June 9, 2026

Punisher: One Last Kill Review

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• 0:00:00 - Introduction
• 0:01:57 - Ravager vs Typhoid Mary duel results
• 0:05:15 - Who's Who?
• 0:08:50 - Punisher: One Last Kill Review
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This is a dyna Mic Network podcast.

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Hi, welcome to the Dynamic Dual podcast. Ron Tomatoes Approved

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showed that reviews superhero films and series through the lens

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of the DC and Marvel fandoms. I'm Jonathan and I'm

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This month, we are dropping two episodes. Of course, we

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will be reviewing the Supergirl movie in our next one,

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but before that, we were reviewing Punisher one Last Kill,

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the special presentation that Marvel dropped on Disney Plus that

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was only an hour long. Well, yeah, all special presentations

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run about forty five minutes. If you listen to our

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last review of Daredevil Born Against season two, you know

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that we were initially gonna kind of merge these two reviews.

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But Punisher one Last Kill was so damn good that

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I knew that I just had to dedicate a whole

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episode to it. So that's why you're kind of getting

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like a bonus episode this month. Yeah, initially with thot

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that PUNATURER one Last Kill was going to tie into

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the events of Daredevil Born Against season two, that's not

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the case. Spoiler alert kinda not really, So we thought

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this deserved its own episode. But before we get into

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the review, our AI co host AJ nine K has

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a quick message for our listeners, so listen up.

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Thanks AJ nine K.

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If you remember from our last episode when we reviewed

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Dirt V Born Again season two, we discussed a lot

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of the characters that appeared in the comic books, and

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then we asked you guys, who you thought would make

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a good matchup. We did get a lot of solid

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responses in terms of Daredevil adjacent characters that we still

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have yet to do duels with. For this episode, we

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thought the best response was Ravager death Strokes daughter versus

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Typhoid Mary, who was a Daredevil villain. Yeah. Typhoid Mary

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was in the Iron Fist Netflix series season two. Yeah,

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she was played by Alice Eve. She was adapted in

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that show as well as semi adapted in the Electra movie.

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That version was called Typhoid and the powers were completely wrong.

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She had kind of like a decayed touch if you remember,

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she like kissed Electra and like almost killed her. So

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only part of the movie I have not forgotten. So yeah,

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Typhoid Mary has been adapted a few times. I don't

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think Ravager has been adapted to screen at all, though. No,

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she was in the Titan show. What are you talking about?

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Uh oh, the death Stroke season right? Yeah, yeah, I

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did not watch that. I only started at season three

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with Titans. Oh, that's right. You could listen to our

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reviews of that show by going back into our archive.

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But Jonathan, I don't know much about Ravager besides the

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fact that she's death Strokes daughter. Right. She's actually the

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third child of death Stroke. She's the youngest I believe

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her name is Rose Wilson, and she's a volatile teen

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Titans rival turned to ally. She was trained by both

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Death Stroke and Night Wing. She's a deadly martial artist

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and swordswoman with enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes, healing, and

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like a combat precognition. Okay, so basically just like her dad. Yeah,

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pretty much. Well, Typhoid Mary. Her abilities depend on the

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personality that she currently has because she has dissociative identity disorder.

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All right, she's like crazy Jane, right, She's a mutant.

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Her real name is Mary Walker. Her most notorious personality

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is called Typhoid Mary, who has pyrokinesis, and she could

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also become Bloody Mary, who is a telekinetic who uses

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like lots of knives and shit. She's a recurring assassin

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for the Kingpin and she's primarily a daredevil villain, though

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she has been his lover on occasion. So basically we'repitating

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these characters against each other because they're both crazy assassins. Correct. Yes,

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don't love the superpowers that Typhoid Mary has, but I

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guess they're not consistent. No, they're not. And I tried

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to kind of like average things when it came to

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the stats. I didn't incorporate, like the armor that she

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wears when she's mutant and zero or anything like that,

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that's when the Walker personality is taken over. But anyway,

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let's find out who won AG nine K the results. Please, hey,

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you are sir, all right? The winner between Ravager and

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Typhoid Mary is Ravager I keep fucking sucking. Out of

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one thousand simulated matches, Ravager won five hundred and forty

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seven of the duels over Typhoid Mary's win rate of

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forty five point three percent. In the end, even though

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like Typhoid Mary had like a lot of brisatile powers,

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Ravager was a better fighter, had fighting precognition, and has

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her durable armor. Is she's essentially Wolverine in the same

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way that Death Show kids. So it makes sense to me. Oh,

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you mean, like because they have a healing factor and stuff. Yeah. Well,

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let's move a fuck on from that segment. And before

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we get into the review, though, let's give a quick

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breakdown of the comic book histories of characters that appear

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in Punisher one Last Kill in a segment called Who's who? Okay, So,

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in Punisher one Last Kill, obviously is the Punisher, whose

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real name is Frank Castle. He was the son of

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Sicilian immigrants in Queens. After leaving the seminary because he

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could not forgive evil, he joined the Marines, trained in reconnaissance,

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sniper operations, airborne tactics, and underwater demolition, and served multiple

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tours in Vietnam. When Frank returned home, his wife, Maria

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and their children were murdered in Central Park after witnessing

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a mob execution. With police corruption preventing justice, Frank became

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the Punisher and began a one man war on organized crime.

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After finally dying after many decades, he was revived into

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the body of his younger self and continued his campaign. Now,

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the Punisher has no superhuman powers, but is highly trained

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in hand to hand combat, knife fighting, firearms, explosives, military intelligence, reconnaissance, infiltration, assassination, extraction, camouflage, stealth,

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and field medicine, as an expert marksman with handguns, rifles,

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automatic weapons, shotguns, bows, throwing knives, and he's an expert strategist.

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Also appearing in Punisher One Last Kill is Ma Nucci

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now Isabella Nucci, was the matriarch of the Nucci crime family,

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a mafia like organization with major control over New York's

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illegal activity and influence over the mayor and police commissioner.

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After the Punisher killed her sons Eddie, Bobby, and Carlo

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to announce his return to the underworld, Ma hired mercenaries

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to kill the Punisher, but he repeatedly outsmarted them and

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dismantled her organization. While pursuing the Punisher, Ma Nucci and

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her men cornered him inside the Central Park Zoo, and

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despite being outnumbered, he killed her soldiers and fed her

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polar bears. Ma managed to survive, but she lost both

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of her arms and legs, and she was confined to

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a wheelchair. More bitter and irritable than ever before, she

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placed a ten million dollar bounty on the Punisher, hiring

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a villain known as the Russian to finish him. A

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Frank barely survived the encounter, but he managed to kill

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the Russian, and he returned to Manucci with the Russian's head,

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before burning down the Nucci mansion with her inside and

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finally appearing in Punisher When last kill is Barrakuda, who

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served as Mannucci's assistant in this special Barrakuda was raised

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in Boca Raton, Florida, where childhood abuse and extreme violence

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shaped him early after gouging out another child's eyes and

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later maiming an attacker in juvenile detention, he was recruited

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into a military program for troubled youths. He received full

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US Army Special Forces training and became a Green Beret,

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serving in brutal black Ops missions before leaving the military

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for organized crime. Barrakuda became a feared mercenary and criminal enforcer,

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eventually hired to kill The Punisher. He survived being shot

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point blank, mutilated and left in shark infested waters, later

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returning to target Frank Castle's allies and Frank's infant daughter,

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who was unknowingly conceived with CIA agent Catherine O'Brien. Barracuda

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possesses near superhuman strength, elite hand to hand combat skill,

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advanced marksmanship, survival training and phrebvious and airborne training, stealth,

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infiltration and demolitions. Similar to the Punisher, his weapons included firearms, explosives, knives, machetes,

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rocket launcher's body armor, and a hockey mask. And that's it. Yeah,

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that is way too much backstory for a character who

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didn't even have a single line in this special or

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did he know, But that's not a spoiler, is it? No, Oh,

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this thing didn't happen. Yeah, that's definitely not a spoiler.

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All right, let's go ahead and move into the main

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event of this episode, where we review the latest Marvel

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Studios by presentation. Punisher One Last Kill, All right. Punisher

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One Last Kill is a forty five minute Marvel special

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presentation directed by Marcus Green and starring John Burnhaal, who

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returns to the role of the Punisher after an appearance

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in Daredevil Born Against season one, two seasons of his

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own Netflix series, and his debut in Netflix's Daredevil season two.

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In this TV special, Frank Castle tries to cope with

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finally avenging his family's murder after killing the last of

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those linked to the tragedy. Set in the crime written

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neighborhood of Little Sicily, New York, which is actually not

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a real place. Frank is pulled back into the fight

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by ma Nucci, the dnia of the Nucci crime family.

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So This is the third of Marvel's special presentations, following

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Werewolf by Night and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special,

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all of which clock in under an hour. The short

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run time of the television specials has never really been

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a problem for me because I didn't really feel the

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runtime until now, because I wish Punisher One Last Kill

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was a full length feature. It probably should have been.

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I loved every minute of it, and I think it's

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the most successful on screen solo project for the Punisher ever.

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Thomas Jane. It was better than Punisher War Zone. I

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would say, you're right. There definitely wasn't enough runtime on this.

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I really do like Marvel special presentations. I think this

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is the best one. If they're going to keep doing

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special presentations, my hope is that they're all Punisher one

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shots and it happens like once a year. I mean,

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if you're not gonna make it serious, at least do

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that for me because this was dope. It's kind of

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interesting that some of the most successful Punisher projects happened

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to be shorts like this, Punisher Will Less Kill, and

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like Punisher Dirty Laundry, which was a short starring Thomas Jane,

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who was the Punisher in the two thousand and four movie.

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After that movie was produced, they tried to make a

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Seat equal with Thomas Jane as the character. It never

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got off the ground, but he did manage to make

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a short film with Ron Perlman actually called Punisher Dirty Laundry,

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And if you haven't seen that, it's on YouTube, I

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highly recommend it. It's only like ten minutes long, I think,

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but it is super brutal. Not quite as brutal as

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this special presentation, though Punisher one Last Kill has some

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of the craziest pulse pounding action I've ever seen out

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of not just any Marvel project, but out of any

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project ever. Like this is like on the level of

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the Raid Redemption. It was reminiscent of movies like Dread.

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It was exactly fucking insane, Like it was so herowink

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when I was watching it though, just the way that

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it was shot, the kinetic style of the camera and

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the very grounded cinematography and the choreography of the fights

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themselves just had me on the edge of my seat

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for the back half of this special. And like the

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level of violence was insane. Like I find myself saying

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a lot that Marvel is producing a lot more mature

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fair with things like the Thunderbolts or even Dartable Born

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Against season two, But this is like hard our TVM content.

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Oh yeah, it's the artist of all R rated or

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mature content that MCU has produced, I'll say it's definitely

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not for this squeamish Like, if you can't stomach the

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sight of very brutal violence, I would not recommend this.

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It's more violent than even something like Punish or war Zone,

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which I think was previously the most violent Marvel project

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to day. Maybe Blade Actually Blade is pretty violent, Yeah,

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but that's like vampire supernatural violence. This is like stabbing

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people in the face kind of violent.

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Yeah, they definitely don't hold back. I'm glad they didn't. Though,

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I'm glad Marvel is taking these kind of risks. It

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does seem like they're addressing the desire to see things

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new and original within their umbrella, but more apparently true

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to the character in the comics. Yeah, for sure. One

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thing I especially loved about this special was the music.

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They went all over the board in terms of the

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song choices and like sometimes you have like Italian opera

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playing over some of the action, making it feel very artistic,

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and then sometimes you'll get full on death metal, which

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really gets you going in terms of the adrenaline of

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what you're seeing. My daughters basically saw me do a

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one man moshpit. When that scene came out, they didn't

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watch the movie. They just saw me from the other

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side of the house. How does one do a one

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man moshpit? Are you like pushing yourself? Just swinging my arms?

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Anyone who gets in the way their problem. I think

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the special presentation pushes the envelope in a way that

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needs to be done right now. It might go too

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far for some people who aren't into this kind of

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stuff and are more into the colorful superhero fare, But

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I think for fans of The Punisher, they're gonna be

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entirely satisfied by the level of viscera and just the gunplay. Yeah.

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I mean, not only was the action fantastic, but just

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like the tone of it reminded me a lot of,

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I guess, a horror film, but like one of those

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really good horror films that you get nowadays, like an

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a twenty four produced horror film or something exactly where

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it's uncomfortable to watch, but it's also kind of just

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ban ass in a way. Well that may have less

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to do with the action and more to do with

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the mental health depiction of Frank Castle. As I mentioned earlier,

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he's dealing with coping over the end of his mission

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essentially of avenging his family, and he's wondering where to go,

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and the way he kind of goes through all of that,

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dealing with what seems like a complete breakdown, with hearing

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voices and seeing ghosts and things like that really put

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you into his head in a way that is unlike

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anything even like when you look at The Thunderbolts and

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you see how that film addressed mental health. It did

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a great job in terms of this century and it

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got dark even but it didn't quite have the editing

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prowess nor the haunting, scary vibe that this special has. Yeah,

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I didn't really love that aspect going into it until

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I kind of realized that all this mental health stuff

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was setting up his arc. He'd completed his mission, he

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had gone vengeance, and then what And that's never really

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a question I found myself asking about the Punisher. Like

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in the comics, I didn't need to know why he

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did what he did. He just felt justified in punishing

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criminals and that was enough for me. But this film

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answers the question as to why he continues to punish

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after he gets his revenge, and it does it really well. Yeah,

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The best thing I think that this special does is

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it answers whether the Punisher kills bad guys because he

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hates them or because he wants to make the world

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a safer place for good people. Like I've always suspected

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that Frank Castle himself doesn't really fully know the answer,

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but at least here in this special, it seems like

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his actions were very telling, and I just thought that

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was brilliant. It meant so much to me as a

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Punisher fan, and like how I like to think of

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the character because the Punisher can be adapted so many

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different ways, like I think I mentioned in our dual

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episode where we pit the Punisher against the Red Hood,

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like some people may see the Punisher as on a

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suicide mission, trying to take out as many criminals as

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he can on his way to meet with his dead family. Again.

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Some people will see it as him being just a

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mass murderer who finally found the catalyst to enact his

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killing spree based on the of his family, and some

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people seem as a little bit more of a heroic

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figure and that he is trying to make the world

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a better place by doing this killing. He's a complex

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figure in the comic books, and no less so with

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John Bernhal's adaptation. Yeah, I saw that he wrote this

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movie and was one of the producers on it. That's awesome,

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Yeah for sure. Yeah. One thing I like that Bernenthal

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does is that he really leans into the militaristic aspect

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of the punisher. He does a great job of tying

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that all in. There's some really nice nods to the

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Marine Corps within this film, and like you even see

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the guilt of how the end of his mission, how

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he even felt like he was betraying the Marine Corps

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and everything like that as a former reconnaissance marine. Yeah,

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I never believed that any of the actors who portrayed

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Frank Castle in the past were in the military until

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John Berenthal. I don't know. I think Thomas Jane now

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looked the part, and now Ray Stevenson I know, Okay,

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now not so much as John Berenthal. Okay, he does

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seem very jar heady, but even beyond the military stuff,

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Like John Berthall does a great job of portraying that

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caring father vibe, like he's truly broken up by what

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happened to his family, and like in those scenes when

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he like, ever since I became a father to a

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little girl, anytime scenes like that happen, I cannot help

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it my tears, Like, well, up, I cried, I cried,

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did you?

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Yeah?

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Yes, it was hard not to like I can't handle

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that stuff. But going back to the harrowing moments, there

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were times where I almost felt like I was going

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to start shaking. And that may make me sound like

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a pussy, yes it does, but I think if you

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are a father, you'll probably understand where I'm coming from

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now regarding that, in a way, I don't want to

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go into spoiler territory, but can you help explain to

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me the one last kill subtitle for this that would

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be spoiler territory? Okay, never mind playing one last kill.

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If you watch the show, you'll understand what that one

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last kill is or is supposed to be. So okay,

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well you just confirmed that. Okay. Bernenthal's acting was so

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raw and emotional, really seemed unstable here and really portrayed

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the deep hurt and the inner turmoil and the dark

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mental state that Frank Castle's in. And the plot really

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plays with the audience too, and how it kind of

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like tugs at you where the first scene where you

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see Manucci. I'm not going to get into spoilers here,

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but there are some really good turns plot wise, even

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for a forty five minute special, Like I'm thinking back

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to like the end scene too, it's so great. And

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I have to compliment the Punisher outfit for this special

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as well, like I can't remember if this is exactly

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what he's wearing in the upcoming Spider Man movie, but

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this is the best Punisher outfit that we've gone, even

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from like his own Netflix series, which kind of obscured

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the skull motif a little bit, Like it seems like

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all of the Punisher on screen appearances have obscured the

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skull motif. But at the end here we get it

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in its full glory and it's an awesome sight to behold.

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Oh yeah, it was totally awesome. I was worried for

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a second that he wasn't going to wear the costume

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at all during the special, but when he put it on,

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it was something to behold for sure. Just to touch

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on Mannucci real quick, Yeah, when I saw her on screen,

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I was like, is that motherfucking Mannucci? Bro? Yeah? I

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love Welcome Back Frank By garth Ennis. It's my favorite

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punisher comic arc I read a few of them. I

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was not expecting her. I did not know she was

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going to be the villain of this short, and she

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was perfectly cast by Angela Light. Judith Light, you're thinking

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her name was Angela and who's the boss? Judith? You

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know what I mean? That's nuts. I never expected Judith

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Light to be in a superhero project, much less playing

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such a sadistic, ruthless character like man Nucci. But I

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thought she fucking nailed it. She aced it like she

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chewed on that scenery exactly how I thought Manucci as

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a character should. It was fantastic. We did not get

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enough Manucci. This whole thing should have been longer. It

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needed to be a movie. That makes me angry that

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this wasn't longer. Although on the other hand, you know,

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maybe if it was longer, maybe they would have lost

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what they had that was special here. Na, Nah, it

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would have been fine, because they can't just leave us

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hanging with just this. That's why I was saying, they

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need to do at least one of these, like every year,

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Although I don't know what you would call a sequel.

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One last kill for reels this time. Well, I think

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he's passed that one last kill and he's ready to

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you know, continue his new mission now, and we'll see

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him do that in the upcoming Spider Man movie, So

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you know, it's not like we're not gonna see him

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again anytime soon. Hopefully, you know, his appearance in the

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Spider Man movie is enough to maybe parlay into his

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own full length feature film again, or maybe even his

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own full season on Disney. Plus, it's still kind of

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a mystery who the villain of the new Spider Man

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movie is going to be. Like what if it's like

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Kingpin and man Nucci and like Electro with the Hand

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and Mister Negative, they're just teaming up to take on

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all of New York's criminal underworld. Could be good. I'm sold. Sold.

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It's not gonna happen, but that would be cool in all. Really,

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the Punisher One Last Kill Special presentation delivered everything that

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I was looking for in a Punisher special presentation, especially

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when it comes to the action, because I feel like

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a lot of the other on screen Punisher appearances have

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been sorely lacking in act from the two thousand and

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