The Spectre
"You have been judged and found wanting."Frank Castle ♦ 11/12/1950 (67) ♦ Male ♦ Neutral Good
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C O N C E P T A B S T R A C T:
I want to tell a multi-decade story of the Punisher, Vietnam, and the present that explores themes of evil, the cost of doing the right thing, and what happens when someone like Frank Castle has the powers of the Spectre.
Timeline:
November 12th, 1950: Francis Castle is born in Queens
August 10th, 1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing president Lyndon Johnson to use conventional military force to stop the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam.
July 28th, 1965: Johnson pledges to send nearly four hundred thousand troops to Vietnam, tripling the US commitment to fight Communist insurgents.
January 30th, 1968: Anti-Communist forces launch the Tet Offensive, pouring men and resources into the area and sending the conflict in Vietnam from police action to full-on war.
November 12th, 1968: Frank Castle enlists in the US Marine Corps
September 2nd, 1969: Sergeant Frank Castle ships out to join the 1st Marine Division as a platoon sergeant
December 25th, 1969: The Christmas Day Massacre near Đắk Glei wipes out half of Castle's platoon. He kills close to two dozen attacking VC with a M60 machine gun. Castle is awarded medals for bravery and recruited for Special Forces work.
January 1st, 1970 - April 30th, 1974: HISTORY REDACTED AT THE REQUEST OF USMC FORCE RECONNAISSANCE
May 1st, 1974: Granted a battlefield commission to 1st Lieutenant, Frank Castle is honorably discharged from the USMC and sent home.
June 2nd, 1975: Frank Castle marries Maria Castle.
March 24th, 1976: Lisa Castle is born.
August 17th, 1978: Francis Castle Jr. is born.
July 26th, 1980: Maria, Lisa, and Frank Castle Jr. are all murdered, caught in a cross-fire at Central Park between mobsters. Severely wounded, Frank survives.
December 18th, 1981: After two mistrials and numerous accusations of jury tampering, Jimmy Rizzo and Carlo Andolini, the two Scargetti Crime Family hitmen who killed Castle's family, are found not guilty by a jury of their peers. The same day Frank Castle leaves his family home for the last time.
December 20th, 1981: Jimmy Rizzo and Carolo Andolini are found dead, their bodies tortured and mutilated.
December 22nd, 1981 - March 17th, 1982: Fifty-two made men and associates of the Scargetti Family are brutally murdered by an unknown assailant.
March 18th, 1982: Fearing for his life and safety, Dominic Scargetti turns himself over to members of the FBI and confess to numerous racketeering and conspiracy charges. He receives life in prison.
March 28th, 1982: Frank Castle mails a letter to the Daily Bugle with explicit photos of Scargetti Family members shortly before their murders. In the letter, Castle claims that the men killed were the first casualties in a new war on crime he is waging. Not as Frank Castle, but as The Punisher.
1982-2002: Using his military background and money from murdered criminals, Frank Castle wages his one man war with the criminal syndicates in America. Over a twenty year span, he kills at least a thousand men in thirty states in addition to another two hundred speculated murders around the US and abroad. Until September 11th, he is first on the FBI's Most Wanted List.
2005: After three years in hiding, a cancer-ridden Frank Castle surrenders to two NYPD detectives. While awaiting trial, Castle is sent to the federal penitentiary in Fishkill, NY. The very same prison Dominic Scargetti has ruled like a king for thirty years. In a prison riot, Scargetti is stabbed to death by Castle before he is pounced on by an angry mob. Frank Castle is beaten to death by the angry prisoners, but not before the elderly and dying man kills seven of them with his bare hands.
2005-2012: In limbo, Frank Castle's soul lingers, unable to go to heaven or hell. The Archangel Michael, recognizing Castle's hatred and rage binds Castle's soul to the spirit of God's Vengeance, an entity known as The Spectre.
