In Marvel Comics and related media, Maria Castle is the wife of Frank Castle, aka The Punisher. While she has been an overall minor character in the greater Marvel multiverse, she is an intrinsic part of the Punisher's origin as it is her death and the deaths of hers and Frank's children that sets Frank down his path of violent retribution against the criminal underworld.
The Punisher (2004)[]
In Jonathan Hensleigh's 2004 film The Punisher, Maria (played by Samantha Mathis) joins Frank and their son Will when they attend a Castle family reunion in Puerto Rico to celebrate Frank's retirement from the FBI. During the reunion, Maria also tells Frank that she is pregnant and that they will be having a second child.
However, the reunion soon turns into a massacre when an army of triggermen sent by crime lord Howard Saint arrives to take revenge against Frank for killing Howard's son Bobby. The gangsters are under orders to kill Frank's entire family and start gunning down everyone at the reunion. Maria manages to escape from the cabin with Will, but is pursued across a boardwalk by several gangsters driving an SUV. Unable to outrun their pursuers, Maria and Will are both run over.