[37][38] He joins up with the Legion of Monsters to help protect the monsters of Monster Metropolis from the Hunter of Monster Special Force. It is later revealed to be part of a plan to lure the Punisher to 727 Varick level 19 suite A. Conway compares it to "putting a Confederate flag on a government building. "Final Punishment: Part Two", Roger Salick (w), Mike Harris (p), James Palmiotti (i), Ed Lazellari (col), Jade Moede (let), Don Daley (ed). Director Gregory Stark, but are easily defeated thanks to Stark's Nanite-based suit. The series is set within the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and shares continuity with the movies. Greg Rucka (w), Carmine Di Giandomenico (p), Carmine Di Giandomenico (i), Matt Hollingsworth (col), VC's Joe Caramagna (let), Stephen Wacker (ed). The following year, Grant collaborated on Marvel Team-Up #94 with artist Mike Zeck. Find a dedicated community, comprehensive plot summaries, and more! Skilled in guerrilla warfare, military tactics, Expert knowledge in methods of both criminals and law enforcement, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 17:33. Frank and Captain America launch an offensive against a large cannibal horde, though Captain America begins to succumb to the plague and begs Frank to kill him before he turns. That's sure the Punisher as I conceived him: a man who knows he's going to die and who knows in the big picture his actions will count for nothing, but who pursues his course because this is what he has chosen to do. Other "what if" stories looked at his adventures as a new Captain America or as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Houshang Touzie as Hamid Madani: Dinah's father who is a doctor. He then worked as a mercenary for Tony Stark's private military company, WAR MACHINE. You help people. The Punisher rescued a pregnant Mary Jane Parker from the hands of a flesh-eating Kingpin and his cohorts. Vohland encouraged Grant to pitch story ideas to Marvel, and arranged an interview with then-editor-in-chief Marv Wolfman, with whom Grant would become good friends. [citation needed] He does not take painkillers, as he feels that their benefit of dulling pain is not worth the side effects of drowsiness and slowed reflexes. Castle is a cowboy during the time of the American Old West who is out for revenge to the criminals who killed his family. Shez Sardar as Ahmad Zubair: An Afghan policeman who worked with Madani. [122] After he unsuccessfully tried to kill Boomerang,[123] he later kills corrupt cop Jeanne De Wolfe. Richards, overhearing their conversation via radio, determines that Frank over exposure to the pathogen has given him a special immunity and that he is humanity's best chance at getting a cure. This article is about the Marvel Comics character. [20] An important element of the story was a retcon that explains that many of the Punisher's more extreme actions to this point were the result of being poisoned with mind-altering drugs.[22]. This version of Punisher wears a mask emblazoned with his trademark skull (similar to Crossbones) which is later carved into his chest by Jigsaw. His only son is the Punisher, patterning himself after a radio pulp series. Marvel relaunched The Punisher War Journal in 2009 as simply Punisher, with a thematic link tied to the events of the "Dark Reign" storyline and, following the departure of writer Garth Ennis, retitled the Marvel MAX series (formerly Punisher MAX) as Punisher: Frank Castle MAX and, more recently, as Punisher: Frank Castle[33] or Frank Castle: The Punisher[34] (depending on the source); launching a new series called PunisherMAX by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon. He fought the Punishers' leader Panhead where he was fatally injured. A couple of years later Grant began writing for Marvel after another friend, Roger Stern, became a Marvel editor there and asked Grant to write something for him. [19][20] They are joined by Josh Stewart as John Pilgrim, Floriana Lima as Krista Dumont, and Giorgia Whigham as Amy Bendix, who were cast in February 2018. Shooter Jennings, Ted Russell Kamp, James Douglass, John F. Schreffler Jr. and Aubrey Richmond all appear as themselves. Cosmic Ghost Rider then takes Baby Thanos under his wing in order to change his future so that he won't be evil. In the Marvel Universe, the conflict matters only because he was asked to go and serve his country, and he did. An ongoing series, also titled The Punisher, premiered the next year. The Avengers set a trap, figuring Castle would target a transport unit. 6, #19 (June 2005) specifying he had killed approximately 2,000 people. [73] Both Nick Fury and Tony Stark have commented on how extraordinarily high his pain tolerance is. As Conway recalled in 2002, "In the '70s, when I was writing comics at DC and Marvel, I made it a practice to sketch my own ideas for the costumes of new characters—heroes and villains—which I offered to the artists as a crude suggestion representing the image I had in mind. You boys need a role model? He is one of the few people immune to the pathogen, the others being Hawkeye and Wolverine. Kandahar (flashback) Daredevil. Castle is constantly bugged by a cannibalistic Deadpool, who he has killed over 35 times. [volume & issue needed], During the beginning days of the outbreak, Wolverine sought out Frank after getting a tip from Reed Richards that someone with Frank's M.O. The story ditched the War Machine armor, but kept the idea of Punisher operating in the international level, dealing with an ill-fated battle against Baron Zemo.[67]. Horrified that he had shot a kid, he begged the S.H.I.E.L.D. The Punisher has a Kevlar uniform which protects him from most gunfire, though he can still suffer concussive injury or penetration from sufficient or repeated impacts. In November 2006, a new The Punisher War Journal series, written by Matt Fraction and penciled by Ariel Olivetti, was released. Gallows comes across Frank Castle's war journal in the Public Eye archives, and took the mantle as the new Punisher. He tears up the sticker and tells them, "I'll say this once, we're not the same. Spider-Man then talks to the Avengers, stating that Castle is a problem and needs to be taken care of. [117] The Dark Guardians found Nova and ambush him, wounding him enough to crash land onto a planet. Fortunately for Frank, a Venomized Doctor Strange chose that moment to transport them into a war between Venoms and Poisons, inadvertently saving Spider-Man's life. In June 2015, Bernthal was cast as the character to appear in the second season of Daredevil. [107], In the alternate reality of Earth-TRN666, where Thanos conquered all the Universe, Frank Castle's early life was seemingly similar to that of the Frank Castle of the Earth-616 Universe. [38][39], Lightfoot noted that "anti-heroes with dark pasts, that are morally grey, are always interesting to write." If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next. A television series, centered on the Punisher, received a put pilot commitment at Fox in 2011, but that project fell through. Jordan Dean as Jake Nelson: A fellow veteran who befriends and teams up with Billy Russo, but suffers from drug addiction. Due to being overly exposed to the pathogen, he has gained a special immunity from the virus. Growing desperate, Frank made a deal with the Venom Symbiote, the symbiote would allow him to kill Fisk and 'win' his war on crime, on the condition that Frank would kill one target for the symbiote. After fighting to the Baxter Building, both men find that the buildings emergency generator has stopped working and the security team slaughtered. "[89] In 2020, Marvel said this was their official opinion on the use of the image. Castle ends up in a special underwater prison, while Cole-Alves resurfaces in Los Angeles, shooting a mugger while wearing the Skull insignia. J. Jonah Jameson describes him as "the most newsworthy thing to happen to New York since Boss Tweed". Using existing Marvel stories as a starting point, the series examined scenarios in which, for example, Frank Castle's family has not died or he had killed Daredevil in their first encounter. Returning the character to his lone vigilante roots, those series combined crime-focused stories with black humor. He manages to kill the one responsible for his family's death after sympathetic cops "accidentally" place him as the man's cellmate. Villains such as the Jackal, Bushwacker, Doctor Doom,[24] The Reavers and Bullseye would be used to provide more of a challenge for the character. Despite wanting to work alone, the Punisher has a few supporting characters to help fight crime. In 1979, Marvel began considering publishing miniseries, which Grant had been lobbying for some time. During the fight, Castle wounds Fisk's legs with his combat knife, and falls out of a window. The series follows Frank Castle and his bid to fight crime under the vigilante alias "The Punisher".
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