Frank Castle III (Earth-11146)

## Punisher

Frank battling the GCPD

**Frank Castle III** was the long lost third Castle brother. He fought crime and the police as **the Punisher**.

## Biography

Frank Castle was part of the crime-fighting trio "the Three Punishers", with his brothers Johnny Steele and Frank Castle II. However, the group disbanded when Frank Castle II killed too many innocent people, making him lose his edge. The gang got back together when Frank Castle III apparently died.

### Arriving in Gotham City

However, Frank never really died, and continued his war on crime without his siblings. The other Punishers eventually realized this, as they tried to search for their long lost brother and recruit him for a mission in New York City, but they were unable to find him.

By the time they ended their search, recruiting Spider-Man to help on their mission instead, Frank had moved to Gotham City to continue fighting crime.

He met Batman and the Joker while robbing a bank owned by the Russian mob. They killed the bank teller, who was selling bank account information to the mob, and stole everything in the vault, when the GCPD arrived to protect the mob's money. The Punisher killed numerous police officers with the other two vigilantes, and helped free a number of hostages taken by the GCPD.

Batman interrogated and brutally beat a police officer (with some encouragement from Frank), learning the banks and the cops were owned by Yuri Dimitrov, aka "The Russian". Batman executed the cop, and asked Punisher if he wanted to help take down The Russian, to which he agreed.

Getting in the Batmobile, the vigilantes destroyed a local police station with a thermonuclear thermite grenade, and tracked down The Russian and his lieutenants to a blind pool-side house. They visited the Don, and had a pleasant conversation with the crime lord, Batman and the Punisher both accepting a sandwich offered by Yuri, along with the superhero El Muerte. However, mid-conversation, Yuri was assassinated by the Red Hood.

Frank helped fight off the Don's henchmen, before pursuing the Red Hood, the Punisher riding on Batman's back along with the others as they grappled onto the building where the Red Hood shot from. They confronted the Red Hood, who revealed himself as Jason Todd. The Joker shot at the Red Hood, only for the bullet to be blocked by Batman, who lunged at the Joker afterwards. The Punisher tried to pry Batman off the Joker with the help of El Muerte, but he tore the both of them off him.

Realizing the Joker had returned to his evil ways, the Punisher tried to shoot him, but the Batman intervened, twisting his arm and smashing his own gun into his face, sending Frank falling to the floor. He survived the attack thanks to his protective helmet, and he was taken to the Batmobile and later the Batcave's medbay.

Frank accepted an apology from Batman when he woke up in the medbay, and joined the Batfamily in stopping both the Joker and the Red Hood. He arrived with the rest of the family underneath the Western hotel, helping Batman, Catwoman, and Azrael fight off the Joker's army of Life-Model Decoys.

Frank later joined the rest of the Batfamily in fighting off the police and the military when they raided Anarky's base, defending the evacuating Cat Town Raiders with his minigun.

## Equipment

### Weaponry

* Ruger AC556F: Frank wielded this assault rifle with a pink stock as his primary automatic rifle.