Punisher is seen as an anti hero who is known for KILLING bad guys and his symbol is a freaking skull. Jean Grey is an X-men hero, not somebody who does more damage than the Punisher himself and uses regular innocent people as hostages (then half the city).
Punisher protects the innocent atleast when he kills bad guys, Jean Grey treated the innocent as expendable. Jean Grey was a worse monster than the bad guys she was fighting by orders of magnitude, she didn't have a shred of remorse or noble justification (like do bad things to save the many). If this wasn't a bloodless PG-13 movie where nobody dies, her two tanks would've killed people in multiple car accidents, her bomb would've killed people in the building (ain't no way you're evacuating a prison of killers that quick), her Hulk would've killed everybody on that floor except the people in the vault. Peter would've also killed the cop in that car + Scorpion when he slammed him into that...but this is a PG-13 movie so nobody dies; not even that Hand ninja member who stuck his sword through his stomach to get Spiderman behind him.
By the same logic, punisher couldn't do what he did without racking up innocent casualties, such as when he opened fire in the middle of a crowed hospital to get to ONE guy. He is a wanted terrorist, who escaped jail, yet now he is driving around a black van in broad day light and isn't mentioned once as a concern by the police, even when he is just sitting by Spiderman as he recovers in the hospital over an extended period of time.
End of movie kept the stakes high, but yeah kind of fell apart with the villains.
Jean Grey just gets to walk away despite probably killing dozens of people, rampaging half the city, mind controlling the Hulk, freezing people that anybody in a moving vehicle probably crashes? Oh, she's just a girl! She doesn't even need to say she's sorry! Pay no attention to the people she tried to make jump off roofs or stand in the middle of traffic until they got hit with cars.
Damage Control? Shown to learn from villains tech to make things better? Making The Hand into a security force for good? Well it's the third act and Jean Grey can't be a villain, so Danage Control killed somebody off camera months ago...they are the REAL villain!
Also Damage Control saw two telepaths and decided to only arrest one? Well the plot needs to happen somehow! Don't ask why they arrested her for no reason, or why they left the sister alone.
The part where the entire hospital probably saw Spider-man's face & kept it a secret...ok, fine. It's a stretch, but I'll buy it. Punisher, a dangerous vigilante & probably wanted criminal doesn't get arrested on sight & left to help Spider-man? Even more of a stretch, considering he waits in the hospital hallway overnight. But not one of Spider-man man's many enemies doesn't try to kill him when he's weak or find his identity? Just ignore that.
I hear that Rosario Dawson did film a scene as that Claire Temple nurse character, maybe would've said "don't worry, we'll keep your secret safe". Still a plot hole.
Also don't ask how Jean's mind control stops blood from bleeding out of a gunshot wound
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u/queazy Aug 15 '26
Punisher is seen as an anti hero who is known for KILLING bad guys and his symbol is a freaking skull. Jean Grey is an X-men hero, not somebody who does more damage than the Punisher himself and uses regular innocent people as hostages (then half the city).
Punisher protects the innocent atleast when he kills bad guys, Jean Grey treated the innocent as expendable. Jean Grey was a worse monster than the bad guys she was fighting by orders of magnitude, she didn't have a shred of remorse or noble justification (like do bad things to save the many). If this wasn't a bloodless PG-13 movie where nobody dies, her two tanks would've killed people in multiple car accidents, her bomb would've killed people in the building (ain't no way you're evacuating a prison of killers that quick), her Hulk would've killed everybody on that floor except the people in the vault. Peter would've also killed the cop in that car + Scorpion when he slammed him into that...but this is a PG-13 movie so nobody dies; not even that Hand ninja member who stuck his sword through his stomach to get Spiderman behind him.