Frank Castle

## Background

### 1974 - 1992: Frank Castiglione

Frank Castiglione was born in the Queens district of New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Mario & Louisa Castiglione. His parents were already in their 40s when they had Francis, prompting them to have many difficulties controlling him. Even at a young age, he was a trouble-maker & when he was a young man, he developed a strong desire to hurt people & quickly becoming a highly effective fighter.

### 1992 - 2007: Frank Castle

When Castle was just eighteen, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps where he was placed under the command of Major Ray Schoonover. During his time in the USMC, Castiglione graduated from boot camp and then went on to United States Marine Corps School of Infantry. Following his training, Castiglione served the Marines for multiple tours. He was also inducted into the ranks of the Marine Corps Force Recon, undertaking classified missions behind enemy lines. Despite being one of, if not the best sniper in the corps, many of his superiors didn't like him & believed they purposely put him in situations where they hoped he would be killed.

While on leave from the United States Marine Corps, Castle was out in a park when met a woman named Maria. Castle instantly fell in love with the woman & they began a relationship. Three months later, Maria informed Castle that she had fallen pregnant with his child. Maria offered him the chance to walk away, instead Castle proposed to her & they were quickly married. Despite many of Castle's friends recommending against the marriage due to how short their relationship had been, Castle began a happy life with his wife & daughter.

While Castle was in Baghdad with Billy Russo & Curtis Hoyle, they attempted to save the life of a young boy, while Castle kept watch with a sniper rifle. However, when Castle saw a pregnant woman coming towards Hoyle, he hesitated, resulting in the woman detonating a suicide vest. The bomb blew off Hoyle's leg, something Castle felt guilty over for many years. After the fifteen month rotation ended, Frank returned home after missing the birth of his son, Frank Castle Jr., who was already a year old. As his friendship with Russo & Hoyle grew, Castle's kids referred to them as Uncle Billy & Uncle Curt respectively.

### 2007 - 2008: Frank Castle

During one of his deployments within Afghanistan, Castle & Russo were assigned to a task force called Operation Cerberus under the supervision of Schoonover & a man known only as Agent Orange. Operation Cerberus was tasked with capturing & assassinating enemy targets, with Agent Orange insisting that the United States approved of the operation. Specializing in nightly raids for the purpose of kidnapping, interrogating & executing high value targets, with the squad quickly becoming known as the American Taliban.

Among the targets that were captured by Cerberus Squad included a man named Ahmad Zubair, who was brutally strung up & beaten down by the Squad. Agent Orange began questioning Zubair in Pashto, which none of the squad could understand. Castle questioned Orange on what Zubair was saying but he insisted it was not important. Despite Zubair insisting that he was not a terrorist, Agent Orange noted he was lying & order Castle to shoot him, killing him instantly.

When Agent Orange gives the squad another mission, the surprise raid quickly turned out to be an ambush with many of their soldiers being killed. Making his way through the enemy's stronghold, Castle proceeded to use all of his military training & charge through the enemy strong hold, killing all those he encountered & only taking one bullet to the shoulder. After all the surviving members are evacuated, Castle assaulted Orange for the deaths of his men & ruptured his eye-socket with a single punch. He is then dragged off by Russo, who announces his departure from the military. Despite being Russo's departure, Castle still remained in service for the duration of his rotation.

Upon returning home, Castle was tearfully reunited with family. Realizing how distant he had become from his time away, he took his family & Russo for a day out at Central Park. They played around for a bit before Russo left to go run errands. Unbeknownst to Castle, Schoonover & Agent Orange decided to have Castle killed because they believed he leaked the torture & death of Zubair. Using his criminal persona "Blacksmith," Schoonover then arranged a deal between Mexican Cartel, Dogs of Hell & Kitchen Irish. Having failed to see what was about to happen in time, Castle was helplessly watched in utter horror as his own wife, son and daughter were all gunned down as the gangs opened fire. Castle was shot down but managed to survive after getting shot at close range in the head. Upon escaping the hospital, Castle vowed to spend the rest of his life avenging his family. He equipped himself with state-of-the-art weapons, waging a one-man war against crime as the Punisher.

## Romantic Relationships

* Maria Castle: Girlfriend (1998); Wife (1998 - 2008)
* Dinah Madani: On & Off (*Unknown*)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Through his rigorous training & exercise regimes, he developed strength, speed, endurance, stamina, healing, metabolism, immune system, longevity, reflexes & agility near the limits of a super-soldier’s capabilities. His endurance is unbelievably high. He frequently performs surgery on himself without pain medication.
	+ ***Extensive Special Operations Training:*** As part of his military training, Castle completed U.S. Navy SEAL, Underwater Demolition Team, Long Range Patrol &Explosive Ordnance Disposal. training. He graduated the Army's Ranger School, completed the U.S. Army Airborne School, graduated the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course & took Long Range Recon Patrol training. He's also a qualified HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) jumper.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts*:** Castle is a very thoroughly seasoned veteran in multiple forms of armed & unarmed combat. He is highly adept in Nash Ryu Jujutsu, Ninjutsu, Shorin-ryu Karate, Hwa Rang Do, & Chin Na.
* **Aviation:** Castle received helicopter training with the military, making him capable of flying both helicopters & airplanes.
* **Indomitable Will:** Frank has complete control of his mind & consciousness, providing a strong resistance against telepathic powers that are used against him.
* **Interrogation/Torture:** Castle uses his skills at interrogation to get information from people linked to criminals through creative use of torture as well such as water boarding, electrocution, suffocation, sleep deprivation, starvation etc.
* **Intimidation:** His brutal nature & willingness to kill has made him one of the most dangerous & feared men alive.
* **Marksmanship:** He is a sharpshooter & exceptional marksman with many types of firearms. He is ambidextrous & rarely misses his target.Trained as an elite sniper, he's skilled enough to hit a target from 4 km.
* **Tactical Analysis:** Armed solely with conventional weapons & motivated by a fanatical hatred for criminals like those who murdered his family, the Punisher has single-handedly incapacitated up to a dozen well-armed & experienced opponents in a single encounter & escaped uninjured. It is his military training & his attention to detail that allows him to achieve this.
* **Weaponry:** As an authority on modern warfare, the Punisher is a recipient of multi-disciplinary military knowledge from the US Armed Forces. Thanks to this & continued training, the Punisher is a master of many weapons, favoring daggers & long-range shooting weapons. His ever-changing arsenal of weaponry includes various automatic & semi-automatic rifles, an array of handguns, fragmentation & tear gas grenades, other explosives & combat knives. A personal favorite is his ballistic knife, which can launch its blade with lethal force.
* **Punisher's Clothing:** Castle most often chooses not to wear any sort of costume beyond a black shirt with a white skull splashed across the front. His other clothing (i.e. combat boots, bulletproof vests, body armor, camouflaged outfits) are worn for the sake of protection or subterfuge in certain environments. His body armor protects him from most gunfire, though he can still suffer concussive injury or penetration from sufficiently powerful or repeated impacts.
* **Arsenal:** Castle employs a truly expansive array of conventional firearms & weaponry, including machine guns, rifles, shotguns, handguns, knives & explosives, a great many of which have been culled from both common & organized criminals, as well as military sources during his operations.

### Weaknesses

* **Human:** Castle is still susceptible to physical injury & disease like any other normal human, often having to rely more on strategy than strength when up against a superhuman opponent. However, different people have commented on how extraordinarily high his pain tolerance is. He does not even take over-the-counter painkillers, believing that their benefit of dulling pain isn't worth the side effects of drowsiness or slowed reflexes.

### Ratings

* **Acumen:** Unknown
* **Might:** Unknown
* **Quickness:** Unknown
* **Mysticism:** Unknown
* **Gadgets:** Unknown
* **Projection:** Unknown
* **Tactics:** Unknown
* **Battle:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* His version of justice is essentially "an eye for an eye."
* Some of his aliases over the years include Frank Rook, Charles Fort, Francis Stronghold, Ted Bishop, Johnny Tower, Frankie Villa, Cliff Callador, Fred D'Amato, John Smith, James Maxwell & John Conway.
* He once changed his screen name to sadprincess14 to catfish a pedophile.
* He's currently in a casual relationship with Homeland Security agent Dinah Madani.
* He is a devout Catholic.
* There is some romantic tension between him & Karen Page.
* He used to have a dog named Max. However, he was shot by Kingpin's assassin George & Frank put him down to end his suffering. He then killed George
* Frank considers Joni Mitchell's *Court and Spark* the greatest music album of all time.
* He does had a hideout somewhere in new York but has not disclosed the location to anyone.
* One of his most common allies is Micro, a former NSA analyst & expert computer hacker.
* He received the Navy Cross for his service.

## Notes

* The original character of Punisher belongs to the Marvel Universe.