YMMV / The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank

• Crosses the Line Twice: Ma Gnucci being maimed and losing all her limbs to polar bears is brutal, as much of a vile bitch she is. Seeing a "Get well" card with a teddy bear near her at the hospital is hilariously inconsiderate.
• Funny Moments:
  • The ridiculous Chalk Outline from when Frank hurled Carlo Gnucci off the Empire State Building. Also Crosses the Line Twice.
  • Mike Malizia amazingly surviving being thrown from a car doing over 100mph in the middle of the Long Island Expressway... only to be hit by a semi for "Tasty Frank's".
  • The Russian is just a big bag of fun in general. In the middle of beating the hell out of Frank, he pauses to tell Frank that after killing him, The Russian is going to go see if he can spot New York's other costumed heroes, like Spider-man (The Russian even imitates Spidey's famous "thwip thwip!" web slinging) and comments that he is the President of his own "Daredevil Man Without Fear Fan Club". Prior to that, when Ma Gnucci tells him how many millions she's gonna pay him, his response is. "Oh, Russian could buy many pairs of Levi's with that much. Many compact discs."
    • Frank disabling the Russian with a hot pizza in the face and then killing him by suffocating him with his morbidly obese neighbor Mr. Bumpo.
  • It crosses over with awesome, but Frank punching a polar bear to piss it off.
  Frank's monologue: Cuddly. Lovable. Docile. That won't do at all.
• Memetic Mutation: The panel of Frank punching a polar bear has easily become one of the character's more obscenely hilarious moments. Due to the Bear's reaction and the absurd nature of it all. [1]◊
• Narm: The Elite (and, in the sequel, his son) showers with his mask on for no discernible reason beyond preventing the reader from seeing his face, which turns out to be completely inconsequential.
• Tearjerker: The back-alley doctor who fixes up Dave and removes the bullets from Frank's body. The circumstances that led to his fallen state - ending up as an outlaw doctor who patches up wounded mobsters with no questions asked - are hinted at throughout his appearance, namely his perpetually morose and haggard expression and bearing, as well as him taking a swig of whisky before starting to operate on Frank (Frank lampshades this by saying to himself that there are better and more sober doctors out there... but all of them would rat him out to the Gnuccis). The real clincher, though, is this exchange after the operation:
  Frank Castle: Four thousand?
  The Doctor: That's what we agreed on.
  Frank Castle: Joan.
  Joan: Um... Yes?
  Frank Castle: Money's in a bag at the back of the refrigerator. Give him ten thousand (turns to look at the Doctor). For keeping your mouth shut.
  The Doctor: (With a sad, downcast look) No, son. For buying whiskey.