History Film / DirtyLaundry

* TheReveal: After the fighting has stopped, the protagonist goes to return to his car. The kid he was speaking to earlier goes to return his T-shirt from the dryer, only for the man to tell him to keep it. Cue the man getting into his van and the kid unfolding the T-shirt...[[ComicBook/ThePunisher to show a white skull on a pitch-black shirt]].

* RoleReprisal: Creator/ThomasJane is once again Film/{{the Punisher|2004}}.

[[caption-width-right:260: [[CleanUpTheTown Crime is the dirt. Meet the detergent]]]].

* TheCameo: Creator/RonPerlman appears as convenience store clerk who had been a former solider like Castle himself, but got paralyzed from trying stop a crime years before.

[[caption-width-right:260: [[CleanUpTheTown Crime is the dirt. Meet the detergent]].]]

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:The gang leader pleads for mercy when the prostitute he brutally raped earlier is about to throw the lighter at him. Leading to...]]
* BigNo: [[spoiler:The gang leader screaming this.]]

* CommonalityConnection: The main character and the store clerk. The store clerk's story suggests that he once tried to stand up to some local criminals, only to end up in a wheelchair with, it's implied, his family murdered in retribution. He ended up succumbing to cynicism and despair. It's suggested that the main character and his family suffered a similar fate, but [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the main character took a different approach in response.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: The main character points out that he is six months sober when he turns down a sale on bourbon (And vodka), but after he listens to the clerk's story, he buys a bottle of Jack Daniels. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope He does not drink it]], but rather [[GrievousBottleyHarm uses it to kill all of the gang member sans the leader]].]]

* GrievousBottleyHarm: A bottle of Jack Daniels bought from the corner convenience store is used to take down a street gang [[spoiler:by the main character.]]
* HesBack: [[ImpliedTrope Implied.]] Frank seems to be off his game, even refraining from stopping a woman getting raped. However, following his witnessing a boy being threatened by a gang and having a little philosophical chat with [[NotSoDifferent the clerk,]] he goes out and [[PayEvilUntoEvil does what he does best.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Do you know the difference between Justice and Punishment?" Said by the main character after dousing the gang leader in Jack Daniels and lighting a lighter, clearly intent on setting the gang leader on fire. [[spoiler: But then he sets the lighter down and walks away, letting the prostitute the gang leader beat and raped at the start of the film kill the gang leader. Punishment is being struck down for committing evil. Justice is being struck down by the person against whom you committed evil.]]
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler: The main character does this by twisting the arm of a gangster who's holding a gun.]]
* PapaWolf: Frank is unamused when he sees the gang leader threatening a kid outside, and [[CurbStompBattle goes to do something about it.]]

* CommonalityConnection: The main character and the store clerk. The store clerk's story suggests that he once tried to stand up to some local criminals, only to end up in a wheelchair with, it's implied, his family murdered in retribution. He ended up succumbing to cynicism and despair. It's suggested that the main character and his family suffered a similar fate, but [[Comicbook/ThePunisher the main character took a different approach in response.]]

* ManOnFire: The gang leader is beaten up by Frank and then drenched with the bottle of Jack Daniels; Frank then leaves an already lit lighter by his broken legs. [[spoiler:The prostitute then [[TheDogBitesBack lights him on fire]]]].

* NoodleIncident: Why he's residing inside a beaten down Ford van is unsure, but [[WordOfGod Thomas Jane]] explained that:
--> '''Thomas Jane''': "Frank is trying to take a breather after one particularly hard mission - which has forced him to blow his hideaway and lose everything - again. Something that Frank is pretty used to by now. He's managed to escape relatively unscathed, but all he's got left is a .45 or two. He's got to rebuild his life all over again. He's stolen a van and parked it on a forgotten street in the ghetto, where he climbs into the back and gets a few hours of much deserved sleep. Morning comes and he decides he might as well wash the blood out of his uniform, and put something in his stomach. His day hasn't even started yet when sure enough, trouble finds him. Again. The last thing he wants to do is get involved with some street punks war party."

* TheReveal: After the fighting has stopped, the protagonist goes to return to his car. The kid he was speaking to earlier goes to return his t-shirt from the dryer, only for the man to tell him to keep it. Cue the man getting into his van and the kid unfolding the t-shirt...[[ComicBook/ThePunisher to show a white skull on a pitch-black shirt]].
* RoleReprisal: Creator/ThomasJane is once Film/{{the Punisher|2004}}.
* ShortFilm: The work is ten minutes from start to finish.

** Creator/RonPerlman's character is a deconstruction of the idea. He tried to interfere in a situation like that once, was left in a wheelchair and may have had his family murdered in retaliation. This guy was also even a war vet.

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Do you know the difference between Justice and Punishment?" Considering it's [[Comicbook/ThePunisher the main character]] who says this line, it's pretty clear what that difference is.

* TheCameo: If such a thing can exist in a short film; Creator/RonPerlman appears as convenience store clerk, who had been a former solider like Castle himself but paralyzed from trying stop a crime years before.

* GrievousBottleyHarm: [[spoiler: Best. Example. EVER. The main character orders a bottle of Jack Daniels before he leaves the convenience store. He then uses it to kill the gang members.]]

* VigilanteMan: The main character decides to get involved in a crime he witnesses while doing his laundry.
** Creator/RonPerlman's character is arguably a deconstruction of the idea. He tried to interfere in a situation like that once, was left in a wheelchair and may have had his family murdered in retaliation. This guy was also even a war vet.

''Dirty Laundry'' is a 2012 ShortFilm[=/=]FanFilm released during the San Francisco Comic-Con starring Thomas Jane as a solitary man living out of the back of an old van currently parked in a rough neighbourhood. While doing his laundry, he crosses paths with a local gangster and his crew, who have a score to settle with a local prostitute and a local boy who refuses to sell drugs for them. Unfortunately for ''them'', although [[WritingAroundTrademarks he is never named or explicitly identified in the story]], the man is apparently Frank Castle -- otherwise known as Comicbook/ThePunisher.

[[caption-width-right:260: Crime is the dirt. Meet the detergent.]]

* TheCameo: If such a thing can exist in a short film; Ron Perlman appears as convenience store clerk, who had been a former solider like Castle himself but paralyzed from trying stop a crime years before.

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Do you know the difference between Justice and Punishment?" Considering it's [[ThePunisher the main character]] who says this line, it's pretty clear what that difference is.

** Ron Perlman's character is arguably a deconstruction of the idea. He tried to interfere in a situation like that once, was left in a wheelchair and may have had his family murdered in retaliation. This guy was also even a war vet.

* GrievousBottleyHarm: [[spoiler: Most Triumphant Example. EVER. The main character orders a bottle of Jack Daniels before he leaves the convenience store. He then uses it to kill the gang members.]]

** Ron Perlman's character is arguably a Deconstruction of the idea. He tried to interfere in a situation like that once, was left in a wheelchair and may have had his family murdered in retaliation. This guy was also even a war vet.

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Do you know the difference between Justice and Punishment?" We never hear the answer to that, but [[spoiler: the returning prostitute pretty much answers it for us.]]

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The character is clearly the Punisher, and even owns his signature skull shirt, but is never once named or referred to as such.

* PreMortemOneLiner: "Do you know the difference between Justice and Punishment?"

* TheReveal: After the fighting has stopped, the protagonist goes to return to his car. The kid he was speaking to earlier goes to return his t-short from the dryer, only for the man to tell him to keep it. Cue the man getting into his van and the kid unfolding the t-shirt...[[ComicBook/ThePunisher to show a white skull on a pitch-black shirt]].

** The gangster is prevented from taking a clear shot at the main character at a crucial moment by the kid he and his goons had previously been bullying and beating up.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The shot cuts away right before the gang leader is set on fire, so all that is visible is a plume of fire and not his actual death.

Jane, who played the title role of ComicBook/ThePunisher in the [[Film/ThePunisher 2004 movie of the same name]], referred to the film as a "love letter" to the character and [[DoingItForTheArt he financed it himself]]. Directed by Phil Joanou (''Gridiron Gang''), it also has a cameo by Creator/RonPerlman.