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Kingpin may refer to: Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

Kingpin may also be: Ford Model T front suspension, showing the king pin. ... The Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics villain who has battled many Marvel crime-fighters; most often Spider-Man, Daredevil and The Punisher. ... For other uses, see Daredevil (comics). ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Kingpin was an American crime/drama mini-series which debuted on NBC television in the United States and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. ... Kingpin is a 1996 Farrelly brothers film starring Woody Harrelson, Bill Murray, Vanessa Angel, and Randy Quaid. ... Kingpin: Life of Crime is a violent first-person shooter computer game developed by Xatrix Entertainment (now Gray Matter Interactive) and published by Interplay in 1999. ...

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Being There is a dual-disk album released in 1996 by the alternative country band Wilco. ...

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Kingpin (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2703 words)
A titanic figure with an ever-present cigar and diamond-studded cane, the Kingpin is the cold-blooded leader of the New York mafia, although his army of lawyers maintain his image as a legitimate businessman.
The Kingpin appeared in the 1990s-era Spider-Man animated series and in the 2003 Daredevil film, where he was played by Michael Clarke Duncan, who reprised his role in a subsequent Spider-Man animated series.
The Kingpin is a master of many forms of armed and unarmed combat, particularly sumo, jujitsu, and hapkido.
Kingpin (1546 words)
Through HYDRA the Kingpin planned to overthrow the United States government and even achieve world domination, but he turned against HYDRA upon learning that the Las Vegas contingent was actually controlled not by him but by the infamous Nazi war criminal, the Red Skull.
To prevent this, the new leaders of the Kingpin's crime syndicate kidnapped Vanessa, who was then apparently killed by a Kingpin aide who correctly saw her as the only obstacle preventing Fisk from returning to crime.
The Kingpin is virtually as strong as it is possible for a man of his age, height, and weight to be without having superhuman powers.
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