Hi there nerdy list aficionados it's time to talk about a lot of fans favourite characters,
villains.
For some a hero is only as good as the villains they face , as nuanced and exciting as a heroes
backstory may be they need someone to test their metal against.
Not all villains are created equal, some are far scarier than others.
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Punisher himself Frank Castle while he's been
a favourite of certain marvel fans for years there's no denying that the Netflix television
series Daredevil and later his own solo series have helped bring him into the public eye
in a big way.
People are picking up old and new comics left and right which means they're discovering
a wide array of all new villains.
Today we're going to take a look at the Top 10 Scariest Punisher villains.
I'm Sasha and let's get started.
Number 10 William Rawlins of the Netflix Marvelverse - Never forget the multiverse it allows for
so many variations on characters, and it gives us a Rawlins much more involved with Frank's
history than his comic counterpart.
This version was directly involved in having Frank's family massacred the very event that
transforms him into the punisher in the first place.
Willing to do what it took to protect his own reputation Rawlins would let nothing stand
in his way and continued to do so, lying, killing innocent and being every bit the stereotypical
evil soldier.
Being ideologically opposed to someone is often reason enough for a clash but add on
the murder of your family and you have something far more sinister.
The idea of someone who could completely change your life and you as a person entirely is
pretty scary.
Number 9 - Daken now some of you may be like who?
Well for those out there who are perplexed meet wolverine's son he's gone through some
stuff.
He's a newer edition first appearing in 2007 in Wolverine Origins #10 but since then he's
found a spot in the Marvel Universe floating from place to place and this drifting has
led to him crossing paths with Frank castle.
In fact Daken has killed him before during dark reign while he was a member of the dark
avengers.
Decapitated and dismembered him just complete fatality but he got better, and was revived
as Franken Castle.
As you can imagine this led to the 2 having some beef.
I don't know about you but I'd be tense at the very least around the men who so violently
murdered me, having to go up against your own murdered scary stuff, although probably
less so for comic book characters, more like a regular Tuesday.
Number 8 - Barracuda another newcomer well relatively speaking and coming to us from
2006.
Barracuda is a tried and true Punisher villain appearing in Punisher vol7 #31.
He was based on a folk song called Stagger Lee, he was initially supposed to die but
the editor had his creator Garth Ennis have him survive only to be killed off later.
So why is he so scary, well it all comes down to his relentless good cheer the glass is
always half full with barracuda maybe more than half full.
It's one thing being hunted is anther thing being hunted by someone more than happy to
kill and dismember you.
It's infectious, I kinda miss him, is that weird, it's probably weird.
Number 7 - The Holy aka Hector Redondo appearing in Punisher vol 5#2 in the year 2000 Hector
is scary because he believes that him and Frank Castle are kindred spiritrs.
You know the typre the villain who shows up and like to open their monologue with we're
the same you and I.
A priest who snapped during confession one day and took it upon himself to Punish sins
he views himself as another version of The Punisher.
It's never fun to have to question your mission although that may be giving Hector too much
credit, still it's scary to be idolized by someone who you in no way want to be associated
with.
Number 6 Bullseye, now many may not think of this character as a Punisher villain he's
much more tied to the Daredevil he even made his first appearance back in 1976 in Daredevil
#131.
However over the years this unstable villain has gone toe to toe with many staple marvel
heroes amongst them the Punisher.
So what exactly makes Bulleye scary well it may not sound like much to some but the level
of obsession and skill combined and focused on one target can lead to some pointed and
prolonged encounters.
There is also the fact that depending he can even come across as friendly and yet will
turn around and try to kill you the next second.
It's difficult to not know where you stand or even if you're a target.
There's a disconnect there which Bullseye willing to go to lengths not everyone else
would.
Plus he's got connections, and that's never a good thing, I mean unless you're the one
who has them.
Number 5 - Ma Gnucci sometimes you don't have to be around long to leave a lasting impression
just look at Barracuda well Ma Gnucci of the Gnucci crime family is the exact same.
After killing three of her sons Ma Gnucci was out for vengeance.
She managed toi use her connections to get the police to create a Punisher task force
dedicated to taking Frank down, it only ended up having two people on it but still.
While not perhaps the most successful of the Punisher's villains he does end up burning
her, her rage and dedication to trying to kill him shine through.
A lot of people want to kill the pnisher but not all of them are so passionate about it.
Driven by motherly rage, also for awhile it looked like she came back to life after escaping
from hell which would have been terrifying, but that was a hoax perpetuated by the Elite,
but still for the while that Frank believed it, it haunted him.
Number 4 - Let's hop back in time to a more classic villain, although I'm sure for some
of you calling a character who emerged in the late 80s a classic is paining you, but
we're doing it anyway.
Let's talk about Bushwacker.
While he is originally a daredevil villain appearing in Daredevil 248.
He has a bone to pick with Frank Castle,.
The Punisher left him for dead and then his wife left him his whole life fell apart I
mean and you could maybe make it look like it was Frank's fault.
He's a got a cyborg arm and he's out to kill, some of this also comes down to his appearance
when drawn by a good artist it is an intimidating character design.
He's intimidating can you imagine having him coming upon you in a dark alley.
No thank you.
Number 3 - Elite - here we are again with vigilantes that make Frank Castle question
himself only unlike the holy elite actually has the clout and the money to make himself
a real nuisance to Frank.
Elite was all about cleaning up crime but a very specific sort lower class more interested
in preserving notions of classism and snobbery not only were his methods and rationale suspect
but he attracted waay too much attention.
However that didn't stop them from asking Frank to join them, he didn't and killed them,
but that wasn't the end of the elite, the second elite was the firsts son and he was
willing to go to even more drastic measures involving the mafia and psychological warfare,
what makes the elite scary is that really it could be anyone it's a concept more than
anything and one that will forever mare Frank's reputation.
They make it so Frank always has to prove that he's not like that, or is he.
Number 2 - Kingpin you knew the kingpin had to be on this list, The kingpin has been making
his presence known since 1967 when he emerged as a spider man villain in the amazing spider
man #50.
Since then his presence has grown and he has become a problem for many a Marvel hero and
that includes The punisher.
The kingpin has been sending people to kill Frank for years.
He's clashed with the Punisher many many times, and part of the fear surrounding this one
is that the Kingpin isn't going anywhere anytime soon, he is a constant a menace, at any point
he could be plotting sending people your way.
He just needs to be a constant thought in the back of your mind and he's pretty dangerous
to go up against one one as well.
A fact we've seen in the comics and on Netflix it's a lot.
Number 1 - I'm pretty sure you knew who this was going to be, and it's not just so we can
put Ben Barnes in the thumbnail though that does help.
You guessed it, it's Jigsaw.
Aka billy russo or billy the beaut russo for some irony.
Now here you get a choice because the comics version and the film version and the Netflix
version are all different from each other.
But they all end up in nemesis status and really who's scarier than your dark other
half.
Your counterpoint.
In the comics these two have a completely antagonistic relationship and Frank is the
one who slices dices Billy's face turning him into Jigsaw essentially, which also happens
in the series but there's more.
For me the true fear factor has to go to the Netflix series for one simple reason, the
betrayal element.
These two were friends or at least Frank thought they were and well they were kinda sorta it
was complicated ish, and that complication that mish mash of emotions is what can make
a foe so dangerous.
Ultimately Franks deals with this in true punisher fashion which of course gives the
comic character a leg up as the best villains return but when you have both versions to
play with it shows you how versatile the characters can be, Jigsaw stands out he was the villain
people were waiting for and in future adaptyations they will be again he's made a mark and what's
scarier than that.
Now I'm sure many of you are saying tons of things, you wimpy noob but hey it's fun to
take a look back at Punisher's villains they're not as well known as some of the others out
there.
Who do you think is the scariest?
Heck just in general who is the scariest villain to you.
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