From what we see, it appears that Fisk genuinely cares about Maya, which would be the most plausible explanation for why he ends up in many situations where he is vulnerable around her instead of being his carefully guarded self. This retroactively takes away from his character development in Daredevil season one.
Yes, I think so, but I still think he loves her. He wanted to manipulate her and he brainwashed her in a way as well, but Kingpin actually loves Maya. He is willing to give her an entire empire, and that is such a big deal because he knows that Maya will always have his back no matter what.
So yeah, I think that Kingpin does love her but in [his] own way. So, in the actress' opinion, the iconic baddie does love his Maya – but not in the traditional way.
Fisk becomes her guardian. Hoping to one day use her talents, Fisk subtly manipulates her into learning fighting skills as well as the performance arts, which she excels in both. She remains dedicated to Fisk as her father figure.
Wilson perceives her natural grace and depth of spirit, and he sees in her every lonely dream he has ever had. Later, Vanessa and Wilson fell in love and married soon after.
The Real Killer of Maya’s Father is Kingpin, Not Ronin
Why did Vanessa leave Fisk?
However, Kingpin was consumed by crime and refused to stop. After being kidnapped by Tombstone for the Kingpin's archenemy Silvermane, Vanessa eventually becomes fed up with the fact that crime had taken over Wilson's life, and leaves him, presumably divorcing him.
As the FBI broke into Wilson Fisk's Penthouse, Fisk gave her a ring and asked her to marry him, as the FBI took him away from her, Fisk told Marianna that she was his heart, leaving Marianna alone in the penthouse.
Operating very much in the grey area she has come to inhabit so well, after Maya learns that Fisk is the one responsible for her father's death, she decides to hit the Fisk criminal empire where it hurts — by knocking out their supplies.
Crazy Horse dies, leaving a bloody handprint on Maya's face and a last dying wish: that the Kingpin raise Maya well. Kingpin honors his dying wish, caring for her as his own daughter. Believed to be mentally disabled, Maya is sent to an expensive school for people with learning disabilities.
William Lopez was a commander of the Tracksuit Mafia, the brother of Henry Lopez and the father of Maya Lopez. When Taloa Lopez died, William was disowned by his family and moved to New York. He was then murdered by Ronin acting on a tip from Kingpin.
It's obvious that Maya has bowed down to him and revered him as this high entity basically her whole life. They love each other so much, and it's kind of crazy how Kingpin can forgive her after she shot him in the head, but they just love each other so much that it's just very interesting to see that.
However, there was no one to whom Narcissus would return affection. Echo was a nymph who was destined a fate that she could only repeat the sounds and last words of others. One day she spotted and fell in love with Narcissus. She followed him through the woods but could not speak without repeating his words.
He also makes the mistake of revealing that he killed his father and kept the hammer he used to do it. This doesn't sit well with Maya, who rejects Fisk. Eventually, Maya and Fisk come to blows in Oklahoma, and the fight ends with Maya using her healing powers to make Fisk confront his trauma.
Considering the previous events of Hawkeye, where viewers first met Maya, she starts off the series largely known as a foe. And along with Maya's growing body count in Echo, director and executive producer Sydney Freeland tells Marvel.com, “The goal was never to turn her from a villain to a hero.
Kingpin has a similar position in the comics, in which he's a major villain for both Daredevil and Spider-Man. Just like most Marvel characters, Wilson Fisk isn't all evil, and has had his more positive moments. However, that doesn't change the fact that he's done many awful things.
Douglas: At first, we were discussing how to make Kingpin use his technology. He didn't learn sign language. He didn't want to learn and would hire interpreters. But he decided not to hire interpreters as he wanted to use advanced technology, we wanted to make it “imperfect” for Deaf people.
"I grew up playing different kinds of sports — I would play one-on-one basketball with my older brother — so I love doing those kinds of physical things," the actress, who, like her character Maya Lopez, is an amputee and has been deaf all her life, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.
He tells Maya that her boss—who we find out later is Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio)—wanted her father dead; this convinces her to leave him and his family alone. Toward the end of the last episode, Maya and Fisk are together in an alley, and she shoots him, leaving him for dead.
As for her name: yes, in the comics, it derived from the fact that she could "echo" other people's powers. In the series, it derives from the fact that she can "echo" her ancestor's powers.
Matt, meanwhile, revealed to Poindexter that Fisk had Julie killed in order to send him after Fisk. Elsewhere, Karen and Foggy made Nadeem's video public – something Fisk was rattled to discover in the midst of his happiest moment, as he danced with Vanessa at their wedding reception.
Though Maya has every reason to hate Fisk, given how he killed her father and threatened to kill the rest of her family, Maya defeats Fisk with a surprising method.
From what we see, it appears that Fisk genuinely cares about Maya, which would be the most plausible explanation for why he ends up in many situations where he is vulnerable around her instead of being his carefully guarded self. This retroactively takes away from his character development in Daredevil season one.
One night, Karen took Urich to go see Fisk's mother at a senior care facility, where she was suffering with dimentia. She told them that Fisk killed his father, which Karen hoped would help take down Fisk. James Wesley was informed by Fisk's mother that Karen visited her, and found Page and kidnapped her.
In the episodes "Tablet of Time" and "Ravages of Time", she is one of the few characters aware of Wilson Fisk's criminal empire. Eventually, Vanessa decides to divorce Wilson and leaves for good, unable to deal with being married to a criminal.
Wesley was hired as the personal assistant of Wilson Fisk, dealing with many of his criminal plans. Over the years of working together, the two developed a strong friendship, with Fisk eventually treated him like his own son.
