Hail to the King

In Marvel's Hail to the King, after entering witness protection in exchange for the name of his associates, Wilson Fisk is relocated to a small desert town under the name Frederick "Freddie" Foswell. There, Fisk finds work as a mechanic, a trade he had some experience with prior to becoming a district attorney and his abusive father's profession. He befriends a struggling single mother who works as a waitress at a diner opposite Fisk's garage. Despite his attempts to "go straight" and forgo his past, Fisk is hounded by his FBI handler, a gang of small-time crooks (led by a version of the Scorpion, Maximus Gargan who, like his Ultimate Universe counterpart, has a chain with a metal scorpion-like stinger attached to the end of it), and a man who has connected "Foswell" to his past as the mayor of New York and is attempting to blackmail him. Halfway through the mini-series Fisk is stabbed and left to die in the middle of nowhere (mirroring the fate of Vince Vaughn's character Frank in the finale of True Detective season 2) and walks and walks until he is "saved" by a group of "carnival freaks" (this continuity's version of the Enforcers) which consists of Jackson "Montana" Brice (portrayed by Jonathan Tucker; Montana will go on to become this universe's "Shocker" per The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series) and Adrian Toomes (this version of Adrian was affected by the Particle Accelerator Explosion; he has physical traits of and behaviour similar to an Vulture. This character draws inspiration from the Marvel Noir version of the Vulture as well as The Penguin from Tim Burton's Batman Returns). Toomes had been following Fisk throughout his "death walk" waiting for him to die with the intentions of cannibalizing him afterwards, as real life Vultures tend to do. The season ends with Fisk in Las Vegas, climbing up the criminal ladder as he did years earlier, and setting himself as Kingpin once more, this time controlling the gangs and crime families of the West Coast, whom he competed with when he was the Kingpin of the East Coast, by leading a siege on one of Lucky Lewis' casinos. It is implied earlier in a Daredevil season that the West Coast never had a kingpin with Alexander Bont describing it as essentially being "the wild west". Despite returning to his "villainous" ways, Fisk isn't entirely without a heart, once again exhibiting his more positive traits from the earlier seasons, such as saving the aforementioned blackmailer.

Cast and Crew

 * Vince Vaughn as Wilson Fisk
 * ... as Maximus Gargan
 * ... as Jackson Brice
 * ... as Adrian Toomes
 * ... as Lucky Lewis

Episodes

 * Episode 1
 * Episode 2
 * Episode 3
 * Episode 4
 * Episode 5
 * Episode 6