History ComicBook / SuicideRun

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''Suicide Run'' is an eleven-part ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]]'' storyline event that run through all three of the character's books[[note]](''The Punisher'' vol. 2 #85-88, ''The Punisher War Journal'' #61-64 and ''The Punisher War Zone'' #23-25)[[/note]] from 1993 to 1994.

Several criminal elements conceive a fake meeting to draw out The Punisher. Knowing that the whole thing is going to be a trap, Frank takes precautions, which leads to a destruction of an entire skyscraper. In the aftermath, weakened Frank smuggles himself out of New York into the small town of Laastekist, and several parties of various moral spectrum soon follow.

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!!''Suicide Run'' provides examples of:

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Lampshaded when Tony Rhee and Bruce Lam, two of the attendees at the trap, use kung-fu on the Punisher.
* AnAsskickingChristmas: Some of the dialogue reveals that the whole thing takes place near Christmas.
* BigBadWannabe: Jackie Dee, a racketeer and the chief organizer of the crime bosses' meeting engineered to draw out the Punisher. He doesn't survive the experience, outlined within the first couple of books in the story.
* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: The little town of Laastekist finds itself in the middle of a war zone when everyone whose out to get Frank sets their foot in there. This includes the FBI, fellow vigilantes, the VIGIL organization, TheMafia, [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels a biker gang]] and various smaller criminals.
* CreepyMortician: PlayedForLaughs (somewhat) and in a way that benefits Frank. The coroner who examines "Frank's" body that was recovered from the rubble of Manhattan Tower quickly deduces that he's FakingTheDead due to there being bulet holes in the torso but not in the suit (meaning the suit was place on the disfigured body after it was dead). And alerts the local FBI agents who'd just taken credit for closing the books on the Punisher case. They ask the coroner if he can delay the announcement, and he counters by offering to have that section of the morgue [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident burn down while he's on vacation in Hawaii]]. The FBI Agents agree to this proposal, and ask when he's going to Hawaii, to which he replies [[EveryManHasHisPrice as soon as they buy his ticket]].
* DeadMansSwitch: Figuring out that the meeting in the skyscraper is a trap, Frank plants explosives in the bottom floor of the building. When the trap is eventually sprung he tells his enemies that he has his finger on a dead man's switch, and is ready to blow them all away.
* DeathFakedForYou: The sheriff of Laastekist claims that Castle died in an explosion after he lets him go.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: the first person to tell Frank about the mob meeting, an accountant, repeatedly mentions that he doesn't know why his bosses talked about it in front of him. This foreshadows how it's a trap, although to Frank's credit he picks up on this quickly.
* LegacyCharacter: After Frank is thought to have died in the collapsing skyscraper, several factions try to take up his mantle: The Black Cullens force one of their estranged members to dress like Punisher in order to quell to competition, police officer Lynn Michaels quits the force to become his replacement, a rich jerk tries to turn it into a protection franchise and a loser fanboy decides to start his own war against crime.
* MistakenForPedophile: When Sheriff Bendix discovers Frank hiding in his daughter's playhouse, he mistakes him for a creep and has him roughed up before throwing him into a cell.
* NewOldWest: The part of the story that takes place on Laastekist plays out like ''Film/RioBravo'', resulting in this.
* PercussivePrevention: When the sheriff of Laastekist lets Frank out of the cell, he knocks him out so he's out of the line of fire.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Although [[ArchEnemy Jigsaw]] is one of the criminals invited to the meeting at the start of the story, once he realizes the whole thing is a trap to draw out the Punisher, he immediately decides to make a quick exit. This is because, having tangled with Frank before, he knows that Frank's going to come in with a plan that'll end with all the crooks dead, guaranteed.
* SearchingTheStalls: A bunch of mafia {{mooks}} hide in the bathroom. Punisher is not sure which stall contains what, so he shoots through all of them.
* TheSiege: Last part of the story has sheriff Bendix and Frank taking refuge in an abandoned winter lodge against the rest of the bad guys.
* SuddenlyShouting: Rosalie Carbone, when her henchman continue suggesting she send men to Laastekist after she nervously rejected the idea.
* TakingYouWithMe: When the last criminal in the skyscraper trap points out to Frank that they are the only ones left alive and they can both just walk away now, Frank thinks otherwise and lets go off the dead man's switch, bringing the building down.
* TaughtByExperience: Jigsaw (along with Rosalie Carbone) decides not to partake in the plan to kill Castle because of past experience, knowing that it'll blow up in the villains' faces.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Agent Blackwell gloats to Frank that, since he has a code against killing cops and the like, he's never going to be rid of him since he is technically an officer of the law. However, Frank knows that Blackwell is a total bastard, and blows him away.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Jackie Dee [[TemptingFate asks this exact question]] when he's outlining his "kill the Punisher" plan to the other crime figures gathered at his tower. Well, the answer to that question in this case is--''everything.''
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* TaughtByExperience: Jigsaw (along with Rosalie Carbone) decides not to partake in the plan to kill Castle because of past experience knwoing that it'll blow up in the villains' faces.

* CreepyMortician: PlayedForLaughs (somewhat) and in a way that benefits Frank. The coroner who examines "Frank's" body that was recovered from the rubble of Manhattan Tower quickly deduces that he's FakingTheDead due to there being bulet holes in the torso but not in the suit (meaning the suit was place on the disfigured body after it was dead). And alerts the local FBI agents who'd just taken credit for closing the books on the Punisher case. They ask the coroner if he can delay the announcement, and he counters by offering to have that section of the morgue [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident burn down while he's on vacation in Hawaii]]. The FBI Agents agree to this proposal, and ask when he's going to Hawaii, to which he asks [[EveryManHasHisPrice as soon as they buy his ticket]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Although [[ArchEnemy Jigsaw]] is one of the criminals invited to the meeting at the start of the story, once he realizes the whole thing is a trap to draw out the Punisher, he immediately decides to make a quick exit. This is because, having tangled with Frank before, he's GenreSavvy enough to know that Frank's going to come in with a plan that'll end with all the crooks dead, guaranteed.

* DeadManSwitch: Figuring out that the meeting in the skyscraper is a trap, Frank plants explosives in the bottom floor of the building. When the trap is eventually sprung he tells his enemies that he has his finger on a dead man's switch, and is ready to blow them all away.

* GenreSavvy: Punisher's longtime villains Jigsaw and Rosalie Carbone are smart enough to take no part in the skyscraper trap when given the chance.