By Huw Fullerton

Published: Wednesday, 01 December 2021 at 12:00 am


You know Marvel fans – they love to anticipate a massive returning character. But desperately theorising about whether Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire could turn up in Spider-Man: No Way Home is SO last week.

Now, it’s all about Kingpin, aka Wilson Fisk, aka the soft-spoken crime boss portrayed by Vincent D’Onofrio in Netflix’s Daredevil series opposite Charlie Cox’s masked hero. Rumours have swirled for a while that Kingpin would be making his return in new Marvel Disney Plus series Hawkeye, and the latest episode did nothing to dispel that idea – in fact, it did quite the opposite.

You see, episode three (titled Echoes) introduced us to a significant character – Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez, aka deaf martial artist Echo. In flashbacks we saw her challenging upbringing, followed by fighting success and her heartbreak when her loving (albeit criminal) dad was killed by the vigilante Ronin (actually Hawkeye/Clint going through some stuff).

Anyway, in the present day she runs the Tracksuit Mafia, a major group of antagonists facing our archers Clint (Jeremy Renner) and Kate (Hailee Steinfeld) in Hawkeye. Or at least that’s how it seems – because it’s later revealed that there’s another person she answers to, referred to as “Uncle”.

UNCLE IS DEFINITELY KINGPIN #Hawkeye pic.twitter.com/xe2EK3fEOd

— Comfort for Marvel TV stans (@MarvelTVcomfort) December 1, 2021