Netflix's Punisher Didn't Understand Frank Castle
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Published 2019-02-19
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All Comments (21)
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Frank killing the pawnshop guy honestly felt really good.
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Jon Bernthal killed it as punisher. He’s an incredible actor
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You explained the Netflix Punisher exactly right. Taking away the randomness of his family’s murder completely undermined everything about the character. Having his family die because of wrong place, wrong time is exactly why he murders all criminals. Frank doesn’t just stumble into violent situations, he actively seeks them out.
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I think Bernthal's performance made me look past all the flaws honestly lol
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Ah, Frank Castle, my favorite Disney character.
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Jigsaw's face. Seriously! He should have looked like a mangled ragdoll after what Frank did to him! And the only damage he has is just a few scars!?
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Jon Bernthal deserves his own Punisher MCU movie set up in his point of view.
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The pawnshop owner kill in Daredevil felt more like a vigilante kill than Frank finding an excuse to kill someone
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Simple enough, Frank just needed to do more punishing.
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Fun fact since you had a picture of the Moon Knight Crossover: When Moon Knight talks to Khonshu about Frank and asks the god, why he did not choose Frank as his avatar, since he is more effective in bringing fear to the criminals. Khonshu answers that Frank is already serving another deity. Implying that Frank is, maybe without knowing, indeed the avatar of Death.
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The monologue works better than a flash back because you're hearing it all from the mouth of the broken man who's already suffered it. You're not caught with the impact of the trauma, but rather how it impacted him. I cry every time
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“Do what you love and you never work a day in your life.” - Frank Castle, Suicide Kings
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Loved this! I ADORE the show, but I’ve never read a Punisher comic in my entire life. I was one of those snobby fucks who just thought the comics were senseless violence, but your video completely sold me on checking out comic book Punisher. Thanks!
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The reason he’s willing to give DP and Logan a second chance is because they’re former soldiers and they do show genuine remorse about their pasts he doesn’t need to punish them because they’re already doing it to themselves
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At his most intense, I tend to think of Frank Castle being just an inch away from being something like the navy seal equivalent of Michael Myers.
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To be fair, multiple seasons of watching a literal murder hobo kill people over and over again in progressively more brutal ways may not exactly appeal to a mainstream audience so it makes sense to me they tuned it down just abit
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Did you even watch season 2? It’s whole arc was Frank finally coming to terms with the fact that he is what he is and shouldn’t change for society. He doesn’t ‘go home’ at the end of season 2, he go on to fully embrace his inner punisher. I also don’t recall him ever feeling remorse for killing criminals he feels deserved it.
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Same thing happened to Black Panther. He was badass in Civil War and okay in his own Movie
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I think Netflix making Castle more as a tragic figure than just a sociopath who needed his family gone to peacefully murder people is one the greatest strenght of the show. In the adaptation, the punisher is more complexe, between the human who wants to have a normal life and the born killer than he is. And this top writing level is also there for the other characters. Hope there will be a season 3 someday
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Lol I love that when you were describing the wolverine character arc they clipped for Frank, you perfectly described the plot of the equalizer films, the taken films, the Bourne films, the Jack Reacher films, and like 50 other successful movie franchises and characters in literature and film. It really is a popular archetype.
