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If it isn't my old buddy Daredevil. Hope you aren't still angry over me killing your gal pal. Oh, it doesn't matter when, where, or what you do. If you're on Bullseye's Hit List, it's over.
Of course, you may be thinking, "So what? He can hit any target. Big deal." This man killed somebody with his [ __ ] boogers, killed a target with a toothpick from 100 yards away, and shot a tooth out of his mouth so fast it was like a bullet, just because he could. It's not like he has a mutant power either that allows him to never miss with any object. This is literally just something he can do. It'd be a beautiful thing to behold if it weren't so grotesque in the way he uses his natural talent. Because trust me, it'd be harder to list the things he hasn't done simply because of how insane Bullseye is. For crying out loud, there was a time Bullseye was once hired by the Kingpin to kill the Punisher. Right now, any other assassin would maybe track him down and try to kill him in some practical manner, maybe snipe him from afar or track down one of his many safe houses and blow it sky-high. But what does Bullseye do? He treats this task like he's making art. He's so meticulous, so methodical in every way he goes about bringing the end to Frank Castle. He takes time to study Castle. He eats what he eats, he sleeps where he slept, he uses the same shampoo he uses. To the point he goes to the suburbs, pretends to be a loving father and husband to a family he kidnapped, and kills them the same way Castle's family was killed, with the family fully and dreadfully aware they were on track to meeting their maker. Can you just imagine that for a second? You're eating breakfast with your family one day, maybe your dad went out to walk the dog or something, and then BAM! Some dude waltzes into your home acting like he's your father, all the while holding a gun to you, your head, all to just be an experiment to understand Frank Castle, a person you've never even met in your whole life. It's horrifying. It's deplorable. It's sadistic, plain and simple. And just one of the many infinite reasons he's a monster through and through. Bullseye is an envious, soulless, remorseless monster that I feel like is sorely underrated and completely undervalued. So if you feel like it, let's get down to the bottom of Bullseye together and allow me to explain to you why I think he's perhaps the most sadistic villain in Marvel Comics.
As a child, Lester, or Ben, or Dex, or Po Dexter, or Leonard, was a son to a family of four. He had a brother named Nate, an abusive drunk for a father, and a mother who felt as if this was the life that she deserved. Those days were simple. Leonard would go to school, come home, do his homework, and then hop up to the roof with Nate to try and shoot down the birds. Of course, Nate could never hit the targets, but Leonard never missed. These were simple days, but the bad ones, when they came around, it was awful. The beatings drove Leonard and Nate to the brink. So one day, while eating breakfast, they sort of just agreed that they had to kill their father. So one day, returning from school, Leonard found his home of flame. He saw his brother Nate up above screaming that their mother was killed and to get away before their father would pull Nate back into the fire. Covered in flames, head to toe, it was only after the fire that Leonard got around from foster family to foster family to foster family, finally ending up with the Wilkersons. They were a nice bunch that brought Leonard to a brighter future. His real family never could. Motivating Leonard to take up some activity to help him thrive, like baseball. For Leonard to become a major league baseball player, it took simply three games to get him there. Because of his impeccable record, Leonard was happy. He felt like the whole world was watching him, watching what he could do, and he [ __ ] loved it. But as he kept getting the opposing team to strike out over and over with little to no challenge, after a while, as much as Leonard got bored, so did the audience. But his foster father was there at every game to support Leonard, shedding tears of joy for his son, never growing tired of his adopted son's talent, proud of the man Leonard had gone on to become. But in all that glory, now dissipating as fast as it arrived, and with no one able to stand against Leonard's pitch, Leonard thought about spicing things up. After being convinced to keep pitching by his coach, despite asking to be benched himself, throwing the ball so hard and so fast that he killed the batter instantly, scarring hundreds of people watching on. All the while, Leonard had a smile from ear to ear, saying in that moment of pure bliss, "Bullseye." After this, Leonard was subsequently kicked out of the league due to his propensity for calculated violence, a dispassionate attitude for killing, and an incredible talent to use any object as a deadly weapon, which gave Leonard a surprising opportunity to work for the CIA. All the training was child's play for Leonard, to the point it only took days for Leonard to get his first assignment in Nicaragua. The assignment was to train a group of rebels, but that turned out to be the last thing on Leonard's mind because while on assignment, he figured he could basically make a run for it and never look back. The plan he had was pretty solid: steal a plane, get a new identity, score a ton of money, and disappear. The only thing he didn't have that he thought would be in abundance was the money factor. So in order to secure enough cash to go through with his plan, he took out an airfield popular in Nicaragua for shipping drugs, making it so that the rebels were in control of whatever got in or out, which in turn began to secure Leonard a [ __ ] ton of money. However, with every positive, there's always a negative that follows suit. Nobody liked this, and word got out fast, all the way to the Punisher, who made it his mission to put an end to Leonard's drug ring. Face to face with the Punisher, Leonard made Frank Castle look like a chump. At every turn, Leonard would chuck a knife through his bulletproof vest by surprise. So Frank would throw a grenade in response, only for Leonard to match his ferocity and skill by launching a toothpick right where the pin would release and throw the grenade right back to Castle. Frank, nearly dying, would attempt to fire his rifle at Leonard, so Leonard would throw a knife into the barrel of Frank's rifle, mocking the Punisher by screaming to him, asking if this is the best he can do. Even using mud on the ground to paint a bullseye on his forehead. However, before the fight could continue, the DEA got in the middle of things and put Leonard into federal custody, where he landed a job in the NSA, which he also managed to wiggle out of as well and hop on a train all the way back to New York to become a supervillain and make a big and bold name for himself.
Bullseye and Bullseye hit the town like a bomb, starting off with a series of high-profile jobs by going to the homes and offices of incredibly rich people and throwing paper airplanes at them with a message stating, "Pay me $100,000 or I will kill you. Signed, Bullseye." These bloody murders set as an example of what happens if you don't pay. Bullseye and the total blatant disregard for getting caught by incompetent law enforcement, the presses seek out Bullseye along with Daredevil, understanding that Bullseye is a character that craves publicity. Daredevil lets himself get caught so to put an end to his carnage, engaging in a well-televised event named by Bullseye, "The Circus of Death." This is a battle that puts Daredevil to the test. Bullseye has goons with guns sicked on civilians so that if Daredevil wins, the people will die, and if Daredevil loses, he well, he just kind of dies along with everyone else anyway. Daredevil manages to maneuver his way through the fight in a way where he can save everyone without losing the attention of Bullseye, leading to Bullseye's cowardly retreat. This is still very much in that campy era of Daredevil's, so Bullseye's debut is portrayed to be a bit silly. And although Bullseye meets a pretty anticlimactic end, he comes back once again and kidnaps Daredevil's love interest at the time, Black Widow, and tortures her to get back at Daredevil for winning the last time, which grasps the attention of infamous crime lord Wilson Fisk, asking Bullseye to kill anyone who would get in his way, but most importantly, Daredevil. Yet after so many defeats by Daredevil and Kingpin's total discard of Bullseye like used toilet paper, what once was a deadly reputation Leonard had held as the world's deadliest assassin, it quickly plummeted when everyone started spreading the word that Daredevil had made Bullseye an utter has-been. Bullseye's life wasn't made any better when he began to start hallucinating Daredevil wherever he went due to suffering from a malignant brain tumor, which led Bullseye to manically go around New York killing anyone who ever came across him, leading to a death toll reaching nearly 100 innocent lives taken on Christmas Eve. It was in Daredevil stopping Bullseye in a subway tunnel and watching the train about to kill Bullseye that Matt almost considered letting Leonard be the exception to his no-kill rule for all the pain and murder he's caused. But in the end, Matt would show mercy, which really pissed off the authorities, basically telling Matt that if Bullseye breaks out and goes on another murder spree, which, you know, let's face it, that's bound to happen. No matter what you do in these comics, the blood won't be on Bullseye's hands, but Daredevil's.
It's while in prison recuperating and word continuing to go around that Bullseye is nothing but a schmuck that Bullseye meticulously plans his escape and digs deep on finding out who Daredevil really is. It gets to a point that Leonard locks himself inside of a room for a week, connecting dots and using various files on the incidents he's caused. That Bullseye pays close attention to how much Matt and Daredevil look exactly the same, how they sound the same, how they have the same mannerisms, convinced that they're the same person. So to test out if they are the same, same person, Bullseye sets out to kill someone Daredevil holds dear to get sweet revenge: Elektra. What I find incredibly interesting is that upon Bullseye killing Elektra, he describes himself in that moment to be completely obsessed with her. He couldn't think about anything else other than killing her. Whether he knew she was important to Daredevil at the time and if it was the motivator, he's unsure of. But the feeling he got stabbing Elektra through the chest could be described as nothing less of euphoric. In that moment, he killed the newest deadliest assassin in the world and someone possibly very close to Daredevil or Matt, and felt like he was back on top again. But that moment was fleeting. Not soon after would Daredevil hunt down Bullseye like a bat out of hell, beating the holy hell out of Bullseye till they'd find each other hanging precariously off of a power line, with Daredevil holding on to Bullseye, dangling over a, let's say, three-story drop. Bullseye laughing at Daredevil inside and out, practically saying, "I won. I killed your girl, and you can't kill me, man. You're a superhero. You save me. You don't have the guts to kill me." Only Daredevil is like, "Yeah, I don't care." It's when their brutal rivalry, this is when their brutal rivalry, this is when their brutal rivalry really and truly begins. Before, it was all sort of a game for Bullseye, but here, after this moment, Bullseye wants nothing more than to make Daredevil's life a living [ __ ] hell.
Daredevil approaches Bullseye once more at the hospital with his body completely destroyed and plays a game of Russian Roulette to scare the daylights out of Bullseye so to never pursue a life of villainy again. And Bullseye is left genuinely terrified after the fact. Yet, I want to add that the story is more than just the Russian Roulette. It's far more nuanced. See, over the course of the turns they take, Matt tells Bullseye about a kid named Chucky that was affected by Daredevil. And Bullseye, without their knowing, Chucky practically worshiped Daredevil. And since Chucky lived in his own world a lot of the time, pretending to be his sidekick and all, it got him in trouble at school a good couple of times, and his father would take out a lot of pimped-up aggression on Chucky. So when arriving home, Chucky would always replay the tapes of the Circus of Death over and over, astonished by his number one hero facing adversity in taking down Bullseye when everything was stacked against him. Daredevil, at the very least, represented a good role model for Chucky that he desperately needed to be a good person. And it didn't make matters any better when Chucky's father was into some shady business, which eventually led him to cross paths with Daredevil. Chucky witnessed his own father pull a gun on Daredevil and taken down by his own role model. This shattered Chucky's reality, seeing that his own father was a bad guy like Bullseye. And because Chucky is his father's son, Chucky came to the conclusion, like a child would, that he wasn't like Daredevil at all. He was like Bullseye, leading Chucky to shoot a kid at his own school with a gun exactly like his father's. Luckily, the child survived, but Chucky was left after the fact completely broken. Which later leads Matt to beg the question of what the point of his mission truly is. Is if Matt goes out to do as much good as he possibly can and inspire others as Daredevil, then doesn't that mean that Bullseye could also incite the very same twisted inspiration? No matter what they both do, they are two sides of the same coin and are forever stuck with each other. It's probably my favorite issue in Frank Miller's entire run on Daredevil because of this idea it brings up for readers.
Now, Bullseye does come back to his senses. He gets his body laced with adamantium to become stronger than ever. And what do you know? He says, "I'm going to commit identity theft now and pose as Daredevil to ruin Matt's reputation." However, in the middle of Leonard doing this, it gets to a point that Leonard becomes completely convinced he's actually Daredevil, robbing the rich and giving to the poor. However, never a man quite sane, because he gets up to some very vile things in this arc that make my skin [ __ ] crawl, man. Among this, it also doesn't help that Matt ends up suffering from complete amnesia, leading Matt to dress up as Bullseye a bit later and ultimately end up facing off against Leonard once more to reclaim his title as Daredevil. It's really an arc for Daredevil to behold, I'm telling you. After which, Bullseye goes on and defeats Deadpool single-handedly and continues to work for Kingpin while Daredevil becomes Death Devil for some reason. By this point, everything was bleeding into the '90s where it was all starting to become a bit iffy, so just leave it at that. However, remarkably, Bullseye becomes an incredibly malleable villain from here on, facing against foes such as Luke Cage, Captain America, Hit-Monkey, Hawkeye, Wolverine, and [ __ ] Batman. What? There's something I really have to take a moment to admire about that, though. Bullseye at this point has achieved the level that not many villains can climb. Bullseye started out as this campy villain, not meant to be taken seriously whatsoever, and now whenever he appears, you just know some shit's going to go down. When Bullseye shows up in another person's comic, you best believe he's going to do anything to make it personal so that he's remembered by them. After all, Bullseye is an attention seeker. When all is said and done, yet no amount of misery dealt out to other heroes ever comes close to giving him that feeling of satisfaction like when he torments Daredevil. Because it's in Kevin Smith's Daredevil run where I believe Bullseye commits his most heinous act on Daredevil, the one that keeps him oh so warm at night just thinking about it. To simply see his rival so utterly helpless and defeated. Basically, to sum it up very briefly for you, Mysterio was dying of cancer and looking to pull off his magnum opus, so he hired Bullseye to kidnap a baby from St. Maggie's Church to torment Daredevil. He does this just because. But in the middle of the operation, Bullseye kills Karen Page in front of Daredevil. Now imagine your girlfriend was just brutally murdered in front of you and the killer managed to get away. You're forced to swallow all that pain and learn to move on. You find a new love, but then your secret identity gets revealed. And then upon your nemesis learning your secret identity, decides to torment that new love all the while attempting to kill you. I think you'd be more than a little pissed off. Maybe you'd see red. Maybe you'd beat the ever-living [ __ ] out of your girlfriend's murderer and then carve their symbol on their forehead with a rock close by, so anywhere they go, they'll always remember that moment of sheer brutality dealt onto them when everything felt hopeless for them. What it felt like to be a victim for a change.
However, there is an alternate version of this story that was sort of scrapped but then added upon much later that I really love. Now, similar to how Daredevil meets Mila Donovan in B.I.S.'s run, Daredevil meets this bank teller by saving her from the Owl. From then on, we learn how they fell in love, got married, and eventually have a son. And now we're supposed to be that son reading her will, her last testament, walking us through her life and how it was irreversibly changed upon meeting Daredevil. How close friends left her side in fear for her life being married to a superhero and all. How she never lost faith that Daredevil would ever fail to save her. Yet, in the last page, as we read the will, Bullseye emerges from the shadows, smiling like the boogeyman, a smile that says, "You weren't what I was expecting, but you'll do." And it's left up in the air with horror Bullseye brought upon the innocent woman. But it recontextualizes the entire story where you once believed you were the son reading this. It turns out you're actually Matt Murdoch reading your wife's will and finding out through reading it how you not only were the cause of her death in some way, but you were also going to have a child as well. Just imagine that level of sheer despair, folks. Jesus.
From here, Bullseye goes on to kill loads of innocents with the task of killing the Punisher, which doesn't turn out well in his favor, securing him a spot in the Thunderbolts, led by the psychotic lunatic known as Norman Osborn, AKA The Green Goblin. I think we all know that by now, going on missions with other villains that may or may not lead to their own horrific demise. Only Bullseye lives through all of them. And not only that, upon Norman Osborn being appointed head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and leader of the Avengers by, you know, taking down the Skrulls and all that stuff, Norman selects key villains to dress up as heroes the public knows and loves, like Wolverine's evil son, Daken, to dress up as Wolverine, Matt Gargan, at the time Venom, to pose as Spidey, and Bullseye to depose Hawkeye. Yeah, you could say that Bullseye loves dressing up as heroes and discrediting their names. The guy does it so much. It's while in Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers that he takes on jobs set by Norman, like bombing a building with 107 innocent people inside, or killing the Sentry's wife, for instance. This moment is so guttural to read. It was one of those viscerally terrifying moments in a story where you have a hope that the wife will be saved, where there are moments of pause for buildup, as if the Sentry will arrive in time. Only he never does. And it's how Bullseye taunts the Sentry's wife before killing her that gets me every time I read this moment. Now, despite Bullseye's gig working for Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers really doing wonders for him, basically allowing him to kill anyone he wants as Bullseye and then slip back into his heroic Hawkeye persona, if you could even call it that, this job inevitably crumbles due to Norman Osborn unable to contain his inner Goblin, which in turn gets the Dark Avengers dismantled, exposed, and subsequently locked away.
Now, on the way to Riker's Island to serve out several life sentences, Bullseye manages to escape by faking his death to kill guards that were ill-equipped to take him on, in which Bullseye makes a beeline to a place called Shadowland, which housed an evil, possessed Daredevil, newly appointed as the leader of the ninja cult known as The Hand. That's a lot to take in, I know, but it'll all get explained when I make a 2-hour long Daredevil history video in the near future. Now, Bullseye shows up to Shadowland and he's like, "[ __ ] you, Daredevil. I hate you. I'm going to kill you." Now, Daredevil's like, "Yeah, well, I'll do you one better." Bullseye goes, "Oh yeah? What would that be?" Daredevil says, "Oh, I'll just [ __ ] kill you." Ending the story of Lester/Leonard/Benjamin/Dex/Po Dexter. Only it sort of isn't. See, a guy by the name of Denny O'Neil starts seeing Bullseye everywhere he goes. Denny has always had the natural ability to see and speak to the dead, and it could be that it's just a mutant ability of his or something. But right after Bullseye's death, his soul started to torment Denny, driving Denny to kill innocent people because of Bullseye's say-so. Rallying a funeral for Bullseye and finally dying guns blazing because Bullseye told Denny if he did, he'd finally leave him alone, in which Denny finally got the peace he wanted for so long, just at the cost of his own life.
Now enter Lady Bullseye. And no, he doesn't turn into a woman. This is just someone altogether different. But when Lady Bullseye was a child, she was a victim of human trafficking and nearly sold off to some awful people in the black market, if not for her knight in shining armor, Bullseye, hired to take out the men running the human trafficking ring. Never really interacting but sharing a glance and thankful for the freedom he had given her. Once again, she dedicated her life to becoming just like him. It was only after Bullseye's death and several resurrection rituals on him that Leonard would come back basically two-thirds dead now, barely alive, unable to do anything but basically think. He becomes the mastermind and works tirelessly to make sure Matt Murdoch's life is constantly miserable, first by desecrating his father's grave, then stealing the remains and planting them in his desk drawer to frame him for going insane, kidnapping and torturing the [ __ ] spot of all villains to mess with Matt's ex-wife by teleporting her in and out of Matt's apartment to basically remind him of the love he lost and will never have again, and then make several groups of homeless people go through the same accident Matt went through to get his powers so to create the ultimate warrior with the abilities of Daredevil while keeping his sight. This warrior is named Akari, and he literally beats Daredevil within an inch of his life, to the point the Man Without Fear feels fear. Matt constantly looks over his shoulder, terrified of Bullseye's ultimate warrior, and it takes everything he has to defeat Akari along with Lady Bullseye, to the point that Bullseye essentially loses to his own hubris after accidentally becoming exposed to the chemicals he used on all those innocent people to create Akari. In turn, Bullseye loses all of his senses, which he rightfully deserves. But The Hand, an all-encompassing assassin cult with pillars of power all around the world, felt like Bullseye could still be of use to them because of his particular set of skills. After all, so they used several rituals to bring him back to tiptop condition. Yet, how did Bullseye repay them, though, you may ask? By killing their leader and going off the radar to go back to a life as a freelance assassin.
From here, there's a brief miniseries about Bullseye's return to form, taking jobs and taking names, ending off with a line that made me think to try and make this video again. I say again because I made an entire Bullseye video twice years ago, but because I made it on a [ __ ] HP Chromebook that could work better as a door stopper than an actual computer, the files got corrupted twice after it was completely done, making me never want to try and make this video again. But the quote by Bullseye that reeled me back in comes from the final pages of his miniseries. Bullseye was hired to protect the son of one of the most notorious mob bosses in the world. And knowing that a turf war would mar if the father died, leaving everything the son's taking, he chose to speed up the process by killing the father with the very money he was given protecting his son. The son, crying in fear, asks, "Why did he kill him, knowing he isn't ready to lead a gang by himself?" To which Bullseye says, "Everyone loves to watch a car crash. I did it so I could watch the wolves tear you apart. But most of all, I did it because I'm me, and sometimes I like to see people suffer." Such a genuinely perfect line that completely sums up the entirety of Bullseye as a character. After which, Bullseye would be relegated to a few brief cameos as part of a group of villains hired to destroy Hell's Kitchen until his apprehension led him into his most up-to-date arc where he had been imprisoned under Riker's Island to be experimented on under the orders of Mayor Wilson Fisk. Bullseye would be cloned over and over again till he could have a cloned version of Bullseye that would be more obedient and less insane as a reliable asset to his cause. And as most things go with villains in prisons, it eventually goes horribly wrong, leading into Bullseye killing all the people that had experimented on him, freeing his clones, and deciding while he was at it, he was going to go on a mass killing spree in New York for 8 days straight. Yet, this little clone arc doesn't last long. See, because within this story, Bullseye has grown more insane than usual. He's convinced that an angel has been sent down by God to give him the task of becoming the greatest assassin in the world. Bullseye, fully invested, teams with his clones to succeed. But it's through Bullseye's twisted games and Elektra basically saying that if he were really this almighty God-sent assassin, he wouldn't need clones to do a job he can do himself, leading Leonard to questioning if he was really the real Bullseye or not in the first place. Through the professional gaslighting from Elektra, Bullseye kills each of his own clones. And it's in that moment that Daredevil swoops in and dispatches him.
Which brings us up to date with everything Bullseye. With him now is a social media influencer and teaming together with the devious, corrupt, nefarious, and vicious degenerate Spider-Girl. This girl is [ __ ] evil, bro. Bull, like, tottered a bunch of people's teeth out and used them as brass knuckles, like what? However, there is that one story involving Bullseye and The Punisher I still have to bring up. I haven't really brought it up because it takes place in an entirely separate continuity from the Marvel line called Punisher MAX. See, in Punisher MAX, it takes place in a world where there aren't really any superheroes, set in this extremely grounded world where only The Punisher is the main hero, if you could even call him that. And every story featured through Punisher MAX takes place from the Vietnam War to the early 2000s. In this story, it's the final years of Frank Castle's life. He's old, he's tired, he's old, he's become a living legend, and no one has the guts to stand up to him. So this new guy on the block known as Wilson Fisk gets the idea to make up this fictional mob boss called The Kingpin, pulling all of the mafia's resources and families to work for this quote-unquote Kingpin so that while the mafia does their work, The Punisher will be too distracted going after this Kingpin to disrupt everything else they've got going on. This all comes to a head with Wilson Fisk dispatching the main heads of the mafia and actually becoming the infamous Kingpin in the process. However, The Punisher is still after The Kingpin, despite him now living in an ivory tower with guards galore. So The Kingpin gets the idea to hire the best assassin in the world: Bullseye. Bullseye's introduction is pretty funny to say the least because when we meet him, he's already on a contract to kill this corrupt businessman, literally showing up with no clothes on. He basically arrives proposing the idea that if the businessman can pay him more than his contractor paid him, he'll just let him go free. Of course, we all know he's just playing with his food. However, Bullseye begins to start farting up a storm, leading the whole discussion into the bathroom with him doing his business till he uses the opportunity to kill everyone in the bathroom and finally his target because Bullseye never quits on a job ever. After which, he gets a call for a hit on Frank Castle, agreeing to do the job so long as his rate is triple. Throughout his time in the story, he really displays himself as this loose cannon, this wild card that could slip off the handle at any second, but he isn't really crazy, just wants others to believe he is. If anything, he's just in his own world, and everyone else is just living in it to him. He doesn't see people as people either, more like puppets with strings that could be cut at any given moment, showing little regard for anyone's life, including his own. Because on the job, he really freaks out some of Kingpin's men, making them drive him all over New York to get a lay of the land so he can feel what Frank feels for New York. He even chooses to live in one of Frank Castle's old bunkers to study how he went about his everyday life. He tracks down some of his old friends and tortures them to understand his character and his background, and finally, he kidnaps four families and subjects them to the same horrific acts that were dealt out to Frank Castle's family to feel what Frank felt on that fateful day. It really and truly is gut-wrenching to read watching this family come to terms with the fact that they are going to die. It's, yeah, you really have to read this story for yourself because even right now, how I'm summarizing it, I feel like I'm doing it a disservice. Since in the end, once Bullseye finishes isolating himself for a week from all human interaction to really absorb everything and understand Frank, when he finally strikes, we get a few brief but funny moments between the pair. It's brutal, but at times a bit funny as well, because it's interesting to see Frank, this cold and calculated guy, take on this dude who will use his own vomit to kill him. The way his face is drawn in these instances pretty much says it all. Ending the fight with Bullseye whispering the last words Frank ever said to his wife before dying, breaking Frank's soul and completing his mission in taking out the Punisher. After which, Bullseye falls into a coma with Frank the one to shoot him much later on in the story.
It's only much later throughout Frank's story getting fleshed out, we see that Frank never loved his family. He was adrift after coming back home from the war and was looking for another one the whole time he was back. His family tried everything to connect with him, and Frank certainly tried himself, but it was like mashing puzzle pieces together that were never meant to fit at all. So many days and nights hearing his wife crying at his bedside, and so many days and nights of drift, waiting for something to happen. Frank took his family to the park on that fateful day where he told his wife that he wanted a divorce and that he made his peace with leaving their lives for good. The last thing Frank had ever said to his family was that he didn't love them anymore. And in that very moment, they were killed right in front of him. You're meant to believe that Frank became the Punisher that day, using his family's death as the reason to erase all crime. But in truth, Frank was always the Punisher deep down. His family's death was just an excuse he could use to justify his actions every second of the day. He was just waiting for something to set him off, and his family was just that. So when Bullseye brought that reality back to the forefront, it crushed Frank so hard because by that point, he could barely remember that day anymore. Remember, it took Bullseye just a few words to totally destroy the Punisher's psyche. I look, he kind of turned the tail end of this video into a Punisher analysis video for a second, but Jason Aaron's Punisher MAX is really just that good, I'm telling you. But with that, I just want to make a final request to Marvel: add Bullseye in Marvel Rivals. I know that he's definitely going to be added very later down the road, and certainly after Daredevil's inclusion, obviously. But trust that I think about his playset almost every day, almost as much as this haunting boss fight in the Punisher video game from when I was a kid. Look at this dude's haunting and piercing blue eyes. It's so unsettling, and it's not made any better that you have to play hide-and-seek with this guy, and you're forced to only shoot him in the head to inflict damage, combined with Steve Blum voicing Bullseye. It's a boss that I'll always remember, despite how silly, looking back on it, being horrifying is today. Which reminds me, since we're on the topic of video games, since Marvel almost pushed out a Daredevil video game with various different villains, hopefully one day a Daredevil game could be made, and maybe Bullseye could be a side mission akin to Deadshot in Arkham City or something. Especially even more so now because of his resurgence in Born Again. That dude that's playing is the perfect Bullseye, and hopefully by the show's good praises, it could lead to a video game maybe finally coming out. And to close out this video, I'll say that Bullseye is a heartless, gutless lunatic that definitely deserves all the pain he usually ends up getting on various occasions, and I hope after you watching this video, that I've convinced you to believe he's Marvel's most sadistic villain and not somebody to aspire to be. What so [ __ ] ever. This character is demented, and while he is one of my favorite villains ever, I think that this person is completely irredeemable and not a person to aspire to be in any form or fashion. He's a messed-up individual that deserves nothing good coming his way. With that, I hope you all like the video. Make sure to follow my Insta, my Twitter, follow some of these guys as well, they're all [ __ ] awesome. And as always, I'll catch y'all on the flip side. Bullseye.