![]() ![]() He was an angel (of death) at one point, and has recently been made into a monster ( “Frankencastle”), which gives an indication of how lost the character can end up.Īside from his mostly one-note character, his biggest problem is that he isn’t a superhero. Sure, occasionally the character would find a decent run (most notably the work of author Garth Ennis), but he mostly just stumbled blindly around. He frequently tussled with the big league superhero types, despite his defining characteristic being that he carried a really big gun and wasn’t afraid to use it. Urban vigilante Frank Castle was not created during this period – he’d been a minor recurring Spider-Man and Daredevil foe before it – but he really reached a mass audience as comic book companies forced their darker and edgier characters to front and centre. If you could fit “death”, “kill”, “gore” or some combination of the same into your superhero codename, all the better. The default superhero of the time was a guy with more pouches than a posse of kangaroos and guns bigger than Schwarzenegger. The character is essentially a comic book relic, left over from the dark and gloomy days of the nineties, when superheroes like Superman appeared to have lost their touch and a willingness to take life was all it took to give a character “an edge”. It’s hard to believe that there are those out there who still think he has an audience. The Punisher has been adapted three times into film. ![]()
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