Vanessa Fisk
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| Vanessa Fisk | |
 Vanessa Fisk Alex Maleev, Art |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Amazing Spider-Man #70 |
| Created by | Stan Lee John Romita, Sr. |
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| Full name | Vanessa Fisk |
| Supporting character of | Daredevil Spider-Man |
Vanessa Fisk is a Marvel Comics character.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
She is the wife of Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. She loves him deeply, but disagrees with his ways of crime. Vanessa recently split up with Wilson Fisk, although she returned to New York when she found out her son, Richard Fisk had tried to kill her husband. Furious, she killed Richard and took Kingpin away to recuperate.
In the recent pages of Daredevil, with Kingpin in prison, Vanessa was revealed as Daredevil's mysterious manipulator since writer Ed Brubaker took over. Slowly dying from the effects of killing her own son, Vanessa had constructed an elaborate revenge plot on Daredevil, who, along with Kingpin, she blamed for the death of Richard, seeing the two of them as being locked in a permanent pointless cycle of violence where nobody could win. Having faked Foggy Nelson's death in an attempt to provoke Murdock into killing Fisk while in prison, she subsequently hired Iron Fist to pose as Daredevil and drive Matt to break out of prison to find Foggy's murderer, resulting in him following a trail all the way to her. She offered to clear Matt Murdock of the allegations that he was Daredevil, as long as he would fight in court to free Kingpin, so the next life Kingpin ended would be upon Matt's head and drive him into a new bout of self-loathing. Although he expressed regret that Vanessa had come to this, Daredevil declined the offer, but Vanessa had the FBI director who outed Matt killed anyway, faking suicide with a note left confessing to framing Matt. With his name cleared shortly after Vanessa's death, Matt finally decided to serve as the Kingpin's lawyer, getting the charges dropped on the grounds that the evidence was too tainted to bring him to court, but convincing Kingpin to leave the country and end their feud in honour of the memory of the person Vanessa Fisk had been in life rather than the bitter woman she'd become prior to her death as a result of their actions.
[edit] Other versions
[edit] Intercompany Crossovers
In Batman & Spider-Man #1, Vanessa is infected with terminal cancer by Ra's Al Ghul, who offers the Kingpin the cure for it in exchange for his help in a plot that will destroy New York. Disgruntled under Ra's, the Kingpin forms an alliance with Spider-Man and Batman and succeeds in defeating Ra's, only to be denied the cure for his wife's cancer by the beaten eco-terrorist. Vanessa is cured near the end of issue by Ra's Al Ghul's daughter Talia Al Ghul, who recognizes Vanessa as a kindred spirit, as both of them loved a man that society would regard as a monster.
[edit] Ultimate Universe
Vanessa Fisk has had only a cameo in Ultimate Spider-Man, but she is nonetheless important to Kingpin's character.
The Kingpin sought the Tablet of Time, but was stolen by the Black Cat, who wanted revenge on Fisk for putting her father in jail. She threw it in the water before being impaled by Elektra.
It was later revealed that Kingpin wanted the Tablet for his wife Vanessa, who was in a coma. Although he didn't believe in its alleged powers, she did, and he would do anything to wake her up.
Later, after Kingpin torched his law office, a crazed Daredevil broke into Fisk's home and threatened to murder the comatose Vanessa by snapping her neck, but was stopped by Spider-Man. Fisk ordered Vanessa to be taken out of the country before he was arrested himself over the attempted murder of Moon Knight.
[edit] In other media
Vanessa Fisk has appeared in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, played by Caroline Goodall. In the series, she is one of the few characters who are aware that Wilson Fisk is the Kingpin. In the end of Ravages of Time, Vanessa decides to leave New York and Wilson for good, unable to deal with being the wife of a criminal.
