Perhaps that’s why the Punisher’s popularity has fluctuated so wildly since 1974. Totally uncompromising in his mission, the Punisher is undoubtedly a hero for the Donald Trump era: a take-no-prisoners mercenary whose methods are remarkably simple and disturbingly easy to root for. He has no sympathy for Daredevil (Charlie Cox), who’s been fighting organized crime in Hell’s Kitchen for a year now, deriding him as a “half-measure” and shooting him off a roof the first time they meet. He occasionally stores the bodies of his victims on meat hooks. If the mob has a meeting, he’s there with military-grade assault rifles.
Initially, when gangsters are first being murdered all over the city, he’s mistaken for a paramilitary organization with exceptional force, but it turns out that he’s just one man, with a lot of weapons and an extraordinarily deadly aim. You Won’t Regret Rewatching The Ring Kevin TownsendĪs played by Jon Bernthal, Daredevil’s Punisher makes his intentions very clear from the start.
