He kills Doctor Doom, then lures the various mutant super-teams to the moon and wipes them out with one of Doom's nuclear missiles. During these periods he is visited by Murdock, who pleads for Castle to stop the slaughter. The Hulk is killed after his latest rampage, while his alter-ego Bruce Banner is recovering in an alleyway, located by Castle using a dart-gun tracking transmitter.Ĭastle is captured and jailed on several occasions, but is broken out each time by Kesselring. He begins by trapping Spider-Man and Venom in the sewers and killing them while they are fighting one another. With the help of Microchip, a former member of the US Air Force whose legs were pulled off by Doctor Octopus, the Punisher sets about his mission. Thirsting for revenge, Castle agrees and becomes the Punisher. They will provide Castle with all the resources he will need if he will destroy every superhuman on earth. Kesselring introduces Castle to his associates, other disfigured and brain-damaged individuals, who reveal that they were maimed in the crossfire of superhero/supervillain battles. When the prison van taking him to jail stops, Castle finds himself at the mountain mansion of a rich but hideously disfigured old man named Kesselring. Despite Murdock's defense, Castle is sentenced to life imprisonment.
His attorney is Matt Murdock, who recognizes Castle as the man who rescued him from a gang of ruffians when they were both boys (the two characters did not know each other as children in the normal Marvel universe). He is then attacked and wounded by Wolverine, and only survives due to the intervention of Colossus.Īfter recovering from his injuries, Castle is put on trial for triple-homicide. Enraged, Castle opens fire on the assembled heroes, killing Cyclops, Hawkeye, and Shadowcat. Castle arrives to find his family dead, and Daredevil berating Cyclops and Captain America for their carelessness.Īs Castle grieves, none of the heroes are willing to admit their fault in the deaths, until finally Cyclops attempts to apologize. Rather than falling victim to a gangland slaying, Castle's wife and children are instead killed when caught in the middle of a battle between the Avengers, the X-Men, and a group of Brood and other aliens in Central Park. ( April 2023)įrank Castle becomes an officer in the NYPD SWAT team after leaving the U.S.
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