22 Facts About Vanessa Fisk

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Vanessa Fisk is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Vanessa Fisk's is married to the crime boss the Kingpin and is the mother of Richard Fisk, although she herself is not portrayed as a villain, and does not approve of her husband's criminal activities.

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Vanessa Fisk has been featured in a number of stories about the Kingpin, usually in those revolving around the superheroes Daredevil and Spider-Man.

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Vanessa Fisk's has appeared in several media adaptations, including the series Daredevil in which she was portrayed by Ayelet Zurer, and the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in which she was voiced by Lake Bell.

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At one point their son Richard Vanessa Fisk became involved in a plot to overthrow his father's criminal syndicate after discovering he was the Kingpin.

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The Kingpin was about to kill Spider-Man when the deadline passed, and Vanessa Fisk forced him to choose between Spider-Man's life or their life together.

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When Kingpin's former lieutenants in New York caught wind of his plans to sell them out in exchange for immunity, they kidnapped Vanessa Fisk, who was in town to secure the legal services of Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson.

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Vanessa Fisk's was buried alive in the rubble and presumed dead, although she did not actually die.

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Vanessa Fisk then forced the remaining mob leaders to confess to hiring the assassin Bullseye to kill several of Kingpin's men.

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When Kingpin was the victim of an assassination attempt orchestrated by her son, Vanessa Fisk arranged for Kingpin to be shipped out of the country to recover from his injuries, and cut a deal with his fellow mob bosses to divide up his recently rebuilt crime syndicate in exchange for a truce.

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Vanessa Fisk then murdered her son, who admitted to Vanessa Fisk that his motivation was to rid the family of his father, who he blamed for his family's troubles.

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Shortly afterwards, Vanessa Fisk died and Murdock was guilted into serving as the Kingpin's lawyer, getting the charges dropped on the grounds that the evidence was too tainted to bring him to court.

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Vanessa Fisk's has since been talking to him as a ghostly vision taunting him that he will never regain his former glory, an indication that her death still greatly affects him.

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Vanessa Fisk kills Fisk's associates using supernatural abilities and forces him to back off Parker after revealing he is in possession of Vanessa's soul.

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Vanessa Fisk did this as an act of redemption for Vanessa and even himself.

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Vanessa Fisk is cured near the end of the storyline by an antidote provided by Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia al Ghul, who recognizes Vanessa Fisk as a kindred spirit, as both of them loved men that society would regard as monsters.

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17.

Vanessa Fisk appears as an important background character in Ultimate Spider-Man.

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18.

Kingpin orders Vanessa Fisk to be taken out of the country before he is arrested himself over the attempted murder of Moon Knight.

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Vanessa Fisk blames Wilson for not preventing Richard's death, and after she attempts unsuccessfully to kill him for this, he evicts her from their home.

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Vanessa Fisk appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Lake Bell.

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21.

Vanessa Fisk appears in the novel Spider-Man: Forever Young, written by Stefan Petrucha.

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Vanessa Fisk's is featured in a retelling of the "Tablet" storyline that introduced the villain Silvermane.

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