Line #3 BullyingADragon/ThePunisher


1	The Punisher generally stays out of most high-level superhuman conflict, but he has his moments where his KnightTemplar nature gets him to go charging off to kill some dangerous people he really shouldn't have been tangling with, like ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk (both the Savage and Joe Fixit versions), Norman Osborn, and [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Anti-Venom]], to name a few.
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6	* Because of his disdain for superheroes, who are "too soft on crime", the Punisher has often assaulted far more powerful superheroes. He has also bit off more than he can chew by going after far more powerful super''villains''. Whether he gets away with it or not tends to depend on [[CreatorsPet if he's being written by]] Creator/GarthEnnis.
7	** On the "gotten away with it" side:
8	*** The Punisher once blows off the [[FacialHorror face]] and [[GroinAttack balls]] of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} with a shotgun, and then runs him over with a steamroller -- even though, as he can see, Wolverine keeps getting back up unhurt after each attack. Fortunately, Wolverine never decides to seriously retaliate, though he does swear a grudge on Castle for everything he did to him. However, in ''Wolverine'' #186, Frank and Wolverine meet again, and Wolverine does decide to take revenge for the above, winning a fistfight with Punisher.
9	*** When Frank walks in on Anti-Venom busting a Mexican crime syndicate in ''New Ways to Live'', they team up until he realizes Anti-Venom is his old adversary [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]]. Castle promptly shoots Anti-Venom -- who is in the process of thanking him -- [[ChunkySalsaRule point-blank in the face with a shotgun]], and when the last surviving thug takes Anti-Venom's informant/MoralityChain, ex-drug addict Jenna Cole, hostage, Frank coldly states "That's not a girl... [[ItIsDehumanizing it's]] a junkie" and takes aim. Admittedly, Anti-Venom proceeds to [[HealingFactor pull his head back together]], ''severely'' pissed off, and punch Frank through a wall, but considering Anti-Venom's [[ImAHumanitarian sporadic wrestling with cannibalistic urges]], it could have gone a ''lot'' worse for Frank. Frank reluctantly agrees to a truce, but spends the rest of the series trying to catch Eddie with his symbiote retracted, rebuking Eddie when he points out that [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're very similar]], and making no secret of his intent to kill Eddie the moment he lets his guard down.
10	** On the "didn't get away with it" side:
11	*** He once tries to go up against the ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Doctor Octopus, in revenge for being ambushed earlier and to stop his plan of poisoning a large number of people with a slow poison and holding their lives for ransom. [[OffhandBackhand Ock doesn't even look at Frank while his arms disarm and pin him down]] before force-feeding him the above-mentioned poison -- Castle almost dies, and survives only due to Spider-Man.
12	*** The Kingpin is another ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain who tears Frank a new one. Frank has gotten into fights with Kingpin more than once, but it keeps ending the same way with Kingpin nearly killing Frank. [[spoiler:An exception is ''VideoGame/ThePunisherCapcom''; while Kingpin is a very tough boss gameplay-wise, Frank still beats him.]]
13	*** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' #395, Punisher decides to go after "Mr. Fixit" during a trip to Vegas. Thing is, Mr. Fixit is an alter-ego of the Hulk, so Punisher's attack doesn't exactly work out how he expected. He riddles Fixit with bullets, to no avail, even when shooting at the eyes, and then throws a grenade at him, which is smacked back at Frank by one of Hulk's allies -- and only doesn't blow himself up because he had the good fortune to run into "The Professor" (Hulk with Banner's personality dominant), who catches the grenade and lets it blow up inside his clenched fist. Then, when Frank attacks him with a knife, Hulk taps him on the head with one finger and knocks him out cold.
14	*** In ''Creator/MarvelKnights'', Frank once tries to pick a fight with Ulik the Rock Troll, a monster and regular foe of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''. The only reason Frank survives is because ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} runs off and finds the magical whatsit that Ulik is after whilst Ulik is kicking Frank around like a football.
15	*** In ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', the Shocker blows Frank away with all the ease of swatting a fly, thanks to his sonic blasters being more than Frank's body armor can hope to handle.
16	*** In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' #26, he makes the mistake of threatening the Runaways at gunpoint for their criminal relations. PintSizedPowerhouse Molly promptly punches him in the gut so hard that it takes all of Frank's willpower not to collapse on the spot, and he is effectively taken out of action and is comically left standing in one place trying to move but unable to because of the pain.
17	*** Then there's the time during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' when he tries to assassinate Norman Osborn... who is, at the time, not only still his Green Goblin self, but also the head of an evil version of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} ''and'' the leader of the ComicBook/DarkAvengers, who have provided him with ComicBook/TheSentry as a bodyguard. The result is that the assassination attempt fails miserably due to Sentry interfering, and then the only reason he isn't captured is that Frank sets off a bomb elsewhere, prompting Sentry to fly off to protect people from the explosion. Osborn sends Daken (ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s AxCrazy BastardBastard son with the same power set) after the Punisher, and he ends up unceremoniously cut into pieces and dumped down a sewer.[[note]]Fortunately for Castle, the nature of comic books kicks in, and Frank is revived as a zombie cyborg called 'Franken-Castle', which he remains as for several months before his life and body are restored by the magical Bloodstone.[[/note]]
18	* Since Frank is a known badass with a body count nearly as high as [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} the Joker]], criminals waste no time in throwing their lives away by trying to attack him. Frank, who is inevitably heavily restrained, adds a few more bodies to the count before the guards show up. In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherTheEnd'', the prison authorities at Sing Sing solved the problem by throwing him in solitary confinement before he "killed every inmate we got", to quote one of the guards. It worked, too... until the world blew up.
19	* In ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies [[IntercontinuityCrossover vs.]] ComicBook/ArmyOfDarkness'' #2, he ignores the zombie plague to continue business as usual, alienating or killing off his potential allies before ultimately being devoured by a bunch of superhuman zombies.
20	* Nicky Cavella from ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX''. He wants to eliminate the Punisher and thinks he can do it by making him clumsy. To do that, Nick [[IShallTauntYou digs up the Punisher's family's remains, pisses on them while recording himself doing so, and sends the video to the local news]]. His plan works, and Frank stops being as methodical as he normally is, but with [[GoneHorriblyRight the trade-off]] that Frank goes into such an UnstoppableRage that he [[spoiler:kills several important figures in Cavella's criminal family in one day. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere The remaining family ditches Cavella]] and Frank shoots him in the stomach]].
21	%%* He's been beaten up by ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' (Bruce Wayne) twice, in the ''Deadly Knights'' crossover and in ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' #1.%%Needs more context about how these incidents happened.

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