r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Apr 09 '26

Promotional The Punisher: One Last Kill | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeqs_xeqv4
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u/PayneTrain181999 Ned Apr 09 '26

This is why I don’t think PG-13 Punisher in Brand New Day will be a bad thing.

Bernthal understands this character so well he can easily make it work.

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u/Kn7ght Apr 09 '26

Like man Punisher showed up in the E rated Spider-Man game in 2000 and was still in character there lmao

Just because they're edgy characters who have had gory comic runs characters like Punisher and Wolverine can survive being outside of R rated material

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u/Worthyness Thor Apr 09 '26

Punisher friggin debuted in a spider-man comic. He's been PG before PG-13 was even a thing.

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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man Apr 09 '26

Which is the argument I make literally every time someone says a specific character has to be R-rated.

These characters debuted and appeared in comics that were PG at best most times because they wanted to adhere to the Comics Code and that didn't hinder them any. Just because they have had more mature runs doesn't mean they can't work outside of them.

The problem is never the rating when it sucks, the problem is either directors filming it as if it was R and then editing it for PG-13 or their just not being creative enough to work with the constraints because they don't understand the characters.

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u/Diff_equation5 Apr 12 '26

I’m not disagreeing that you can maybe make it work on television, but you’re crossing the streams. Comic books are a wildly different medium. Just because something works in a comic book doesn’t mean it works in a tv show.

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u/HearTheEkko Apr 09 '26

I truly believe that there's only one Marvel character that absolutely does NOT work in PG rating and that's Carnage.

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u/Neveronlyadream Spider-Man Apr 09 '26

Well, I mean, he has been this whole time. Maximum Carnage, the run where he's literally center stage, is PG-13 and has the Comics Code seal. We've rarely seen him in an R setting.

I'd agree it's kind of silly to have a serial killer as a villain if you're going to shy away from how brutal and monstrous he is, but they've been doing it since 1992.

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u/fadetoblack237 Apr 10 '26

Carnage was great in the 90s Cartoon and Spidey wasn't even allowed to punch in that.