[i]"This is not vengeance... is punishment...".[/i] - Punisher.

[b]Franco Castiglione[/b], a.k.a. [b]Frank Castle[/b], a.k.a. [b]The Punisher[/b] is a violent and brutal vigilante and anti-hero from the [[Marvel]] comics universe.

He is a former Green [[Beret]], Special Ops [[soldier]] and Vietnam War veteran. Frank is very big, strong and highly lethal and proficient in any type of armed and unarmed combat, very skilled in [[martial arts]] and the use of any kind of [[weapon]], from melee to firearms to heavy weaponry. He also has an almost superhuman level of pain tolerance.

After becoming a civilian just as the [[Vietnam]] War ended, Castle lost his family to the mafia, a personal tragedy that turned him into [[The Punisher]]. Now he hunts down and kills any type of criminal, mostly those which murder innocent people, regardless of their allegiance.

His chest is usually protected by a heavy armored bullet proof [[vest]]. The bright white [[skull]] on his shirt serves both to scare his enemies and to lure their fire into the most heavily protected area of his torso.
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