With The Defenders already released, and gathering mostly positive reviews, fans of the Netflix corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have just one more series coming their way this year. Marvel and Netflix's The Punisher stars Jon Bernthal, who reprises his role from the second season of Daredevil, in which he was most definitely the MVP.

As expected, a first teaser trailer for The Punisher was released on the same day as the debut of The Defenders. And if it makes just one thing clear (since, like all good teasers, it doesn't reveal anything of great importance), it’s that Frank Castle is not a hero, but rather someone pursued by devils from his past.

In other words, we can expect the same depth and level of violence from the character that enhanced Daredevil's second season. Check out the teaser below!

During an interview with Moviefone, Jon Bernthal didn't reveal the plot of The Punisher. But he did reiterate that it was essential for him to let Frank Castle be the Punisher from the comics, not a hero. So, as the actor says, we shouldn't expect Castle to do us any favors or try to win us over the way that any regular superhero would:

It's an interesting predicament. To put [the Punisher] as the central character is interesting. I think that my big struggle with him is that one of my biggest kind of things that I'm always fighting for on set is that I always want to preserve the essence of Frank, and have the right and be bold enough to really turn my back on the audience, and not do things to win the audience's favor, but stay true to the character and the essence of who he is. 

So I think that's the real challenge: being bold enough to not make him too heroic…is important to me. That being said, I think there's a Frank Castle inside of everybody. I think, being a father and being a husband, he's a character that I deeply empathize with.

The Punisher will be unleashed this year.