HE’S TOO POPULAR; WE’LL HAVE TO ELIMINATE HIM: Woke Marvel Eliminates The Punisher Due To “Problematic” Conservative Fan Base. But not before a Maoist struggle session:

This month, though, Marvel officially declared the Punisher persona non grata, eliminating the character as readers know him. Did he go out in a blaze of glory? No, in typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing.

The character then “dies” from apparent suicide but the story is left open to his return, just not as the gun-toting hero people know and love.

Marvel writers, including original Punisher creator Gerry Conway, specifically cite the popularity of the character among conservatives as the reason for his virtual elimination.  As Newsweek noted, the Punisher was “problematic” for Marvel because conservatives liked him too much.  He represents the every-man:  He has no superpowers, he’s not a billionaire like Batman, but he still fights evil with an immovable will and a lot of guns.

Well, we can’t have that.