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The Punisher | The Abyss (2.11) The Punisher: One Last Kill | 2026

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Something I really enjoyed about the special is that we now clearly see that both Karen and Frank understand that the other is always there for them.

The Punisher: One Last Kill (gifs by @sentrysvoid)

Daredevil: Born Again, S2E3 (gif by @marveldaily)

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I genuinely can’t stop thinking abt this vid it’s so fucking peak

The person who made it is tunenagedits on tt

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Sylvia Plath

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Do you have any tips on how to write a character who’s being manipulated?

Your blog has been very helpful to me! :) thanks a lot

Quick Tips for Writing Manipulative Characters

To convincingly write a character who is being manipulated, you must first understand how to write a believable manipulator. Often hidden in plain sight, manipulators pull the strings, guiding the actions of those who are often unaware that they're dancing to someone else's tune.

Let’s look at manipulators as puppet masters, exploring how they function and how their actions echo throughout your story. By understanding the manipulator, you'll better equip yourself to create realistic characters who are unwittingly under their sway.

How do they behave?

Play the victim to garner sympathy

Charming and persuasive

Twist and distort the truth to suit their agenda

Play mind games

Are silver-tongued

Passive-aggressive when confronted

Use guilt to control others

Don’t hesitate to lie or deceive

Demonstrate a sense of entitlement.

Project their feelings onto others

How do they interact?

Play different roles with different people

Prefer indirect communication to direct confrontation

Gaslight others, making them doubt their own perceptions

Shift the blame onto others

Exploit others' vulnerabilities

Use people’s secrets against them

Make others feel obligated or in debt to them

Use flattery to get their way

Create conflict between other characters

Deliberately create confusion and chaos

Describe their body language

Maintain intense eye contact

Use touch to seem friendly and intimate

Facial expressions often don't match their words

Use large, expressive gestures to dramatise

Have a confident and exaggerated posture

Soften expression to look more trustworthy

Smile artificially or excessively

Lean in close, invading personal space

Mirror others’ behaviours to seem more likeable

Mimic emotions they may not feel

Describe their attitudes

Believe they are always right

Feel entitled and superior

Lack empathy

Highly competitive

Often impatient and intolerant

Controlling and like to be in charge

Rarely apologize sincerely

Often play the martyr, acting self-sacrificing

Can be sceptical of others’ intentions

Kindness is often an act

Positive narrative effects

Paradoxically, manipulative characters can have a positive narrative effect on those they manipulate. These characters can act as a catalyst for change, pushing others to unlock hidden potential and indirectly teaching them to be more cautious. In the face of manipulation, characters can mature and grow resilience.

Manipulative characters can also reveal people’s true natures by tricking them into revelations or by fostering unity as others band together against them. Furthermore, their actions can create dramatic plot twists, make people question their own perceptions and realities, and add intrigue.

Negative narrative effects

Manipulators can cause emotional and psychological distress, breed distrust and insecurity, and disrupt relationships and friendships. These characters often lead others to make damaging decisions, creating a toxic environment.

By exploiting and exposing others' vulnerabilities, manipulators make individuals question their self-worth. The extent of their manipulation can even cause physical harm and lead to the downfall of other characters. Their lasting legacy? Emotional scars that define their victims long after the manipulator has exited the narrative.

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Karen Page: The Importance of the Ordinary

Shows, especially superhero shows, are filled with extraordinary people. They have super powers, or have these amazing fighting skills, and if they don’t have those things, they are geniuses. In superhero shows it is rare to see ordinary people.

Enter Karen Page.

Karen does not have amazing fighting skills. She doesn’t have any fighting skills at all. She can probably through a decent punch, and could probably put of a hell of a fight out of pure will if attacked. But she is not a trained fighter. She is really no better a fighter than your average ordinary person.

Karen, as far as we know, does not have extraordinary skills with a gun or any to weapons. She is capable with a gun and definitely knows how to shoot one, but she is no Frank Castle. I do not know a lot, well I know nothing really, about guns, and we’ve only seen Karen use/hold her gun a few times, but it seems she has the skill of an average gun owner.

Karen is not a genius. Now, I am not saying she is not smart, cause she is. But she is no Felicity Smoak or Cisco Ramon or Ray Palmer or Curtis Holt. She is just smart, not extraordinary smart. Smart in the way that most real-life smart people are smart.

For all accounts, Karen is not really an extraordinary person, and I do not mean that in a bad way. I love Karen. And saying that Karen is not an extraordinary person does not mean that she does not do extraordinary things, cause she definitely does. And to me, that is the beauty of Karen. She is an ordinary person who does extraordinary and meaningful things.

She helps take down Fisk. She helps Frank Castle find out the truth about his family’s death, which includes breaking into his house in the beginning. These are extraordinary things for a person to do.

And she does them without being a superhero, without being a trained fighter, without being a genius, and without any extraordinary skills.

She has normal person skills; she is smart, resourceful, determined, compassionate, stubborn, and all about the truth and seeing things for what they are rather than in black and gray or absolutist terms.

And it is through these skills and traits that she accomplishes the extraordinary things that she has.

She is not a superhero. She is a journalist, and it is through those skills and that avenue that she accomplished extraordinary things and helps to make the world a better place.

And the great and aspiration thing about that is anyone can do that. Anyone can become a journalist. Anyone can use empathy and intelligence and perseverance to make the world a better place. And Karen Page illustrates that.

But a vast majority of people cannot be a superhero. A vast majority of people do not have amazing fighting skills. A vast majority of people are not geniuses.

So it is really nice to see ordinary people, people that could be normal real life people, accomplish good, but realistically achievable things in a superhero show. It is inspiring.

Now I am not saying that superheroes are not inspiring, or that they don’t inspire people and kids to try to be good people and do good things… cause they definitely do.

But the character of Karen Page can not just inspire one to be a good person and to do good things, but also show some ways to actually do it, that do not involve the unrealistic reality of becoming a superhero.

The character of Karen Page shows that you do not have to have extraordinary skills, such as being a genius or a superhero, to make the world a better place.

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