In the first episode of “Echo” (“Chafa”), Kingpin opens up to Maya Lopez/Echo (Alaqua Cox), saying when he was 12 years old, he too lost his father. If you’ve seen “Daredevil,” then you know this — and that the Kingpin is lying about how he mourned. Fisk’s childhood is shown via flashback in season 1, episode 8, “Shadows in the Glass.” Wilson Fisk (Cole Jensen) is a sensitive, overweight momma’s boy and a disappointment to his thuggish father Bill (Domenick Lombardozzi).
Fisk Sr. is an aspiring somebody, running for a City Council seat with loan shark money. When he loses, little Wilson gets teased about it by schoolyard bullies — so Bill personally makes him hit back. When Bill starts savagely beating his wife Marlene (Angela Reed), Wilson grabs a hammer and bashes his father’s head in, his trauma from beating the bully flaring up with every hit. Wilson and his mother then proceed to slice up Bill’s body and dispose of it.
Kingpin arrives in Tamaha, Oklahoma at the end of “Echo” episode 3, “Tuklo.” During the fourth episode, “Taloa,” he reveals the truth about his father’s death to Maya — he’s even kept the hammer with him all these years and challenges Maya to “free” herself by killing him with it, for he’s failed her as his father failed him.
The Kingpin having an abusive father, whom he murdered, is not exclusive to the Netflix “Daredevil” series (it was also his backstory in “Spider-Man: The Animated Series,” for instance). However, the specific details in “Echo” (e.g. the hammer) originate in “Daredevil.”
At a minimum, this means the MCU won’t shy away from drawing on the Netflix shows if it suits them. After all, with Cox and D’Onofrio back, these are spiritually the same Daredevil and Kingpin no matter what the lore says.
“Echo” is now streaming on Disney+.