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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, it's important that Punisher's vendetta be against crime as a concept, not any specific individual who slighted him.
I've never read Punisher, but I'm sure the fact that he's waging war against an unkillable concept rather than a mortal man, and the futility of it, has come up.
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You should read some, especially Punisher MAX. Garth Ennis writes really good Punisher stories, giving just the right mixture of war, noir, and pain:
They hated that old man so much they shot him through my family. The world went crazy on a summer's day in Central Park. In the time before uzis and berettas, before nine millimeter popguns ruled the streets. It was a Thompson, like the ones our fathers carried, and I recognized its rattle even as its big, man-stopping forty-fives punched blood and breath from my lungs. I hit the ground besides my daughter. She's been gutshot, badly, and when she saw the things that boiled and wriggled from her belly the expression on her face was not a little girl's. My wife bled out later on the operating table, her heart a gaping hole her life drained through. Whenever I get careless, that yearning in her eyes creeps up and brings me to my knees. Right then the old man's soldiers started started shooting back. My son dropped wordlessly, without a mark on him. I took a breath that cut like glass, spat blood, rose to my knees, picked up the boy and searched in vain for entry wounds. The bullet had entered through his open mouth. That was our picnic in the park. And now every night I go out and make the world sane.
edited 10th Jul '15 9:50:59 PM by alliterator
The MCU uses pre-existing music just fine most of the time. Just like Tony is linked to Heavy Metal (a pun if I have ever seen one), Steve is linked to 1940s jazz, Sam to Soul and Bruce to classic music. Got G was just the most obvious about it.
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You said it yourself, trouble man. And Bruce listens to opera after he hulks out....the actual Hulk movie didn't really have a memorable soundtrack aside from the reuse of the lonely man theme.
Right, but those were both one time each. Iron Man's use of Heavy Metal has actually been used multiple times — and Star-Lord's Walkman soundtrack was used throughout the movie. So I don't really think Sam and Bruce are "associated" with those types of music, since it was only used once for them.
So before the deal with Marvel
, the plot for the third Spider-Man movie would have seen Peter developing a serum to resurrect his dead loved ones.
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I thought it lasted two seasons.
Why not just do Gwen as Venom, without...whatever the hell this was?
edited 11th Jul '15 4:09:58 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!There's years and years of good stories though. I'm honestly baffled by how tough it was for Sony to come up with ideas if this kind of stuff is something they were considering. I mean Spider-Man 3 was bad but it wasn't a jump the shark moment. What the hell happened between then and now?
edited 11th Jul '15 4:10:14 PM by Kostya
A lot of the sheer stupidity of the ideas tossed around seems to stem from literally everyone involved realizing it was a dumb idea to kill off Gwen.
And according to the leaks at least one person at Sony seriously considered doing the Gwen Carnage story after Emma Stone jokingly brought it up.

Yeah, that's kind of annoying. It's also what I didn't like about Tim Burton's Batman.
But, on the whole, there really isn't a reason to make his family's deaths related to Hydra or Fisk. Hydra is more of a SHIELD thing and doesn't really belong in the noir world of Daredevil, while having Fisk kill Frank's family just seems too coincidental. And if that happened, Frank would never ever stop until Fisk was dead.
So I'm thinking it was just random mobsters this time, too.