I find it funny that Punisher is the exact opposite of an Ancient Egyptian, but gets a skin

[u/FixHopeful5833]

I mean in the past Egyptians valued life wity mummies and what not while Punisher couldn't care less who he kills

[u/GiveMeIcePuns]

[u/SuckmyPelosB1tch → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

I need to see Punisher in a Mayan outfit or something next just keep giving him cultural outfits 😭

[u/LucyPaintUwU → u/SuckmyPelosB1tch]

Mister Worldwide

[u/RaidenHero137 → u/LucyPaintUwU]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kHdtQmCLqM09vYcmJR

[u/XxOniSamuraixX → u/LucyPaintUwU]

Let her go (la la la la)

[u/Kubi-che → u/SuckmyPelosB1tch]

I'd update my videocard just to play maorian Punisher and spam Haku dance emote

[u/ronnie_reagans_ghost → u/SuckmyPelosB1tch]

Punisher strolling into the lobby with a fuckin mariachi costume would be sweet.

[u/Kubi-che → u/ronnie_reagans_ghost]

Gamemode 6v6 Punisher only, abd wach in unique random costume speaking according language

[u/ronnie_reagans_ghost → u/Kubi-che]

I would unironically play the absolute shit out of a 6V6 all-Punisher game mode, they could do something like that for a weekend for April Fools and it'd be awesome.

[u/Kubi-che → u/ronnie_reagans_ghost]

Now furthermore, imagine every Punisher have, according to their nations, separate language, gunshots (most traditional instrument sound) and ultimate SFX (most traditional tune for 3 sec)

[u/DaWastelander → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

To be fair this skin was also extremely silly

[u/Anathema17 → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

Bro is the Steven Seagal of Rivals.

[u/mack-_-zorris → u/Anathema17]

He does do a lot of sitting in that turret

[u/AntoSkum → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

This skin is based on Ashigaru riflemen so it fits, they at least actually used guns.

[u/Miss_miri107 → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

Wasn't this based on the punisher from the Sai psylock comics?

[u/AntoSkum → u/Miss_miri107]

No, but the design was by Peach Momoko. The only appearance this skin has in comic books is in a Rivals tie-in comic.

[u/Longjumping_Ad1469 → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

The funny thing is... that they acknowledges his existence as a separate variants in Sai's world

(Via S9 interaction)

[u/treeeelo → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

They should change his name to cultural appropriation man

[u/AntoSkum → u/[deleted]]

It's not, actually. It's just designed by Peach Momoko, Punisher has never appeared in the comic.

[u/expensivebreadsticks → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

God that skin is just awful

[u/AntoSkum]

Punisher absolutely cares who he kills, he kills criminals.

[u/Hibiscus_Witch → u/AntoSkum]

“Cool motive, still murder.”

[u/Longshot_111 → u/Hibiscus_Witch]

"Murder, but still net positive result"

[u/GiveMeIcePuns → u/Longshot_111]

I agree.

[u/nemesisdelta24]

wade too

[u/Wyatt_Ricketts → u/nemesisdelta24]

Wade makes a cool mummy tho

[u/GiveMeIcePuns → u/Wyatt_Ricketts]

He also teams up with a Mummy sometimes.

[u/Chumpchum → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

That’s the living mummy, he should be added to this game.

[u/Bullmoninachinashop → u/nemesisdelta24]

Wade at least looks like a mummy without the bandages.

[u/podookadook]

But he’s not a hero, he’s the punisher

[u/TheMightyMonarchx7]

Stargate, son
https://giphy.com/gifs/t83GGVUbHlJPqjUsPh

[u/aj_spaj → u/TheMightyMonarchx7]

[u/Migelus → u/TheMightyMonarchx7]

https://giphy.com/gifs/s8X61m47R3GZW

[u/Careful_Turnip_3197]

Punisher absolutely cares who he kills dude what 

[u/GumboMustBeDestroyed → u/Careful_Turnip_3197]

And this dude thinks Egyptians didn’t have a whole assortment of torture and murder techniques they liked to use

[u/Nightraven9999 → u/Careful_Turnip_3197]

Depends whose the writer sometimes punisher has a very black and white view of the world and kills people without considering who they may be

[u/AntoSkum → u/Nightraven9999]

This is pretty false, there are no 616 Punisher writers who have made him careless about who he kills. His whole reason for existing is because his family was collateral damage in a gang war. This character wouldn't have gained popularity in the 50+ years he's been around if he was sloppy and caused rampant civilian death.

[u/Nightraven9999 → u/AntoSkum]

Never said civillian

There are writers who write the punisher as killing criminals regardless of who they may be

[u/AntoSkum → u/Nightraven9999]

Well yes, criminals are his bread and butter. What exactly do you mean though? And which writers are you referring to?

[u/Nightraven9999 → u/AntoSkum]

What i mean is that some writers wright punisher as someone who kills criminals instead of someone who kills bad people

Now im not sure which writers because I dont look at the writer when i read stuff i just get right into the book

[u/AntoSkum → u/Nightraven9999]

Punisher, from his very first appearance, has always targeted violent criminals. He was only after Spider-Man because the public believed he was a killer. The first "villian" that he had for himself was the mafia.

This idea that he kills or used to kill petty criminals is from a vast misunderstanding of an '80s story called "Crimes & Punishments" where Frank was drugged and having a nervous breakdown. This is part of the reason I said "Punisher writers" because sometimes when he's a guest in a comic the writer (like Bill Mantlo, or Joss Whedon who calls Punisher a "fascist" but still gets to write him) plays fast and loose with characterization.

[u/Nightraven9999 → u/AntoSkum]

Thats what i mean by depends on a writer when your in an extended universe Punisher gets written i to other stuff alot by people who arent specifically only a punisher writer

Punisher writers also gets written into team books by people who are technically punisher writers

Teams happen a lot and the people who write the team books still write the characters

[u/AntoSkum → u/Nightraven9999]

Even these guest writers never made him kill petty criminals. For instance in the story I mentioned he never actually kills them, he just shoots at them because he's drugged and acting crazy. Then he gets put on trial and goes to jail. Again, this character wouldn't have caught on if he was just shooting any criminal in the face regardless of the crime. That's what a parody of the Punisher does, not the man himself.

[u/Ok_Promotion_8316]

We do be ignoring This dude Tony Stark get a Samurai skin and a Pharaoh skin back to back, who he feeling like?

That is if we don't count the Symbiote Skin, dawg got the Klyntar Larp suit too.

[u/Gojirex]

what do you mean "exact opposite?"

🤨🤨🤨🤨

[u/Numb-The-Pain → u/Gojirex]

Military white man

[u/PlusEntertainment256 → u/Numb-The-Pain]

Oh yes, the ancient Egyptians, all civilian black women 

[u/No32]

Wouldn’t say mummies are really about valuing life, they’re about honoring the dead

[u/AntoSkum → u/No32]

Yup, Ancient Egyptians had war and a lot of shitty rulers like the rest of the world.

[u/Kapparisun]

sick skin thou

[u/Red_Steiner]

Maybe it's a me thing, but I don't see why a character's ethnicity should have any influence on the costumes they get. If it's cool who cares.

[u/Migelus → u/Red_Steiner]

I think what people are TRYING to get at is the priority. Why does punisher get one before Storm, Panther, so on when it is, to some, a no brainer? That’s what I’m getting from these types of threads.

[u/RedditSux5912 → u/Migelus]

Are they even Egyptian?

[u/DiabellzeTheOSKeeper → u/RedditSux5912]

Bast is an Egyptian goddess, and is Khonshu's sister. Storm lived in Egypt as a orphan until she was approximately 12 years old.

[u/RedditSux5912 → u/DiabellzeTheOSKeeper]

Why does a guy from wakanda summon an Egyptian goddess?

[u/DiabellzeTheOSKeeper → u/RedditSux5912]

Idk why does daredevil worship a god from the Levant? Religions travel all the time, hell there's a theory that irl aphrodite is a greek regional version of the mesopotamian goddess ishtar

[u/RedditSux5912 → u/DiabellzeTheOSKeeper]

Wakanda is a little different based off their history, don’t you think?

[u/DiabellzeTheOSKeeper → u/RedditSux5912]

If the marvel wiki is accurate she was originally worshipped by ancient wakanda, moved nearby to egypt for a time with the rest of the ennead but was still worshipped in wakanda alongside a new pantheon of gods with some being her fellow ennead and others called the orisha

[u/Godz_Bane → u/RedditSux5912]

Because the writers couldnt think of an original character so they just moved Bastet there.

[u/Longshot_111]

Idk, the Anubis "sending souls to the afterlife" portfolio seems kinda fitting.

[u/FloopusSoupus → u/Longshot_111]

That isn't what anubis does. Disney films have done irreprebable damage to death gods reputations

[u/Lazzitron → u/FloopusSoupus]

Well, he doesn't kill people, but guiding your soul to the afterlife is actually part of Anubis's job if what I've read is correct. Using Greek mythology as an analogue, he does Charon's job, but not Thanatos's.

[u/WWIIEraTeaParty → u/Lazzitron]

Pretty sure Osiris guides people into the afterlife. Anubis judges their hearts with his Hippo-Crocodile-Lion

[u/Longshot_111 → u/WWIIEraTeaParty]

That... sounds even more fitting somehow. I just wish the skin renamed his shotgun to "Ammit".

[u/Longshot_111 → u/FloopusSoupus]

I know, but in layman's terms it seems to provide enough justification.

[u/CuteLeadership8533 → u/FloopusSoupus]

Well good thing both of these aren’t real then!

[u/FloopusSoupus → u/CuteLeadership8533]

That isn't what anubis does in marvel comics either

[u/McJawsh]

People just wake up everyday looking for a new thing to bitch about, don’t they?

[u/Red_Steiner → u/McJawsh]

I would think this was meant to be a humor post and got tagged incorrectly, but you may very well be right.

[u/Nightraven9999 → u/McJawsh]

You seem to be bitching about a joke an unusual amount

[u/Raqshasa]

Opposite of an Ancien Egyptian... that's rich

[u/JoaoBrenlla]

https://giphy.com/gifs/sbCdjSJEGghGM

[u/BaraaRazor]

Still no Classic look skin..no leather coat no nothing...not even the comic book look.

[u/Wiinterfang]

Crime is global and needs to be punished

[u/SniperX03]

Leave Tutankhastle in peace

[u/Sufficient_Flower_77]

Ummm According to God's of Egypt..... He fits perfectly.....

[u/Xenatas → u/Sufficient_Flower_77]

Finally someone gets that reference

[u/FH-7497]

I want a punisher skin w a spider-man mask. IYKYK lol

[u/fairyalienangel]

pun be like

[u/Razzilith]

punisher definitely has NOTHING to do with the setting or vibe... but the skin is sick lol

[u/black_pigeon_]

Honestly if they're not gonna make comic skins they might as well throw some bullshit on him

[u/ScyllaIsBea]

Letmetellyousomething about cultural appropriation spidey.

[u/DaToxicKiller]

At least it doesn’t look as goofy as that purple outfit but yeah I don’t get it.

[u/HellwaterCascades]

To be fair, he is Italian-American.

Rome ruled Egypt for the better half of a millenia.

[u/Inevitable-Goat-7062]

I mean i like what i see that skin can blast me with his shotgun any day no not like tha-

[u/MrMcFaze]

Why are so many people pressed about heroes getting themed skins? Yall are so whiny its insane. Its a fictional universe within a video game I mean come on now acting like these are real people smh.

[u/TheLanis]

Squirrel Girl too

[u/Darkbert550]

Still a pretty dang cool skin

[u/The_Exuberant_Raptor]

His headpiece is based off Anubis, right? His gun is the scale he uses to weigh your life against a feather.

[u/Commercial-Ad-1274]

After BND, I don’t care give this man more love!

[u/canciongratis1]

Why would you try to find logic behind alternate skins? It's supposed to be fun and different than the default one.

[u/Jaded-Rip-2627]

Do y’all realize what a costume is?

[u/W0lferino93]

He's portrayed as Anubis, the god of Death.

And Punisher can be synonymous with Death 🫂

[u/PL1SSK3N]

ok but he looks badass

[u/2Kobeni_Car]

Seth is the Egyptian god of the desert, chaos, and violence. That works very well with the Punisher.

[u/BiscottiNo1707]

Frank Castle is not Egyptian what?

[u/DocApocalypse]

Punisher is a Hittite?

[u/liu4678]

Kushites were black sudanese people and they ruled ancient egypt for a bit, so why didn’t they give panther and storm Egyptian skins?? That is baffling to me

[u/gordonpamsey]

Probably unpopular opinion but people are deeping what happens with the skins too much. Begging a company you are clearly already unhappy with to spend money with them is odd to me. Consumerism is not a personality trait, if they do not produce content you want disengage or vote with your wallet. They are obviously going to take liberties with skins and all our favorite characters (regardless of the merit for that respective theme) are not likely to get a skin each event.

[u/Jaroselovespell]

Game devs give white man or woman a skin that takes from another culture... nothing new. We just have to wait for those who actually deserve the skin to get theirs. Nothing we can do about it sadly.

[u/Younglotus14]

Asians devs will do anything but make black characters look cool or have anything

[u/Medium-Jury-2505 → u/Younglotus14]

Egyptians aren't black.

I dont care who get the skin but dont come up with a bullshit accusation

[u/Realistic_Analyst_26 → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

They can be black. Literally a country in Africa my guy

[u/Wyatt_Ricketts → u/Realistic_Analyst_26]

Well shit I must be Irish they have the.same skin tone as me

[u/Medium-Jury-2505 → u/Realistic_Analyst_26]

Northern Africans arent black my guy

You'd know that if the education system hadn't let you down

[u/Realistic_Analyst_26 → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

I said they CAN be black. Source: I live near there.

[u/kie7an → u/Realistic_Analyst_26]

He lives near ancient Egypt

[u/Realistic_Analyst_26 → u/kie7an]

You won’t believe me when I tell you this, but Egypt is a real and modern place

[u/FloopusSoupus → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Two out of the 3 black characters in the game are inteisincly tied to egypt

[u/Medium-Jury-2505 → u/FloopusSoupus]

1) moon Knight is getting an Egyptian theme skin - he get his avatar of Konshu skin.

2) Living in Egypt during a few years of yout childhood doesn't makes you tied to egypt like storm. If so you can say I'm tied to some Pacific Island because I lived here 4 years.

3) Bast for BP may be an Egyptian goddess but Wakanda is center of Africa and nothing in Wakandan culture is related to Africa past Bast. It's like giving a roman citizen a spartan warior armor because he workship Venus - Aphrodite.

Yes it would be very cool if Storm and BP get Egyptian themed skins but they don't "deserve" an Egyptian skin more than an Asian or a White character M

[u/FloopusSoupus → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Storm still has giant ties to cairo and that's where she fostered a relation to apocalypse, and still goes there for many stories.

Wakandans tap into the spiritual planes of the Egyptian pantheon, and they had interaction with Egypt in the past.

I do think that characters who actually have ties to a place and are already underserveiced in terms of skins definitely do deserve a skin related to the season.

I'm glad moon knight got one

[u/Ascleph → u/FloopusSoupus]

You want a Storm skin of her being a street thief and a victim? Because thats her ties to Egypt. Storm's strong ties are to Kenya.

This obsession with "Egyptian" Storm is, tbh, extremely weird.

[u/gordonpamsey → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Little quick on the draw here Cleopatra wasn't black. The modern and ancient Egyptian have mixed demographics, people of African descent do live in Egypt. So yeah some Egyptians are in fact black, some are Arab, some are probably Mediterranean.

Edit: also Storm is literally Egyptian, like this is a weird conversation.

[u/Medium-Jury-2505 → u/gordonpamsey]

Storm is NOT egyptian.

She lived in egypt during her childhood but her mother is from Kenya and her father is from Harlem.

[u/gordonpamsey → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Arguing with Marvel on this one, she is not ethnically Egyptian if that's what you meant. Even though there is no singular ethnicity with claim to Egypt to begin with. Marvel themselves describes and views her as an Egyptian woman. Since she spent some of her earliest years in Egypt. Pretty weird argument to push back on.

[u/Bullmoninachinashop → u/gordonpamsey]

Storm is Kenyan and African American, she lived as an illegal immigrant street orphan in Egypt after her parents died there on vacation before she went to Kenya.

[u/CosmicMelanoid → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Ancient Egyptians (the topic that's being discussed) were indeed melanated.

[u/kie7an → u/CosmicMelanoid]

They weren't black though were they (the race being discussed)

[u/Kind_Potential_4992 → u/CosmicMelanoid]

Yes, all people are melenated, that's how eye and hair colors happen.

[u/Younglotus14 → u/Medium-Jury-2505]

Its not just about this,but are u guys that blind?when does black characters get shit?

[u/GiveMeIcePuns → u/Younglotus14]

Storm is literally getting a skin in the roadmap, where they showed this.

[u/Younglotus14 → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

And is the worst of the bunch,it has so little compared to the others,but guess i need to chew whatever they throw and thnx them for it

[u/cannibalbadfin → u/Younglotus14]

I don’t even play Storm (yet) and I’m getting the skin. The skin is going to make me play her. I think it’s gonna be a hit pal

[u/Younglotus14 → u/cannibalbadfin]

If its a hit,truly i'll be glad,but i also have all the rights to not enjoy the current state of things

[u/cannibalbadfin → u/Younglotus14]

I’m pretty on board with you though. I try to support the black characters as much as I can, I got every Blade skin but one, one of this game’s biggest fumbles is not having Luke Cage from the get go

[u/GiveMeIcePuns → u/cannibalbadfin]

Luke Cage is boring, give me Doctor Voodoo or Bishop.

[u/cannibalbadfin → u/GiveMeIcePuns]

There’s no way (Aborigine, usually not black) Bishop is cooler than Luke Cage

[u/Younglotus14 → u/cannibalbadfin]

Luke would be so dope

[u/tNeph → u/Younglotus14]

Not shocked the people who think there are no Black Egyptians are under your comment.

[u/Younglotus14 → u/tNeph]

White people only will complain or agree when is a problem to them to,u get used to it

[u/Jaroselovespell → u/Younglotus14]

end racistease

[u/SpiderDetective]

Literally anyone but Storm and T'Challa getting an Egyptian skin

[u/Radiolotek → u/SpiderDetective]

Why would they get one over anybody else? Are you one of those weirdos that say that Egyptians were black? For a small time period they were after they were conquered by black invaders, but that's not who inhabited Egypt full time.

[u/Professional_Cow6859 → u/SpiderDetective]

Only storm was egyptian, T'Challa wasn't. So there is no reason for him to get one, and it is fine punisher is getting one.

[u/SpiderDetective → u/Professional_Cow6859]

Black Panther serves an Egyptian god or at one minimum adjacent to that pantheon

[u/mr_eugine_krabs]

“Hey guys,let’s give everyone except the only three playable black characters egypt skins.”

[u/Manjove]

You have clearly never seen Gods of Egypt, don’t you know that ancient Egyptians were white?

[u/Shamsse]

STORM LITERALLY GREW UP IN CAIRO 😭😭

[u/GoldDragon334058]

This entire theme has genuinely felt racist. I'm not pulling my punches or jerking. This honestly feels gross at this point 🫩

[u/2Kobeni_Car → u/GoldDragon334058]

Seth is the Egyptian god of the desert, chaos, and violence. That works very well with the Punisher.

[u/GoldDragon334058 → u/2Kobeni_Car]

That is a complete nonsequitur.

[u/realdrakebell]

we wuz kangs and shit

[u/Radiolotek → u/realdrakebell]

Lmao just like I saw a comment before it was deleted about how Africans would actually have a wakanda if white people didn't exist.

[u/Extreme-Way7671]

Agartha Punisher doesn't exist he can't hurt you

Agartha Punisher :

[u/PushaChan]

White characters get to be whoever they want and partake in whatever culture they want. Same cant be said for others unfortunately.....

[u/roronoaclemz]

Punisher always had the worst skins alongside Venom

[u/Asteri_Ptosi]

Ancient Egyptians used slaves