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* DeadMansSwitch: When ComicBook/ThePunisher finds himself in a trap set up by various, Frank plants explosives on the bottom floor of the skyscraper they're meeting in. 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. He then proceeds to start shooting, and there's nothing that the criminals can do to stop him.

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* DeadMansSwitch: When ComicBook/ThePunisher finds himself in the Punisher learns about a trap set up by various, Frank various criminal elements, he plants explosives on the bottom floor of the skyscraper they're meeting in. 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. He then proceeds to start shooting, and there's nothing that the criminals can do to stop him.
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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: When Frank is arrested and held in the little town of Laastekist, the town finds itself in the middle of a war zone when everyone who's 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.

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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: When Frank is arrested and held in the little town of Laastekist, the town finds itself in the middle of a war zone when everyone who's out to get Frank sets their foot in there. This includes the FBI, fellow vigilantes, the VIGIL organization, TheMafia, [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels a biker gang]] gang]], and various smaller criminals.
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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.

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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. Vol. 2 #85-88, 85-88, ''The Punisher War Journal'' #61-64 61-64 and ''The Punisher War Zone'' #23-25)[[/note]] 23-25)[[/note]] from 1993 to 1994.









* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: When Frank is arrested and held in the little town of Laastekist, the town 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.

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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: When Frank is arrested and held in the little town of Laastekist, the town finds itself in the middle of a war zone when everyone whose who's 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.



* 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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* 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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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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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 spectrums soon follow.



* 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.

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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: The When Frank is arrested and held in the little town of Laastekist Laastekist, the town 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 bullet holes in the torso but not in the suit (meaning the suit was place placed 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 When ComicBook/ThePunisher finds himself in the skyscraper is a trap, trap set up by various, Frank plants explosives in on the bottom floor of the building.skyscraper they're meeting in. 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. He then proceeds to start shooting, and there's nothing that the criminals can do to stop him.



* LittleNo: 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.



* 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.

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* PercussivePrevention: When the sheriff of Laastekist lets Frank out of his cell to fight the cell, he criminals infesting his town, Frank knocks him out so he's out of he won't be in the line of fire.



* 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.

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* SearchingTheStalls: A When a bunch of mafia Mafia {{mooks}} hide hides in the bathroom. Punisher a bathroom, Frank is not sure which stall contains what, so he shoots through all of them.



* 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.

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* SuddenlyShouting: Rosalie Carbone, when her henchman continue continues suggesting she send men to Laastekist after she nervously rejected the idea.
* TakingYouWithMe: When After Frank has finished killing nearly all the criminals in the skyscraper trap, the last criminal in the skyscraper trap alive points out to Frank that as they are the only ones left alive and alive, they can both just walk away now, now. Frank thinks otherwise and lets go off of the dead man's switch, bringing the building down.



* 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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* 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 question, in this case case, is--''everything.''
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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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!!The Punisher: Suicide Run provides examples of the following tropes:

* 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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