The Real Life Wilson Fisk 

Fisk vs. Thanos “You should’ve gone for the” (crushes head with giant SUV)

Makes you think about how Daredevil, who is blind, can see the beauty in the communities of Hell’s Kitchen better than Fisk.

You missed another parallel: The source of Wilson Fisk's power is his brain. He is athletic, but otherwise physically normal. He can do what he does because he understands how people think, how their institutions work, and how to use that to get what he wants. Robert Moses had a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Berlin. He used his intimate knowledge of law and governance to get elected officials to empower him without realizing the implications of what they were doing before it was too late. Someone being smart doesn't make them humane. Ask Dr. Mengel.

You can't be the savior and the oppresser at the same time like Madame gao said. Love this video.

"There are people everywhere who believe that any action can be justified in service of their goals."

But did he crush someone’s head in a car door tho?

I'd say it's more that Daredevil cares about the people of Hell's Kitchen, while Fisk only cares about the place. I mean, neither Fisk nor Moses actually helped anyone as a result, they just created a nicer looking place.

wilson frisk is way better then loki, he was a perfect villain

My take away from this is if we have real people like Wilson Fisk we need real people like Daredevil. I'm going to dress up in a colorful full body kevlar suit and fight armed criminals with my hands. Who's with me?

This is almost at the Stalinist level of evil genius. What a Will, though. A corrupted, flawed, morally blind Will . One has to admire the drive to the aesthetic, to the beautiful. But it came at too high a cost.

I agree - Wilson Fisk is the "best" Marvel villain I've ever seen. This video was very interesting - even my kids wanted to watch it, and they mostly like cartoons still. It was a great teachable moment for all of us.

The funny thing is Robert Moses is in the MCU canon. I recently saw an episode of Luke Cage and they mentioned him in a book someone was reading.

2 keys to a great antagonist; a good character profile and a display of their Talents and/or intelligence. Like Wilson Fisk, the Joker is a great example of this.

This video was great! I thought this was a movie/show analysis channel. Took awhile to realize it was FEE!

I'm from New York originally. We have a reputation for putting up controversial strongmen for positions of power. William Tweed, Teddy Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Nelson Rockefeller, Mario Cuomo, Rudi Giuliani, Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo and Peter King.

That was really, really well thought out and put together. Thank you.

Fuuuu... This is one of the best anti-collectivist anti-statist videos I've seen. The most convincing arguments are true with a rhetorical flourish. Brilliant.

4:33 translating into a MCU quote : "the hardest choices require the strongest wills"

The difference between Fisk's and Daredevil's vision is that... Daredevil doesn't have a vision since he's blind...

My favorite is Agent Orange. His character may be pretty motiveless but I love how evil he is. It takes an extremely evil character to make me cheer at getting his eyes punched out.

Wow! Great video. Thank you!

Robert Moses also contributed to the demolition of Manhattan's, as well as some of Brooklyns elevated train lines. While many at the time believed that elevated trains blighted neighbourhoods, it was in fact their demolition that led to the further concentration of poverty within New York City.

In an unfortunate and tragic side note regarding the case for eminent domain: the original World Trade Center. For the office complex that eventually housed the Twin Towers to be built, an entire neighborhood was demolished. Once called Radio Row, this neighborhood contained some structures that dated back to the Civil War. Relating to the correlation between Fisk and Moses, another duo could be added to the list of real life villains. In this case, brothers.... David & Nelson Rockefeller. In post-WWII NY, David ran Chase Manhattan Bank, while Nelson Rockefeller would become governor of the state. This combination of financial and political powers was enough to get the Twin Towers built. Yet, like every great facility built in New York, they came at the expense of the poor and many non-whites formerly living there. Truth can be stranger than fiction 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊

After 3rd season of Daredevil, i agree Kingpin is an amazing villain

Wilson Fisk and Daredevil make a fantastic analogy for the opposition of Communism and Capitalism.

While I really loved Kilgrave from Jessica Jones I’ve got to agree that Wilson Fisk is the best villain in the MCU, though damn it Kilgrave is a close second. This is a great video, it’s great seeing this show analysed. I love this show but I’ve always found it tricky to describe what I like so much about, this has definitely helped and for that I thank you.

My top 5 Personal biased favorite marvel villains 1. Doom 2. Kingpin 3. Juggernaut 4. Crossbones 5. Apocalypse

Hi Sean: Caro's biography is one of the best books ever (monumental in size, befitting Moses and Fisk). The greatness of the book is in its way to present a more balanced view of Moses, warts and all. This nuance is of course lost when you compare him to a comic book villain, but Vincent D's Fisk works so well because you can wrap your head around Fisk's humanity and even has you rooting for him in some situations. "In order to make an omelette you need to break a few eggs" is a good counter to the video's takeaways (no, they really shouldn't be broken in car doors). Many governments today are simply unable to do infrastructure work because there are SO many interest groups to consider - the Pacific NW is a good example as the smallest environmental impacts can paralyze an project for years. NIMBY is now the rule rather than the exception and it seems the pendulum has swung too far the other way (but always in the favor of the moneyed parties, that hasn't changed)

Wilson Fisk in the Netflix show is my favorite villain of all time!!

In the comics, Wilson Fisk should win an award based on Robert Moses...

Seems the best villains in marvel have the most realistic motives. (Thanos, Fisk, etc.)

Loki was overused

I think that we all have a little bit of Wilson Fisk in us. The word Bureaucracy comes from the French word Bureau which means desk. It literally means government from/by the desk. I think bureaucracy is specifically the necessary Evil the founding fathers were concerned with. Organized yes, capable of great feats possibly, but tyrannical always. I think the incompetence and ineffectiveness of bureaucracy has obfuscated the subtle but very dark and real evil that lies beneath. We see glimpses of this whether it was the failures to fix the levies in New Orleans, the way the Federal government treated Indians, or the way a banking institution collapsed our economy. (Multiple times)

Fisk's morning ritual of making omelets ties into this ends and means issue. "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs". Fisk is willing to break eggs. But human lives aren't eggs.

1:36-1:57 "Sound like anyone we know?" Me: Judge Doom

Wow!! That was deep. Thanks for sharing.

I never knew about that guy thank you man

"Whos the best villain in the marvel cinematic universe?" Big Wheel

They should make a crossover episode where Detective Goren ends up interogating or at least talking to Wilson Fisk for some reason.

Excellent!!! nicely done. I learned about Moses.in the process. Thank you

In my humble opinion, the marvellous portrayal of Wilson Fisk is a big reason why Daredevil is currently my favourite superhero TV show bar none.

This is gold, thank you!.

This is even better after watching Daredevil Season 3 XD

Completely agree with your opinion

Dude this video is fantastic

Imminent domain is one of those powers that I do not think people expected would be abused when created. I think what people forget is that like every other government power it is supposed to be exercised within the framework, context and constraints of the constitution and the bill of rights.

Well thought out and informative analysis!

when he said he was a power broker it made me giddy for the possibility of kingpin to be the power broker in FAWS

Here in Florida where I live, we have something very similar. The Dixie Mafia doing exactly this shit through a big front company.

Excellent video. Great summation of Moses' influence, both great and terrible, to New York.

This was really nice, great job.

Thanks for the history lesson. Might watch Daredevil one day.

The stuff where he forced people out of their homes was sad. But ngl, the part that made me hate him was when you said that he was the barbaric swine who destroyed Penn Station. Gosh I'm mad now.

kingpin is a great villain, but the true no 1 comic book villain is still joker from the dark knight 2008 though i still love this explanation, i learned a lot from this.. thank you !

Good video, I really enjoyed this.

Am I Wilson Fisk playing City Skylines?

shared it on my facebook page..will try to share via more means...will tell my author to write an article on this in my site too , very nice job

Incredible.

Good job 👍

Fisk seems like he could easily fit in both the Marvel and DC universes

My top 10 Personal biased favorite MCU villains 1 Thanos 2 Wilson fisk 3 Loki 4 baron zemo 5 obadiah stane 6 alexander pierce 7 iron man 8 Erik Killmonger 9 hela 10 Jigsaw

Unfortunately marvel still hasn't put netflix's vision of daredevil on the big screen, give the people what they want, great video

According to a Marvel, the top three most popular villains are : #1 - Red Skull #2 - Magneto #3 - Dr. Doom Kingpin is only #8 and Thanos is #6. Dr. Doom is consistently regarded as the most evil villain in all of Marvel purely for his accomplishments, dialogue, and what he's done to members of the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and S.H.I.E.L.D.

Thats why I prefer Marvel Comics over DC comics... Marvel always deals with real world problems and takes place in our world... Always gives you the idea that these adventures might be real... DC has good characters and good stories, but personally I read them as fantasy novels most of the time (Batman has some very good comics and so does Superman when Lex Luthor is the villain)... Btw, very good video, great job!!!

Using modern pop culture as tie in to individual liberty and property rights is very smart. Well done..

All the best fiction is based in reality. Still, its more than a little freaky knowing that a guy like Fisk actually existed.

Wilson Fisk and Daredevil are doing what theyre supposed to do..Theyre representing their characters very welll..theyre doing their job

The actor is outstanding!

I think it's a bit worrying how people think they need to go back to the black & white era to find people like Wilson Fisk. As if there weren't people just as bad and corrupted in today's political system.

3:20 i like the emphasis on kingpin. the show never actually namedropped him (at least not in s1, i haven't watched s3)

the means create the ends.

Wow... Knowing this completely changes the lens through which I view this villan. I loved him, the only thing I liked in daredevil... It is even as if Marvel is then saying "if only the blacks had a white savior back then..." It feels slimy but also unlikely. I guess taking on the macropolitics of the villain would have made the storyline too big.

This actually is happening in my country, with rich men being support by power of government forcing people out of their homes with minimal compensation and the people don't have any means to even question them. It goes like this: the government tells people in the neighborhood that they have a reconstruction plan for that area, so it's the people's responsibility to comply. They get a minimal compensation money and being offered a new place with higher price, so they actually get in a big debt while being forced from their original homes. After several years, the "reconstruction" plan turns out to be government lending out that area to some high power corporation with n times higher price than what they compensate the people, and the corporation uses the area to build high end apartment buildings. So the "plan" is meaningless, while people are forced out of their homes, get a new one with with a big out-of-nowhere debt in their lives, government as the middle man takes money from big corporation while compensate people with minimal amount, and corporate transforms the area from low price living area to high price living area.

Of course, there are also authoritarians like Lee Kuan Yew who actually did improve people's quality of life. Whether centralized power is good or bad depends very much upon whom the recipient of that power is.

My takeaway is: learn some martial arts, design a cool costume, and take to the streets to whup ass how you see fit. Nothing can possibly go wrong with that.

oh you meant marvel cinematic universe, rather than the entirety of the marvel universe. Galactus, Thanos, Dr Doom, Green Goblin, Dr Octopus, Magneto, and the Red Skull are pretty great villians

If Kingpin AKA Wilson Fisk was a real person, I will fight that big man 😤

Kingpin and Bushmaster are the best!

So that's why the beach is called Robert Moses

Anybody else see the irony in his name? Dudes last name is Moses and caused an exodus of the poor and weak from their homes.

Great video.

Real Daredevil would have to be my manger from the Seeing Eye Dogs offices. Minus the suit and equipment, double times the cool heightening of non-visual senses.

I'm so glad Vincent got to show his true worth in the role of Fisk. Up until Daredevil, I just knew him as the fat guy who shot himself in the head in FMJ.

Please do Punisher!

Yep, from what i have heard. He made the Dodgers move to Los Angeles, where in the process of building the stadium they kicked an entire community of poor people out of their homes.

*who's the best villain in the MCU?* That would be Framework Fitz.

Thank God we have men like Robert Moses.

So basically, the ends don’t define the means. You said Fisk and Daredevil want the same ends. But have different means. Couple that with the general notion that encroaching on individual rights and liberties is bad, the right means becomes crystal clear.

Hulk is not a villain. Because his true self, Bruce Banner, is actually a good man

I liked your video a very good history lesson.

He's a PONTIFEX !

I agree and great video

Wilson Fisk and Thanos are the GOATs

I've made a video on the evil man Moses on a computer made in a factory in China using corvee labor(pittance slavery) where they have suicide netting so the rest of you can watch this video on a cell phone made using rare earth metals dredged from the oceans, causing devastating damage to the environment. But Moses was a super villain.

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Kilgrave?

There is only two different thing in this world. Those who like to grow faster by force and others who still live in fantasy world. In the process of Wilson Fisk changing his world, Daredevil took credit by playing vigilante. Wilson Fisk is the reality and Daredevil is fantasy world.

Fisk is not the other one only villain of the Marvel cinematic universe there’s other villains from the Marvel universe like green goblin in the punisher whatever it is for people to join us one at Vons of the marvel to it of the season of how to University

Actually, the Dodgers, we're already in Los Angeles by the time Shea Stadium was built.

His voice sounds cool