History Characters / ThePunisherVillains

-> ''"My own list of troublemakers? Let's just say it's getting shorter all the time. However, some of them seem to keep coming back, like the pain from an old wound..."''
-->-- '''The Punisher''', ''The Punisher'' Annual Vol. 2, #5 ("The Punisher's Top Ten Villains!")

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!!Villians

[[folder:Jigsaw]]
!!Jigsaw
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Billy "The Beaut" Russo
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 1, #161 (1976)

--> ''"See, guy, see--before I get to the punchline I gotta back up a second. Let me tell you about Frank--let me tell you about the Punisher. Because he's--he's my--see, the first time we met, I was just this guy, y'know? I was this, I was this guy, I had my things goin' and he--well, he's got his thing goin' too. And our things, they don't go together so well. So the guy--the guy who kills so many, so often--me he decides not to kill. Me he decides to just put through a window. Again and again and again. Frank Castle just kinda drives me a little crazy. See? Just you look at what that maniac brings out of me. We scrap. We tussle. Loads of times, me and him. And you know what? I can't never seal the deal and he--he always lets me live. A little worse for wear, of course. I'm tellin' you, Irish, he's like a kid what pulls off the wings off flies just to watch 'em wiggle. He digs the torture. I mean, what kind of sick, sad, insane--what kind of lunatic--"''

A hitman for the Maggia and the Costa crime family, pretty-boy Billy "The Beaut" Russo had his face mangled when the Punisher shoved him through a plate glass window. Left with a tattered mess of a face, Billy took the name Jigsaw, and set about doing his best to ruin Castle's life.
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* AbusiveParents: Billy abused his son Henry, even forcing him to kill kittens that Henry had let inside by telling him that he'd kill his mother if he didn't. They seemingly start to reconcile in ''In the Blood'', which implies that deep down Jigsaw actually does love his son... just not enough to try and save him from burning to death during an instance of FriendOrIdolDecision.
* AffablyEvil: In ''War Journal'' Vol. 2, he's extremely personable (if still a psychotic sociopath). Probably because he's tired of the whole "try to kill the Punisher" circus and wants to move on with his life.
* {{Archenemy}}: He's the closest thing that Castle has to one, being one of his few recurring enemies, his EvilCounterpart and, in his mind, TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou. The two don't particularly care for the classification, however, with Jigsaw seeing himself as a DiabolicalMastermind who is supposed to be above the notion of having a nemesis, while the Punisher merely regards Jigsaw as nothing more than another hood, albeit one who "won't stay dead".
* AxCrazy: It gets particularly bad in ''War Journal'' Vol. 2, though even before that he had done things like try to snipe ComicBook/JessicaJones and her baby and gun down police officers while half-jokingly hailing Satan.
* BaitTheDog: Jigsaw's ''one'' potentially redeeming quality was that, even though he abused his son, Henry, horribly, deep down he still seemed to love and want to reconcile with him. But, when faced with a FriendOrIdolDecision, Jigsaw shows his true colors when he chooses attacking a momentarily dazed Punisher over taking a few seconds to save his own flesh and blood from a raging inferno.
--> '''Henry:''' Help me, dad!
--> '''Jigsaw:''' *koff* Dad is it? *koff* I'm suddenly your favorite, right?
--> '''Henry:''' Please! Just help me up! I don't want you dead, I don't--I saved you from that knife, saved you--
--> '''Jigsaw:''' You chose the wrong guy. I tell myself, I'm a good dad. But that's just the crazy, right? See, situation like this, it'll clear things up.
* BigBad: He's typically either this or TheDragon.
* {{Bishonen}}: Billy used to be this. Then the Punisher got his hands on him...
* ButtMonkey: In ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' (though MoodWhiplash occurred) and sections of ''War Journal'' Vol. 2.
* ChestInsignia: When dressed in his knockoff of the Punisher's costume.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He and the Hood beat Tigra to near-death, and he's also mutilated the Punisher twice, and attempted to do the same to his own son, Henry.
* CostumeCopycat: Dressed as Paladin after joining Kingpin and Zemo's newest Thunderbolts. As noted elsewhere, he's also noted to have dressed like the Punisher.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: ''Year One'' revealed that it was Jigsaw who the Costas had hired to tie up all of the loose ends connected to the massacre of the Castle family. After surviving the bomb that Billy planted in his house, Frank (now the Punisher) tracked down and cut him up, turning him into Jigsaw. Of course, the Punisher being the Punisher, this is so ordinary for him that he [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't even remember it]].
--> '''Punisher:''' When I do my job, it gets done. No screw-ups, no errors, no mistakes. So yes, you are going to die. But not tonight. You'll die next time I see you. Tonight, you're going to live, so you can tell the Costas face to face how they're going to die. Tell them there is a soldier after them. An instrument of justice. A punisher. Tell them I won't be long. Now look at that.
--> '''Billy:''' What? The cops outside?
--> '''Punisher:''' No... your reflection, "Beaut" Russo. [[DestinationDefenestration Remember it]].
* DeathIsCheap:
** He was gunned down in ''Jigsaw Puzzle'', but was resurrected one issue later by the Rev and Belasco.
** He was shot in the head and knocked off of a ledge in [[ComicBook/JohnOstrandersPunisher John Ostrander's run]], but was revealed to have survived when he was noted as being among the convicts imprisoned in the Raft in ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''.
** He was shot in the head (again) near the end of ''War Journal'' Vol. 2, but was revealed to have survived yet again in ''In the Blood''.
** ''In the Blood'' ended with him falling through the roof of his own lair, which then exploded, but then he made a cameo in ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Annual'' and popped up ''ComicBook/{{Civil War II}}: Kingpin''.
* EvilCounterpart: He's worn copies of the Punisher's costume several times, with the first instance being in ''Circle of Blood'', where he was brainwashed by the Trust into becoming a member of their Punishment Squad. During ''War Journal'' Vol. 2, his outfit was a color inverted (white suit with a black skull) version of the Punisher's, while in the John Ostrander series it had normal coloration, but with a grey-ish tint to the white and lots of sutures.
* EvilIsPetty: When he and several others villains took the Geraci family (which included a child and a priest) hostage, Jigsaw was all for executing them on the spot, on the off chance that the Punisher had survived the encounter that led to their capture. That way, even if the Punisher defeated them, he'd have still lost because his allies would be dead.
* GenreSavvy: DependingOnTheWriter, during ''ComicBook/ThePunisherSuicideRun'' he laughs at the idea of using a mob summit to lure Punisher into a trap and refuses to attend (which saves his life) but other times he does make mistakes in that vein.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: His scars are about as evil as you can get, horribly disfiguring his face.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: A SWAT uniform in ''World War Frank''. The helmet was the only way such a disguise can work.
* InformedDeformity: He looked 99% fine in the John Ostrander series, where he was depicted as having a couple of extra lines (and this was the 1990s, when that was in vogue) on an otherwise entirely normal face.
* InSeriesNickname: Before his run-in with Frank, he was known as Billy "the Beaut".
* IWasQuiteALooker: Billy had good looks that earned him the name "The Beaut". But then the Punisher threw him against a glass pane, and his face was jumbled enough to be rebuilt akin to a jigsaw.
* JokerImmunity: Jigsaw even lampshades this, and the Punisher justifies letting him live since Jigsaw is more of a danger to his fellow criminals than innocents.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The ''other'' reason he's stayed alive as long as he has, despite his usual competition. Jigsaw is usually smart enough to get out while the getting's good and wait for a more favorable opportunity to strike again. A prominent example is ''Suicide Run'' where he's one of the [[SummonBiggerFish bigger fish summoned]] to fight the Punisher, but once he realizes that his inexperienced partners have effectively made themselves sitting ducks, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he makes a quick exit]].
* MadEye: The reconstruction of his face left his left eye larger in appearance.
* MadeOfIron: If the Punisher can survive it, more than likely Jigsaw can too. And since Frank's been BackFromTheDead ''twice'', you can probably see where we're going with this.
* NightmareFace: He's been mutilated to a grotesque degree, to the point that his surgeons were forced to reconstruct his features from scratch.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: When he heard that Castle had been fried in an electric chair, he started killing those responsible while ranting about how inappropriate it was that ''he'' didn't get to kill him.
* PowerArmor: His first appearance had him wearing an exoskeleton said to increase his strength.
* ProfessionalKiller: Was an assassin for the Maggia before reaching his current station in life. His clientele has expanded to include Kingpin, The Hood, and more recently, Baron Zemo.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Like the Punisher, he was an antagonist in ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', although he was introduced with his grudge against Frank already established. When Frank got his own book, Billy's villainy was taken there, and he's rarely fought anyone else since.
* TaughtByExperience:
** In his second ever storyline, he's realized his limitations in a world of superheroes, and so only commits low-level and out of the way crimes that he hoped would be beneath their notice. It hit the fan for him when he tried to rob a midnight cruise that [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Parker]] happened to be aboard.
** He and Rosalie Carbone are the only invitees to opt out of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherSuicideRun'', Jigsaw due to his (correct) belief that no matter how foolproof the plan seemed, it was still doomed to fail for the sole fact that it was the Punisher that they were dealing with.
* TookALevelInBadass: Has gone from a failed assassin to one of the few criminals who can match the Punisher's combat skills.
* UnknownRival: Frank only sees him as just a mid-level Mafiosi. In fact, he doesn't even [[ButForMeItWasTuesday remember their initial meeting]].
* UselessAccessory: He had some kind of neck cast[=/=]brace in his early appearances. One would assume that it was part of the strength-enhancing exoskeleton that he wore under his clothes, though him being allowed to keep it in prison casts doubt on that theory.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Favors white suits, and a color-inverted Punisher costume much of the time. Fitting as he's Frank's EvilCounterpart.
* WesternTerrorists: As of ''World War Frank'' he's thrown in his lot with ComicBook/{{Hydra}}.
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[[folder:Hitman]]
!!Hitman
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Lieutenant Burt Kenyon
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' Vol. 1, #4 (1977)

-->''"Point, click, kill -- the Hitman knows how to do his job."''

A Marine in Vietnam, where he saved the life of Frank Castle, Burt Kenyon became a costumed assassin for the underworld after the war, bringing him into conflict with Spider-Man and the Punisher.
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* BackFromTheDead: He was cloned back to life by the Jackal in ''ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy'' and revealed to be one of the lucky few who survived the CloneDegeneration that wiped out most of the other duplicates when he popped up working for Countess Karkov in ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan.
* BadassBandolier: Two.
* TheCameo: Appears in a flashback in ''Punisher: Return to Big Nothing''.
* CoolBike: ''A jet-powered motorcycle''.
* CoolPlane: His base of operations is a jet.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Fell off the Statue of Liberty.
* DissonantSerenity: When he gunned down a group of enemy soldiers which had surrounded Frank in Vietnam.
* EvilVersusEvil: In his first appearance, he is hired by a mobster with a grudge against the Vulture.
* FaceHeelTurn: A soldier turned contract killer.
* HumanShield: Enjoyed making one out of J. Jonah Jameson.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Practically a saint compared to most of the people who end up on the Punisher's radar.
* TheMentallyIll: Section 8'ed, meaning he was deemed mentally unfit for military service.
* MonumentalBattle: His final battle ([[CloningBlues as a normal human]]) with Spidey and the Punisher occurs on top of the Statue of Liberty.
* JackTheRipoff: An unnamed criminal became the third Hitman after buying the name and gear from the Hobgoblin.
* PetTheDog: The Punisher owed his life to the Hitman. While dangling from the Statue of Liberty, the Hitman informs Frank that he owes him ''[[ExactWords a]]'' life, not ''his'' life, and tells him to save Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson instead.
* ProfessionalKiller: Hence the name.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Introduced as a new Spider-Man villain, he was given ties to the Punisher in his second appearance.
* RooftopConfrontation: With Spider-Man and the Punisher, on top of ''The Daily Bugle''.
* TrackingDevice: Employed these against Spider-Man and the Vulture.
* WalkingArsenal: He whips out a lot of gadgets and weapons.
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[[folder:Bushwacker]]
!!Bushwacker
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Carl Burbank
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Daredevil'' Vol. 1, #249 (1987)

-->''"I'm a true artist! I never leave a job undone. I always execute my art to the highest aesthetic possible."''

Carl Burbank was originally a Catholic priest who abandoned the priesthood following the drug related deaths of young parishioners. Struggling to suppress violent urges inadvertently awakened in him by confessions, Burbank agreed to a top secret military experiment that replaced his arms with cybernetics capable of transforming into various weapons - also replacing his skin with a malleable plastic that can stretch into a variety of shapes around his transformable musculature. After performing numerous covert operations for the CIA, Burbank went rogue, using his newfound abilities to become a hitman and criminal enforcer. Gifted with superhuman strength of an unrevealed limit, and able to take more [[JustForPun punishment]] than any normal human, Bushwacker is frequently on the short-list of those who can afford to SummonBiggerFish against the Punisher.
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See [[Characters/DareDevilCentralRoguesGallery here]] for more.
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[[folder:The Rev]]
!!The Rev
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Samuel Smith
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherVolumeTwo The Punisher]]'' Vol. 2, #4 (1987)

--> '''Punisher:''' Oh yeah. The Rev. A heavyweight--sending off vibes like crazy. Crazy vibes. Like a psycho, con and holy man all mixed into one.

Sam Smith was the leader of a would-be suicide cult called Church of the Saved, whose zealousness was stopped by the Punisher. He struck a deal with Satan [[note]](Actually the demon [[Characters/XMenVillains Belasco]] posing as him)[[/note]], and returned later with a plan to sterilize the American populace.
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* AlliterativeName: Just like his real life counterpart.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The source of his powers are unknown, though the Punisher theorized that he was a deluded mutant.
* BeardOfEvil: Sports and old-fashioned.
* BigBad: Of two separate storylines.
* TheCorruptor: To many of his cultists.
* DarkMessiah: Fashions himself as a savior of his people, while being completely insane.
* EvilRedhead: Until it turned black partway through ''Jigsaw Puzzle''.
* GoodPowersBadPeople: He is a crazy cult leader who has HealingHands, which he notably uses to resurrect Jigsaw when he was working for him.
* HollywoodSatanism: After his cult fell apart, he became a worshipper of Satan.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Rev's based on UsefulNotes/JimJones, the leader of People's Temple cult whose base of operations was also in South America.
* SiblingsInCrime: He initially worked alongside his sister, but he very clearly hated her, and presumably only kept her around because she was useful.
** Ironically, the feeling didn't seem to mutual, as she tried to save him from the Punisher.
* SinisterMinister: They don't call him "The Rev" for nothing.
* WouldHurtAChild: After the Punisher destroys his shipment of drugs, the Rev vents his frustration over this by dismembering a random suburban family.
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[[folder:Sniper]]
!!Sniper
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Rich von Burian
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWarJournal'' Vol. 1, #4 (1989)

--> ''"I know that slippery *#%&# as well as I know myself. I know how he feels - what he thinks. That makes him predictable to me. I'm ready to nail his hide."''

Von Burian was part of Frank's military unit in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. After the conflict, he was hired by the DEA for illegal drug operations. He later became a mercenary whose brand of work made him a target to the Punisher.
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* AdaptationNameChange: He was likely the basis for Gosnell from Season Two of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''.
* BlondesAreEvil: It's doubtful that he shows a single redeeming quality in any of his appearances.
* ColdSniper: As his mercenary-name suggests, he is quite handy with the sniper rifle.
* CreepyBlueEyes: Sports some of the creepiest in the series.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has some serious facial scarring in his last appearance, even missing his lips.
* HiredGuns: He's loyal to anyone who pays him enough.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Tends to hire himself out to other people, but has a personal beef with the Punisher due to having remorselessly murdered several men they served together with in Vietnam.
* KnifeNut: He uses a triangular punch-knife as a melee weapon.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Takes out Damage when he has the advantage over Punisher so that he can fight him personally. Their next fight is Burian's last.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He feels that the Punisher owes him big time, and is not happy when the "honor" of killing him is given to someone else.
* SadisticChoice: He holds a woman at knife-point and a child at gunpoint, and attempts to force the Punisher to choose which one he should kill in front of the other.
* TheVonTropeFamily: And definitely part of the evil side of the trope.
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[[folder:Damage]]
!!Damage
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jaime Ortiz
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWarJournal'' Vol. 1, #8 (1989)

--> ''"Geez! That would've hurt if I was still all flesh and blood. Now I'll just have to order a spare from the shop!"''

Damage was a gang member who was mangled by the Punisher's Battle Van's defense-mechanisms. In an act of CruelMercy, Frank decided to let him continue to live in agony, and dropped his crushed body off at a nearby hospital. He was then recruited by a project of the Kingpin's that rebuilt him into a killing machine.
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* AllThereInTheManual: His real name was revealed in the ''Marvel Knights Encyclopedia''.
* AxCrazy: He's introduced frenziedly machine-gunning down a defiant shopkeeper in the streets in broad daylight, not noticing or simply not caring that a woman and her baby are in the way.
* CutsceneBoss: He's the owner of the crack house that makes up the tutorial level of [[VideoGame/ThePunisher the 2005 game]]. The confrontation with him at the end of the stage consists of an interrogation mini-game that ends with the Punisher throwing him off of a multi-story ledge and into the path of a car.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Was a tough gang leader willing to make a pre-emptive strike at the Punisher, before his mutilation and augmentation.
* EvilKnockoff: He is turned into a duplicate of the Punisher so that Frank can be framed for killing innocents.
* FireBreathingWeapon: One of his weapons is a flamethrower.
* GangBangers: Former member of the Bunsen Burners.
* ImplacableMan: Granted, he does have the the advantage of cybernetics, but he takes a lot of damag, including missing limbs, at the hands of the Punisher and Wolverine, and keeps on coming.
* ManlyFacialHair: His former gang didn't allow its members to have beards or moustaches, but he was deemed tough enough to be an exception.
* PetTheDog: A thoroughly unpleasant individual, when he's first testing his new abilities, he's seemingly attacked by the Punisher, who he kills. Afterwards, the Kingpin's assistant informs him that it wasn't the real Punisher, but a disobedient employee of the Kingpin's who was told he'd be forgiven if he could beat Damage, or his family would be compensated as long as he put up a good fight. When she asks Damage if he thinks he put up a good fight, he says "He was pitiful--but he tried. What the hell!"
* PornStache: Sported a fairly thin one as a human.
* ThePowerOfHate: He would have departed from life when he was comatose if it wasn't for the Kingpin's lackey [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious questioning him]] about the person he hated the most.
* ShockAndAwe: He can use his cybernetic features to generate electricity.
--> '''Damage:''' You look tired... no energy left? I can fix that! '''*TZZZAPP*'''
* ShoulderCannon: It's [[GatlingGood a minigun]].
* WeCanRebuildHim: He was rebuilt into a {{Cyborg}} with the Kingpin's money and [[Comicbook/XMen Reaver technology]], with a variety of tricks up his sleeve. After his defeat at the hands of the Punisher and Wolverine, it is suggested that he can be rebuilt again, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse if he ever was]].
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[[folder:Saracen]]
!!Saracen
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Muzzafar Lambert
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherVolumeTwo The Punisher]]'' Vol. 2, #22 (1989)

--> ''"You're an interesting man... life will be duller without you."''

A mercenary and terrorist-for-hire of Middle Eastern extraction, Muzaffar Lambert, alias Saracen, brooked no interference with his operations. When Frank Castle destroyed one of his missions, Saracen took it personally, kicking off a rivalry that would result in the deaths of Castle's only remaining relatives, and Lambert himself.
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* AllThereInTheManual: His real name was revealed in the ''Marvel Knights Encyclopedia''.
* BadassNormal: Like most of Castle's enemies, Saracen had no superhuman powers. He earns points, however, for being one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, in a 'verse where a sizable portion of the population can shoot lasers out of their orifices and throw cars around like dolls.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his two-part First Appearance he spoke slightly broken English, and displayed none of the traits he would later possess. Adding to the oddity is the fact that neither he nor the Punisher bring up their previous encounter when they meet face to face again in ''The Sicilian Saga''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He kills without remorse, but he refuses to be unfaithful to his wife.
* GoodCounterpart: His equivalent on [[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} Earth-1009]] is a hero, and a member of the Royal [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]].
* GoodHairEvilHair: Has a classically evil moustache.
* {{Greed}}: His primary motivation.
* HappilyMarried: Apparently, given his refusal to betray her.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Highly visible assassin anyway. Saracen's purple and red costumes are pretty obvious.
* HiredGuns: Lambert has no particular allegiances, save to his money.
* ItsPersonal: He kills the Punisher's aunt and uncle, Frank's last remaining family members.
* KilledOffForReal: The Punisher hacked him to bits in a SwordFight.
* MasterSwordsman: Saracen was very proficient with his scimitar.
* TheMole: Castle first met Saracen when they were both infiltrating a so-called ninja school. They allied at the time, with neither aware of the other's real goals or reasons for being there.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Saracen was loyal only to his paycheck.
* ProfessionalKiller: As a terrorist-for-hire, assassination is certainly within his purview.
* RecurringCharacter: Made nine appearances, which for a Punisher villain is pretty good.
* SinisterScimitar: As part of his stereotypically Arab persona.
* SleevesAreForWimps: As seen in the picture, Saracen's uniform is void of sleeves.
* TerroristWithoutACause: A terrorist-for-hire to be exact, with his only cause being enriching himself.
* YouKilledMyFather: You killed my aunt and uncle, actually. There's a reason Castle wanted this guy dead.
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[[folder:Colonel De Sade]]
!!Colonel De Sade
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Punisher Summer Special'' #1 (1991)

--> ''"The fact I derive pleasure from cruelty doesn't make me feel guilty, Frank... guilt is ridiculous. There is no "good" or "bad". There is only pleasure and pain... with no heaven or hell at the end of it!"''

A sadistic former interrogator for "[[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} the company]]" during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, De Sade later caught the Punisher's eye when he went into bank robbing business and, after their first confrontation, directing [[SnuffFilm snuff movies]].
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* BadBoss: Puts his own assistant in one of his snuff films just because he ran out of extras.
* BaitAndSwitch: During a bank robbery, it looks like he is going to do something horrible to a bystander, but he instead just... [[TraumaticHaircut gives her a haircut]].
* CombatSadomasochist: His weapons put more emphasis on causing pain (i.e. a bazooka that shoots barbed wire) than permanently neutralizing his targets. He also enjoys being in the receiving end of Punisher's hurting during their confrontations.
-->'''De Sade:''' Oh this is beautiful Punisher... so sadistic!
* DirtyCoward: Willing to use a HumanShield when he's cornered.
* KnifeNut: Likes cutting people up.
* ShoutOut: He is obviously [[InSeriesNickname nicknamed]] after Creator/MarquisDeSade, whose controversial literary works inspired the use of the term "sadism".
* TortureTechnician: His job in the Vietnam conflict was to torture locals for answers.
* WhipItGood: He [[DualWielding dual wields]] two whips in his second and final appearance.
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[[folder:Thorn]]
!!Thorn
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Salvatore "Sal" Carbone
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWarZone'' Vol. 1, #1 (1992)

--> ''"Cannot rest until the stone-face man dies. Cannot rest until I stand over him. Until I see him breathe his last breath."''

Sal was the younger brother of mob boss Julius Carbone, who was nearly killed when Frank (who was infiltrating the Carbone organization as Johnny Tower) chased him into a frozen lake. He barely survived, but now shows no reaction to pain, and has no memory beyond knowing who tried to kill him.
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* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Develops these when he turns into what can be described as a walking corpse.
* EvilUncle: zigzagged. He does try to kill his niece Rosalie, contributing to her StartOfDarkness, but due to his amnesia he didn't know she was his niece.
* FeelNoPain: Sal doesn't register any pain, no matter how often he's shot or hit.
* FunctionalAddict: Revealed to be a heavy drug user, which serves as a form of AcquiredPoisonImmunity when Frank and Mickey drug him before trying to kill him.
* TheGunslinger: His last appearance shows him easily [[GunsAkimbo wielding dual assault rifles]].
* HotBlooded: Back when he was normal.
* IdentityAmnesia: He doesn't (initially) know who he is, but he knows whom he's out to get.
* ImplacableMan: After his dip in the lake, Thorn would push through bullets, shark-infested waters, and even more bullets to get his revenge.
* LineOfSightName: When a trucker who is giving him a lift asks about his name, he gives out "Thorn", a word which he saw on a passing road sign.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Thorn refuses to sleep while preying on his targets. This extends to refusing to die from his wounds and exhaustion.
--> '''Thorn:''' I was killed so long ago. But I cannot rest. Not until I have destroyed those who destroyed me.
* PetTheDog: IN a somewhat twisted sense: he does occasionally pay innocent bystanders for a ride whenever he has something to offer rather than just kill them (although if they reject his offer, then killing them is back on the table).
* ProperlyParanoid: The only Carbone to be suspicious of Frank when he was undercover in the family.
* TheQuietOne: Speaks only when he has to, the rest is left to InnerMonologue.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He only wants to take revenge on those who left him for dead, nothing else.
* TheStoic: His near-death experience left him devoid of any emotion.
* ThatManIsDead: Even when he learns about his past, he rejects it and continues his quest.
--> '''Thorn:''' Name is Thorn now. Not Sal. Thorn.
* WeHaveReserves: Averted, before he became Thorn, he was appalled at one point by some losses they'd taken, which his brother Julius considered acceptable losses. The fact that one of the dead men was their nephew probably had something to do with it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After his last encounter with the Punisher, he lands on a moving vehicle which takes him into [[{{Joisey}} Newark]]. Presumably, he is still there.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rosalie Carbone]]
!!Rosalie Carbone
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWarZone'' Vol. 1, #2 (1992)

--> ''"You stupid #$%@! Stop #$%@ing around and come kill this #$%@!!"''

Rosalie was the spoiled daughter of Julius Carbone, who had a fling with Frank during his infiltration of her organization. After the death of her father, she swore revenge on the Punisher due to his part in knocking the Carbone family from top of the food chain.
----
* ActionSurvivor: Given the number of times Punisher or her rivals come after her she got to be good at running and dodging bullets, or sometimes staring down assailants, and on a few occasions she's willing to take up a gun herself and lead her men in an attack (although not necessarily with any great competence).
* AesopAmnesia: Subverted, she does stop trying to kill The Punisher after that turns out badly several times and he spares her life, trying to just lay low for a while. But then, repeated attempts on her life by Carlos Cruz while wearing a Punisher costume cause her to start trying to kill the actual Punisher again, which in turn causes the real punisher to put her back on his list of targets.
* AlasPoorVillain: Rosalie's last appearance emphasizes how it was hatred for Frank that turned her into a crime lord. She shows a willingness to die if she can take Frank with her, while acknowledging that she did love him once (and still might, to some degree) and wondering if the two of them deserve each other.
* ArrangedMarriage: She was arranged to marry an Italian Mafioso's son, but the massacre at the Island of the Sleeping Sharks put a stop to that.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Even though she was just a pawn for her father, she still wants to avenge him.
* DefiantCaptive: To Frank at one point, when he's using her as bait to draw out the assassins she sent after him.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Meets her [[NeverFoundTheBody presumed]] end by being wounded with a shot in the back and falling off a roof.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Despite her privileged lifestyle, she is able to cook her own food and at one point while she's being held captive by Frank he describes a meal she made for them as not bad.e
* FromNobodyToNightmare: She wasn't directly involved in her families crimes until The Punisher showed up, her father, uncle, fiancé, and a whole lot of other people got killed in front of her, and then before leaving The Punisher admitted he'd never cared about her. Her next issue has her walking into a meeting of the family, having a man who objects to her presence killed and preparing to seek revenge. This gets lampshaded by Leslie Geraci, who went to High School with Rosalie.
* KilledOffForReal: Since Frank [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] has an aversion to killing women, it took a while before she met her end at the hands of Leslie Geraci.
* LittleNo: During ''ComicBook/ThePunisherSuicideRun'', Rosalie utters a soft but firm "No" when her men urge her to send assassins after Frank during a rare period where she's trying to avoid making him angry at her. When they persist, she repeats the word much louder and throws a wet sponge at them.
* LonelyTogether: She briefly has a moment of this with Enrico, the subject of her ArrangedMarriage, during a walk on the beach. At the time Rosalie was still hung up on Johnny Tower (the Punisher's disguise) while Enrico admitted that he isn't planning on succeeding his father as Don (which was the whole point of the marriage/merger), and instead wants to be an actor. [[spoiler: the moment was broken by the simultaneous arrivals of the Punisher and his allies, and her uncle, with Enrico being one of the first casualties]].
* MafiaPrincess: Was one before Punisher became part of her life.
* MsFanservice: A lot of her appearances had her bathing or in a bikini.
* NervesOfSteel: She faces down Bullseye in her panties and a T-shirt, armed with just a pistol, with several dead bodyguards at her feet, while refusing to pay him for his failed attempt to kill The Punisher. Even after he points out how little protection her gun is against someone like him, she stands firm and manages to talk him down.
* NeverFoundTheBody: She takes a fall off a roof in her last appearance and is never seen again but plenty of Marvel villains have survived worse and some sources just list her as "presumed deceased".
* RaisedCatholic: Implied, as she wears a crucifix necklace in some issues.
* SerendipitousSurvival: A few times. Most notably, at one point when she is on Frank's list, while he's cleaning out scores of local gang lords he could never touch before thanks to some new intelligence he got, he blows up her penthouse with a rocket launcher as we hear her giving orders to her security detail from outside, only for the next panel to reveal that she was giving them orders over the phone and was out of town on vacation at the time, making her the only one of Frank's targets aside from the Kingpin to survive that night.
* VillainsOutShopping: Quite often, a lot of her scenes have her just relaxing by a pool, or buying new clothes.
* WomanScorned: A decent part of her vendetta against Frank in particular, and descent into villainy in general comes from how he slept with her during his infiltration of the family, [[KickTheDog then casually said that it didn't mean anything while contemplating whether or not to kill her right after she saw her father die]] and left her here, crying.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rapido]]
!!Rapido
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Roussel Dupont
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherVolumeTwo The Punisher]]'' Vol. 2, #65 (1992)

--> ''"Would you look at this. I have seen some terrible things in my day, but this... this is the work of a true master!"''

A former member of the French Foreign Legion turned mercenary-for-hire, with a chain-gun in place of his right arm.
----
* AllThereInTheManual: His real name was revealed in the ''Marvel Knights Encyclopedia''.
* ArmCannon: What his chain-gun arm basically is. It can also shoot [[GrenadeLauncher grenades]].
* TheBusCameBack: After an absence of over a decade following the "Eurohit" reunion story in ''The Punisher Annual'' #7, he reappeared in ''ComicBook/FearItself: ComicBook/BlackWidow'', and ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/IronMan''.
* {{Cyborg}}: The most obvious indication of his status as one being his ArmCannon.
* EvilRedhead: Although what shade of red his hair is [[DependingOnTheArtist varies with the illustrator]].
* GatlingGood: His right arm was replaced with a chain-gun.
* HiredGuns: He'll work for whoever is willing to pay him, including the French government, which reluctantly brought him on to help patrol France's border during ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.
* MadeOfIron: During ''ComicBook/ThePunisherSuicideRun'' arc, Rapido was shot, then blown up when Frank detonated the bombs he had placed at the base of Manhattan Tower, where a cadre of criminals had gathered to trap him. Rapido ''survived this''.
* MoreDakka: If having a minigun[=/=]grenade launcher for an arm wasn't enough, it was later upgraded by A.I.M. to fire lasers.
* SlasherSmile: Sometimes has one when he's coming out ahead.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Roc]]
!!Roc
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherWarZone'' Vol. 1, #8 (1992)

--> ''"I'm gonna kill you, Castle. With my bare hands-- like I always kill."''

Roc was one of the six mercenaries hired by Rosalie Carbone to kill the Punisher after he offed her father, and the only one to survive to challenge him for the second time.
----
* BornInTheWrongCentury: As he's beating the Punisher up, he claims that he should have been a gladiator in the Roman colisseum.
* TheBrute: He's the muscle among the killers hired by Rosalie Carbone, specializing in close combat with his strength and size.
* DependingOnTheWriter: He's a lot more chatty in his second appearance than he was in his original one.
* FeelNoPain: He was born with dead nerve endings, making him unable to register any pain inflicted upon him.
* HiredGuns: He's a mercenary who prefers to kill with his bare hands.
* ImplacableMan: Given that he's MadeOfIron. He just keeps on coming in a fight.
* MadeOfIron: First of all he survived being shot in the head, and during his final fight against Punisher, he keeps on going even after his neck is snapped and has his head is twisted sideways.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Punisher manages to defeat him [[ImpromptuTracheotomy by ripping out his throat]], but to make sure he stays dead, he puts Roc's body on a barge, fills it with plastic explosives and blows him up.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Before attacking Punisher again directly, he follows him and keeps calling cops to the places he's about to hit to mess with his war.
* VillainTeamUp: Worked with two other assassins, Cane and [=COMbat=], while trying to collect the bounty on the Punisher.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Recoil]]
!!Recoil
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherVolumeTwo The Punisher]]'' Vol. 2, #71 (1992)

--> ''"[[WesternAnimation/RabbitFire It's wabbit, duck]] and Punisher season."''

Recoil was an enforcer working for a drug pusher calling himself The Master of Crack (MC for short), who was fond of cartoons.
----
* TheDragon: For his boss MC.
* HornedHairdo: His hair from the sides of his head stands up, giving this impression.
* PerpetualSmiler: He's constantly smiling through carnage and destruction. He stops doing it when he completely loses it while trying to kill the Punisher.
* PopCulturedBadass: Recoil is an efficient cartel gunman who loves talking about cartoons.
* SinisterShades: He wears a pair of round specs.
* SpikesOfVillainy: He wears a longcoat that has spiked shoulderpads.
* VillainRespect: Recoil is impressed by Frank's MadeOfIron perseverance during their first fight.
* VillainousBreakdown: He treats his encounters with the Punisher as a game until he ends up taking a faceful of his employer's product by force and goes completely out of his mind.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mondo Pain]]
!!Mondo Pain
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Edmondo Paina
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherVolumeTwo The Punisher]]'' Vol. 2, #85 (1993)

--> ''"You don't know who I am, do you? They call me Mondo Pain. I like to think there's a reason for that. Go ahead. Pick it up. Of course, if you shoot and miss... well... I'd barely be able to contain my rage. I might hurt you--without thinking about it--and I much prefer to think about it..."''

A demented psycho who was contracted to deal with The Punisher. After Castle humiliated him, Pain forced his way into another group that he knew The Punisher was targeting, in order that he might gain his revenge.
----
* AlwaysCamp: A bit of a dandy, to the point that he could be perceived as [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously]] CampGay were it not for scenes like the one where he implies that he wants to rape Lynn Michaels.
* AxCrazy: A bloodthirsty sadist with a penchant for inflicting pain, both on himself and others. He at one point chastises a client for hiring him and expecting him to ''not'' kill people should the opportunity to do so present itself.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Happily betrays both Mr. Ballard, his first employer, and Rosalie Carbone.
* CombatSadomasochist: Getting hurt just gets him in the mood for more.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: While laying low, the Punisher had the misfortune of running into Mondo's sister, Viva, who was also an assassin, albeit a far more professional one.
--> '''Viva:''' There's no price for him! He's nobody! When someone pays us to kill him, then we kill him.
--> '''Goose:''' Okay. Yeah, okay. You're right, but your brother would've done him.
--> '''Viva:''' And that's why my brother's [[CurseCutShort a--]]
* KarmaHoudini: He survives his run-ins with the Punisher and the Lady Punisher, and is last shown padding his pockets with the money that he blackmailed Rosalie Carbone into forking over in exchange for a War Journal containing compromising information about her fling with Frank.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: If the info boxes are to be believed, Pain is his actual surname.
* NightmareFace: He likes to psyche out his opponents by displaying [[SlasherSmile a rictus grin]], which coupled with his [[GoodScarsEvilScars scarred face]] is enough to give them a pause. Except for the Punisher, who has seen worse with the likes of Jigsaw and proceeds to simply shoot Mondo.
* PsychoForHire: And sometimes he won't even bother to wait for that pesky "hiring" part, he just walks up to someone and forces himself into their organization.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Like many Marvel villains (although not to many Punisher ones) he's left for dead at the end of his first appearance with a chest wound but shows up later as good as new.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Olivier]]
!!Olivier
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Super-Action'' #1 (1976, as Frank Costa); ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory The Punisher]]'' Vol. 4, #1 (1998, as Olivier)

--> ''"The others... the big guys... the devils, they thought I got a little too big for my britches. So they threw me out. Trapped me in a stillborn baby, purged of my memory of Hell, and my ambition... they thought. Mephisto. Satannish. Lucifer. Satan. Murray. I'll bet they thought that was really funny. They didn't count on me being born into a mob family. They didn't count on me killing. They didn't count on the blood giving me back my memory. If I was going to go back, I needed an edge. I needed power. An engine of death and sacrifice. I made you that engine, and all it cost was your family's blood."''

The Prince of the Archangels, Olivier sided with Lucifer in his rebellion against God, and as such was cast down to the netherworld, where he became a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Hell-lord]]. The other devils, disapproving of Olivier's ambitions and methods, temporarily banded together to banish him to Earth, where he was trapped in the body of the stillborn Frank Costa. After committing murder, Olivier's memories of his previous life returned, and he subsequently used his powers to become the head of the Costa branch of the Maggia, and to manipulate a young Frank Castle into becoming the Punisher as apart of a complex plan that would see Olivier very nearly conquering both Earth and Hell.
----
* BigBad: Of ''[[Comicbook/ThePunisherPurgatory The Punisher: Purgatory]]'' miniseries.
* TheCameo: His only appearance subsequent to ''Purgatory'' was as an attendee to the Devil's Advocacy during ''ComicBook/FearItself'', though he and a bunch of other high-level demons were apparently working behind the scenes in the ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} storyline "The Devil Inside".
* FallenAngel: He's one of the few Marvel demons that is one, and not just an interdimensional entity or an Elder God spawn.
* GreaterScopeVillain: For the franchise in general, being the one who created the Punisher. [[ComicBook/MoonKnight Khonshu]] implies that the two are still connected, in spite of their attempts to sever ties in ''Purgatory''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Revelation]]
!!Revelation
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Wolverine/The Punisher: Revelation'' #1 (1999)

--> ''"I'll reach paradise. Somehow. And then I can see my parents again, in Heaven. I can finally tell them I'm sorry."''

The second major threat during the Punisher's "angelic" phase, Revelation was a Morlock[[note]](In Marvel universe, Morlocks are mutants who live underneath cities)[[/note]], who was put into cryogenic sleep some time ago due to her mutant power that slowly caused everyone close to her to die. After she is accidentally woken up, she starts making her way to the surface without realizing that her mutant power is still causing people to get sick.
----
* BigBad: Of ''Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation'' crossover miniseries, though not out of malice.
* DoomMagnet: Her power is to weaken, sicken or even kill almost anyone in a certain radius to her.
* IWantMyMommy: A tragic, dramatic example. She's confused and trying to reunite with her parents, but in a destructive way.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Due to her Christian upbringing, she started to hallucinate her time being cryogenically frozen as being in Hell. Once she is freed, the hallucinations continue and she sees the underground surroundings around her as being Hell as well, and she thinks that her journey to surface is one to Heaven. Because of that, she also sees any living creature in her way as a demon trying to stop her.
* TyphoidMary: After being woken up from her cryogenical sleep, she starts making her way up to "Heaven" (actually the regular surface) through "Hell" (the underground tunnels), without realizing that the death field around her is still hurting living beings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ma Gnucci]]
!!Ma Gnucci
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Isabella Carmela Magdalena Gnucci
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[Comicbook/{{The Punisher}}'' [[Comicbook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Vol. 5]], #4 (2000)

--> ''"You scum! You vicious, evil scum! You're no better than I am, Punisher! You think you're better, you think you're on the side of justice, but you're wrong! You're a serial killer, Punisher! You're insane! It's mass murder, whatever you want to call it! It's genocide! What'll you do, keep going 'til we're all dead? Will that make you happy, you sick, twisted creep?! You should put a bullet in your own head, Punisher! That's the only way you'll get any peace! And you know, it too! You're a dead man walking, Punisher! You are damned!"''

The cantankerous head of the Gnucci crime family, which rivaled the Maggia, Ma and her organization became the Punisher's primary targets when he returned to combating mundane crime following the events of ''Purgatory'' and ''Revelation''. After eliminating her three sons and her brother, the Punisher sicced a sleuth of zoo polar bears on Ma, but she survived (sans her limbs and scalp) and pooled all of her resources into taking down Castle.
----
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Years after her fiery death at the hands of the Punisher, Ma supposedly came back from the dead seeking revenge, but this turned out to merely be [[ScoobyDooHoax an elaborate hoax]] orchestrated by the second Elite]].
* BadBoss: She's pretty nasty to her employees. After her cousin offends her by asking how she's doing after she loses her limbs. She orders one of her henchmen to shoot him. When he refuses, she tells another mook to shoot them both. When ''he'' refuses, she finally gets another goon to kill all three of them. She also makes of her men throw up after he sees her without her wig, purely for the fun of it.
* {{Determinator}}: She vows that no matter how long it takes or how much money it costs, one day she'll walk again. That picture you see is of her throwing herself out of her burning house, and then trying to attack Frank by biting his ankle.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zigzagged. She takes losing her sons and brother pretty hard, but is willing to kill her cousin in a fit of pettiness and put her nephew in harms way with the [[OnOneCondition terms of her will]]
* EvilCripple: Lost all of her limbs to polar bears, but that didn't stop her from running her organization.
* EvilMatriarch: Being an old woman didn't stop her from becoming an utterly ruthless crime boss. Not even her relatives are safe from her wrath.
* OnOneCondition: She left everything to her nephew, but a clause in her will meant that he could only claim the inheritance in the event of the Punisher's death. ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} gets wind of this, and convinces the nephew to hire him to rub out Frank. Hilarity predictably ensues.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Frank killed all three of her sons. In one issue. From what we see, she didn't take it well.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Russian]]
!!The Russian
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Comicbook/{{The Punisher}}'' [[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Vol. 5]], #8 (2000)

--> ''"Dosvidanja, Big Boy! The Russian really has to hand it to you!!"''

A hulking giant from Smolensk with clear, if undisclosed, superhuman powers, the relentlessly cheerful Russian exists to mock Frank Castle's ability to kill people. Initially hired by Ma Gnucci, the Russian has clashed with the Punisher on several occasions, and despite seemingly dying a number of times, always comes back.
----
* AffablyEvil: Murderous, violent and psychopathic. He is, nonetheless, incredibly friendly to his enemies, actively complimenting and joking with them mid-fight.
* AscendedFanboy: He is a huge fan of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and Spider-Man, and is the president of his local chapter of the ''Daredevil: Man Without Fear'' Fan Club.
* BloodKnight: He went to Afghanistan ''for a vacation'' and is described as taking jobs for money or for fun.
* BoisterousBruiser
* TheBrute
* CameBackWrong: The resurrection process gave him [[GagBoobs ridiculously huge breasts]], but he's the only one not to care. In fact, he likes them.
* DirtyCommies: Expresses some Communist sentiments, though he's also a big fan of capitalism and consumer society.
* DumbMuscle: Huge, incredibly strong yet not particularly intelligent.
* {{Foil}}: The always happy Russian makes for an effective comedic foil to the grim and serious Punisher.
* HuskyRusskie: Eight feet tall, five hundred pounds, and hailing from Smolensk, Russia.
* ImmuneToBullets: Doesn't react at all when shot.
* JokerImmunity: He's been stabbed, shot, beaten, burned, decapitated, and nuked. Only the last one seems to have taken, and even that may be temporary.
* KickTheDog: Upon noticing the Punisher's neighbors, he exclaims, "Ah! These are your little friends, yes? When the Russian gets through with you, imagine the terrible things that will happen to them!"
* MadeOfIron: May actually stray into MadeOfTitanium territory, if it is a superpower.
* NukeEm: His most recent exit was at the hands of an atomic missile.
* OffWithHisHead: How he died the first time.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He's never called anything other than "The Russian", and he always refers to himself as such.
* SuperStrength: The Russian's strength crosses into the metahuman. He can punch through walls, ripped a toilet out of the floor and swung it like a club, and once crushed a man while trying to hug him.
* {{Supervillain}}: Possess superhuman strength and durability.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: It took being chained to a dropped atomic bomb to kill him for good. Maybe.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Has an extremely low tolerance for heat. A hot pizza thrown in his face is enough to leave him exposed long enough for the kill.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Medallion]]
!!Medallion
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/MarvelKnightsPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 6, #9 (2002)

--> ''"I shall embark upon nothing less than a thorough cleansing... an organized, self-escalating campaign... a war of the taxicabs! Drivers killing drivers! Passengers in the crossfire! Big weapons giving way to bigger! Body counts climbing! Valor! Cowardice! Women in mourning! Orphans in the street! And songs! Great songs!"''

An oddball criminal mastermind who has a tendency of coming up with various bizarre [[EvilPlan evil plans]] against the populace of New York before even finishing the previous one. He gets Punisher's attention when he is amidst of making taxicab drivers wage a war against each other.
----
* AluminumChristmasTrees: His scheme of having taxi drivers wage war against each other is a lot less absurd considering that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_wars_in_South_Africa something very similar happened in the country of South Africa]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He insists on being nude while scheming with his cohorts. He also habitually abandons said schemes when he comes up with a crazier one.
* {{Expy}}: His face is similar to Film/{{Goldfinger}} from the ''Film/JamesBond'' movie of the same name. To hammer this in, he even has a butler who serves mint juleps and a mook refers to him as a person "who thinks he's Goldfinger".
* FatBastard: He's very fat, and unfortunately insists upon being in little clothing as possible most of the time.
* LaughablyEvil: He is a weirdo who comes up with bizarre plans like making taxi drivers fight each other for no apparent reason, insists on being naked while coming up with said plans, and will abandon them for even crazier plans, like making ambulance drivers fight each other for no reason.
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: He clearly has great amounts of wealth to sink into pointless schemes, but it is never revealed where it comes from.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown, he's just known as The Medallion.
* SquashedFlat: How he finally buys it.
* ZanyScheme: He comes up with bizarre evil plans, then abandons them when he comes up with even crazier ones.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Man Down Below]]
!!Man Down Below
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/MarvelKnightsPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 6, #24 (2003)

--> ''"You bring me people like you and I give you lots of money. And then you can buy stuff, like clothes to wear and food to eat. Then the strong ones can stay with you... and the weak ones can stay with me...."''

An unnamed man who had homeless people bring him corpses so that he could hide under them.
----
* BuriedInAPileOfCorpses: The source of his FreudianExcuse, though it was only a single corpse, that of his mother, but she was large enough this still counts.
* FreudianExcuse: Because he was trapped for days under his grossly overweight mother's corpse when she died from a heart attack as a child and had to eat his way out, he developed a fixation of lying under corpses and eating them so that he can be reminded of her.
* KingOfTheHomeless: By paying the homeless of New York, he orders them around to kill and collect the weaker members among themselves to provide corpses to the pile he likes to be under of. He is discovered when one of them attacks a social worker who is then rescued by the Punisher, who then finds about his operation.
* MommasBoy: He was heavily doted by his mother as a child, and after her death, he started become sickly depended to their last moments together.
* NoNameGiven: He and his mother are never named.
* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: No real explanation is given for where he's getting the resources (especially the money) that he uses to keep his minions content, especially since it's insinuated that he spends all of his time lounging around in his mountain of festering carcasses.
* PsychopathicManchild: It's noted that he talks and sounds like "a little boy or something".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lady Gorgon]]
!!Lady Gorgon
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Tanya Adrian
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/MattFractionsPunisher Punisher War Journal]]'' Vol. 2, #20 (2008)

--> ''"Stubborn little soul. You hold too tightly--oblivious to the inevitable conclusion. You can't run from a telepath, Frank. You shouldn't run at all. Death is but the first step and once through you will be more powerful than you can imagine. You needn't be afraid. I'm going to show you, Frank. Show you how glorious the release will be. It's so easy, Frank. Swimming in the Land of the Dead will liberate you of all you were or ever will be. Return to me. Accept me as your Jonin. You will rise from the darkness. You will carry my mark and serve the holy cause of the Hand."''

An assassin for the ninja organization The Hand.
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* AnotherMansTerror: She has PsychicPowers that allow her to project a dying person's thoughts into someone else's mind. She uses this to give herself an upper hand in combat.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:The ''In the Blood'' miniseries has her pretending to be Frank's wife, whom he had torched some time ago when she was brought back from the dead by Comicbook/TheHood, to mess with him psychologically.]]
* FangsAreEvil: Her teeth are all razor sharp.
* GasLighting: Her part of the plan against Frank in ''In the Blood''.
* HellbentForLeather: She dresses only in black leather.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She doesn't wear much for an assassin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Robert Hellsgaard]]
!!Robert Hellsgaard
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/RickRemendersPunisher Punisher]]'' Vol. 8, #12 (2010)

--> ''"His brutal kind massacred my family. So I hunted and killed his. Though gruesome, our families died for a reason: To set us on our crusades. With their lives torn away--we are left empty. And only a man who is wholly vacant can effectively wage war."''

A monster hunter who was the Punisher's first major villain during his days as Franken-Castle.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Despite his genius in engineering, he just wanted to live happily with his family doing common work. Then he was forced to kill werewolves that were attacking his village, including his [[StakingTheLovedOne now-transformed family]]. After being recruited by Ulysses Bloodstone, he dedicated his craft to coming up with effective ways to slay monsters.
* EvilCounterpart: Much like the then-current incarnation of Frank, he is an undead guy who is kept alive artificially. However, he is evil because he wants kill ''all'' monsters, while Frank seeks to protect them.
--> '''Henry:''' Figures since his family was killed by monsters he's within his rights to kill whoever he sees as a... um... anyway...
* EyepatchOfPower: He lost his right eye during his days with Ulysses Bloodstone, and covered it with an eyepatch.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Happened to him twofold when he first donned his trademark battle-suit; first he was fried by the suit's internal workings when Dracula cut off the tubes that protected him from that, and then he was thrown into the dimension that he had intended to use to get rid of unkillable monsters.
* HunterOfMonsters: His modus operandi, with a hefty dose of VanHelsingHateCrimes. He even worked with Ulysses Bloodstone, one of the most famous incarnations of this trope in Marvel.
* RememberTheNewGuy: His former partner Ulysses Bloodstone has appeared in Marvel titles since the seventies; Hellsgaard's contributions to his work weren't mentioned until his appearance in ''The Punisher''.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: He hunts all monsters, even the sapient and docile ones that are no danger to anyone. Henry also mentions that he's begun targeting mutants and baseline humans who just happen to be physically abnormal in some way.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Exchange]]
!!The Exchange

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!!Doctor Stephanie Gerard
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/GregRuckasPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 9, #2 (2011)

--> ''"If you want attention, feel free to dust off your costumes and go back to being beaten bloody by the likes of the Avengers. I'm sure A.I.M. or Hydra or even Hive will be glad to have you back. [[WeHaveReserves They're always looking for fresh cannon fodder]]. Meeting is adjourned. Happy Thanksgiving."''

A former AIM scientist, Stephanie Gerard left her parent organization to set up a new criminal organization, the Exchange. Wearing civilian clothes instead of spandex, she and her allies recruit former AIM and Hydra personnel in the interests of creating a new force in the underworld.
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* AntiVillain: At least when compared to most of the Punisher's other foes. Stephanie has no interest in hurting innocent people (executing the sole surviving one of her thugs who shot up Rachel's wedding), tries to run her organization with a minimum of casualties, and in general tries to get things accomplished with a minimum of bloodshed and fuss.
* BigBad: Of Greg Rucka's sixteen issue run.
* TheChessmaster: She plans out her conflicts with the Punisher and rivals gangs, and lasts a decent time against them as a result.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Is friends with Chris Poulsen, and may be starting to return his crush by the end.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Reads the henchmen who shot up Rachel Cole-Alves' wedding the riot act before executing him for his sloppiness.
* EvilGenius: A capable tactician and weapons maker who uses her talents for crime.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed. She wears glasses and while she does have some standards, but doesn't agonize over the deaths her organization causes.
* HotScientist: Just look at her picture.
* MadScientist: She used to be.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: She's "Doctor" Gerard, used to work for AIM, and is now going into organized crime.
* NonActionBigBad: Stephanie's not a fighter, which is why she keeps Chris Poulsen on the payroll.
* PragmaticVillainy: Gerard wants to get things done as efficiently as possible, with no unnecessary violence. The reason she left AIM was because she felt that status as borderline {{Card Carrying Villain}}s was preventing them from accomplishing anything.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Despite all her plans, one group of trigger happy Henchmen leads to the Punisher and Cole-Alves gunning for her.
* TranquilFury: When she's ordering Molloy killed.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[spoiler: Gerard was so confident in her technology and superior planning, she let Cole-Alves (posing as a weapons dealer) right into her office despite knowing who she was and who she was working with. She even shoots down Poulsen's warnings and orders him to stay in his office while she decides to gloat at Cole-Alves. This leads to her getting garroted.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Type I with Chris Poulsen.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Had Liam Malloy killed for shooting up the Cole-Alves wedding and leading the Punisher to them.

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!!Christian "Chris" Poulsen
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/GregRuckasPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 9, #2 (2011)

--> ''"I know you saw that, Frank... you and your girlfriend, you saw that and you couldn't do anything about it. I called the police, you know, right after you killed Stephanie... called the N.Y.P.D. and told them you were in the building, that you were murdering all these people... they're coming in any second, now, coming with gas and guns to put you down like the rabid dog you are... you killed her, Frank. She never looked at me until twice today, but I loved her, and you killed her... and when you did that, you killed me, too. So we'll all die together. You and me and the missus... all of us like the bastards we are... like we deserve..."''

A one-time operative for SHIELD, Chris Poulsen is Stephanie Gerard's partner, confidante, and muscle. He handles the wet work for the Exchange, and has a massive crush on Stephanie.
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* AffablyEvil: Chris was an easy going guy prior to Gerard's death, spending most of his time counseling caution or flirting with Stephanie.
* {{Antivillain}}: There was nothing particularly nasty about Poulsen, at least prior to his VillainousBreakdown.
* AxCrazy: By the end.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He's generally well-dressed and is formidable with his fists and guns.
* BadassLongcoat: Usually wore a trench coat over his suit.
* TheBadGuyWins: Chris' killing spree in issue fifteen gets him everything he wanted, leaving the Punisher and Cole-Alves on the run from the police, their relationship with law enforcement apparently ruined.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Stephanie. When Alves kills her, Chris goes on a rampage that results in a double-digit body count.
* BodyguardCrush: On Stephanie
* TheCoatsAreOff: Ditches his BadassLongcoat and his suit during his last battle with Castle and Cole-Alves.
* CopKiller: Guns down two police officers, and, as a bonus, sets up the events that result in Rachel Cole-Alves killing Detective Walter Bolt.
* DeathSeeker: by his final appearance. See VillainousBreakdown.
* TheDragon: To Stephanie, whom he allows to take the lead in most of their operations, while serving as her muscle.
** DragonAscendant: Following Stephanie's death, Chris goes on a massive rampage that caps off the arc, and kicks off the events of ''War Zone''.
** DragonTheirFeet: He was absent during Gerard's last confrontation with Castle and Cole-Alves, and as such he blames himself for her death.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Towards Stephanie. She was just starting to reciprocate when Rachel killed her.
* EliteMooks: He used to ''be'' one, having been one of the nameless SHIELD agents who normally get killed off in droves by villains of the week, despite their status as elite law enforcement. Here, against non-powered adversaries, Chris shows that SHIELD's boasts about the quality of their agents aren't just for show.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His crush on Gerard.
* FrameUp: Calls the police, claims Castle and Cole-Alves are attacking his office building, then proceeds to slaughter them all himself. The resulting shootout leaves sixteen dead, including Poulsen and three cops, and sees Castle and Cole-Alves hunted for murder (though Cole-Alves really did kill Detective Walter Bolt).
* HandCannon: His modified nine millimeter, with which he's able to hit police officers on the street from several stories up in an office building.
* HandicappedBadass: He's walking with a leg brace during his final confrontation with Castle and Cole-Alves, courtesy of injures from their first clash, and the subsequent torture he endured at the hands of Black Spectre. It doesn't slow him down much, and he's still more than Frank and Rachel can handle by themselves.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Goes on a killing spree after Dr. Gerard is killed, ending with his own death.
* SanitySlippage: After Stephanie Gerard's death.
* SuicideByCop: Suicide by Frank Castle. With Stephanie dead, Chris doesn't have much to live for.
* TakingYouWithMe: The purpose of his final rampage. He rants to The Punisher that he, Frank, and Cole-Alves are "going to die together. Like the bastards we are."
* UnstoppableRage: When Gerard dies, he ''flips out'' and goes on a rampage. The only thing ceasing it being his death.
* VillainousBreakdown: Undergoes a massive one when Stephanie dies, gunning down every civilian he can find to pin it on Frank and Rachel. However, he remains [[TranquilFury outwardly calm]] during it all.
-->'''Chris Poulsen:''' I ''know'' you saw that, Frank... You and your ''girlfriend'', you ''saw'' that and you couldn’t do ''anything'' about it. I called the ''police'', you know, right after you killed Stephanie. Called [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops the N.Y.P.D.]] and told them that you were in the ''building'', that you were ''[[FalseFlagOperation murdering]]'' all these people... They’re coming in any second, now, with ''gas'' and ''guns'' to put you ''down'' like the ''rabid'' dogs you are. You killed her, Frank. She never looked ''twice'' at me until ''today'', but I loved her, and you killed her... and when you did ''that'', you killed me, too. So we'll all die ''[[TakingYouWithMe together]]''. You and me and the missus, all of us like the ''[[YouMonster bastards]]'' we are. Like we ''[[IAmAMonster deserve]]''.
* VillainousFriendship: Type I with Stephanie Gerard.
* WeHaveReserves: Baits a trap for Castle with The Exchange's less competent henchmen.

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!!Dove
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/GregRuckasPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 9, #2 (2011)

One of Gerard and Poulsen's top-ranking henchwomen, Dove is a vicious, red-headed woman who handles the violence whenever Poulsen isn't available.
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* BattleButler: Her official cover story is that she's Gerard's secretary and personal assistant.
* BoomHeadshot: Blew off Liam Malloy's head with a shotgun blast from millimeters away. His head was completely removed from his body.
* TheBrute: She's the Exchange's main muscle and field operations leader when Poulsen isn't around.
* DarkActionGirl: Acts as bait for Punisher and handles herself well under fire. She later leads Gerard's goons against both Frank and Rachel during the climactic confrontation between the vigilantes and The Exchange.
* EvilRedhead: Flaming red hair.
* IcyBlueEyes: Dove's got a very cold stare from those blue eyes.
* IronicName: A violent felon named after a symbol of peace.
* OnlyOneName: If Dove is really her first name, her last name is unknown.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Gerard gave the order, but it was Dove who actually executed Liam Malloy, lecturing him on his incompetency and his failures in the eyes of the organization.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Red Vulture]]
!!Red Vulture
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' James "Jimmy" Natale
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 1, #592 (2009)

--> ''"You'll tire out before I do... and then I'll feast off your bones."''

Originally a Spider-Man villain, the fourth Vulture, Jimmy "The Fixer" Natale, was a freak science experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong. Contracted by The Exchange to put Frank Castle out of their misery, Jimmy was killed in aerial combat with The Punisher above the streets of New York.
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* AxCrazy: He doesn't have much in terms of sanity, if at all.
* AbsurdlySharpClaws: To the point of punching through Kevlar.
* BeastMan: Incredibly bestial, and barely capable of speech.
* CharacterDeath: Castle inflicted a mortal wound on him with his knife, which caused him to plummet to the streets and his untimely death.
* CleanUpCrew: Dispsoed of dead bodies for the mob before he became the Vulture, and was transformed due to feeling overworked in this job and complaining about it in the wrong way.
* ColorAnimalCodename: To differentiate himself from Adrian Toomes, he changed his codename to Red Vulture.
* EyeScream: Deals a nasty injury to one of Castle's eyes, which remains bandaged for the remainder of the arc.
* {{Flight}}: Thanks to his wings.
* HiredGuns: Worked for The Exchange as one.
* ImAHumanitarian: Spiderman first found him eating the dead body of a mobster.
* ObviouslyEvil: A slavering, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] beastman dressed all in black and red and drooling acid? Pretty obviously evil.
* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: He convinced the mob boss he worked for to test a dangerous super serum on someone, describing the ideal traits of a test subject without realizing they applied to him.
* PsychoForHire: A cannibalistic monster hired to take out Frank Castle.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A Spider-Man villain who was hired to deal with the Punisher and died fighting him.
* SuperSpit: Acidic spit to be precise.
* {{Supervillain}}: One of the few bonafide supervillains Castle has clashed with.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Johnny Nightmare]]
!!Johnny Nightmare
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jake Niman
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Punisher: Nightmare'' #1 (2013)

--> ''"I'm Johnny Nightmare... and everybody is my enemy."''

Niman was a special forces soldier whose family was gunned down in Central Park, much like with Punisher's family. As Punisher works with him to avenge them, he learns that Niman was part of a goverment project to create [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]], which is turning him into an unstoppable monster.
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* AdaptiveAbility: Every time he is killed, he comes back stronger.
* AxCrazy: His wartime experiences have eroded his sanity to the point that by the end of it, only a sociopathic madman was left.
* BigBad: Of the ''Nightmare'' miniseries.
* BloodKnight: While he was fighting in Afghanistan, he started to enjoy fighting little too much. Scared of this development, Niman eventually got himself discharged so he wouldn't completely become a bloodthirsty monster. Unfortunately, he and his family being gunned down eventually brings this mindset back, and as he turns more monstrous both figuratively and literally, Punisher has to stop him.
* CameBackStrong: Thanks to the experiments done to him, his body can regenerate, and become physically bigger and stronger each time he comes back from death.
* EvilCounterpart: Both him and Punisher were soldiers in a war that turned them into hardened killers, but who still managed to hold on to some shred of their humanity afterwards. The deaths of their respective families however drove them over the edge, and now they both kill people, albeit for different reasons: Nightmare is a monster waging a war against everyone for its own sake while Punisher is an anti-hero vigilante who thinks himself as a monster while shooting bad guys.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The people behind the super soldier project that gave Niman his regenerative powers tried to have him assassinated so he wouldn't become a hard-to-kill murder monster. The opposite happens.
* HealingFactor: He can heal back from fatal wounds, like headshots and falls from skyscrapers, and become stronger each time.
* LaughingMad: As the picture shows quite nicely.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Since normal firearms are not enough to kill Nightmare permanently, Punisher uses trickery to place nine bricks of C4 on Nightmare's back, which upon exploding leave nothing left of him to regenerate from.
* PsychoSerum: The result of yet another attempt at recreating the [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Super Soldier Serum]] (incidentally, Frank had previously fought another botched SSS exposé in ''The Punisher P.O.V.'')
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: In Afghanistan, he developed two personalities: J., a soldier who tries his best to win local populace over, and Johnny, a SociopathicSoldier who relishes in killing the enemy, and eventually, the innocent. Jake tried to get rid of his "Johnny" side for the sake of his family, but the loss of them and the fatal wounds he received in the process eventually brought that side of him back big time, which ended up taking him over mentally.
* ThatManIsDead: Upon being shot in the head, the little humanity that Jake Niman had left was gone and "Johnny" took over him mentally.
-->'''Nightmare:''' Jake and me were two guys. But Jake's dead, I'm alive.
* TragicMonster: He does try to fight what he's become for a while, and has no control over his SplitPersonalityTakeover.
* VigilanteMan: He joins Punisher to avenge the deaths of his family; one death and return from it later and he's an enemy to every man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Condor Private Military Company]]
!!Condor Private Military Company

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!!Condor
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/BeckyCloonansPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 11, #3 (2016)

--> ''"I know [[BreadAndCircuses an overworked workforce is a sloppy workforce]], but could I trouble you to take some time out of your busy schedule to kill the Punisher?"''

Condor is a PrivateMilitaryContractor that has [[FromCamouflageToCriminal recently graduated into drug trafficking]]. The Punisher targets his organization when he starts selling [[PsychoSerum EMC]], a performance enhancing drug based on a flawed version of the serum that created Captain America.
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* BaldOfEvil
* BenevolentBoss: Seems to have an open door policy with his men. This is fortunate because his CoDragons [[TeethClenchedTeamwork really hate each other]].
* BigBad: Shaping up to be one for the Cloonan/Dillon run, at least for the "On the Road" and "Into the Wild" storylines.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Runs a group of PrivateMilitaryContractors who [[TheCartel sell drugs]] on the side.
* EvilOldFolks: Looks a bit like [[Film/ReservoirDogs Joe Cabot]].
* LightIsNotGood: Wears white suits. Not a good guy.
* TheMobBossIsScarier: He's not afraid of the Punisher taking him down, he's afraid of what his clients will do to him if the Punisher keeps screwing up his operations.
* PragmaticVillainy: The EMC trafficking plot was not his idea, and he will pull the plug on it if it starts giving him more trouble than it's worth.

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!!Olaf
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/BeckyCloonansPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 11, #1 (2016)

--> ''"A gun this old, seen as much action as this one, [[TheyDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo if it’s still around, there’s only one thing you know for sure: it works]]. So treat it with a little respect, [[ImpliedDeathThreat or you might find yourself on the wrong end of it]].''"

A Marine who served alongside Frank, Olaf now works for Condor, providing security for his drug trafficking operation.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Was with Condor's PMC since they started, but he has reached the glass ceiling, as younger, more ruthless associates have eclipsed him.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After witnessing Frank singlehandedly take out two amped-up mooks, he decides to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere cut his losses and leave]].
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Does this to a Condor associate on the Punisher's hitlist, telling her that it's [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled the only surefire way]] to avert a CruelAndUnusualDeath. It's later revealed to be sabotaged, exploding in her face.
-->'''Punisher:''' Let me guess... Olaf gave you that gun? [[WithFriendsLikeThese With friends like him]], huh?
* PermaStubble: Adds to his grizzled look.
* PunchClockVillain: Is not a particularly evil man, he's working for Condor mainly just to pay the bills. Though over time it becomes apparent that he really is a shitty person; when his wife and infant son (who he abused verbally and possibly physically) are killed by a booby trap that he had left in their home, Olaf casually shrugs it off with, "Well, that takes care of one headache."
* ShadowArchetype: A Marine like Frank turned mercenary turned [[FromCamouflageToCriminal criminal]] who kills his own family.
* TheStarscream: While it initially looked like he was secretly sabotaging the [=EMC=] operation simply to stick it to Face, he eventually reveals that he resents that his boss has decided to revamp Condor into an organization that merely deals drugs on the sidelines instead of directly engaging in warfare, so he kills him and takes over, beginning his NewEraSpeech with, "We aren't pharmacists. [[BloodKnight We are soldiers. We were born to fight.]]"
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Still wears his Marine Corps dog tags, and, as quoted above, still swears by his old M9 Service pistol.

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!!Face
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%%!!! '''Alter Ego:'''
%%!!! '''Notable Aliases:'''
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''[[ComicBook/BeckyCloonansPunisher The Punisher]]'' Vol. 11, #1 (2016)

--> ''"This time, Castle, [[SummonBiggerFish I came prepared]]. And now, you're dead."''

The Face is Condor's second-in-command. He is also a "grade A psycho", infamous for the CreepySouvenir he takes from each of his kills.
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* AxCrazy: He collects faces for a living and also is described as such.
* BadassInANiceSuit
* CoolCar: A ''Film/MadMax'' inspired AwesomePersonnelCarrier that he uses in a HighSpeedBattle with the Punisher's Battle Van.
* TheDragon: To Condor.
** DragonTheirFeet: Remains a threat to Castle long after the fall of the main organization.
* {{Expy}}: Somewhat reminiscent of Durant from ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', with a few elements of the ComicBook/New52 Dollmaker thrown in.
* ImmuneToBullets: The long-term effects of the EMC overdose turned him superhuman.
* MeaningfulName: He is introduced as TheFace of his organization, and cuts the faces off of his victims.
* MisplacedRetribution: Upon his return, he's seeking to kill Frank, although he overdosed on EMC while trying to kill Ortiz. Justified as Ortiz has not appeared since the first arc ended, and Face is AxCrazy and ran into the Frank shortly after waking up.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: When he takes the EMC drug]].
* ScaryBlackMan: He was one BEFORE he took a PsychoSerum that made him strong enough to NoSell the Punisher. [[UpToEleven After that...]]
* SkullForAHead: When he resurfaced after his EMC overdose.
* SlasherSmile: Very fond of these.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Olaf do not get along very well.
* VillainousBreakdown: He experiences a psychotic break after overdosing on EMC in issues 8 and 9, and rants about how he is "[[AGodAmI like unto a God]]" before trying to use a syrup furnace to cook and [[ImAHumanitarian eat]] Agent Ortiz.
-->'''Agent Ortiz:''' When was the last time you slept?\\
'''Face:''' I don't ''need'' sleep! I have ''transcended sleep''!\\
'''Agent Ortiz:''' You're on borrowed time.\\
'''Face:''' ''I have transcended time! I am like unto a god!''
[[/folder]]
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* BadassMoustache: Saracen was an evil, evil guy, but there was no denying that both he and his moustache were very badass.

* BadassMustache: A mustached man whose able to almost beat Punisher in a fight.

* BadassMoustache: His former gang didn't allow its members to have beards or moustaches, but he was deemed tough enough to be an exception.

* BadassBeard: It started out big and bushy, but he apparently took to better grooming after "Suicide Run".

** In his second ever storyline, he's realized his limitations in a world of superheroes, and so only commits low-level and out of the way crimes that he hoped would be beneath their notice. It hit the fan for him when he tried to rob a midnight cruise that [[Characters/SpiderManTheCharacter Peter Parker]] happened to be aboard.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: wasn't directly involved in her families crimes until The Punisher showed up, her father, uncle, fiancé, and a whole lot of other people got killed in front of her, and then before leaving The Punisher admitted he'd never cared about her. Her next issue has her walking into a meeting of the family, having a man who objects to her presence killed and preparing to seek revenge. This gets lampshaded by Leslie Geraci, who went to High School with Rosalie.