ADD Kyuubi Naruto said:
In testament to Frank Castle's skills
That same little girl there knocked Wolverine 70 feet in the air and embedded him into a wall with a right hook, giving him a concussion and knocking him unconscious. This is the same mutant who has an adamantium skeleton and can take hits from Colossus without being smeared.
The fact Frank got tooled by her is hardly something he should be ashamed of. Molly Hayes is STRONG. Getting punched by her HURTS. A lot. Just ask Logan.
Just to clarify why using that image as proof of anything spectacularly fails. If anything, the fact Frank's not coughing up blood right there's a testament to his strength. Most other baseline humans would not have a stomach anymore.
That said, who Frank can and can't kill varies depending on what weapons he gets his hands on for the occasion. At various points in time, he got his mitts on antimatter grenades,
microblackhole grenades (he swiped those off SHIELD; for the record), gamma lasers and even a fucking ICBM loaded with a neutron bomb.
When dealing with the Punisher, as a rule, if he actually *has* something that CAN kill it, he generally kills it. He also tends to get horrifically fucked up in the process, but he hardly cares. So, in Frank's case, whether he can kill someone admittedly depends on what equipment you let him have. But if you give him something that can kill someone, then he will almost certainly kill that someone. He's very good at that whole 'kill people until they die' thing.
That sums up how I view Punisher.
And yet you're doing the exact opposite, making a blanket statement against it. What evidence do you have that the Index wouldn't function against the magic users of the Marvelverse? If it's a magic nullifier, it nullifies magic. End of story. Unless there are Marvel characters who are confirmed to be capable of using magic even when their magic isn't supposed to work, it works on them. Any characters that have bullshat that, get to bullshit it here.
Except that Hell Fear works through a type of mind alteration, as recently revealed. You are assuming beings like Dormammu, whose mind is so alien it's completely incomprehensible to mortals (just ask Xavier, who was knocked in a coma when he tried to mindscan him and found out the hard way that's a phenomenally stupid idea), would be vulnerable to that. As they dn't have mortal minds to begin with, I doubt it.
I can concede it pwning regular magic users like Dr. Druid and Brother Voodoo pre-Sorcerer Supreme, but not, say, Dr. Doom (who can and will simply nuke Index with his, y'know, horrifically high tech armor full of more or less lethal weaponry - you think he is stupid enough to put all his eggs in one basket?) or God forbid the Scarlet Witch (whose magic power could, in fact, be blocked - but whose power to affect probability is a mutant power, and can - and will - shut down Hell Fear entirely, thus freeing her to use magic again. Doesn't it suck when someone can stop your stopper?).
And don't tell me she can't disable Hell Fear - she regularly causes the powers of people far, far stronger than she is to misfire or stop working entirely, so she has precedent for her hex power disabling opponents that she shouldn't be able to touch.