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30. Punisher's Real Life Parallels

When the police are discussing Punisher's MO, they say it's like "Son Of Sam" or Bernie Goetz again. The split parallel isn't accidental, as it basically offers a distilled picture of the two ways Punisher has been seen as a character over the years. Son Of Sam killer David Berkowitz was a legitimate psycho, with 13 victims (six of whom he killed) in 1976 and '77. He claimed demons told him to murder and brag about his crimes. That's the "Punisher is mental side of the argument. Bernie Goetz meanwhile was more like an agent of vengeance with a particularly uncompromising approach. In 1984, he shot four men who had tried to mug him at a time when New York city was basically a real life Hell's Kitchen.