How he died: You've probably got a good idea of what happens in Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe by the title. Rather than losing his wife and children to a gang war in Central Park, inspiring a lifelong murderous crusade against New York's criminal underworld, Frank Castle's family are ripped apart in the middle of a superhero battle. He immediately gets revenge on X-Men Cyclops and Jubilee, escapes from imprisonment and goes on a rampage, gunning down every metahuman in his way. After dispatching the majority of the big X-Men characters by sending a nuke to the moon he comes across a drunk, grief-stricken Wolverine in an alleyway, stabs him with his own claws, and chucks him onto a electricity pylon, where Logan is fried to death. How he came back: Again, technically, Wolverine never makes it back from this one. Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe is an alternate reality-type-deal, which means nothing that happens in it has any consequences for your regular Marvel comic books. Which is good, since over the course of the story he not only murders Wolverine and most of the X-Men but he also shoots Spider-Man in the head, beats Dr Doom to death with a sledgehammer, stabs Daredevil in the chest, and then finishes himself off with a shotgun. There's basically no superheroes left at the end of the issue, but presumably still plenty of supervillains. Nice going, Frank. Jerk.
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