History ComicBook / ThePunisher2099

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In 2004 a one-shot alternate version was published as part of ''Marvel Knights 2099'' which centers on ComicBook/{{Elektra}} Natchio and Frank Castles's daughter Cossandra, who has succeeded her father in becoming The Punisher. An alternate version of Jake himself is the catalyst of ''2009-2099: Timestorm''. The original made his return during ComicBook/SpiderMan2099's portion of ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', and later was chosen to be the Grandmaster's "summoner" in the third iteration of ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions''.

* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler: Fearmaster turns the Punisher’s girlfriend, Kerry, to glass. When Gallows grabs her, she then shatters completely.]]

!!This comic has the examples of:

->''"Who are you? You're no strolling citizen packing that hardware...."''
->''"I'm the Punisher... and you're '''deadware!'''"''

* TitleByNumber: Like all the other books in the ''2099'' line.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: At first, Jake's killing murderous scum in reaction to his Mom and sister being murdered by crooks who got away with it. At the end of the series, sponsored by a new regime, he's gone around the bend. Among many things, the age at which someone can be tried as an adult is now in the single digits and pretty much everything is a crime punishable by whatever the hell he wants it to be (and brain scanners are used to cover [[{{Thoughtcrime}} bad thoughts]]). At one point, he expresses the desire that [[ConsentingAdults consensual adult sex]] should be punished.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While not a direct use of this trope, it is subverted in one story. The Punisher runs across a female copycat vigilante of him, who prefers to kill crooks using painful methods and weapons. The Punisher looks down on her for this, saying that he prefers clean kills and doesn't take pleasure in killing. She sneers at him because he uses lasers. According to her, lasers burn into flesh and boil the blood. The wound always go septic and the nerves rarely regrow. They may look nice in the "Holo-dramas", but they're just as nasty as what she uses.

* ClarkKenting: Gallows doesn't bother to wear any face covering, even though his identity is supposed to be a secret. He uses some kind of tech so his face comes across as a digitized skull if it's captured on camera, but somehow nobody ever seems to notice him when they see him in person.

* {{Irony}}: After Jake gets together with Kerry, he begins to finally move past his family's murders and his crusade of vengance. He decides to give up being The Punisher after doing one last job (a favor for Matt), but it's during this job that the Fearmaster finds Kerry and kills her for destroying the evidence out The Punisher's true identity. When Jake finds her dead, he snaps and puts all his efforts into his vigilante work.

** In some ways, this also works to make him ''worse'' than Frank Castle. Jake will sometimes go beat the crap out of one of his prisoners just because he feels like it. His personal jail also includes a disintegration chair for executions. While it only takes a few seconds, this method of execution is by all accounts ''excruciatingly'' painful. On one occasion he caught a teenaged killer. His code of ethics did not allow him to kill in cold blood a minor, so he kept him imprisoned until his eighteenth birthday and ''then'' executed him.

* AndroidsAndDetectives: There's a brief arc where Jake gets a new partner on the force, an android named Goldheart. For a guy who has no particular dislike of mutants, Jake shows surprising FantasticRacism against robots, at least until his new partner proves his competence. [[spoiler: Goldheart turns out to be a crook anyway]].

* ShoutOut: For a while Jake had a motorcycle with an artificial intelligence, which also looked very similar to the bike of [[Comicbook/JudgeDredd a certain another officer of the law in a dark future]].

* AndroidAndDetective: There's a brief arc where Jake gets a new partner on the force, an android named Goldheart. For a guy who has no particular dislike of mutants, Jake shows surprising FantasticRacism against robots. [[spoiler: Goldheart turns out to be a crook anyway]].

* LawEnforcementInc: Public Eye, Jake's civilian identity's workplace.