History Monster / ThePunisher

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!![[[Franchise/MarvelUniverse 616 Punisher]]

!!ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX (even DarkerAndEdgier than 616 Punisher)

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->You think I do this [kill people] for '''money'''?! I've been gettin' paid for high-end jobs since... '''forever'''. Have you ever seen me '''spend''' any of it? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I have more money than '''you''', at this point. No, Norman... I stopped doing this for money '''a long time ago'''. I do it because it's '''fun'''.
-->--'''Bullseye''', ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' v4 #12With ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's [[PayEvilUntoEvil willing to kill]], to be a CompleteMonster, one must REALLY stand out.

With ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's [[PayEvilUntoEvil willing to kill]], to be a CompleteMonster, one must REALLY stand out.

With ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's willing to kill, to be a CompleteMonster, one must REALLY stand out.

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* [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]] begins as a mob boss's bodyguard with a scheme to manipulate the mob and The Punisher to make himself the Kingpin of New York. Fisk is steadily revealed as a callous monster who paralyzed his abusive father and let rats eat his face. After he was [[PrisonRape raped in prison]], he tracked down the perpetrator's innocent wife, [[DisproportionateRetribution allowing the filthiest bums and crackheads he could find to rape her]] before he murdered her, and sent the photos to her husband. When Fisk's schemes unravel, his innocent child is held at knifepoint by Fisk's former boss. Fisk coldly allows his son's throat to be slit and icily informs his wife they can simply have another, admitting he never truly loved his son. As the Kingpin, Fisk is brutal, killing lieutenants and foes alike, and exiling his grieving wife. In his final battle with Castle, Fisk reveals himself as a [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered egomaniac who believes he owns the city and has the right to do what he wishes with it]].

* [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] is presented as a truly vile killer in the MAX series. Initially [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]] who loves his job perhaps a little too much, Bullseye becomes obsessed with getting inside Frank Castle's head. To this end, he begins targeting happy families, murdering the husband, raping the wife and taking her and the kids out on a "picnic" where he has his goons gun them all down to recreate the scene when Castle lost his family. When he finally confronts and battles Castle, Bullseye shows nothing but unmitigated bliss at being the one criminal who can truly mentally rattle him.

* Tiberiu Bulat, his son Cristu Bulat, and their associate Vera are the villains of ''The Slavers'' storyline. Tiberiu and Cristu were part of an Eastern European militia responsible for ethnic cleansing, slaughtering entire villages until Cristu got the idea to take young women captive. They forced them into sexual slavery and went to the United States to export the business. Tiberiu is a trigger-happy madman who'll kill anyone at the slightest provocation while Cristu and Vera are calculating business types who routinely have the girls raped, with Vera coming up with the strategy of "rape them to break them."

* While not as dark as MAX imprint, the 616 Punisher series has its own monsters. [[SinisterMinister Reverend Samuel Smith]] was a [[Film/{{Jonestown}} Jim Jones]]-style figure who started his own {{cult}} called the "Church of the Saved." Preaching that America is a racist and fascist nation, Smith managed to recruit several disfranchised people to join his church. However, Smith runs his church as a fiefdom, [[BadBoss killing members who defy him or try to leave the church]] and making the women of his church join his harem, while [[StrawHypocrite forcing everyone else in the church to be celibate]]. Punisher tries to kill Smith after he reveals he [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink intends to feed poisoned food to his church membership]], killing all 1000 of his loyal followers. After his initial defeat, Smith decides [[CardCarryingVillain evil is more powerful then good]] and becomes a [[UsefulNotes/{{Satanism}} Satan]] [[HollywoodSatanism worshipper]]. Smith decides to use a [[SterilityPlague drug that causes sterility to destroy the human race]]. After Punisher destroys a shipment of his sterility drug, Smith take out his frustration by murdering a suburban family, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]]. Near the end of the story, Smith was trying to dump his sterility drug into the Gulf of Venezuela.

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* [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] is presented as a truly vile killer in the MAX series. Initially [[ProfessionalKiller an assassin]] who loves his job perhaps a little too much, Bullseye becomes obsessed with getting inside Frank Castle's head. To this end, he begins targeting happy families, murdering the husband, raping the wife and taking her and the kids out on a "picnic" where he has his goons gun them all down to recreate the scene when Castle lost his family. When he finally confronts and battles Castle, Bullseye shows nothing but unmitigated bliss at being the one criminal who can truly mentally rattle him.

* CompleteMonster: With ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' being DarkerAndEdgier, and the BlackAndGrayMorality of Frank Castle being an AntiHero who's willing to kill, to be a CompleteMonster, one must REALLY stand out.