Awesome / The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank

• Purgatory is widely considered to be the franchise's Audience-Alienating Era. Here... here, if seeing Punisher pitch a dwarf off the Empire State Building doesn't make him Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, then his thoughts on the previous misadventure might.
  Tried it. Didn't like it. Told them where to stick it.
• To those who are sick and tired of Daredevil's self righteousness, Frank forcing Dardevil to make a Sadistic Choice could count. After K.O.ing the man without fear while he was making one of his "you have a choice not to kill" speeches, he chains up Daredevil, tapes a revolver with one bullet to his hand, and tells him that he can either kill the Punisher and have blood on his hands or let the Punisher snipe a mobster (basically turning his own speech against him). Daredevil decides to pull the trigger. But there's no firing pin in the gun.
• This one time, Castle sucker punched an unsuspecting polar bear◊. And sicked it on some mobsters.
  Frank's monologue: Cuddly. Lovable. Docile. That won't do at all.
• Dying of six bullets in his chest, Castle calls upon the help of a mob doctor to patch him up. Rather than taking an anesthetic like someone who isn't the walking image of badass, he instead opts for the old school solution of biting down on .45 ACP for the whole procedure.
  • Also, credit where it's due: the mob doctor is a drunken, haggard mess of a man...and he still manages to save the Punisher's life.
• Frank Castle Vs. The Russian. Nuff said. Also a Funny Moment.
• Frank Castle, barely conscious, out of ammo, bleeding from a half dozen bullets wounds walking to an armed thug, taking one more shot in the chest, then breaking the thug's neck with his bare hands remarking that all the thug is is a "little man with a big gun," before collapsing and barely being able to drag himself back to his hideout, setting up the equally badass bullet removal scene mentioned previously.
• Frank showing the Russian's decapitated head to Ma Gnucci and her subordinates. At that point, all of Ma's goons proceed to give up and walk off, one of them telling her that anything she pays them isn't enough to try fighting him.
  Frank: Is this the best you've got!?
• The Punisher's response to Ma Gnucci's "Not So Different" Remark:
  Tell me something I don't know. (throws grenade)
• Mr. Payback's Motive Rant before he guns down a board room of financial executives is an awesome "Reason You Suck" Speech especially for readers critical of Capitalism.
  • "You think your thousand dollar suits and executive suite make you clean and beautiful. You're wrong. Your fortunes were built with crime and blood. Your hands are dirtier than the filthiest hood on the street. YOU ARE GUILTY! This is payback."
• Dave - sorry, Spacker Dave - is tortured for over an hour by having his many, many piercings ripped from his face, but he still doesn't give up that Frank is the Punisher. Even Frank is impressed.