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Dude thanks for the reminder, he was a compelling villain. I loved his romance arc. I don't really remember what happens
A brief recap of the character Wilson Fisk for anyone interested (TW: gore descriptions) part 1
Cut to 2014
Kingpin, the big heartless bastard, meets a woman. He falls in love.
So eventually Fisk is thwarted by Daredevil, even though he has an intricate system in place with many failsafes, and kills anyone who might release the truth about him.
He goes to jail.
part 2
Fisk finds himself in a corrupt Jail where different gangs rule different cell blocks. After being threatened by the "Kingpin" of his block, he uses his (very liquefied) financial assets to do favours for a number of people who aren't out to kill him, eventually buying himself a prison gang. Fisk uses them to kill the Kingpin of his cell block, and eventually becomes the new Kingpin of the entire prison, even controlling some, roughly half, of the guards there.Kingpin, from prison, still has enough people employed outside of prison that he can blackmail members of the FBI in new york.
He pays someome to stab him, then negotiates with the FBI that he needs enhanced protrction and will rat on various criminals
This allows him to clear out organised criminal competition in New York and live in... a penthouse, for some reason. Not enough new yorkers question why he gets such nice digs. It's because he took control of the local FBI branch
he expands his control over the remaining agents and is getting ready to marry Vanessa in the hotel where he is "incarcerated."
a ~~bribed~~ coerced FBI agent who went against Kingpin's wishes creates a confession tape, listing all of Kingpin's crimes, before he gets killed. This dying confession is strong evidence in court because "a dying person has no reason to lie." (Real legal mechanic for new york or america, apparently)
Fisk goes to prison... this time, for GOOD
But then here's where disney+ ruins that
I would not have even minded his presence in Echo and Hawkeye, if they'd just explained that there was a prison break and he was completely in hiding now. Taking control of prisons is literally what he does best and why he has the nickname "Kingpin" in the MCU
Fisk for 2 more seasons? Going through the same old motions as before? With not a singlee daredevil season with other characters as pallate cleanser? Nah. It doesn't work.
He's publically a criminal and people still vote for him. You've got to understand this is way more significant than Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, various real world figures. Fisk took over the police and the FBI and is associsted with opium pushers and human traffickers. Why would anyone vote for him? What really makes kingpin special is just, all the littke things though. It's an amazingly cohesive and poetic narrative. Nowadays villains are rarely treated as poetic characters, like heroes are.