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Punisher: The Platoon is a 6-issue miniseries published in 2017 in the Marvel MAX line.The story concerns Michael Goodwin (younger brother of Steve Goodwin from The Punisher: Born) interviewing four USMC veterans of the Vietnam War who were members of 4th Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, and who were once commanded by a young 2nd Lieutenant named Frank Castle in 1968. |
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I Was Quite a Looker |
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I Was Quite a Looker: Fish used to be a real Hunk, but in the present, he's a plump, bald and bespectacled man. It can be hard to tell that his past and present selves are the same person. |
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Asian Hooker Stereotype |
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Asian Hooker Stereotype: A few show up when the platoon is on R&R. Frank points out that getting taken out by a bullet or VD is still one less soldier on the field. |
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Ensign Newbie |
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Ensign Newbie: Castle is a freshly-minted second lieutenant with zero combat experience. He scores points by openly admitting the fact, listening to the men, especially the far more experienced platoon sergeant, and ends up winning the platoon over when he holds it together under fire. |
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A Father to His Men |
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A Father to His Men: Castle can be seen as a subdued version of this, in contrast to his later characterization in Punisher: Born, as he respects and protects his men for non-Blood Knight reasons. |
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The Medic |
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The Medic: Capa. |
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Death from Above |
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Death from Above: The marines make use of airstrikes on a few occasions. Castle calling one on his first day ruffles some feathers, and is implied to be why they were sent on dangerous missions later. |
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Seduction-Proof Marriage |
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Seduction-Proof Marriage: Castle and Dryden refrain from engaging in the debauchery everyone else is on R&R, as Castle has a wife and daughter, and Dryden has a fiancée. |
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Nepotism |
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Nepotism: How Captain Cuong got to be Giap’s adjutant. |
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Funny Background Event |
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Funny Background Event: As the men are recovering from a booze and sex-filled R&R session, Gleed sticks a cigarette into Fish's ear and lights it. |
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Hufflepuff House |
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Hufflepuff House: Five of the six prominent enlisted men in Frank's platoon come from First Squad. Second Squad (which also contains the remnants of the disbanded Third Squad) has only one major character, Corporal Bago, who seems to hang out exclusively with members of First Squad. |
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More Dakka |
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More Dakka: Fish. |
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The Enemy Weapons Are Better |
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The Enemy Weapons Are Better: Subverted. While Frank is fed up with the M16’s unreliability and praises the AK-47’s durability, it has substandard range and accuracy compared to the M16. The platoon ends up going with the M14 that they all used in basic, but collects AK-47s and trades them for M14s with the Corrupt Quartermaster, who sells them as souvenirs to Soldiers at the Rear. |
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Snipe Hunt |
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Snipe Hunt: Twice, Giap sends Cuong on one when he wants some distance between him and Ly. |
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Wham Line |
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Wham Line: The story starts off with the author Michael Goodwin interviewing Frank's former subordinates about their experiences in Vietnam. A flashback shows Frank call in an airstrike against an abandoned village where enemy soldiers are waiting in ambush. the scene cuts to a survivor of the airstrike talking about what happened with a superior and swearing revenge. Then, the final panel of the issue shows the veterans looking stunned, and asking Goodwin, "How do you know this?", revealing that was something that the author just told them about. The next issue reveals the (fairly innocuous) answer: Goodwin also interviewed the NVA commander for his book, but at the moment the line is uttered, it's pretty startling and spooky. |
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The Big Guy |
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The Big Guy: Castle is massive, with one marine commenting upon seeing him that even if he turns out to be a poor leader, they can still hide behind him. |
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Contrasting Sequel Main Character |
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Contrasting Prequel Character: Fourth Platoon in 1968, to the marines of Valley Forge in 1971, reflecting the stage of the war they're in. They're all decent, fairly disciplined, and chiefly interested in keeping each other safe. |
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Reliably Unreliable Guns |
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Reliably Unreliable Guns: The early unreliability of the M16 is brought up. Castle ends up bribing a supply sergeant into procuring the older M14 for the platoon (and threatening him into not selling them drugs). The M14 is a good fit for the marksmanship-obsessed Marines. |
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Death Glare |
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Death Glare: A single glare from Castle is enough to convince Donald not to try anything funny regarding heroin and the men under Frank's command. He also manages to get a very pissed-off Green Beret sergeant to chill long enough to back down. |
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Meaningful Name |
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Meaningful Name: Ly, Giap informs us as she jumps from a tree to stab Frank, means Lion. |
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Bar Brawl |
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Bar Brawl: One starts between a few soldiers from the platoon and some Green Berets. Castle quickly interrupts it verbally, and the situation de-escalates. |
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Eagleland |
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Eagleland: Discussed. Goodwin’s intent of the book he’s writing and the interview he’s conducting is the perspective of Vietnam veterans initially believing in Type 1, then returning to America with a Type 2 view. Some of them don't have Type 1 to begin with, citing the atrocities conducted against the natives. |
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The Faceless |
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The Faceless: Michael Goodwin is only seen as a silhouette, and is usually speaking off-panel. |
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Bayonet Ya |
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Bayonet Ya: At the start of the Tet Offensive, when the enemy breaches their perimeters, Castle gives the order to fix bayonets. |
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Unfriendly Fire |
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Unfriendly Fire: Discussed by Dryden, who claims a different unit threatened their commanding officer with such to avoid a dangerous village. And happens to Donald when his schemes go too far. |
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Fatal Family Photo |
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Fatal Family Photo: Subverted: Castle and Dryden show each other pictures of their respective wives, but they both make it out. Of course we all know what happened to Frank's wife... |
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Band of Brothers |
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Band of Brothers: What the platoon winds up as under Castle’s leadership. |
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Communications Officer |
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Communications Officer: Mollander. |
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Revenge Before Reason |
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Revenge Before Reason: Ly Quang’s problem. She's a very promising and intelligent Viet Cong commander who Giap thinks is most valuable raising new cadres, rather than risking her life killing Americans, and tries to get her out of the mindset. He fails. |
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range |
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No Range Like Point-Blank Range: During his first firefight, Castle rushes to a .50 caliber machine gun nest with the NVA behind him. After taking care of the enemies about to fire, Castle takes over the .50 cal and decapitates a North Vietnamese soldier from inches away. |
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Corrupt Quartermaster |
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Corrupt Quartermaster: Staff Sergeant Donald. He sells AKs as souvenirs, and seems to be involved in heroin. Castle uses him to replace the platoon’s M16s with the older M14s. Him selling working radio batteries nearly gets the platoon wiped out late in the story, and he's last seen with an unpinned grenade on his pillow after attempting to scam his new unit out of their back pay. |
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Oh, Crap! |
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Oh, Crap!: Two on each side: For the US, it's when the Platoon realized that their .50 caliber machine gun team has been taken out by an RPG, that there's nobody on the machine gun now, and that the NVA are racing to capture it and use it on US Marines. For the North Vietnamese, it's when Giap realizes that Cuong sent an entire battalion to fight a platoon on Ly Quang's orders, meaning that she's trying to slaughter Americans again. |
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Deadpan Snarker |
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Deadpan Snarker: Colonel Giap, usually in response to Captain Cuong opening his mouth. |
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Blood Knight |
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Blood Knight: Ly lives only to kill American soldiers, even if this puts the VC as a whole at risk. |
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Dissonant Laughter |
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Dissonant Laughter: Gleed, an otherwise sane assistant machine gunner, tends to break into laughter during combat to deal with the stress of the situation. |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The point of the story, showing Frank Castle at his best and the man he could have been before his Blood Knight tendencies set in. |
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The Neidermeyer |
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The Neidermeyer: Downplayed with Captain Nguyen Van Cuong who is pretty dim, overly jingoistic, disrespects Ly Quang, and is an all-around blowhard who ultimately owes his rank to the fact that his father is an NVA general, but ultimately tries to get her reinforcements since Giap trusts her. He's also seen to be acutely aware of his own incompetence, as he constantly consults with Giap like a sensible officer. The the one time he's left in charge without Giap to tell him what to do he mutters "What would he do..." to himself. |
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Hold the Line |
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Hold the Line: Issue 2 has the platoon fighting during the Battle of Khe Sanh, and noting that despite all the firepower they have available, the Vietnamese will still overrun their first lines of defense anyway. By Issues 5 and 6, the platoon successfully holds off an entire NVA battalion by themselves, having the rare advantage of terrain and surprise on the US side. |
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Lighter and Softer |
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Lighter and Softer: It's still a grim war comic, but it's much lighter compared to Ennis's usual work. Gore is at a minimum, Frank is still human, Everybody Lives at the end of the final battle, and it's a regular war story compared to the sheer darkness of the Punisher Max's typical fare. |
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You, Get Me Coffee |
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You, Get Me Coffee: Giap has no qualms about sending Cuong away on trivial errands to get some peace and quiet or talk to Ly privately. |
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Anti-Villain |
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Anti-Villain: Le Trong Giap, once again proves a nuanced Sympathetic P.O.V. for the North Vietnamese military, as does Ly Quang, whose family was killed by American soldiers. |
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Everybody Lives |
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Everybody Lives: Surprisingly, given the author and the subject matter, but the entire platoon comes through both major firefights depicted and complete their tours. However, some die in subsequent tours or from Agent Orange. |
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Sergeant Rock |
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Sergeant Rock: Dryden, the platoon sergeant who Castle relies on for advice. |
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Younger Than They Look |
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Younger Than They Look: Frank is 18 years old during the entire story. |
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Men of Sherwood |
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Men of Sherwood: Less than a third of Castle's subordinates in the eponymous platoon get names and dialogue, but all of them do pretty well in fights against the North Vietnamese Army and none of them die while serving under him, although some get a Deadly Distant Finale fate. |
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Pet the Dog |
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Pet the Dog: Molland talks about the last time he saw Castle, and how he never would expect him to do something as sentimental as wave at him, and that he merely stood there until he disappeared from sight. The last page shows that, while Molland didn’t see it, Castle did wave. |
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