So, I’m probably still a few months away from doing live trailer reactions while I finish setting up, but for now—let’s talk about this.
If you watched Daredevil Season 2 on Netflix, then you already know one of the absolute standout moments was that rooftop scene between Daredevil and the Punisher. The dialogue, the tension—everything about Frank Castle in that season just worked. Then we got The Punisher Seasons 1 and 2, which only deepened how compelling his character is.
Fast forward to Daredevil: Born Again (which, as I’ve said before, basically feels like Season 4 of the Netflix show), and Frank’s conversation with Matt is a pivotal moment in Matt’s decision-making and inner conflict. So seeing the Punisher show up in the Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer? That’s something I don’t think any of us realised we needed—but we absolutely did. And this trailer? It completely goes off.
It opens with Frank sitting in a chair, listening to a friend speaking to him. There are flashes of people around him—maybe real, maybe not—which makes it feel like either a flashback or something playing out in his head. Frank looks through a viewfinder, there is a woman screaming, and then a brutal shot of Frank using someone as a human shield, taking a shotgun blast to the chest.
We then cut back to his friend confronting him about his past, intercut with flashes of Frank’s daughter, a gravesite, and a young girl in a diner. Then suddenly, Frank is walking topless, carrying a massive gun—pure Punisher energy.
One standout moment shows liquid seeping under a door. You hear it ignite, and Frank’s legs catch fire. And right there, I knew exactly what was coming—I literally called it—he charges straight through the flames and crashes through the door in classic Frank Castle fashion.
From there, it’s chaos. He’s walking through the streets as everything falls apart. A little girl calls out “Daddy,” while the girl from the diner is being taken away. Frank charges in with a baseball bat. We see him on top of a building fighting multiple men at once—throwing some over the edge, using others as shields, even going up against someone wielding an axe. He’s diving through windows, leaping backwards off buildings while firing, taking people out in diners—it’s relentless. And then the final shot: dressed in black, revealing the iconic skull logo across his chest.
This trailer is incredible.
Story-wise, it could go either way—it might be thin, or it could surprise us. Right now, it’s hard to tell but he is a beloved character and Jon plays him very well. I’m also not sure why it’s called "One Last Kill" so hopefully not a limited series, but like Loki, may end up with a "sequel" if the reaponse is right. We do not know exactly where it sits in the current MCU timeline—if it even does. It could be a standalone story, which seems likely, even though the Daredevil connections are now essentially canon.
It’ll be interesting to see whether this picks up from The Punisher series, Daredevil: Born Again, or somehow ties into Spider-Man: Brand New Day—or if it just exists on its own while still being awesome, hopefully.
Either way, we’ll find out soon enough.
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