• When he was a boy, lived in Hell’s Kitchen. 70s or 80s. It was rough, because most people there were poor.
• His dad, Bill, was an abusive lunatic who took money from the mob to fund a campaign for the city council. He beat Wilson Fisk and his mom.
• One day Bill Fisk, frustrated with how Wilson was treated by other kids, attacks a teenager who bullied him. He brought Wilson along for this and insists that Wilson kicks the shit out of this teenager when he’s on the ground.
• They go home, Bill Fisk is yelling at and attacking his wife. Wilson kills him with a hammer. Keeps hitting him, yelling “Keep kicking him!” To himself, just as he was ordered earlier.
• Wilson and his mom cut up the body to dump it in the river, then leave New York to evade mafia.

Cut to 2014

• Fisk is now a financier funneling money into fake companies to hide criminal profits
• works with 3 armed criminal groups in an alliance, basically managing their united business interests
• Completely non-public figure, you get the impression he prefers controlling things from the shadows - commanding other organisations and other individuals to do his will.
• These groups are into really shady things. The Russian mob kidnaps and trafficks people, the chinese mob has brainwashed slaves that process opium(?) for distribution across New York/the USA

Kingpin, the big heartless bastard, meets a woman. He falls in love.

• They both love fine things
• he’s trying to hide his criminal life from her
• in a devation from the source material, fisk is forced to admit to her (Vanessa) that he’s a gangster.
• Now, because the criminaks groups are being hounded by Daredevil, they’re starting to rebel against Kingpin. So he chooses to turn on them, one after another.
• He presents this to Vanessa from a moral high ground, citing that he ia destroying the Russian mob because they kidnapped a child.
• She thinks this is reasonable, and stays with him.

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.

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

• Kingpin is now out of jail for good, as if ray nadeem’s sacrifice wasn’t worth anything (unrealistic)

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?