>>95471663Also to add to this it's thematically important that it was an ACCIDENT in the MAX version. Since 1) whenever you think "does this minor criminal really deserve to die? he didnt really intend for those innocent people to get hurt" the answer is, from Franks perspective, yes, because no one intended to kill his family, the crooks just selfishly decided to open fire in public and happened to hit them and 2) when you wonder "would Frank really not hit an innocent person by accident after being in hundreds of gunfights in new york city?" the answer is yes, since that's what happened to his family he'll always construct his attacks around avoiding that from happening.
>>95472268That still makes it seem like its all connected to his family, which is understandable that that's the route they went when introducing him in Daredevil, targeting gangs involved in that shootout, but is still not as satisfying as the character can be.
The guilty enjoyment of the Punisher character is when you open the news and see some piece of shit threw acid in a moped drivers face to rob him and you wish someone would just go kill the fucker. Frank actually IS that someone who goes and kills the fucker.
He's basically the
dailymail.com comment section where average joes demand the death penalty for every violent crime come to life and no other fictional character getting revenge for personal reasons fits that role even in a world over-saturated with gun toting anti-hero badasses.
Hopefully in the trailer when he talks about "them" killing his family he's just speaking of criminals in general, not this conspiracy against him.
