"I'll only say this once: We're not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave that up a long time ago. You don't do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name is Captain America and he'd be happy to have you." -Frank Castle
Yup, Castle doesn't want people to follow in his footsteps as long as he's alive. Which happened in the end of the MAX run. Normally he doesn't want people using his skull since they'll either get killed by Castle's enemies or by Castle himself.
@@ExeErdna Which is why I Despised Punisher 2099. It's about someone finding the war diaries, it says "Please continue my legacy.". One of the Least Punisher things imaginable.
I never understand why cops have tried to adopt that Punisher logo. They are the exact opposite of what Punisher stands for. They uphold the law, which gives certain protections for criminals. They’re basically statists and are servants for the state run by corrupt politicians. A lot of cops I’ve noticed are anti-2nd amendment and don’t believe in owning guns for self defense; something Punisher wouldn’t be okay with.
In the Dardevil tv show, Frank makes fun of Daredevil by calling him, "choirboy" so I find it hilarious that Frank was secretly training to be a priest for a while.
Specifically the penance stare doesn't work on him because it makes you feel all the pain that you have caused on the innocent, but Frank Castle only harms the guilty.
@@joaodala549 Yeah, *sounds* really cool, but I think that it's better that the penance stare *does* work on him. When crossing-over characters, the goal would be to boost the action and endorse *all* characters great traits, not diminish one's for the sake of another. Frank's human, human's make mistakes, Frank should know this. Frank is a war man and the innocent get hurt in wars; surely any harm to the innocent is dwarfed by how many innocent saved, but it *can't* be nothing, surely. Conversely, that is, unless Ghostrider's stare only applies to deliberate, physical harm done to the innnocent. Yuck. So many problems. Best that Ghostrider represent divine justice for *all* harm to the innocent and The Punisher remain human, with human flaws and struggles we can identify with - better stories! Rant over. Thanks for listening, caller! ^_^
You're actually wrong. Frank was able to deal with the pain, but he wasn't immune to it. Some characters have the ability to not give a shit enough, that a PART of the penance stare doesn't work, but the part that sears your soul? Yeah, no avoiding that. Also, Frank almost died from that. So there's also that.
@@wormbaby666 Ghostrider can also Influence the Penance Stare to have varying effects. Sometimes he'll just have others reflect on what they've done wrong in their lives, while others are more extreme. Some aren't affected by the Penance Stare for multiple reasons, either because A: they've never intentionally dealt harm to innocent beings, or B: they're sadistic and masochistic and enjoy the pain (Thanos being the prime example).
I feel Carl needs to know that under aliases they list basically every name a character has been called. This includes one off names that jokesters like Spiderman and Deadpool have called them.
Would love to see a team up including both and Lamont Cranston aka "The Shadow".. not the Alec Baldwin version but the Orson Welles and comic book versions
I can see him going after john wick since he's an assassin basically a criminal, but they side track to get revenge on their dog and when all dog killers are deas they have their final showdown
Best t*rture moment from Punisher; During a storyline where slavers were shipping people away from the states, Frank found out about a veteran soldier who was basically the right hand man of the main slave trader. He drugged the guy, dragged him into the woods, numbed his entire body, cut him open, pulled his guts out, looped them around the tree and its branches, treated him so he wouldn't bleed out, and when the guy woke up and freaked out seeing his intestines all around him but he was alive Frank said, "Okay, let's talk." And the guy talked.
"My usual tactics won't work against him" given that the guy was involved in the Yugoslavian war which in modest terms made Vietnam look like a kid's cartoon. So it's safe to say that exactly how far Frank went was only just enough to break that guy.
I seem to remember some undercover documentary where they said they always used thir real first name. Cause it was easier to react to when being caught off guard and you wouldn't want to be unlucky enough to be recognised by someone and they call you by a different name in front of your mark.
My immediate reaction to hearing he was part of Hydra was "Well, he went through loads of trouble just so he could murder more Vietnamese people; of course he's affiliated with Nazis." lol
Crazy as it is I could see frank signing up with hydra if they became the government I doubt he'd go around killing Jews for fun or hunting blacks but if the nazi government allowed him to go around killing criminals freely and all he had to do was occasionally guard a government offical or say hail hydra as he's blasting away drug dealers I could see him signing up
Fun Fact: It is greatly implied the The Punisher is one of Mistress Death's chosen champions similar to that of Thanos as part of a bargain for surviving one of the bloodiest ambush in the Vietnam War. Though, Frank has no memory of this. Recent Cosmic Ghost Rider series has also implied a deep connection between Thanos and Frank with the latter inadvertently exposing the infant Titan to countless death and destruction ironically to curb the Mad God's nihilism and former being one of the catalysts that changed Frank into the Cosmic Ghost Rider.
@@Gloomdrake There was a Thanos the End thing going and like millions of years in the future Frank had become the Ghost Rider, but mankind had died off and he was stuck ok n the Earth all alone. Galactus came to Eat the planet and Frank made a deal with him to become a herald for Galactus to get off the planet. So Frank not only had the Ghost Rider powers but also the power cosmic. Later End Game Thanos came to wipe Galactus out and after he easily destroyed Galactus, he decided to keep Frank as his pet/herald, and would have Frank do the Ghost Rider Penance Stare to him for introspection purposes. Frank had went a little loopy though but his but kicking abilities went through the roof. I know at one part he wipes out hundreds of millions of alien advanced soldiers at one point across a whole continent by combining his power cosmic and his hellfire.
@@psychopompous489 the Punisher. It also fits his character, knowing the US government uses said tax money to kill innocent people around the world and such.
@@dariendude17 sorry thats what I want to know too I saw it on one of those image meme sites last week and I am still looking for it all i remember it was in the old like 70 to 90 style comic you know the one that looks like colored pencils
Cosmic Ghost Rider: The names Frank, Frank Castle Thanos: I have no idea who you are Frank, Thanos and Galactus were best friends, separately of course
@@eshbena Its mostly against criminals on the level of rapists and mobsters and such I don't think the wholesale slaughter is a bad thing. Redemption and all etc I know but if they haven't redeemed themselves before a guy with a gun has killed like 50 crime families then they're just begging for it.
I always thought his origin story, where he is at a Fire Base, and is losing, he is about to be killed, and the panel goes black, and a Voice talks to him. The Voice asks if he wants to continue his war. Frank says "yes", and the next panel is Frank standing in a circle of a hundred dead Vietnamese soldiers, suffering from stabs, bullets, etc. He goes back home, and the Voice erases his memory, but says don't worry, the war will go on. Cleary the Voice is from Ares, The God Of War. That should have been the explanation of his decreased aging.
He can be your favourite character, sure, but he shouldn't be your most "liked" character. You can appreciate the characterisation and stories without believing they'd be a likeable person.
Well, to be honest, I do see him as morally superior to a good chunk of the superheroes in tbe Watchmen setting. And when it comes down to it,his belief system is closer to mine than other characters. Though that bring said,is only because we both have a somewhat objectivist point of view
He's my favorite too, Rorschach is awesome. I see no reason you can't like characters like him, The Punisher, even Dexter since yes he's a Serial Killer but he only kills other Serial Killers so he's justified, same way The Punisher only kills bad people so he's justified, granted I'd argue not all Criminals deserve to die, Thieves,Prostitutes, Con Artists, people who were in jail for getting really drunk and peeing in public, smaller crimes like that are fine,but if someone like The Punisher killed all the Killers,Rapists, Cannibals, Pedophiles, you know worst of the worst then I'd say you can like and support that. Besides Rorschach in case you forgot was one of the only one who wasn't going to let Adrian get away with killing millions, the rest were fine with it because it brought Peace, but not Rorschach.
@@JandGproductionLOL except that it has nothing to do with medium . It has to do with the acting choice of Bernthal to grunt and yell at the hint of a fight. One of the Punishers characteristic the training he put in to be as silent as he could physically be when fighting for the psychological intimidation factor it has on the criminals he hunts down . Bernthal chose to ignore that aspect of the character. I did not like that aspect of his portrayal.
If you think regular Frank is crazy you really need to read Thanos and the Cosmic Ghostrider runs. As the Cosmic Ghostrider he has lost every last marble and has the powers of a Spirit of Vengeance and a Herald of Galactus.
"Old man frank" comic is called "Punisher: The End". I just reread this the past couple of days and it's a nice read. If you like it there's one for the hulk and iron man too. They just all aren't purely apocalyptic. They were meant to be the hypothetical ends for those characters
I haven't watched a fact fiend video in about 3 months and I return to see that the shoddy green screen has been replaced with this and it fills my heart with warmth
The Ray Stevenson movie got the look right, and the Thomas Jane movie got the professional soldier part right. Even though I think Bernthal is the best, his anger is wrong, it's ''hot'' instead of ''cold''. So the best Punisher looks like Stevenson, and his personality is a 50/50 mix of Bernthal and Thomas Jane.
My favourite comic with the Punisher is probably the one where Captain America sends all the Avengers after Frank. He manages to evade most of them and then Thor just wrecks his shit in about 5 seconds, has a beer and tells Frank he'll just say he managed to slip away from him and lets him go.
Because Thor is from a more brutal and understands that individuals like Castle have to exist on some level to keep the system from building up too much corruption and inefficiency.
Sometimes in the comics and animated movies (like Avengers Confidential: Punisher and Black Widow) they treat him like Batman where he's human but they write both like they're Captain America lol. Although in Avengers Confidential they made him super fast, but it kind of worked?
Carl would probably lose it knowing that in his short series, Cosmic Frank had to penance stare/eat pirates to get body parts back. Especially noting how the captain took even longer to immolate/kill because she was tough as nails.
It says he doesn't drink alcohol? But I've seen many iterations where he's drinking alcohol. I think almost every live action version that they have of him, has at least one scene where he's drinking.
Frank getting Heavenly powers is the Marvel Knights storyline where Frank was killed before he was supposed to and Heaven itself gave him a second chance to be an angelic spirit of justice basically. He goes way overboard and Heaven tells him to not be crazy and they make him mortal again.
The comic that comes to mind when you mention what happened in the Old Man Frank comics ("always one bullet left") is the Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe one-off. I don't know if it also happened in the Old Man Frank comics, as I haven't gotten the chance to read those yet, but I know it happens in the PKTMU one. He was on a war path to avenge his family after they were killed in a conflict between superheroes, and he went after every single hero/enhanced individual out there. The last one on his list was Daredevil, who removed his mask while he was dying to reveal that he was Frank's best friend, Matt Murdock, the one man who still believed in him. As Matt laid there, dying, he told Castle that "there is always someone behind the mask," and that "you killed us all, Frank," and Frank responds with something to the tune of "no, there's one target left," and turned his gun on himself. So, even if it did happen in the Old Man Frank comics, that just proves that it's not just a one-off action that was caused by the situation he was in. It's a recurring thing with him. Even in the NMCU shows, especially Daredevil s2, they touch upon that aspect of his character. I honestly don't know where I'm going with this, It was just a connection I thought of. It's interesting to learn about these little details that have stuck around in his characterization over the years, and to see the way they have developed and been shown throughout the years.
Everybody only counts live action Punisher, which is sad because everyone is missing out on Tom Jane in the Punisher game. A game in which he gives detailed descriptions of what each weapon will do to a human body. This includes the famous line about a 50. Cal sniper rifle "For long distance brain surgery".
My favorite frank castle moment was when he got webbed by spider man to a plaster wall ... And he used acid to get free saying "flesh webbing or stone something has to give 1st.. " Grizzled badass
The Punisher is actually based off of another fictional character named Mack Bolan "The Executioner". Great series of books but Marvel blatantly stole this idea from Don Pendleton.
My fave Punisher story is the "What if??? Punisher kills the marvel universe" wherein he kills all of marvels superheroes, to punish them for their wanton destruction that has ended the lives of so many innocent bystanders.
It was Baron Zemo who carved that skull into his chest and it was during the Rosenberg run which begins with that red comic you used in the background.
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Im sorry but Thomas Jane is by far the best actor to play the Punisher. If you havent seen the Dirty Laundry mini film he helped fund here on YT I highly reccomend it. The 04 movie he played him in was alright too. But he definitely just fits the rile especially well.
You should do a Wiki Weekend of Namor. I don't know a whole lot about his character, but if he's anything at all like Aquaman he's probably extremely underestimated
The movie was an origin story, very heavy on origin. It went deep into humanizing Frank before he takes that last step into his forever war.That bothered alot of people.
@@jreese7436 The movie was iffy, but I thought Jane did a really good job himself given what he had to work with. Especially when he played the character again in Dirty Laundry. That was just awesome.
there's an interesting old comic book I have (not sure if i still have it; probably in a closer somewhere) where the punisher crosses over with archie. and it just so jarring to see the two art styles collide at the time.
The thing is Penance Stare works based on sins not how sorry you feel; that specific comic was pretty much the embodiment of someone saying "Punisher is the coolest, most badass tough guy ever and no one can beat the power of GUN"
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Punisher: Warzone was good. A few cheesy bits here and there but it's a comic book movie. What I love the most about it is that they made it before the whole Marvel cinematic universe took off. So I think the director got to just make a movie without a whole team of people behind her telling her what to do because this movie needs to tie in with 4 others.
"I'll only say this once: We're not the same. You took an oath to uphold the law. You help people. I gave that up a long time ago. You don't do what I do. Nobody does. You boys need a role model? His name is Captain America and he'd be happy to have you." -Frank Castle
Yup, Castle doesn't want people to follow in his footsteps as long as he's alive. Which happened in the end of the MAX run. Normally he doesn't want people using his skull since they'll either get killed by Castle's enemies or by Castle himself.
damn his quote is so good
@@ExeErdna Which is why I Despised Punisher 2099. It's about someone finding the war diaries, it says "Please continue my legacy.". One of the Least Punisher things imaginable.
I never understand why cops have tried to adopt that Punisher logo. They are the exact opposite of what Punisher stands for. They uphold the law, which gives certain protections for criminals. They’re basically statists and are servants for the state run by corrupt politicians. A lot of cops I’ve noticed are anti-2nd amendment and don’t believe in owning guns for self defense; something Punisher wouldn’t be okay with.
@@arnehurnik ok
In the Dardevil tv show, Frank makes fun of Daredevil by calling him, "choirboy" so I find it hilarious that Frank was secretly training to be a priest for a while.
Choirboy? Priest? I didn't know Frank looked at daredevil that way
@@psychopompous489
Holy shit nice.
@@The24thWight I ship it
@@The24thWight But only given the context that they are both grown men
Dang so what the punisher (who secretly trained to be a priest) trying to say?
That dare devil aka the choir boy won't see him coming?
Specifically the penance stare doesn't work on him because it makes you feel all the pain that you have caused on the innocent, but Frank Castle only harms the guilty.
as usual, no one agrees on how the stare works lul.
Let's just call it PIS
@@joaodala549 Yeah, *sounds* really cool, but I think that it's better that the penance stare *does* work on him. When crossing-over characters, the goal would be to boost the action and endorse *all* characters great traits, not diminish one's for the sake of another.
Frank's human, human's make mistakes, Frank should know this. Frank is a war man and the innocent get hurt in wars; surely any harm to the innocent is dwarfed by how many innocent saved, but it *can't* be nothing, surely.
Conversely, that is, unless Ghostrider's stare only applies to deliberate, physical harm done to the innnocent. Yuck. So many problems.
Best that Ghostrider represent divine justice for *all* harm to the innocent and The Punisher remain human, with human flaws and struggles we can identify with - better stories! Rant over. Thanks for listening, caller! ^_^
It also only works if you have regret, and punisher has no regrets
You're actually wrong. Frank was able to deal with the pain, but he wasn't immune to it. Some characters have the ability to not give a shit enough, that a PART of the penance stare doesn't work, but the part that sears your soul? Yeah, no avoiding that. Also, Frank almost died from that. So there's also that.
@@wormbaby666 Ghostrider can also Influence the Penance Stare to have varying effects. Sometimes he'll just have others reflect on what they've done wrong in their lives, while others are more extreme. Some aren't affected by the Penance Stare for multiple reasons, either because A: they've never intentionally dealt harm to innocent beings, or B: they're sadistic and masochistic and enjoy the pain (Thanos being the prime example).
I feel Carl needs to know that under aliases they list basically every name a character has been called. This includes one off names that jokesters like Spiderman and Deadpool have called them.
The Punisher is ambidextrous? That's so cool... I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous!
When you give up your left arm can I retrieve it and so it back on?
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Top score! :D
You didn’t think this through did you?
Frank Castle and John Wick, either the best of friends or each others most dangerous enemy.
They would bond over their dogs. XD
Yeah, dogs fuckin rule
Would love to see a team up including both and Lamont Cranston aka "The Shadow".. not the Alec Baldwin version but the Orson Welles and comic book versions
Allies if need be, none of them would like to be on each others sight picture
I can see him going after john wick since he's an assassin basically a criminal, but they side track to get revenge on their dog and when all dog killers are deas they have their final showdown
Best t*rture moment from Punisher;
During a storyline where slavers were shipping people away from the states, Frank found out about a veteran soldier who was basically the right hand man of the main slave trader. He drugged the guy, dragged him into the woods, numbed his entire body, cut him open, pulled his guts out, looped them around the tree and its branches, treated him so he wouldn't bleed out, and when the guy woke up and freaked out seeing his intestines all around him but he was alive Frank said, "Okay, let's talk." And the guy talked.
I remember this Punisher MAX was great
What series was that in exactly
@@themicahman3741 give me a minute
@@themicahman3741 Punisher Max vol 2
"My usual tactics won't work against him" given that the guy was involved in the Yugoslavian war which in modest terms made Vietnam look like a kid's cartoon. So it's safe to say that exactly how far Frank went was only just enough to break that guy.
I seem to remember some undercover documentary where they said they always used thir real first name. Cause it was easier to react to when being caught off guard and you wouldn't want to be unlucky enough to be recognised by someone and they call you by a different name in front of your mark.
That's why you don't want to give your child a totally unique name like Moon Unit unless you want to limit your child's career choices. LoL
That wouldn't work for me.
Isn't that the same technique used when your actor's so dumb that they can't remember to answer to a different name?
@@alexanderchippel that's my dad
@@edjecollins4141 Eddie Collins Jr.
Frank Castle was with hydra when Captain America was in charge of hydra in order to get his family back
Yea that was true.
It was also because he idolized cap, so he didn’t actually believe the whole thing was serious for a second until it turned out it was.
Wait, cap was the head of hydra? Huh? (Clearly a comic noob here)
My immediate reaction to hearing he was part of Hydra was "Well, he went through loads of trouble just so he could murder more Vietnamese people; of course he's affiliated with Nazis." lol
Crazy as it is I could see frank signing up with hydra if they became the government I doubt he'd go around killing Jews for fun or hunting blacks but if the nazi government allowed him to go around killing criminals freely and all he had to do was occasionally guard a government offical or say hail hydra as he's blasting away drug dealers I could see him signing up
So, he had the chance to be the Doomslayer and just said no?
That's one way to put it
Too many strings attached, and in Frank's world, even one string is one string too many.
OR, it was an alternate timeline where he said no.
Frank didn't wanna steal Doomguy's thunder... not saying he could tho. Doomguy is on another level crazy.
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. Frank would DEMOLISH doomslayer lmao
Frank's favourite holiday is pants day, where he will prance about in his new pants. This is an actual comic
Big mood.
I’m now imagining the comic where he talks about his guns but instead it’s his pairs of pants.
What the hell is “pants day”?
I would love if you guys did an episode on squirrel girl and how she is so powerful. Her marvel power grid is just all 7.
Fun Fact: It is greatly implied the The Punisher is one of Mistress Death's chosen champions similar to that of Thanos as part of a bargain for surviving one of the bloodiest ambush in the Vietnam War. Though, Frank has no memory of this. Recent Cosmic Ghost Rider series has also implied a deep connection between Thanos and Frank with the latter inadvertently exposing the infant Titan to countless death and destruction ironically to curb the Mad God's nihilism and former being one of the catalysts that changed Frank into the Cosmic Ghost Rider.
@@Gloomdrake don't know if right now but if not a somewhat recent series
@@Gloomdrake There was a Thanos the End thing going and like millions of years in the future Frank had become the Ghost Rider, but mankind had died off and he was stuck ok n the Earth all alone.
Galactus came to Eat the planet and Frank made a deal with him to become a herald for Galactus to get off the planet.
So Frank not only had the Ghost Rider powers but also the power cosmic. Later End Game Thanos came to wipe Galactus out and after he easily destroyed Galactus, he decided to keep Frank as his pet/herald, and would have Frank do the Ghost Rider Penance Stare to him for introspection purposes.
Frank had went a little loopy though but his but kicking abilities went through the roof. I know at one part he wipes out hundreds of millions of alien advanced soldiers at one point across a whole continent by combining his power cosmic and his hellfire.
My favorite Punisher quote is "I don't pay taxes."
it pretty much sums up his whole belief system.
Was that said by the Punisher one of his billionaire victims?
@@psychopompous489 the Punisher. It also fits his character, knowing the US government uses said tax money to kill innocent people around the world and such.
This means he is crazier than the Joker.
This checks out.
@@psychopompous489 or*?
I saw the title and i remember the comic panel where he was staring down a mother who was yelling at her kid in a grocery store
I thought that was a random robot chicken skit not something that happened in comics, lol.
can you name what comic that's in? I wanna google it!
@@dariendude17 sorry thats what I want to know too I saw it on one of those image meme sites last week and I am still looking for it all i remember it was in the old like 70 to 90 style comic you know the one that looks like colored pencils
Cosmic Ghost Rider: The names Frank, Frank Castle
Thanos: I have no idea who you are
Frank, Thanos and Galactus were best friends, separately of course
Frank Castle: Respects Authoritative Figures(such as Captain America), says no to drugs, works out regularly. Sounds like a role model to me!
I think it's the wholesale slaughter that sort of makes him a poor role model. XD
@@eshbena Its mostly against criminals on the level of rapists and mobsters and such I don't think the wholesale slaughter is a bad thing. Redemption and all etc I know but if they haven't redeemed themselves before a guy with a gun has killed like 50 crime families then they're just begging for it.
I always thought his origin story, where he is at a Fire Base, and is losing, he is about to be killed, and the panel goes black, and a Voice talks to him. The Voice asks if he wants to continue his war. Frank says "yes", and the next panel is Frank standing in a circle of a hundred dead Vietnamese soldiers, suffering from stabs, bullets, etc. He goes back home, and the Voice erases his memory, but says don't worry, the war will go on. Cleary the Voice is from Ares, The God Of War. That should have been the explanation of his decreased aging.
That's MAX... Ares doesn't exist in that universe. It's his internal monologue telling him he should give in
"not supposed to like Rorschach" *is legit my favorite character in watchmen*
He can be your favourite character, sure, but he shouldn't be your most "liked" character. You can appreciate the characterisation and stories without believing they'd be a likeable person.
Well, to be honest, I do see him as morally superior to a good chunk of the superheroes in tbe Watchmen setting. And when it comes down to it,his belief system is closer to mine than other characters. Though that bring said,is only because we both have a somewhat objectivist point of view
He's my favorite too, Rorschach is awesome. I see no reason you can't like characters like him, The Punisher, even Dexter since yes he's a Serial Killer but he only kills other Serial Killers so he's justified, same way The Punisher only kills bad people so he's justified, granted I'd argue not all Criminals deserve to die, Thieves,Prostitutes, Con Artists, people who were in jail for getting really drunk and peeing in public, smaller crimes like that are fine,but if someone like The Punisher killed all the Killers,Rapists, Cannibals, Pedophiles, you know worst of the worst then I'd say you can like and support that. Besides Rorschach in case you forgot was one of the only one who wasn't going to let Adrian get away with killing millions, the rest were fine with it because it brought Peace, but not Rorschach.
He held to his ideals in front of a god, knowing full well the consequences. If only we could all show such purity of action.
@@Illegiblescream Yea and of course as my favorite he got killed off
John Berthal was definitely the best casting choice for Frank Castle.
I liked him in The Walking Dead, loved him in the Punisher
Berenthal was too loud. Hey grunted and yelled too much . Frank Castle is silent .
Thomas Jane is my fave
@@shanedbunting frank wouldn't be silent in a medium that has sound. They don't write every grunt or you know human sound in the panels
@@JandGproductionLOL except that it has nothing to do with medium . It has to do with the acting choice of Bernthal to grunt and yell at the hint of a fight. One of the Punishers characteristic the training he put in to be as silent as he could physically be when fighting for the psychological intimidation factor it has on the criminals he hunts down . Bernthal chose to ignore that aspect of the character. I did not like that aspect of his portrayal.
Jon Bernthal is a great 'Year 1/origin story' Punisher - would love to see him play an older and more experienced Punisher in 5/10 years from now
If you think regular Frank is crazy you really need to read Thanos and the Cosmic Ghostrider runs. As the Cosmic Ghostrider he has lost every last marble and has the powers of a Spirit of Vengeance and a Herald of Galactus.
Call him by his full name, Cosmic Ghost rider, herald of Galactus and black right hand of Thanos
@@TupocalypseShakur ironically for that long full title he prefers to be called Frank.
The Rider is Frank from the future with the spirit of vengeance, and the power cosmic... so he's a ghost rider and silver surfer combo
"Old man frank" comic is called "Punisher: The End". I just reread this the past couple of days and it's a nice read. If you like it there's one for the hulk and iron man too. They just all aren't purely apocalyptic. They were meant to be the hypothetical ends for those characters
Gotta be honest, watching season 2 of Daredevil gave me a massive crush on Jon Bernthal.
Any man who says otherwise is either lying or already had a crush on him
Weezer!
Then what did the punisher do
@@poisonedxvalentyne thank you for saying my thoughts also @Weezer's The Blue Album
Welcome to the party, man.
I haven't watched a fact fiend video in about 3 months and I return to see that the shoddy green screen has been replaced with this and it fills my heart with warmth
I kinda hope that when Frank Castle stole that War Machine suit, he just walked in there like that guy who stole a tank from a US Army base.
The Ray Stevenson movie got the look right, and the Thomas Jane movie got the professional soldier part right. Even though I think Bernthal is the best, his anger is wrong, it's ''hot'' instead of ''cold''.
So the best Punisher looks like Stevenson, and his personality is a 50/50 mix of Bernthal and Thomas Jane.
What I both love and hate the most about the Punisher is that he's successfully incapacitated Spider-man twice, and stole his web shooters.
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My favourite comic with the Punisher is probably the one where Captain America sends all the Avengers after Frank. He manages to evade most of them and then Thor just wrecks his shit in about 5 seconds, has a beer and tells Frank he'll just say he managed to slip away from him and lets him go.
What issue is that?
Because Thor is from a more brutal and understands that individuals like Castle have to exist on some level to keep the system from building up too much corruption and inefficiency.
@@craneisthename Punisher: War Zone
Sometimes in the comics and animated movies (like Avengers Confidential: Punisher and Black Widow) they treat him like Batman where he's human but they write both like they're Captain America lol. Although in Avengers Confidential they made him super fast, but it kind of worked?
So basically, Frank Castle is basically doom guy but fighting crime instead of the forces of hell
Yes, be even looks quite similar
more or less. both have even been gods of sorts. though slayer didn't give it up, and was smart enough to make use of it
The Punisher is basically Captain America but he didn't use the super soldier serum to get there.
Who else wishes Kyle learned That Frank Castle become not just the Ghost Rider but the Cosmic Ghost Rider
Carl would probably lose it knowing that in his short series, Cosmic Frank had to penance stare/eat pirates to get body parts back. Especially noting how the captain took even longer to immolate/kill because she was tough as nails.
Jon Bernthall was the only person to play the Punisher well? Man, why y'all gotta do Thomas Jane like that?
And Stevenson R.I.P
There is a comic about Sheild talking about Frank's kill count a d apparently he has personally killed 50,000 people.
Jeez
God DAMN
It says he doesn't drink alcohol? But I've seen many iterations where he's drinking alcohol. I think almost every live action version that they have of him, has at least one scene where he's drinking.
Very true!
So in layman's term he is frankly "Frank" in all scenarios
I think Dolph Lugdren still could reprise the role of Frank Castle. He plays very twisted fallen soldiers and does them well.
Frank Castle is a Bollywood Protagonist. Change my mind
I have no idea why this video won’t load for me but imma give it a like anyways
Same here
Try turning off and on the device
Frank getting Heavenly powers is the Marvel Knights storyline where Frank was killed before he was supposed to and Heaven itself gave him a second chance to be an angelic spirit of justice basically. He goes way overboard and Heaven tells him to not be crazy and they make him mortal again.
And this video continues to remind me of why Frank Castle is my 5th Favorite Superhero of All Time 🖤😊👊🏾
Every video on TH-cam will play except for this one
Ray Stevenson also did a very good job with the Punisher.
The comic that comes to mind when you mention what happened in the Old Man Frank comics ("always one bullet left") is the Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe one-off. I don't know if it also happened in the Old Man Frank comics, as I haven't gotten the chance to read those yet, but I know it happens in the PKTMU one. He was on a war path to avenge his family after they were killed in a conflict between superheroes, and he went after every single hero/enhanced individual out there. The last one on his list was Daredevil, who removed his mask while he was dying to reveal that he was Frank's best friend, Matt Murdock, the one man who still believed in him. As Matt laid there, dying, he told Castle that "there is always someone behind the mask," and that "you killed us all, Frank," and Frank responds with something to the tune of "no, there's one target left," and turned his gun on himself.
So, even if it did happen in the Old Man Frank comics, that just proves that it's not just a one-off action that was caused by the situation he was in. It's a recurring thing with him. Even in the NMCU shows, especially Daredevil s2, they touch upon that aspect of his character.
I honestly don't know where I'm going with this, It was just a connection I thought of. It's interesting to learn about these little details that have stuck around in his characterization over the years, and to see the way they have developed and been shown throughout the years.
That part about the skull drawing fire towards armour is really smart damn
The video not starting for anyone else?
Yep just buffering endlessly
I could listen to facts about Frank for hours on end
A human honey bager
Everybody only counts live action Punisher, which is sad because everyone is missing out on Tom Jane in the Punisher game. A game in which he gives detailed descriptions of what each weapon will do to a human body. This includes the famous line about a 50. Cal sniper rifle "For long distance brain surgery".
Or the 5.56 that turns and tumbles inside the body
"For when I really want to hurt someone."
The game was pretty fun, esp. the finishing moves.
@@TheAzCorner Or when he describes the M60's tendency to melt barrels "For a change of barrel in the field, I bring oven mitts."
I've been waiting for another punisher related video
My favorite frank castle moment was when he got webbed by spider man to a plaster wall ... And he used acid to get free saying "flesh webbing or stone something has to give 1st.. "
Grizzled badass
The Punisher is actually based off of another fictional character named Mack Bolan "The Executioner". Great series of books but Marvel blatantly stole this idea from Don Pendleton.
I mean it's not that unique of a character it's a trope that's been around since humans discovered murder
DC also has a guy named Executioner... XD
The fact that "frank the tank"isnt an alias is a shame
the fact that the punisher got a portal to a part of heaven and proceeded to use it to produce angelic guns is amazing
My fave Punisher story is the "What if??? Punisher kills the marvel universe" wherein he kills all of marvels superheroes, to punish them for their wanton destruction that has ended the lives of so many innocent bystanders.
For some reason I can’t watch this video it literally just buffers forever. Doesn’t happen to any other video.
I've had that with some videos and I've seen others have had it on this video, it's just getting unlucky and I don't know if you can watch it at all
Why is it that this video in specific decides not to load for me?
Frank Castle in the comics: Is a master in combat, strategy and everything in-between.
FRank Castle in the Netflix show: Screams really hard.
“Shit I better not mess with this dude” -Ghost Rider-
It was Baron Zemo who carved that skull into his chest and it was during the Rosenberg run which begins with that red comic you used in the background.
Coming back to ask for a wiki weekend of the cosmic ghost rider, after a year of doing so.
For the love of god I just wanna watch my new favorite channel but TH-cam decided this one video will not load, every other video on the platform is gonna load for me, but not this one. FML.
Im sorry but Thomas Jane is by far the best actor to play the Punisher. If you havent seen the Dirty Laundry mini film he helped fund here on YT I highly reccomend it. The 04 movie he played him in was alright too. But he definitely just fits the rile especially well.
Jane portrayed the professional soldier side well, Bernthal not so much.
Frank Castle weaknesses
*Bullets*
"My one weakness!!!"
This video doesn’t exist for me. Won’t load. Can’t download it I have to wait probably 12 hours to watch it
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Bro same
Ight we out here now bois
You should do a Wiki Weekend of Namor. I don't know a whole lot about his character, but if he's anything at all like Aquaman he's probably extremely underestimated
My favorite torture method that the punisher used was the ice popsicle scene in the punisher movie. Ridiculous but it made me laugh.
"War Is Sweet, To Those Who Have Not Experienced It."
Just wondering if this video doesn’t work for anyone else or if it just my device.
me too
Same
Turn on and off your device it should work
i like how when carl stands just right it looks like it says "punch her"
Anyone else unable to load the video?
Turn on and off your device it should work
Let's go, another wiki weekends. Whew!
I... I liked Thomas Jane's portrayal of Frank Castle
The movie was an origin story, very heavy on origin. It went deep into humanizing Frank before he takes that last step into his forever war.That bothered alot of people.
@@jreese7436 The movie was iffy, but I thought Jane did a really good job himself given what he had to work with. Especially when he played the character again in Dirty Laundry. That was just awesome.
half expected to hear "Frank Woods" after the alias drop when you said he went back to war
"I was MIA in 'Nam, but your old man though I was an Onion" Frank woods ~1987
Jon Berenthal is a super cool dude in real life in case anyone was wondering, super down to earth
me, accidentally stepping into The Punisher Zone, a 4-km circle around The Punisher: “uh oh”
All that's missing to Frank's resume is a contract from Mephistopheles and a Harley.
4:23 That's not why that story line was made. It was to represent what Disney wishes it could do to all the people that use their IP's under Fair Use.
I luv watching these vids 2 start my day in the morning keep em comingg
Cops wearing Punisher shirts under their uniform should reconsider their life choices tho.
I don't care what anyone says.... Warzone was one of the best comic movies ever.
You are not wrong
there's an interesting old comic book I have (not sure if i still have it; probably in a closer somewhere) where the punisher crosses over with archie. and it just so jarring to see the two art styles collide at the time.
The thing is Penance Stare works based on sins not how sorry you feel; that specific comic was pretty much the embodiment of someone saying "Punisher is the coolest, most badass tough guy ever and no one can beat the power of GUN"
Also I believe punisher was said to have a superhuman level pain tolerance and as such punching him through a wall won't really stop the guy
Man talked about losing a rib or two to a shotgun like he was checking items off a grocery list
Made it here 3 minutes after it uploaded, Don't think I've ever been this early to one of your videos
Thomas Jane’s portrayal of The Punisher in Dirty Laundry is best IMO.
I like the Punisher, because he reminds me of Mack Bolon a dude in a series of novels I use to read. They called him the Executioner.
Please reupload this video it just won't load
Turn off and on your phone it should fix it
The Doom guy is just Punisher returning from hell.
Bro the best is Frank becomes a Ghost Rider and then becomes a cosmic Ghost Rider he's become one of my brand new favorite characters
So Frank has John Wick's motivation as well? That's even scarier!
I can’t get this video to play for some reason. Other TH-cam videos work. I’ve reset my phone and taken it off of wifi to no avail. [Update] Finally works, love the video.
No love for Ray Stevenson's Punisher? He shoots a guy flipping in midair with a rocket launcher in his movie.
Any ideas why I can’t watch this video? Ads play fine when I load it
I love how he basically gives oden the middle finger when oden offers him a place in valhala after he died.
Punisher: Warzone was good. A few cheesy bits here and there but it's a comic book movie. What I love the most about it is that they made it before the whole Marvel cinematic universe took off. So I think the director got to just make a movie without a whole team of people behind her telling her what to do because this movie needs to tie in with 4 others.
The punisher does not discriminate, he blows out criminal brains equally
It is the weirdest thing TH-cam refused to load this video yesterday but today it works fine.