Daredevil: Born Again Directors Address Claims The Punisher Enjoys Killing: "It's Not Glee, It's Pain Relief"

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TheDaredevil : Born Againfinale directors have discussed the Punisher ’s feelings about hisMCUkillings , take it ’s a kind of pain relief . Punisher returned toDaredevil : wear Againin episode 9as part of one of the MCU ’s most explosive finales yet . In one of the gravid scenes of the whole series , Punisherteams up with Daredevilto take down a age group of corrupt cops with extreme prejudice , willfully killing his enemy while Daredevil refuses to follow courting .

When discuss the Punisher ’s feelings about killing in aYouTubeinterview with Brandon Davis , directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson revealed thatthe Punisher does n’t take joy in killing but rather uses it as a chassis of pain reliefasFrank Castle ’s torturous pastcontinues to haunt him . Moorhead makes this comment while discussing how Jon Berthal ’s functioning convey moment of what could be seen as glee during his killing sprees . Moorhead ’s full quote is as follows :

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" One might think that if you ’re not paying really close-fitting attention to what the Punisher does , you might intend he revel killing . But it ’s not gloat , it ’s pain sensation rilievo , you bonk ? It ’s like saying you enjoy Tylenol . It ’s not you love it , it ’s that it bump off the pain for him . "

What The Daredevil: Born Again Directors' Punisher Comments Mean

Frank Castle Can Only Feel Reprieve, Not Joy

The Punisher is one ofMarvel ’s most tragical character . His hypermasculinity belies his vulnerability , which Jon Bernthal like an expert conveys in almost every scene he appears in . When theDaredevil : Born Againfinaledirectors , who also directedDaredevil : Born Againepisode 1 , explain that Frank Castle kill as a form of pain assuagement , they refer to the agony that Frank Castle experiences day by day . This was also laid out inDaredevil : bear Againepisode 4 , where Castle explains in his serial publication debut that he still get wind his dead Logos speaking to him . In this conniption , Castle unveil :

" Every sentence I check move I still hear my little son . I see him . And I pick up his voice . He says " get ‘em , Daddy . Every last individual one of ‘em , get ‘em . “That ’s why I do what I do . " "

Jon Bernthal ’s Frank Castle has n’t return since his swashbuckler : deliver Again sequence 4 , and his absence seizure may have an interesting explanation .

Frank Castle covered in scratches in The Punisher

Here , Frank Castle confess how delay idle subject him to the agony of dwelling over his folk ’s flagitious murder . Castle doles out lethal justice to all those he deems deserve as a form of vengeance , definitively removing nefarious actors from the picture to ensure they ca n’t go on to subjugate anyone else to the pain sensation he now experiences , or murder those as innocent as his family . His pain only sink when he is carry out his macabre work . In fact , Castle seldom experiences joyousness , if at all , and this line proves that he can only ever try reprieve alternatively .