Post by Frank Castle on Oct 10, 2010 19:20:28 GMT -5
Real Name:Frank Castle
Nickname/Mutant Name:The Punisher
Age:40
Gender:Male
Character's Occupation:Vigilante
Human or Mutant?:Human
Affiliation:None
Powers/Abilities/Skills:
While possessing no mutant powers Frank operates at the peak of human capacity. Through a strict diet and exercise regime he maintains excellent condition despite his age. A veteran of several wars, Frank is skilled with every firearm made by man and displays remarkable marksmanship even under extreme pressure. He is a highly skilled combatent and is extensivly trained in combat skills and strategy as well as possessing extensive knowlage in subertfuge, explosives and demolitions, infiltration, counterspying, torture methodology, improvisation and survival tactics. He has also demonstrated on several occassions his ability to use vehicles of any kind.
History:
He originally studied to become a Roman Catholic priest, but changed his mind because he was unable to forgive those who did evil. Eventually, Castle would enlist in the United States Marine Corps becoming a U.S. Marine Captain. He married his wife Maria, who was already pregnant with their first child prior to his enlistment.
During his time in the USMC, Castle graduated from boot camp and then went on to United States Marine Corps School of Infantry. Immediately after, he went through the USMC's Reconnaissance, Force Reconnaissance, and Sniper Schools. Attaining dockets, Castle was permitted to go through U.S. Army Airborne School, and U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team training, becoming qualified as a Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land). While still in training, Castle met Phan Bighawk, a Native American scout. He was assigned to be Castle's guide, and through Phan, he learned how to survive in the wilderness.
Following his training, Castle would serve in the Vietnam War in the Special Forces Unit as a point man. He fought in numerous engagements and was the only survivor (from both sides) of a Viet Cong assault on Valley Forge Firebase in 1971. For heroism in the line of duty, he was decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, the Silver Star 3 times, Bronze Star, the Purple Heart 4 times, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
While still in his first tour, Castle met Lieutenant Burt Kenyon. Kenyon was a Marine serving in the same combat company as Castle in Vietnam. When the platoon came under fire, Castle was badly injured by a V.C. explosive and surrounded by the enemy. However, Kenyon calmly appeared, gunned down the Viet Cong and dragged Castle to safety. Kenyon said to Castle that he now owes him his life. Two months later, Kenyon was declared mentally unfit for service and was discharged. Years later, Kenyon became a hired assassin known as "The Hitman" and died in a battle against Castle.
After finishing his first tour of duty in Vietnam, he signed up for a second tour. Castle served a total of 4 years in the Vietnam War (1968 to 1971). Six years later (1976) after the American involvement in Vietnam ended, Castle ran Special Black Ops training missions for Marine Recon Commandos in the upper New York State area.
In 1976, Castle, his wife, Maria and their children Lisa and Frank Jr. were in New York's Central Park for an afternoon picnic. They witnessed a Mafia gangland execution; an informant had been hanged from a tree. To eliminate all witnesses, the Costa crime family gunned them down; only Castle survived. Even though Frank was able to identify all of the shooters, the police were unable to stop them; they were tied in too deeply to the powerful Costa family. Grieving over his family's death and outraged at the incompetence of the police, Castle decided that the only punishment criminals should receive is that of physical destruction. Shortly thereafter, he emblazoned his body armor with a symbol of a skull, and began his mission of punishing the guilty. His family's killers were some of the first to be slain. Since then, he has waged a one-man war on crime, taking the name "The Punisher".
The Punisher has fought virtually every known criminal organization including the Italian Mafia, the Russian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies, the Irish Mob, biker gangs, street gangs, gunrunning militias, muggers, killers, rapists, psychopaths, sadists, pedophiles, thieves, and corrupt city officials. He also assaults criminal business enterprises such as drugs, weapons smuggling, money laundering and human trafficking. The Punisher has been fighting organized crime for long enough that he knows their modus operandi and can often predict their actions. Many of these organizations have tried to kill the Punisher, using both their own men and hired contract killers.
In his vigilante crusade, the Punisher has crossed paths with several costumed crimefighters, including Spider-Man. These encounters have sometimes resulted in his incarceration. The Punisher has been rated as one of the most dangerous criminals alive. When he was incarcerated in New Yorks Ryker's Island prison, though heavily outnumbered in gang fights, the Punisher had routinely killed armed, homicidal criminals with frightening ease, sustaining almost no injury. Due to his proficiency in fighting, he is rarely accosted in prison environments. Adhering to his military philosophies, the Punisher constantly trains whenever he is not out on action. He exercises fanatically to maintain his impressive physical conditioning and sticks to a balanced diet whenever possible.
The Punisher is highly mobile. He has many bases of operations and does not limit himself to working only in New York City. He has been to many places in the U.S. and around the globe, fighting crime in such places as Latin America, Europe, Russia and Afghanistan. The Punisher has an extensive criminal record due to his activities. The law enforcement community such as the police, the FBI and the CIA are aware of his existence and have made many attempts to capture him; however, many rank-and-file law enforcement officials are reluctant to take action against him because most of them support his war on violent crime.
Circumstances have even led him to battle Spider-Man, although on other occasions, several superheroes become allies and partners for brief times. Due to the Punisher's homicidal nature, few of his foes became recurring antagonists, the most notable of these being the severely scarred enforcer Jigsaw. Castle's sidekick, Microchip, is a techno-geek who can seemingly hack anything.
The Punisher possesses the normal human strength of a man who engages in rigorous regular physical exercise. Frank Castle engages in a brutal regimen of calisthenics, katas and firing range practice daily, maintaining his combat skills. He possesses an exceptional ability to tolerate pain, allowing him to undergo surgery without anesthesia and to keep functioning despite injuries that would incapacitate an ordinary man. Armed solely with conventional weapons and motivated by a fanatical hatred for criminals like those who murdered his family, the Punisher has single-handedly incapacitated up to a dozen well-armed and experienced opponents in a single encounter and escaped almost uninjured. It is his military training and his attention to detail that allows him to achieve this. His skills are such that he has repeatedly battled super-powered foes and come out victorious, despite his own lack of superhuman abilities.
The Punisher is a seasoned combat veteran of exceptional skills. A former U.S. Marine Captain with a distinguished combat record, Castle underwent sniper (his second tour in Vietnam was served as a sniper) and reconnaissance training while in the Corps. He also received U.S. Navy SEAL, UDT (Underwater Demolition Team), LRRP (Long Range Recon Patrol) training and airborne training with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Special Forces. Castle received training, skills and expertise from the Australian Special Air Service Regiment when he was on exchange with Australian military forces operating in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Castle is well-versed in the arts of warfare and hand-to-hand combat, his styles of choice being Nash Ryu Jujutsu (the four-style martial art founded by his Sensei Adam Nash) and the Marine Corps LINE combat system. He is an exceptional knife fighter who carries up to 3 or 4 different types of edged weapons, preferring the knife he learned to fight with in the USMC: the KA-BAR.
The Punisher's ever-changing arsenal of weaponry includes automatic and semiautomatic rifles, handguns, fragmentation and tear gas grenades, other various explosives, and combat knives. He commonly uses M16 .223 caliber automatic rifles, Sterling Mark 6 9mm semi-automatic rifles, 9mm Browning automatic pistols, .45 caliber automatics rechambered for 9mm. ammunition, .223 caliber Derringers, and Gerber Mark II combat knives. He maintains and stores all his weapons and supplies in warehouses and safehouses throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states as well as possessing an extensive collection of tactical and high performance vehicles, most notably the a F550 decommissioned tactical vehicle deemed, the "War" Van.
The Punisher often customizes his weapons for greater effectiveness with both standard and custom items including magnified optics, reflex sights, night vision scopes, flashlights, grenade launchers, sound and flash suppressors, bipods, high-capacity magazines and ammunition including hollow point and armor piercing bullets.
The Punisher works outside the "traditional" rules, because he does not feel remorse in killing. This often creates friction when he is forced to work alongside heroes like Spider-Man, who abides by a "no-killing" rule which he insists he follow during collaborative efforts.
The Punisher possesses no superhuman abilities and succeeds solely through ingenuity and the rigorous training of his military upbringing, a finely honed killer instinct and an extensive arsenal of weapons culled from fallen foes and military allies.
Castle also has no "real world" job, no known hobbies, and few friends. He spends nearly all of his time planning his next hit, stopping only to recover from injuries or fatigue. Money taken from criminals is used to purchase food, weapons, ammunition, and pay the rent of his many safehouses.
The Punisher also disregards what the police and the public think of him, and has been known to kill corrupt cops. But in an event that he kills an innocent person, he will voluntarily turn himself in to justice. He is viewed as a dangerous criminal by the public and by most members of the superhero community, but many law enforcement personnel move against him only very reluctantly, because many honest police officers and federal agents view his actions as beneficial since he goes after criminals and corrupt officials who feel they are beyond the law.
Castle's years of vigilantism have made him increasingly cynical about the capabilities of the American justice system, especially in regard to its failure to successfully prosecute his family's homicide, due to the witnessed killer's false alibi and the mob's influence in the New York City Police Department.
Minor characters who question his motivation sometimes reach violent ends, with Castle refusing discussion and turning violent if pressed. Even villains have sometimes pointed out the web of justifications and rationalisations within which the Punisher operates.
Castle has also stated he does not want others to follow his path, on the grounds that his personal war against criminals is his alone, and he harbors resentment toward other (usually short-lived) vigilantes, taking exception at what he sees as their lack of "professionalism".
Personality:
As said before, Castle is a dangerous sociopath who has lost almost every element of his humanity. He speaks in a voice that while calm harbours a considerable aggression and also a degree of sadness. His expression is always serious and his manner of speaking is very...matter of fact. He does have a habbit of musing to himself on various subjects but he never voices these opinions. Strangely enough when torturing people to exctact information Castle develops a hangmans humour, often acting in a theatrical manner to get what he wants. He has no hobbies, no friends and no real purpose in life other than the eradictation of crime. He does however possess a very strong sense of justice and if he harms an innocent he will willingly turn himself into the police. He is however single minded and completely incapable of accepting any other view on the way he works other than his own. He is single minded and totally uncomrpomising, turning violent if his web of justification for his killings is threatened.
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