In the comics, the Kingpin is white, but in the movie, he is played by an African-American, Michael Clarke Duncan who has the same basic build as the character. The studio was convinced to use Duncan after several white wrestlers gave poor screentests. However, when the original character was first written for "Marvel Comics," he was sketched as an African-American, but the idea was scrapped, due to censors feeling that an African-American villain would have struck nerves in the media. (The character was introduced in 1967, during the Civil Rights Movement.)

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