10 Times Superheroes Fought The WRONG Villain

With the other entries on this list, while superheroes may fight other villains from other books, once the story is done, those villains will return to their rightful book and return the universe to the status quo. Giganta is still a Wonder Woman villain, Mysterio is still a Spidey villain, and even Darkseid still has the occasional pedantic comic nerd to remind people of where he originated.

But the Kingpin, who debuted as a Spider-Man villain? Yeah, no, that dude is a Daredevil villain.

Frank Miller needed a recognizable mobster villain that no one else was using for his newest story idea, so he pulled the Kingpin out of retirement. It's in this story - Gang War - that the Kingpin goes from a riff on Bond villains to the hyper intelligent, intimidating gangster we know him as today. All culminating, of course, in the first proper brawl between him and Daredevil.

There was just something about their interactions that clicked better than he ever did with Spider-Man. This could have something to do with Kingpin actually BEING a character this time around instead of a pastiche of spy movie villains, to the point where Miller was the one who gave Kingpin a proper name - Wilson Fisk. But more than that, their personalities and differing worldviews just meshed way better than with previous heroes the Kingpin took on.

It may have been the wrong villain at the time, but it soon became a full on adoption of Wilson Fisk into the world of Daredevil.