Originally posted by redhotrash
Marv drove a guys skull into and dented a brick wall. The guy survived the electric chair. With no effort he snapped a man's forearm. Kingpin wouldnt want to fight someone like that.
no your right he would throw a hundred underlings at him first but MArv would still keep coming
KP way stronger.
Originally posted by severance
if i remeber rightly handbook has KP strength at 650lbs. We know what we think of handbooks round here. If he's got stronger feats on panel that is what counts
The problem with the handbooks is that the people who wrote them don't bother to checkout impressive strength/lifts in the real world... they just picked amounts that sounded impressive and wrote it down. You have to ignore them and look at the feats of Kingpin:
- punhces that seriously hurt Spider-man (Fisk not as strong by a lot, but no wight lifter of 650 lbs strength could even get Spidey's attention).
- He once had a secret room where he kept his files. No lock on the door, just a massive, steel door that weighed tons. It took Daredevil minutes of all-out effort to open it a crack. Fisk flung it wide open with one tug.
- has routinely wrenched car doors off, riped down steel bars, delivered punches that shatter concrete.
I could go on, but the point is, he's powerful. even today, slightly lesser than classic Kingpin, Wilson Fisk is easily twice as strong as those guys you see on strongman contest on ESPN- easily overhead presses 1200 lbs. or more.