20 Things You Didn’t Know About Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

13. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse's Kingpin Design Takes From One Specific Comic

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Wilson Fisk AKA Kingpin serves as the overarching villain of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Although the tyrannical gangster is renowned for his immense size in the comics, the writers wanted to push this even further, by making Fisk abnormally bulky.

According to producer, Phil Lord, this Kingpin is "the living expression of a black hole," since he envelops everything around him. (This description is very on point, since Fisk's Collider opens a black hole.) As Lord further explains:

"His physical presence doesn't leave room for anything else. He can just stand there, and everything bends to his will, even the camera. He is basically this pure black figure and the most abstracted animated character I've ever seen."

To perfect Fisk's design, the filmmakers drew inspiration from Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz' graphic novel, Daredevil: Love and War, where the criminal mastermind is depicted as inhumanly large.

As an added bonus, the art style of Kingpin's flashback was designed to match Bill Sienkiewicz' work.

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