Echo’s post-credits scene gives the MCU a villain who isn’t trying to take over the universe

polygon.com:

Echo has arrived and despite its smaller scale, it couldn’t help but shakeup its own small corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at least a little bit. Marvel’s first Spotlight series released all five episodes on Tuesday night, but it isn’t until the final moments of the series the show makes its own ripples. In usual Marvel fashion, the reveal came during a brief mid-credits scene.

Here’s everything you need to know about Echo’s mid-credits scene, and how it connects to the rest of the MCU — at least for the heroes who hang out on the streets of New York City.

[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Echo.]

While Daredevil shows up early in Echo, unsurprisingly it’s Kingpin who has the biggest impact at the end of the series. Echo’s one mid-credits scene opens on Wilson Fisk sitting in his private plane while the news plays in the background. New York City is in the thick of a heated mayoral election season and no clear frontrunner has emerged. In fact, the pundits describe it as a downright fight, and joke that a bare-knuckle boxer would probably have the best shot.

In other words, the people are practically begging for Mayor Kingpin, and the big man has noticed. Far from the universe (or multiverse) conquering aspirations of many MCU villains, it seems like Kingpin is content to set his sights squarely on the Big Apple for now.

Wilson Fisk has been the mayor of New York City in comics before — and fairly recent ones at that. He cheated (voter fraud) his way into the office on a platform of outlawing superheroes in New York City — which, following that whole Evil Captain America Tries to Take Over the United States thing, wasn’t as unpopular a position as you’d think. And he succeeded: Superheroes are still