Archived The Punisher: New season 2 bad guy will be an Alt-Right Christian Fundamentalist (showsnob.com)
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Archived The Punisher: New season 2 bad guy will be an Alt-Right Christian Fundamentalist (showsnob.com)
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It is ironic that the Punisher of all Marvel heroes becomes a vehicle of leftist moralizing. He was originally a villain of the week for The Amazing Spider-Man meant to cause revulsion as a misguided vigilante, then ascended to hero status by popular demand as the white nerd readers making up the bulk of Marvel fans in the 1970s rallied for and identified with him. (Not dissimilar to Rorschach in Watchmen in the 1980s, who was intended by Alan Moore to be a strawman of a right-wing pseudo-fascist objectivist vigilante, only to have his audience rally for Rorschach and his uncompromising crusade.)
After Big Comic has failed two times to convince their core audience that their strawman right-wing bad guy is the bad guy, third time sure will be the charm.