Marvel’s Echo Is Setting Up Kingpin To Be A Thanos-Like Big Bad

Marvel’s newest present, Echo, is ready to debut on January 9. While selling the present, producer Brad Winderbaum teased how Vincent D’Onofrio Kingpin might be portrayed within the MCU by evaluating him to Thanos.

In an interview with ScreenRant, Winderbaum was requested if Kingpin would play a extra distinguished function within the MCU and grow to be the “Thanos of this street-level corner of the MCU” and Winderbaum had this to share about Fisk:

“Oh, man, you kind of hit the nail on the head. I can’t say too much. Only that as a chapter in Wilson Fisk’s life, this is a crucial one and sets the stage in some remarkable ways for what’s coming next.”

Fisk has been closely teased as the primary antagonist for Echo. The present will revolve round his relationship with Maya Lopez (Echo) and options different MCU heroes, reminiscent of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil. On prime of that, Echo can have a TV-MA ranking and is the primary MCU present to debut on each Disney+ and Hulu.

For these unaware, Kingpin, aka Wilson Fisk, is a significant street-level villain within the Marvel comics. He basically runs New York City and is a major menace to plenty of the universe’s heroes. He’s typically going toe-to-toe with Peter Parker’s Spider-Man or Daredevil when he isn’t operating New York.

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