Thread:ARTaylor/@comment-27710776-20180211222354/@comment-122823-20180212005316

Not necessarily. The Penance Stare made Talbot feel all the pain he had caused up to that point, but that doesn't necessarily make him a better person. The comics state that the Stare doesn't work on those who hurt the guilty, like Punisher. If Talbot truly felt Bruce was guilty and/or a danger to others then attacking him would be abiding by a certain code of ethics by doing his military duty. It also doesn't work on the psychotic, like Cletus Kasady. If Talbot had some mental instability he wouldn't care about pain to himself or others. It's also possible the Stare wears off and that by the time of "Darkness and Light" it has passed out of his system.