"Sic vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war."

• Backstory

• Motifs

• History

• Frank Castle is The Punisher. Driven by the deaths of his wife and two children, who were killed by the mob for witnessing a killing in New York City's Central Park, the Punisher wages a one-man war on the mob and all violent criminals in general. A war veteran and a United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper, Castle is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, guerrilla warfare, and marksmanship. Despite wanting to work alone, the Punisher has a few supporting characters to help fight crime.
• By the late 1980s, the Punisher was part of a wave of psychologically troubled antiheroes. The character is described as obsessed with vengeance. He sees the world in very black and white terms, he solves his problems with utter finality. Castle's response to any problem: when in doubt, hit back hard. Frank seeks vengeance for the deaths of his family by punishing criminals everywhere. The Punisher skull emblem has become popular within the Blue Lives Matter movement.
• The Punisher is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita Sr. and Ross Andru, with publisher Stan Lee green-lighting the name. The Punisher made his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974. The Punisher's brutal nature and willingness to kill made him a popular character in mainstream american comic books when he debuted.

Who Has The Punisher Killed?

The Punisher has killed so many people it is hard to believe he is considered a hero, even an anti-hero, at all. The Approximate number is around 48,502, which puts most super villans to shame. There is even a one off comic specifically about Frank killing everyone in the Marvel Universe. So who exactly has he killed? Here is a list of some of his more famous kills. (The list scrolls cause there are a lot)

image taken from The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe
origonal release date: November, 1995
Story by Garth Ennis & Doug Braithwaite

The Punisher In Other Media

• In 2004 the comic was adapted into a movie starring Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle and John Travolta as Howard Saint.
• The Punisher made three appearances in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series , voiced by John Beck.
• Castle is also the main character of many video games that span from 1990 to 2009.
• Most recently an American web television series based on The Punisher was created for Netflix by Steve Lightfoot. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and other television series of the franchise, and is a spin-off of Marvel's Daredevil. The series is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios and Bohemian Risk Productions, with Lightfoot serving as showrunner.

If you are a fan of the Netflix Punisher show or want to start watching, then you will be happy to know there is a new podcast which follows along and dissects every episode. Funisher! The only Punisher recap podcast where one of the hosts thinks the Punisher is a big, dumb, edge lord who needs to sit down! Libby loves The Punisher. Donny is skeptical. To see who's right, they watch every episode.

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