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| “ | This was never your city. It's mine. | „ |
| ~ Kingpin to Spider-Man - his famous quote. |
| “ | 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. |
Wilson Grant Fisk, better known as the Kingpin, is the overarching antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Verse film trilogy while acting as the main antagonist of Into the Spider-Verse.
He is a crime boss of New York City and the archenemy of both Spider-Men, the late Peter Parker and Miles Morales.
He was voiced by Liev Schreiber, who also voiced Storm King from My Little Pony: The Movie.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He was a ruthless crime lord for at least several months, with him often fighting Spider-Man due to his position. Eventually, his wife Vanessa and son Richard witnessed one of his fights with Spider-Man occurring in their home just as the Kingpin explicitly tried to kill him, which caused Vanessa and Richard to speed off and run away from him in horror only to die in a car crash due to being distracted by thinking of his horrible act.
- He ultimately refused to take responsibility for his own criminality's role in causing the car crash, instead pinning all the blame on his reality's Spider-Man.
- His end goal was to activate the Super Collider to acquire another reality's Vanessa and Richard who never died as substitutes for his loss, and he pressed ahead with his plan despite being explicitly and repeatedly warned that the Collider's usage would cause entire universes including his own to collapse.
- He killed Spider-Man when he was already down, badly injured, and unable to fight, in a fit of pure anger and rage, albeit one triggered by Spider-Man telling him that he can't get Vanessa and Richard back.
- Upon noticing that Miles Morales had witnessed his murder of Spider-Man, Kingpin after a second's deliberation ordered one of his henchmen, the Prowler, to chase down and kill him.
- He fatally shot the Prowler without hesitation once Prowler refuted a direct order to kill the new Spider-Man, who turned out to be his nephew - although it should be noted, there's nothing to suggest the Kingpin was aware of the latter detail when he did this. Regardless, this action traumatized Miles and left both him and his father Jefferson grief-stricken by Aaron's death for most of the rest of the film.
- He held a memorial for his reality's Spider-Man as a cover-up for activating the Super Collider, while lying that he was great friends with Spider-Man, much to the Spider-People's disgust.
- Even when the Collider was becoming unstable, he just told the scientists to keep it running, ignoring the consequences.
- He attempted to kill the new Spider-Man for interfering with the Collider's activation, expressing nothing but pleasure in the act.
- This also leads to multiple apparitions of Vanessa and Richard from other universes witnessing Kingpin's crime and fleeing in disgust, implying that he may have unwittingly ruined even multiple alternate Kingpins' and their families' lives.
- After the encounter with Vanessa and Richard's apparitions, Kingpin tried to explicitly murder Miles so the latter could never see his family again as revenge for Miles “taking away his family”; either transferring the blame he held against his reality's first Spider-Man onto the new one, or pinning all the blame for his family's alternates being alienated on Miles, and in any case once again refusing to accept that it's his own fault both times and not learning anything.
- While Miles utilizing the "shoulder touch" his Uncle Aaron taught him on Kingpin is a little comedic, not only is it too brief to distract from Kingpin's heinousness, it was played more for satisfaction than laughs, as it marked the point where the fight turned in Miles' favor, and also represented how Miles would "always have his family," with Aaron having a posthumous influence on him.
- As revealed in Across the Spider-Verse, the manner in how he could destroy the multiverse makes it worse considering that Miguel O'Hara became the bitter Spider-Man 2099 after accidentally destroying an entire universe by acting as the father to his kids from another reality after the death of the other reality's version of him.
- Even despite his defeat, his actions have left numerous unignorable consequences such as:
- Through his Super Collider, Johnathon Ohnn, one of his scientists, accidentally summoned the radioactive spider from Earth-42, which bit Miles Morales from Earth-1610 instead of its native universe's Miles, depriving Earth-42 of its Spider-Man with all the criminal horror that entails, and indirectly leading to the Miles of Earth-42 instead becoming the Prowler.
- His collider managed to fracture multiple dimensions while it was still on, leading to Miguel creating the Spider Society by gathering countless Spider-Men from multiple dimensions to stabilize the multiverse and avoid its destruction.
- The explosion of his collider was one of the express reasons why Alchemax scientist Johnathan Ohnn became the vengeful supervillain the Spot, as it gave him the ability to generate portals throughout his body at the cost of his entire outside being severely disfigured, leading his relatives and acquaintances to turn their backs on him and ultimately making him a multiversal threat once he feels underestimated by Miles Morales as a "villain of the week".
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely loved his wife and son, as he was devastated when they died, and his entire goal was to use the Collider to find alternate versions of them.
- When he saw versions of them from different dimensions inside the Collider, he begged them to stay with him, even completely forgetting about overpowering the new Spider-Man for a moment so he could desperately reach out to them.
- His tragedy of losing his wife and son due to them dying from a car crash is played for sympathy, with it serving as the motivation for his actions throughout the entirety of the film. Even the original Spider-Man from his world, and to a lesser extent the new Spider-Man, both display some pity for him over this.
Trivia[]
- He is the one of the three version of Kingpin to be Near Pure Evil alongside his Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game counterpart and his MAX Universe (Earth-200111) counterpart.
- While Kingpin is currently Near Pure Evil, there's a chance that this may change if he returns in Beyond the Spider-Verse.
- He and Olivia Octavius are the only Spider-Man Near Pure Evils to appear in an animated film.
External Links[]
- Kingpin on the Villains Wiki
- Kingpin on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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