Template:Appearances Wilson Fisk, known also as the Kingpin, is an antagonist in Marvel's Spider-Man, the PlayStation 4 video game. A longtime adversary of Spider-Man, he is a notorious crime boss who controls most of the organized crime in New York City.
Although Fisk is taken out early in the game by Spider-Man and is behind bars during the story, the effects and power vacuum he leaves behind can be felt as new villains battle for control of the city.
History
Early history
Fisk was born around the year 1970. At an unknown point, he started a spice business, where he made his fortune. By the mid-to-late 2000s, he became one of the most powerful crime bosses in New York City, secretly controlling the city's organized crime families as the feared Kingpin. As part of his criminal empire, Fisk used several warehouses throughout the city to house resources and men, while operating out of Fisk Tower. Publicly, he posed as a wealthy philanthropist and legitimate businessman.
At the age of fifteen, Spider-Man took down one of Fisk's criminal enforcers. While Fisk managed to get the enforcer out of jail swiftly, he made it his duty to get rid of the young hero. For eight years, Kingpin and Spider-Man clashed numerous times, with Spider-Man's attempts to expose his illegal activities failing every time. As a result, Fisk remained in control of his empire.
Marvel's Spider-Man
Spider-Man, who has spent eight years trying to incriminate Fisk, assists the NYPD in arresting his longtime foe, with the authorities finally having enough evidence to serve a warrant for Fisk's arrest. Spider-Man helps the police raid Fisk Tower. Once inside, he and Fisk engage in an epic showdown. Though Fisk smashes his way through the fight, damaging his penthouse with turrets, hurling giant objects, and even putting his employees in danger, Spider-Man manages to defeat him. Fisk is sent to prison, but warns that he was the only person maintaining order in the city.
Though in prison, Fisk still manages to control his empire to a degree from within his cell. However, his absence gives rise to a supernaturally powered, demonic-mask wearing gang called the Inner Demons, who seize Fisk's territory and weapons and begin terrorizing the city.
Characteristics
Appearance
Wilson Fisk's appearance can be described in one word as "imposing". He towers over most people and has the weight of over two average men. In his normal business attire, he generally wears a dark suit with a lapel and striped tie.
Personality
Fisk seems to have some form of affinity for some eastern philosophies. He uses his power as the Kingpin to keep order within the criminal underworld, maintaining crime like a structured and far less aggressive corporation rather than just pure chaos. When Fisk is arrested, he proclaims that Spider-Man will be begging for him to return to power, something which later turns out to be true. Despite supporting some of the financing and secluding of GR-27, he is tremendously terrified of it, even comparing it to the mythical Pandora's Box.
Abilities
- Superhuman strength: Despite Fisk's obese appearance, he is actually pure muscle rather than fat. His unusual condition combined with training gives him exceptional strength. He is able to break stone, smash a wooden desk, cave in steel pipes, and hurl Spider-Man through brick walls, all with his bare hands.
- Superhuman durability: Fisk is far more durable than the average human. During his final fight with Spider-Man, he receives more than enough damage to kill an average human (falling from several stories, having large blocks of concrete thrown at him, and being thrown through floors), and is still able to walk.
- Skilled combatant: Aside from the advantages of his abnormal strength, Fisk is a skilled fighter. He seems to have some skill with swordplay, as Mary Jane Watson recalls that in his first fight with Spider-Man, he sliced open the hero with a katana, forcing Spider-Man to retreat. During his final fight with Spider-Man, he also displays some form of superior acrobatic prowess.
Equipment
- Immense resources: As the leader of a powerful business empire and a powerful criminal empire, Fisk has access to vast funding and resources. He was even able to provide funding to Oscorp's founder Norman Osborn for his secret research project designed to create a cure to repair genetic damages and hereditary illnesses called GR-27.
Hideouts
Following the mission Fisk Hideout, Spider-Man can clear construction sites taken over by Fisk's men in order to win Base Tokens. Each hideout will have several waves of Fisk's henchmen to defeat, as well as different sets of bonus objectives to complete for extra Base Tokens. The overall goal is to clear the area of enemies.
There are a total of six Fisk Hideouts around the city. Taking down all six prompts a phone call from Kingpin, who tells Spider-Man that his actions will have consequences.
Location | Bonus objectives | Rewards |
---|---|---|
Financial District | Perform 10 Perfect Dodges Stealth Takedown 3 Snipers |
Up to x3 |
Greenwich | Perform 10 Finishers Web 5 enemies to walls |
Up to x3 |
Harlem | Disarm 5 enemies Perform 10 Air Launch attacks |
Up to x3 |
Upper East Side | Perform 3 Perch Takedowns Knock or throw 5 enemies off the building |
Up to x3 |
Upper West Side | Perform 3 Stealth Takedowns Throw 10 objects |
Up to x3 |
Upper West Side | Perform a 20 hit combo Hit 3 enemies with scaffolding |
Up to x3 |
Relationships
Spider-Man
Fisk was one of the first villains that Peter Parker ever encountered as Spider-Man. Peter has spent eight years trying to get Fisk behind bars, and describes the crime-lord as his biggest nemesis. According to Mary Jane, Fisk cut Peter open like a pork sausage with his katana the first time they fought. Peter, barely managing to escape, collapsed in Mary Jane's yard and she had to bring him to the ER herself.
Fisk greatly hates Spider-Man for constantly getting in his way and never admitting defeat, claiming he's "everything that's wrong with the city". He also hates the wall-crawler's sense of humor and childish jokes, but nevertheless respects him as a great enemy. When Spider-Man finally does incriminate Fisk and sends him to prison, he soon finds himself in the bizarre position of saving Fisk's men from the Inner Demons.
Original appearance
Kingpin's first appearance was in Amazing Spider-Man #50 (July 1967).
Behind the scenes
Fisk is voiced by Travis Willingham in the game.
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