As a supervillain, Wilson Fisk — aka the Kingpin — knows no loyalty, even to his enemies. While he was created in the pages of a Spider-Man comic, he has no qualms about menacing Daredevil as well, or the Punisher, or Luke Cage, or pretty much any street-level superhero in Marvel’s New York City. But this past week he’s set his sights considerably farther afield by claiming asylum on Krakoa, the paradise island that exists only for mutants.
If you’re confused, there’s good reason: The Kingpin isn’t, and has never been, a mutant in Marvel continuity. So where does he get off claiming Krakoan citizenship and all the benefits thereof? It’s simple:
He’s married to a mutant.
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Wilson and fellow Daredevil villain Typhoid Mary tied the knot in 2021’s Daredevil #36, a few months before they literally sailed off into the sunset at the end of the Devil’s Reign event. And while it’s never been the most defining detail of her character, Mary’s psychic powers do derive from her mutant gene.
I can only imagine how long X-Men writer Gerry Duggan has been waiting to pull this Chekhov’s gun down off the wall — probably at least since the Devil’s Reign: X-Men tie-in series, in which he penned a secret and testy past run-in between Emma Frost and Wilson Fisk.
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