Snake5555555555 posted...
I get that! It was a prominent series and influential in many ways plus holds a lot of nostalgia with people, clearly.
Yet, there's even more Spider-Man animated series where Kingpin is only a small part of or doesn't even appear at all. Three separate Spider-Man live action film series where Kingpin makes zero appearances.
To me a character on the "Mount Rushmore" of whatever would be an indispensable part of that thing and clearly Kingpin is not one of the main necessities when it comes to doing a Spider-Man adaptation. Compare it to Daredevil where every live-action adaptation so far has featured Kingpin. Because they are way more intertwined.
*flips the chessboard over*
Who would be on Kingpin's Mt. Rushmore of antagonists?
Also, Kingpin's been a rise in Spider-Man media for a while now. First boss in Insomniac's Spider-Man whose defeat sets the criminal chaos in motion. Main antagonist of Into the Spider-Verse whose experiments/defeat created the antagonist for Across the Spider-Verse and beyond. He was a prominent villain in the Ultimate universe for young Peter including owning Spider-Man's likeness rights. I was going to mention NYC Mayor, but that was indeed more a Daredevil/Luke Cage problem, and he's a bit in the mutant scene with the Hellfire Club these days.