Vincent D'Onofrio Has Perfect Response To "Dumbass" Fan Who Says DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN "Ruined" The Kingpin

Vincent D'Onofrio Has Perfect Response To "Dumbass" Fan Who Says DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN "Ruined" The Kingpin

Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio has hit back at a fan who claimed the new Marvel Studios TV series has "ruined" Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the Kingpin of Crime. Find his response after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Mar 11, 2025 06:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil

The great thing about social media is that it gives everyone a platform to share their thoughts. At the same time, giving everyone that opportunity isn't always the best idea. 

Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio recently celebrated the glowing reviews the series has received, only for one fan to reply by telling him, "It sucked actually and your character is pathetic and thoroughly ruined." They would know, right? 

Unfortunately for them, they use "Dumbass" as their screen name (it's hardly a surprise they're hiding their real identity), allowing the Kingpin actor to reply, "Thanks for your support dumbass."

Wilson Fisk wins again. 

Daredevil: Born Again has made some big changes to the villain. He's seemingly given up his criminal empire to "save" New York by becoming its Mayor. It's clear Fisk is up to something, though his focus is currently on outlawing vigilantes in the Big Apple. 

"Fisk is on a journey," D'Onofrio recently told the Los Angeles Times. "He wants to expand his reach. He’s going to get more control, and it’s going to be dangerous. It’s not going to be good for anybody."

He added that Daredevil: Born Again's first season will "[remind audiences] how cunning [Fisk is] and how much of a team Vanessa and him make. There’s no stopping this guy. He’s a broken man with a lot of power; he’s not gonna stop."

D'Onofrio first played the Kingpin in 2015's Daredevil TV series and later made his MCU debut in Hawkeye before reprising the role in Echo. He's already confirmed for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 but likely won't appear in Spider-Man 4.

You can check out D'Onofrio's X exchange in the posts below.

In Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

The series also stars Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, with Ayelet Zurer and Jon Bernthal. Dario Scardapane is showrunner.

"A masterpiece of epic proportions, Daredevil: Born Again delivers a powerful, unmissable take on the Man Without Fear," we said in our review"Putting street-level heroics on the map in a way that promises to change the MCU forever, the show is sublime superhero storytelling on a whole new level."

Daredevil: Born Again's first two episodes are now streaming on Disney+. 

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DrSmoonk
DrSmoonk - 3/11/2025, 6:24 AM
Reporting on week old Twitter altercations now, are we Josh? [frick]ing fantastic journalism. Really earning those 6 figures
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 3/11/2025, 6:30 AM
@DrSmoonk - You help with those figures by clicking on his articles. How does it feel being a cog in Josh's bank account?
vectorsigma
vectorsigma - 3/11/2025, 6:31 AM
@DrSmoonk - tbf, this era of social media made the dumbassess of dumbasses like josh here have their 6 figures while us who work hard for an honest living earn just a small portion of that.

Sad but true
DrSmoonk
DrSmoonk - 3/11/2025, 6:39 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - incorrect. Adblockers prevent me from being a cog in Josh’s account. Means no accidental ad clicks or analytics/personal data from me. It’s quite simple really.

KwisatzHaderach
KwisatzHaderach - 3/11/2025, 6:49 AM
@DrSmoonk - Add blockers don’t prevent the traffic you’ve given, so sorry to break it to you but you’re a cog. A big fat cog, and Josh is all the more richer for it.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 3/11/2025, 6:51 AM
@KwisatzHaderach - Is that clown crying again? I have him blocked, but yeah, feel free to let him know his Ad Block makes zero difference. I get paid either way. 😂
DrSmoonk
DrSmoonk - 3/11/2025, 7:18 AM
@KwisatzHaderach - incorrect.

Websites don’t get revenue just by visits to the site - they get paid from visitors to the site who see the ads.

ad revenue isn’t based on traffic. It’s based on who actually sees the ad. If people don’t see the ads, the ad company doesn’t pay out.

Can’t get paid for traffic if the traffic isn’t seeing the ad content.

Can’t get paid for traffic if personal data and analytics are blocked.

It’s that simple.
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 3/11/2025, 8:01 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - says the guy who clicked on the article to comment... as Donofrio said "dumbass"
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 3/11/2025, 8:03 AM
@JoshWilding - never understood how people can click and read an article, then complain about reading the article... then complain about you writing the article they come here daily to read. mind boggling.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 9:19 AM
@DrSmoonk - while you're right about what you are saying, you aren't completely right.

You see, engagement is also a metric used for advertisers. You posting, negative or positive, is engagement. So you are in fact still a cog in the machine. Being someone who buys ad space myself in my industry, I know exactly what metrics advertisers use, and it's not all clicks and impressions.

There are also ways for sites to get slightly more accurate traffic results working around adblocker. Not getting personal information or analytics, but still able to see that you are a unique user visiting this article, written by Josh, and you are one of the number of people who posted on the article.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 3/11/2025, 9:39 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD - I know man, it's pathetic. There are other websites out there if it's that much of an issue. I think they go to bed at night and dream of driving me off. Good luck with that, I say. 😅
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 3/11/2025, 9:41 AM
@AgentofSH1ELD - I'm not complaining. Merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the op's logic.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 3/11/2025, 9:47 AM
@DrSmoonk - There you go again. Clicky clicky on the article. Meanwhile you're making Josh the $$$$$$ you desperately hate seeing him obtain.

You're likely going to read this response and, oh, look at that! More Josh bucks. ;)
Wonderland56
Wonderland56 - 3/11/2025, 10:26 AM
@DrSmoonk - how does it feel being the same weirdo using "Frick" through generating accounts so that it appears in tons of comments so that it is easily distinguishable?
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 3/11/2025, 12:02 PM
@JoshWilding - well said.
AgentofSH1ELD
AgentofSH1ELD - 3/11/2025, 12:03 PM
@Mercwitham0uth - equally pointing out the hypocrisy of your logic. If you don't like the content, stop coming to the site.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 3/11/2025, 2:07 PM
@AgentofSH1ELD - I have no problem with the content. I have no clue where you got that idea.
TrentCrimm
TrentCrimm - 3/11/2025, 3:47 PM
@AgentofSH1ELD -

People are allowed to criticise Josh's "journalism", if you can call it that, he is posting information we do want to know or read about, that's fine, I'll give the goof a penny for that, he just does it all in such a pompous, void of talent, unlikeable way, that some of us like to point that out from time to time.

Gonna stamp you as probably one of Josh's alts and you're just here propping yourself up.

TrentCrimm
TrentCrimm - 3/11/2025, 3:49 PM
@Mercwitham0uth -

Don't sweat it man, he's just one of Josh's alt accounts.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 3/11/2025, 6:40 AM
Lol great response, dude did bring it on himself in this case…

People also be saying random shit nowadays without further explaining themselves such as why they think Kingpin was “ruined” etc.

Also apparently Hawkeye “ruined” Kingpin and now this , people are so [frick]ing fickle that any creative choice they don’t agree with they immediately resort to saying this…

People like this can get [frick]ed , the only thing “ruined” is the mental capacity of people like that.

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Latverian
Latverian - 3/11/2025, 6:54 AM
Expression of opinion is a right.

Contrarianism for the sake of it is a disease.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 3/11/2025, 7:18 AM
Well he is a cuck now who's wife is a better gangster, and he has been defeated physically by a small girl and a disabled deaf one. So she's actually not wrong if you think Kingpin should be a great and powerful villain.

People I know who like the comics that I trust and have seen the whole thing don't make the same criticism so I guess he redeems himself later, but I'm just guessing. For me though, I lost interest in the character cause of how he was written in those 2 tv shows already.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 3/11/2025, 8:38 AM
@WarMonkey - This is the problem with comic fans. They want 100s of comic source material immediately in the forefront Everytime. They have no patience for character development and for the story to progress over the course of hours and seasons.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 9:20 AM
@WarMonkey - How the hell did you get around my block?
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/11/2025, 3:53 PM
@WarMonkey - If those are the reason why he's a "cuck" then what was he when he was defeated twice by a visually impaired vigilante?
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 3/11/2025, 4:27 PM
@SonOfAGif - I'm actually not a comic fan of DD or Kingpin. I like them when they show up in other stuff but I've never seeked them out.

I like comic villains to be badasses or super smart, that's all I'm saying. BTW I'm no purist I used to love the entire Arrowverse and all of the Fox X-Men movies, minus "Dark Phoenix", for example
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 3/11/2025, 4:34 PM
@NinnesMBC - his wife has a boyfriend, therefore he's a cuck. I didn't make that story decision, Disney people did. I'm just saying I personally find him not to be interesting anymore cause of the writing for him since the end of the Netflix show.
PartyKiller
PartyKiller - 3/11/2025, 7:52 AM
Sometimes the writers have to use certain textbook twists to make it easier to do something new. They'll eventually kill Vanessa to give Fisk a story.
JoeInTheBox
JoeInTheBox - 3/11/2025, 8:02 AM
I wish he just screenshots the tweet instead of replying to them directly. All it did was give them the exposure and views they were probably looking for.
JobinJ
JobinJ - 3/11/2025, 8:25 AM
He’s a skinny cuck in this he’s supposed to be a massive brute bad ass.
ARegularCrab
ARegularCrab - 3/11/2025, 8:28 AM
@JobinJ - do you know what cuck means?

SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 3/11/2025, 8:39 AM
@ARegularCrab - It's their new choice word to describe Men who are sidelined by a woman in a story. From the Wisdom of Andrew Tate.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 9:23 AM
@JobinJ - he's hardly skinny, and it's literally addressed story wise that he had been laid up in bed recovering from literally getting shot in the face.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 9:26 AM
@ARegularCrab @SonOfAGif - technically this goob might've used it right this time, probably by accident, but still.

We don't know who Adam is yet, but it seems to be a lover, and Kingpin knows about him and promised not to do anything to him.
ARegularCrab
ARegularCrab - 3/11/2025, 10:37 AM
@SonOfAGif - it's a word synonymous with social rejects that can't think without some other social reject on YouTube telling them what to think.

Un[frick]able nerds.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 11:33 AM
@ARegularCrab - so it was an accident and you don't know what it means. lol cool.
Radders
Radders - 3/11/2025, 1:12 PM
@SATW42 - yep he used it right but the bloody knuckles probably indicated it didn't go that way lol
ARegularCrab
ARegularCrab - 3/11/2025, 8:29 AM
Imagine getting so bent out of shape over a fictional characters having some actual development.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/11/2025, 9:10 AM
@ARegularCrab -
You wouldn't even be on this site if you hadn't been invested in these characters so you've devalued and destroyed your own point. Stop with the bullshit pretending like it's wrong to be invested in characters.

Stories can be the foundations of society, inspirations, lessons, entertainment and cultural milestones - the characters in them equally important.

Deconstruction is not development, the lessons of Daredevil: Born Again are all cheaper retellings of aspects tackled in the Netflix era of Daredevil. Rather than Season 3 exploring whether Daredevil should kill, we get a rushed attempted murder of Bullseye in the first 15 minutes of the show. Rather than establishing supporting characters and then killing them off like in Season 1, 2 and 3 of the Netflix show we just murder Foggy for shock value in a reshoot because they knew nobody would watch the MCU reboot because of how amazing the Netflix show was.

It's regression and dismantling of legacy characters that shows a disregard to the lessons of the past, the same way we've seen other legacy characters be brought back just to humiliate them.

The idea is that the legacy characters are killed off (Foggy), pushed to the side (Karen), demeaned (Kingpin) or twisted (Matt Murdock) so that you end up attaching yourself to other characters who are being shoved into the roles the previous characters used to fill.
SATW42
SATW42 - 3/11/2025, 9:28 AM
@Scarilian - "Rather than Season 3 exploring whether Daredevil should kill, we get a rushed attempted murder of Bullseye in the first 15 minutes of the show."

This is technically Sean 4, or Season 1 of a "new" show. I guess writing isn't as easy as you make it out to be because you can't handle continuity in your own post on a website, let along season long scripts.
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