The final truth of The Punisher - Part 2 is that there is no victory condition. Frank Castle will never wipe out crime. He knows this. In Garth Ennis’s final pages of The Punisher MAX (the definitive ending for the character), an elderly Frank Castle, dying alone in a rat-infested tenement, reflects:
The rain kept falling. It didn’t wash anything clean. But Frank Castle had stopped believing in clean a long time ago. The Punisher - Part 2
Frank didn’t ask who. He didn’t trust anyone. But he checked the intel anyway—cross-referencing it with three separate feeds he’d tapped into over the last month. It fit. Vaccaro always took the high ground. He liked to look down on the animals he fed. The final truth of The Punisher - Part