you can't just have your characters announce how they feel! that makes me feel angry!

The Thomas Jane 04 Punisher, Frank was still a solider. When his neighbors see him on TV its a picture of him in dress blues.

Just came in to ask [off topic ik] but do you plan to review Penguin show by any chance considering it's happening immediately after The Batman?

The Punisher is one of the greatest comic book characters ever and Thomas Jane's is the best portrayal of him so far. Goddamn Frank, I love to watch you work❤️

For me it just comes down to Garth Ennis has way too much fun writing racist material in a lot of his work. There are a lot of moments in punisher max for example, where the writing and the art dress minorities as caricatures and not people. I like Ennis' work when he's somewhat kept on a leash, but he becomes erratic when he's left to his own devices. Can't wait to see the full vid!!!

The only time ive ever thought Frank was right in what he does is when he ends people that hurt kids other than that mates a lunatic

You know, at first, I didn't think you liked Frank. Then you characterized the newest Jigsaw as a "pretty (prissy?) emo sad boy with a couple of scratches on his face."

I LOVE the Punisher, and I think Ennis Max run is the perfect compass to help you understand him. Just as Cap is the son of a righteous war, won (among others) by U.S., he is the bastard son of a bad war U.S. lost. He embodies those contraddictions, frustrations, moral superiority complex. In the end, he is a warhead with a thrill to kill, a very selective serial killer, much like a Dexter, with way more equipment and training, and way less inner moral honesty. Of course, that's not how he was conceived and created in the first time, nor how he has been perceived until Ennis work.

OOOOOOOOOH I LOVE you ripping apart a comicstrope video. I can enjoy his stuff, but he is can be such a wet blanket about everything that is not his taste. You on cocktails can cook!

I like the comics and the show a lot. The show is a lot of fun and has a lot of the satire, but it lacks Ennis RUTHLESSNESS. Ennis writes everything so nihilistically but also so cartoonishly over the top that you rarely feel bogged down in the hellscapes he is creating. Meanwhile the show treats it all so straightforward that it can sometimes feel depressingly real. Its two sides of the same coin almost but one has more fun with the concept to dilute the horror. The comics also show not every hero is awful with that one team that GENUINELY want to do good but just arent that good at it and are not just corpo shills.

I love Tower of Babel. Batman would absolutely have a plan to incapacitate everyone he knows just in case. None of the plans were made to kill, just incapacitate and he hoped they would never would need to be used. Batman has to always have a plan, always think ahead, because he is just a man. With no plan he could not stop the JLA on his own if they got possessed by Starro or something

See I love the idea of Frank always being the Punisher but I prefer the takes where he was able to turn it off, have a normal life and job and find the peace of that. That his family gave him purpose beyond killing. When that purpose is taken away that last vestige of hope dies and all he has left is his war but now it is a war against crime, against the criminals who took his family and hope and humanity from him. However because he had that family he does not become the mindless killing machine psycho he could have been, he becomes a hero who will save an innocent by any means possible but has no mercy left in him for anyone he deems an enemy. Its why Punisher doesn't kill cops or heroes who try to stop him, he only kills those who take the peace he lost from others.

It's nice when women get older, lose their looks and are forced to pretend not to be the bad boy loving drug mule that they've desperately tried to be their entire lives. Good girl!

Frank is a Marine, not a soldier.

My guess is that the show exists for Dave to bastardize Heir to the Empire story🤷🏾‍♂️

Interesting 🤔

“I am death and the end is near.” Great song

This movie made tear up at the end. Especially for nightwing I honestly didn’t watch the teen titans movies from dcau. I just watched teen titans from cartoon network as kid. I just replaced that robin for this nightwing. I know that starfire and nightwing will always be close. So seeing him at peace with deformed starfire left me with such a unique feeling. I felt melancholy, sad because this universe is beyond saving. Yet happy that nightwing was happy. Knowing that this universe will end and maybe we will see a brighter future for these characters was absolutely beautiful.

:eye roll: enjoy the watch

Jason Aaron's run of The Punisher is one of the worse rendition of Frank Castle Its really up there with Purgatory and Hail Hydra Frank

Thomas Jane's Punisher was a Marine corps special operator. He was in fact once part of the justice system that failed him. I agree with just about of anything else :)

What are your thoughts on the RDJ Doom casting? 😊

Never diss horrible histories, best show ever

As someone who is also dead inside, Punisher is my fave.

Lassie ; how has Ireland faired since the disarmament of the Provos?

Dolph was great. Come one! Also I always thought the cop angle could work if he was a marine be for he went into law enforcement. And the cop thing was Franks way to try to distance himself from his killer self and support his family and have “normal and stable” job. But when he loses his family he like “fuck it I’m a Marine”

"The Bogman" scared me the most as a kid

Tom Jane Punisher was a soldier. It was mentioned at least twice in the movie.

22:53 What? Brother Blood has nothing to do with the actual Judas Contract. He was never associated with HIVE in the comics. That association was created for the show, and then that shitty movie ran with it. Or am I misremembering?

It's really crazy to me that, despite lacking the sexual angle, the show understood what Slade was doing better than the comic. He feels so much more like a child predator in the show.

I think its so scary you'd miss the point

This movie should’ve been focused on dick & Damion’s relationship as brother not adding more characters who quite frankly add anything and can be thanos snapped and not missed like genuinely think this a 4/10 like after Stephanie brown they shouldn’t add any one else to the bat family I think 7 is the limit for me if they want those 2 be part of something different fine but don’t add them to the bat family

I don't think at ALL Harvey was EVER the Holiday killer until he killed Carmine Falcone. I think it was Gilda and Alberto, but Gilda, being clearly unwell, assumed her husband was taking over from her. But I don't think so. I think it was Alberto. And I think when Harvey said there were two Holiday killers he didn't know Gilda was one of them. He was referring to Alberto (who he assumed committed all the previous murders), and himself, who had just killed the Roman.

The Punisher is another example of a character Marvel created not fully understanding what exactly he was, or rather they might have and then decided that he should be something else. As an anti-hero the Punisher does not really fit into the Marvel universe, unless you make him way less effective than he was originally introduced. It’s “amazing” he began as a Spiderman villain. D.C. did a much better job with the similar Hitman character. Characters such as these don’t belong in a world with superheroes, as anything other than a one off, but if you insist on placing them in one, then they really should be trying at all costs to avoid them. Hope more people discover your channel, because you do a great job of character analysis.

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Frank is a Marine. We are different… ask a soldier, sailor, or airman. (For any curious, yes I am biased. I’m a former 0311, served 22 years in the Corps, and deployed to combat 9 times. Thank you for attending my tedTalk 😂)

8:10 god help her if she ever gets bitten by the 40k bug

Season 1 is the only good season for the show

Haven't read the comic but I always assumed it was bad since I was told it was and yeah the show is bad and i haven't watched it after season 2

Yes!!! Anakin was a better and more consistent character in the films and Multi media project than in TCW im glad you also realized this 🎉😅🔥

I've never been a fan of Ahsoka personally especially because to me she doesn't fit the films i don't like Anakin having a padawan plus Dave Filoni overstating her importance to Vader or the saga really i don't get why he didn't kill her in her fight against Vader 🤷🏾‍♂️

This entire video makes me want to hug you. It’s also made me intrigued enough to possibly read the comics.

39:00 This Thunderbolts issue you're referencing, where Punisher resists Ghost Rider's penance stare, is a reflection of poor comic book writing. The writer who wrote that Thunderbolts issue didn't understand how Ghost Rider's penance stare worked, as it conflicts with decades of Ghost Rider lore. Penance stare takes every painful thing you've done to everyone you've ever encountered and then throws it back at you. If you inflicted physical, emotional, mental or spiritual pain on another human being, the penance stare will burn your soul. It has nothing to do with whether you regret it or not. The ONLY reason why Punisher resisted Ghost Rider's penance stare in the Thunderbolt issue that you referenced was because apparently, in an earlier comic, Punisher received an angel's blessing when Deadpool hovered an angel feather over his bloodied body. The Penance Stare doesn't work on people with divine protection. However, do keep in mind that when Ghost Rider used his penance stare on Frank in the Thunderbolts issue we're talking about, Frank's divine protection shielded him from THAT stare only. It was like a videogame buff - you buff yourself to shield yourself from a powerful attack from the enemy, and once the enemy uses their super move on you, the buff shields you from that attack only and then goes away. Simply put, you'd have to buff yourself again, so in this case, Frank would have to receive another angel's blessing. This is further evidenced by the fact that later on, Ghost Rider does use the penance stare on Punisher, and it DOES work -- we see Frank screaming in agony and pain and throwing up vehemently -- BUT it didn't kill him. The reason why the penance stare didn't kill Frank or make him go insane was because Frank feels the burden that comes with him inflicting pain onto others; and as you've noticed, that conflicts with your argument that Frank believes he's always right in what he does. Even then, I have issues with that too. The penance stare should be one of the ultimate-one-hit-kill moves ever in Marvel comics. It just felt like in the Thunderbolts issues I'm referencing they didn't want Frank to die. Maybe not write that as a plot point then? Maybe write something where Ghost Rider doesn't feel compelled to go after Frank because Frank is a force of vengeance himself ( a human one, is what I mean )? I don't know. Consistency should be key when writing stories, but for Marvel it seems like it's not.

Ennis is a decent writer, but he has a lot of flaws in his work. Most of the comics Ive read from him start really strong and drop the ball at the end or have a great arc but then delude into a nothing burger. I kinda agree with you to certain extent. The show was an "Improvement" only when it followed Ennis roadmap and reigned his over the top edginess, but they have also exclude some of the best stuff from the comic: Black Noir reveal has been changed for the worse and I doubt they will have Butcher's ending that was a tragic high point in he comic.

Anyone else read that in Channing tatums voice "my name is jeff"