Frank Castle

Frank Castle is a New York City-based vigilante, whose wife, daughter and son were all murdered in a drug sting gone wrong between NYC's most infamous gangs: the Dogs of Hell, the Kitchen Irish and the Mexican Cartel. He is Daredevil's While seeking to avenge his own family's deaths.

He weighs 225 lbs and stands at 6'3" with an athletic build.

He is surgical and precise, using all of his skills with firearms, stealth and hand-to-hand combat to kill his opponents, seen when he singlehandedly killed multiple mujahideen in Kandahar, as well as members of the Kitchen Irish at the Burren Club.

As a former United States Marine with years of experience, Frank is an extremely skilled, formidable, fierce, and lethal martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant, making him one of the most dangerous and best fighters on the planet.

Despite his cold and ruthless demeanor, beneath it all, Frank is a man who strongly and deeply misses his beloved family and wishes only to make up for what he sees as his inability to protect them.

He can be very reckless, destroying massive amounts of property and endangering not only himself, but the lives of those around him, including innocent civilians.

He is extremely hot-headed and arrogant. He believes that anyone who has an opposing view on justice and morality is wrong and that his murders are 100% justified, as he claims he only kills people who deserve it and doesn't even consider them human.

In 2002, while on leave from the United States Marine Corps, Castle was out in a park playing his guitar when he had been overheard by a woman named Maria Falconio, who teased him over his playing. Castle instantly fell for her, and after some flirtation, the pair began a relationship. Three months later, Falconio informed Castle that she was pregnant with a daughter, with Falconio offering Castle the chance to walk away as she was willing to raise the child alone if he did not want to stick around. Later that day, Castle proposed to her, resulting in them getting married, and their daughter, Lisa, was born the following summer. Despite many of Castle's friends recommending against the marriage due to how short their relationship had been, Castle and his wife began a happy life together living in New York City.

Before Castle left for a tour in Iraq, Maria became pregnant with the pair's second child, and Frank was unable to witness the birth of his son, Frank Castle, Jr.. In 2004, during said tour, Lieutenant Castle would take part in the First Battle of Fallujah as well as other combat operations, such as one in Baghdad, where Castle met and befriended with Curtis Hoyle, a corpsman. During the mission, Hoyle was attempting to save the life of a young boy, while Castle kept watch with a sniper rifle. However, when Castle saw a pregnant woman coming towards Hoyle, he failed to shoot her, resulting in the woman detonating a suicide vest, blowing off Hoyle's leg, something Castle felt guilt over for many years.

Francis David "Frank" Castle is a former United States Marine who served in the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. While serving in Afghanistan alongside his friend Billy Russo, he joined a black-ops team known as Cerberus Squad led by CIA Covert Ops Director William Rawlins, with the task of capturing, interrogating, and executing high-value targets. In 2015, feeling like what he had been doing in Kandahar was wrong, Castle left the service and returned home to New York City. Shortly after, during a family outing at Central Park, Castle and his family were caught in a brutal shootout between three gangs. Castle, the sole survivor of the incident, learned that the gangs involved were the Dogs of Hell, the Kitchen Irish, and the Mexican Cartel and sought to avenge his family by eliminating the three gangs.

Believing that he had successfully avenged his family, Castle abandoned the Punisher identity and began a new life in New York City under the name Pete Castiglione