No matter what continuity Frank appears in, he will always lose his family to set up his reason for becoming The Punisher. High-Altitude Interrogation: Frank uses this among other interrogation techniques. Like most typical Anti-Heroes, he often does go through with the threat of letting them plummet to death. The Rev, a Captain Ersatz of Jim Jones, and one of the few villains to survive his initial run-in with Frank. Made of Iron: To an absolutely insane degree, The Punisher can take a lot of punishment. He has survived falls from considerable heights, countless gunshots (even unarmored), being stabbed, being brutally beaten up and much, much more during his career. He has even tangled with super-powered beings more often than the Average-Joe Badass Normal of the Marvel Universe (with the possible exception of Daredevil).

Dirty Coward: About 95% of the criminals behave like this when on the wrong end of a gunpoint, begging Frank for their lives and promising him anything and everything (this never helps). The remaining 5% are mostly Psychos For Hire or otherwise too raving mad to feel fear — only very rarely do you see a sane villain who just has enough guts for something like a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner. a b c Truitt, Brian. "Armored hero's mettle tested in 'Iron Patriot' ". USA Today . Retrieved 2023-09-10. And Call Him "George": The Russian puts his arm around the shoulder of one of the guys assigned to escort him for reassurance, and it kills him. More Dakka: Frank's solution to most problems is massive firepower. Submachine guns are just the starting point for automatic ballistic mayhem in his arsenal. Depending on the Writer: How much Frank fights to help innocents and how much because he likes killing, as well as how sane he is in general. His feelings towards other Marvel heroes he runs into also varies with the writer. Does he view them as admirable but too soft? Just annoying obstacles in his path?

The Punisher provides examples of the following tropes:

Cold-Blooded Torture: Frank: (looking down at a merc who'd just fallen into a pit full of sharpened stakes that Castle had dug for him) "Two through your chest. One through the groin, it looks like. You'll die if you don't get medical attention soon." Merc proceeds to tell Castle everything he wants to know. When he's finished, he asks weakly "...that medical attention...?" Frank: " No." Of course, said merc was already dying; even if Frank wanted to, he couldn't have saved him.

Liu, Narayan (2022-09-12). "Don Cheadle Reveals He's No Longer Under Marvel Contract". CBR . Retrieved 2023-09-09. Chest Insignia: The Punisher's iconic skull. Like Batman, it serves as a heavily armored target, and in the earlier issues the teeth were spare ammo magazines.The Villain Must Be Punished: It's his name, after all. Unlike heroes like Spider-Man or The Avengers, he doesn't content himself with just stopping criminals, he wants to make them pay for their crimes with their lives. Ditto with Barracuda from Punisher Max, who is like a bizarre fusion of Michael Clarke Duncan from Armageddon (1998) and Michael Clarke Duncan from Sin City. It can be hard to take him seriously as a villain at first until he kidnaps Frank's baby daughter, murders Frank's only real friend, threatens to eat said baby daughter, and is subsequently chopped into pieces by Frank with a fire axe. Gerry Conway was writing a script and he wanted a character that would turn out to be a hero later on, and he came up with the name the Assassin. And I mentioned that I didn't think we could ever have a comic book where the hero would be called the Assassin, because there's just too much of a negative connotation to that word. And I remembered that, some time ago, I had had a relatively unimportant character ... [who] was one of [the cosmic antagonist] Galactus' robots, and I had called him the Punisher, and it seemed to me that that was a good name for the character Gerry wanted to write—so I said, 'Why not call him the Punisher?' And, since I was the editor [sic; Lee had been named publisher in 1972], Gerry said, 'Okay.' [22] Also in "Mother Russia", the Batman Cold Open features Frank rescuing an elderly Russian WW2 veteran from some gangsters, with Frank explaining that he "has a thing about respecting his elders."

Space: Punisher (2012) — An Alternate Continuity miniseries with a version of Frank avenging his family's murder by a galactic crime syndicate led by some very familiar Marvel characters. Saved From Their Own Honor: Atelia surrenders her life to the angry mob in her half-human son's place by publicly confessing that she has hidden her past forbidden relationship with Jidan to come to and stay in power. Her family interrupts her Suicide by Cop and, in the finale, the grand master not only spares her and her son but also restores her to power, allowing both of them to help rebuild the Magical Realm. Kevin the bartender, who is always giving Det. Soap a hard time. In particular, he will often set him up with, encourage him into or fail to warn him against relationships that are possibly incestous or dangerous for the sake of his own amusement.The villains also constantly do this (if not much, much worse), because as bad as he is, Frank's the protagonist. Breakout Character: The Punisher originally appeared as a Spider-Man villain in 1974. He became popular and started to appear on a regular basis, eventually getting his own series in the '80s. Mook Chivalry: Obviously used quite a lot. What makes this extra-hilarious is that the smarter bosses (Cavella, Zakharov, Maginty) actually take the failings of their Mooks into account and use it to engineer Batman Gambits; Zakharov manages to blindside Frank with this trope twice. The Russian is a murderous, violent and psychopathic killer for hire. He is, nonetheless, incredibly friendly to his enemies, actively complimenting and joking with them mid-fight. Inspired by the Marvel Future Fight video game, this Marvel Legends Series 1:1 full-scale premium roleplay item is highly detailed and features electronic lights and sounds. In addition to 2 glowing LED eyes, the helmet has a magnetized faceplate that can be detached and then connected to the top. Attaching and detaching the faceplate triggers the light-up eyes and sound FX.