{"id":9072,"date":"2021-12-22T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1541083"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:19:10","slug":"what-is-kingpins-fate-after-the-hawkeye-finale","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-is-kingpins-fate-after-the-hawkeye-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kingpin\u2019s fate after the Hawkeye finale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 22 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Disney Plus series Hawkeye<\/a> finally brought back the character fans had been hoping for this week, with Vincent D\u2019Onofrio\u2019s crime lord Kingpin \u2013 last seen in the cancelled Netflix<\/a> Daredevil series \u2013 returning as the leader of the Tracksuit mafia and battling Kate (Hailee Steinfeld) in Hawkeye\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to see D\u2019Onofrio back in action as the iconic Wilson Fisk \u2013 but what\u2019s next for his revival of the character given the events of the finale? Look away now if you haven\u2019t seen the Hawkeye finale, because we\u2019ll be discussing with spoilers below the break.<\/p>

Is Kingpin dead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In his final scene of the episode, Kingpin (who escapes police custody after being blown up by trick arrowheads) comes face-to-face with Maya (Alaqua Cox), his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and adoptive niece who recently discovered he wasn\u2019t quite as nice an uncle as she thought (he had her father murdered years before).<\/p>\n

While Fisk tries to talk Maya round, she\u2019s not taking him at face value any more. Their scene ends with Maya unbuckling her sidearm and pointing the gun at Kingpin, and as the camera pans away we hear a final shot.<\/p>\n

But\u2026 surely that\u2019s not it, right? After all the hullabaloo of bringing D\u2019Onofrio back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems odd to off him again after just one episode \u2013 especially when his old nemesis, Charlie Cox\u2019s Daredevil<\/a>, has also been confirmed to be back in the MCU after Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vincent D\u2019Onofrio as Kingpin in Hawkeye (Disney Plus)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

We\u2019re taking it as a misdirect. As a rule in these sort of stories, if you don\u2019t see a gunshot hitting its intended target or a body, then that victim hasn\u2019t really died. Somehow, Kingpin must have slithered out of danger again.<\/p>\n

And we might already know how he survived. In the comics, there\u2019s a similar storyline where Kingpin takes Maya\/Echo under his wing, convinces her someone else is to blame for her dad\u2019s death (in that case, Daredevil) when it was him all along. And just like in Hawkeye she figures out the truth and turns on her mentor, shooting him point-blank in the face with a gun.<\/p>\n

However, as we\u2019ve seen in the Hawkeye finale Kingpin is a tough cookie. In the comics he ends up surviving the shot, though suffers eye trauma that renders him blind for a while (in parallel with his nemesis Daredevil).<\/p>\n

It seems likely that either the confirmed Echo\/Maya TV series or some other Marvel project (possibly a Daredevil revival now Charlie Cox is back) will see this storyline adapted \u2013 Kingpin blind but still powerful, trying to get his revenge and control New York once more.<\/p>\n

Or, you know, maybe he did just get killed one episode after his introduction, just when Daredevil is back in the MCU. Somehow, the mad comics theories seem more likely\u2026<\/p>\n

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