Honestly sometimes I can’t take the Netflix Punisher at anything approaching seriously, because both Frank Castle and Dina Madani, 2 paranoid, judgy, extremely squirrelly people, have repeatedly verbalised on screen how much they 100% Trust Billy Russo, and how Billy Russo is ‘like faaaaam’ly’. Even earth angel Curtis is like ‘hey there friend, totally trustworthy and good-hearted Billy Russo!’
and meanwhile Barnes is out there looking like some dead-eyed land shark
just straight-up looking like this on a Tuesday afternoon
(google earth, always takin’ pics)
‘ahh yes, old Shark Eyes McGee. A self-interested, murder-iffic sociopath, you say? He could NEVER. I mean I’ve never even SEEN him twirl his moustache, what are you even TALKING about?’ (in a show where even the protagonist is arguably also a self-interested and murder-iffic sociopath, not one person looks over at binbons in all the above glory and is like ‘uuuuuuuuh guys? you think maybe dead-eyed shark boy over there might be …morally less than legit’?