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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)

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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	comment	When you take a Darker and Edgier Marvel Comics character like The Punisher, and make him even Darker and Edgierer, you get what is collectively called "The Punisher MAX".Much like the original comics, the MAX imprint version of Frank Castle became a vigilante when his family was gunned down by mobsters in 1976. What sets him apart from his mainstream counterpart is that this version, written almost exclusively by Garth Ennis for four years, features no superheroes and is deeply rooted in Tarantino-esque violence and more "mundane" crime and events â€” including but not limited to: The Mafia, Irish terrorist organizations, Eastern European slavers, corporate tycoons and The War on Terror. It is also considerably less funny than the mainstream Marvel series, though there are touches of Black Comedy and satire here and there.The Max series is written much more consistently than the mainstream version, due to being almost entirely shaped by Garth Ennis' vision of the character. This series is also notorious for its moral absolutism, which readers either loved or hated.Beginning in February 2016, to coincide with the character's resurgence in popularity (thanks in no small part to the character being featured in season two of Netflix's Daredevil TV show), the series is now being released in Complete Collection format, making it the perfect way for new readers to discover the series.Main Series The Punisher (later renamed The Punisher: Frank Castle) — Running from 2004 to 2008 with 75 Issues, it was written by Garth Ennis, then Gregg Hurwitz, Duane Swierczynski, and Victor Gischler. The final issue was an anthology written (in order) by Tom Piccirilli, Gregg Hurwitz, Duane Swierczynski, Peter Milligan, and Charlie Huston. Punisher MAX — Ran from from 2010 to 2012 for twenty-two issues. Written by Jason Aaron, artwork by Steve Dillon, it introduced The Kingpin, Bullseye and Elektra into the MAX Universe.Miniseries Born #1-4 (2003) by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson The Punisher Presents Barracuda #1-5 (2007) by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov Untold Tales of the Punisher MAX #1-5 (2012) by (in order) Jason Starr, Jason Latour, Megan Abbott, Nathan Edmondson, and Skottie Young Punisher: The Platoon #1-6 (2017) by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov Punisher: Soviet #1-6 (2019-2020) by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows Punisher: Get Fury (TBA) by Garth Ennis and Goran ParlovOne-Shots The Punisher: The End (June 2004) by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben The Punisher: The Cell (July 2005) by Garth Ennis and Lewis LaRosa The Punisher: The Tyger (February 2006) by Garth Ennis and John Severin The Punisher Annual (November 2007) by Mike Benson and Laurence Campbell The Punisher: Force of Nature (April 2008) by Duane Swierczynski and Michel Lacombe The Punisher MAX Special: Little Black Book (August 2008) by Victor Gischler and Jefte Palo The Punisher MAX: X-Mas Special (February 2009) by Jason Aaron and Roland Boschi Punisher MAX: Naked Kill (August 2009) by Jonathan Maberry and Laurence Campbell Punisher MAX: Get Castle (March 2010) by Rob Williams and Laurence Campbell Punisher MAX: Butterfly (May 2010) by Valerie D'Orazio and Laurence Campbell Punisher MAX: Happy Ending (October 2010) by Peter Milligan and Juan Jose Ryp Punisher MAX: Hot Rods of Death (November 2010) by Charlie Huston and Shawn Martinbrough Punisher MAX: Tiny Ugly World (December 2010) by David Lapham and Dalibor TalajicRelated Comics Foolkiller: White Angels (2008) — Frank guest stars in half of this miniseries, helping Foolkiller deal with a supremacist group called the White Angels. Fury: My War Gone By (2012-2013) — Frank appears in the arc set in The Vietnam War, and Barracuda appears in the one set in Nicaragua. Wolverine MAX (2012-2014) — Set in a gritty and realistic world that obviously isn't the main Marvel Universe, the final issue reveals that Wolverine's claws were provided by a crime family that wanted him to take out the Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The MAX line has a lot of characters looking like famous "cool" actors in real life. Frank himself is a beefy Clint Eastwood in the first arc; this is particularly evident when he's held prisoner by Microchip. Paul Budiansky is Samuel L. Jackson. Budiansky's CSI friend is Tommy Lee Jones (and he hates CSI.) Colonel George Howe is Morgan Freeman. From The Punisher Presents: Barracuda, Big Chris Angelone is Christopher Walken. Castle's CO in Born is William H. Macy. According to Garth Ennis's script for issue #37 (which has since been taken down from its original spot in the Comic Book Script Archive by Marvel), Nicky Cavella's physical appearance was based on Andy Garcia, and John James Toomey was based on Puff Daddy. The "Valley Forge" story arc features one Delta Force commando who's a clear dead ringer for Tom Selleck. Hell, they even share the same first name! The Germaine twins from The Cell are based on Danny Trejo.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1235f055	comment	Rawlins is so much of a smug snake that he can't help but crack wise even when he's getting his eye pulled out by the Punisher. It'd actually make him pretty badass if he wasn't such a Dirty Coward.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Although not readily apparent at first, after Microchip, one of the most well established characters in the Punisher mythos, gets his cranium blown off, this trope is milked for all its worth. No character, regardless of plot significance or character history, is safe from death. Not even Castle himself.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Invoked in-universe by Corrupt Corporate Executive Harry Ebbing; he uses the exact line on learning there's a bunch of journalists waiting outside the building to talk to him (unaware that his entire strategy, which involved falsifying accounts and sending Barracuda in anyone who figured him out to monopolize the energy market, had been leaked to them). Cut to him running back inside frantically calling for security to get them out as they continue to bombard him with Armor-Piercing Question after Armor-Piercing Question.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Given the nature of the series, it's no surprise that this trope tends to come up every now and then. The first arc has Frank fighting Cavella's insanely tough and durable lackey Pittsy. After trading punches (and shivs) with him, Frank tosses the little guy out the window, where he lands several stories down onto a spiked iron fence, impaling him through the torso, after which Frank jumps from the window and lands on the poor bastard, further impaling him. Later, Pittsy (fence still jutting through him) stumbles towards Frank, who promptly blasts his face off with a shotgun. Even then, Frank has to mentally reassure himself that the next few steps the guy takes are purely reflexive. Later, when Frank encounters Pittsy's sister Theresa, he quickly discovers that she's every bit as durable as her brother, and eventually empties an entire 9mm clip into her just to make sure she's dead. Exaggerated with Barracuda. Over the course of several fights Frank stabs him, gouges his right eye out, knocks out some of his teeth, cuts several digits off his right hand, strangles him with barbed wire, shoots him point-blank in the groin, chest, and face, and finally tosses him into shark-infested waters... which he somehow survives. When the two meet up for the last time, Frank blows him up with a claymore, fractures his skull with a wrench, bites off another one of his fingers, breaks his arm, bites off part of his cheek, stabs him again, wires his testicles to a car battery ad leaves it running for an hour, shoots him with an M-60, tears off his nose with some pliers, cuts off his arms with an ax, shoots his head to bits with an AK...then incinerates his remains just to be sure. Frank himself is a victim of this trope, as he spends the latter half of Homeless dying a slow, painful death. In issue #21, still bloody and battered from his fight with Elektra, Frank journeys over to his old house where the Kingpin (AKA: Wilson Fisk) and half a dozen of his goons are waiting for him. Once there, the goons quickly surround Frank and proceed to open fire on him...but Frank won't go down. Fighting through the pain, Frank manages to kill all the goons and engages Fisk in a vicious street fight. The next page cuts to Fisk just outside his tower, begging the guards to let him in. Unfortunately for Fisk, Frank kills him before he can retreat inside. Having killed the Kingpin, Frank walks all the way back to his old home before finally succumbing to his wounds and dying on the streets.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Obviously. The Punisher was already one of Marvel's more mature and adult oriented characters, and this series takes that basic idea and pushes it as far as humanly possible, taking full advantage of the "adults only" nature of the Max label.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The role played by Colonel Howe and his Delta Force commandos in Garth Ennis' final story. In it, Howe and his men are tasked by a cabal of crooked Generals with taking down the Punisher. However, Howe is depicted in a far more sympathetic light than his corrupt superiors.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: A number of stories will occasionally make use of current events, such as corporate fraud, to slavery, and even the then-ongoing War on Terror. Usually so writer Garth Ennis can give us his opinion on the matter. In particular, "The Slavers" appears to be based on The Guardian article "Streets of Despair", with Garth Ennis even basing scenes off of real-life moments transcribed in the article, including direct quotes, and even using the same names of the interviewees (which, as the article notes, were changed for their protection).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: This is more or less what the conflict between the Russian and US military in "Mother Russia" comes down to. One side is depicted as a nefarious institution that is secretly harboring an experimental super virus, and the other side is depicted as a greedy institution who want to get their hands on said super virus. Naturally, neither outcome is good for the world.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: When Alice is describing her unfulfilling sex life to Dermot:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_174d487f	type	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_174d487f	comment	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: The eyes of the children who were used in an illegal pornography ring. The sight of it is enough to send a shiver down Frank's spine.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Although the series consistently remains a vigilante action story for the most part, there are a few arcs that briefly delve into other genres. Most noticeably, "Mother Russia" is essentially an R-Rated James Bond thriller that happens to star Frank Castle, and Welcome to the Bayou is a hillbilly horror flick, complete with a Gas Station of Doom and a lonely cabin in the woods.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: In one particularly creepy moment, three prison slags prepare to gang up on O'Brien while she is showering with the intention of raping her. Luckily, O'Brien manages to successfully fend them off, doing so while soaking wet and completely nude.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Explicitly averted. Frank fought in and is described as a product of the Vietnam War. In the MAX series, he ages appropriately, and is drawn as a beefy 50/60 year old man... while the main continuity just tries not draw your attention to it too much.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: In the in-universe book titled "Valley Forge", John Chadwick from the US Army tank battalion is a perfect example of this, along with being one of the better representations of a military figure in a Garth Ennis story. A villanous example occurs with Harry Ebbing. The life of luxury and excess he provides his employees is so appealing that one of his lieutenants, after being kidnapped and gangraped over whistleblower threats, apologizes to him and begs to be allowed back into the fold.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Subverted. Although it takes place in a crime ridden setting filled with corruption, crime, and general mayhem that's populated with Ax-Crazy hitmen, sadistic Femme fatales, and grizzled vigilantes hardcore enough to single-handedly take out entire armies all by themselves, the vast majority of cast members are just ordinary people or by-the-numbers mooks who have a fairly low survival rate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1b40fc16	type	Extreme Libido
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1b40fc16	comment	Barracuda has an Extreme Libido and often has sex with prostitutes. It's never shown to be satisfying for them, and he doesn't care one bit about anything other than them getting him off, often getting violent and demanding. The only person who's ever shown to enjoy sex with him is Wanda from the Barracuda miniseries, who's a former hardcore pornstar and who's so jaded from her career that Barracuda's roughness (not to mention his massive endowment) just registers as satisfying sex to her.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1b5fa24a	comment	Despite having ample opportunity to kill him, Frank merely non-fatally wounds The Brute in "Six Hours to Kill" after realizing that he is a borderline-psychotic Shell-Shocked Veteran of the Vietnam War who is more than likely being manipulated by the rest of Room 101.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1c5002bc	comment	Frank doesn't do this often, being The Stoic, but he completely destroys the last shreds of dignity Nicky Cavella has with one.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Ever since Castle's family was slain in a mob hit, this has become Castle's entire MO. Exactly how far he is willing to go with it depends on the situation. "The Slavers" contains one of the more infamous examples of this trope. In it, Castle is battling a group of war criminals turned human traffickers who do horrible, horrible things to their captives. When Frank gets his hands on one of the three ring leaders behind the operation, as part of his interrogation of the man, he pulls out two feet of the man's intestines and wraps them around a tree while he's still alive. The other two ringleaders were also disposed of in very graphic ways. The woman who came up with the trafficking ring's way of breaking their captives was thrown against a shatterproof window face-first multiple times until the window frame broke and she fell multiple stories to her death. Later, in order to scare off the other cells of the trafficking ring, Frank ties the Ax-Crazy father of the other two ringleaders to a chair, douses him in gasoline, and lights him on fire while recording the whole thing.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1d77dd02	type	Motivational Lie
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1d77dd02	comment	Motivational Lie: The "Widowmaker" arc, sees a group of widowed mafiosi wives using an elaborate scheme to trick The Punisher into believing a young woman has been kidnapped by a prostitution ring. Naturally, both groups end up slaughtered by the end.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: In the penultimate issue #22 of Jason Aaron's run, both Frank Castle and Wilson Fisk mortally wound each other, though both keep going for a disturbingly long time, with Fisk making it to his tower before being locked out and finished off, while Castle makes it part of the way back to his family's abandoned house/his last hideout before expiring.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	"The Slavers" is another Papa Wolf moment for Frank. Encountering some human traffickers, Castle is so enraged with what these scum do to their victims that by the end of the arc, he's shocked at what he has done. Including carving up one of the ringleaders, wrapping his intestines around a tree, and then waking the man up.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: In "Valley Forge, Valley Forge", the last arc written by Garth Ennis, the brother of one of the marines who fought alongside Frank during his last tour in Vietnam has written a book about what happened to his brother under Castle's command. Excerpts of the book and of interviews with other soldiers, including the guys who picked up the Sole Survivor, are interspersed throughout the main story.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Frank himself was probably at his most brutal in "The Slavers". With the monstrous slavers smuggling women into the US to be sex slaves, including an hours-long gang rape on each slave to start out, you don't really feel for them at all when Frank, among other punishments, throws a woman who oversaw this horror into shatterproof glass enough times that finally the frame bends enough for the pane to fall out and for her to plummet to her death. Or when Frank gets information from a slaver by disemboweling him and wrapping his intestines around a tree◊ while they're still attached to him; the interrogation is implied to begin at sunrise, which makes things worse when Frank casually mentions in the next issue that it took him until NOON to bleed out.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: In the "In the Beginning" arc, villain Nicky Cavella puts a gun to the Punisher's head when the Punisher is tied up and pulls the trigger. The Punisher dodges the shot and bites off several of Cavella's fingers. Big Jesus in the Homeless arc smuggles a razor blade under his fingernail.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1eed1d03	type	Anti-Air
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1eed1d03	comment	Anti-Air: "Mother Russia" has an interesting variation on this. At one point, when Frank needs to deal with some Russian conscripts guarding a nuclear silo, he dispenses them by using an anti-air gun. Major carnage ensues◊.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Dolnovich used this trope on Rawlins to give him a last-minute attempt to come up with the Batman Gambit of his life. Notably, he didn't even want to let Rawlins live in the first place and tried to shoot down the latter's attempt to save his life.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f518822	type	Androcles' Lion
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f518822	comment	Androcles' Lion: George Howe in "Valley Forge, Valley Forge", or at least what his hapless "minder" ends up thinking he is. When the colonel was a regular soldier in Vietnam, he was rescued by a Special Forces raid that inspired him to enter Special Forces himself; the lieutenant realizes at the end that one of the participants was none other than Frank Castle himself. In the penultimate issue of "Widowmaker" arc, Castle is rescued by a woman who explains that she saved Castle because Castle killed her brutal mobster husband, who frequently beat and raped her alongside his friends.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Unrestrained by the standards of previous runs, this series takes full advantage of the possibilities granted to them by the MAX label.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Russian soldiers guarding the nuclear silo base in "Mother Russia". Most of whom are just conscripts who aren't even aware of what it is they're really guarding and are only following orders until they're shipped out and stationed somewhere else.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Seeing as how this is a Darker and Edgier take on the Punisher and the Marvel universe as a whole, this is to be expected. The most obvious would be Frank Castle. Here, he is presented as a glorified serial killer who uses the deaths of his family as an excuse to satisfy his bloodlust. It gets to the point that he is only a "hero" on the grounds that the men he hunts happen to be worse than he is. Elektra. In the main MU, she was at best a morally ambiguous assassin who took a wide variety of jobs for the right price, but always upheld some sort of code. Here, she is far more amoral - she kills on a whim, and at one point hog-ties a man and brings his family along so they can watch him be beaten to death.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: "Welcome to the Bayou" sees the Punisher going on a cross-country road trip from Brooklyn to New Orleans to deliver some "cargo". On his way there, he stops by a local gas station, run by some hicks, to refuel. Once there, he quickly realizes that something seems off about the place, and so decides to investigate. What follows is a series of bizarre and unfortunate events involving cannibal clans, alligator-wrestling hillbillies, and a sexy crazy chick in daisy dukes.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The series is a good example (put it this way: the ending involves lynch mobs arming themselves and dressing up in Punisher gear to kill whatever organized criminals they can find and this is still treated like a good thing), with even the hero being a decidedly dark gray in a black and gray world. Of course, it helps that it's basically our world with a few vigilantes in it.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Hardcore mobster Nicolas Cavella earned his reputation in the Cesare Family during a sit-down in a Chinese restaurant with an overconfident Triad boss named Joseph Kai. Kai was eating a dish and arrogantly telling Cavella that he and his crew wouldn't back down in the face of the Cesare Family, claiming he had three strong sons backing him up...only for Cavella to retort "two strong sons" and inform him that he and his two henchmen had arrived early and replaced the kitchen staff, and that the boss' youngest son "never made it home from school". Upon learning what happened to his son's body, Kai is visibly horrified as he realizes what he just ate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_221a4bf4	type	Iconic Sequel Character
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_221a4bf4	comment	Iconic Sequel Character: General Zakharov and Barracuda, two of the most infamous Punisher foes in recent memory, debut in the third and fifth arcs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Not as prevalent as it is in some of Ennis's other works like Preacher and The Boys, but it pops up every now and then, largely on the part of Frank's victims.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2473b050	type	Fast-Roping
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2473b050	comment	Fast-Roping: The "Mother Russia" arc depicts a squadron of Russian commandos using this tactic to enter a missile silo base via an empty elevator shaft, with the goal of eliminating a terrorist unit that has infiltrated the base. Unfortunately for them, the "terrorist" waiting for them happens to be Frank Castle. Who just happens to have rigged the aforementioned shaft with a shit-ton of explosives.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: During his time in Vietnam, Frank was a Force Recon Marine. What's more, in his final tour of duty he was the Captain of a Marine Outpost. Given as the reason for Howe's involvement in Frank's capture: the U.S. Armed Forces trained the guy, and look what he did with that training. When General Zakharov returns in "Man of Stone", he brings along his squad of Soviet Black Sea Marines to help him deal with The Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: The second series applies this trope to Frank's war on crime in general, with a common theme in the series being Frank's inability to effect any lasting change on New York's crime scene, where there is never an end to the criminals no matter how many Frank offs. MAX!Nick Fury, who is revealed to have shadowed Frank for much of his war, laments at the end of the series that Frank murdered, suffered and ultimately, died all for nothing...only for the next page to show that Frank inspired hordes of people to stand up for themselves and kick criminals out of their neighborhood.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Frank Castle's children, Lisa and Frank David Castle. The former was shot in the belly, while the latter was shot through the mouth. In "The Slavers", one escaped victim recounts the time when a pair of slavers sent her an email... that included an image of her baby's lifeless corpse. Wilson Fisk's 8-year old son has his throat slit by Don Rigoletto. Fisk realizes that he doesn't really care that his son is dead. Unfortunately for him, the death of their son also set his wife Vanessa against him, which would eventually result in his downfall and gruesome death.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In Platoon, one of Frank's squad is falling asleep in his chair, with a squadmate sticking a cigarette in the sleeping man's ear and lighting it.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	comment	"The Slavers" is the perfect example of this trope. All Frank really achieved is a few more corpses and a little bit more of his own humanity chipped away. The horror still continues, no one is redeemed, and just to rub it in, the few girls that Frank did manage to save either went back to prostitution, died, or are stuck as psychological train wrecks. But you wanna know what the worst part is? It's based on real-world crimes.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: "The Slavers" is the most notorious arc of the entire run. It details just how horrific human trafficking is, and the leaders of the trafficking ring suffer far slower and more graphic deaths and than any other character does during the series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Garth Ennis took this concept in an interesting direction during "Widowmaker", where the widows of several high-level mafiosos Frank had brutally murdered come together to take vengeance on him. However, before Frank can come up against the potentially morally interesting decision of how to deal with them, they are interrupted by another Mafia widow, who is thankful to Frank for killing her husband, an abusive bastard who beat her nearly to death and had his friends rape her, and has nothing but contempt for the other widows (the leader of whom is her own sister) who cruelly abused her. Despite the other widows trying to garner sympathy with the horror of their husbands' deaths, the story points out how selfish and self-centered they are with how the lavish lifestyles they enjoyed were funded by violent crime perpetrated by their vicious husbands.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	Once more with Tiberiu and his henchmen. Yes, they are a group of amoral slave traffickers, but their combat prowess cannot be ignored. After all, it takes a very special group of individuals to force a man like Frank Castle to run for his life.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: In "Kitchen Irish", Finn Cooley and his crew are laying low in a local Irish pub, trying not to draw attention to themselves, when suddenly a drunken boor blows their cover and has the entire bar give a toast to them for fighting for their "dear Ireland"...which inadvertently attracts the attention of the Punisher, who gets them at gun point. Then in the middle of all this, the River Rats show up and all hell breaks loose... which conveniently provides Finn and his crew a chance to escape out the back kitchen. Once in the back kitchen, they find the drunken idiot who caused the whole ordeal and see that he has shat his pants.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Played with. In "Kitchen Irish", Maginty is seen with a "Ped Ef" box, but oddly enough, they have no problem mentioning other brands such as UPS by name. Many of the cars in the series greatly avert this trope, with the logos for TOYOTA, JEEP and others all being clearly displayed. Also averted in the case for many of the Firearm manufacturers. In fact, the Springfield Armory logo on Frank's M911 is very visible in one panel.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: In the event that Frank wishes to completely and utterly annihilate his enemies, you can rest assured that he will bring along his trusty M60/M249 to help him get the job done. Most notably demonstrated in the very first issue, when Frank uses a M60 attached to a tripod to disintegrate a gang of capos. Barracuda one-ups Frank in this department. In the beginning of "Long Cold Dark", when he lures dozens of gangsters from dozens of different gangs into one hotel room, Barracuda annihilates them with his M60. Every last one of them.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: Elektra (the old flame of Daredevil in the mainstream universe) and The Kingpin's wife, Vanessa Fisk, are a couple.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Perhaps the definitive example of this trope in popular media. New York as a whole is depicted as a rancid squalor, filled with Pimps, hookers, Mafiosi (and organized crime of other ethnicities), crooked cops and just about every other vice imaginable. In "Kitchen Irish", Frank mocks the idea of gentrifying Hell's Kitchen - calling it "Clinton" and making it trendy to yuppies hasn't done anything to make it safer.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: This is the central theme of the series. All throughout the comic, we watch Frank operate as an uncompromising engine of vengeance in a Crapsack World. He's fully aware that his "war on crime" has damned him to hell and there's no hope of redemption. He just doesn't care.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d4fa515	comment	The gist behind Barracuda's mini-series, where we get to see a day in the life of the Ax-Crazy merc.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Finn Cooley used to be this until he decided that this lifestyle was for the birds and that he was going to get him some sweet inheritance money so he could ride Angelina Jolie if she'd have him, apparently. Didn't last long, unfortunately. Bullseye takes this to a whole new level, with his psychotic side being even less picky about the death and destruction caused in carrying out his contracts than in his other incarnations.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Frank is pretty much made up of these due to his taciturn nature, along with Blunt "Yes" and Flat "What". One example does stand out from his Vietnam days, when his team attacked an enemy camp to rescue some downed pilots. By the time they got there, there was only one pilot left alive. This exchange immediately followed:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: A truly horrific example occurs in the "Mother Russia" arc. When a cabal of crooked generals devise a plan to keep the Russian government from discovering the US military's involvement in an illegal operation that involves stealing a biochemical agent from a Russian nuclear silo base, they have a team of homegrown Arab terrorist they secretly trained for taking out targets inside enemy countries hijack a passenger plan and attempt a suicide bombing in Moscow. All in an effort to fool the Russians into believing that Al-Qaeda is behind the operation.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Frank's only interest is in killing people he thinks are bad. He'll save innocent lives when he can, but he doesn't care about what happens to them afterwards. The only time he is actually interested in saving people are when children are involved and in "The Slavers", where the alternative is to let the police handle the girls he rescues, which would result in them being deported and enslaved or killed.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2e5ada89	type	Grenade Launcher
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2e5ada89	comment	Grenade Launcher: Frank's signature M16 is commonly seen outfitted with a M203 grenade launcher attachment.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2f8c5157	type	Rogues' Gallery Transplant
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_2f8c5157	comment	Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Jason Aaron's continuation of the main series introduced MAX versions of numerous Spider-Man and Daredevil-related characters and organizations like the Fisks, Don Rigoletto, Bullseye, the Hand and the Enforcers. The Greater-Scope Villain of the one-shot Hot Rods of Death turns out to be the Roxxon Energy Corporation.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Barracuda. The guy loses all the fingers on one hand and simply reacts with a laugh and a smile. Maginty; the self-professed "Baddest nigger who ever came outta Dublin", from "Kitchen Irish": Kidnaps a Retired Monster's grandson to make him do his work (cutting up bodies so they can't be found) on a live man, then brings said grandson in to watch. Also Played for Laughs in "Kitchen Irish" when Finn Cooley Needs a Freaking Drink after a confrontation and starts grumbling about how he's done "being people's nigger". He's white. The Gangbangers whose bar he walked into are not. Cue This Is Gonna Suck, and cut to next scene.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Frank sees himself as a monster but has a strict code against harming innocents and doesn't want to drag other people in his crusade. During the "Widowmaker" arc, one of the widows brings up the way Frank dealt with the slavers, including throwing a woman against a reinforced glass window for half an hour, and admits that she herself might have gone at it for an hour. This is the reason behind why Nicky and his crew were exiled to Boston. The moment the Mob learned of the methods that Nicky and his enforcers used to "send a message" to the Triads, they immediately had Nicky and his boys kicked outta New York. While Konstantin Pronchenko from the Soviet miniseries is fine with ordering atrocities, he is not fine with actually committing them himself, so the Punisher punishes him by forcing him to skin a man alive. Pronchenko cries, begs, vomits, urinates, and defecates the entire time, and by the end is left so traumatized by the ordeal that he becomes a mute wreck who gets dumped in an insane asylum. The series actually deconstructs this trope quite a bit, showing that for all their self-proclaimed morals, what the characters are actually doing is trying to convince themselves that their actions are justified and that they can't be all that bad because there's someone worse out there. For example, General Zakharov views Rawlins as a complete and utter scumbag. He's right, but he's still a war criminal guilty of mass murder and throwing a baby off a cliff. Tiberiu Bulat notes that if someone desecrated his late wife's corpse as Nicky Cavella did Frank's, he would have gone even farther in a bloody rampage than the Punisher did. Then again, may be less an example of "standards" than Tiberiu relishing any excuse to murder people. This is specifically why Fury recruited Castle for Operation Barbarossa. He says outright that Frank is the only person he knows who could complete the job and would never, ever kill a child. Fury: My War Gone By shows how Fury knows this: He and Frank were spotted by a child in Vietnam while on their very illegal mission, and neither man was willing to kill the kid to stay undetected, which led to their discovery and capture.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: In "The Slavers", when Frank goes after the second ringleader of the sex slave operation, he corners her in her office. Since the windows are made out of reinforced glass, he proceeds to repeatedly throw the woman face-first into the window until the frame gives and she plummets to her death.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: "Welcome to the Bayou" has an absolutely psychotic woman suggesting this as Frank's fate. He thinks he'd prefer being eaten by cannibals.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: Zig-zagged. Played straight with Frank Castle and Wilson Fisk; the former was a Captain in the USMC during his final tour of duty in 'Nam, the latter is a Mafia Don, and both are definitely among the most lethal characters in the series. Subverted, with the eight Generals. Despite their ranks, not a single one of them has ever seen any real combat before, and they all immediately cower in the presence of someone like Nick Fury. Barracuda was a Sergeant Major in the US Army and is every bit as hardcore as Frank Castle.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Frank's murder of Microchip, his former sidekick. Microchip was killed because he was turning a blind eye to government-funded drug operations to get his dough, making it a Kick the Dog moment for himself as well. He was also given the chance to escape: they were holed up in a warehouse awaiting an attack from the mob and Frank told Micro to run, but Micro decided to stay. Apparently, he didn't quite understand what Frank meant.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: As is the case with most of Garth Ennis' adult oriented work, the swearing in this series really is something to behold. At times, the gratuitousness of the vulgarities veers into the realm of self parody. Case in point:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Lampshaded in a conversation between disfigured IRA bomber Finn Cooley and his partner in crime, Michael Morrison, an American gun runner of Irish descent (who fakes an Irish accent when talking to Finn). At one point Finn literally has to tape what's left of his face to keep it in place. When Michael asks if it slips, Finn casually replies "Like your accent?"
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35ba90ab	type	Recruiting the Criminal
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_35ba90ab	comment	Recruiting the Criminal: The plot of the first arc involves corrupt CIA honcho Robert Bethell, trying to recruit The Punisher into his highly secretive, highly illegal CIA black ops unit, even though everyone around him is trying to warn him about how much of a poorly thought out plan this is.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: "The Slavers" sees Frank taking on a sex trafficking ring. The horrible, horrible things that the slavers do to the people they've enslaved hits every one of Castle's berserk buttons concerning violence of women and children in general, resulting in one of his most brutal killing sprees in the entire series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_36f7a5c9	type	Small Town, Big Hell
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_36f7a5c9	comment	Small Town, Big Hell: "Little Girls In White Dresses" has Frank get called to the rescue of a tiny backwater near the Mexican border that's been converted to the mass production of drugs, holding their children hostage if they don't cooperate. He even ends up facing Jigsaw again, although they don't speak or even identify each other. It ends with Frank shooting up the place, and the Big Bad getting ripped apart by the mob of freed villagers.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: In the second MAX series, Castle himself is killed. Even then, though, he manages to finish what he started...and inspires hordes of vigilantes to continue his work.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Almost completely averted. No matter how tough and cold-blooded they've been portrayed as being throughout the story, almost all the villains break down and cry and beg for their pathetic lives when the chips are down, even the Kingpin! The only characters to avert this are Pittsy (who pretty much kept going after he should have died), Zakharov (who just told Frank to finish it), Ink (who rarely spoke at all), and Bullseye (who went out with a smile while in a coma, no less!)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3a38e774	type	POW Camp
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3a38e774	comment	POW Camp: In "Valley Forge, Valley Forge", Colonel Howe recalls his nightmarish experience of being held in a Viet Cong P.O.W. camp, where the Viet Cong would take each prisoner to a secluded area and then bring back their severed hands and feet.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: There's an in-universe book called "Valley Forge, Valley Forge" written by the brother of Stevie Goodwin, the young Marine who served and eventually died under the command of Frank Castle back in Vietnam. At one point, the author states that he was reasonably certain that his brother lost his virginity before he left for Vietnam, stating that he was grateful that his brother hadn't died a virgin; if he had, it would have hurt him that much more.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Much like the rest of Garth Ennis' work, the series is on the deep, deep, deep end of the cynicism spectrum. Quite possibly one the darkest most cynical comics ever published by Marvel.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ae6199a	comment	The ONLY person Frank feels sorry for when he guns down a cadre of swamp-dwelling cannibals is the Psychopathic Manchild banished to the edge of the community, kinda-sorta blaming himself for pissing the poor bastard off.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Nicky Cavella. He treats his mafia goons as cannon fodder whenever he goes after Frank, which eventually leads to his capos abandoning him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	comment	In "Mother Russia", Castle is given the task of rescuing a six year old girl from Russian captivity. Upon entering the complex where she is held and meeting her, he says to her in broken Russian: "My name is Frank. If anyone tries to be mean to you, I will be much meaner to them. I promise." Soon after, a skinny, half-naked Mongolian super agent comes and kicks the shit out of Frank with ease. In a daze, he sees the agent slap the girl, which triggers memories of his dying daughter. Roused by the memory of his late daughter, Frank gets back up, grabs the agent by his ankle, and proceeds to swing him around the room, slamming him against the floor, walls, and ceiling until the agent is a pulpy mess, and twisting his leg off "like a drumstick". He only stops when he realizes that he's scaring the poor girl.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Deconstructed with Detective Budiansky in "Widowmaker". He disobeys orders and kills a teenaged school shooter to save a gym full of kids, but while the media loves it, the department does their best to punish him for it, sending him to therapy where a condescending therapist implies that he sees himself as this trope, which he denies. He himself feels no remorse for what he did, but wonders if that makes him similar to Frank. Near the end of the story, his wife is attacked and he tries to take the law into his own hands, but rather than being a Dirty Harry-esque badass, he is simply acting out of rage and helplessness. In the end, a brief encounter with Frank proves to him that they are nothing alike.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Finn Cooley's nephew, Peter Cooley, from "Kitchen Irish" is a rare villainous example. The young man genuinely believes in the IRA, to an almost pitiful extent.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: During the events of "Mother Russia", Frank acts as a father figure to Galina, the six year old Russian girl who he is tasked with returning to the States. Although he tries to keep his emotions at bay, you can tell that Frank grows close to the child, going out of his way to protect her and even getting her some ice cream! Which makes their eventual break up all the more heartbreaking.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Castle himself. His second tour of duty in 'Nam was spent performing sniper work and recon. It's never said exactly what went on (and the men he led on his third tour only knew rumors too "ghoulish" to be true), but Microchip knows about it, and apparently it was when he first started to love violence.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3fcfdefd	type	Hillbilly Horrors
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_3fcfdefd	comment	Hillbilly Horrors: This is pretty much what the "Welcome to the Bayou" arc is all about. In it, we get to see Frank Castle going up against the Geautreauxs, a Cannibal Clan full of gator-raising, racist hillbillies. The second issue of Untold Tales of the Punisher MAX starred a slightly deformed family of redneck drug traffickers who gradually turn on each other as they debate what to do (kill him, sell him, keep him as a bartering chip, etc.) with the captive Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_40a94897	type	The Irish Mob
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_40a94897	comment	The Irish Mob: Seeing how this is a comic book dealing with crime, set in New York, and written by Garth Ennis (who is Irish-Irish mind you), an appearance by the Irish Mob was pretty much inevitable. More specifically, they show up in "Kitchen Irish", which deals with the last remnants of the Irish Mob duking it out in the newly-gentrified Hell's Kitchen.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: At best, when it doesn't go full-on Downer Ending (see below) Punisher MAX ended with Frank dead and laid to rest with his family, finally reuniting with them in death. Fury says that despite all of Frank's work, crime will return sooner or later. However, it's not a complete Downer Ending. Bullseye, Elektra, Vanessa Fisk, and Wilson Fisk are all dead, and many vigilante mobs are fighting back and taking charge of their lives, wearing Frank's skull as their sign. The Punisher may be gone, but his legacy will live on.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Zigzagged. Usually Frank can get whatever information he needs through torture, but in Force of Nature, Frank describes how some people will keep their mouths shut even when threatened with death and how others will shut down before revealing anything useful. He has to come up with an elaborate plot to get information from a trio of low-level crooks. Barracuda also dismisses torture as a way to get his revenge, reasoning that someone like Castle will eventually disconnect.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: A tactic commonly used by the mooks that the Punisher faces off against, though it seldom ever works. In "Mother Russia", when "Operation Barbarossa" goes south and the Punisher is forced to fight his way out of a nuclear missile base in Siberia, the Russians' method of handling this situation amounts to little more than sending wave after of conscripts to charge at him at once in the vain hope that it will work. It doesn't. When the Cannibal Clan from "Welcome to the Bayou" try using this, Frank acknowledges and discusses this trope, stating that he'd rather face an unruly mob than a truly formidable adversary.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_41f45fa2	type	Inexplicably Awesome
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_41f45fa2	comment	Inexplicably Awesome: General Zakharov's right-hand man, The Mongolian, is pretty much this trope personified. Of all the characters in the series, he gets zero backstory, name, or any sort of explanation behind how he and Zakharov met or how he became his henchmen. Nor how this diminutive super agent possess immense fighting prowess, great enough to thrash both a Delta Force operative and The Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: In the MAX continuity, Frank's military history starts out as a mystery, with only the events of his third and final tour being detailed (in Born) and the rest being Noodle Incidents. However, as he kept writing for MAX, both on Punisher and other series, Garth Ennis gradually began filling in the blanks.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Frank often resorts to nasty torture of those working for his current target or otherwise connected to them. Subverted in the Kitchen Irish arc. Frank goes to interrogate a member of the I.R.A., and the reader is treated to pained screams... which were caused by Frank ripping the other man's bandages off. The threat of "real pain" is more than enough to get him talking.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: The series generally averts this whenever a police helicopter is involved but the two Soviet choppers that appear in Mother Russia aren't as lucky. The first one gets blasted out of the sky via stinger missile courtesy of resident Action Girl Kathryn O'Brien, the other one comes crashing down after its two pilots are shot and killed courtesy of a certain skull shirt wearing vigilante.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Frank varies between this and Unstoppable Rage, depending on the situation. He was really pushed over the edge when Nicky Cavella had the brilliant idea of desecrating his family's remains in an effort to piss him off. It worked: he snapped even more than usual from his default Unstoppable Rage to full-on Tranquil Fury and proceeded to methodically go from bar to bar, slaughtering unconnected criminals until the city officials reburied his family. Then he went after the scumbag who did it. After seeing what Cavella did on the news, a random patron even calls it out.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_44e06bb6	type	Boisterous Weakling
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_44e06bb6	comment	Boisterous Weakling: The vast majority of criminals seen throughout the series are tough-talking, gun-happy street hoods... but when they go up against Frank Castle, a trained and battle-hardened soldier with military experience, they're in way over their heads. It's even lampshaded in the first issue.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: A separate and vastly different continuity from the mainstream one, completely devoid of superheroes and filled to the brim with more "conventional" bad-guys. It took a bit (around the release of The Cell comic or "Mother Russia" arc) for this to be concretely established, though, resulting in oddities like events from early stories such as Born and "In the Beginning" being brought up in things like Civil War Files and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Some overlap remains in the actual comics - "Yorkie" Mitchell is first introduced in the Northern Ireland-related issue #18 of Ennis's Marvel Knights Punisher series, the Russian is seen in a flashback in the final arc, and the social worker Jen Cooke plays a prominent role in both the Marvel Knights story "The Hidden" and the MAX story "The Slavers".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Frank Castle to General Zakharov in "Mother Russia", as he explains after Frank successfully escapes the nuclear missile silo by setting one of the missiles to defuse at 8000 feet, stowing away inside, launching it, and parachuting to safety. Especially notable because it came after spending the whole arc insisting to his disbelieving inferiors that they were under attack from Americans and not Arab terrorists. Frank begrudgingly begins viewing Bullseye like this after he realizes the latter is the closet thing that he's ever had to an equal.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_46f3f271	comment	"The Slavers" contains one of the more infamous examples of this trope. In it, Castle is battling a group of war criminals turned human traffickers who do horrible, horrible things to their captives. When Frank gets his hands on one of the three ring leaders behind the operation, as part of his interrogation of the man, he pulls out two feet of the man's intestines and wraps them around a tree while he's still alive.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: In General Zakharov's first appearance, while there's some whispering of his reputation and he does use the We Have Reserves trope (though he was trying to dislodge terrorists from a nuclear silo), Zakharov in the end did stop a nuclear confrontation and showed way more patience with The Starscream than he had a right to. Later, when we see him again, we find out just how he fought in Afghanistan.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In "Mother Russia", when Frank and Vanheim's plan to rescue a six year old girl from a nuclear silo base goes south, Vanheim has no problem trying to inject Galina (the little girl whose blood contains an experimental supervirus) with a lethal poison that will kill her while also stabilizing her blood. Thankfully, Frank is there to stop him before he can go through with it.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: If you could even call it a disguise... but as long as Frank isn't wearing his skull insignia shirt (and even sometimes when he is), apparently nobody can recognize him despite being an infamous global mass murderer whose mugshot has been plastered across the world. Subverted when Barracuda recognizes him, without even particularly looking for him (or ever having met him face-to-face), in a crowded airport.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Unsurprisingly averted in the Max comics, in many, many glorious ways.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: Every now and then a crook will try this on the Punisher. At best? Just buys a few more seconds for their hourglass.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4ae13674	type	To Know Him, I Must Become Him
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4ae13674	comment	To Know Him, I Must Become Him: When the Kingpin hires Bullseye to kill Frank Castle in Jason Aaron's second arc, Bullseye first fails to kill Frank when the latter shows up and tries to snipe the Kingpin. With his first attempt a failure, Bullseye embarks on a quest to get inside Frank's head. This involves wearing Frank's old clothes, eating his food, sleeping in his old hideouts so he may look into his dreams, and finally recreate what created the Punisher in the first place — by kidnapping a family, then having them murdered in the park while pretending he's the father. He repeats this three times, but still doesn't get any closer to understanding what drove Frank to become the Punisher...until he spends a week isolated in a room while staring at old family photos of Frank and his family, and finally realizes what Frank's last words to his wife before she and the kids were killed were — "I want a divorce.".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4c08ef5	type	Gun Accessories
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4c08ef5	comment	Gun Accessories: Frank's many weapons, particularly his signature M16 assault rifle, are commonly depicted with all manner of accessories, such as scopes, suppressors, flashlights, underslung grenade launchers, etc.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: In Frank's climactic confrontation with Elektra, he keeps her from using her sai by shooting it out of her hand, blowing several fingers off her hand in the process.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4d044580	comment	When General Zakharov gives a Motive Rant detailing why he did all of those horrible things during the Afghan-Soviet War, Frank doesn't smash his face in mid-sentence, but instead waits until the end and even asks if he is ready. It was a Mercy Kill, but after hearing what Frank did about the general's actions, it's doubtful that he would've spared him even if he wasn't dying. However, Zakharov's final words do seem to touch a nerve in Frank, given how he's a veteran of The Vietnam War, in which he did more than a few horrible things himself.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4d1ac25b	type	Villains Want Mercy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4d1ac25b	comment	Villains Want Mercy: A lot of the criminals Punisher faces off against fall into this once they get cornered by him, pathetically begging for their lives. Punisher outright ignores them and gives them a painful death instead. Nick Cavella gets special mentions as he was an arrogant mobster who had the â€˜â€™bright ideaâ€™â€™ of digging up Frankâ€™s family and pissing on the remains then sending a recording on TV, confident he could take him on. Once Punisher responds violently by killing off all the mobsters Cavellaâ€™s basically been using as meat shields, he goes after him next. Punisher then drags a tied up Cavella in the middle of the wilderness, who immediately began pleading for his life. He gets a bullet in the gut and stranded in the woods to die slowly and painfully from severe blood loss. In â€œThe Slaversâ€�, Punisher goes after Vera, the one behind the human trafficking ring. She was the one who had unlucky women lifted from the streets gang-raped repeatedly by groups of her men in order to break them, show them they are powerless to do anything. Once Punisher catches up to her, she pleads for mercy, saying she was just â€œrunning a businessâ€�. This doesnâ€™t fly with Frank, who bodily smashes her against shatterproof glass before busting her out the window of her skyscraper office. In â€œWelcome to the Bayouâ€�, the father of a hillbilly family hunts down Frank. They thought they had the advantage in numbers and firepower, but Frank dispatched them all regardless. Once he disarms the father, he immediately pleads for Frank not to kill him. Frank answers with a Boom, Headshot!.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: It should came as no surprise that an adults-only comic book about one of the most gritty, violent, and overly-masculine vigilantes in all of fiction falls into this trope. At times, the obscene levels of machismo (such as that one time when Frank HALO jumped out of a nuke) border on self-parody.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Let's just keep this short by saying that there are no happy endings in this series. "The Slavers" is the perfect example of this trope. All Frank really achieved is a few more corpses and a little bit more of his own humanity chipped away. The horror still continues, no one is redeemed, and just to rub it in, the few girls that Frank did manage to save either went back to prostitution, died, or are stuck as psychological train wrecks. But you wanna know what the worst part is? It's based on real-world crimes.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4eaa9b84	comment	"Kitchen Irish" is basically one long tract of Ennis venting out his hatred of the IRA by having characters talk about how stupid and cowardly the group really is, as well as bashing Irish-Americans who unquestionably support the IRA without knowing all the facts behind the Troubles.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Frank's mission against criminals is partially motivated by his failure to protect his family from being gunned down. It's especially worse once you know that he was about to divorce his wife and leave his children right before they were gunned down. The second MAX series reveals Frank to be this in a bigger, more disturbing way than ever thought. Frank continues to wage his war on crime in order to punish himself with a life of endless suffering. He feels he deserves this because shortly before his family was killed, he decided to divorce his wife and leave his kids with her because his time in Vietnam had made life outside the battlefield unbearable for him. The fact that he was willing to toss aside his family in favor of his bloodlust sticks with him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f1f4751	type	Plot-Powered Stamina
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f1f4751	comment	Plot-Powered Stamina: After shrugging off shotgun shells and sniper rifle bullets for years, in "Widowmaker" Frank takes a nine millimeter bullet from a suppressed MP5 at considerable distance, and apparently it went right through his chest, creating a hole in his back that, according to Jenny, "was too big for sutures" - all she could do was pack it full of gauze. He spends the rest of the story arc bed-ridden, allowing Jenny to become the "She-Punisher" for a short while.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned early on in "Mother Russia," with Frank being surprised that Fury is working for the U.S. military, and Fury being promised permanent control of the organization should Operation Barbarossa succeed. While this is consistent with the status quo shown in the much more comedic Fury (MAX), it stands at odds with this series' otherwise total exclusion of mainstream Marvel Universe elements. In Fury: My War Gone By, which is tonally identical to The Punisher MAX, S.H.I.E.L.D. is nowhere to be found and Fury is portrayed as having worked for the C.I.A. instead.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_4f84cdef	comment	As Rawlins pointed out, Nicky didn't spend any of that time getting mooks that could have taken advantage of Frank's dropped guard! (Frank's still pissed off enough that when he goes after Nicky, he goes along with an obvious setup despite recognizing the setup for one, but he's bailed out of that one.)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: This is more or less what Dynaco's scheme comes down to. They plan on blacking out Florida in order to increase their stock, not caring for the destruction it will most likely cause, and it's implied that the lower class will be the ones who will suffer the most from their plan. This quote just about sums it up:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: Half of the dialogue of a supporting character in "Girls in White Dresses" consists of different terms for methamphetamine.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_51589353	type	The Cartel
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_51589353	comment	The Cartel: In Punisher: Little Black Book, Frank uses a High-Class Call Girl to help him get close to Carlos Ramirez, an ex-Cuban commando who decided to flee to Miami where he promptly killed the leaders of two rival gangs and took over their drug operations.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_520680ca	type	Not Wearing Tights
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_520680ca	comment	Not Wearing Tights: Unlike his mainstream Marvel counterpart, this version of Frank Castle is never once seen wearing his iconic black and white tights. Instead, he opts for a more practical leather outfit complete with a Badass Longcoat as his choice of attire (his trademark skull is a T-shirt over Kevlar) in order to better fit the series' more "realistic" aesthetic.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The series begins with a panel of Frank looking at the tombstone where his dead family lay. The final panel of the very last issue shows the Castle family grave with a new tombstone featuring Frank's name alongside his family.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Barracuda, despite being a treacherous Psycho for Hire and even a self-admitted cannibal, managed to reach this status through being the ever-optimistic, constantly cheerful source of Black Comedy.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a	comment	Empowered Badass Normal: In Punisher: Born, Garth Ennis makes his own supernatural upgrade to part of Frank's backstory: During the battle of Valley Forge, an enigmatic voice gave him the choice to either die in battle or be its agent on Earth. This entity is implied to be Death itself, and it apparently guides The Punisher's hand.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_53a7089a	comment	First, with Pittsy. The mean, vicious little bastard who gives Frank his first real challenge and even gets him reeling on two separate occasions.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: The first Punisher MAX series in relation to the Garth Ennis' Marvel Knights series. The MAX series started immediately after the Knights series ended and though it takes place in its own continuity, characters from the Knights series like Jen Cooke, Yorkie, and the Russian (in a one-panel flashback) make appearances in the MAX series with events from the Knights series referenced, while superheroes who were in the Knights series (Spider-Man, Wolverine and Daredevil particularly) presumably don't exist. The presence of Microchip and the Heavy/Jigsaw imply that even earlier stories may be quasi-canonical, as Micro mentions working with the Punisher for nearly ten years, and it's clear that the Punisher and the Heavy have had previous run-ins, going by their statements about and reactions to each other.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The CIA's elite Alpha squad unit spends the first few issues being hyped up by their handler as being the best the military has to offer, with a few of them even being ex-Delta Force. Despite this, all it takes is for Ink to sneak on top of the elevator that they are in, tamper with the cables a little bit, and ''presto'': Alpha Squad is on their way down to a gruesome fate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Garth Ennis has absolutely no problems using the word, employing it as frequently as possible, in what has to be the most liberal use of the word you will ever find in any mainstream comic out there. In fact, the "Kitchen Irish" arc features an aging Irish gangster who throws the word around like it's confetti.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e	type	Vasquez Always Dies
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_588d6b3e	comment	Vasquez Always Dies: The fate of O'Brien, the tough, sexy, badass CIA chick who's skilled in violence and mayhem. Along with Frank, she manages to successfully kill off most of Zakharov's crew...only to step on a landmine mere moments later. Fulfilling this trope, O'Brian's more demure, domesticated sister survives and goes on to raise her child.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Just like the rest of Garth Ennis' adult-oriented work. The bad guys are usually the epitome of psychotic evil, but morally speaking the good guys aren't anything to write home about either, as they generally tend to be a bunch of murderous sociopaths themselves.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The series as a whole can be considered one for Frank Castle's entire mythos. Most of the story arcs are just a set of "hardboiled" crime stories with only Frank Castle (and an Ennis take on Castle's backstory) to make it "Punisher," which works very well. (In "The Slavers", though, it works too well, especially when you can see the Downer Ending coming a mile away.)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: He may be getting old, but Nick Fury certainly hasn't lost a step. The man is at an Air Force base for less than a week and he already has the place running just how he likes it, "no smoking" rules be damned. Not to mention he is shown constantly telling a cabal of Generals where they can stick it and receiving no repercussions for doing so. In fact, at one point, he even delivers a nasty beating to a particularly slimy General with his belt and threatens anyone who tries to intervene, warning one of them who tries to call for help "Touch that phone and you're next, pissant!" Oh, and he gets away with that too.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Nick Fury, obviously. Later on, after having had his eye ripped out by the Punisher, Rawlins begins wearing one.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Cristu Bulat from "The Slavers" arc, in total contrast to his father. The relationship between the two is rather strained because Cristu views human trafficking as a business and raping girls as just part of the business. He also berates his father for using his bare hands instead of a gun to kill a gang member, as well as for shooting the whole gang. As you could guess from his profession, though, he's still a heartless, raping bastard. His pragmatism is best demonstrated by his willingness to kill his own father. It doesn't work out, both because he underestimated his father and because he gets disemboweled.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5d4ae31f	type	Fury-Fueled Foolishness
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5d4ae31f	comment	Fury-Fueled Foolishness: The arc "Up is Down, Black is White" revolves around the attempted invocation of this trope by a Mafia lieutenant - he hopes that, by pissing off Frank Castle more than anybody has ever done, he will be too damn angry to think straight and he will be easy to lead into a trap. He performs this angering by desecrating the defunct Castles' bodies and sending the videotape of this act to the news. Let us just say that the part where Frank got pissed worked perfectly, to the lieutenant's peril.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: This is how Nicky Cavella goes out after he makes the mistake of digging up Frank Castle's family and pissing on their remains. Castle was not happy about this asshole doing this, and did not want to make his end a quick one, leaving him in the wilderness to die of infection or blood loss after gut-shooting him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Frank seems to know without fail whether any given person is a criminal who deserves death or not... or he's just extremely good at self-justification. This could be a trait he has as Death's avatar, an aspect of his character Ennis introduced.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: This sort of thing tends to happen a lot in this series. In the very first arc, the CIA successfully manages to apprehend Frank Castle and plans on recruiting him so he can once again work for the government...until Nicolas Cavella and his crew barge into their base of operations and all hell breaks loose, which inadvertently helps Frank get away. In "Up is Down and Black is White", Kathryn O'Brien's unforeseen intervention succeeds in derailing Rawlins' plans of assassinating the Punisher. Happens once again in "Widowmaker", this time with Jenny Cesare being the one to save Frank from an assassination attempt by a group of pissed-off mafia widows.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Writer Garth Ennis seems to have a knack for coming up with these - for example, Barracuda and The Man of Stone.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_617eef78	type	Heel–Face Town
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_617eef78	comment	Heelâ€“Face Town: Subverted. While the character first started operating in The Big Rotten Apple (with turf wars and gang violence aplenty) after returning from Vietnam, the MAX version (who is still a Vietnam veteran) says that you can rename the worst parts of town and gentrify it and clean it up but it won't change anything about the people in there. He says this just before a bomb goes off in the bar across the street to reignite a war between The Mafia and The Irish Mob. The very first arc involves him killing the centenarian mafia don Cesare, which has recurring effects for the rest of the series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: In the initial arc of the series, when the CIA team assisted by Micro captures Frank, the female operative listens outside the door of his interrogation for a chance to hear him speak, admitting she is extremely turned on by deep gravelly voices. When Frank does finally speak, she backs away from the door in visible horror and immediately asks where the suite minibar is.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Subverted spectacularly at one point; Nicky Cavella, desperate to finish off the Punisher, attempts to bully his capo underlings into giving him their men. Not only do they tell him to get bent, they also rant at how they're not going to serve as cannon fodder for an obvious General Failure, complete with his mooks giving him a Hannibal Lecture on how much of a fuckup he is. This took major brass on their end, since Nicky was known for, among other things, chopping up a preteen and serving him to his father. Though it helped that Cavella no longer had any soldiers left (the Punisher had killed them all) and his enforcers Pittsy and Ink were also dead, hence he no longer had any power whatsoever over his capos. Played perfectly straight in the "Mother Russia" arc, which sees the Punisher having to fight his way out of a nuclear silo base in Siberia. The Russian military seems to have no problem sending wave after wave of conscript soldiers to go and stop him as he keeps slaughtering them.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: Jenny Cesare from the "Widowmaker" arc definitely comes across as this. After seeing Frank shot by the women she is targeting, she saves him and takes him to her apartment. Even though she tends to his wounds, Frank can't help but feel a little bit like her prisoner, but Jenny does nothing to stop him from leaving, and he cannot leave because of his gunshot injuries. So he patiently listens as she describes what was done to her, as well as her sympathy for what was done to him and how she believes she and Frank are kindred spirits. Jenny then requests that Frank give her his shirt and jacket so she can become the She-Punisher and kill the women responsible for her pain, and that Frank stay until she finishes what she started. Frank begins to feel more and more like a prisoner, and notes Jenny would stop him even if he could leave, before passing out and ending up handcuffed. She later beats her abusive sister to death with a baseball bat, has sex with Frank, and blows her brains out on climax.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: This is one of Barracuda's favorite ways of disposing of his victims. In his first fight with Frank, he overpowers him and wins the fight. Instead of, say, shooting Frank there and then and not having to worry about him later, Barracuda simply throws him into the ocean to be eaten by a great white shark. This doesn't work. Later on in an act of poetic justice, it's Barracuda who finds himself being fed to the sharks.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: In the final issue of Ennis' run, Castle is outmaneuvered and captured by a Special Forces unit. Turns out that its commander, Colonel Howe, owes Frank his life - he rescued a teenage Howe from a Viet Cong camp during the war. To Castle, it was just another of his countless deniable operations. To Howe, it was the most important moment in his life - the reason he joined Special Forces in the first place. This is why he volunteered to take Castle alivenote he had every intention of stopping Castle's rampage... by capture, trial, conviction, and sentencing, not by extrajudicial killing, and upon discovering that the generals who ordered the takedown were bastards, he freed Castle and let him kill them all, which led to a moment where Howe only left him a single handgun and eight bullets to do it. Castle simply gave the eight generals one headshot each and walked away.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_64dad36b	type	Missile Lock-On
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_64dad36b	comment	Missile Lock-On: When Frank allows himself to be taken hostage aboard an enemy Mil Mi-24 gunship in order to get closer to General Zakharov. His Russian captors experience a rude awakening when they hear the familiar sounds of sirens alerting them that they are in missile lock...
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6552b710	type	The Syndicate
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6552b710	comment	The Syndicate: Although the five crime families in New York initially start off as separate entities, over the course of Jason Aaron's first arc, Don Rigoletto has Wilson Fisk go from family to family, slowly but surely earning the trust and respect of each family, until they finally agree to join Don Rigoletto's newly proposed syndicate. Once the syndicate has been formed, Fisk then kills Don Rigoletto and usurps his position, taking over his newfound crime syndicate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_657bb751	type	The Yardies
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_657bb751	comment	The Yardies: Another one of the many criminal groups active in New York. However, unlike the Italians and the Russians, they don't get much screen time.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Pittsy, Barracuda, and the Mennonite all manage to nearly kill Frank by virtue of the fact that they're really, really, really tough. See Made of Iron down below in case you need any examples of just how durable these three are.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Horribly, horribly subverted in Naked Kill: Eleventhree, the "star" of the Snuff Film industry he's working for, is known only by the dimensions of his member when he's not aroused, and his employers use it to the fullest extent in their Snuff Film enterprise (he splits the girls open).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye Due to the nature of the series, its not uncommon to see side characters get little in the way of characterization before getting unceremoniously killed off. Poor old Massimo Cesare, the old man gets only two panels before getting his brain ventilated by the Punisher. The Mennonite is a curious example. He shows up fairly late in the first arc, yet is given a fairly deep backstory, complete with a loving family and even a compelling reason to go after the Punisher, making us believe that he will play a major role in what's to come. Despite this, he appears in all of only 3 issues before finally being killed by the Punisher. Granted, he did put up one hell of a fight before he went down, but still.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Not only are there plenty of different guns depicted throughout the series, but Frank knows weapons like no one's business. He practically makes it a sub-genre, as evidenced in the Christmas special:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Barracuda starts threatening Frank and O'Brien's daughter by nicking her skin with a knife. The next page shows Frank in a hospital, plaster casts and bandages everywhere, noting that he can't remember what happened, so he starts putting together what happened from his wounds.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The annual follows the POV of an arsonist being pursued by the Punisher through Manhattan. It never once shows the Punisher's perspective; he is instead presented as an unstoppable force that the criminal just can't get away from. Earlier than that, the CIA was treated to a very literal horror show when they witnessed Frank massacre dozens of mobsters via satellite. Even Frank's old buddy Microchip is shaken up by what he's seen.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: What Frank's one-man war on crime unfortunately comes down to. He knows that he will never be able to have any long-lasting effect on crime, no matter how many capos or drug dealers he kills. Best exemplified at the end of "The Slavers", where even after dealing with the heads of the human trafficking operation, the slavery ring in New York doesn't stop, it just gets more "sophisticated".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Despite being something of an unstoppable killing machine, Frank Castle is typically a very calm, methodical man...until Nicky Cavella digs up his family's remains and pisses on them. This does not go down well. A livid Frank proceeded to pack up his M-249 and consecutively attack various criminal hideouts, racking up 68 kills... in one night. It was so bad that he wasn't even really aware of what he was doing each time until the recoil from his gun kicked in; he was in a sort of perpetual hallucination until his family was returned to their graves.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Invoked with the general who'd come up with the terrorist plot after getting his face wrecked by Nick Fury. Characters in the story repeatedly bring up his humiliating beating and he reacts predictably in each case (i.e. sniveling).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: Thanks to a great deal of research on the writer's part, this series is one of the rare comic books that actually manages to avoid this trope... for the most part, as there are a couple of details that somewhat lapse into this. The ranks of Nick Fury and George Howe are a bit unrealistic. Despite the years of service that both men have put in, they only hold the rank of Colonel, even though in real-life thirty years is typically long enough for a real world officer to reach the rank of General. In Howe's case it's possible that he was an enlisted man who gained an officer's commission later in his career, thus explaining why he doesn't hold a higher rank. Nick Fury's case is an especially egregious example, as he is mentioned as having been the director of SHIELD at some point, when in reality he would have to hold the rank of General to command an organization that large. Frank Castle's military rank is another curious example. The Valley Forge arc identifies Frank as a "21 year old Captain in April 1971" during his final tour in Vietnam. It's later revealed in Fury: My War Gone By (also written by Ennis) that Nick Fury himself put Frank up for Captain the year before; considering how much authority and respect Fury had in the military even back then, Frank reaching this rank at such a young age isn't too out of the question.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Are you surprised to see this here? Yes, as dark and edgy as the series may be, The Punisher MAX X-Mas Special written by Jason Aaron serves as one of these. In it, Frank Castle decimates the Chicago mob during the titular holiday. Made more notable by the fact that this one-shot story predates Jason Aaron's "official" run on the Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: In "Mother Russia", while at a bar in Siberia, Frank and a Delta Force operative need to kidnap a pair of Russian guards with the intent of stealing their uniforms. They decide the best course of action is to start a good old-fashioned bar brawl as a cover for their kidnapping. It works, and the ensuing brawl sends seven men to the hospital and another one to the morgue.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7188489c	type	Let the Past Burn
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7188489c	comment	Let the Past Burn: In the final Punisher Max arc, "Homeless", after the death of Frank, Nick Fury takes a flamethrower to the house where the Castle family used to live and where Frank had been staying during the events of the arc. By doing so, he hopes to put an end to the tragedy that made The Punisher once and for all.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Nicky Cavella, Rawlins, the Bulats, the Generals, and Finn Cooley all drop ethnic slurs like it's going out of style. This gets Finn in deep shit when he loudly proclaims he'll "never be anyone's nigger again" in a bar full of black guys. The Heavy/Jigsaw is pretty racist as well as very misogynistic, referring to Hispanic women as "spic bitches", "coozes", and "whores" nearly every time he opens his mouth.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_72e54916	comment	Another special mention goes to the Westies/Maginty/River Rats/Cooley for actually believing that their Retired Monster boss actually wanted to give them his fortune. Frank and Yorkie couldn't help but think that this was odd and they didn't even know him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Frank tries to present himself as the Mission-Based type, but in later stories, he's shown to be more of the Hedonistic type; subconsciously obsessed with the idea of a never-ending war to sate the bloodlust he developed in Vietnam.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover for the Force of Nature one-shot shows the Punisher fighting a monstrous sperm whale in the middle of the ocean. While he does kill a whale in the comic, it is an offhanded accident. The cover for the Christmas Special is even worse, depicting Frank and a Lady Not Appearing in This Comic combating an army of evil Christmas Elves.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_73194909	type	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_73194909	comment	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: A cabal of corrupt US Army generals use their connections to send a group of honest US soldiers after The Punisher. Frank doesn't kill them, but the soldiers learn the hard way that non-lethal force doesn't mean gentle force. Thanks to the orders of their commander, who deliberately accepted the task to cover for his own agenda, they return the "favor". However, he has no problems shooting up Russian conscripts in a missile base.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The series has a habit of doing this quite often. On several occasions, they'll even name the arc after the words in question. First The Tyger, where Frank reminisces about his youth as he prepares to make his first kills in his war on crime. He muses that after his identity comes out, "they'll blame it on the war, and they'll be right, and they'll be wrong". Most of the comic then divulges a scarring childhood event in which a close friend of his is raped and then commits suicide. As Frank prepares to take revenge himself, he sees the older brother of his friend viciously beat the perpetrator before setting him on fire. A later part of the comic has two all-black pages filled with speech bubbles, detailing the paramedics' arrival on the scene of his family's shooting and the horror of it all, and the doctors talking to him later in the hospital and telling him that none of his family survived. Returning to the present, Frank coldly snipes a group of mobsters and thinks "They'll blame it on Vietnam. And they'll be right, and they'll be wrong." "Up is Down and Black is White", Frank and O'Brien's saying that helps them cope with the insane world they live in. The "Barracuda" arc gives us: "What's the only thing more dangerous than a Barracuda?"
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_74911014	type	Internal Deconstruction
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_74911014	comment	Internal Deconstruction: A big emphasis is placed throughout the series on how the Punisher's success rate is at least partly owing to the fact that the majority of his targets are just low-level gangsters - intimidating to the average Joe, but completely out of their depth when it comes to actual combat. So in "The Slavers", where he attempts to attack what he later realizes are a group of battle-hardened Bosnian war vets who do know what they're doing, he quickly realizes he's made a huge mistake and is forced to flee for his life. See Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy above for more details.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: The one truly redeeming trait about Frank is his affinity for children and his paternal instinct to ensure their safety, no matter the cost. The shining example of this is in "Mother Russia". where Frank is tasked with retrieving a little Russian girl whose blood contains an experimental supervirus and is being held captive in a nuclear silo base. While stuck in the base, Frank does his best to ensure the little girl doesn't see any violence or gore, at one point fetching her ice cream from another room because the hallway is covered in blood and corpses. After they escape (in a nuclear missile no less), he boards the pickup submarine and refuses to let anyone approach her, resulting in the virus decaying until it's unusable.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_75a63013	type	Farmer's Daughter
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_75a63013	comment	Farmer's Daughter: In the "Welcome to the Bayou" story, Frank runs into one of these (on a gas station in the middle of nowhere, but the idea is the same), who is a) dressed in far-too-revealing clothes and b) "crazy as a shithouse rat". Turns out her family are inbred cannibals, and her role in the group is to serve as a distraction.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_762b9223	comment	Also Played for Laughs in "Kitchen Irish" when Finn Cooley Needs a Freaking Drink after a confrontation and starts grumbling about how he's done "being people's nigger". He's white. The Gangbangers whose bar he walked into are not. Cue This Is Gonna Suck, and cut to next scene.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb	type	Sudden Name Change
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb	comment	Sudden Name Change: Microchip's real name is changed from "Linus Lieberman" to "David L. Lieberman". Frank's wife is also given the name Lisa when previously she had been referred to as either Barbara or Christie.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: Yorkie Mitchell meets with Frank, bringing with him the son of a fellow soldier murdered by an Irish terrorist now hiding in New York. In the end, the kid kills his father's murderer, but states he doesn't feel any better for it.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_79a08ea0	type	Doom as Test Prize
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_79a08ea0	comment	Doom as Test Prize: In the "Kitchen Irish" arc, a very misanthropic elderly Irish-American gangster leaves what is rumored to be a hoard of treasure to various separate Irish gangs in his neighborhood, giving each of them part of the geographical location in the hope that they'll kill each other over it. After much violence and death, the survivors finally decide to get together and go to split the hoard peacefully...only for it to end up being a huge bomb with the word "CUNTS" scratched into it that explodes and kills them all. This is hinted at earlier in the arc, with Frank noting that the gangster in question didn't seem like the type to leave an inheritance for future generations.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: With the Born miniseries, Garth Ennis has suggested that in Vietnam, Frank started to love combat and killing people, with the death of his family possibly being only the final incident that led to his killing sprees.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7ade0c2	type	Not in Front of the Kid
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7ade0c2	comment	Not in Front of the Kid: During "Mother Russia", Frank and Delta Force commando Martin Vanheim are attempting to covertly flee from a nuclear silo base with a six year old girl in tow when they are met by a pair of unsuspecting guards. Vanheim, in a state of panic, preemptively opens fire on them, swearing up a storm all the while. Frank quickly chews out his overtly anxious comrade for jeopardizing the mission and swearing in front of a child.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7bb844ec	comment	Nicky Cavella was downgraded to this as the start of his Villain Decay.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The slavers exemplify this. A lot of emphasis is placed on their wartime experience, and Frank has trouble digging up information on them because every other pimp in the city is terrified of them.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Played perfectly straight in "Man Of Stone". When Kathryn O'Brien goes to execute one of the Taliban leaders responsible for gang-raping her, she shoots him dead with a silenced pistol while he's out on his balcony. The gunshot is so quiet that it fails to alarm anyone, not even waking up the underage bride sleeping in the Taliban leader's bed.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the final issue of the series, we have Nick Fury and a pair of detectives examining the corpse of Frank Castle as it lays on an autopsy table. After one detective makes a callous off-handed remark about the deceased, Fury chews the guy out with this:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: In the Little Black Book one-shot story, Frank uses one of these as an accomplice to help him get close to a Cuban drug lord so he can, well... do what he does best.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: Completely averted with Frank. No amount of money will deter him from killing someone who is on his list. Everyone in the mafia and all other organized crime syndicates know this, which is why trying to buy Frank off is never discussed. Offer him a bribe and he'll just kill you and take the money anyway, using it to fund his war on crime.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Frank gets rid of a general threatening to shut down his base by drawing him in range of a Viet Cong sniper and standing in front of the warning sign.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: "Barracuda" begins with Frank aboard a boat, looking over what has to be hundreds of people being eaten alive by sharks. The story then flashes back to detail how he ended up there.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_817a04a2	type	Amalgamated Individual
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_817a04a2	comment	Amalgamated Individual: The Broad Street Killaz are a small hit squad with a terrifying reputation. It turns out a lot of contract killings committed by them are actually performed (for free) by unaffiliated gang members hoping to join them.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Bullseye to Frank; just take a look at this internal monologue as he watches Frank slaughter his men. Then later when talking to Kingpin about the encounter: Apparently this extends to O'Brien as well. In one scene after they have successfully slaughtered half of Zakharov's men, the two of them stand over the carnage and have this exchange.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_86408bad	type	First Rule of the Yard
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_86408bad	comment	First Rule of the Yard: Inverted in "The Cell". As Frank is escorted to his cell, the wardens (who aren't even hiding that they're on the take) stop to introduce him to the most dangerous guy in Riker's, a Scary Black Man nicknamed Squeaky Pete ("he don't like usin' lube"), and promise that Frank will face him very soon. Frank's response is to take out his wardens and then kill Pete in the next few seconds before telling them to send the next most dangerous.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Yorkie Mitchell, answering a captured Irish terrorist (who murdered a friend of Yorkie, the father of the kid Yorkie brought over) as to whether he's MI6: At one point Microchip has to deal with Roth, a surly associate of his in the CIA who is giving him all sorts of grief and questioning his ability to take down the Punisher, doing so in front of all of his colleagues. How does Microchip respond to this? By literally taking him by the balls and telling him this:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Frank is functionally this, no one is under the assumption that he doesn't do it just because he is a crazy serial killer but as long as he kills people that stretches the definition of human being, keep the civilian casualty to zero and disarm the police in his way with little to no injury it's hard to convince a manhunt on him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: In stark contrast to the amoral Marine unit that Frank Castle was stationed with at Valley Forge Firebase, his previous Force Recon Marine Unit plays this trope perfectly straight: they're depicted as a clandestine team of elite and efficient consummate professionals, diligently carrying out covert operations behind enemy lines. In "Man Of Stone", the squad of SAS operatives stationed at Afghanistan exemplify this trope. They're so hardcore that they nearly wipe out an entire squad of Nikolai Zakharov's Black Sea Marines without suffering a single casualty on their end.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: Nicky Cavella and his crew from the first arc. His crew consist of himself, a near-mute enforcer who can only say "Huh," and a Napoleon-esque creep in a track suit.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_89623e9a	type	The Paragon
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_89623e9a	comment	The Paragon: At the end of the second MAX series, Frank becomes this in a dark kind of way. His conflict with Kingpin has proven fatal for both of them, and after over 30 years, Frank Castle's war is finally over. As Nick Fury cleans up the carnage left by Frank's last battle, he muses that Frank's war was ultimately pointless in the long run. Cue news reports of citizens across New York banding together in Punisher-themed gear and exacting vigilante justice on local criminals. Even Fury has to crack a smile.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f	comment	Barracuda is even more freakishly superhuman. Not only can he take ungodly amounts of punishment, but he can dish it out as well. He's also the only villain in the whole MAX series who managed to pull your typical comic book Back from the Dead return, even though his first appearance ended with Frank shooting him almost point-blank and throwing his body to a shark! In his own miniseries, Barracuda just gives a Hand Wave about letting Frank think he hit him, then hiding under the boat until they reached land.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8a30b162	type	ImprovisedWeaponUser
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8a30b162	comment	Improvised Weapon User: Naked Kill involves Castle assaulting an office building that's being used to direct snuff films. Security is ultra-tight, so he can't bring guns inside. Instead, he ends up killing the guards one by one with increasingly bizarre and brutal uses of office equipment. He starts with pens and pencils, works his way up to computer monitors as blunt instruments, staplers to the eyes, smashing a man's head to pulp in a copier machine...
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The darkest story arc of The Punisher MAX, "The Slavers", includes a lot of information — including a lecture, with slides — about the sex slave trade. It's also the story wherein Frank is shown to be absolutely brutal and unrelenting, well beyond his normal extremes, exemplified with the line "It had been a long time since I had hated anyone as much as I hated them."
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The entire series is a deconstruction of the entire Punisher mythos, as well as the "avenging vigilante" archetype as a whole. Frank, while still sympathetic, is not really out to avenge his family but is instead driven by a combination of bloodlust and guilt. The concept of a badass Psycho for Hire is thoroughly debunked: the majority of them are just repulsive sadists, and the ones who aren't are genuinely insane and not the least bit appealing. The majority of the Old Soldier types have been driven psychotic by their experiences, and there most certainly is no such thing as a Noble Demon.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Subverted and discussed. In one interview, writer Garth Ennis says that one of the advantages of writing The Punisher for the MAX line is that when you have incredibly powerful super-beings present in the world, it makes many of the wars and events of the real world look unnecessary.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b24fe5e	type	JustShootHim
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b24fe5e	comment	Just Shoot Him: After Frank goes on a rampage that kills fifty-nine criminals, the mayor of New York City and his advisors come to the conclusion that arresting the Punisher won't work, as he'll just kill as many people as he can in prison. (Something that, the advisors note, will just look bad.) Killing him won't work either, the commissioner points out, as the possibility for civilian casualties is too high if they go gunning for Frank.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: A common tactic used by Frank whenever he wants to be absolutely sure that his target won't get back up again, such as when he's laying waste to a gang of mobsters. In the second issue he explains this strategy in depth.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8c5afdf0	type	Gutted Like a Fish
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8c5afdf0	comment	Gutted Like a Fish: One of the ringleaders from "The Slavers" ends up with his abdomen slashed open and his guts wrapped around a nearby tree◊. A similar fate befell Nicolas Cavella when he thought pissing Frank off (by digging up and desecrating his family's bodies) was a good idea. He takes a bullet to the gut for his troubles, and is left in the wilderness to die of infection or blood loss, whichever comes first.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: The tactic used by hardcore gangster Maginty. He has Tommy Toner, leader of Irish mob outfit the Westies kidnapped, and has bits and pieces of his body mailed back to his wife Brenda, in an effort to intimidate his gang. It works for the most part... except on his stone-cold bitch of a wife Brenda, who is unimpressed by this.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: The Mongolian is never heard uttering a single word. Appropriately enough, his real name is never revealed either.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: In one case, a man actually manages to get the drop on Frank and drugs him into a stupor, then kicks the shit out of him while he's helpless. If that wasn't enough, he also talked down to the Punisher like he was a pet or a small child. Finally, when he's ready to untie Frank, he explains that he's also given him a slow-acting poison that will kill him in six hours, and that he wants Frank to kill some people for him. "I don't have the antidote. I don't know where it is. My associates do. You'll get it when the job is done. Kill me, you're just killing yourself. Understand?" The Punisher nods, and the man is too stupid to realize that Frank is just confirming that he understands, nothing more. Once he is untied, the Punisher immediately breaks the man's neck with the internal monologue of "Won't waste time looking for the antidote. Probably doesn't exist." Asshole Victim, indeed. The guy was practically begging for what he got. It's safe to say that every individual who Frank gets his hands on had it coming.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: As expected from an adults-only series written by Garth Ennis, just about every character speaks with a very colorful vocabulary that would make a trucker blush. Nick Fury in particular laces just about every sentence with profanity and vulgarity.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: A mook starts crying, falls to his knees and starts babbling something in Albanian after Frank effortlessly kills his comrades. Frank recognizes it as the Lord's Prayer and waits for him to get just before the line about forgiveness to kill him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_91b740a6	type	Karmic Thief
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_91b740a6	comment	Karmic Thief: Frank takes all weapons and money he finds on his raids for himself. When the cops bust all of his safehouses in Punisher MAX, it is revealed that he had over eight million dollars in cash and enough guns to arm a small country.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_91cecc1e	type	Exaggerated Trope
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_91cecc1e	comment	Exaggerated with Barracuda. Over the course of several fights Frank stabs him, gouges his right eye out, knocks out some of his teeth, cuts several digits off his right hand, strangles him with barbed wire, shoots him point-blank in the groin, chest, and face, and finally tosses him into shark-infested waters... which he somehow survives. When the two meet up for the last time, Frank blows him up with a claymore, fractures his skull with a wrench, bites off another one of his fingers, breaks his arm, bites off part of his cheek, stabs him again, wires his testicles to a car battery ad leaves it running for an hour, shoots him with an M-60, tears off his nose with some pliers, cuts off his arms with an ax, shoots his head to bits with an AK...then incinerates his remains just to be sure.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Barracuda has an Extreme Libido and often has sex with prostitutes. It's never shown to be satisfying for them, and he doesn't care one bit about anything other than them getting him off, often getting violent and demanding. The only person who's ever shown to enjoy sex with him is Wanda from the Barracuda miniseries, who's a former hardcore pornstar and who's so jaded from her career that Barracuda's roughness (not to mention his massive endowment) just registers as satisfying sex to her. Corrupt Corporate Executive Harry Ebbing has a Trophy Wife named Alice who is much younger than him. Predictably she states he's awful in bed, describing that he just "bends her over, stares at her ass and jerks off", which leads her to cheat on him with other men, including his Number Two. But while at first she just seems like a poor Mal MariÃ©e Brainless Beauty, it's soon revealed she's actually a Femme Fatale who's manipulating said Number Two into betraying her husband for her own gain. The first hint at this is that the Number Two is also bad in bed, having a Teeny Weenie and climaxing too fast, and she only pretends he's better to manipulate him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_94b78deb	type	Every Helicopter Is a Huey
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_94b78deb	comment	Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Played perfectly straight with all of Frank's flashbacks to Vietnam, in which every helicopter shown happens to be a Huey. Later on in "Kitchen Irish", Castle even boards a stationary Huey as he lies in wait for some Irish hoods to show up, musing to himself about how "it's been a long time since I've killed someone from a Huey".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: The "Kitchen Irish" arc centers around a gang war between various Irish criminals, all of whom are trying to knock each other off in order to get their hands on an inheritance of $10,000,000. Subverted, as all of the Irish gangsters are depicted as cowardly, brainless, morally depraved individuals. Not to mentioned extremely racist.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Cavella and Barracuda break down spectacularly, the former turning into a simpering pants-wetter and the latter turning into a raving lunatic. Finn Cooley's breakdown is more physical than mental, as his face continues rotting with each appearance. Surprisingly averted with Rawlins, though, because even as things repeatedly go to hell for him he can't help but act like the smug little weasel he is, and a simple "Oh no" — with an Oh, Crap! expression — suffices for his ultimate downfall.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_959cb9aa	comment	Rawlins (the CIA agent who was responsible for putting together the false flag terror cell that was deployed during the Punisher's mission in "Mother Russia") is blackmailed into dealing with the Punisher at the same time Nicky Cavella returns to also deal with the Punisher. The two happen know each other and team up to kill Frank, only to have their plan botched by Kathryn O'Brien, who happens to be Rawlins's ex-wife who had coincidentally escaped from prison at the same time her ex-husband was assigned to kill the man who she and her team had attempted to recruit during an operation that was crashed by her ex's ex-lover/accomplice Cavella. Whew.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	comment	"The Naked Kill" is another Punisher arc where the villains own a maximum-security apartment and use it to make snuff movies (the Big Bad's nephew has a Gag Penis with which he rips the women apart), importing women from all over the world to keep up their numbers. Frank disguises himself as a janitor and makes his way through the floors in a masterclass demonstration on using an Improvised Weapon, but the murder of the star is left to the victims after Frank kneecaps him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: It's stated that the first time Punisher killed a woman, he lost a lot of his supporters (that she was already tried and imprisoned and no threat to anybody may have had something to do with it. It's not specified.) Averted for the rest of the series, Frank Castle doesn't give a damn what your gender is. If he has you in his sights, you're pretty much screwed. For example, in "Kitchen Irish", the first of the River Rats to die is a woman.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: The Bulats and Vera from "The Slavers", the leaders of an eastern European Human Trafficking ring. Cristu Bulat and Vera get along well because they are both heartless business men, while Tiberiu, Cristu's father, is starting to annoy them and damage their business with his unnecessary cruelty and craziness. All of them barely qualify as human beings.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9843db6	type	Gangbangers
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9843db6	comment	Gangbangers: Along with the mob, they are shown as one of Frank's most common adversaries, depicted as uncouth and undisciplined hooligans who pose very little threat to Frank and are more often than not on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_98a150f3	type	Excrement Statement
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_98a150f3	comment	Excrement Statement: Nicky Cavella digs up and pisses on Frank's dead family in order to anger him. This puts Punisher in an extreme Tranquil Fury, and he starts what is basically a world war against the New York crime families, even worse than his normal behavior. It gets so bad that the civilian authorities are crippled about what to do - they can't comply with Frank's demands because it would be akin to negotiating with a terrorist, but they can't just do nothing and let Frank carry out genocide.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9b06e314	comment	The Greater-Scope Villain of the one-shot Hot Rods of Death turns out to be the Roxxon Energy Corporation.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9b5516f0	type	Showy Invincible Hero
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9b5516f0	comment	Showy Invincible Hero: It's pretty much a given that Frank is going to annihilate any bad guy unfortunate enough to find himself on Frank's shit list. The fun comes in watching how Frank annihilates said bad guy.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Used for dramatic effect in the conclusion of "Barracuda", where a yacht carrying a group of morally bankrupt "pool sharks" (i.e. people who use deceit and manipulation to con others out of their money) end up getting devoured in a literal pool of sharks.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859	comment	Kingpin's hired goons show a surprising amount of loyalty for a group of crooks. Best demonstrated in the second-to-last issue where they finally have Frank surrounded, and begin opening fire on him from all sides... Except Frank won't go down. Amazed by this show of resiliency, Kingpin's goons continue firing back, not letting up for even a second. One of them even tells Fisk to run for his life while they hold him off.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	In "Six Hours To Kill", after the Cloud Cuckoo Lander woman part of the group that poisoned him to begin with kills the Vietnam veteran working for her and injects Frank with the cure so they can work together, with a clear and dangerous lust for the Punisher himself, Frank just breaks her neck with his legs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: This is more or less what "Operation Barbarossa" is: a high-risk covert mission that involves sneaking into a Russian missile base, stealing a biochemical super weapon, and getting out undetected. It's no wonder why Nick Fury hand-picked Frank for this job.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Frank, obviously. When General Zakharov is preparing for their rematch, he acquires two military choppers and an incendiary bomb and can only hope it's enough to take him down. It's not. Barracuda is every bit as unstoppable and strategically brilliant as Frank. In one scenario, he masterminds a meeting in a hotel between all of New York's major underworld players in a ploy to goad The Punisher into showing up, knowing that Frank would never miss this kind of opportunity. Once Barracuda has everyone in place, he makes his grand entrance into the hotel room floor, armed with an M60 and a sneering Slasher Smile, and proceeds to annihilate every living thing in the hotel room until only he and Frank remain.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: Frank spends the majority of the series running rough-shod all over the usual rank-and-file mooks. But when he comes up against Tiberiu and his boys., a group of hardened war veterans from the Yugoslav Wars who use effective squad tactics, hold their guns properly, and maintain discipline during a firefight, he's quickly outgunned and forced to run for his life.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fa4bb34	type	Hillbilly Moonshiner
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fa4bb34	comment	Hillbilly Moonshiner: In "Welcome to the Bayou", when the Geautreauxs decide to have a good ol' fashion redneck hoedown, they all get shit-faced on some homegrown moonshine. Which, incidentally, gives Frank and his accomplice Nigel some cover to try and escape.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fb11776	type	Non-Lethal Warfare
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fb11776	comment	Non-Lethal Warfare: At one point, corrupt generals tried siccing special forces soldiers on him, figuring that Frank Castle couldn't bring himself to kill American soldiers... he sure didn't, but he didn't go quietly.note Unbeknownst to the generals, they were also practicing this trope on their commander's orders, and eventually do manage to bring him down.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Played perfectly straight with Leon Rastovich, the convicted ringleader behind a child pornography ring that was busted. He betrayed a lot of his partners for a lighter sentence, but no matter what the prosecution offered him, he never turned on his mama, who was actually suspected of providing Rastovich with the children for his operation. And when Leon is released way ahead of parole, the first thing he does is stop by his mama's place for some dumplings. Thankfully, in an act of Laser-Guided Karma, the Punisher eventually gives both of them a shotgun slug to the face.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: The over-arching of crooked Generals take this to an entirely new level, being a group of incompetent idiots who have never seen any real combat, having ascended through the ranks entirely through mundane service. By the time the final arc takes place, the Generals end up opposing Frank Castle for the sole purpose of saving their own asses from the massively bad decisions they've made throughout their careers. There's even a scene where Nick Fury whips the head general half to death with his belt for his stupidity during one military operation. The entire group is eventually slaughtered by Castle.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a0396574	type	Rogues Gallery
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a0396574	comment	Rogues Gallery: Frank Castle doesn't have much of a rogues gallery for obvious reasons. However, there are a few villains who prove clever and tenacious to come back for a couple more arcs. Chief among them are: Nicky Cavella (who's in two story arcs), the Man of Stone (two story arcs as well), Barracuda (also two story arcs) and lastly the Kingpin, who appears in the most arcs (four of them to be exact), including the last one.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a1b76006	comment	This was already a staple in most of The Punisher's incarnations, but this version is much more overt about him committing it. For example, The Punisher: Force of Nature one-shot had a page with Frank monologuing about torture as well as the threat: for some the threat is enough, some never break, and some just pass out. One of the villains even says that he figures that the Punisher would simply "shut down" if he were tortured.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	The closest Castle has ever gotten to experiencing one of these was when he was fighting Pittsy, a balding fatso who was at least 60 years old. Halfway into the fight, he tore off Pittsy's bandage where he received an Eye Scream and broke his fingers. Pittsy gave him a Cluster F-Bomb in defiance and popped all of his fingers back in place, ready to fight. Frank could only look on in disbelief.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a54c2273	type	Dented Iron
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a54c2273	comment	Dented Iron: Becomes a plot point in the second MAX series, in which the physical and sometimes emotional toll of waging a 30+ year war on crime has on Frank is explored. Frank goes through an increasingly ruthless Rogues Gallery including The Mennonite, MAX!Bullseye, MAX!Elektra, and finally, MAX!Kingpin, getting more and more irrevocably battered after dispatching each one, with the last one culminating in a long, drawn out, excruciating Mutual Kill.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: After being tasked to take down the Punisher, Nicky Cavella digs up the remains of Frank Castle's family, urinates on them and sends the proof of the deed to the news so that Frank will come after him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: General Nikolai Zakharov built his reputation on this. He was at his worst during the Soviet-Afghan War, where his monstrous actions earned him the nickname "The Man Of Stone". His various atrocities include gathering up entire villages and forcing them off the ledge of a cliff, as well as callously murdering an infant while her mother screamed in horror. In fact, his actions were so bad that the Soviets had him fired. One Russian even says that if they'd kept him, they'd have kept Afghanistan... it's just that there'd be nothing left of Afghanistan worth keeping.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Happens in "The Slavers" when Frank is ambushed by the Slavers' soldiers and he realizes he's sorely outgunned. They're not using Hollywood Tactics or Mook Chivalry either. They're a trained army of killers and he's only got a pistol on him. All he can do for now is run.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a6cbef9a	type	Joker Immunity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a6cbef9a	comment	Joker Immunity: Averted with extreme prejudice. Most villains are lucky if they make it through a single story arc alive, let alone two. The only antagonist who comes closest to playing this trope straight is the Kingpin, who manages to survive the most arcs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Subverted in the finale to the story arc "Up is Down and Black is White", where Frank gives Nicky Cavella a slow and agonizing death by shooting him in the stomach and leaving him in the middle of a forest.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Averted in "The Slavers", when Frank loses his self-discipline and breaks his cover by attacking a 'straggling' gunman, alerting his fellows... who are infantry veterans, aim down their weapons' sights, and use small unit tactics such as (effective) suppressing fire and flanking. End result: although he's able to swim away, non-powered gunmen actually defeat Frank Castle in combat and force him to flee for his life.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: An unintentional example: Frank starts the series by conducting a massacre of assembled Mafiosi. During "Widowmaker" (where the widows unite to get revenge on him), a young widow who used to be married to one of them (a rapist, wifebeater, murderer and all-around asshole) thanks Frank for taking out her husband (the flashback panel shows Frank casually shotgunning the bastard's head off as he lies on the ground) and kills the rest of the widows for him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: The birth of The Punisher came when his family was killed in a botched mob hit during one of these. We also learn that the men involved in the mob hit are all long dead, courtesy of Frank. In "Up is Down and Black is White", we learn that Nicky Cavella's banishment to Boston came when his attempts at "intimidating" the local Triad boss backfired spectacularly. Instead of frightening the Triad boss into submission, all he really did was piss him off and kick off a war between the Cesare family and the Chinese Triads.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The one-shot special The Tyger, set in 1960, very much reflects the attitudes that were commonplace during that period in time, such as the townsfolks' callous indifference to a rape victim's suicide; many of them attribute it to insanity as opposed to trauma, with Frank's father even rudely stating that rape victims "should learn to keep their legs closed," which greatly angers Frank's mother.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: The River Rats from "Kitchen Irish". The River Rats are a group of pirates out of Hell's Kitchen in New York City who primarily rob rich people on yachts. Unfortunately for them, their "ruthless" reputation doesn't do them much good when they end up running into the Punisher, as he manages to kill the majority of them with ease.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Given the basic premise, no one is safe from death. Recurring characters like Barracuda and Yorkie Mitchell are safe for maybe three arcs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: The series is typically narrated by The Punisher, who's every bit as gritty and cynical as one would expect.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ac92aad1	type	White-Collar Crime
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ac92aad1	comment	White-Collar Crime: "Barracuda" sees Frank going up against a thinly-veiled Enron Expy called Dynaco. The arc culminates with Frank blowing up a boat that held their major stockholders.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The closest Castle has ever gotten to experiencing one of these was when he was fighting Pittsy, a balding fatso who was at least 60 years old. Halfway into the fight, he tore off Pittsy's bandage where he received an Eye Scream and broke his fingers. Pittsy gave him a Cluster F-Bomb in defiance and popped all of his fingers back in place, ready to fight. Frank could only look on in disbelief. Happens again when at the end of the arc, where Pittsy comes walking toward him with part of the fence he was impaled on before Frank landed on him after a two-story leap out a window still sticking through him. Frank shoots him in the face with a shotgun, and the man falls after following a few more steps. Frank is left staring at the corpse, trying to convince himself the man is actually dead and those last few steps were reflexive. Happens in "The Slavers" when Frank is ambushed by the Slavers' soldiers and he realizes he's sorely outgunned. They're not using Hollywood Tactics or Mook Chivalry either. They're a trained army of killers and he's only got a pistol on him. All he can do for now is run. Other than the usual reactions of villains to realizing the Punisher is here, one guy in "Six Hours to Kill" gets one when his sister's message (Frank has their geeky mook's phone, meaning he can find them) finally gets through.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ad786c6b	type	Hookers and Blow
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ad786c6b	comment	Hookers and Blow: In the "Barracuda" story arc, Whistler-blower Si reveals that the moment his company Dynaco broke big, these sort of parties became the norm.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_adf2910	type	Human Traffickers
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_adf2910	comment	Frank himself notes that he hates the Human Traffickers in "The Slavers" more than he's hated someone in a long time. In the MAX continuity, Frank's been The Punisher for at least a couple of decades.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: It's rare for him to make a joke, but when he does, Frank shows he's got a very dark and cynical sense of humor.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b2441a13	type	Static Stun Gun
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b2441a13	comment	Static Stun Gun: The Delta Force commandos sent to apprehend Frank are all armed with one of these. Unfortunately for them, the tasers have no effect. In the end, the Deltas are only able to finally bring Frank down after they have shot, beaten and tased him multiple times.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: An extremely ruthless example occurs in Jason Aaron's first arc. Wilson Fisk is gang-raped by five men and spends three weeks in the infirmary as a result of the vicious assault. However, instead of retaliating immediately, Fisk slowly bides his time, saving his revenge until he is released. Once he gets out of jail, he tracks down the perpetrator's wife and has her gang-raped by the filthiest bums and crackheads he could find, taking pictures all the while, which he sends to the perp. The perp predictably goes ballistic upon seeing the photos, escapes from prison, and races back home...only to find Fisk calmly waiting for him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The five widows who band together to kill the Punisher can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married deserved their deaths. At one point, they even acknowledge that the Punisher targets monsters and psychos, approving of his treatment of the sex slavers and even thinking he went easy on them, but refer to his murder of their husbands in terms of innocent victims targeted for no reason by an amoral killer.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b486877f	comment	Mamma Cesare is at least eighty years old. Both Fisk and the reader are given a view of her naked body. Fisk's reaction probably mirrors that of the readers.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Averted with Martin Vanheim, who was about to give a little girl a poison to stabilize the supervirus in her blood. A few arcs later, his squadmates refuse to believe he'd go with it. Played straight in the "Barracuda" story arc, where an honest cop refuses to take a bribe from Larry Lacarda.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: During "The Slavers", Frank attempts to ambush the hired guns for the slavery ring. However, he realized that they were hardened soldiers from the Yugoslav wars, not the usual street punks with poor aim and no tactics, and was nearly killed.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: After Wilson Fisk becomes the Kingpin, he refuses to leave his tower out of fear of the Punisher. In the last arc, he reflects on the fact that even though he supposedly owns the city, he's basically become a prisoner in his own home.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	Ennis tends to alternate between general "organized crime" targets and villains modeled after real groups, including Enron and even contemporary U.S. military personnel.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Comes up when Frank gets overzealous and attacks some slavers he knows have been professional soldiers in the Balkans. His gunfire doesn't spook them, they immediately take cover and begin returning fire in orderly fashion, and he realizes that he's been a trained soldier fighting street toughs with no skill for too long.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Many of Frank's targets, but there are some notable examples: Special mention goes to Nicky Cavella, a jackass of a mafioso who got the astoundingly bright idea to dig up the remains of Frank's family and record himself urinating on them, then release the footage to the news media in the hopes of getting Castle pissed off and go berserk. Yeah. It's been nice knowing you, Nicky. Notably, it doesn't even work: Instead of murdering the hell out of Nicky, Frank instead murders the hell out of everyone but Nicky, demanding that the city re-bury his family's remains, or he'll keep murder-spreeing until they do. When they finally do bury the remains, then Frank goes after Nicky, completely calm and utterly vindictive. Nicky spent the intervening time oscillating between gloating that the Punisher was terrified of him and doing his work of taking out other gangs, and batshit paranoid that Frank was going to kill him at any second. As Rawlins pointed out, Nicky didn't spend any of that time getting mooks that could have taken advantage of Frank's dropped guard! (Frank's still pissed off enough that when he goes after Nicky, he goes along with an obvious setup despite recognizing the setup for one, but he's bailed out of that one.) Another special mention goes to the Westies/Maginty/River Rats/Cooley for actually believing that their Retired Monster boss actually wanted to give them his fortune. Frank and Yorkie couldn't help but think that this was odd and they didn't even know him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: When Frank and a Delta Force operative need to sneak into Siberia, they do so by HALO jumping out of a commercial plane. Later on they up the ante by HALO jumping out of a launched nuclear missile.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b64b1fc1	type	Left for Dead
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b64b1fc1	comment	Left for Dead: In the MAX continuity, you CANNOT count on this trope to save your bacon. One particularly noteworthy example was when Castle drove Cavella out to some abandoned woods and shot him low in the gut with the intention of slowly killing him over several days, then walked away. Perfect setup for Cavella to come back, right? Well, just to shoot down any ideas of him returning, some mooks talk about how they found his corpse with the eyes eaten out. Just as well, as Villain Decay had wrung out any threat he had to begin with.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6c2e6ad	type	Villain Episode
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6c2e6ad	comment	Villain Episode: Issue #20 focuses entirely on Nicky Cavella, and details his Start of Darkness. The gist behind Barracuda's mini-series, where we get to see a day in the life of the Ax-Crazy merc. The Annual was basically a slasher story in which the silent, unstoppable killer happens to be the Punisher. Other villain-centric yarns include the first two issues of Untold Tales of the Punisher and the one-shot Tiny Ugly World.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6cebad3	comment	After rescuing a not-so-corrupt corporate executive from retaliatory gang rape for threatening to blow the whistle on a scheme, Frank shows an alarming amount of callousness towards the victim, telling him "I bought you eggs and bacon—two days is more than enough to get over this"; unusual since he's usually more sympathetic to female rape victims... although his indifference later comes back to bite him in the ass.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: One of the cops in "The Slavers" is black and gay, which gets him no shortage of crap from his fellow officers.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Frank's family was this to him. In his origin story Born, set in 'Nam, he says to a fellow soldier that they might be his "last chance" to be something other than a killer.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Frank's family was this to him. In his origin story Born, set in 'Nam, he says to a fellow soldier that they might be his "last chance" to be something other than a killer. The Mennonite's terminally ill wife appears to be this for him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Frank is this both in the regular Marvel universe and in the MAX universe, but in the MAX universe his internal dialogue really highlights how carefully he plans, both before and during a fight. He's always planning for contingencies and keeping an eye on escape routes, and has back-up plans for his back-up plans. When things go really south and he's forced to go hand-to-hand, even then he's cool and collected. Several incidents of him being very outnumbered in unarmed combat show him planning everything even while fighting; attacking the strongest people first, keeping everyone in front of him so they get in each other's way, inflicting very painful injuries rather than simply killing because he knows several people laying on the ground screaming in pain will distract and intimidate the ones he hasn't gotten to yet, dealing with female attackers just as harshly as males, etc. His arch-nemesis Barracuda is an even better example. Trained as a Green Beret, the tough bastard is every bit as intelligent and resourceful as he is strong and durable, able to make his way out of numerous tight spots. He even successfully masterminds a plan that leads to the capture of the Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The question is not "How far?" The question is "How fast will Frank get there?" In the MAX series, for example, Barracuda kidnaps the daughter Frank had with O'Brien. He reacts...violently. Later, he wakes up in the hospital with no idea of what happened, but the skin doctors found under his fingernails and the flesh between his teeth jog his memory.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Frank's Berserk Button is smashed when he discovers women smuggled into sex slavery. He rescues them, and as they speed off he hands a detonator to one of the captives, telling her to blow up the ship and the slavers.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Lampshaded in the "Widowmaker" arc, where several villains comment how every time the Punisher is captured, the villain doesn't just shoot him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bceef0cb	type	Slasher Movie
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bceef0cb	comment	The Annual was basically a slasher story in which the silent, unstoppable killer happens to be the Punisher. Other villain-centric yarns include the first two issues of Untold Tales of the Punisher and the one-shot Tiny Ugly World.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Barracuda is every bit as unstoppable and strategically brilliant as Frank. In one scenario, he masterminds a meeting in a hotel between all of New York's major underworld players in a ploy to goad The Punisher into showing up, knowing that Frank would never miss this kind of opportunity. Once Barracuda has everyone in place, he makes his grand entrance into the hotel room floor, armed with an M60 and a sneering Slasher Smile, and proceeds to annihilate every living thing in the hotel room until only he and Frank remain.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: In the first arc, capo Larry Barucci tries to endear himself to Nicky Cavella, Pittsy, and Ink by impersonating a Boston accent. The response?
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: The role played by the sexually promiscuous Mrs. Alice Ebbing, wife of Harry Ebbing. What's more, she's well aware of this fact and sick and tired of it, so she decides to get back at her stuffy husband by screwing his most trusted associate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c0fda9f6	type	All Amazons Want Hercules
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c0fda9f6	comment	All Amazons Want Hercules: O'Brien explicitly states that this is the reason she has the hots for Frank: she loves men who share her passion for killing the fuck out of those who deserve it.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted in the Kitchen Irish arc. Frank goes to interrogate a member of the I.R.A., and the reader is treated to pained screams... which were caused by Frank ripping the other man's bandages off. The threat of "real pain" is more than enough to get him talking.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted: Nicky Cavella was raped by his aunt when he was very young, and it's presented as a serious issue instead of a point of humor. Teresa (Pittsy's sister) also tries it, but is violently scorned (possibly because of Nicky's previous experience). Jenny Cesare ends up screwing Frank while he's handcuffed and immediately after beating her sister to death with a baseball bat, highlighting just how far gone she is (she shoots herself right after).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c324a7d	type	Cannibal Clan
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c324a7d	comment	When the Cannibal Clan from "Welcome to the Bayou" try using this, Frank acknowledges and discusses this trope, stating that he'd rather face an unruly mob than a truly formidable adversary.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Overlapping with Thanatos Gambit, Old Man Nesbitt gave each of his Psycho for Hire Inadequate Inheritors a piece of a code that they would have to put together in order to get at his inheritance. After they almost kill each other trying to steal the other pieces of the code, they decide to call a truce. When they all come together to collect, it's revealed that the secret location for his funds has no money in it at all, just an extremely powerful explosive with an expletive scrawled on it. That'll get 'em.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Poor old Massimo Cesare, the old man gets only two panels before getting his brain ventilated by the Punisher.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Mobsters, slavers, gang-bangers, drug dealers, Irish hoods, bikers, terrorist, contract killers, insane hillbilly cannibals, corporate business tycoons, and other types of bad guys tend to die in droves whenever the Punisher swings into action.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c37813c5	type	Ninja
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c37813c5	comment	Ninja: In Jason Aaron's final run, we are introduced to this continuity's version of the Hand, the shadowy cabal of assassins whom Fisk employs to help him get rid of the Punisher. Although we don't get to see that much of them, what we do know is that they have been around for over 17 centuries.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c58daf16	type	The Pen Is Mightier
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c58daf16	comment	The Pen Is Mightier: Nicky Cavella's cross-eyed henchman, Ink, got his nickname when he killed a guy by shoving a pen in his eye and into his brain.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c59d7452	type	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c59d7452	comment	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery: A cabal of American generals had the bright idea of funding their own Islamist terrorist cell so they could make entirely deniable attacks on other countries. It nearly failed because it didn't occur to them that fanatic Death Seekers might not be willing to wait a year or ten for the order to destroy their hated enemies. In the end, they're used to hijack a plane to Moscow (despite having no chance of evading the anti-air defenses) to divert attention from Frank rescuing a little girl with a deadly virus in her blood from a nuclear missile silo.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Mamma Cesare is at least eighty years old. Both Fisk and the reader are given a view of her naked body. Fisk's reaction probably mirrors that of the readers. Jenny Cesare gets several panels of her nude torso... because her breasts were removed due to cancer.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c6695a49	comment	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois: The climax of "In The Beginning" essentially boils down to a giant, all-out war between the CIA, and the Cesare Family, both of whom are trying to get their hands on Frank with the intention of either killing him or recruiting him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Up is Down and Black is White" has O'Brien reading a book by Joe R. Lansdale while in prison. At one point in "Mother Russia", we have Frank giving us his best Rambo impression when he jumps in the back of a Dushka and proceeds to lay waste to some very unfortunate Russian soldiers. A subtle one appears on the cover of issue #5; Frank can be seen wielding a custom M1911 that is identical to the one that Thomas Jane used in The Punisher (2004). One of the SAS commandos from "Man of Stone" is named "Gaz". Hmm... now where else have we heard that name before? The Tyger features numerous references to famous poems. A few of them include: Rudyard Kipling's "Mandalay". The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyÃ¡m. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan". And of course, the poem that the one-shot is named after is from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. During the Man of Stone arc, the SAS men guarding the ex-Taliban leader derogatorily refer to his Afghan close protection detail as "The Ronnies"
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Many covers depict Frank menacingly pointing a gun at the reader.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Much like his mainstream counterpart, the MAX version of Nick Fury is never seen without smoking one his signature cigars. Although his peers at the military base would wish that he wouldn't.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca04edd6	comment	Castle is one seriously tough bastard, so much so that his ability to take almost superhuman levels of punishment lapses into another trope altogether. In the finale to Punisher Max, Frank gets stabbed, shot, and beaten half to death by Elektra (to the point where his face is described as looking like "a swollen wad of hamburger" by Nick Fury), shot multiple times by The Kingpin's goons, and endures a savage beating from Fisk himself, and still manages to kill him in the end, only succumbing to his wounds much later.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca3e24dc	type	Monkey Morality Pose
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca3e24dc	comment	Monkey Morality Pose: When Fisk has Elektra kill his board of directors, she cuts three of them in a way that corresponds to the pose.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Mongolian, Zakharov's creepy, mute right hand man is never given a proper name. In fact, he never says a single word at all. Ditto for Ink, Nicky Cavella's equally creepy henchmen.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: The Punisher obviously. However, unlike other incarnations of the character, this series thoroughly analyses and deconstructs the concept, showing how this character archetype would fare in a real-world setting.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_cbe687ab	comment	"Barracuda" may as well be one giant middle finger to Enron and crooked corporations in general.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Frank is interpreted as this to the point where he cannot even smile at what he does. He has essentially taken his war to the streets while showing no pity, remorse, or fear against gangsters, psychos, killers, rapists, criminals or hired guns. Some suggest it was his experience in Vietnam that made him this way, and The Punisher: Born implies he made a Deal with the Devil for an endless war to fight at the cost of his family. Whatever the case he is a broken type 2 and 4, to the point where he regrets not having someone to kill, or even having a wife and kids in the first place.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ce85ca00	type	Gas Station of Doom
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ce85ca00	comment	Gas Station of Doom: In Welcome To the Bayou, Frank runs into one of these during a cross-country "road trip" to Louisiana that turns out to be a front for an inbred Cannibal Clan.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Given as the reason for Howe's involvement in Frank's capture: the U.S. Armed Forces trained the guy, and look what he did with that training.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Frank wears one quite nicely. Nick Fury wears a buttoned up version. Subverted with Rawlins; though the coat he wears is badass, he himself is not so much.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d1ebedfb	comment	Subverted, with the eight Generals. Despite their ranks, not a single one of them has ever seen any real combat before, and they all immediately cower in the presence of someone like Nick Fury.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Amazingly enough, despite being a seasoned Marine veteran with 30+ years of vigilante experience, The Punisher of all people falls victim to one of these. In "Up is Down and Black is White", when Frank comes after Nicky Cavella for desecrating the remains of his family, Rawlins sets up an incredibly obvious trap for Frank, under the belief that he would be so blinded by seething rage that he wouldn't care about the obvious trap and try to kill Cavella anyway. Even Frank acknowledges this trope as he moves in for the kill.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Frank gets one of these when he confronts the host of a right-wing radio program with a very anti-immigration agenda. The radio host's response to Frank edges into Bullying a Dragon and Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?, since he clearly knows who Frank is and what he's capable of, and isn't intimidated in the slightest. He asks Frank what he is planning on killing him for since every word he says on his show is true, then challenges Frank to find one thing that he's said that isn't true. While Frank merely intended to confront him and had no plans to kill him, it's notable that he doesn't have a reply to the host's arguments and leaves without saying anything.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Averted or subverted repeatedly. When General Zakharov gives a Motive Rant detailing why he did all of those horrible things during the Afghan-Soviet War, Frank doesn't smash his face in mid-sentence, but instead waits until the end and even asks if he is ready. It was a Mercy Kill, but after hearing what Frank did about the general's actions, it's doubtful that he would've spared him even if he wasn't dying. However, Zakharov's final words do seem to touch a nerve in Frank, given how he's a veteran of The Vietnam War, in which he did more than a few horrible things himself. The ONLY person Frank feels sorry for when he guns down a cadre of swamp-dwelling cannibals is the Psychopathic Manchild banished to the edge of the community, kinda-sorta blaming himself for pissing the poor bastard off. Despite having ample opportunity to kill him, Frank merely non-fatally wounds The Brute in "Six Hours to Kill" after realizing that he is a borderline-psychotic Shell-Shocked Veteran of the Vietnam War who is more than likely being manipulated by the rest of Room 101.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d45812ba	type	Fake Faint
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d45812ba	comment	Fake Faint: After Barracuda is (finally) knocked out, Frank breaks one of his fingers to make sure it's not a feint. He still wakes up a few minutes later, until Frank kills him for good.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: What the entirety of the "Mother Russia" arc can best be described as,. The absurdity of the story (Frank fighting off the Russian army pretty much by himself and escaping via HALO jumping out of a nuclear missile) clashes with the overall realistic tone of the rest of the series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: Before he had his face blown the fuck off, Finn Cooley was once a fanatical member of the IRA before becoming disillusioned. His nephew has since followed in his footsteps and joined the IRA.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Frank himself, but it's not revealed until issue 16 of Punisher MAX, where it's revealed that his last words to his wife were "I want a divorce" so that he could satisfy his own bloodlust. Way back, in the fourth issue of the original MAX series, Frank had told Microchip how he had almost killed his neighbor because said neighbor had left his wife for another woman. Ultimately, Frank proved to be no different from his victim, with both of them willing to abandon their spouses to satisfy their own lusts. Doubles as an oneâ€“sentence Hannibal Lecture since this sentence is enough for Bullseye to kill Frank Castle from beyond the grave. For the short amount of time that he has left, Frank never recovers from hearing those words, and his last words are a scrawled "I'm sorry" on his family's old house as he lays dying in the street.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: In "Long Cold Dark", during a ferocious firefight between Frank Castle (a former Marine Force Recon officer) and Barracuda (ex-Army special forces) who had abducted Castle's infant daughter, the latter chides Frank's marksman abilities and ask where Frank learned to shoot, which Frank calmly replies to 'as he shoots Barracuda through a car) with: "That would be Khe Sanh. Spring of sixty eight. You fucking Army puke". This came up even earlier during the Mother Russia arc. Towards the end of the arc, Frank and Galina are picked up by a Navy SEAL team and extracted to a submarine, the U.S.S. Silverfish. The submarine has specialists aboard waiting to take a blood sample from Galina so they can secure the virus she has in her bloodstream, but Frank refuses to let them touch her, even if it means the virus dies and the mission becomes a bust. The Silverfish's captain elects not to press the issue, deciding he and his crew have done their part and whether or not this joint Army/Air Force operation is ultimately a success or failure is not the Navy's problem.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: On the rare occasion that Frank encounters a female adversary, odds are she will likely be this trope. Notable examples include: Polly of the River Rats and Brenda Toner of the Westies. Elektra, the Kingpin's most lethal enforcer and an extremely formidable fighter who manages to beat Frank half to death. Arguably Jennifer Cesare qualifies as a rare heroic example. thanks to her dark past and sociopathic nature. Viet Cong assassin Ly Quang in Punisher: The Platoon, who has a vendetta against Castle for ordering the airstrike that wiped out her cadre.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Quite prevalent in this series actually. Frank was a Vietnam-era Force Recon Marine, while his old British friend, Yorkie Mitchell, is MI6, by way of the SAS, by way of the Parachute Regiment. Nick Fury was a US Army Ranger, who, according to Frank, had "set fire to half of Asia long before I had boarded a plane to Da Nang". Frank's arch-nemesis Barracuda, is an ex-Green Beret who worked with the CIA in various black ops missions in Latin America during the 1980's. Later on in "Valley Forge", when a cabal of crooked military Generals want Frank out of the picture for good, they have to send Delta Force operatives to get the job done. Punisher: The Platoon briefly features a group of Green Berets who everyone in the room shows respect/aversion for, and who made an effort to evacuate a village of friendly civilians but were prevented from doing so by some Marines (which nearly causes them to pick a fight with Castle's men).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Rather than being a Greek woman who happens to dress like a ninja and use martial arts, Elektra is a Japanese woman in this continuity.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Given the dark nature of this series, it's no surprise that this character archetype shows up frequently, with various degrees of decadence. Frank Castle is a rare protagonist example. While his mainstream incarnations usually depict him as a brutal yet vindictive individual who "does what needs to be done", here, he is depicted as completely unfettered. General Nikolai Zakharov is a truly monstrous example. During the Soviet-Afghan War, he would routinely gather up entire villages and have them forcibly pushed off of cliffs. And that's not even getting into the part about the baby... Bullseye takes this further than all the other examples combined. He never had any fetters to begin with.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: Although Frank is consistently drawn to resemble a man in his sixties, a few of the later artists took some liberties with this design aesthetic. This is most noticeable in "Six Hours to Kill", where Frank suddenly looks thirty years younger.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d959a5f3	type	Contempt Crossfire
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d959a5f3	comment	The slavers from the arc of the same name have one of these on their payroll who helps them keep tabs on the affairs of the NYPD (and even they don't like him). However, they aren't as common as one might expect. In fact, the majority of the cops in the series aren't "dirty" so much as they are... well... assholes.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: Averted by the five Mafiosi wives in "Widowmaker". With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have any combat experience.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The 2007 five-issue miniseries starring everyone's favorite Psycho for Hire, Barracuda.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Barracuda, whose popularity eventually gave him his own mini series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da19c62a	type	Leave No Survivors
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da19c62a	comment	Leave No Survivors: One of Frank's most common tactics during his multiple tours of duty in Vietnam. Ultimately subverted, as it's strongly hinted that Frank's aggressive patrolling tactics actually provoked the NVA assault on the Valley Forge Firebase.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: It's said that in thirty years Frank has killed about 2,000 people. Given the rate at which we see him kill that number seems improbably low. In the Ennis run alone, excluding Born, he kills over 400 people in a five year span. Of course, that 2,000 dead figure may only be counting deaths that can be definitely traced back to Frank. Itâ€™s possible that many of the criminals heâ€™s killed were dealt with in a way that ensured their bodies were never found and/or identified. Also, keep in mind that Frank rarely leaves survivors behind and he doesnâ€™t exactly broadcast his killings; for example, if he were to kill a group of gangbangers, who is to say that a rival gang doesnâ€™t claim responsibility for it and Frank receives no credit for it?
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Deconstructed in the Ennis issues. There are a couple of sympathetic pop-feminist "strong ass-kicking female character" violent women, but they are deeply screwed-up individuals and die violently. Not that the male characters are any better. In The Platoon, Viet Cong assassin Ly Quang seems to fit the bill. Though she's not shown doing anything but conversing in her introductory scene, she has a reputation for killing "black rifles" that even a senior NVA official like Letrong Giap has heard of. She also swore that she would kill Castle after he called an airstrike on her cadre, so there's that...
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_db33bc7e	comment	In the event that Frank wishes to completely and utterly annihilate his enemies, you can rest assured that he will bring along his trusty M60/M249 to help him get the job done. Most notably demonstrated in the very first issue, when Frank uses a M60 attached to a tripod to disintegrate a gang of capos.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Used to great effect by Frank, whenever he finds a criminal who won't break easily. Perfectly demonstrated in "The Slavers" where Frank knows that his usual torture techniques won't work on a group of battle-hardened slavers and realizes that in order to break these men, he will have to go to much greater lengths. He gets one slaver to snitch on his buddies by disemboweling him and wrapping his intestines around a pair of tree branches, then patiently sitting back and waiting for him to talk.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Rawlins (the CIA agent who was responsible for putting together the false flag terror cell that was deployed during the Punisher's mission in "Mother Russia") is blackmailed into dealing with the Punisher at the same time Nicky Cavella returns to also deal with the Punisher. The two happen know each other and team up to kill Frank, only to have their plan botched by Kathryn O'Brien, who happens to be Rawlins's ex-wife who had coincidentally escaped from prison at the same time her ex-husband was assigned to kill the man who she and her team had attempted to recruit during an operation that was crashed by her ex's ex-lover/accomplice Cavella. Whew. A line of dialogue in "Barracuda" reveals that literally everyone—including, somehow, the waiting staff—who was aboard the Dynaco yacht at the end of the story was aware of and complicit in the company's illegal activities, which makes it okay when the Punisher blows up the boat and lets everyone on it be eaten by Threatening Sharks.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: In contrast to the cabal of crooked generals who hired him, Colonel Howe is presented as such, to the point where even the informant that the generals sent to go meet with him was surprised to see just how formal and polite Howe was.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Nick Fury asks Frank to participate in "Operation Barbarossa" because he won't do this. His partner Martin Vanheim tries to use this excuse for trying to kill Galina, but Frank kicks the shit out of him and is able to shame him into better behavior. Frank himself qualifies in a strange way; in becoming The Punisher, he assigned himself a mission and justifies his vigilante activity through that. In "Mother Russia", he is assigned a different mission and does things he wouldn't ordinarily do, like beat people up unprovoked and kill soldiers who are just doing their jobs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: A recurring theme throughout the series is the self-destructive effects of narcotics, not to mention that anything involving drugs is a very good way to piss Frank off. In the miniseries Born, half of the Marines at Frank's base are strung out on heroin. In the first arc, Microchip reveals that the CIA sells narcotics on the side to help fund their covert operations. This is the info that more or less seals Micro's fate. And in "The Slavers", the Romanian gangsters keep their girls doped up to help make them more "manageable".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e0040f41	comment	Issue #20 focuses entirely on Nicky Cavella, and details his Start of Darkness.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: All the Russian characters in "Mother Russia" speak among themselves in English for some reason, though we can assume that they are actually speaking in Russian and it's only written in English for the benefit of the reader.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: This was already a staple in most of The Punisher's incarnations, but this version is much more overt about him committing it. For example, The Punisher: Force of Nature one-shot had a page with Frank monologuing about torture as well as the threat: for some the threat is enough, some never break, and some just pass out. One of the villains even says that he figures that the Punisher would simply "shut down" if he were tortured. In "The Slavers", Frank needs to get information from one of the titular Romanian slavers and realizes that, hard as they are, "what I would need to do to such men would be...extreme." So he drugs the guy, cut a hole in his belly, pulls out about two feet of his intestines and drapes them on a tree branch in front of him. And that's where he starts.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Frank doesn't do this often, being The Stoic, but he completely destroys the last shreds of dignity Nicky Cavella has with one. Frank's S.A.S. pal Yorkie is the master of these. In a Double Subversion, Barracuda laughs off one of these after killing Yorkie, but true to form his dying speech echoes in his head at a most inopportune moment and gets under his skin — allowing the Brit to punk him from the grave. (It's possible that Yorkie did it in the hopes that this would actually happen.)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: Subverted. A gang member fires at Castle like this multiple times, but misses every shot. Frank calmly says "They put the sights on top for a reason" before killing the gangster with pinpoint accuracy.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The "Welcome to the Bayou" arc is pretty much one long homage to Deliverance. The movie even gets name-dropped at one point:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The final story arc shows a flashback dealing with Frank's difficulty of adjusting to civilian life, including a fellow Marine saying he couldn't imagine Castle taking his kids on a family picnic.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e407c52e	type	Double Subversion
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e407c52e	comment	Frank's S.A.S. pal Yorkie is the master of these. In a Double Subversion, Barracuda laughs off one of these after killing Yorkie, but true to form his dying speech echoes in his head at a most inopportune moment and gets under his skin — allowing the Brit to punk him from the grave. (It's possible that Yorkie did it in the hopes that this would actually happen.)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Delivered with frightening results in "The Slavers", which sees Frank Castle violently flinging a woman against a shatter-proof window over and over until the panel pops out of its frame, causing the woman to fall to her death. The woman in question, in case you were beginning to feel sorry for her, was one of three ringleaders behind a sex trafficking ring, responsible for murdering an infant to torment its mother and coming up with the concept of "rape them to break them" to keep the girls her outfit kidnaps compliant. In "Mother Russia", we have Frank taking a vicious beatdown from a tiny Mongolian super agent. When the Mongolian smacks a six year old girl that Frank is intent on rescuing, he finds the strength to get back to his feet and grabs the Mongolian by his leg, using it to swing his head and upper body into desks and walls until there isn't much left, only stopping once he realizes that he's scaring the poor girl.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: Another one of the many criminal organizations operating in New York. They have a brief but memorable appearance when Nicky pays them a visit and teaches them why you don't fuck with the Cesare Crime Family by tricking the Triad leader into eating food that had been cooked with meat from his dead son.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e50818aa	type	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e50818aa	comment	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Frank Castle simply WILL. NOT. DIE. The tough old bastard gets shot in the side of his chest, point-blank, with a shotgun. After acknowledging that one of his ribs is completely gone, he gets into an extended fistfight with the man who shot him, tosses him out of a window, and carries on. Not a single story arc concludes without Castle experiencing some near-fatal damage. The Punisher's nemesis, Barracuda, is the same. Shortly after meeting the Punisher, Barracuda gets the fingers on his right hand chopped off, his eye stabbed out, and his teeth broken, not to mention later being shot in the chest and hurled off a boat into shark-infested waters. Barracuda survives (he claims he grabbed onto the back of the boat and got towed to shore) and comes after the Punisher again, and is later tortured by having his nutsack clipped to a car battery, shot several times, blown up, and his nose ripped off before the Punisher finally kills him by chopping his hands off with an axe and shooting his head to bits with an AK-47. Per Frank himself:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: One of the advantages of being on the MAX label is that the artist gets to detail every bit of blood and gore throughout the series in extremely graphic detail. Every severed head, every headshot wound, every charred carcass is illustrated with glorious and at times nauseating levels of detail. Case in point.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e6043813	type	Like You Would Really Do It
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e6043813	comment	Like You Would Really Do It: Zigzagged In-Universe: When Barracuda and Frank's third confrontation begins with Barracuda shooting Frank's daughter in the head, Frank freezes up for a fraction of a second but just as quickly figures out it's completely stupid as what Barracuda wants is to hurt Frank and make him beg for mercy (it was in fact a child-sized doll). However, there is zero chance Barracuda would have left her alive after killing Frank, having already murdered children before.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted; since MAX is set in a more realistic universe than most Marvel books, Frank is noticeably impaired by severe injuries. Of course, in such situations he doesn't stop fighting, he just starts fighting dirty. The less strength he has to call on, the more creative he gets in his combat and interrogation methods. For example, Barracuda succeeds in putting him in traction - less than three days later, Frank's got Barracuda's nuts wired to a car battery.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e75be4b3	type	MacGuffin Super-Person
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e75be4b3	comment	MacGuffin Super-Person: In "Mother Russia", we have Galina Stenkov, a six year old Russian girl who caries an experimental flesh-eating supervirus in her blood stream, remaining unaffected by it due to being pumped full of antidotes by her now-deceased father. Currently, she is being held in Russian captivity, with the Russians intending to use the virus in her blood as a potential biological weapon. However, the Americans have similar plans for her in mind and kick off a daring rescue mission called "Operation Barbarossa".
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: As with most depictions of the US military during the Vietnam War, Frank's Marine Firebase suffered from a seriously bad case of this. Most of the Marines stationed there are unwilling conscripts, commonly seen out of uniform and failing to salute senior officers, and half of them are stated to be addicted to heroin. As such, when a US General inspects the base, he is not impressed by what he sees. Frank arranges for the general's death so the base stays open. Justified later on with the Delta Force commandos, as all of them are self-disciplined soldiers who don't need to worry about NCO's telling them to bathe and shave.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Ennis tends to alternate between general "organized crime" targets and villains modeled after real groups, including Enron and even contemporary U.S. military personnel. "The Slavers", probably the bleakest, most visceral Punisher story ever written, was based on Ennis's opinion of human traffickers. Hint: He doesn't like them. Frank himself notes that he hates the Human Traffickers in "The Slavers" more than he's hated someone in a long time. In the MAX continuity, Frank's been The Punisher for at least a couple of decades. Some of Ennis' political thoughts are chilling. The first line of "The End", where the war on terror goes nuclear? "Soon." Judging from the "Kitchen Irish" arc, we can guess that Garth Ennis, really, really hates the IRA. Not only that, but he also seems to have no love for Irish-Americans who unquestionably support the IRA without knowing all the facts behind The Troubles, and who think that they are celebrating their heritage when really all they're doing is indulging in the worst stereotypes.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Italian mafiosi, Russian mobsters, South American drug lords, Eastern European human-traffickers, Chinese triads, street gangs of every ethnicity, terrorists both foreign and domestic, mercenaries and assassins from all over the world...Frank's bullets don't discriminate.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After being apprehended and poisoned by a criminal, the poisoner tells Frank "I don't have the antidote. I don't know where it is. My associates do. You'll get it when the job is done. Kill me, you're just killing yourself. Understand?" Frank nods, seemingly indicating he understands. Once he is untied, however, Frank immediately breaks the man's neck with the internal monologue of "Won't waste time looking for the antidote. Probably doesn't exist." Frank did indeed understand the criminal's ultimatum, he just didn't care.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: In the Man of Stone arc, Yorkie Mitchell's four SAS subordinates are (unhappily and under orders) acting as bodyguards for some unsavory ex-terrorists who are being targeted by some far more dangerous people. Two of the four aren't even named. When they first show up, they capture tough-as-nails CIA agent Kathryn O'Brien and shoot up some Russian special forces Mooks. They later hang around, observing their boss's unsanctioned interactions with Frank and Kathryn without trying to intervene. The only reason their bodyguard charges later end up dead is because Yorkie withdraws the bodyguards due to what big scumbags the men are.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb251937	comment	Played straight in the "Barracuda" story arc, where an honest cop refuses to take a bribe from Larry Lacarda.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb502d31	type	Gangsterland
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb502d31	comment	Gangsterland: New York City's overall depiction. Just about every major crime syndicate imaginable has some sort of foothold in New York's criminal underworld. From the Italians, the Triads, Russians, Irish, to even the Armenian Mafia. Basically, if you can think of any sort of real world crime organization, odds are they will inevitably make an appearance at some point.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: With Foolkiller of all people, where Frank shows up to team up with the titular mercenary and help him take care of a white supremacist group. Tommy Monaghan, the titular character from Ennis' previous series Hitman (1993), is mentioned by O'Brien, who herself is something of a transplant from that series as well.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In a flashback it is revealed that a young Colonel Howe was imprisoned by a cadre of ruthless Viet Cong troops that planed on killing him, only for a squad of Force Recon Marines to spring into action, completely vaporizing the Viet Cong and rescuing Howe in the process.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: A few, most notably Tiberiu Bulat.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ecac4c42	type	Why Won't You Die?
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ecac4c42	comment	Why Won't You Die?: Frank to Pittsy after dishing out incredible amounts of punishment to the latter.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: In "Barracuda", one of the whistleblowers behind an illegal corporate scheme reveals that this happened at one of his boss's festive "parties". "The Slavers" deals with the subject and all of its terrible implications.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Like many other discretion shot tropes, this one is averted with extreme prejudice.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: The Punisher's fight with The Heavy/Jigsaw in "Girls in White Dresses". After all the buildup regarding their enmity, they have a three-page fight scene that ends with Frank just sorta knocking him out a window and onto a passing freight train.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_efad3bde	type	Mal MariÃ©e
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_efad3bde	comment	Mal MariÃ©e: The Barracuda arc has Harry's Trophy Wife who gleefully sleeps with her Corrupt Corporate Executive husband's Number Two. Oddly enough, the husband is apparently impotent so he forgives her (although the jealousy manifests when he has her one-night-stands murdered), he's completely oblivious to her latest affair, and actually commits suicide when he finds out. The wife and her lover are eaten by sharks.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: One of the many factions present in New York's criminal underworld. They make a brief appearance at the beginning of "Up is Down and Black is White", where Frank uses them as bait to wipe out the second half of their coke dealing operation.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f0001923	type	Fire-Breathing Weapon
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f0001923	comment	Fire-Breathing Weapon: In "Widowmaker", a mob widow recounts the time that Frank used a flamethrower to burn her husband alive.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: In the first issue, Frank Castle walks inside the mansion of "Don" Massimo Cesare, who is celebrating his 100th birthday with every family member and associate in attendance. Frank shoots the old Don between the eyes, killing him, then leaves. By the time the mobsters get over the shock of the Punisher killing Don Cesare to come outside and swarm him, he's set up an M-60 machine gun to kill the rest of them, too.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: A running theme throughout the series is showing just about every armed conflict in the past century, such as the Vietnam War (Frank), Yugoslav wars (the slavers), and the Soviet-Afghan war (General Zakharov) as pointless and senselessly violent wastes of life that accomplish nothing in the long run and only leaves all those involved in said conflicts scarred for life, as is tragically the case for many of the characters in the series.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f2877d9e	comment	Special mention goes to Nicky Cavella, a jackass of a mafioso who got the astoundingly bright idea to dig up the remains of Frank's family and record himself urinating on them, then release the footage to the news media in the hopes of getting Castle pissed off and go berserk. Yeah. It's been nice knowing you, Nicky. Notably, it doesn't even work: Instead of murdering the hell out of Nicky, Frank instead murders the hell out of everyone but Nicky, demanding that the city re-bury his family's remains, or he'll keep murder-spreeing until they do. When they finally do bury the remains, then Frank goes after Nicky, completely calm and utterly vindictive. Nicky spent the intervening time oscillating between gloating that the Punisher was terrified of him and doing his work of taking out other gangs, and batshit paranoid that Frank was going to kill him at any second. As Rawlins pointed out, Nicky didn't spend any of that time getting mooks that could have taken advantage of Frank's dropped guard! (Frank's still pissed off enough that when he goes after Nicky, he goes along with an obvious setup despite recognizing the setup for one, but he's bailed out of that one.)
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: In Frank's third and final tour in Vietnam, his squad captures a female Viet Cong soldier and begin wondering aloud what to do with her. One Marine takes it upon himself to start a rape-train on her, only to be stopped halfway when Frank shows up and shoots the girl in the head. Later on, Frank sneaks up on the Marine who had the sick idea and drowns him as he's washing the blood off his face. After another Marine who witnessed both events asks him why he did it, Frank justifies the former by saying that if he'd kept the girl alive, she would have been put on a helicopter and interrogated by intelligence officers, who would've raped and killed her anyway, not to mention that if he had shown mercy to the enemy then he would have lost the trust and respect of his platoon. As for the latter event involving him drowning the Marine responsible, he justifies that in five words:
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: When Punisher finds out that Vera was actually the brains behind the human trafficking operation (i.e. the one who told the mooks to "break" their victims with gang-rape) in "The Slavers", he repeatedly throws her face-first against a shatterproof window, reasoning correctly that the frame would give before the windowpane did. In the "Welcome to the Bayou" arc, he has no problem making short work of the psychotic woman who had been giving him plenty of trouble up until that point. In "Six Hours To Kill", after the Cloud Cuckoo Lander woman part of the group that poisoned him to begin with kills the Vietnam veteran working for her and injects Frank with the cure so they can work together, with a clear and dangerous lust for the Punisher himself, Frank just breaks her neck with his legs.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f494af54	type	Defcon 5
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f494af54	comment	Defcon 5: In "Mother Russia", the moment "Operation Barbarossa" starts going south and the resulting massive Russian casualties (courtesy of The Punisher) threaten to cause an international incident that could possibly kick start World War 3, the Generals behind the operation are understandably shitting themselves in fear. Fury, on the other hand, casually tells them to go to Defcon Four if it makes them feel any better.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: The basic premise behind "Kitchen Irish". Four different criminal groups come to New York in order for them to get their hands on an inheritance of $10,000,000, and each of them tries to kill the others to secure their claim.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f6624c30	comment	Punisher MAX ended with Frank dead and laid to rest with his family, finally reuniting with them in death. Fury says that despite all of Frank's work, crime will return sooner or later. However, it's not a complete Downer Ending. Bullseye, Elektra, Vanessa Fisk, and Wilson Fisk are all dead, and many vigilante mobs are fighting back and taking charge of their lives, wearing Frank's skull as their sign. The Punisher may be gone, but his legacy will live on.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: According to Nick Fury, SHIELD has gone from being one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world into a joke of an agency filled with rank and file amateurs. As Fury puts it: Russia in general is depicted this way. They went from being a world superpower to a second rate federation within a matter of years, with an out-of-control crime rate and a laughably ineffectual military run by inept commanders who are incapable of defending even a nuclear missile base, let alone from a pair of covert para-military operatives. The fate of the Westies. At one point, they were one of the most powerful and influential crime families in all of New York... until the Cesare Family moved in, shortly after which they went to pieces, with half of them either moving out of Hell's Kitchen or snorting their sorrows away on coke.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f9ab4501	type	R-Rated Opening
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f9ab4501	comment	R-Rated Opening: The series opens up with Frank recounting the fateful day in Central Park where his family was slain in a mob shootout, complete with graphic depictions of Frank's dead family. Shortly afterwards, we see Frank laying waste to dozens of capos with his signature M60, along with copious amounts of blood and gore flying everywhere that is equal parts nauseating and awesome. It's important to note that all of this happens before the first issue is even finished.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: The cover of #2 depicts Frank being targeted by hundreds of these. Naturally, Frank is completely unfazed by this.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Zakharov and Dolnovich get bitten back in the worst way by Smug Snake Rawlins after attacking his groin several times, wiping blood on his shirt, and generally kicking him around. Granted, Rawlins is such a bastard that they probably would've gotten a knife in the back regardless (and Zakharov actully cites this as the reason he doesn't want Rawlins on the payroll), but their treatment of him didn't help.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fceabba8	type	Silent Whisper
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fceabba8	comment	Silent Whisper: As he fights with Frank, Bullseye whispers what he believes was the last thing Frank ever said to his wife. Frank's reaction implies Bullseye's guess was spot on. In addition, we also see in a flashback how Frank's wife reacts to what he said, even though what he said isn't shown. Eventually, we get a full flashback to that fateful day, as well as what Frank said: "I want a divorce."
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: Inverted in "Mother Russia". Frank catches his partner doing something he shouldn't be doing. His partner shouts "Back off! Don't make me fuck you up!" Frank just kicks him in the face and knocks half his teeth out.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: In mainstream comics, it varies how much Frank fights to help innocents and how much because he likes killing, as well as how sane he is in general. This gets downright meta in the "Bullseye" arc, where the already insane Bullseye nearly drives himself crazier trying to figure out Frank's exact motivation. Born puts a stunning twist on Frank's origin: Not only was it never about vengeance for his family, he (unwittingly) caused their deaths. What happened was that in Vietnam, he'd grown to love war because he was really good at killing and he liked being able to punish wrongdoers. He made a deal with a mysterious entity (the Grim Reaper according to the author's notes) that once the war in Vietnam ended, he could have his own war which would never end... for an unspecified price. It was only after he returned that he learned that the price was his family. The last four Max arcs muddle things even further. It turns out that the aforementioned deal with the Grim Reaper was just a possibility, and that avenging his family was still on the table (although that too was only a possibility). Then in the story arc "Frank", Castle himself denies both explanations and gives the "punishing himself" rationale given by previous authors (which at the time was mostly an attempt to keep the moral guardians at bay).
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In one issue, Nick Fury, who had previously gone on a rant about how smoking had been banned in public areas, says that he is going to "fuck every hooker I can find before some cocksucker bans that too." An issue or two later, he's seen in a large bed with three women sleeping next to him.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Frank's Berserk Button is smashed when he discovers women smuggled into sex slavery. He rescues them, and as they speed off he hands a detonator to one of the captives, telling her to blow up the ship and the slavers. In his final appearance, Nick Fury finds Frank had written I'm sorry on the walls of his old house (for failing to save his family.) Fury proceeds to use Frank's flamethrower to burn the house down and drive away the police raking over old wounds. Bullseye, of all people, has one of these moments when he pulls Vanessa Fisk aside (after she had just been kicked out of her home by her husband) and advises her to abandon her plans for revenge and try to move on, lest she become a monster like him. This leads to Bullseye going off on a tangent about how his life has devolved into nothing but severe neurosis that he keeps at bay through killing, which is the only thing that makes him feel functional and alive.
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The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Garth Ennis is notable for being one of the very few comic book writers who actually gets their military history and terminology right. In the "Mother Russia" arc, when Frank has to go and deal with some Russian commandos, he correctly tells Galina to cover her ears and keep her mouth open so the noise from all the gunshots won't hurt her. The ears part is self-explanatory, but you want to keep your mouth open because the pressure wave from the shots will cause your lungs to burst if you don't. The British Troops in Afghanistan are correctly shown using L85 bullpups, which is the standardized rifle for most British soldiers.
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ThePunisherMax	sameAs	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
ThePunisherMAX	sameAs	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
The Punisher: Purgatory / Comicbook	seeAlso	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	A Father to His Men / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	A Nuclear Error / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Accent Slip-Up / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Adaptation Distillation / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Adopt the Dog / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	After-Action Patch-Up / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Agonizing Stomach Wound / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	All Bikers are Hells Angels / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Amalgamated Individual / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Androcles' Lion / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Anti-Air / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Anti-Climax / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Attempted Rape / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Away in a Manger / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Back-Alley Doctor / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Badass and Child Duo / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Balkan Bastard / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Banana Republic / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Belated Injury Realization / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Big Bad Duumvirate / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Black Eyes of Evil / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Blinded by Rage / int_7f2f55ad
Bored Now	seeAlso	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Breaking the Bonds / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Brief Accent Imitation / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Broad Strokes / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Call-Forward / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Camping a Crapper / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Characters Dropping Like Flies / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Charles Atlas Superpower / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Classified Information / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cleanup Crew / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Cold-Blooded Torture / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Come with Me If You Want to Live / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comic Books of the 2000s / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Comic Books of the 2010s / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Conspiracy Thriller / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Contempt Crossfire / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Corrupt Hick / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Creepy Gas-Station Attendant / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Criminal Convention / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Criminal Procedural / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Crusading Widow / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Crusading Widower / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Damned by Faint Praise / int_7f2f59ad
DaveJohnson	seeAlso	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Death Glare / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Decapitation Presentation / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Decapitation Strike / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Dented Iron / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Depraved Homosexual / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Desecrating the Dead / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Destination Defenestration / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Diagnosis from Dr. Badass / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Died on Their Birthday / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Died Standing Up / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Do You Want to Copulate? / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Doom as Test Prize / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Dreadlock Warrior / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Dung Fu / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Elite Mooks / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Empowered Badass Normal / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Escapist Character / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Everybody's Dead, Dave / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Evil Old Folks / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Excrement Statement / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Executive Suite Fight / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fake Boobs / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fake Faint / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Familial Cannibalism Surprise / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Familial Foe / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Family Extermination / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Farmer's Daughter / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fast-Roping / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fetishes Are Weird / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Finger in the Mail / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fingore / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fish Eyes / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	From Camouflage to Criminal / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fury-Fueled Foolishness / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gangland Drive-By / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gangster Fiction / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gangsterland / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	General Failure / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	General Ripper / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Generic Ethnic Crime Gang / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Get into Jail Free / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Girls Behind Bars / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Give Him a Normal Life / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Glory Hound / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Gun Porn / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Handy Cuffs / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Heel–Face Town / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hellhole Prison / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hidden Supplies / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Hired by the Oppressor / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Human Traffickers / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be You / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Iconic Sequel Character / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Impaled Palm / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Imperiled in Pregnancy / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	In Love with Your Carnage / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Inertial Impalement / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Internal Homage / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Interplay of Sex and Violence / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	It's Raining Men / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Leave Behind a Pistol / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Left for Dead / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lesser of Two Evils / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Let the Past Burn / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Little Brother Is Watching / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Living on Borrowed Time / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Loony Fan / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ludicrous Gibs / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Luxury Prison Suite / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Make Sure He's Dead / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mal MariÃ©e / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Man Bites Man / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Man on Fire / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mob War / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mortality Phobia / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Must Not Die a Virgin / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mutual Kill / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Never Smile at a Crocodile / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	No-Nonsense Nemesis / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Not in Front of the Kid / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	On a Scale from One to Ten / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Open the Door and See All the People / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Out-of-Character Alert / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Patricide / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Peaceful in Death / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Poison and Cure Gambit / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Practically Joker / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Pragmatic Pansexuality / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Pragmatic Villainy / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Prison Riot / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Punctuated Pounding / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	R-Rated Opening / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rap Is Crap / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rape and Revenge / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rasputinian Death / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Real Time / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Refugee from Time / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Relative Button / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Renegade Russian / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Retirony / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Returning War Vet / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ripped from the Headlines / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Running Away to Cry / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sackhead Slasher / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Say Your Prayers / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Scary Black Man / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sheet of Glass / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Silent Whisper / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Simple, yet Awesome / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Single-Issue Psychology / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sisterhood Eliminates Creep / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Small Town, Big Hell / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sparing the Aces / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spiteful Will / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Spree Killer / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Staggered Zoom / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Stay with Me Until I Die / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Stray Shots Strike Nothing / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sub-Par Supremacist / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Superweapon Suspense Subversion / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Sweet on Polly Oliver / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Taking You with Me / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Taser Tag Weakness / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Alibi / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Last Dance / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Stinger / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Triads and the Tongs / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	The Vietnam Vet / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Torture Is Ineffective / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Torture Porn / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Treasure Map / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unconscious Objector / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unfulfilled Purpose Misery / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unwanted Revival / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Vasquez Always Dies / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Vengeance Feels Empty / int_347b8dcd
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Verbal Backspace / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Victory by Endurance / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Vigilante Injustice / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Villainous Gold Tooth / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wide-Eyed Idealist / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_7f2f59ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Worthless Treasure Twist / int_7f2f55ad
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Would Hit a Girl / int_7f2f55ad
thepunishermax	sameAs	The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)
The Punisher MAX (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mutilation Interrogation / int_347b8dcd

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