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Lt. Frank Castle, US Marine Corps / The Punisher
"One batch. Two batch. Penny and dime."
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Jon Bernthal
Voiced By: Andrés Skoknic (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub); Mark Ullod (European Spanish dub), Takayuki Sakazume (Japanese dub)
Appearances: Daredevil | The Punisher
"Well, loss doesn't work the same way for everybody, Red. We don't get to pick the things that fix us, Red. Make us whole. Make us feel purpose. My moment of clarity? It came from the strangest of places."
A former Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, Frank Castle is now a vigilante waging a one-man war on crime to avenge the death of his family.
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The Ace: Frank's status as a One-Man Army comes from pure skill and talent. He was the best man in his platoon and he on his own routed the enemy in a Last Stand situation. Fisk is thoroughly impressed and praises him for his talent for killing.
Action Dad: A father of two, at least before their deaths, and a Marine soldier.
Adaptational Nice Guy: He is significantly more noble than most of his usual depictions. While Comics Frank has even tried to kill retired thieves and drug addicts, this version sticks to only the truly deserving such as killers of the innocent, rapists, and child pornographers.
In his main series he doesn't even focus on killing criminals, instead targeting the conspiracy that killed his family. The only times he's killed people not connected to the Central Park shootout were 1) the pawnshop owner, 2) Lance and his buddies, and 3) the chop shop thieves.
Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed yet noticeable; in the comics, Frank is typically characterized as stoic and business-like in his approach to killing criminals, his narration done in a Film Noir sort of style and his speech patterns being rather direct, to the point of Brutal Honesty. Plus, he's not very social and doesn't really try being nice to anybody, save children; even people who've managed to get on his good side, he tends to keep at arm's length. But Jon Bernthal plays up his Hair-Trigger Temper aspects, as a result of Frank being portrayed in the series as having Extreme Emotional Disturbance — making him much less The Stoic and more a Deadpan Snarker Screaming Warrior. Plus, Frank's a lot nicer to civilians and other people here than he would ever be in the comics — eschewing the Cruel to Be Kind aspects of his personality for the most part and Petting the Dog much more frequently. Considering the most popular version of the comic book character is Garth Ennis's interpretation of him as a man in his mid-to-late fifties who has been the Punisher for over thirty years (with no contact from other superheroes to rein him in), this change in personality is justified by the Age Lift the MCU gives him. MCU!Frank might currently be much kinder than the comic book version, but it's not hard to imagine him developing that colder personality after decades of fighting.
Frank is also more remorseful about the war crimes he committed during his military service as compared to the Ennis version, likely because he unknowingly helped traffic heroin and personally executed innocent civilians as a pawn of a corrupt CIA agent.
Agony of the Feet: Finn takes a power drill to his left foot while torturing him.
All for Nothing: His whole scheme with the Irish Mob doesn't get him any information on his family's deaths, as they simply don't care enough to remember.
Ambiguous Disorder: Matt and Foggy insist upon using the PTSD defense in his case, but Frank adamantly refuses to be classed as such as he believes it to be offensive to actual sufferers of the condition since his trauma did not come from actual combat. Part of it is Frank's denial that the war crimes he took part in and Frank not understanding that combat is not the only thing that could lead to PTSD.
Anti-Hero: Of the Unscrupulous Hero kind, with the entire run on Daredevil Season 2 juggling if he's this or a Nominal Hero. He targets criminals, but unlike Matt seeks to kill them. He also has one hell of a temper, and is not afraid to unleash it (non-lethally) on people who get in his way. He also isn't shy about using dark methods to make a point.
Appropriated Appellation:
Frank's moniker, "The Punisher", first came up in an NYPD psych profile, and then was picked up by the media and run with, much like Matt's own "Daredevil" alias.
The skull motif comes from a newspaper article that featured the x-ray scan of Frank's head.
Arc Villain: The first four episodes of Daredevil season 2 are dedicated to getting him off the streets.
The Atoner: Among many other shady things he did for Rawlins, he was the one who executed Ahmad Zubair, Dinah's partner in Afghanistan. This is one of the main reasons he goes after the man.
Ax-Crazy: All is not well in Frank's head. A good chunk of Daredevil rationalizes this as PTSD, grief, and a brain injury, but flashbacks in The Punisher showcase Frank always had a deep talent for carnage and violence and always fought like a raging berserker.
Badass Baritone: He definitely has a deep voice, bordering on Guttural Growler.
Badass Beard: Sports a medium-length one after six months of living as Pete Castiglione on a construction site, before shaving it off as he slowly returns to his Punisher ways. The fact that it makes him resemble a more muscular John Wick was probably not unintentional.
Badass Longcoat: Downplayed as he normally wears jackets, but eventually dons his signature black trenchcoat in the Daredevil season 2 finale.
Badass Normal: Frank doesn't have heightened senses like Matt, let alone Avengers level superpowers. He is, however, a retired Marine, highly trained in hand-to-hand combat and numerous weapons. Frank was considered gifted in warfare even among fellow marines.
Band of Brothers: Frank considers the Marines who served alongside him as his second family, even going so far to admit that there were indeed times he thought he'd rather be fighting with them out there on the battlefield rather than being with his own children. Which is why his relationship with Billy Russo deteriorates as badly as it does, when Frank discovers Russo's role in the death of his actual family.
Batman Gambit: Frank breaks into Carson Wolf's house, beats him up, ties him to a chair to interrogate him, shoots him in the leg and then Wolf breaks free and grabs Frank's gun. Wolf grants Frank the courtesy of telling him everything he knows before Wolf kills him. And then Wolf discovers that Frank only loaded a single bullet into the gun.
Battlecry: He has a primal guttural scream that he lets out when he needs to pump himself up or when he's reached his full berserker rage and everything and everyone in front of him is about to be torn to shreds.
He manhandles his own son when the boy makes a comment about him "killing hajis", much to Frank's own horror after he realizes what he's doing.
He also has a very low opinion of bombers.
Do not call him a psychopath and don't call him insane or crazy.
The Berserker: When out of plans, he relies on his instinct and just charges in screaming, best shown during his tour in Kandahar where he starts screaming to psyche himself up before clearing out the ambush by using whatever is at hand. Also, like the Berserkers of old, he becomes almost impervious to pain when he gets fully pumped up and it takes a lot of opponents throwing everything they have at him to even slow him down.
Beware the Nice Ones: In Season 2 of his own show, Frank has mellowed out somewhat, and is perfectly capable of interacting with others at a bar in a friendly manner. It's a far-cry from how we first saw him, and he's laughing and joking around just like anyone else. However, once a group of thugs show up, he rips through them like paper.
Beware the Quiet Ones:
Frank has a special hatred for purveyors of child pornography as he kills a pawn shop dealer because the guy tried to offer him child porn. For one who had a daughter, this makes even more sense.
Also do not call him insane. The first time he visibly loses his cool in the series is when Matt calls him "a nutjob" which leads to Frank punching him in the face, knocking him out. This makes defending Frank in his trial difficult for Foggy and Matt. He refused insanity and PTSD as a defense. In the latter case, Frank obviously has a much better understanding of what Post-Traumatic Stress really is than the average Hollywood character (or writer), and he makes it clear that it'd be an insult to people who genuinely suffer from it.
Big Damn Heroes: In the finale, when Matt finds himself both outmatched by Nobu and outnumbered by his goons, Frank arrives on the scene with a sniper rifle and starts picking them off.
Blood Knight: It's clear he derives satisfaction from violence, but only when it's applied to people he believes genuinely deserve it. When he hurts innocents, he's immediately remorseful. Even when he invades Colonel Bennett's base, to get information on the men who got his family killed, he admits to David beforehand that he feels genuinely nervous at the idea of hurting another soldier. And in fact, when one soldier does confront him in the tunnels, Frank tries as long as possible to talk the soldier into letting him go and only nonfatally shoots the soldier when this fails.
Breakout Character: The praise for Bernthal's portrayal in season 2 of Daredevil led to Frank getting his own show.
Came Back Wrong: Taking a bullet to the head and being taken off life support for a minute before miraculously reviving has left Frank with permanent brain damage. Daredevil season 2 says he's now in an ongoing state of extreme emotional disturbance as a result, constantly feeling as if his wife and children have just been killed in front of his eyes, even years after the event.
Character Tics: Frank has a perpetually twitchy trigger finger. He tends to tap his fingers together or squeeze his index finger like he's pulling a trigger.
He is normally fairly relaxed, but when he gets agitated or angry, he starts to shiver and twitch.
Catchphrase: "Fair enough." One of Frank's go-to lines, whether ironic or sincere, and occasionally used as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner. It tends to make him sound more reasonable than he is, since he won't be talked out of his crusade, but has no real expectation of others' praise or understanding. Which ties into the show's other catch phrase, "Do what you gotta do." Billy and Frank exchange both lines a few times over the first season.
Also, "You're Goddamn right." Usually said after someone questions one of his straight-forward, violence-laden plans.
Chekhov's Gun: He's a fan of Earth, Wind & Fire. It's how he alerts Karen to his presence after she's been taken hostage by Schoonover.
Chest Insignia: He eventually sprays his iconic white skull onto some bulletproof chest armor in the last episode of Daredevil season 2. He drops the vest in the first episode of his own series after killing the last members of the Dogs of Hell, the Kitchen Irish, and the Mexican Cartel, but wears it once again after he embraces the Punisher persona at tne end of season 2.
Chick Magnet: He was in a happy marriage with Maria. Sarah Lieberman gave him a kiss. And during season two of his own series, he had a brief fling with a waitress. Then, there's his heavy Ship Tease with Karen Page.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Has been on both sides.
Cold Sniper: A ruthless vigilante who during his time in the Marines was a scout sniper.
Frank: One shot, one kill.
Combat Pragmatist: Frank is willing to pick up whatever is nearby to bash into enemies' heads. This includes hitting Matt with a wrench or using a door as a shield from gunfire.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: A far cry from the visionary Wilson Fisk or the amoral Kilgrave, Frank is a well-intentioned Knight Templar doing what he believes is truly necessary, putting down the scum of Hell's Kitchen that pollutes the streets. He serves as a Shadow Archetype to Matt, rather than an Evil Counterpart. His predecessors also both had huge power and influence, with many followers in their stead, while Frank operates completely alone as a One-Man Army.
Crazy-Prepared: You never know when you might need a razor blade. So Frank hides one in his forearm, which he then covers by a bandage.
Crusading Widower: Just like in the comics, Frank Castle starts his war on crime because his family was murdered by criminals.
Frank: I need to take care of the scum that killed my family.
Dark Is Not Evil: Frank wears black and has a skull motif on his armor, but he is a vigilante who hunts down and kills dangerous criminals. He is also a close ally of the Defenders.
Deadpan Snarker: Frank gets in quite a few quips over the season, such as calling Daredevil a psychiatrist and asking if he charges by the hour when Matt asks him about his past/motivations, and calling Foggy's opening statement in court a "pretty thick slice of bullshit".
Defector from Paradise: Under torture from Rawlins, Frank has a vision of the dead Maria asking him to come home with her into the afterlife. Frank instead chooses to remain so he can have his revenge on Rawlins, at which point all he can see is darkness.
Maria: Come home, Frank. Let's go home.
Frank: I am home.
Defiant to the End: When bound hand and foot and facing Cold-Blooded Torture at the hands of the Irish mob, he taunts and insults them, and tells them to bring it on. At one point he pretends he's going to tell Finn what he wants to know, and talks softly so Finn will get close enough for a headbutt. This prompts Finn to get out the drill, and Frank still doesn't stop talking smack.
Dented Iron: He's already been severely dented when he's introduced, having taken a bullet to the head that's left him with severe mental issues. Over the course of subsequent appearances, Frank's injuries pile up (being repeatedly beaten up (mostly by Daredevil), tazed, shot and power-drilled in the foot) and his face gets progressively messed up with each fight.
The Determinator: Nothing can keep Frank down. You can beat him, torture him, shoot him, Frank will keep coming after you until he kills you.
Deuteragonist: For Daredevil Season 2.
Disc-One Final Boss: He was hyped as the main antagonist of the season, but serves as the main antagonist just for the first four episodes. Afterward, the Blacksmith and the Hand take over and Frank becomes a more neutral character for Daredevil, then lead protagonist for his own show.
Disney Death: A drug smuggling ship explodes with him still aboard. Naturally, he's still alive.
The Dreaded: The Punisher quickly establishes himself among criminals as something even more terrifying than Daredevil. The latter might break a few bones and smash up your operations but the former will send you to your grave without a second thought. This also makes him this to the police and District Attorney, since he can start gang wars by himself. In Luke Cage (2016) one of Blake Tower's arguments against arming ESU cops with the Judas bullets is that a guy like Frank Castle might get his hands on it.
Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of the first season of his own series, Frank's managed to kill everyone who had anything to do with his family's death and appears to be making his first real steps at growing into a relatively healthier individual by attending PTSD therapy sessions. Plus, he's officially legally dead as far as the law is concerned, so he's now completely free to start a new life as Pete Castiglione.
Elites Are More Glamorous: A former Force Recon Marine and member of an illegal CIA-sanctioned joint taskforce composed of personnel from different Special Forces units. Of course, the unit's trigger-pullers were told that everything they did was cleared by the President and authorized by Congress, though some of them started having doubts about that before it was over.
Enemy Mine: He has no love for Wilson Fisk, but he takes the man's offer simply to find out information about who was behind his family's death. Once that's done, Fisk tries to have him killed, which naturally doesn't pan out.
Everyone Has Standards:
Frank has no interest in killing Matt, even when he has the Devil of Hell's Kitchen at his mercy, as even after all the people he has killed, he only cares about targeting gang members. He also doesn't unmask him despite having him at his mercy since he doesn't care who he is under the mask. He later tells Karen that he never wanted to shoot her when he was chasing down Grotto, whom she was protecting at the time, because he only goes after criminals who deserve it. In addition, he has a bit of extra hatred for anyone who'd deal in (or presumably make or read, etc.) child pornography. After buying supplies from a pawn shop dealer, the dealer offers him child porn. He responds by killing the guy with a baseball bat.
When Finn, whose son he killed, has him captured and is preparing to torture him for...his money Castle stole. Even though Frank made it his mission to slaughter people like this, he's still rather incredulous about this kind of attitude.
Frank: Your kid's in a box. But you want your money, huh?
Et Tu, Brute?: When Micro brings up the possibility of Billy Russo being involved in some way with the death of Frank's family, Frank calmly refutes his theories while insistently declaring that Russo is family to him. Sure enough, when Frank discovers that yes, Russo indeed had a major hand in the death of his family, it hits hard.
Fallen Hero: Frank was a former war hero and family man before they were all killed. Now he's an extremely dangerous vigilante that is far more feared than respected.
Friend to All Children: Despite being quite blunt to adults, he's quite genial and fatherly to children. As such, he lectures kids if they do wrong and tries to be a good example to them.
From Camouflage to Criminal: Frank's journey took him from being a marine sniper and war hero to a Vigilante Man who plays Judge, Jury, and Executioner. And he was an unwitting war criminal when in Operation Cerberus.
Genius Bruiser: Frank isn't just a crack shot and terrifying close quarters combatant; he's also a gifted tactician who can plan and execute complex missions all by himself. As a veteran of the Marine Corps and a CIA black ops unit, military strategy and covert operations are second nature to him. While not nearly as technically proficient as David, he also deduces pretty quickly that he was using gait recognition to track him, so he forms a limp trying to throw David off the trail. Finally, he seems to have a pretty solid grasp of psychology, able to predict how his targets will react with startling accuracy.
Gone Horribly Right: By taking down Wilson Fisk and his criminal empire, Matt wanted to prove to others that they could stand up to crime. He succeeded, though it's zig-zagged, as Frank would do what he does with or without Matt.
Karen Page: Maybe we created him, all of us. We never stopped to think that Daredevil's actions could open the door for men like this. Men with guns.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Frank is a trained military man, but his fights with Matt show the differences in their styles. While Matt is flipping around and pulling off acrobatic martial arts, Frank prefers to throw hard punches and slams, using the bare minimum of movements to conserve energy but inflict an effective amount of damage on his opponent.
Grey and Gray Morality: With Matt being A Lighter Shade of Grey. While both are obviously incredibly flawed individuals, his approach is clearly presented as the morally more dubious one, though he's certainly not without his supporters.
Guttural Growler: His voice is always very growling and intimidating. Bordering on Badass Baritone.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Frank is portrayed in the series as having Extreme Emotional Disturbance as a result of a bullet that had been lodged in his brain. As such, he's not The Stoic he was in the comics, being generally much more prone to just going on a literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge, complete with actual roaring.
Happily Married: Unlike some depictions of the character, this version of Frank is shown to have deeply loved his family, rather than have felt disconnected from them. It's to the point that he was finally planning to retire from active service out of fear from becoming too disconnected from them. It's also clear when he talks to Karen in the diner that he didn't just love but respected his wife as a strong, passionate woman, and his daughter in particular was the apple of his eye.
Hero Antagonist: Serves as one of Matt's main adversaries in Season 2 of Daredevil, despite being an Anti-Hero who only targets violent criminals, though the Hand serve as the Big Bad for Season 2.
Heroes Love Dogs: He adopts a dog the Irish Mob had been using for fights, after murdering its previous owners. Finn manages to (apparently) get Frank to confess where he hid some stolen money by threatening to kill it.
He Who Fights Monsters: Frank skirts the line between this and I Am What I Am. When Matt asks him what happens the day someone feels Frank deserves to die, he freely advises that "they better not miss." and later admits he's beyond saving, but he certainly wasn't shy about sharing his much higher opinion of his own methods compared to Matt's. Likewise, one could argue his courtroom rant has hints of both bitterness and pride. In the end, while he chooses to fully embrace his "Punisher" persona, he admits it's not a choice one should make (or at least not if it's not what one believes in) as he actually talks Matt out of considering killing the Blacksmith.
Hidden Depths: Fan of Bruce Springsteen (one of the few times he's seen positively giddy is in a flashback when his wife gave him tickets for a Springsteen concert as a birthday present), knows how to play the guitar (although he admits he's a slow player) and a decent cook (at one point he gives Lieberman some Vietnamese food he made himself as a hangover cure, which turns out to be anything but hideous).
Hollywood Healing: Sometimes. Frank is often left with ''horrific' bruises and cuts to his face after a fight, yet will normally be perfectly fine by the next episode.
Hope Is Scary: He comes to this realization at the end of Season 1 after completing his revenge on Rawlins and Russo. As he shared with Curtis's veteran support group, he's scared that he has to find a reason to live other than having a war to fight or obtaining vengeance for his family.
Horrible Judge of Character: For all it's worth, when it comes to friends or his family, Frank sometimes can be very gullible. He has such utmost trust in Billy Russo that he never realizes until it's too late that Russo is in league with Rawlins, and he is easily tricked into being used by Fisk to get rid of Dutton.
Horrifying Hero: Being saved by the Punisher isn't the most relieving experience unless he personally know you. He just kills every bad guy around in a very violent and frequently-gruesome way and then says you can leave.
Hypocrite: Frank criticizes Matt for wearing a mask, saying, "You go home at night, right? Take that mask off. Maybe you think, was it you who did those things? Maybe it was somebody else. Well see, soldiers, we don't wear masks. We don't get that privilege." It's not like, oh, a huge chunk of his military history is off the record, right? It's not like he, y'know, did wear a mask while torturing and executing civilians, right? No of course not. That was somebody else. And he intended to go right home and forget all about it.
I Am What I Am: What he ultimately decides, burning down his old home and embracing his identity as The Punisher. Earlier, his furious rant in the courtroom seems to be half this, and half telling the court where to shove it.
Improbable Aiming Skills: Not to Matt's super-powered level, but put a rifle in the man's hand and if he wants to hit something, he will, as any Scout Sniper should. He also pulled off what was possibly the first ever warning headshot in fiction. Goes even further in his series, where he lands a perfect headshot on a target two miles away.
Implacable Man: Once Frank gets moving, there isn't much that could keep him down. Gunshot wounds, severe beatings, out-manned and outgunned. He'll stop at nothing until whatever he wants to kill is dead.
Ironic Nursery Tune: Frank recites the lines from one of his young daughter's books called "One Batch, Two Batch" as he murders several criminals with a sniper rifle. It's implied he took the phrase to Afghanistan too.
Frank Castle: One batch, two batch. Penny and dime.
It's Not You, It's My Enemies: What ultimately becomes of Frank and Karen's shared feelings for each other. Karen wants Frank to find an 'end' to his war and Frank could never allow Karen to get hurt.
I Work Alone: Never says it outright, but clearly expresses his desire to wage his war on crime by himself, although his interactions with Karen indicate that he doesn't want to see anyone he cares about getting hurt. He avoids this by avoiding getting close to anyone.
Frank (to Karen): Just get away from this thing. Get away from me. ....just stay away from me.
And later, more aggressively:
Frank (to Matt): When are you gonna learn!? Mind your own god! damn! business!
Continued in his standalone series, when Donny shares a sandwich with him after Lance trashes Frank's lunchbox.
Frank (to Donny): Look, Donny, thanks for the sandwich. You know, I... appreciate that. But I'm not looking for a pal, yeah? ... And whatever it is you're looking for... I'm not it.
Jerkass Has a Point:
While he's brutal and at times rude, Frank isn't wrong about how his trauma and experiences differ from Matt's. Matt has a Secret Identity and can hide behind a mask to deflect criticism and blame onto his other self in theory, while for soldiers like Frank was, it is him, not a false face identity, that is hurting people, forcing him to live with his actions every day.
Frank: You run around this city in a pair of little boy's pajamas and a mask. You go home at night, right? Take that mask off, maybe you think it wasn't you who did those things, maybe it was somebody else. Well, see, soldiers we don't wear masks, yeah? We don't get that privilege.
He also has a point about his methods. It's a simple fact that criminals who aren't breathing won't be making any more victims, and he focuses his efforts on murderers, pedophiles, drug dealers, and the like. Karen herself even acknowledges that right or wrong, his methods often do work, although the fact that she's projecting her guilt over killing James Wesley means she has some level of bias.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When dealing with people who don't know who he is and are not criminals, he can be downright amiable. For example, in the midst of interrogating Matt on the roof in "New York's Finest", a Vietnam-veteran Marine shows up and asks him what he's doing. Frank has a very friendly conversation, recognizing Jerry as a fellow Marine, then sends him on his way. There's also all of his interactions with Karen.
Kick the Son of a Bitch: His entire M.O is dishing justice on really, really horrible people. The pawnshop owner who tried to sell him child porn is just one example.
Knight of Cerebus: While Daredevil was already violent, the arrival of the Punisher makes the show Bloodier and Gorier and Castle's ramifications causes some of Matt Murdock's worse turmoil, leading to Nelson & Murdock to shut down, and Matt progressively shunning off his friends away from him.
Lightning Bruiser: Matt found him surprisingly fast, and knocked Matt on his ass after one good punch.
Made of Iron: True to the comics, Frank has an extremely high tolerance to pain. Frank comes out of fights riddled with bullet wounds, bruises, and cuts, but it never stops him. He's even able to keep fighting after he was drilled through the foot as torture. On the same note, he's an interesting case of Dented Iron, as he shows all his wounds and bruises days later.
Taken Up to Eleven in his solo series, with Frank taking absolutely ludicrous amounts of damage and fighting on. The last three episodes take place more-or-less continuously, and in that time, Frank is shot in the head, beaten nearly to the brink of death, has a punctured lung, shot several times in a bulletproof vest, and stabbed six or seven times and he does. Not. Stop.
Must Have Caffeine: Given he has plenty of late nights, Frank loves to down cup after cup of black coffee and carries a thermos when out on patrol.
When Karen jokes to Schoonover she's running on at least 5 cups of coffee, Schoonover retorts Frank would call that "a good start". While talking with Karen in a diner, Frank keeps asking the nearby waitress for refills on his coffee.
My God, What Have I Done?: In order to truly break Frank in season 2, Russo deceives Frank into believing he accidentally shot and killed innocent women behind a wall when he thought he was getting Russo. Frank breaks down almost immediately and doesn't even bother fighting back when the cops arrive to arrest him.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: With a name like "The Punisher", it's easy to understand that he's very dangerous.
Never Hurt an Innocent: With very few, select exemptions, and the damage is never permanent. Frank punches and quickly disarms a cop after having a gun pulled on him, and is more than happy to beat the hell out of Matt. Normally he'll avoid so much as scratching an innocent person but if they try and stop him they'll be eating floor. He once threatens to kill an old man if Matt alerts him to what's going on, but admits quickly afterwards that he was bluffing.
Nice to the Waiter: Played with; in an early episode of Season 2 he has to buy equipment from a crooked pawn shop owner, and even though he had no intention of killing him (before the idiot offered him child porn), he was extremely taciturn and abrupt. Of course, that guy was pretty rude from the getgo and clearly a slimy individual. In contrast, when in a diner in a later episode, he is courteous and amiable to the waitress. When dealing with honest people, Frank will either be polite or leave them alone altogether, unless they get in his way while pursuing a target. He will tolerate shady characters to a point, but that point is one of no return.
This continues in the standalone series, with Frank maintaining a reserved-but-polite attitude towards waitresses and food-service staff.
The Nicknamer: He refers to Matt as "Red".
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Frank's most brutal moments are the times where he beats his opponents to death. Especially with his pragmatic nature where he uses his environment to ruthlessly kill in a murderous rage.
Not Me This Time: The murders that happen between when he escapes prison and when he fakes his death on the boat, are in fact the work of Schoonover and Rawlins's assassins.
Not So Different:
Frank tells Matt that for all his Thou Shalt Not Kill morals, he really is "one bad day" from becoming a true Vigilante Man like Frank who murders criminals rather than just beating them to a pulp.
It takes a while, but Matt acknowledges that he and Frank have definitions of justice that are closer to each others than that of the police. Which is why he ultimately gives Brett the credit for catching him.
One-Man Army:
Over the course of Daredevil and his own series, Frank is attributed with single-handedly killing at least two hundred people. note For comparison, Word of God says 74 people were killed in the Incident. Frank Castle is deadlier than an entire alien army. The police already have enough evidence to charge him with murdering 37 criminals halfway through the season. We see Frank single-handedly taking out 32 Taliban fighters all by himself to save the rest of his unit after Rawlins leads them into an ambush on bad intel. Brett Mahoney even confuses Frank's actions for the work of an entire gang, with "knowledge and hardware to take out half the city."
Matt Murdock: Tell me. Tell me who they are.
Cartel Member: No "they". Him. It's one man.
During his stay in prison, Fisk tries to kill him by unleashing an entire cell block of inmates on him. Not only does Frank manage to defeat and kill ALL of them with only a small shiv and what weapons he can take from his opponents, but he even puts up a fight against the prison guards in riot gear who move in afterward, even though he is visibly exhausted from the aforementioned slaughter.
Frank takes on over thirty of Billy Russo's heavily-armed professional mercenaries singlehandedly in a single protracted engagement, and kills all of them. It's telling that the main issue with taking down Agent Orange isn't actually killing him, but just finding him.
Outliving One's Offspring: The most tragic moment in his life that jump started his career as the Punisher was losing his family (a wife, a son, a daughter) in the crossfire of a gang shootout. He loved his family and seemed to be especially close to his daughter.
Parental Favoritism: Frank was more attached to his daughter. Not to say that he didn't love his son, but it's easy to tell which child he was closer to. His daughter was sweet as anything, and a balm for his psyche, increasingly tormented by his actions in Kandahar. His son, however, idolized him for reasons that were beginning to disturb him; the first time he came home, he was a little weirded out by how his son had painted a giant artist-grade mural of a Marine on the wall of the house because he remembered how Frank once said, "Marines scare bad guys." The second time he got mad at a racist remark that Frank went overseas to "kill lots of Hajjis." Especially since he was doing exactly that in Kandahar, and was starting to realize the whole thing was illegal as hell.
Parting Words Regret: One of Frank's last moments with his late daughter before her death was when he refused to read her a storybook. He had no idea this would be the last chance he ever had to do this.
Pay Evil unto Evil: For many crimes, Frank is not an advocate of the rehabilitative effects of prison. He prefers the morgue. If there are remains enough to send there.
Pet the Dog:
Aside from him being genuinely nice when interacting with Karen, Frank seems to have retained strong sympathy and respect for other war veterans. When meeting with a Vietnam veteran on the roof, he displays genuine camaraderie toward the old man, and he refuses to use a PTSD defense during his trial because he feels it would be insulting to people actually suffering it. And then there is of course his literal dog-petting as he genuinely cares for the dog he saved from the Irish mob.
In .380, he actually refuses to accept Matt's help, even after Matt suggests that just once, he's do things Castle's way, saying that there would be no going back if Matt did so. Despite his dim view of a no-kill rule, he seems to have come to respect Matt's choice to hold himself to it.
He quickly becomes something of a Parental Substitute to the Lieberman children, caring deeply for them. And later to Amy Bendix in his second season.
Politically Incorrect Hero: He makes a number of sexist remarks. He does, however, get angry when his son uses a racial slur when asking him about the targets he killed while on tour.
Raised Catholic: Frank was at one point Catholic. Another thing he has in common with Matt.
Rated M for Manly: The man is a formidably armed ex-marine with excepcional knowledge in combat. He's also Made of Iron and One-Man Army. Not to mention that during his fights, things end up very similar to what a violent scene by Quentin Tarantino would do. To call him a badass would be an understatement.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Matt asks why he kills all his targets: "'Cause I think you're a half-measure. I think you're a man who can't finish the job. I think that you're a coward."
Redemption Rejection: Kills Billy by the finale of season 2, just as Billy attempts to apologize for "whatever he did" to Frank's family. The fact that Frank shoots Bill in the chest literally just as Billy tries to say the word "sorry," implies that Frank deliberately killed him before the guy could properly make out the rest of his apology.
Relative Button: Anybody threatening Karen Page will send him into an instant fury to kill that threat in order to protect Karen.
Revenge: Basically the whole point of the show is Frank getting vengeance on the people who gunned down his family.
Revenge Before Reason: Frank will do anything and everything to avenge his family.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Frank is intent on killing the members of every last organized crime group in Hell's Kitchen as retaliation for the murder of his family.
Screaming Warrior: In particularly harrowing scenarios, Frank's prone to just screaming his lungs out in the heat of battle, at least partially as a way of keeping his head in the game.
Sadist: He has no qualms about violence, and is implied to enjoy it. To clarify, he not only kills criminals, but also tortures them and often leaves them in horrible agony. Just ask the Mexican Cartel.
Sadistic Choice: As a Mythology Gag to the comic the scene was based off of, Frank is out to snipe Grotto. Matt attempts to stop him, insisting that Grotto deserves a second chance at rebuilding his life. Castle manages to incapacitate Matt and bind him up with a gun with one bullet in his hands pointed at Castle's own head. Castle then has Grotto at gun point after Grotto admits to Mat all the people he killed, including an elderly lady and Frank is set to kill Grotto. Meaning that the only way Matt could stop Frank's vigilante justice would be to violate his own ideals by fatally shooting Frank himself or let Grotto die. Matt chooses to pull the trigger, at his own chain, freeing him. But it's too late as Castle had already shot Grotto in the stomach.
Secret Keeper: Heavily implied to know Matt is Daredevil when he meets Matt Murdock out of costume. He also probably got a good look at him in the Season 2 finale.
Semper Fi: Like in the comics, he's a retired Marine. This explains all his military gear and tactical training. We later learn that Castle was considered a badass even among his fellow marines, wiping out an enemy ambush at a landing zone single-handedly.
Setting Update: Details of his military career are adapted from the Born miniseries but now take place in The War on Terror.
Shadow Archetype: As in the comics, the Punisher is portrayed as a darker version of Daredevil: a low-powered vigilante who lost his family, but who readily kills in contrast to Daredevil's vow not to.
Frank: You know you're one bad day away from being me.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Defied by the man himself, and in detail. While Frank is clearly suffering severe mental trauma, Frank says that he "never had a problem" with killing, in combat or otherwise. When Karen tries to suggest using PTSD as a defense, he promptly clarifies for her that whatever happened to him psychologically, his tours in the Middle East had nothing to do with it; he knows men that did crack, has nothing but sympathy for them, and refuses to cheapen their sacrifices by claiming PTSD when it is explicitly not true. Instead, it's entirely the death of his family after he returned from war that drives him now, to the point that despite knowing members of his unit committed war crimes, he never thinks of targeting them till after it comes to light they were involved in killing his family and trying to kill him.
Frank Castle: It wasn't on a battlefield. That's not where my life went to shit.
Subverted to a degree later as his series shows his tours did affect him, Frank is mostly in denial that his participation in CIA's torture project broke him emotionally, although that wasn't technically on the battlefield, and the loss of his wife and children made the existing damage much, much worse. Frank's recurring nightmares indicate just how much he blames himself for their deaths.
Shipper on Deck: He, of all people, ships Matt and Karen. When Karen bitterly says that she's hurt by Matt's behavior, Frank points out that the only reason why she feels so strongly is because she trusted Matt enough to open herself up to such emotions and that her anger is a sign that she truly loves Matt. Frank goes on to explain that he and his wife were like that and that she would drive him crazy and he'd give anything to be able to feel that frustration again.
Ship Tease: The chemistry he has with Karen is insane, but really it doesn't go anywhere, neither in Daredevil or his own series. This is mainly while it's obvious that both of them care for each other, he also knows that her heart belongs to Matt, while he considers himself still married to Maria even long after her death.
Single-Target Sexuality: Despite his attachments with Karen Page and Sarah Lieberman, Frank has made is clear that Maria is the only person he ever wanted to be with, in life and in death. However, in Season 2 he goes into a brief fling with a woman named Beth.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: To the point that the trial judge has to tell him to watch his language when he testifies in his own case. He also drops the only Precision F-Strike in the second season of Daredevil, which was also the first example in the MCU where it is clearly audiblenote not bleeped out or cut off.
In keeping with Frank being a lapsed Catholic, most of his swearing is some variation on "Goddamn", "Jesus Christ", "for Christ's sake", or something to that effect.
Skeleton Motif: Like all other adaptation, Frank uses a white skull over a black shirt for his Punisher identity.
Sociopathic Hero: He's a vigilante like Matt, but some of Frank's methods are a lot less friendly than just a bullet in the head.
Matt: You left men hanging from meat hooks.
Frank: They got off easy in my opinion.
Spanner in the Works: Foggy and Matt's first plan to reduce his sentence through a plea deal is dependent on him pleading guilty. He pretends to agree, then pleads not guilty, sending his case to court. Then, their plan to win his case in court is dependent on proving that he is suffering from Extreme Emotional Disturbance and that the deaths of his family were covered up. Elektra then shows up and sabotages the trial by threatening the medical examiner and rendering his testimony useless. Then Frank throws his own defense and gets himself indicted by a mad outburst about how he likes killing criminals. Of course, Fisk had been propositioning him from behind bars.
Strong and Skilled: In terms of human qualities he is this as he is a trained Marine and is very strong. He can usually over power and slam grown men like ragdolls and is very pragmatic/brutal with his skill. This makes Frank an incredibly great fighter as he is shown to take out multiple opponents and quite literally is a One-Man Army.
Super Hero Origin: Frank's motivation to becoming the Punisher was his family being killed in the crossfire of a gang war. The emotional trauma he experienced combined with the brain damage he experienced has led his mind to be constantly in a state of stress, where he keeps reliving his wife being murdered every time he goes to sleep.
Survival Mantra: "One Batch, Two Batch, Penny and Dime", a phrase taken from a book he used to read to his daughter that he says to calm his nerves before gunning down thugs.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Like their relationship in the comics, the times he works with Daredevil tends to be this due to their conflicting ideologies and fighting styles, with Matt occasionally trying to disarm Frank. The two do eventually come to respect one another to an extent. His working relationship with Micro has shades of this.
That Man Is Dead: Tells Karen that he's 'already dead' before he kills The Blacksmith. And at the end of season two, he burns down his family home, destroying every last piece of his old life and embracing his Punisher persona completely. That is, until he takes out the last of the Irish, at which point he retires and tries to rebuild his life while staying solely in touch with Curtis Hoyle. It doesn't work in any sense, as he still loves and misses his family and is tormented by nearly-nightly nightmares about their deaths.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When Frank wants to take someone down, he makes extra sure that they won't get back up. Such as when he practically mauls William Rawlins once he finally gets him hands on him.
'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain: Got shot in the head at point blank range and survived. Downplayed, because the injury put him in a coma and when he was taken off life support he died. While he was able to come back from it after a minute, Dr. Lee confirms that the bullet caused brain damage that keeps him in a permanent state of emotional volatility.
Also survives Billy Russo winging him in the head, but since it doesn't hit his brain, only his skull, this may not count.
Tranquil Fury: This seems to be Frank's default state of mind, after the damage done to his brain from a point-blank gunshot. Upon learning that the clerk he's buying weapons from is selling child pornography, his response is to calmly turn the "open" sign to "closed", grab a baseball bat, and beat the man to death.
Interestingly, averted relatively often battle, with Castle frequently screaming at his opponents.
Trademark Favorite Food: Besides his love of black coffee, in his standalone series he is occasionally shown eating eggs, bacon and toast for breakfast.
Troll: In his standalone series, he frequently taunts Micro about getting to know his wife.
The Unfettered: Frank dismisses Matt's self-imposed rule against killing as cowardice and a half-measure at best. He refuses to let such "cheap morality" get in the way of his crusade against crime.
Unstoppable Rage: There are times when Frank is a cold vigilante and then there are times when he unleashes all his berserker rage and goes on a warpath. This rage boost that Frank gets when his adrenaline is up allows him to become very brutal and very dangerous as shown when he starts to let loose his prominent animalistic, guttural roar as he rampages through his enemies and quite literally rips them apart. He also becomes impervious to pain in this state allowing him to go beyond human limits.
Verbal Tic: Frank tends to end even statements with "you know," "yeah" or "hmm." Sometimes piled on top of each other. Y'know?
Frank: I walk in, these kids, they're not even studying, they're-they're doing some kind of yoga, yeah. You know? She's there. She's doing her poses, you know, she's bending and, you know, she's moving. She looks like a flower, yeah.
Interestingly, based on some interviews ◊, the "you know" aspect may also appear in Jon Bernthal's regular speech. Whether this was the actor influencing the character or vice-versa is unknown.
This characteristic gets de-emphasized between Frank's guest stint on Daredevil and season 1 of his own show, and then down another notch in season 2, suggesting that it may be related to his trauma.
Vigilante Man: He hunts and murders criminals, with little regard for the law.
We Used to Be Friends: He and Billy Russo, by way of Adaptation Origin Connection, were best friends when they both served as marines in Afghanistan, to the point where Frank regarded Russo as part of his family. And then Russo became an active player in Operation Cerberus and allied with the people who had Frank's family killed.
Weak, but Skilled: Compared to the many superhumans of the MCU, Frank is completely within human limits, but is exceptionally well trained and an immensely competent One-Man Army.
Weapon of Choice: When he's armed, you can bet it'll be with an M1911 variant. Seems to have been his preferred choice since his time in the Marines, too - fitting for the Marines' strict adherence to tradition. This seems to be a nod to Frank in the comics, who was deeply fond of the pistol's design.
Particularly, he seems to favor the Kimber Warrior, which was his sidearm in the Marines and a frequent carry weapon as a vigilante.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: His goal is to stop crime by killing the people who perpetuate it.
Would Hit a Girl: True to his character, he doesn't show mercy on account of a criminal's gender.
Would Not Shoot a Civilian: He never goes after non-criminals. Even when fighting Matt and shooting him in the head, he makes sure to hit his armor so as to make it a warning shot instead of a kill shot (although it still leaves Matt with a nasty concussion). He does admittedly, have a rather liberal definition of criminal, gunning after Grotto who seems to be attempting reformation (though Grotto had murdered a man and his innocent wife for the Kitchen Irish, and was mostly concerned with saving his own ass). Ultimately seems to be more a case of Never Hurt an Innocent.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He really doesn't like kids getting hurt. The Pawnshop owner should've watched his words when he admitted having child pornography in Frank's earshot. Makes a lot of sense since he was a father himself at one point before he lost his son and daughter.
Wrestler in All of Us: In his first two fights with Daredevil and in the prison fight later in the same series, we see him employ several take-downs such as chokeslams and suplexes. In his own series, he uses a bodyslam on Billy Russo and spears Carson Wolf, then hip-throws him onto a table.
You Keep Using That Word: Inverted, with regards to his refusal to identify his mental issues with PTSD. He repeatedly insists that whatever trauma he suffered has nothing to do with his time at war, and thus refuses the PTSD defense. This might give the impression that he thinks that PTSD only comes from combat, however this is mostly in response to Matt and Foggy trying to use a "traumatized vet" narrative in his legal defense. Frank rightly regards this as low-hanging fruit and considers it insulting to veterans with actual combat-related Post-Traumatic Stress. He knows that the condition can arise from non-combat-related trauma, he knows that witnessing the murder of his wife and children messed him up psychologically (causing Extreme Emotional Disturbance, which is not the same thing), and he knows that the things he was involved with on his last tour do weigh on his conscience, but he won't put convenient labels on it.
You Remind Me of X: It's nonverbally implied this is the reason why Frank is so connected to Karen of all people. As she shares similar features to Maria.
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Looking for something with plenty of period detail? This 1960s midcentury modern property in Levis, Quebec Canada might be for you.
It is certainly right up my street, although ultimately, being able to move to this part of Canada is the deciding factor here. If that's something you can do, read on, this might be your dream home.
The house dates back to 1962 and is described as a unique 'architect-built' midcentury modern property. Sadly, we don't have the name of the architect, but it was obviously someone very able. It has also benefitted from some very caring owners too, although the house isn't quite as it was back in the early 1960s.
At first glance it is. In fact, a look through the photos show a single-storey property packed with period details. The full height glazing, wood ceilings, brick fireplace, vintage kitchen units and other mid-20th century built-in units. So much to catch the eye.
But the agent points out that this one has been 'completely remodelled' and looking more closely, you get the idea that this one has had more than a lick of paint. It looks fresh, certainly no time capsule. It also looks to have a modern and separate apartment area too with its own bedroom and bathroom, which is no doubt useful if you have friends and family passing by.
Not that you'll be short of space. This one has five bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with an eat-in kitchen area, a finished basement and plenty of open reception space looking out onto the garden. You get the idea that the hardwood floors are new too and the windows updated, which also hints at the rest of the place being updated in terms of the utilities and so on. But do check that with the agent.
Looks like a decent-sized plot outside, with a carport attached to the house as well.
Price? That's $539,000, which works out at £295,000. Yes, really.


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Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a conference at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.
Tesla buyers, be careful what you write about the company — if you're deemed "rude," you just might get banned from buying a Tesla car.
That's what happened to Californian venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, whose Tesla order got canceled — by company CEO Elon Musk, no less — after he wrote a blog post criticizing the company's Model X launch event.
In September 2015, Alsop wrote a blog post titled "Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself," asking Musk to apologize for making Tesla customers wait nearly two hours for the Model X event to start, and then making them wait even longer for a chance to test-drive the car they had pre-ordered.
Alsop, currently a partner at Alsop Louie Partners, spent some 20 years in tech journalism, both as editor of InfoWorld and columnist for Fortune. Here, however, he insists he's just a regular customer. His post ends up with praise for Tesla and its Model X, with Alsop ultimately asking for an apology "to the people who believe in this product." That apology never materialized; instead, Alsop's Tesla Model X order got de-materialized.
On Monday, Alsop wrote another post, titled "Banned By Tesla," in which he claims Musk personally called him, and while he didn't disclose the content of that conversation, the result is that Musk personally canceled his Tesla Model X order.
"...you have decided that I can't own one of your cars, and I am terribly disappointed," Alsop wrote. "...in the many articles and posts I have written criticizing products, companies and people, I have never been banned from doing business with any of the companies!"
On Wednesday, Musk confirmed the story on Twitter, wondering why "denying service to a super rude customer" got so much media attention.
The old adage says that the customer is always right, but it may not be so in Tesla's world. Granted, we mostly know Alsop's side of the story — Musk's "super rude" comment might be related to the phone conversation the two men had, or something else entirely. However, a company — especially a big, multinational one such as Tesla — banning a customer from using their products is quite rare.
One case comes to mind, though — in 2010, a blogger known only as "Protocol Snow" claimed Apple had given him a "lifetime ban" for buying too many iPads (and circumventing Apple's then two-per-customer limit on the iPad). That scenario was a little different, though — the customer actively did something against Apple's rules. In Alsop's case, he was apparently merely being critical of a company event.
We've asked Tesla for more info about Alsop's order cancellation and will update the article when we know more.
The post was updated at 9:22 a.m. ET to include Alsop's history as a journalist.


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A stormy depiction of Modest Mussorgsky's witchy classic. Leopold Stokowski conducts his own orchestration of the piece, and the one made famous in the Disney film Fantasia. Essentially a musical rendition of pagan practices from Slavic legends, by way of Gogol, Bare Mountain is a soundscape of savage woodland parties, fertility rites and general wildness. Needless to say, Mussorgsky couldn't get it performed when he finished the piece in 1867 (coincidentally or not, on St. John's Eve, when all the gruesome festivities take place). With its percussive opening and demoniac climax, it's become a Halloween standard.


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It's spring! You've finally decluttered your house after a long winter (perhaps with a little help from Marie Kondo) and then Easter arrives, and with it, lots and lots of junk.
One of my big New Year's Resolutions this year was to drastically reduce the amount of waste that my family was producing. In order to achieve this goal, I've made many small but significant changes around the house. I am more diligent about washing out and recycling food containers, I separate all of our food waste (banana peels, eggshells, etc) and dispose of them in the compost bin instead of bagging them with the garbage, and I've started making most of my own cleaning products and using biodegradable, compostable kitchen sponges.
The biggest (and sometimes most difficult) change we've made as a family is being much more mindful about what we buy and what we bring into our home. With Easter just around the corner, I wanted to share some tips for keeping your Easter festivities eco-friendly with a (nearly) zero waste Easter basket!
Go into any store in the months leading up to Easter and you'll see shelves full of brightly colored plastic Easter baskets. These baskets almost always fall apart shortly after Easter is over and end up going straight into the trash! Take a quick look around your house and chances are you'll be able to find some sort of box, basket, or bin that can serve as an Easter basket (your kids won't care if it's not neon green, I promise!). Or if you want something a little more festive, consider investing in something that will last for many years, like these personalized cotton Easter buckets from Pottery Barn Kids.
Voted "most likely to clog up your vacuum" this stuff is as wasteful as it is messy. Consider skipping the basket filler altogether or look for ones made from recyclable or biodegradable materials. My favorite basket filler is one I picked up at Michaels craft store. It's made of natural aspen wood, so it can easily be disposed of in your yard waste bin.
Individually wrapped Easter candy can produce A LOT of trash, so instead take a mason jar or a reusable bag to the bulk section of your grocery store and fill 'er up! Alternatively, skip the candy and opt for cookies or other homemade treats. I like to wrap cookies in these compostable paper sandwich bags.
I hope you found some of these ideas helpful! If you have any more suggestions for creating an eco-friendly, waste-free Easter basket, be sure to leave me a comment!
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Wonderful ideas I'll use when gifting our grandkids for Easter.
I love your ideas for a clutter and waste free Easter. Saving the baskets from year to year is a great one. Art supplies and books are the perfect gifts that keep giving long after the candy and flimsy toys are gone.
Great suggestions! We are maxed out on toys so my kids are getting books and new swimsuits in their Easter baskets this year.


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Bats are wonderful creatures. Blind from the eyes and yet a vision so precise that could distinguish between a moth and a broken leaf even when flying at full speed. No doubt the vision is sharper than ours and is much beyond human capabilities of seeing, but is certainly not beyond our understanding. Ultrasonic ranging is the technique used by bats and many other creatures of the animal kingdom for navigational purposes. In a bid to imitate the ways of nature to obtain an edge over everything, we humans have not only understood it but have successfully imitated some of these manifestations and harnessed their potential to the greatest extent.
The history dates back to 1790, when Lazzaro Spallanzani first discovered that bats maneuvered in flight using their hearing rather than sight. Jean-Daniel Colladon in 1826 discovered sonography using an underwater bell, successfully and accurately determining the speed of sound in water. Thereafter, the study and research work in this field went on slowly until 1881 when Pierre Curie's discovery set the stage for modern ultrasound transducers. He found out the relationship between electrical voltage and pressure on crystalline material. The unfortunate Titanic accident spurred rigorous interest into this field as a result of which Paul Langevin invented the hydrophone to detect icebergs. It was the first ultrasonic transducer. The hydrophone could send and receive low frequency sound waves and was later used in the detection of submarines in the World War 1.
On a note parallel to the SONAR, medical research also started taking interest in ultrasonics. In late 1930's Dr. Karl Dussik used a technique called hyperphonography which recorded echoes of ultrasonic waves on a sensitive paper. This technique was used to produce ultrasound pictures of the brain to help detect tumors and marked the birth of ultrasound imaging. After that, many scientists like Ian Donald, Douglas Howry, Joseph Holmes, John Wild and John Reid improved upon the various aspects of ultrasonic sensors in the medical field which enabled diagnosis of stomach cancers, ovarian cysts, detection of twin pregnancies, tumors etc. Industry too did not waste time in jumping on to the bandwagon and soon developed techniques like ultrasonic welding and non destructive testing at the outset of the 1960s.
Where't' is the time taken by the wave to reach back to the sensor and ' ' is the angle between the horizontal and the path taken as shown in the figure. If the object is in motion, instruments based on Doppler shift are used. Get all the details about internal structure and working of an ultrsound sensor at Insight-How Ultrasonic Sensors Work.
For the generation of such mechanical waves, movement of some surface like a diaphragm is required which can then induce the motion to the medium in front of it in the form of compression and rarefaction. Piezoelectric materials operating in the motor mode and magnetostrictive materials have been widely employed in the generation of ultrasonic waves at frequency ranges of 1-20 MHz and 20-40 kHz respectively. The sensors employ piezoelectric ceramic transducers which flex when an electric signal is applied to them. These are connected to an electronic oscillator whose output generates the oscillating voltages at the required frequency. Materials like Lead Zirconate Titanate are popular piezoelectric materials used in medical ultrasound imaging. For best results, the frequency of the applied oscillations must be equal to the natural frequency of the ceramic, which produces oscillations readily through resonance. It offers maximum sensitivity and efficiency when operated at resonance.
Piezoelectricity being a reversible phenomenon produces electrical voltages when ultrasonic waves reflect back from the target and impinge upon the ceramic structure. In this way, a transducer may work both as a transmitter and a receiver in pulsed mode. When continuous measurement of distances is required, separate transducers may be used for transmission and reception. The sensors when used in industry are generally employed in arrays which may be mechanical arrays consisting of oscillating or rotating sensors, or electronic arrays which may be linear, curved or phased. To visualize the output of an ultrasonic sensor, displays of different kind are used whose shape depends on the type of transducer array used and the function. A sectored Field of View is produced by mechanical arrays and curved and phased electronic arrays, while a linear field is generated by linear arrays. The display modes may be linear graphical plotting with amplitude on y-axis and time on x-axis called Amplitude mode or A-mode, or intensity modulated B-scans where the brightness of a spot indicates the amplitude of reflected waves. Other modes include M-mode, Doppler (D) Mode etc.
The parameters on which the performance of an ultrasonic sensor is measured include bandwidth, attenuation, dynamic range and resolution like grayscale, axial and lateral resolution. Other parameters are Nominal Frequency, Peak Frequency, Bandwidth center Frequency, Pulse Width, sensitivity and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).
There are a variety of sensors based on other physical transduction principles like the optical range finding sensors and the microwave based devices too. Then why should one use ultrasonic transducers in the first place, given that the speed of sound is very slow than the speed of electromagnetic waves? The answer lies in the question itself. Because the EM waves based devices are too fast. Being slower that the EM waves, the time taken by ultrasonic waves is much longer than that taken by the latter and hence its measurement can be done more easily and less expensively. Because these are based on sound waves rather than EM waves, these would work in places where the latter would not.
For example, in the case of clear object detection and measurement of liquid levels or high glare environments, light based sensors would suffer greatly because of the transmittance of the target or the translucence of the propagating media. Ultrasonic devices being based upon sound propagation would remain practically unaffected. These also function well in wet environments where optical beams may suffer from refraction from the water droplets in the environment. On account of range and accuracy, the ultrasonic sensors may lie in between two EM wave based sensors, the Infrared rangefinders on the lower end and the LIDARs on the upper end. Not as accurate or long distance as the LIDARs, the Ultrasonic rangefinders fare better than the IR rangefinders which are highly susceptible to ambient conditions and require recalibration when environment changes. Further these devices offer advantage in medical imaging as compared to MRI or X-Ray scans due to inexpensiveness and portability. No harmful effects of ultrasonic waves at the intensity levels used have been detected in contrast to X-rays or radioactivity based methods and is particularly suited for imaging soft tissues.
However, Ultrasonic sensors too aren't free of all the problems. The speed of sound in a medium increases as the temperature of the medium increases. Thus even when the target has remained in the same place, it may now seem that it has shifted to a place closer to the sensor. Air currents due to varied reasons may disturb the path of the wave which could lead to 'Missed Detection' or a wrong measurement.
Acoustic noise like high pitched sounds created due to whistling or hissing of valves and pneumatic devices at the frequency close to the operating frequency may interfere with the output of the sensor. Electrical noise also affects the performance of the sensor. These may generate artifacts which are not a true representation of the imaged object. Just like the vision starts to blur when the distance of the object from the eye gets too small for the eyes to see it, ultrasonic devices also have a 'dead zone' where the sensor cannot reliably make measurements. This happens due to a phenomenon called ringing which is the continuous vibration of the transducer after emitting the pulse. Thus when the distance is too small, the transducer has not yet come to rest to be able to differentiate between the vibration due to the incident radiation or the oscillation from the electrical excitation. The dangers of Ultrasonic waves are also well founded. If the intensity is too high, it can cause human tissues to heat and may cause ruptures in people exposed to it. Ethical issues like fetus identification and resulting abortions in medical field are also a widespread concern.
Density, Thickness, Flaw Detection, Anisotropy, Robotics, Remote Sensing etc.
Microstructure, grain size, porosity, phase analysis.
Surface and internal Defect imaging, density, velocity, 2D and 3D imaging.
Research has been going on to overcome the problems of ultrasonic sensors, particularly in medical imaging where it is known as ultrasound. The artifacts of ultrasonic sensors like Acoustic shadowing and Acoustic Enhancement are being exploited to characterize tissues which allow the differentiation between solid and cystic tissues. The industry too has reaped the benefits from ultrasonic sensors in applications like plastic welding, jewelry cleaning, remote sensing and telemetry, assisted parking systems etc. Robotics has been known to use ultrasonic rangefinders as a favorite tool for distance ranging and mapping. Even the fashion industry is using ultrasonic sensors in hair styling like hair extension implants.
Non destructive testing and flaw detection uses ultrasonic waves in various modes like the Longitudinal (L-wave) mode and the Shear (S-wave) mode to detect flaws in materials. With the advances in Science, new materials offering increased performance at lower voltages like the capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are being developed which are expected to have higher bandwidth and greater potential for integration with electronic circuits.
These devices provide non-invasive measures for the detection of problems in all kinds of materials, be it a living tissue or non-living manufactured goods. With a healthy history of being able to detect many problems which otherwise left the doctors dazed and the problem untreated, ultrasonic sensors do offer a lot of promise even in the coming times. The environmental and psychological effects of exposure to EM-radiation being rigorously being put under the scanner, ultrasonic applications are expected to thrive and offer a substantial alternative to the contemporary technologies.
I want to know the emitting angle of ultrasonic waves..(whether it is like straight line or some wide angles).In my project this sensor is used to detect nearby object.Is it possible to detect ?


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Opening Twitter every morning is a bit like getting on an airplane. The place is usually full of stale air, fussy babies, and people you don't want to talk to. Ten minutes into the turbulence your mind starts entertaining thoughts of a fiery death and you're ready for your second drink of the morning. (Make it a double, Kevin. No ice).
Making matters worse, there's a vulgar 6'3", 239-pound guy manspreading in first class. He's watching Fox News videos without earbuds and coughing with his mouth open. When he hacks his phlegmy germs infect the rest of the cabin and dominate every other passenger's conversation until his next cough. Also, he's a racist. And he's the president of the United States.
Donald Trump and Twitter have developed a weird symbiotic relationship over the past few years. It's hard to tell which organism benefits more from the arrangement, but it's impossible to imagine one existing without the other.
I admit I'm part of the problem. I follow @realdonaldtrump on Twitter. I subtweet. I troll. I feed the monster. I'm one of the passengers on this doomed flight.
Trump Twitter has become an addiction of sorts. It's one I'm not proud of it. It reminds me of when I was a smoker, and it has approximately the same health benefits.
As with cigarettes, I started Trump Twitter socially at first, over a beer and a laugh with friends. Gradually it became part of my daily routine—with my morning coffee, in the bathroom, after a meal, in the Dunkin' Donuts' parking lot. I continued with the habit even after scientific studies found that reading a single Trump tweet takes approximately 15 minutes off your life expectancy.
Two years into my daily self-flagellation, I still wrestle to understand the pernicious appeal of Trump Twitter. At it's best, Trump's tweets are misinformed, petulant, mean spirited, dishonest, and trite. At worst, they're subliterate and borderline incoherent. The president has a tenuous grasp on grammar, spelling, and syntax. Some of his tweets read like a perplexing jumble of subordinate and adjective clauses peppered with RANDOM acts of Capitalization, spastic punctuation!!!, and covfefe.
Despite Trump's daily challenges to express thoughts in the only language he knows, the guy has 46.8 million followers on Twitter and finished second in the 2016 popular vote with nearly 63 million ballots. His message—whatever it is he's trying to say— is clearly resonating with a sizable chunk of people, in addition to the Russian bots. To force my original metaphor, a lot of people got on this flight willfully.
There have been many attempts to solve the riddle of Trump Twitter over the years. But in the season of hot takes, the best explanation I've found is actually a literary criticism of Holden Caulfield.
In 1992, British novelist David Lodge wrote an article which was first published in the Independent on Sunday and later reprinted in The Art of Fiction, analyzing the narrative style in J.D. Salinger's seminar novel, The Catcher in the Rye. To be clear, the article has nothing to do with the U.S. president, yet it's the best thing I've read on the chemistry of Trump's prose.
Consider Lodge's basic description of Holden Caulfield's first-person narrative style, which he says is written in a way that you don't so much read as listen to.
The similarities go beyond speech patterns. Both Holden and Trump are the spoiled scion of affluent New York families who live self-absorbed lives of adolescent fantasy as they wage a lonely and Quixotic battle against "phony jerks" and "fake news media," respectively.
Actually, episodic, inconclusive and trivial are also terms that could be used to describe this article I just wrote. I started with an airplane metaphor, then talked about my old smoking habit, then wandered like a lost child into an analysis of The Catcher in the Rye.
So to extract myself from this mess, let me borrow the final words from Holden himself. That's all I'm going to tell about. I could probably tell you more, but I don't feel like it. I really don't. That stuff doesn't interest me too much right now.


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Historic cotton mill in St. Ingbert
Appartments & Offices
The former cotton mill came into use in 1885 and was, at the time, one of only few multi-storied factories in Saarland. The production of cloth and yarn from cotton had to take place on three storeys because the factory was located on cramped premises in the very centre of town. Today, the old cotton mill is the perfect building complex for a conversion into a new object with a new purpose. It is located just a few steps from the train station, shops, the pedestrian zone, town hall, community centre, administrative offices and schools. What's more: the vast premises are situated in close proximity of an international IT company and several international research institutes. Made of red sandstone, the main building, which measures 70 metres in length and 30 metres in width, is a beautiful example of industrial architecture.
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After announcing the first phase of Skype Translator preview last year in December, the video-conferencing platform from Microsoft takes the next step of its current preview and adds support for two new languages: Italian and Mandarin (Chinese).
Microsoft's translator service was initially bilingual, offering only Spanish and English support, but starting yesterday, April 8th, it will also provide real-time translation for one of the world's most popular languages: Mandarin Chinese. One of the main objectives of Skype Translator is to enables users a better way to connect with people around the world, no matter the language spoken, and to break the language barriers.
Another updates announced for this new release also include the option to hear the instant messages people send to you in a chosen language with a text to speech translation feature, as well as an automatic volume control enabling your partner to speak while the translation is happening, or mute option for translated voice to simply turn the translated audio on or off.
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Halifax Shipyard to build two Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships for the Canadian Coast Guard
Irving Shipbuilding today released the following statement in response to Government of Canada's announcement that the company will build two Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships for the Canadian Coast Guard:
Congratulations to the men and women of the Canadian Coast Guard on today's announcement that Halifax Shipyard will build two Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships for its fleet. We are proud to be selected to build the two ice-capable, multi-purpose Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships that will increase the Coast Guard fleet's capability and capacity and enhance its important work in the Arctic.
On behalf of our 2,000 shipbuilders, we would like to thank the Government of Canada for their confidence in our shipbuilding team, and for their proactive approach to creating a sustainable shipbuilding industry in Canada, a key objective of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
Construction of two additional Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships for the Coast Guard along with continuous Halifax-class maintenance work will ensure steady workload at the Halifax Shipyard leading up to construction of the Canadian Surface Combatants in 2023. We look forward to working closely with the Canadian Coast Guard on construction of these two additional Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships.
An artist rendering shows the potential design for the Canadian Coast Guard's two Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships that will be built at Halifax Shipyard.
Minister Sajjan marks the start of construction for the fourth Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship


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Transmission oil pumps are either fixed displacement or variable displacement pumps, which are used in vehicles having automatic transmission. Displacement is the volume of fluid moved by the pump during each cycle. A fixed displacement pump moves a fixed amount of fluid with each cycle and the rate of transmission totally depends on the speed of the engine. As the engines speed increases, the pumps flow rate increases. Depending on the driving cycle and control strategy, transmission oil pumps reduce the overall CO2 emissions of a vehicle by approximately 3-4%. Furthermore, in automatic transmissions, the controlled pump offers huge benefits with respect to variable shifting, fuel efficiency, and control strategies.
The global transmission oil pumps market is expected to witness a significant growth due rapid increase in demand for automatic cars, especially in emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, and others. This huge demand is attributed to rise in per capita disposable incomes and increase in consumer spending. Moreover, surge in demand for electrical transmission oil pumps is a major factor fueling the market growth. Furthermore, technological advancements and increase in R&D activities accelerate the growth of the market. However, introduction of cheaper alternatives is a major factor that hampers the market growth.
The global transmission oil pumps market is segmented on the basis of type, displacement type, application, and geography. Based on type, the market is categorized into vane type, gear type, and rotor type. By displacement type, it is classified into fixed displacement and variable displacement. The applications covered in the study include passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, and heavy commercial vehicles. Geographically, the market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
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#ifndef FilterSaturateContrast_hpp
#define FilterSaturateContrast_hpp

#include "FilterEffect.hpp"

namespace mf
{

class FilterShaderConstantFloat;

class FilterSaturateContrast : public FilterEffect
{
public:
    /**
     *  Create color filter based on desaturation and/or Contrasting the source image.
     */
	FilterSaturateContrast();

	virtual ~FilterSaturateContrast();

    /** Set saturation level - one is source color, zero is greyscale */
    void setSaturation(float saturation);

    /** Set brightness as percentage with 1.0 being no change in brightness */
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    /** Set contrast as multiplier with 1.0 being no change in contrast */
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    static const std::string CLASS_NAME;
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This is a collection of my configuration files.

## Install

* Install [rcm](https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm)
* Clone this repository to `~/dotfiles`
* Run:
```shell
$ env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup
```

## Update

Run:

```shell
$ rcup
```

## Local dotfiles (optionally)
Clone or create your `dotfiles-local` repository to `~/dotfiles-local`.  You
can use this repository for your custom dotfiles, that are more general - e.g.
not bound to a single device or user account. If you want to share some
dotfiles, place them here.

See [zaidan/dotfiles-local](https://github.com/zaidan/dotfiles-local) for an example.

## Private dotfiles (optionally)
Clone or create your `dotfiles-private` repository to `~/dotfiles-private`.
You can use this repository to maintain your private stuff that is more
general.

## Private local dotfiles (optionally)
Clone or create your `dotfiles-private-local` repository to
`~/dotfiles-private-local`.  You can use this repository to maintain your
private stuff that is bound to a single device or user account.

## X11 dotfiles (optionally)
Clone or create your `dotfiles-x11` repository to
`~/dotfiles-x11`.  You can use this repository to maintain your
X11 config files.

## Create your own RCRC
In some cases you need a custom `rcrc` file (e.g. to add more dotfiles
repositories).  You can place your custom `rcrc` to one of your dotfiles
repositories and run this command with the path to `YOUR-CUSTOM-REPOSITORY`:

```shell
$ env RCRC=$HOME/YOUR-CUSTOM-REPOSITORY/rcrc rcup
```

This will symlink your `rcrc` file to `~/.rcrc`. Make sure you have added
`YOUR-CUSTOM-REPOSITORY` to the beginning of `DOTFILES_DIRS`. Otherwise your
symlink will be replaced with a link to `~/dotfiles/rcrc`.

## License

See `LICENSE` file.


The Think Tank: Attorney "at Murder She Wrote"
Few job titles require a qualifier but for some reason attorneys are one of those professions. Have you ever met an attorney who was not an attorney "at law". If he or she is not "at law" then what are they at? I see a dermatologist on a regular basis and he is not a doctor "at medicine" nor is my dentist a dentist "at dentistry". I consider myself to be a guitarist "at music" but I would assume the "at music" is understood. Maybe you no longer practice law and now you are just an attorney "at some times I like to solve crimes for fun" or attorney "at I never went to law school but I love to watch murder mysteries and try to guess who the killer is within the first 15 minutes of the show". I would call up my lawyer and ask him about this pressing question but he would charge me $100 an hour for an office visit and I don't want to bother him because he might be "at law" right now doing more important stuff; like solving fictional TV crimes.


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package jest;

/**
 * Created by qye on 3/26/2014.
 */
public interface Filter {
  boolean before(HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response);
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}


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