In the DCU, there are “slow” people who can move at, like, half the speed of light. Just about anyone with that type of power could clean up Gotham in about a week, leaving Batman with far fewer excuses to perch on gargoyles in the rain.

And I’ve always thought that “With time to prepare, Batman can beat anybody.” stuff was totally ridiculous. He’s just an obsessive guy who’s good at Japanese martial arts. That ain’t enough to protect you if Superman decides to do brain surgery on you with heat vision from three miles away.

And, yes, I know about the goofy “sci fi closet” full of gadgets he only uses when he’s trying to kill (excuse me, “neutralize”) other superheroes. That stuff still wouldn’t help if Superman, or the Flash or a competent Green Lantern was really trying to kill him.

It just makes me wonder why he doesn’t use those “protocols” on the bad guys instead of using special punches with silly names.

But looking at all of your examples, there are some very good reasons why most of them would not care about the Punisher unless he directly crosses their path. The FF is often dealing with galactic threats and exploration, while Thor can easily be called away to Asgard at any moment. Doctor Strange won’t really care what the Punisher is doing unless he starts murdering mages and creating some kind of mystical power vacuum on earth. The idea of the Punisher accidentally drawing Magneto’s ire by killing a mutant gangster is interesting, but that’s the only reason Magneto would get involved.

But that’s the difference in tone coming through. None of those people aren’t just sitting around, waiting for crimes to happen so they can catch the criminals. They either have specific interests, or some constant distraction that would keep them from patrolling for random crimes all that often. Whereas the Flash and Superman could do something like an x-ray vision or superspeed sweep of an entire city looking for the Punisher, and catch him in a minute or two-and there wouldn’t be a question of why they were doing that instead of handling some other issue that’s inherent to their characters. That is what they do.

(Granted, Cap only lost his moral compass during Civil War because the writer didn’t want a clear-cut right and wrong in the conflict, and normally, whatever side Cap takes on a question, you know that is in fact the right side. Because he’s Captain America.)

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it’s bullshit, there are plenty of heroes in the marvel universe that makes the punisher not fit.

The concept of not fitting doesn’t really work in superhero comics anyway since many stories are based on things that obviously do not fit.

In other words, Hawkeye is on a team with Thor and IronMan in the marvel universe.

the FF makes the punisher not fit.
Thor makes the punisher not fit.
Doc strange makes the punisher not fit (if we assume Doc Strange comes into contact, notices Castle which is an easy assumption to make given that he ends up noticing all sorts of things you would think beneath the notice of a sorcerer supreme)
magneto makes the punisher not fit – hey, here’s a story. A mutant mobster gets killed by Frank Castle, now Magneto wants revenge.
a large number of mutants out there would have made the punisher not fit.

Really many of the highly trained killer storylines that both companies come up with to explain how non-powered humans can be a match for the super-powered ones don’t fit.

Now if they’d just send the Sentry out into space or the Negative Zone where he belongs…

“Frank Castle is killing mobsters? We’ve got to sto-”

“Caught him!”

“…what?”

“I ran out, found the Punisher, beat him unconscious, caught all the bullets he shot at the gangsters, beat them up too, and hauled them all to the police station in 0.2 seconds.”

“Oh. Okay, back to dealing with Starro!”

When have facts ever stopped a guy with a gun from getting his crazy on?