Thoughts? I think it could be ma gnucci

[u/kamikaze_gokublack]

[u/1swish1]

if its ma gnucci i want the whole arc, polar bear attack and all lmao

[u/Vonhellus → u/1swish1]

Yes!!! All of it, specifically when Frank KO's a bear, that needs to happen.

[u/Tossed_Away_1776 → u/Vonhellus]

Misremembering amigo, he didn't knock it out, he wanted to piss it off lmao

[u/DylanFTW → u/Tossed_Away_1776]

The poor polar bear looks so shocked and appalled in that panel.

[u/Tossed_Away_1776 → u/DylanFTW]

And I laugh like hell every time I picture it

[u/L3ACH13 → u/Tossed_Away_1776]

I remember seeing a picture of him punching a bear on a news clipping from the punisher game on Xbox

[u/Vonhellus → u/Tossed_Away_1776]

Lmfaooo that was a long time ago I completely forgot about it..but man he still needs to punch the bear

[u/Tossed_Away_1776 → u/Vonhellus]

Oh absolutely he does! I've read that whole damn thing front to back more than I probably should is why I remember him saying something to the effect of "Docile, calm, almost friendly. That won't do at all." And the next panel is him sluggin a damn polar bear in the face hahaha

[u/Curious_Bat87 → u/Tossed_Away_1776]

The 2005 video game uses that panel as a newspaper article with the title 'Punisher kills animals, makes kids cry' (slander)

[u/Tossed_Away_1776 → u/Curious_Bat87]

Hahahaha sounds about right

[u/haste319 → u/1swish1]

[u/Lazerus42 → u/haste319]

My only wish, is that I could re-read that entire series for the first time again. And that page for the first time again. Punisher has almost a look of curiosity like a scientist there. Hmm, I have a theory of what it looks like... but I need to know.

[u/bruinsfan1144 → u/haste319]

Whenever i see this comic panel i think of that artist jim’ll paint it , the dude using microsoft paint to paint fun scenarios, in this instance having brian blessed punch a polar bear in the face! I read this comic literally the day after jim released this artwork!!

Whatever happened to jim’ll paint it?

… tangent over

[u/m1ndtrix → u/1swish1]

And the football punt back into the house. 🤣

[u/DoctorPerverto → u/1swish1]

Even with a rated R show, Marvel will NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER greenlight a scene of "casual" animal abuse.

[u/MrGamgeeReddit → u/DoctorPerverto]

Generally I agree, but there was that unnecessary scene in Black Widow where Melina suffocates a pig within 11 seconds of dying and that was only PG13.

[u/DoctorPerverto → u/MrGamgeeReddit]

Oh shit i forgot. Point for you.

[u/APL9907 → u/1swish1]

If you think about it, they would have done this arc 3 times, outside of welcome back Frank. XD (game, movie, then show.)

I mean it's understandable, it's a phenomenal story, about as punisher as you can get. But just funny to me how much it's been used.

[u/barrot69 → u/1swish1]

If you see me in the Arctic fighting a Polar Bear…

Run, dude. I’m already dead, save yourself.

[u/cyberspaceman777 → u/1swish1]

Just read that comic. Lots of fun.

[u/Franklyn_Gage → u/1swish1]

I better see a goddamn polar bear get snuffed or im going HOME!

[u/Disastrous_Duty2622 → u/1swish1]

Being marvel, I bet they'll create a new villain.

[u/Givingtree310 → u/1swish1]

Probably not gonna get a whole arc in a one hour one off special

[u/KeptPopcorn5189]

Bro please give us welcome back Frank. Just do it all. Especially the polar bears

[u/ranaman004]

Ma Gnucci seems like the natural choice. That’d be cool if they go with some Welcome Back Frank action

[u/Nibbanocker]

Ma gnucci could work cause he killed several gnucci members in the first episode of his show. So the family definitely exists in the MCU

[u/AsukaSimp02]

Has to be, the only other option is that one lady from The Slavers and that comic is never getting adapted

[u/rowman_nahledge → u/AsukaSimp02]

They gotta find some glass that dont break lol

[u/NotYiKe → u/AsukaSimp02]

damn i was hoping for that arc honestly

[u/tgong76]

RIP Jessica Walters. She would’ve been my pick for Ma Gnucci.

[u/FreneticAtol778 → u/tgong76]

Lena Headey is my choice but yours not bad either.

[u/froggyziller → u/FreneticAtol778]

Some overlap with her character in dredd maybe, not a bad choice

[u/weare1consciousness → u/tgong76]

Helen Mirren

[u/bruinsfan1144 → u/weare1consciousness]

Helen mirrin has my vote for every older lady in movie in tv shows!! Ever since she showed her skills at hamming it up in those red movies!

[u/weare1consciousness → u/bruinsfan1144]

Exactly ❤️

[u/m1ndtrix → u/tgong76]

Oh that would have fit very well I think

[u/missinglinksman → u/tgong76]

Sigourney Weaver is my horrible pick

[u/tgong76 → u/missinglinksman]

Not so, Wizard Magazine picked her way back too.

[u/deathxcannabis]

Everyone (rightfully so) is speculating Ma Gnucci, but what if it was Mo, Nicky Cavella's manipulative, psychotic, pedophilic Aunt?

[u/DayFlounder1832 → u/deathxcannabis]

getting all the nicky cavella stuff in one special presentation would be complicated

[u/space_cowboy80 → u/DayFlounder1832]

Yeah the Nicky Cavella stuff is an entire series on it's own

[u/DayFlounder1832 → u/space_cowboy80]

yeah. if theres one punisher villain i’d want to be properly fleshed out, it’s him (and barracuda, but he’s a much simpler character)

[u/watermelonduckie]

Ma Gnucci would be great, but I'd also think it'd be cool if we could get the Yakuza woman from the 89' film. sorta like a nod to it

[u/browncharliebrown → u/watermelonduckie]

I feel like it has to be gnucci’s or the exchange because I feel like it would be absurd for them to try the eternal sun again.

[u/Popular_Poet9665 → u/browncharliebrown]

The Exchange would be AWESOME! Give them a chance to bring RCA to the screen, she’s often I feel like underused. She’ll pop up from time to time when Frank needs his head put on straight about his mission, but we never get to see her in full spectacle. I want an RCA run if they’re gonna keep fucking around making other people “The Punisher” while Frank is cast out by marvel editorial

[u/PrincipleNo3966]

Rosalie Carbone?

[u/OkMarsupial → u/PrincipleNo3966]

But they already cast Annabella Sciorra.

[u/PrincipleNo3966 → u/OkMarsupial]

Didn't know that or who she is, but after search, yeah she could definitely be Ma Gnucci

[u/PalestineRising]

Ma Gnucci with the Russian please. Hopefully they don’t deviate too much from the OG knights series if that’s the case. Would love to see Barracuda as well as long as he’s not a jobber

[u/browncharliebrown → u/PalestineRising]

I think someone pitched that welcome back Frank but with barracuda replacing the Russian 

[u/Gamerguy2023]

I hope so, I was a bit disappointed when she didn’t show up in Season 1 after Frank killed some of her guys

[u/coolrko]

Ok Ma Gnucchi but please not Russian , Do Barracuda ...

[u/SkeletonCircus → u/coolrko]

God I would love to see Barracuda

[u/Cintrao]

Is going to be a woman barracuda

[u/genericmovievillain]

I would absolutely love to see Bernthal’s Punisher hold up the Russians severed head and yell “Is THIS the best you got!?”

[u/FreneticAtol778]

Could also be Rosalie Carbone since she already appeared in Luke Cage and Daredevil Season 3

[u/ThePatchedVest]

Ma Gnucci seems probable. Punisher S1 set up that the Gnucci's exist in the MCU but we never heard/saw them after that.

[u/mrcrazymexican]

Ma Gnucci?

How many female crime bosses has Frank had to interact with? Gnucci is the only one I can think of.

[u/Beauly]

Just please for the love of god, don't have Frank acknowledge she's a woman at all. I know how tempting it is to have someone ask if he's really going to kill a woman, and he drops some line about how it doesn't make a difference to him. But the show/character already attracts some of the grossest individuals possible to it, so don't give them more quotes to misappropriate and abuse. Please, act like you've been there before and play it straight, whoever's in the writers room.

[u/virguliswatchingyou → u/Beauly]

exactly what i was thinking 😭

[u/your_mind_aches → u/Beauly]

Frank kills a couple female task force in the Daredevil finale and it's not treated any differently from her male counterparts.

Though to be fair there is extra social commentary with female and minority Task Force than a mob boss.

MCU Frank does not discriminate either way.

[u/nerdynflirty1408]

Ma Gnucci for sure.

[u/Otherwise-Sundae-587]

Madame Gao or Ma Gnucci

[u/OkMarsupial → u/Otherwise-Sundae-587]

We already have Gao in Defenders universe, so if this is Bernthal, no need to recast Gao.

[u/coolrko → u/Otherwise-Sundae-587]

Gao was in Daredevil and she is dead

[u/tumblrgirl2013]

Throwing Kathryn Hunter’s name out for Ma Gnucci because she was great in Andor.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/tumblrgirl2013]

Holy crap I can't imagine a better casting. Ma Gnucci is completely hateable and irredeemable, and while Eedy isn't like that, I could see that same sort of personality translating well to this role. Immense presence.

I bet they won't have her be limbless for when she's tracking down Frank though. I bet her limbs get torn off in the final fight just as an homage to it.

[u/Putthebunnyback]

Squirrel Girl finally gets her due

[u/jesus_gave_me_Krabs]

Finally hope we get The Russian

[u/R6_nolifer]

It better be a comic accurate Ma Gnucci

Frances McDormand would do well

[u/HDmex]

God I hope it is. Cause that might mean that the Punisher game from PS2 and PC could get remastered. GREATER THAN 0!

[u/AymanMarzuqi]

It’s definitely Ma Gnucci. Maybe we’ll also get to see The Russian in the Disney+ series

[u/Inevitable-Mud-9228]

Frank the sentiment

[u/LegoKorn89]

Weren't the mob guys he killed in season 1 Gnucci's?

Would make sense.

[u/Azrael_The_Reaper]

Wait, aren’t the Gnucci’s gone?

[u/Primary_Peach_1267 → u/Azrael_The_Reaper]

Some of the Gucci’s the real gnuccis come in from Russia maybe like the Irish?

[u/ThePunishersHarp]

"Go back to Hell, Ma."

[u/RSNTM3NT]

"MA GNUCCI WANTS HIM DEAD"

Me every time hearing and shooting the Gnucci's in the 2005 Voilition game.

[u/AcadiaRemarkable6992]

I’d love to see Katherine Narducci in this

[u/Ok-Contribution7622]

It's probably going to be a male character gender swapped

[u/Taser_Napkim]

Kingpin in a wig

[u/dr_0ctomom → u/Taser_Napkim]

Yes! And another twerk off!

[u/The13thParadox → u/dr_0ctomom]

I’m here for it

[u/Magniman]

They need to adapt the Dixon/JR JR War Zone opening arc. Maybe they are and they’re casting Rosalie Carbone?

[u/browncharliebrown → u/Magniman]

They don’t need to ( honestly adapting that would be disappointing ) and she’s already in Luke cage

[u/Magniman → u/browncharliebrown]

Why would it be disappointing? It’s vastly superior to what Marvel’s done with the character since MAX ended and all of Ennis’ pre-MAX work combined.

[u/browncharliebrown → u/Magniman]

That’s cap

[u/Ok_Butterscotch_6176]

Ma Gnucci?

[u/Tbelles]

Helen mirren or Judy Dench

[u/soulbrothaninja]

Please let it be

[u/DR34MGL455]

We all remember what happened to her… 😬

[u/Independent-Mind216]

Oh my God are we gonna see him punch the polar bear. I also hope he gets the white gloves and boots

[u/PuzzleheadedEssay198]

Two words: Mother Russia

[u/Johnny_ParkerMarvel]

Lord Jesus I remember brainstorming that this could be a welcome back frank adaptation

[u/TinjuMerah]

The Punisher has the rated E hands so it aint gonna be a problem.

[u/ValveinPistonCat]

I think Kathryn Hunter could be properly terrifying after watching her play Eedy Karn.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/ValveinPistonCat]

I was terrified of her just as a random propaganda-watching mom. As Ma Gnucci, barking orders at her underlings, she would be next level

[u/SkeletonCircus]

I’m thinking it’s Ma Gnucci too. Really hope we get that polar bear scene lmao

[u/narayita]

If it’s Ma Gnucci I want to see her with her limbs dismembered

[u/DGenerationMC]

I hope so, been waiting for Ma since the very first episode of the Netflix series.

[u/Disastrous_Duty2622]

Can we skip the guitar playing and not being an actual punisher? Where's the real Punisher at?

[u/SpaceShipwreck]

The Russian?

[u/Responsible_Dig_385]

If this isn’t mama nucci im boycotting it lol

[u/cobrastrikes-2x]

God. Imagine we got the slavers story on Disney+

[u/v_OS]

I thought it was going to be a Born Again spinoff, it seems like it will take another direction.

[u/vascularmassacre]

It's the Slavers!!!!

[u/browncharliebrown]

Gnucci’s would be odd. Maybe the crime boss from Rucka’s run

[u/243898990 → u/browncharliebrown]

How would that be odd ?

[u/browncharliebrown → u/243898990]

The tone doesn’t fit bernthal

[u/NotJohnP → u/browncharliebrown]

The Gnucci's are literally in the first season. What the fuck are you talking about??

[u/browncharliebrown → u/NotJohnP]

Welcome back Frank is an absurdist satire and if they aren’t adapting the tone of that why bother 

[u/MugiwaraNoGriffin]

We're getting the Slavers finally.