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“ | How is he still alive? I don't know, Quentin, I wasn't there. Why is he still alive? Now that's an interesting question. Maybe he's still alive because he was meant to suffer more, I don't know. But how do we make him suffer if we can't find him? | „ |
~ Saint to his right-hand man, Quentin Glass, speaking on how to kill Frank Castle. |
Howard Saint is the main antagonist of the 2004 Marvel film The Punisher. He is the boss of the Saint crime family who murders Frank Castle's entire family because he blames Castle for the death of his son, Bobby.
He was portrayed by John Travolta, who also played Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, Castor Troy in Face/Off, Billy Nolan in Carrie, Vic Deakins in Broken Arrow, Ryder in The Taking of Pelham 123, Gabriel Shear in Swordfish, Emil Kovac in Killing Season, and Terl in Battlefield Earth.
Biography[]
Howard Saint is a crime boss of the Saint family in Tampa. He and his criminal organization operate out of a strip club called Saints & Sinners.
Desperate to impress his father, Howard's son, Bobby, tries to negotiate an arms deal on his own. While at the deal, Bobby discovers what he thinks is a bust, which in reality, was a sting with the dealer being Frank Castle, an undercover FBI agent.
Bobby dies during the deal when he waves and points his gun at some of the actual Russian gun dealers (that Castle also duped into working with him), and due to some of them not understanding what Bobby says, he accidentally causes a shootout that costs him his own life. Back at the station, Frank retires and goes to a family reunion in Puerto Rico. While attending Bobby's funeral, Howard suggests to kill Frank. His wife Livia, however, requests he kill all members of Frank's family. The massacre of the Castle Family is carried out by Howard and Livia's surviving son John Saint, Howard's best friend and right hand man Quentin Glass and two other men (one named Lincoln).
Five months later, Howard discovers that Frank survived the attack and sends Harry Heck and The Russian to kill him. However, Frank manages to kill both men.
After Frank tricked him to kill Quentin and Livia by making him think that they were having an affair, Frank storms his HQ, kills all his men and John.
When they meet face-to-face, Castle guns Howard down in a duel due to his superior reflex. Before Frank ends his life, he reveals that he had been manipulating Howard the whole time about the fake affair as well as killing his best friend and consigliere. As Howard sobs tearfully for his mistakes and cruel life, he is eventually killed when Frank ties him to the back of a slow-moving car which drags him through a car park filled with exploding bombs, incinerating him showing the burning skull face.
Personality[]
Despite being seen as an affable and calm man for his family as well as for the Toro brothers, Howard Saint is actually an extremely ruthless; brutal, murderous, greedy, callous, and destructive sadist of the most diabolical kind.
He mostly enjoys loving his wife Livia; antagonizing and trying to kill Castle, antagonizing the Toro brothers who are his own business partners and the film's minor villains, playing golf and smoking cigars, drinking champagne and vodka, also he enjoys gaining much more power and money, despite already being wealthy.
He is also a devastatingly intelligent; sophisticated, competent, cunning, and knowledgeable mastermind, which adds on to his menacing criminal reputation. However, his weaknesses include being too quick on judgement and being unwilling to accept explanations, both which Frank Castle uses against him.
Trivia[]
- Howard Saint's character had never appeared in Marvel Comics as well as not appeared on the Punisher's comic books. He was specifically created for the film. Saint replaces both William Rawlins and Ray Schoonover, whom in the comics, were originally the ones who killed Frank Castle's family.
- It is unknown why Howard Saint was created to replace both Rawlins and Schoonover in the 2004 The Punisher film. The reason behind this explanation is unknown.
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