thomas jane played the punisher in the first movie.
who played the punisher in the first movie?
thomas jane
the punisher's brutal nature and willingness to kill made him a novel character in mainstream american comic books when he debuted in 1974. by the late 1980s, the punisher was part of a wave of psychologically-troubled antiheroes. at the height of his popularity, the character was featured in four monthly publications, including "the punisher", "the punisher war journal", "the punisher war zone", and "the punisher armory". despite his violent actions and dark nature, the punisher has enjoyed some mainstream success on television, making guest appearances on "spider-man: the animated series", and "the super hero squad show", where the depiction of his violent behavior was toned down for family viewers. in feature films, dolph lundgren portrayed the punisher in 1989, as did thomas jane in 2004, and ray stevenson in . jon bernthal portrayed the character in the second season of "marvel's daredevil" (2016) and the spin-off "the punisher" (2017) as a part of the marvel cinematic universe.
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after punisher tries to assassinate osborn (failing due to the intervention of sentry), osborn asks the hood to hunt him down. the hood sends grizzly to take down punisher. after grizzly is defeated, the hood forces a somehow-revived microchip to help kill punisher. the hood uses the powers of dormammu to resurrect the villains that were killed by scourge of the underworld (basilisk, bird-man, black abbot, blue streak, cheetah, cyclone, death adder, firebrand, hijacker, human fly, letha, megatak, mind-wave, miracle man, mirage, titania, turner d. century, and wraith) to form a squad that will help him take down the punisher. the hood then explains to the resurrected villains how much has happened since their deaths at the hands of scourge of the underworld. he tells them that the punisher acted as the scourge and that they must take the opportunity to kill the punisher as the deadly dozen before the spell that has revived them wears off. hood then has death adder and basilisk capture g.w. bridge's family and hold them hostage so that g.w. can tell them where punisher is. when on a scouting mission on behalf of the hood, wraith is shot with an arrow launched by the punisher. upon encountering illusions of his dead family, punisher encounters the hood, who says that he will revive his family in exchange for his surrender. punisher declines and escapes from the hood. during punisher's fight with human fly, avengers from out of place and out of time appear and prevent punisher from killing human fly, who is retrieved by bird-man. after evading the avengers, punisher fights them again and discovers that captain america is actually mirage in disguise, while mind-wave is revealed to have been impersonating iron man. cheetah (when posing as beast) is killed in the fight. mind-wave dies when a nearby grenade explodes. norman osborn later scolds the hood for having the revived villains pose as the avengers in their fight against punisher. hood tells norman not to call him up screaming again. upon learning that cyclone and miracle man bailed, letha has microchip warn them that if they do not return, their living loved ones will be killed by her. while lascivious and letha accompany human fly to attack the punisher, microchip sends megatak to attack punisher's hacker ally henry. while hood has the caskets of punisher's family dug up, hijacker chases the punisher in his tank. punisher then uses pym particles to shrink down and get into the tank. after taking control of the tank, punisher crashes it into the building where basilisk is holding g.w. bridge, and uses the gases on basilisk. the hood manages to orchestrate punisher's capture and brings him to where he is reviving his family. to begin the ritual, hood has microchip shoot g.w. bridge in the head. the punisher refuses to accept this, and forces firebrand to burn them alive. punisher then shoots firebrand in the back of the head.
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