Top 30 villains in television history

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12. Kingpin 

Daredevil has been a bit uneven throughout its run, but Kingpin has consistently been good. Vincent D’Onofrio takes on the infamous comic book bad guy with a fiery intensity. He’s Matt Murdock’s greatest villain, the mob boss who butts heads with Daredevil quite often. Like Murdock, his father is also killed while he was a child, however this time it’s by Kingpin’s own hand.

It’s a moment that defines the rest of Wilson Fisk’s life, as he is constantly haunted by the brutal murder he performed to help himself and his mother escape from a cycle of abuse. He isn’t initially Kingpin in the first season of Daredevil, instead, he’s a gangster just beginning to realize how brutal the New York underbelly can be.

However, in Season Two he begins to embrace his vindictive nature after he winds up inside a jail cell. Fisk is responsible for sending the Punisher knocking on Matt Murdock’s door as he attempts to get revenge against the lawyer who ruined his life. While he is consistently underestimated because of how big he is, most villains just see him as an aggressive mobster.

However, in season two Wilson Fisk’s mental ability is shown through his meeting with Matt Murdock. When Matt fights back after Fisk attacks him, he leaves a cut on his lip that the latter remembers receiving from Daredevil. The mob boss is well on his way to discovering the devil of Hell’s Kitchen’s real identity and Matt is about to have one huge problem.