Marvel's The Punisher Trailer Breakdown: 8 Things You Need To See
7. Frank's Old Unit
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Unlike the Punisher of the comics (who served in Vietnam), the MCU's version is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, with his service having already been a topic of huge importance in Daredevil season two.
Clancy Brown's Colonel Schoonover was revealed to be the villainous Blacksmith during the events of that show, being a character that had, along with other members of Castle's platoon, founded a drug smuggling ring upon their return to the US.
It's unclear if Frank's old unit will be featuring heavily in the new series, but it would be likely to suggest that they'll be appearing through flashback - a trope that the trailer plainly showed at numerous points.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
