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The Punisher (2004)

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The Punisher (2004)	comment	The second film adaptation of The Punisher, released in 2004. The film was the directing debut for Jonathan Hensleigh, previously a well-known screenwriter. Hensleigh had written or co-written scripts for such films as Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji (1995), The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), The Saint (1997), Armageddon (1998), Virus (1999), and Gone In Sixty Seconds (2000).FBI agent Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) retires just after an undercover assignment that led into the death of Bobby Saint, the son of famous Tampa crime boss Howard Saint (John Travolta). Holding Castle responsible for the death of his son, Saint orders Frank's entire family to be butchered during a family reunion; the kill squad leaves Frank for dead after slaughtering his family and killing his wife and son right before his eyes. Burnt out and haunted by memories of his murdered family, Frank returns to Florida and sets out to avenge his family. Becoming a one-man Judge, Jury, and Executioner, Frank decides to punish Howard Saint and his associates for their crimes — and he isn't willing to give up until they are all dead.The film has an unofficial/unauthorized sequel starring Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman, titled Dirty Laundry. However, the 2005 video game The Punisher (THQ) is technically considered to be the only known official follow-up to the movie, with Thomas Jane reprising the role.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Punisher (2004) / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: Castle makes sure that Howard Saint does not die quickly. First he shoots him, then ties him to a car and sends him rolling into his own used car-lot full of burning vehicles. After Saint catches fire, Castle sets off a final explosive that finishes him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Punisher (2004) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The film was this for the entire comic-book movie slate up to that point.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Punisher (2004) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the end of the film, Frank Castle accepts his fate as a wanted vigilante by forsaking his name and calling himself The Punisher.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Punisher (2004) / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Thomas Jane spent a lot of time building up his physique for the film, and spends a lot of time shirtless.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Punisher (2004) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "In Time", sung by Harry Heck.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Punisher (2004) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Not just the title character, but Saint is a dark example since his son's death is what triggered his vendetta against the Castle Family. There is also Frank Sr. who, along with Frank, was able to take out many of Saint's mooks. Even though he took a shotgun blast to the back, Frank Sr. used the last of his strength to knife a HUGE man that was going after Frank.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_1fa26e80	type	Stealing the Handicapped Spot
The Punisher (2004) / int_1fa26e80	comment	Stealing the Handicapped Spot: Invoked by Frank Castle: he follows Livia Saint as she's going to the theater, then steals her car, drives it somewhere else, and pulls out a fake fire hydrant that he places next to it so that she gets ticketed. The tickets then come up later, used as "evidence" that she wasn't where she said she was.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
The Punisher (2004) / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight at the same time: Saint and the Toros confront Weeks on how he's still gambling after he's already sold his possessions. Turns out Weeks is also stealing money from the FBI evidence locker, which gives Saint additional leverage over him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Punisher (2004) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the book, Frank left his son's rebreather in the ocean while teaching him scuba diving. After the family massacre, Frank manages to find and use it hide underwater from his pursuers.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_22f06704	type	Schedule Fanatic
The Punisher (2004) / int_22f06704	comment	Schedule Fanatic: Downplayed with Howard Saint and his wife. Apparently they do the same thing every week, just on time. Not obsessively, but Mickey describes Howard as "a man of strict habits." This predictability makes it easy for Frank to get ahead of them and make things look however he wants. It's implied that part of this is Howard being possessive (see Crazy Jealous Guy above) and needing to know every move Livia makes.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
The Punisher (2004) / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: Played for laughs and drama after Frank defeats The Russian while his neighbors watch in disbelief:
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The Punisher (2004) / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Punisher (2004) / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The entire Saint family are, well, lets just say, anything but saints.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Punisher (2004) / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: After Frank tumbles down the stairs with the Russian, he gets up and looks at the Russian and confirms he is dead, then promptly falls backwards to the floor in complete exhaustion.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_2535cebc	type	Hidden Supplies
The Punisher (2004) / int_2535cebc	comment	Hidden Supplies: Frank apparently had a storage unit full of weapons, explosives, and ammunition stashed away. Just in case. Though exactly why an undercover cop would need radio-triggered claymore mines is unmentioned.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Punisher (2004) / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Frank Castle. As part of his Batman Gambit, Frank's plan for revenge was that after returning to the States, he would make it appear to Howard Saint that his wife Livia and his right-hand man Quentin are having an affair. After Saint kills both of them for the perceived betrayal, Frank makes his final assault on Saint's posh nightclub; Castle kills Saint's other son, tells Howard he killed his wife and best friend for nothing (Livia was innocent and Quentin was gay), then sends him to a fiery death.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
The Punisher (2004) / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: The reason Saint killed Castle's family was because he thought Castle killed his son. But he didn't (a thug was shot by the FBI team and fired his gun on Bobby Saint)! CinemaSins lampshades this while reviewing the movie, saying that Frank was just there when Saint's son got killed. Downplayed as Castle was the one who led Bobby into the ambush, but it's also Bobby's fault for being there to purchase contraband weapons.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
The Punisher (2004) / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Castle returns to explore the aftermath of the attack on his family while sporting one of these.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Punisher (2004) / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Like his parents, John Saint doesn't take the death of Bobby, his twin brother, very well.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
The Punisher (2004) / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: There is a brief reference to a 'Witch Doctor' living off on an island near the Puerto Rico resort. He later saves Castle after he's gotten a round straight to the chest, near the heart, and left to die after a massive explosion on the pier he was on. After Frank's recovery, he never shows up again. The novelization explains that the man simply likes his privacy.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Punisher (2004) / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Frank's is Howard Saint, the mob boss who killed his family.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Punisher (2004) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Frank's daughter Lisa from the comics.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Punisher (2004) / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Although Castle can kill the bad guys himself, he exploits the trope by having Howard kill off Quentin and Livia before dealing with him last.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Punisher (2004) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Howard Saint (after prompting by wife Livia) responding to Frank Castle killing his son in self-defense by ordering his entire family massacred.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_37707f7a	type	It's Cuban
The Punisher (2004) / int_37707f7a	comment	It's Cuban: Subverted. Saint tells Mike, one of the Toro criminal brothers to not touch the Cubans as Mike walks towards his cigar collection and helps himself to one. When Mike takes his leave, he indignantly notes that the cigar was Honduran, and tosses it on the floor.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_382c67f0	comment	Affair Hair: Howard gives a pair of diamond earrings to his wife, so Frank steals one of them and plants it in the bed of Quentin (who ironically is a closet homosexual). He also arranges other fake clues to arouse suspicion, like stealing her car while she's inside a movie theater and ensuring it gets ticketed outside a hotel, and placing calls to Quentin using her car phone.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Punisher (2004) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Castle's plot relies on Howard not trusting his own closest associates and loved ones.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Frank says in response to someone acknowledging that he is upset over his family's death: "I used to get upset when the Yankees won the Series." This is both a Mythology Gag, as Frank had always been depicted as a New Yorker, as well as an allusion to Thomas Jane's most famous prior role as Mickey Mantle in 61*.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_399b3dbe	type	Money to Throw Away
The Punisher (2004) / int_399b3dbe	comment	Money to Throw Away: Frank appears to be Robbing the Mob Bank, but we then see him using a Hollywood Glass Cutter to cut a hole in the window, which he forces the mobsters to throw the money (aside from a briefcase of it) through onto the street outside. The two goons guarding the lobby only realize what's happening when everyone in the building rushes outside to grab the falling cash.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_39a8fc83	type	The Can Kicked Him
The Punisher (2004) / int_39a8fc83	comment	The fight with The Russian has both combatants improvising weapons such as a wooden crate and a toilet.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_3abfffa4	type	DavidVsGoliath
The Punisher (2004) / int_3abfffa4	comment	David vs. Goliath: Frank being the David to the Russian's Goliath.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
The Punisher (2004) / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The Punisher is famously a New York-based character. Budget constraints meant that the movie's setting was changed to Florida.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Punisher (2004) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Frank Castle ruthlessly and meticulously avenges his murdered family, hunting down and wiping out the Saints and their entire gang and their operations, before returning to his apartment to commit suicide. Before he can go through with it, he has a vision or memory of his dead wife, and changes his mind at the last moment. He later departs on good terms with his neighbors after leaving them some cash, leaves his life as Frank Castle behind him, and sets out to become the infamous wandering vigilante the world will come to know as The Punisher.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Punisher (2004) / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Frank does this by hanging his victim upside down, threatening to burn him with a torch. He goes into agonizing detail about how a blowtorch is so hot that it destroys nerve endings before they can register heat so the end result is that all you actually feel is cold. He then runs a Popsicle up and down the guy's back. Quentin Glass does this by producing a pair of needle-nose pliers and threatening to rip out all of Dave's facial piercings unless someone tells him where to find Frank. Neither Dave nor Bumpo talk, so Quentin does go through with it.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: While Frank's entire revenge is one big example, special mention goes to the scene where Quentin Glass and his gang torture Frank's neighbor David for info. David says nothing to rat out Frank and has all his piercings removed — with pliers. In return, the henchman left guarding the complex gets brutally cleaved in the head with a paper cutter by Frank, who moments before was forced to watch the poor guy through the entire torture, even blaming himself for the whole ordeal.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
The Punisher (2004) / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Frank's pistols come from his father.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_464dd7cc	comment	The Unfought: The Toro brothers, who run an illegal gambling and pimping business, and are major clients of Howard Saint's money laundering. But given that Frank is just starting his war on crime, it is likely they'll be next on The Punisher's hitlist.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Punisher (2004) / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Howard executes Bobby's bodyguard for not keeping a closer eye on his son. The guard, prior to receiving a fatal bullet, tries to claim that Bobby wanted to impress his father, but that only prompts an angry Howard to finish him off in disgust.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Punisher (2004) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The team sent to kill Frank's family even kill his ten-year-old son by running him over as the boy's trying to escape with his mother. There's even a prior instance when one of these hitmen finds three other family members, among them a child as old as Frank's son, promptly gunning them down.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_4cca4ac7	comment	Trapped by Gambling Debts: Some deleted scenes show how Howard Saint finds Frank's hideout: he blackmails Frank's FBI buddy through his gambling debts.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: The fight with The Russian has both combatants improvising weapons such as a wooden crate and a toilet. Frank, at one point, uses a paper-cutter blade to kill a mook. To be clear, it looked like a machete.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Howard Saint is violently vindictive towards anyone he suspects of going after his wife. Castle exploits this as part of his plot.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Saint drops two in a row when talking with his son about having just killed his wife and best friend, although he doesn't say he killed them. Quentin (in a body bag) is "wrapped up in something," his wife (dropped off a bridge in front of an oncoming train) "took the train."
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The Punisher (2004) / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Castle is shown downing whiskey when he's not working on his weapons or revenge plot. Joan, implied to be a reformed alcoholic, tries to talk him out of it.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Punisher (2004) / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Marvel logo features comic-book images of the Punisher in its pages; after it fully forms, it is shot three times and "bleeds" white paint which forms the Punisher's skull, and the film's title. Seen here
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The Punisher (2004) / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
The Punisher (2004) / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Punisher uses a pair of pistols once to dispatch two Saint goons. The rest of the time, he's using one pistol.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Punisher (2004) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Joan the Mouse in the comics is a small, quiet, frumpy woman. In the movie she is played by Rebecca Romijn — freaking Mystique herself. Also, Bumpo is much less Gonkish when played by positively cherubic John Pinette. There's also Ink, who was originally a creepy middle-aged man with a perpetual wall-eyed expression who is played by Keram Malicki-Sánchez, who is quite cute and pretty-looking.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Punisher (2004) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Not only is a botched police raid the reason for the entire plot, but both the Miami PD and the FBI are utterly useless in stopping the Saints’ attack on the Castle family or prosecuting them afterwards, and Frank calls them out on it when he comes back from the dead. The Director's Cut also shows that Castle's best friend is working for the Saints. The police seem pretty useless at finding Frank after he guns down two men in public, though the mob have no problem sending hitmen to his apartment.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Punisher (2004) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The film is largely composed of many characters or scenes from Garth Ennis' The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank arc. Frank's next-door neighbors in particular, The Russian, and Harry Heck (who even gets an upgrade over his original appearance, where he was merely one of many hitmen that was hired to kill Frank that Frank assassinates in a single panel).
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The Punisher (2004) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
The Punisher (2004) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Subverted with Livia Saint. She gets thrown off a bridge from a height that would be fatal in real life. But it isn't the fall that kills her.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_606bbe10	type	High-Five Left Hanging
The Punisher (2004) / int_606bbe10	comment	High-Five Left Hanging: In the opening scene, after agreeing to the deal, Micky raises his hand for a high-five with the Russian arms dealer who just coldly ignores him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
The Punisher (2004) / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: Unlike the comics and video games, this incarnation of The Russian has no dialogue.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_6379a920	type	Diagnosis from Dr. Badass
The Punisher (2004) / int_6379a920	comment	Diagnosis from Dr. Badass: Frank takes a blowtorch to Mickey Duka's back and describes what he's doing in great detail, including telling him that it's not painful yet because the nerve endings are seared and when the flame's that hot, it actually feels cold. This turns out to be a subversion, as the Punisher is really just swiping a popsicle across the man's back to create the described symptoms, while simultaneously using the blowtorch on a steak to create the smell of charred flesh.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_643879c7	type	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
The Punisher (2004) / int_643879c7	comment	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Zig-zagged. During a monologue at the end, Frank himself states that "Frank Castle is dead," and that he should be called "The Punisher." During the movie, however, everyone uses his real name.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Punisher (2004) / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Livia Saint. She's the one who wants to see Frank's entire family dead in retaliation for the death of her son. And when she hears that Frank is dead, she and Quentin celebrate with a night on the town.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Punisher (2004) / int_659ef759	comment	The Russian as well; he even willingly lets Frank stab him without flinching.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Punisher (2004) / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: The Russian gets a saucepan filled with boiling water flung into his face, and the film shows the audience really graphic details of the aftermath.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_677c65ea	type	Scream Discretion Shot
The Punisher (2004) / int_677c65ea	comment	Scream Discretion Shot: When Quentin tortures Dave for Frank's location after the fight with the Russian, he does so by pulling out Dave's piercings one by one with pliers. It cuts to the outside of the apartment as you hear Dave's tortured screams.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
The Punisher (2004) / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Cutter, the man left at the apartment to kill Frank, has his head cut open by Frank.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Punisher (2004) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Jimmy Weeks in the Extended Cut. Frank is on the verge of this once his Roaring Rampage of Revenge is over, but he decides to continue with his war on crime for its own sake.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Punisher (2004) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: James Carpinello had played John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever character in a Broadway stage musical of the film. Roy Scheider and Thomas Jane, who play father and son have played the main characters that have fought sharks: Scheider as Chief Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws 2, and Jane as Carter Blake in Deep Blue Sea.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_71521b4d	type	Think Happy Thoughts
The Punisher (2004) / int_71521b4d	comment	Think Happy Thoughts: At the end of the film, Castle has killed all the criminals responsible for his family's deaths, and thinks he has nothing further to live for. He puts a gun to his own head, but a memory of his wife prevents him from pulling the trigger.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Punisher (2004) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: After Frank blows up the Toros' money shipment, Howard Saint is desperate enough to kill Frank by any means necessary and costs that he has Quentin call in the Russian.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_737d7dbc	type	Senseless Violins
The Punisher (2004) / int_737d7dbc	comment	Senseless Violins: Harry Heck's introductory scene sets this trope up, with Frank eyeing him cautiously as he sets down a guitar case and pops it open to reveal... a guitar, which he then uses to play a song about Frank's inevitable death as a friendly warning that Heck is there to to kill him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Punisher (2004) / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: With the exception of the ballistic knife, nearly every weapon Castle uses is shown beforehand either in a montage or as part of a scene.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_798e72aa	type	Just Hit Him
The Punisher (2004) / int_798e72aa	comment	Just Hit Him: The fight with the Russian involves a lot of throwing Frank around and through walls instead of just taking advantage of the size difference and straight punching or crushing him. Frank keeps reaching for crates, workbench tools, hidden weapons, etc to even out the brutality and the Russian just keeps relocating him. He could have even kept smashing Frank’s head to a pulp with the fridge door but apparently that would not have satisfied him, as he looked around for more walls to throw Frank through.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
The Punisher (2004) / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Frank's Batman Gambit against the Saints is very similar to Iago's plan in Othello. See Guile Hero above for how.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Punisher (2004) / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Averted when Frank sneaks into Saint's nightclub; he packs a compound bow (instead of a suppressed gun), which he uses to take out some guards. While this may seem ridiculous, real life special forces have used archery weapons in some missions due to the bows actually being quieter than silenced weapons.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_7d5e6488	type	Ready for Lovemaking
The Punisher (2004) / int_7d5e6488	comment	Ready for Lovemaking: After Howard carries out Liv's wish to massacre the Castle family, she presents herself to Howard in a very skimpy negligee.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_7d78995d	type	Blofeld Ploy
The Punisher (2004) / int_7d78995d	comment	Blofeld Ploy: After interrogating Mickey about the death of his son, Saint points a gun at him... then turns and shoots his son's ex-bodyguard.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Punisher (2004) / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Livia Saint. The reason why Frank's family was wiped out, rather than just Frank as originally planned, was because she ordered it.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Punisher (2004) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. Frank's no saint in this movie, but he's a bit more unambiguously heroic and amicable than he is usually portrayed in the comics, though remains the cold, stoic, stern and serious Terse Talker of the comics after his family is murdered.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The Punisher (2004) / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Heard during the lead-up to the final battle, and the confrontation between Howard and Quentin. Not used for A Storm Is Coming as presumably the budget didn't stretch far enough for a battle in the rain.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_85b5dc7	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
The Punisher (2004) / int_85b5dc7	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: "You are one dumb son of a bitch. Bringing a knife to a gunfight." Little did Harry Heck know, it was a spring-loaded ballistic knife.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_863c780a	type	Hopeless Suitor
The Punisher (2004) / int_863c780a	comment	Hopeless Suitor: Joan shows obvious interest in Frank after he saves her from her ex-boyfriend, but he's too broken up by the death of his family and focused on his Revenge.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Punisher (2004) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: The page quote, which double as the last lines of the film. Howard tries to make one himself trying to intimidate the Cartel from turning on him by saying "I got more guns then you do." only for Quentin to awkwardly point out that they don't actually have more guns.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Punisher (2004) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Frank is a vigilante willing to torture people to get his vengeance. However, the Saints murder Castle's entire family (including the children), and are only slightly sympathetic due to their own son being killed (by Castle) during a police shootout.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Punisher (2004) / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead
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The Punisher (2004) / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Punisher (2004) / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The 1969 Pontiac GTO Frank drives in the near beginning of the film. It has a bucket seat, is painted in matte black, and has retractable metal bullet shields for the windows. Sadly, it gets wrecked during the battle with Henry Heck and Frank steals his car as a replacement. Despite being a nice muscle car, it's not the same. Luckily, it reappears in a cutscene in The Punisher (THQ), a pseudo-sequel to the film.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
The Punisher (2004) / int_8c96ae78	comment	Frank even before getting treatment from the 'Witch Doctor' still manages to barely survive multiple gunshot wounds and an explosion.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Punisher (2004) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Too many to list, but special mention goes to the older, long-haired goon. He get his face cut with his own knife, thrown into a small table, has his foot blown off with his own gun, has his arm twisted to the point of breaking at both the shoulder and the elbow, has his hand pinned to his thigh, resulting in a darkly amusing scream, and finally, stabbed through the mouth, once again, with his own knife. Given that he killed Castle Sr. and possibly several other innocent people, he deserves every ounce of the pain.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Punisher (2004) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Howard Saint really gets it, along with Quentin and Livia, who both died by his hands.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Punisher (2004) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Saint suffers one once he realizes Frank is alive and well, and has begun targeting his criminal empire. It comes to a head when Saint kills his closeted best friend and cruelly kills his wife, after being led to believe they've been cheating on him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_95d5fa51	type	Torture for Fun and Information
The Punisher (2004) / int_95d5fa51	comment	Torture for Fun and Information: The Punisher strings minor Mook Mickey Duka up by his ankles and explains that a blowtorch will kill nerves so quickly that the victim doesn't feel pain so much as a sense of numbness. He then lights his blowtorch behind Duka so he can't see, directs it at a raw piece of meat, and drags a Popsicle along the man's back. Mickey almost instantly gives up everything he knows, totally convinced he can smell his flesh burning even as it's numbed by the intense heat. In this case, the Punisher uses intense mental anguish rather than physical agony, but the pain was just as real and probably more severe. This is directly taken from the comic book.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Punisher (2004) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Even before Frank planted evidence, at one scene, Howard noticed his wife and best friend spending time together.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Punisher (2004) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Frank even before getting treatment from the 'Witch Doctor' still manages to barely survive multiple gunshot wounds and an explosion. The Russian as well; he even willingly lets Frank stab him without flinching.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Punisher (2004) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Frank takes on an entire building full of Hired Guns in the climax single-handedly.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Punisher (2004) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Saint's wife Livia has one. The Punisher himself gets a very memorable one.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Punisher (2004) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Frank admits that he tricked him into killing Quentin and Livia, Saint sobbed the first two words.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a20386a2	type	Serious Work, Comedic Scene
The Punisher (2004) / int_a20386a2	comment	Serious Work, Comedic Scene: This is a serious and dramatic comic book adaptation. However, there's a humorous moment near the end of the film when Frank tells his neighbor Joan that he's leaving to continue his work. He suggests that she read her newspaper everyday, and when she asks which section, he says the obituaries.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a2a8c6b6	type	Bewildering Punishment
The Punisher (2004) / int_a2a8c6b6	comment	Bewildering Punishment: Howard Saint murders his best friend and his wife after Castle's frameup convinces him they were cheating together. They're both Asshole Victims to the nth degree, but it's almost enough to make you feel bad for them, as neither one has any idea why he's doing it.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
The Punisher (2004) / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: Si vis pacem, para bellum. (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Punisher (2004) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The blowtorch-and-popsicle scene. Frank strings Mickey up by his ankles and gives him a To the Pain speech about how a blowtorch kills the nerves so quickly you don't feel pain. He then points the blowtorch at a steak and runs a popsicle up and down Mickey's back. Mickey screams in horrible agony and very quickly talks. Then Frank sticks the popsicle in Mickey's mouth and walks off.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Punisher (2004) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Jimmy Weeks, in the theatrical version. It leaves out a sub-plot where Howard Saint had blackmailed Weeks over the latter's money issues, making it seem like Weeks was innocent and Glass was able to figure out how to find Castle on his own, appearing with a file in hand. In the Extended Cut, it restores the sub-plot and Frank would figure it out and went to Weeks's apartment, where he forces him to shoot himself.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
The Punisher (2004) / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Joan and Frank meet for the first time when he runs off her abusive ex-boyfriend with a haymaker to the face.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Punisher (2004) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Castle's fight with The Russian is drowned out by Verdi's "La donna è mobile".
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The Punisher (2004) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Punisher (2004) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The Russian takes a knife to the shoulder and appears to be more annoyed than hurt.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Punisher (2004) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Frank's entire family may have been slaughtered in cold blood, but he still retains something that resembles a sense of humor, albeit rarely. He also makes a friendly, sarcastic remark to Jimmy Weeks during a going-away party (this happens before the hit on the Castles was executed):
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The Punisher (2004) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Punisher (2004) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Livia Saint, played by former Miss USA Laura Harring. Livia even undresses herself before having sex with Howard after believing they were victorious in killing Frank. Joan as well, played by former model Rebecca Romijn. She tends to wear tight-fitting outfits that emphasize her figure.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
The Punisher (2004) / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Howard was content to simply have Frank killed in return for the death of his son, but it was his wife who insisted that Frank's entire family had to die, too.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_b80899f2	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Punisher (2004) / int_b80899f2	comment	Comicbook Adaptation: Like with the previous adaptation, it featured material that was left out from the theatrical cut. See Re-Cut down below for more.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
The Punisher (2004) / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: A variation where Frank Castle forces John Saint to hold an anti-personnel mine (that will detonate if Saint lets go of it) one-handed, with his arm extended. Even though John's a fit man, he can only do this for so long before his Sound-Only Death.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
The Punisher (2004) / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: Frank's father's Colt M1911's, which are heavily customized with vented slides, longer barrels and expanded magazines.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
The Punisher (2004) / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Mickey turns into The Mole for Frank, who correctly guesses that Mickey doesn't want to spend the rest of his life as Howard Saint's lackey. He plays a crucial part in getting the pieces together to make Frank's Batman Gambit against Howard Saint work. In the novelization, it's explained that Mickey also resents the Saints because his father died working for them.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_bd3293fc	type	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife
The Punisher (2004) / int_bd3293fc	comment	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Invoked by Frank Castle, who stages things to manipulate mob boss Howard Saint into believing that his right-hand man is having an affair with his spouse Livia. The minion was actually a closeted gay man, which Howard didn't know, but his wife did. He doesn't believe her when she brings this up, thinking she's tarnishing his friend's memory, and kills them both, only to be horrified when he discovers the truth from Frank later.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Punisher (2004) / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Averted. Frank is nearly always depicted as a New Yorker, but this flick moves his story to Tampa. The DVD commentary reveals that the main reason to move to Tampa was Florida's tax incentives for film productions. The budget was too tight to film anywhere else. Hand Waved by an exchange between Frank and his son, suggesting that his line of work has required the family to move several times.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_bec60099	type	Victory Sex
The Punisher (2004) / int_bec60099	comment	Victory Sex: Howard and Livia Saint have sex to celebrate avenging their son's death by killing Frank Castle's entire family (unaware that Frank has survived and is far less pleased about this than they are).
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The Punisher (2004) / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
The Punisher (2004) / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: In contrast to the blowtorch-and-popsicle scene, the one scene of actual torture proves completely useless. Quentin Glass rips all David's piercings out with pliers, one by one, and when he still refuses to give up Frank's location, Quentin wrongly infers that Dave doesn't know anything.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Punisher (2004) / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Harry Heck starts his assault by driving his Cool Car into Frank's own. A case of TRAIN Fu happens when Saint kills his wife by dropping her off a bridge, directly in the path of a speeding locomotive.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Punisher (2004) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Frank doesn't believe he's friends with his neighbors. That changes when he gets to know them after he helped with Joan's boyfriend problem and left them some of the stolen mob money he took early in the film. This is cemented for him after the bad guys round up his neighbors and apply some Cold-Blooded Torture to Dave to find out where Castle is. The guy doesn't talk. Later, Castle demands to know why. The reply? "Because...you're one of us. You're family."
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Punisher (2004) / int_c36cba70	comment	Frank, at one point, uses a paper-cutter blade to kill a mook. To be clear, it looked like a machete.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Punisher (2004) / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: An extended cut of the film was released on DVD in 2006; it featured seventeen minutes of additional footage that fills in some of the plot holes (such as one that revolves around Jimmy Weeks, Frank's best friend, and Frank realizing that it was Weeks that sold him out to Howard Saint), features an animated introduction that follows Frank's time in Kuwait (based on the work of artist Tim Bradstreet), and generally improves on the film as compared to its theatrical cut.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Punisher (2004) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Harry Heck is a tribute to Johnny Cash's character in Five Minutes to Live (a.k.a. Door to Door Maniac). Frank Castle's wife and son are run over by a vehicle, and Frank arrives too late to save them. Wonder where that came from?
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c92a568	type	Family Extermination
The Punisher (2004) / int_c92a568	comment	Family Extermination: Quentin Glass and John Saint lead the attack on the Castle family reunion in order to not only kill Frank Castle, but to kill every last member of his family. Frank and his father, Castle Sr., manage to kill three mooks, with the third one being at the cost of his father's life. In the end, Frank is the Sole Survivor after being left for dead.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_c9869c78	type	I Know Madden Kombat
The Punisher (2004) / int_c9869c78	comment	I Know Madden Kombat: During his fight against The Russian, Frank lobs a grenade at him, but has to scramble for cover when The Russian turns the tables, using a crowbar to knock the grenade back at Frank like it's a baseball.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
The Punisher (2004) / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Not only is a botched police raid the reason for the entire plot, but both the Miami PD and the FBI are utterly useless in stopping the Saints’ attack on the Castle family or prosecuting them afterwards, and Frank calls them out on it when he comes back from the dead. The Director's Cut also shows that Castle's best friend is working for the Saints.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
The Punisher (2004) / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: Frank Castle is the protagonist who becomes the Punisher, a vigilante, after the murder of his family.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
The Punisher (2004) / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: Inverted in the Extended Cut. Frank doesn't suspect anything about Weeks until he notices that his former partner no longer owns many of his luxury items, including his Rolex and his beloved Porsche. He sells them off to cover his immense gambling debt, which is what Saint uses to blackmail him into betraying Frank. Played Straight at the same time: Saint and the Toros confront Weeks on how he's still gambling after he's already sold his possessions. Turns out Weeks is also stealing money from the FBI evidence locker, which gives Saint additional leverage over him.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_cf4fa6b9	type	Lonely Bachelor Pad
The Punisher (2004) / int_cf4fa6b9	comment	Lonely Bachelor Pad: Castle's apartment contains his tools, weapons and little else. Weeks' apartment is even emptier.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Punisher (2004) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Saint doesn't buy Livia's defense that Quentin was gay, thanks to his now-dead friend having been so deep in the closet.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
The Punisher (2004) / int_cfa546f4	comment	Mother Russia Makes You Strong: The colossal blond hitman known simply as "The Russian" (who is almost impervious to pain).
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The Punisher (2004) / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Punisher (2004) / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Castle himself, as the poster above shows.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Punisher (2004) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The Punisher to the Tampa Police. Before he even plans his revenge, he wanted to check how the cops were looking into it, and judging by how mad he looks, they didn't even start.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
The Punisher (2004) / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Livia Saint is shown only from the back as she faints after receiving the news that her son has been killed, then at the funeral in a black dress and a veil which she removes to reveal her face for the first time when calling for Frank Castle's entire family to be killed in retribution.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Punisher (2004) / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: Frank is on the receiving end of one by the Russian. Everything Frank throws at the Russian is either tanked or thrown back at him, forcing Frank to be on the defensive. It isn't until the fight spills into Joan's apartment and Frank throws a pot of boiling water in the Russian's face that he turns it around and kills the giant.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_db148980	type	Mook Promotion
The Punisher (2004) / int_db148980	comment	Mook Promotion: Lincoln, the Mook who killed Frank's dad, seems to have been promoted to The Dragon for Saint after he kills Quentin.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Punisher (2004) / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Mickey Fondozzi becomes Mickey Duka in the film. Frank Castle is Frank Castle Jr.. He's apparently born with that name as his father is Frank Castle Sr. instead of Mario Castiglione. And Frank's mother is Betty Castle instead of Louisa Castiglione. 'Castiglione' is the name of their extended family. Frank's son is Will instead of being Jr.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Punisher (2004) / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Joan, Bumpo, and Dave serve as Frank's. Even though he scares the living bejeezus out of them and stays emotionally distant, he shows he still has some humanity when he helps them from time to time. When he sets off at the end, he leaves them with money he stole from the Saints.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Punisher (2004) / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Frank Castle interrogates low-level mob gofer Mickey Duka by making a show of turning on an oxy-acetylene torch and going behind the mook to burn his back, explaining to him that "You won't feel the pain at first, you'll just feel... cold." He pretends to start burning off his skin as he asks questions, all the while he's just pointing the torch at a raw steak and touching his victim's skin with a popsicle to simulate being burned. Mickey talks.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
The Punisher (2004) / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Joan's crazy ex-boyfriend (cited on IMDb as "Tattooed Mike") shows up in her apartment building, harassing her, with only her front door between him and her. An unarmed Frank casually tells him to leave.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_e5a6888c	type	Quick Draw
The Punisher (2004) / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: Castle has a stand-off against two mooks in the lobby of the Saint’s building. He guns them down by quick-drawing his dual-wielding pistols.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_e8dca77c	type	Adaptation Origin Connection
The Punisher (2004) / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: The film makes Canon Foreigner and film Big Bad Howard Saint the man who ordered Frank Castle's family killed, thus setting off his Roaring Rampage of Revenge as the titular Vigilante Man.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_ea30a388	type	Carpet-Rolled Corpse
The Punisher (2004) / int_ea30a388	comment	Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Big Bad Howard Saint has the body of his associate Quentin wrapped in a carpet when he confronts his wife Livia over her supposed infidelity.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_ee6201b8	type	It Was a Gift
The Punisher (2004) / int_ee6201b8	comment	It Was a Gift: 13 years ago before the story starts, Frank had bought a Rolex for his friend Jimmy as thanks for being saved by him in battle. Jimmy gifts him one in return as a retirement gift. Thus Frank takes it personally when he notices Jimmy is no longer wearing his. After confronting his former friend for his betrayal and forcing him to shoot himself, Frank leaves his own Rolex next to Jimmy's corpse.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_f10521da	type	Instant Death Stab
The Punisher (2004) / int_f10521da	comment	Instant Death Stab: Heck is immediately killed by a spring-loaded ballistic knife to the throat. One mook instantly dies with a vertical chop of a paper cutter blade to the skull, and another mook is silently dispatched with a tiny karambit knife slashing his throat.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_f20da4a5	type	Flaming Emblem
The Punisher (2004) / int_f20da4a5	comment	Flaming Emblem: At the end of the film, Punisher sets off a series of car bombs that form his iconic skull symbol.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Punisher (2004) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Upon finding out Frank's alive, Howard Saint believes that he's invoking this trope aside from his revenge.
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The Punisher (2004) / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: In comparison to most depictions of the Punisher, Frank goes out of his way to make Howard think that his second-in-command and his wife are having an affair so that he'll kill them both himself. And that's nothing compared to the giant flaming skull he sets up at the very end. Justified in that Frank doesn't want to just kill Howard, he wants to make him suffer.
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