I feel like there are so many angles you could approach The Punisher from and this one I’m kind of struggling with. Part of me thinks it’d be badass if they just had, like, Mel Gibson or something, and that’s how they circumvented the whole “mass murderer in the Marvel Universe thing;” because they kept the whole Vietnam angle, had him wipe out New York’s Organized Crime over three decades and just tossed his *** in Ryker’s. There’s something so unsettling to me about old Frank Castle, moreso, even that his younger counterpart, because with age comes wisdom and acceptance, and, for it to be thirty years after the death of his family and still be murdering the everloving **** out of people? That takes dedication and a particular breed of psychopathy.
Honestly, I have conflicting feelings about The Punisher, because I don’t know whether I like him better super emotional or not at all, and what I mean by that is in regards to his attachments; if this is a guy singularly driven by grief and by the loss of his family to the point where he would wage a war just to numb that pain and not have to accept that loss or if he was just a born psychopath who never really gave a **** about his family, who found his knack in ‘Nam and was able to slip free of the bonds of normalcy and set the world on fire after some dumb schmuck in Central Park decided to get rid of the baggage holding the monster at bay.
