That Frank Castle has a very questionable moral compass is clear as soon as you see him appear disguised as The Punisher. The enormous skull that he carries on his chest is a clear sign that he is not exactly here to make friends and that his concept of justice is more than diffuse.
The Marvel character has distinguished himself by being one of the publishing house’s most popular antiheroes and Its recognizable symbol has been associated with the SEALs, US Army Special Forces. The skull represents the fight against injustice and evildoers, but it is now that the meaning that Castle gave it has been revealed.
As pointed out in ScreenRantis in the comic Get Fury #1, which goes on sale today, where Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows show us Castle’s adventures during his time as a captain in the Vietnam War. The soldier led a Marine squad in 1971 and at the beginning of the issue we can see him sitting in a camp while he reads a letter from his wife. Two soldiers approach him, but are very surprised by what is next to him.
Castle has a human skull placed as a warning next to him and explains to both soldiers that his team found it outside a block of bunkers that they sprayed with napalm. One of them decides to ask him why he has placed it next to him and the character responds that ““It’s good for morale.”.
There is no doubt that the future The Punisher had no qualms about intimidating enemies, especially in a context of war. The Vietnamese were for him nothing more than rivals whom he could stop at any cost, which he later applied in bustling New York. Therefore, it now makes another sense that he decided to place a skull on his chest, which was smaller when his creator Gerry Conway first drew it in 1974.
It was John Romita Sr. who was in charge of enlarging it so that its teeth would match The Punisher’s white belt. In recent years, American police have been associated with the skull and Conway explained that the character represented for him.
“The Punisher is representative of the failure of law and order to address the concerns of people who feel abandoned by the legal system. It always seemed stupid and ironic to me that members of the police were embracing what is fundamentally an outside symbol. the law”.
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