Wolverine’s Son Was Responsible For Punisher’s Worst Redesign
Frank Castle aka the Punisher is one of the deadliest antiheroes in the Marvel Universe, but even that didn’t save him from suffering a grizzly death by the hands of Wolverine’s son which launched the character’s worst redesign. In one of the darkest eras of Marvel Comics, Norman Osborn rose to power and created his own version of the Avengers which were formed to carry out his evil deeds. One of the members was Wolverine’s son, Daken, who was ordered to kill the Punisher, a task he carried out to brutal perfection. With the Punisher’s death came a widely-hated redesign, one which gave life to the infamous Franken-Castle.
In Dark Reign: The List — Punisher#1 by Rick Remender and John Romita Jr., Norman Osborn has put the Punisher on his kill list after the antihero tried to assassinate him. So, the former Green Goblin sends one of his Dark Avengers to kill the Punisher, Wolverine’s son Daken. When Daken and the Punisher meet in combat, the battle is absolutely brutal. The Punisher puts up a good fight against the nearly unkillable mutant, but in the end, Daken’s powers as well as his ferocity are just too much for Castle. Daken stabs the Punisher in the stomach, hacks off one of his arms, and then finishes him off by cutting off his head.
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When Daken was through with him, it seemed as though the Punisher was gone forever, but there was no way Marvel was going to let that happen, so the publisher just had to get creative with his inevitable return. The solution to the Punisher’s extreme dismemberment and decapitation was to literally sew the character back together and turn him into Marvel’s own Frankenstein’s monster, Franken-Castle. Franken-Castle was
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