Why The Punisher Doesn’t Cross Over With Any Other Defenders:

Marvel’s The Punisher was never meant to be a show that crosses over heavily with the studios’ other series, despite it being set in Netflix’s corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Punishershowrunner Steve Lightfoot discussed the upcoming series — which sees Jon Bernthal reprise his role from Daredevil Season 2 — and how it was always destined to be a standalone project.

“I guess I could speculate on the reasons for that, but I think from what I understand the original concept for the four characters that became the Defenders was always the plan and the Punisher spun out of that,” he continued. “But very much certainly when I came in the brief was always that it was to be its own show and its own thing separate from that.”