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* FamousLastWords: Appropriately enough the final word to come out of his mouth is a bemused, [[spoiler:"Huh".]]
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* FreudianExcuse: Of the TykeBomb variety. Auntie Mo got her hooks into Nicky at a young age, turned him against his family, and coerced him into killing them so that she could take over their enterprises and become Nicky's legal guardian, which allowed her to exert further influence over Nicky. Mo had the preadolescent Nicky attend Mafia meetings, torture and kill people, etc. while she also had sex with him against his will, all in an attempt to toughen him up and ensure that he grew up to be the ultimate Mafioso. While it is unknown if Nicky was bad even before Mo got ahold of him, it is clear that she screwed him up royally and still haunts him even in present day, as Theresa hitting on him caused Nicky to have a PTSD-like flashback to being raped by Mo.
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* FreudianExcuse: Of the TykeBomb variety. Auntie Mo got her hooks into Nicky at a young age, turned him against his family, and coerced him into killing them so that she could take over their enterprises and become Nicky's legal guardian, which allowed her to exert further influence over Nicky. Mo had the preadolescent Nicky attend Mafia meetings, torture and kill people, etc. while she also had sex with him against his will, all in an attempt to toughen him up and ensure that he grew up to be the ultimate Mafioso. While it is unknown if Nicky was bad even before Mo got ahold of him, it is clear that she screwed him up royally and regardless, as she was shown to still haunts haunt him even in the present day, as Theresa hitting on him caused Nicky to have a going by Nicky's PTSD-like flashback FreakOut response to being raped aggressively hit on by Mo.Theresa.
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* FreudianExcuse: Of the TykeBomb variety. Auntie Mo got her hooks into Nicky at a young age, turned him against his family, and coerced him into killing them so that she could take over their enterprises and become Nicky's legal guardian, which allowed her to exert further influence over Nicky. Mo had the preadolescent Nicky attend Mafia meetings, torture and kill people, etc. while she also had sex with him against his will, all in an attempt to toughen him up and ensure that he grew up to be the ultimate Mafioso. While it is unknown if Nicky was bad even before Mo got ahold of him, it is clear that she screwed him up royally and still haunts him even in present, as Theresa hitting on him caused Nicky to have a PTSD-like flashback to being raped by Mo.
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* FreudianExcuse: Of the TykeBomb variety. Auntie Mo got her hooks into Nicky at a young age, turned him against his family, and coerced him into killing them so that she could take over their enterprises and become Nicky's legal guardian, which allowed her to exert further influence over Nicky. Mo had the preadolescent Nicky attend Mafia meetings, torture and kill people, etc. while she also had sex with him against his will, all in an attempt to toughen him up and ensure that he grew up to be the ultimate Mafioso. While it is unknown if Nicky was bad even before Mo got ahold of him, it is clear that she screwed him up royally and still haunts him even in present, present day, as Theresa hitting on him caused Nicky to have a PTSD-like flashback to being raped by Mo.
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* FreudianExcuse: His deranged aunt convinced him to kill his family and her husband (framing him for the massacre) so that she could take over their syndicate and personally groom Nicky to be the ultimate Mafioso... [[RapeAsBackstory and]] [[IncestIsRelative lover]].
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* FreudianExcuse: His deranged aunt convinced Of the TykeBomb variety. Auntie Mo got her hooks into Nicky at a young age, turned him to kill against his family family, and her husband (framing coerced him for the massacre) into killing them so that she could take over their syndicate enterprises and personally groom become Nicky's legal guardian, which allowed her to exert further influence over Nicky. Mo had the preadolescent Nicky attend Mafia meetings, torture and kill people, etc. while she also had sex with him against his will, all in an attempt to toughen him up and ensure that he grew up to be the ultimate Mafioso... [[RapeAsBackstory and]] [[IncestIsRelative lover]].Mafioso. While it is unknown if Nicky was bad even before Mo got ahold of him, it is clear that she screwed him up royally and still haunts him even in present, as Theresa hitting on him caused Nicky to have a PTSD-like flashback to being raped by Mo.
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* HateSink: Even though his backstory is surprisingly rather tragic, he is deliberately designed to be the smuggest, horrid, and despicable human being imaginable. Making his ultimate demise all the more satisfying.
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* HateSink: Even though Despite his backstory is surprisingly rather tragic, (as mentioned above), he is deliberately designed to be the smuggest, horrid, and despicable human being imaginable. Making his ultimate demise all the more satisfying.
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* TheSociopath: In case if it weren't obvious.
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* ClusterFBomb: He drops the mother of all these (quoted above) in his second appearance. Where he curses the name of everyone from his dead family, his old comrades, The Punisher, and even the angels in the sky.
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* ClusterFBomb: ClusterFBomb / CountryMatters: He drops the mother of all these (quoted above) in his second appearance. Where he curses the name of everyone from his dead family, his old comrades, The Punisher, and even the angels in the sky.
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* TheCorruptible: His aunt more or less made him into a sociopath that would kill his entire family and anyone who gets in his way.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: By the end of the issue, like Pizzo and the other surviving Cesare's, he has realized that it was a mistake getting in bed with Nicky and tell him to go take a hike.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: By the end of the issue, arc, like Pizzo and the other surviving Cesare's, he has realized that it was a mistake getting in bed with Nicky and tell him to go take a hike.
* TheDividual: They frequently appear together in the background. Teresa and Nicky refer to them as "the other two." It isn't even clear which man is Pete and which man is Max.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: They frequently appear together in the background. Teresa and Nicky refer to them as "the other two." It isn't even clear which man is Pete and which man is Max.
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* HateSink: Deliberately designed to be the most smug, horrid, and despicable human being imaginable. Making his ultimate demise all the more satisfying.
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* HateSink: Deliberately Even though his backstory is surprisingly rather tragic, he is deliberately designed to be the most smug, smuggest, horrid, and despicable human being imaginable. Making his ultimate demise all the more satisfying.
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* TheCorrupter: The woman responsible for turning Nicky Cavella into the psychotic mobster we see today.
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[[folder:Mo Cavella]]
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #20
Nicky's twisted aunt and mentor.
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* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Mo had her niece murdered and used her nephew Nicky as a pawn to achieve power while forcing him to have sex with her and encouraging him to torture and kill people.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: Mo is an overweight gangster moll who engineered the murders of her brothers, sister-in-law, and niece for selfish reasons and later raped her pre-teen nephew.
* PosthumousCharacter: Nicky killed her with a VorpalPillow [[OutWithABang during sex]] decades ago.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #20
Nicky's twisted aunt and mentor.
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* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]: Mo had her niece murdered and used her nephew Nicky as a pawn to achieve power while forcing him to have sex with her and encouraging him to torture and kill people.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: Mo is an overweight gangster moll who engineered the murders of her brothers, sister-in-law, and niece for selfish reasons and later raped her pre-teen nephew.
* PosthumousCharacter: Nicky killed her with a VorpalPillow [[OutWithABang during sex]] decades ago.
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[[folder:Lenny]]
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #2
A Cesare mobster hoping to fill the EvilPowerVacuum at the beginning of the series.
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #2
A Cesare mobster hoping to fill the EvilPowerVacuum at the beginning of the series.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7,
A veteran Cesare
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* BigBadWannabe: At Massimo Cesare's funeral, Lenny nominates himself as the family's new leader and proposes putting a hit on Frank. He is making some progress at persuading the other mobsters in attendance to go along with him before Frank blows them all up with a rocket launcher.
* SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.
* SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.
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* BigBadWannabe: At CoolShades: In his flashback scene to sixteen years earlier, Big Jackie wears thick, impressive sunglasses.
* FalseReassurance: After MassimoCesare's funeral, Lenny nominates himself as the family's new leader and proposes putting a hit on Frank. He is making some progress at persuading the other mobsters in attendance to go along Cesare exiles Nicky, Big Jackie implies that he agrees with him before Frank blows them all Nicky's tactics and says that the exile will only last until the aging Massimo dies. Jackie tells Nicky to look up with a rocket launcher.
Jackie's cousin in Boston for work in the meantime. Massimo ends up living another fifteen years, and once he does die, Jackie opposes letting Nicky back into New York. This implies that Jackie was lying to Nicky during their previous meeting.
*SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.SoleSurvivor: Jackie is the only capo to survive the birthday party massacre but is wounded and hospitalized.
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[[folder:Lenny]]
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #2
A Cesare mobster hoping to fill the EvilPowerVacuum at the beginning of the series.
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* BigBadWannabe: At Massimo Cesare's funeral, Lenny nominates himself as the family's new leader and proposes putting a hit on Frank. He is making some progress at persuading the other mobsters in attendance to go along with him before Frank blows them all up with a rocket launcher.
* SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He inadvertently suffers one of the most psychologically tormenting deaths of the whole series. When the Punisher drags him out into an isolated forest with the intention of killing him, much like how he had done to his family as a boy.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He inadvertently suffers one of the most psychologically tormenting deaths of the whole series. When series; when the Punisher drags him out into an isolated forest with the intention of killing him, much like how he had done to his family as a boy.boy, and he has a giant freak out. It's implied that the forest was the exact same one that he murdered his family in.]]
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[[folder:Lenny]]
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #2
A Cesare mobster hoping to fill the EvilPowerVacuum at the beginning of the series.
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* BigBadWannabe: At Massimo Cesare's funeral, Lenny nominates himself as the family's new leader and proposes putting a hit on Frank. He is making some progress at persuading the other mobsters in attendance to go along with him before Frank blows them all up with a rocket launcher.
* SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #2
A Cesare mobster hoping to fill the EvilPowerVacuum at the beginning of the series.
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* BigBadWannabe: At Massimo Cesare's funeral, Lenny nominates himself as the family's new leader and proposes putting a hit on Frank. He is making some progress at persuading the other mobsters in attendance to go along with him before Frank blows them all up with a rocket launcher.
* SirSwearsALot: The first three sentences Lenny utters contain five cuss words.
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[[folder:Don Rigoletto]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Punisher Max'' Vol. 1, #1
-> ''"Gentlemen, either the Punisher dies, or '''''we do'''''"''
A high level mob boss who has decided to gather the other Dons who make up the heads of the major crime families in New York, and have them band together to devise a plan meant to kill the Punisher once and for all.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''Punisher Max'' Vol. 1, #1
-> ''"Gentlemen, either the Punisher dies, or '''''we do'''''"''
A high level mob boss who has decided to gather the other Dons who make up the heads of the major crime families in New York, and have them band together to devise a plan meant to kill the Punisher once and for all.
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-> '''Debut:'''
-> ''"Gentlemen, either
A new Cesare capo who opposes Nicky Cavella the
A high level mob boss who has decided
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* AscendedExtra: His counterpart in mainline Marvel was a PosthumousCharacter whose only appearances were in brief flashbacks in a handful of Daredevil and Spider-Man stories.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he is ultimately killed by Fisk.]]
* TheDon: One of the more powerful Don's in New York's criminal underworld.
* EyepatchOfPower: To complete his evil mafioso image.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His dialog is laden with all matter of racial slurs. He refers to the Irish as "micks", calls blacks "niggers", and overall shows not a care in the world for tolerance.
* SadisticChoice: Gives one of these to [[spoiler:Fisk]] after discovering his plot to overthrow him. See WouldHurtAChild below.
* WouldHurtAChild. Invoked in the most brutal way imaginable. [[spoiler:After discovering Fisk's plan to betray him. He and his henchmen go to where Fisk's family are and have them held hostage. Holding Wilson's son at knife point while his wife handcuffed. When Fisk arrives Rigoletto threatens to slit the boys throat unless Fisk drops his gun. This backfires ''horribly''. As Fisk, in a inhumanly cruel act, simply ignores Rigoletto's demand, choosing instead to kill his him and his men, which in turn causes Rigoletto to kill Fisk's son as a final "screw you" to Fisk, before inevitably being killed himself.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he is ultimately killed by Fisk.]]
* TheDon: One of the more powerful Don's in New York's criminal underworld.
* EyepatchOfPower: To complete his evil mafioso image.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His dialog is laden with all matter of racial slurs. He refers to the Irish as "micks", calls blacks "niggers", and overall shows not a care in the world for tolerance.
* SadisticChoice: Gives one of these to [[spoiler:Fisk]] after discovering his plot to overthrow him. See WouldHurtAChild below.
* WouldHurtAChild. Invoked in the most brutal way imaginable. [[spoiler:After discovering Fisk's plan to betray him. He and his henchmen go to where Fisk's family are and have them held hostage. Holding Wilson's son at knife point while his wife handcuffed. When Fisk arrives Rigoletto threatens to slit the boys throat unless Fisk drops his gun. This backfires ''horribly''. As Fisk, in a inhumanly cruel act, simply ignores Rigoletto's demand, choosing instead to kill his him and his men, which in turn causes Rigoletto to kill Fisk's son as a final "screw you" to Fisk, before inevitably being killed himself.]]
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* AscendedExtra: His counterpart AntiVillain: Joey's never actually shown doing anything in mainline Marvel was his capacity as a PosthumousCharacter whose only appearances were in brief flashbacks in a handful of Daredevil mobster besides showing contempt towards Nicky Cavella and Spider-Man stories.
refusing to submit to his authority.
*BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he BoisterousBruiser: He isn't ever shown fighting, but Joey is ultimately killed by Fisk.]]
* TheDon: Oneone of the more powerful Don's in New York's criminal underworld.
* EyepatchOfPower: To completeburlier capos and doesn't mince his evil mafioso image.words or submit to his fellows.
*PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: His dialog is laden HopeSpot: He gets two of the other capos to vote against Nicky with all matter of racial slurs. him, but this gets Joey murdered to allow Nicky's ascension.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Herefers to insults the Irish as "micks", calls blacks "niggers", and overall shows not a care in the world for tolerance.
* SadisticChoice: Gives one of theselate Pittsy to [[spoiler:Fisk]] after discovering his plot to overthrow him. See WouldHurtAChild below.
* WouldHurtAChild. Invoked in the most brutal way imaginable. [[spoiler:After discovering Fisk's plan to betray him. He and his henchmen go to where Fisk's family are and have them held hostage. Holding Wilson's son at knife point while his wife handcuffed. When Fisk arrives Rigoletto threatens to slit the boys throat unless Fisk drops his gun. This backfires ''horribly''. As Fisk, in a inhumanly cruel act, simply ignores Rigoletto's demand, choosing instead to kill his him and his men, which in turn causes Rigoletto to kill Fisk's son as a final "screw you" to Fisk, before inevitably being killed himself.]]sister's face.
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* TheDon: One
* EyepatchOfPower: To complete
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He
* SadisticChoice: Gives one of these
* WouldHurtAChild. Invoked in the most brutal way imaginable. [[spoiler:After discovering Fisk's plan to betray him. He and his henchmen go to where Fisk's family are and have them held hostage. Holding Wilson's son at knife point while his wife handcuffed. When Fisk arrives Rigoletto threatens to slit the boys throat unless Fisk drops his gun. This backfires ''horribly''. As Fisk, in a inhumanly cruel act, simply ignores Rigoletto's demand, choosing instead to kill his him and his men, which in turn causes Rigoletto to kill Fisk's son as a final "screw you" to Fisk, before inevitably being killed himself.]]
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Four Mafiosi (and one gangbanger) wives all made widows by the Punisher and shut out from the rest of the mafia since women have no place in the organization other than being a wife of a member.
Left with little money compared to what they had when their husbands were alive and angered over their deaths, they have decided to take it upon themselves to do what a thousand other men have tried and failed to do. ''Kill the Punisher''.
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Four Mafiosi (and one gangbanger) wives all made widows by the Punisher and shut out from the rest of the mafia since women have no place in the organization other than being a wife of a member.
Left with little money compared to what they had when their husbands were alive and angered over their deaths, they have decided to take it upon themselves to do what a thousand other men have tried and failed to do. ''Kill the Punisher''.
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Four Mafiosi (and one gangbanger) wives all made widows by the Punisher
Left with little money compared to what they had when their husbands were alive
-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #19
The remaining two Cesare capos during "Up is Down and
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any experience in violence at all]].
* ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they still hesitated instead of shooting back.]]
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
* MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.
* ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they still hesitated instead of shooting back.]]
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
* MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception ExtremeDoormat: They don't want Nicky to be their boss but they don't oppose him without anyone to rally them.
* FatAndSkinny: One ofShauna, none of them is bulky, while the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any experience in violence at all]].
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*ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only onePermaStubble: One of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they still hesitated instead of shooting back.]]
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together,is visibly unshaven.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They frequently appear together in thedead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh,background. Teresa and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
* MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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, butNicky refer to his murder of their husbands in terms of innocent victims targeted for no reason by an amoral killer.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rankthem as "the other two." It isn't even clear which man is Pete and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.which man is Max.
* FatAndSkinny: One of
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together,
* ThoseTwoGuys: They frequently appear together in the
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh,
* MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #43
-> ''"We're gonna do somethin' a thousand men already failed at: We're gonna kill the Punisher. May he burn in hell forever, the motherless, godless fuck."''
The oldest of the five widowed wives and also the ''de facto'' leader of the group.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #43
-> ''"We're gonna do somethin' a thousand men already failed at: We're gonna kill the Punisher. May he burn in hell forever, the motherless, godless fuck."''
The oldest of the five widowed wives and also the ''de facto'' leader of the group.
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A high level mob boss who has decided to gather the other Dons who make up the heads of the major crime families in New York, and have them band together to devise a
The oldest of the five widowed wives
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* AintTooProudToBeg: When Jenny has her dead to rights, she resorts to begging for her life.
* BigBadWannabe: She may be the leader of the wives, the granddaughter to a great Don, and know how to orchestrate a big scheme to kill The Punisher, but at the end of the day, she doesn't have the experience or conviction to ''execute'' her plans properly.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She did love her sons, that's for sure.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Despite being friendly with Shauna over course of business, Annabella slips and uses a racial slur against her at one point.
* SmugSnake: In ''way'' over her head. Her initial plan was actually very sound and would have succeeded if not for Jenny, but afterward, she has zero chance of success and fails to realize how bad her situation is.
* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting him in deathtraps]] instead of [[JustShootHim just killing him as soon as they get the chance]] is why he keeps winning, and resolves not to make that mistake. [[SpannerInTheWorks And if it wasn't for Jennifer,]] it would've worked.
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank; his mafia massacre in the very first issue killed her grandfather, father, husband and two sons.
* BigBadWannabe: She may be the leader of the wives, the granddaughter to a great Don, and know how to orchestrate a big scheme to kill The Punisher, but at the end of the day, she doesn't have the experience or conviction to ''execute'' her plans properly.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She did love her sons, that's for sure.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Despite being friendly with Shauna over course of business, Annabella slips and uses a racial slur against her at one point.
* SmugSnake: In ''way'' over her head. Her initial plan was actually very sound and would have succeeded if not for Jenny, but afterward, she has zero chance of success and fails to realize how bad her situation is.
* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting him in deathtraps]] instead of [[JustShootHim just killing him as soon as they get the chance]] is why he keeps winning, and resolves not to make that mistake. [[SpannerInTheWorks And if it wasn't for Jennifer,]] it would've worked.
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank; his mafia massacre in the very first issue killed her grandfather, father, husband and two sons.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: When Jenny has her dead to rights, she resorts to begging for her life.
AscendedExtra: His counterpart in mainline Marvel was a PosthumousCharacter whose only appearances were in brief flashbacks in a handful of Daredevil and Spider-Man stories.
*BigBadWannabe: She may be the leader BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he is ultimately killed by Fisk.]]
* TheDon: One of thewives, the granddaughter to a great Don, and know how to orchestrate a big scheme to kill The Punisher, but at the end of the day, she doesn't have the experience or conviction to ''execute'' her plans properly.more powerful Don's in New York's criminal underworld.
* EyepatchOfPower: To complete his evil mafioso image.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She did love her sons, that's for sure.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Despite being friendly His dialog is laden with Shauna over course all matter of business, Annabella slips and uses a racial slur against her at slurs. He refers to the Irish as "micks", calls blacks "niggers", and overall shows not a care in the world for tolerance.
* SadisticChoice: Gives onepoint.
of these to [[spoiler:Fisk]] after discovering his plot to overthrow him. See WouldHurtAChild below.
*SmugSnake: In ''way'' over her head. Her initial WouldHurtAChild. Invoked in the most brutal way imaginable. [[spoiler:After discovering Fisk's plan was actually very sound to betray him. He and would his henchmen go to where Fisk's family are and have succeeded if not for Jenny, but afterward, she has zero chance of success and fails them held hostage. Holding Wilson's son at knife point while his wife handcuffed. When Fisk arrives Rigoletto threatens to realize how bad her situation is.
* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting himslit the boys throat unless Fisk drops his gun. This backfires ''horribly''. As Fisk, in deathtraps]] a inhumanly cruel act, simply ignores Rigoletto's demand, choosing instead of [[JustShootHim just killing to kill his him as soon as they get the chance]] is why he keeps winning, and resolves not to make that mistake. [[SpannerInTheWorks And if it wasn't for Jennifer,]] it would've worked.
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank;his mafia massacre men, which in the very first issue turn causes Rigoletto to kill Fisk's son as a final "screw you" to Fisk, before inevitably being killed her grandfather, father, husband and two sons.
himself.]]
*
* TheDon: One of the
* EyepatchOfPower: To complete his evil mafioso image.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* SadisticChoice: Gives one
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* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting him
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank;
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
Wife of the late Larry Barrucci, one of the Cesare family capos who was slain in one of the earlier stories. And resident slut of the group.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
Wife of the late Larry Barrucci, one of the Cesare family capos who was slain in one of the earlier stories. And resident slut of the group.
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Wife
Four Mafiosi (and one gangbanger) wives all made widows by the Punisher and shut out from the rest of the
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* AlliterativeName: '''Bar'''bara '''Bar'''rucci.
* BerserkButton: She doesn't take too kindly to others pitying her. And is quick to tell them off, regardless of whether or not they meant any harm by it.
* CallBack: Her late husband Larry appeared ''way'' back in the very first arc as a throw-away character.
* DontYouDarePityMe: When the rest of the wives learn of her illiteracy, they openly take pity on the poor girl. "Barbi", however is having ''none'' of their bullshit.
-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, except that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabella to be revealed as the more bigoted of the two.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting this trope, its quite strange seeing this played straight.
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses her body to help the group's plans.
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to the group. She finds ''other'' inventive ways to make herself useful.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Larry was pretty average, but Barbi is an absolute bombshell.
* BerserkButton: She doesn't take too kindly to others pitying her. And is quick to tell them off, regardless of whether or not they meant any harm by it.
* CallBack: Her late husband Larry appeared ''way'' back in the very first arc as a throw-away character.
* DontYouDarePityMe: When the rest of the wives learn of her illiteracy, they openly take pity on the poor girl. "Barbi", however is having ''none'' of their bullshit.
-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, except that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabella to be revealed as the more bigoted of the two.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting this trope, its quite strange seeing this played straight.
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses her body to help the group's plans.
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to the group. She finds ''other'' inventive ways to make herself useful.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Larry was pretty average, but Barbi is an absolute bombshell.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Bar'''bara '''Bar'''rucci.
AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any experience in violence at all]].
*BerserkButton: She doesn't ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take too kindly vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted toothers pitying her. And is quick to tell take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them off, regardless ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one of whether or not them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they meant any harm were ambushed unexpectedly by it.Jenny, but they still hesitated instead of shooting back.]]
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
*CallBack: Her late husband Larry appeared ''way'' back in MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the very first arc as a throw-away character.
vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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.
*DontYouDarePityMe: When MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the wives learn of her illiteracy, they openly take pity on the poor girl. "Barbi", however is having ''none'' of their bullshit.
-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write,rank and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, exceptfile mooks that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. PromptingFrank routinely kills by the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabella to be revealed as the more bigoted of the two.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting this trope, its quite strange seeing this played straight.
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses her body to help the group's plans.
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to the group. She finds ''other'' inventive ways to make herself useful.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Larry was pretty average, but Barbi is an absolute bombshell.shipload.
*
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
*
*
-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write,
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, except
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabella to be revealed as the more bigoted of the two.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting this trope, its quite strange seeing this played straight.
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses her body to help the group's plans.
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to the group. She finds ''other'' inventive ways to make herself useful.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Larry was pretty average, but Barbi is an absolute bombshell.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
Wife of the late capo Paul Zucca. She's one of the better educated members of the group.
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Wife of the late capo Paul Zucca. She's one of the better educated members of the group.
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-> ''"We're gonna do somethin' a thousand men already failed at: We're gonna kill the Punisher. May he burn in hell forever, the motherless, godless fuck."''
The oldest of the
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* InformedAbility: She's stated to be one the more intellectual members of the crew but she never gets to demonstrate this.
* TheGenericGuy: She has close to zero characterization, and no special traits that separate her from the pack.
* SmugSnake: Tends to think a ''lot'' of herself because of her education, which the others really rankle at.
* TheGenericGuy: She has close to zero characterization, and no special traits that separate her from the pack.
* SmugSnake: Tends to think a ''lot'' of herself because of her education, which the others really rankle at.
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* InformedAbility: She's stated AintTooProudToBeg: When Jenny has her dead to rights, she resorts to begging for her life.
* BigBadWannabe: She may beone the more intellectual members leader of the crew wives, the granddaughter to a great Don, and know how to orchestrate a big scheme to kill The Punisher, but at the end of the day, she never gets doesn't have the experience or conviction to demonstrate this.''execute'' her plans properly.
*TheGenericGuy: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She has close to zero characterization, did love her sons, that's for sure.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers andno special traits the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that separate Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her from to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite thepack.
above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Despite being friendly with Shauna over course of business, Annabella slips and uses a racial slur against her at one point.
* SmugSnake:Tends to think a ''lot'' of herself because of In ''way'' over her education, which head. Her initial plan was actually very sound and would have succeeded if not for Jenny, but afterward, she has zero chance of success and fails to realize how bad her situation is.
* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting him in deathtraps]] instead of [[JustShootHim just killing him as soon as they get theothers really rankle at.chance]] is why he keeps winning, and resolves not to make that mistake. [[SpannerInTheWorks And if it wasn't for Jennifer,]] it would've worked.
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank; his mafia massacre in the very first issue killed her grandfather, father, husband and two sons.
* BigBadWannabe: She may be
*
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Despite being friendly with Shauna over course of business, Annabella slips and uses a racial slur against her at one point.
* SmugSnake:
* TaughtByExperience: Realizes that criminals [[BondVillainStupidity capturing Frank and putting him in deathtraps]] instead of [[JustShootHim just killing him as soon as they get the
* TraumaCongaLine: She has the biggest bone to pick with Frank; his mafia massacre in the very first issue killed her grandfather, father, husband and two sons.
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* DamselInDistress: Invoked by the widows who pretend she's a human trafficking victim to lure Frank into a trap. Barbie's so innocent that despite being a horrible actor it almost works despite her story not adding up in any sense.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Her most distinct feature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the others particularly like Bonnie, her death going completely unmourned and Annabella even joking that she won't mind too much if Bonnie is collateral when they open fire on Frank.
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her, as the other widows think this feature, combined with her cute speech pattern, makes her the perfect damsel in distress.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her 'Roly-Poly Pudding' Artie was big, fat and not very attractive. Bonnie is a super-gorgeous, slender redhead who genuinely adored her husband.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Her most distinct feature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the others particularly like Bonnie, her death going completely unmourned and Annabella even joking that she won't mind too much if Bonnie is collateral when they open fire on Frank.
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her, as the other widows think this feature, combined with her cute speech pattern, makes her the perfect damsel in distress.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her 'Roly-Poly Pudding' Artie was big, fat and not very attractive. Bonnie is a super-gorgeous, slender redhead who genuinely adored her husband.
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* DamselInDistress: Invoked AlliterativeName: '''Bar'''bara '''Bar'''rucci.
* BerserkButton: She doesn't take too kindly to others pitying her. And is quick to tell them off, regardless of whether or not they meant any harm by it.
* CallBack: Her late husband Larry appeared ''way'' back in thewidows who pretend she's very first arc as a human trafficking victim to lure Frank into a trap. Barbie's so innocent that despite being a horrible actor it almost works despite her story not adding up in any sense.
throw-away character.
*ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Her most distinct feature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: NoneDontYouDarePityMe: When the rest of the others particularly like wives learn of her illiteracy, they openly take pity on the poor girl. "Barbi", however is having ''none'' of their bullshit.
-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of herdeath going completely unmourned and illiteracy, except that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabellaeven joking that she won't mind too much if Bonnie is collateral when they open fire on Frank.
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her,to be revealed as the other widows think more bigoted of the two.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting thisfeature, combined with trope, its quite strange seeing this played straight.
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses hercute speech pattern, makes body to help the group's plans.
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to theperfect damsel in distress.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
group. She finds ''other'' inventive ways to make herself useful.
* UglyGuyHotWife:Her 'Roly-Poly Pudding' Artie Larry was big, fat and not very attractive. Bonnie pretty average, but Barbi is a super-gorgeous, slender redhead who genuinely adored her husband.an absolute bombshell.
* BerserkButton: She doesn't take too kindly to others pitying her. And is quick to tell them off, regardless of whether or not they meant any harm by it.
* CallBack: Her late husband Larry appeared ''way'' back in the
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-->'''Lorraine''': Oh shit. Barbi, can you read?
-->'''Bonnie''': Oh, you ''poor thing''...!
-->'''Barbara''': Fuck you, Bonnie, I don't want your fucking pity! I'm dyslexic, not some goddamn ''cripple''!
* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Openly racist towards Shauna when they first meet. Subverted a bit when she actually gets over her racism to Shauna over time, only for Annabella
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her,
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Jennifer finishes her off with a 9mm round to her cranium. Given the series penchant for averting this
* ReallyGetsAround: Quite promiscuous to the point she trades oral sex for cab rides (even though she has enough money to pay for the fare) and uses her
* SexForServices: After her proven illiteracy threatens to make her a liability to the
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
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* TheGenericGuy: She has close to zero characterization, and no special traits that separate her from the pack.
* SmugSnake: Tends to think a ''lot'' of herself because of her education, which the others really rankle at.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
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* DamselInDistress: Invoked by the widows who pretend she's a human trafficking victim to lure Frank into a trap. Barbie's so innocent that despite being a horrible actor it almost works despite her story not adding up in any sense.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Her most distinct feature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the others particularly like Bonnie, her death going completely unmourned and Annabella even joking that she won't mind too much if Bonnie is collateral when they open fire on Frank.
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her, as the other widows think this feature, combined with her cute speech pattern, makes her the perfect damsel in distress.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her 'Roly-Poly Pudding' Artie was big, fat and not very attractive. Bonnie is a super-gorgeous, slender redhead who genuinely adored her husband.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
-> ''"My name is Shauna Toomey. My man was John James Toomey. Anyone got any more bullshit to say, they can suck my muthafuckin' dick."''
By far the most street savvy and lethal of all the widows.
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* TheGenericGuy: She has close to zero characterization, and no special traits that separate her from the pack.
* SmugSnake: Tends to think a ''lot'' of herself because of her education, which the others really rankle at.
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
The most naive member of the group who speaks in a vewy distinct and wather ''cute'' speech pattern.
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* DamselInDistress: Invoked by the widows who pretend she's a human trafficking victim to lure Frank into a trap. Barbie's so innocent that despite being a horrible actor it almost works despite her story not adding up in any sense.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Her most distinct feature.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of the others particularly like Bonnie, her death going completely unmourned and Annabella even joking that she won't mind too much if Bonnie is collateral when they open fire on Frank.
* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her, as the other widows think this feature, combined with her cute speech pattern, makes her the perfect damsel in distress.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Definitely the least villainous widow, she just wants revenge on Frank.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her 'Roly-Poly Pudding' Artie was big, fat and not very attractive. Bonnie is a super-gorgeous, slender redhead who genuinely adored her husband.
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[[folder:Shauna Toomey]]
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-> '''Debut:''' ''The Punisher'' Vol. 7, #31
-> ''"My name is Shauna Toomey. My man was John James Toomey. Anyone got any more bullshit to say, they can suck my muthafuckin' dick."''
By far the most street savvy and lethal of all the widows.
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* YourCheatingHeart: She was sleeping with Curtis, one of her husband's assassins, years ago.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they still retreated in a completely disorganized mess instead of shooting back.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to shoot, only one of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they still retreated in a completely disorganized mess hesitated instead of shooting back.]]]]
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
** Later when they're interrogated by the police, they give a very detailed account of the events, only one very smart cop, Budiansky, asks the very uncomfortable question of why a bunch of wives of dead mob bosses would be together, in the dead of night, being shot at, with a cache of weapons found nearby.
** They later send an assassin to kill Budiansky, only they send Shauna's crackhead henchman/ex-lover, who accidentally hits Budiansky's wife instead. Oh, and Budiansky is a hero cop, so that opens up a whole other can of worms.
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any real experience]].
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any real experience]].experience in violence at all]].
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that their inexperience caused them to create a plan that ''sucks'', and when it comes time to take action, they find that they can't even pull the trigger.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that for all their inexperience caused detailed schemes and schedules, their plan hinged on them to create a plan that ''sucks'', ambushing Frank... and at no point do we see them train with weapons. Sure enough, when it comes time to take action, shoot, only one of them fires off ''one'' shot. [[spoiler:Granted, they find that were ambushed unexpectedly by Jenny, but they can't even pull the trigger.still retreated in a completely disorganized mess instead of shooting back.]]
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* BigBadWannabe: She may be the leader of the wives, the granddaughter to a great Don, and know how to orchestrate a big scheme to kill The Punisher, but at the end of the day, she doesn't have the experience or conviction to ''execute'' her plans properly.
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before.
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* AmazonBrigade: Subverted. With the exception of Shauna, none of the other wives have ever seen any real action before. [[spoiler:It's doubtful that even Shauna had any real experience]].
* ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that their inexperience caused them to create a plan that ''sucks'', and when it comes time to take action, they find that they can't even pull the trigger.
* ChronicVillainy: As Jenny pointed out, they were rich, connected, and essentially free from the barbaric psychopaths they used to be married to and didn't really love. They could have lived until the end of their pampered little lives without a care in the world, but they decided to take vengeance for their husbands, a cause that nobody, not even the surviving gangsters, ''cared about anymore''.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: It's not so much that five women with no real fighting experience wanted to take on The Punisher a.k.a. the guy who can waste ten times their number in a single night, it's that their inexperience caused them to create a plan that ''sucks'', and when it comes time to take action, they find that they can't even pull the trigger.
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* TerribleTrio: The crew was originally made up of Nicky (the leader), Pittsy (the muscle), and Ink (the brains). After Pittsy and Ink are killed off in the first arc, Nicky decides to bring in Theresa Gazzera. Who just so happens to be Pittsy's sister.
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* TerribleTrio: The crew was originally made up of Nicky (the leader), Pittsy (the muscle), and Ink (the brains). After Pittsy and Ink are killed off in the first arc, Nicky decides to bring in Theresa Gazzera. Who Gazzera, who just so happens to be Pittsy's sister.
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Nicky's right-hand women, and unbeknownst to him, his long time admirer. A vulgar and foul tempered women.
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Pittsy's sister; a vulgar and foul tempered woman. Nicky's right-hand women, woman, and unbeknownst to him, his long time admirer. A vulgar and foul tempered women.long-time admirer.
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* FatBastard: as the name implies. Played with in that he actually is disgusted by Cavella's past and wants nothing to do with him at first, but after decades of living in fear of the Punisher and having peers slaughtered by him, feels enough dark satisfaction at the descreation of Frank's family to decide to give Nicky a chance after all.
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* FatBastard: as As the name implies. Played with in that he actually is disgusted by Cavella's past and wants nothing to do with him at first, but after decades of living in fear of the Punisher and having peers slaughtered by him, feels enough dark satisfaction at the descreation desecration of Frank's family to decide to give Nicky a chance after all.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unlike Tony Pizzo, he never appears after '' Up Is Down And Black Is White'' and it's likely he was among the many off-screen casualties of the various mob wars that followed (by the time of 'The Widowmaker' it's mentioned that the Cesare's have lost their subsquesent five bosses to either rival gangsters or the Punisher), was arrested by the police or pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unlike Tony Pizzo, he never appears after '' Up Is Down And Black Is White'' and it's likely he was among the many off-screen casualties of the various mob wars that followed (by the time of 'The Widowmaker' it's mentioned that the Cesare's have lost their subsquesent subsequent five bosses to either rival gangsters or the Punisher), was arrested by the police or pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
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* MoralMyopia :The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, their not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster, their not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.
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* MoralMyopia :The MoralMyopia: The five of them can't seem to fathom why the vile, murderous criminals they married could deserve 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.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster,their they're not exactly any more competent or formidable than the rest of the rank and file mooks that Frank routinely kills by the shipload.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Subverted. Although they prove to be just ''slightly'' more intelligent than the average mobster,
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* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she hadnt done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite the above trope, she was perfectly fine with setting her sister Jennifer up with Tim Buccato despite knowing that he was a monstrous psychopath who had already [[DrivenToSuicide driven his first wife to suicide]]. And she was only too eager to shut her eyes to the copious amounts of horrific abuse he meted out to Jennifer throughout their marriage.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if shehadnt hadn't done all she did just to keep her mafia wife lifestyle.
* NeverMyFault: When Jennifer has her tied to a chair, she tearfully blames all her sins on the men in the mafia, and that wives and girlfriends have no say in decisions. Which would hold more water if she
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* TheBrute: The muscle of the widows, and the most aggressive and violent. But subverted in that she's still something of a BoisterousWeakling who talks a lot of game but hesitates when it comes shooting people herself or having some of her husband's gunmen do it for her while claiming she did the deed herself.
* ScaryBlackWoman: See above.
* ScaryBlackWoman: See above.
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* TheBrute: The muscle of the widows, and the most aggressive and violent. But subverted in that she's still something of a BoisterousWeakling who talks a lot of game but hesitates when it comes to shooting people herself or having some of her husband's gunmen do it for her while claiming she did the deed herself.
* ScaryBlackWoman: See above. Demonstrated when she threatens Barbara with a razor after the latter insulted her.
* ScaryBlackWoman: See above. Demonstrated when she threatens Barbara with a razor after the latter insulted her.
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* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her. As the other widows think this feature combinations with her cute speech pattern make her the perfect damsel in distress.
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* PuppyDogEyes: This ends up working against her. As her, as the other widows think this feature combinations feature, combined with her cute speech pattern make pattern, makes her the perfect damsel in distress.
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* BerserkButton: She doesn't take to kindly to others pitying her. And is quick to tell them off, regardless of whether or not they meant any harm by it.
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* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and an overall dim individual.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session, that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gathering session, that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
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* DumbBlonde: She's blonde, doesn't know how to read or write, and is an overall dim individual.
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, except that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
* NeverLearnedToRead: It's revealed during an information gatheringsession, session that she suffers from a reading disorder. Prompting the other wives to shower her with pity. [[DontYouDarePityMe She doesn't]] [[BerserkButton take this well]].
* TheLoad: Would have been this for the group because of her illiteracy, except that Shauna manages to figure out a way for her to be useful courtesy of ReallyGetsAround.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is utterly disgusted at the Slavers and the things they did to their victims. When talking about the vicious beating that Frank administered to Vera Konstantin before throwing her to her death, she states that she wouldn't have "stopped for an ''hour''."
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* AndShowItToYou: He boast that he'll rip out Frank's heart and show it to him. What's more, later on his fight with Frank shows that he ''meant it.'' He was trying to grab a fistful of entrails from Frank's gaping wound.
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* AndShowItToYou: He boast boasts that he'll rip out Frank's heart and show it to him. What's more, later on his fight with Frank shows that he ''meant it.'' He was trying to grab a fistful of entrails from Frank's gaping wound.
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* MadeOfIron: Quite possibly the most extreme example of this trope in the series, to borderline ImplacableMan levels. The man is beaten, stabbed, shot at, has his eyes gouged, his fingers broken and ends up getting [[spoiler:impaled on a steel fence. Through sheer hatred and incredible strength of will, he keeps on going. It's only after he gets his face blown off by a shotgun slug that he finally succumbs to his wounds.]] Although not before freaking Frank the hell out by taking a few more steps in his direction.
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* MadeOfIron: Quite possibly the most extreme example of this trope in the series, to borderline ImplacableMan levels.This guy is extremely tenacious you'd think he had legit SuperToughness. The man is beaten, stabbed, shot at, has his eyes gouged, his fingers broken and ends up getting [[spoiler:impaled on a steel fence. Through sheer hatred and incredible strength of will, he keeps on going. It's only after he gets his face blown off by a shotgun slug that he finally succumbs to his wounds.]] Although not before freaking Frank the hell out by taking a few more steps in his direction.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: He punches ''well'' beyond his weight, and is one of the few characters in the entire series to give Frank a run for his money, and came damn near close to actually killing Frank on more than one occasion. Not only that but he is every bit as [[MadeOfIron durable]] as he is strong.
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* OldSoldier: Not ''that'' kind of army but he's definitely been fighting for a long time. The guy looks like he's in his sixties but he's easily the most badass member in Nicky's crew. In fact at one point he comes damn near close to actually choking the ''life'' outta Frank. Had it not been for Microchip intervening, then he very likely would have killed Frank. The next time the two meet he's got Frank reeling, prompting Frank to think fast or be beaten to death.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He punches ''well'' beyond his weight, and is one of the few characters in the entire series to give Frank a run for his money, and came damn near close to actually killing Frank on more than one occasion. Not only that but he is every bit as[[MadeOfIron durable]] durable as he is strong.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He punches ''well'' beyond his weight, and is one of the few characters in the entire series to give Frank a run for his money, and came damn near close to actually killing Frank on more than one occasion. Not only that but he is every bit as
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: ''"Lets fucking GO you FUCK!"''
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* BerserkButton: Being born in the East Coast it should come as no surprise that he takes his clam chowder ''[[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]''. For example, when he orders New England clam chowder, he expects it to be made like it is in New fucking England!
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* BerserkButton: Being born in the East Coast it should come as no surprise that he takes his clam chowder ''[[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]''. For example, when he orders New England clam chowder, he expects it to be made like it is in New fucking England!England! (White, not red)