Kingpin Was a Sadistic Warden in Marvels Darkest Timeline

Kingpin Was a Sadistic Warden in Marvel’s Darkest Timeline

In Warren Ellis’ Ruins (1995), a dark alternate timeline saw Fisk as the warden of a sadistic prison, torturing mutants like Cyclops and Quicksilver.

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Kingpin Was a Sadistic Warden in Marvels Darkest Timeline

Warning! Spoilers for Warren Ellis’ Ruins (1995) ahead!

Marvel’s Kingpin has never been portrayed as a particularly kind or caring man, but in Tales of the Marvels: Ruins Kingpin is shown to be a prison warden at his most brutal and sadistic. Ruins, a parody of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross’ Marvels series, shows a truly horrifying dystopian future for the Marvel universe. Fisk is peak evil in this darkest timeline, running a prison for super-powered beings who he tortures and maims relentlessly.

Released in 1995, Ruins was an apocalyptic mini-series, written by Warren Ellis with illustration by Joe Kaufman and Terese Nielsen, that showed what would have happened in a Marvel universe where, “It’s all gone wrong.” That is not an exaggeration in the slightest… in this universe basically any story that created most major heroes or villains has become corrupted beyond all recognition, causing all of the world’s “marvels” to become “horrors.” The two-issue event followed Phillip Sheldon (the same everyman character from Busiek’s Marvels) a reporter for The Daily Bugle, as he travels around the country interviewing the darkest versions of Marvel characters, heroes and villains alike.

Some of the more horrific stories told in Ruins include the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes reduced to a splinter cell of domestic terrorists, Jean Grey being forced into prostitution before being murdered by Nick Fury, and Bruce Banner disgustingly dying from gamma-irradiated tumors right after his initial exposure to radiation. However, Kingpin’s viciousness as the domineering warden of a prison to hold mutants is perhaps one of the most disturbing twists on a character’s story. As warden, Kingpin has horrifyingly tortured and mutilated some of the most classic X-Men characters, such as Cyclops, Kitty Pryde, and Quicksilver.

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As the tyrant of President X’s (a very disturbed and hateful Professor X) “paranormal prison,” Fisk has done horrible, awful things to his prisoners. As Fisk gives Sheldon a tour of the prison’s “Shock Corridor,” the first prisoner readers see is Scott Summers, and it is revealed that after manifesting his eyebeams, the man who would have been Cyclops accidentally incinerated his whole family, so Fisk intentionally blinded Scott, “…to get them eyebeams under control.” Moving on, Fisk tells Sheldon that Kitty Pryde’s last escape attempt ended with her solidifying halfway through her cell bars, causing her to “lose about three feet of intestines.” In perhaps the most terrifying reveal, Wilson brings Phillip to Quicksilver’s cell where he has had all four limbs ripped from his body, kept alive, but unable to run, walk, or escape.

In Marvel’s Prime universe Wilson Fisk is currently serving as an unsurprisingly manipulative Mayor of New York City, using his Thunderbolts team of super villains to help defeat The King in Black, lining him up to be the center of the upcoming Devil’s Reign event. Even as a manipulative politician, Wilson Fisk Prime is nowhere near as violent and sadistic as Warden Fisk was in Ellis’ Tales of the Marvels: Ruins, gleefully delighting in maiming his prisoners. Although Mayor Fisk has promised to “burn it all down” to defeat the world’s heroes, the Marvel Universe should remain thankful that it is not Warden Fisk controlling their fates.

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