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Author: stupac85

Aug 15th 2011 at 11:52:33 AM

In Film/ThePunisher, Howard Saint orders the massacre of Frank Castle's entire family after his son is killed in an FBI drug bust that Castle was involved in as an undercover agent. The rest of the film involves Castle adopting the identity of the Punisher for the express purpose of avenging his family. He does this by systematically eliminating every single important member of Saint's criminal empire (including Saint's wife and second son) which ultimately culminates with Castle killing Saint himself.

This doesn't happen in Film/GhostRider, [[SequelHook but it's directly stated that it will happen in the future]]. Mephisto is the demon who gives Johnny Blaze the Ghost Rider powers and instructs him to use them to defeat Blackheart. After Blackheart is beaten, Mephisto offers to take the powers back, freeing Johnny from the burden of being the Ghost Rider. Johnny refuses that offer, choosing to keep the Ghost Rider powers and announces his intentions to use them against Mephisto.

In the Thor movie, Loki is ultimately revealed to be behind the Frost Giants who snuck into Asgard, which started the chain of events that led to Thor being stripped of his powers and exiled to Earth. After living among humans and learning the proper humility, Thor regains his powers and returns to Asgard where he defeats Loki, who by that time had usurped Odin's position as the ruler of Asgard.