The Punisher

[Uatu The Watcher]

REAL NAME: Frank Castle
CURRENT ALIAS: The Punisher
IDENTITY: Public

KNOWN RELATIVES: Maria Elizabeth Castle (Wife, deceaced), Lisa Barbara Castle (Daughter, deceased), Frank David Castle Junior (Son, deceased), Mario Lorenzo Castiglione (Father, deceased), Louisa Castiglione (Mother, deceased), Fredo and Rocco Castiglione (Paternal uncles, deceased), Esmerelda Castiglione (Aunt, deceased), Michael Castiglione (Brother, stillborn, deceased)
AFFILIATIONS: None. Former Marine
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Multiple NYC Safehouses.

GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 6'1"
WEIGHT: 200 lbs.
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black
UNUSUAL FEATURES: None of note.

ORIGIN: Human
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
MARITAL STATUS: Widower
OCCUPATION: None
CITIZENSHIP: American
UNIVERSE: Earth-1050

POWERS:

The Punisher has no superhuman powers.

ABILITIES:

* Master Martial Artist: Castle is a seasoned combat veteran of exceptional skills. He is well-versed in the arts of warfare and hand-to-hand combat. His styles of choice being Nash Ryu Ju Jitsu, (the four-style martial art founded by his Sensei Adam Nash and the Marine Corps LINE combat system) Ninjutsu, Shorin-Ryu, Hwarangdo, and Chin Na. 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.

* Expert Marksman: He is an exceptional marksman who is ambidextrous in this respect. He is skilled in sharpshooting and knife throwing.

* Expert Pilot: Castle received airborne training with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Special Forces.

* Interrogation Expert

* Demolitions Expert: He also received a U.S. Navy SEAL, UDT (Underwater Demolition Team), LRRP (Long Range Recon Patrol) training.

* Expert Tactician: 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 uninjured. It is his military training and his attention to detail that allows him to achieve this.

STRENGTH LEVEL:

The Punisher possesses the normal human strength of a 6'1" 200-pound man, who engages in intensive and extensive physical exercise. Frank is capable of press lifting up to twice his bodyweight and can press lift 400 lbs. Frank engages in a brutal regimen of calisthenics, katas and firing range practice daily, maintaining his combat skills and he does not drink alcohol or do drugs.

EQUIPMENT:

Military equipment as appropriate

The Punisher's outfit is a form-fitting black Kevlar bodysuit with a large white skull on his chest. According to Castle, this drew the attention and the aim of the criminals to his heavily armored body, instead of his more vulnerable head. Each tooth of the skull was actually spare ammunition for firearms.

Punisher chose not to utilize any costume outside of a black shirt with a white skull splashed across the front. His other clothing, which sometimes included combat boots, blazers, leather jackets, trench coats, bulletproof vests, body armor, black battle dress uniforms, and camouflage outfits was worn for the sake of protection or camouflage in urban and wilderness areas.

The Punisher employs a vast array of conventional firearms including machine guns, rifles, shotguns, handguns, knives, explosives and other weapons culled from common and organized criminals and military sources during his operations. A vast majority of his weapons have roots in military forces around the world, and typically employs weapons and accessories limited to military operations.

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 drums and various ammunition including hollow point or armor piercing bullets.

EARTH-1050 HISTORY:

Frank Castle served his country by joining the US Marine Corps and fighting terrorism overseas following 9/11, shipping out to Afghanistan to battle Al-Qaeda and its allies. Much of what he did in Afghanistan is classified and not known to the public, and Frank never spoke much about what went on while he was over there. But tragedy soon struck when he returned home, as his wife and children were killed in a shoot-out between rival gangs. Frank himself suffered injuries in the shooting, but did not die.

Despite an intense police investigation to find and prosecute those responsible, Frank watched as the gang members got off with little more than a slap on the wrist, due to apparent ties to organized crime. It was then that a mournful and angry Frank Castle decided that if the justice system wouldn't punish criminals, then he would.

And Frank Castle dropped off the face of the Earth, his accounts empty, the brownstone he'd lived in with his family abandoned.

But now there's a man dressed in full black body-armor, emblazoned with a fearsome white skull, stalking the streets, waging a one-man war on crime, calling himself "The Punisher"...

ROLEPLAY NOTES:

Castle has stated that he did 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 saw as their lack of "professionalism". The Punisher knows that no matter how many hundreds or thousands of criminals he kills it does not make a difference in the world. Frank knows that his actions don't make the world a safer place