Wilson Fisk is your typical comic-book crimelord, a corporate titan who is also the Kingpin, a leader of a vast criminal underworld. It’s bad enough that he has the inerrant hitman Bullseye on his payroll. Kingpin’s also a really big guy, so big that, to play him, 6’5″, 290-pound Michael Clarke Duncan had to gain another 40 pounds. Fair enough, for all his height and bulk, Duncan often in movies and TV came off as a giant teddy bear. In Daredevil (2003), he uses that extra bulk to indicate menace, but his baritone croak might have been enough to do the job. (Indeed, Duncan also voiced Kingpin on TV’s Spider-Man: The New Animated Series.)
Having defeated Bullseye, Daredevil attacks Kingpin and finds him a surprisingly formidable fighter. (He’s also the killer who murdered the blind superhero’s dad years ago, of course.) Daredevil wins, but leaves his foe alive, probably a mistake. (Had Daredevil become a franchise, we surely would have seen a lot more of Kingpin, who’s a staple villain throughout various Marvel titles.) After all, Kingpin knows Daredevil is really lawyer Matt Murdock. (For a masked superhero, the movie Daredevil is surprisingly sloppy about keeping his secret identity a secret.) But Murdock taunts Wilson into remaining silent, lest he reveal that he lost a fight to a blind man.
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