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[The Mist][Punisher] How would The Mist be different if Thomas Jane's character in The Mist were replaced by his version of the Punisher?

I always wonder how movies would go if different characters played by the same actors were swapped. 

How do you guys figure this movie would have been?
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I can see it going two ways. 

1. He goes outside and gets killed, at which point the little boy is killed much earlier by the religious woman.

2. He stays in the store, but he has pretty much everybody under his control within an hour. As soon as the religious woman starts talking shit, he'd take her aside and 'convince' her to calm down. He'd then get as much information out of the soldiers as he can, while getting everyone else to follow his strict instructions. Under Frank Castle's leadership, nobody else dies apart from that one dude at the beginning, they don't need to go to the pharmacy, and the military shows up as normal to sort shit out.

The Punisher is exactly the kind of person to get control of a bunch of untrained civilians, especially since in the comics, The Punisher is near (but not quite) Captain America in terms of strength. He could very easily overpower anyone in that store, and his knowledge of dealing with the mob would allow him to pick out and disable threats before they become threats, even going so far as to torture and kill them without mercy. 

The only major weakness he has in this situation is that he's about as vulnerable to the monsters outside as anyone, so if he chooses to confront them, he might put up a better fight, but he'd still die.