[4] Realizing the luxuries of his youth had been financed by a criminal empire, Richard was distraught and vowed to make atonement for his father's crimes.

[volume & issue needed] Not long afterward, a new gang emerged in New York, led by a mysterious figure calling himself the Schemer.

[volume & issue needed] However, it was soon revealed that the true leader of Hydra was the Nazi supervillain the Red Skull, and the Fisks had to team up with Captain America and the Falcon to stop the mad dictator.

Aiding Richard in this scheme were his good friend Alfredo Morelli and Ned Leeds, who was brainwashed to act as the supervillain the Hobgoblin.

During a shoot-out Richard shot and killed a police officer, an act that became a turning point for him - no longer could he consider himself morally superior to his father.

Alfredo had plastic surgery to make himself look just like Richard (since he had more combat experience), and slowly began climbing the ladder of power.

The Blood Rose even shot and wounded Alfredo, who later returned under the alias of Gauntlet, although he was ultimately defeated by NightWatch and incarcerated.

However, upon meeting his old childhood friend, the ambitious enforcer Silke, Richard thought that he at last had found the perfect way to make his father pay for his crimes.

Vanessa quickly made a startling counterstrike, eliminating the rebellion and selling her husband's territory so he could travel to Europe and recover.

Richard cornered her, insisting that by getting rid of the Kingpin they could be free to have a new life, but Vanessa coldly shot her son dead, eliminating him as a threat once and for all.

After visiting the police station where Ben Reilly as Spider-Man broke out, Beyond Corporation member Marcus Momplaiser has been ambushed by Rose.

[13] During the "Gang War" storyline, Rose is shown on the map to have territory in Chelsea, Manhattan before being kidnapped by Wilson Fisk's men.

An alternate universe variant of Richard Fisk from Earth-200111 appears in the Punisher Max story arc "Kingpin".