is how the stick acts like a remote for various traps, equipment, or other appliances that the Kingpin owns.
Kingpin also carries a diamond stick pin on him that sprays knockout gas for close encounters.
