6 Reasons Why The Punisher Needs His Own Series

2) A Punisher Series Would Be Unlike Any Other

Like Bruce Wayne, Frank Castle is a rare superhero not in possession of any actual superpowers. Unlike Bruce Wayne, though, Castle doesn’t have the luxury of a multi-billion dollar fortune to provide him with cutting-edge technology and lend him unlimited firepower.

Castle is just a regular guy (albeit one who’s taken a turn for the unhinged), with regular resources, taking on regular foes. A series with this fella at its center would be like no other superhero series currently out there.

For one, a Punisher series mightn’t feel like a typical comic book adaptation at all, but more akin to a straightforward gritty revenge drama. Imagine, also, how refreshing it would be to see a proper comic book antihero get their own platform on the small screen.

Daredevil, The Flash and Arrow are all, basically, good guys, no matter how complex they prove to be. Frank Castle, meanwhile, kills in cold blood and derives pleasure from doing so. His show wouldn’t come with a moral compass like the vast majority of superhero projects; it would, rather, threaten to be a gleeful exercise in nihilism.