Originally posted by SoulDevourer
wait one...so Kingpin DOES have superhuman strength? 🤨 up to now it was implied he only had peak human strenghtso Kingpin is a mutant then? what are his other powers ? (aside superstrength)
With KP it's about eras. Technically, all of his feats are in continuity, but he's currently written FAR below the power levels that he used to have. There's no clear distinction between current KP and "classic" KP, but it happened some time in the late 80's or early 90's, when writers stopped writing him as a brawler and made him more of a schemer.
So currently, no, he's nowhere near superhuman. Peak human, perhaps. But he's just a buff crime boss. Classic Kingpin, however, was indeed both peak human and beyond. Physically overpowering Spider-Man in any era is at least a Class 10 feat.
Detractors like to say that Spidey didn't have defined strength levels in his early years, but he had feats that could be considered not just Cl. 10 but Class 50+ as early as ASM #33, well before KP's first appearance, so that excuse is a poor one, and also doesn't account for Fisk handing Cap, DD, Punisher, etc. etc. their asses as well, and things like bending steel.
So he's not a mutant. He's just a freakishly powerful human. Doesn't make sense? Welcome to comics. But that's only for classic KP. Current KP would get whupped by any high or mid street-leveler, most likely.
