The Punisher vs. Marv (Sin City)

Opening
Spider: When we think of comic-book heroes, we often envision idealistic crusaders who are as merciful as their powers are super-human.

Pixie: But when we get bored of that shit, there’s always a crazy, sadistic anti-hero in a trench-coat. Like the Punisher, Marvel’s most ruthless vigilante.

Spider: Or Marv, the urban barbarian of Sin City. I’m Spider.

Pixie: And I’m Pixie!

Spider: And it’s our job to analyze their power, abilities and skills to determine who would win a Death Battle.

The Punisher
Spider: Frank Castle was a former Marine and a dedicated family man before his wife and son were murdered by gang members. Mad with grief and a need for justice, Frank dedicated his life to fighting crime by whatever brutal means necessary, and became known as the Punisher.

Pixie: So basically, he’s Batman, but without the gun control or due process.

Spider: The Punisher carries an absurd variety of guns, including semi-auto pistols, sniper rifles, automatic rifles, machine-guns, uzis, shot-guns, grenade-launchers, missile-launchers… honestly, if you name a gun completely at random, odds are, the Punisher has at least one of them.

Pixie: How the hell does he carry all that crap? Is there some kind of a hyper-space pocket in his trench-coat?

Spider: Well, he usually hauls what he can’t carry around in his Battle Van, which also has an on-board mini-gun and a pair of a rotary-canons.

Pixie (laughing): Holy shitting fuck, that is a lot of guns. How does a Vietnam veteran afford all this?

Spider: Well, the majority of Frank’s arsenal is picked up from the criminals he kills, but he also uses the M60 machine-gun he used in Vietnam, nick-named the ‘Hog’. There’s also the weapons he’s recently confiscated from his scraps with heroes and villains, including the Green Goblin’s Pumpkin Bombs, Hawkeye’s bow and arrows—

Pixie: Buuut, those weapons aren’t really part of his standard gear, so they won’t be allowed in this Death Battle. Same goes for the symbiote suit and the mecha suit he used against the Reavers. And don’t you dare even mention the peyote and cocaine induced fever-dream that was Frankencastle.

Spider: For this battle, Frank will be limited to his conventional weaponry and the customized guns he built himself. In addition to his plethora of fire-arms, the Punisher also carries grenades, tactical smoke-bombs and a combat knife.

Pixie: Which he’s pretty great at using. Punisher is a total beast in close-quarters combat, thanks to being trained to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. He has disarmed two police-officers at once, beat the shit out of a crowd of ten guys, knocked a dude out with a single punch, broken out of a pair of hand-cuffs and broken a man’s neck one-handed. He’s also walked off the kind of shit that would make Spike Spiegel wince, including falling off a building, a car-crash that broke several of his bones, getting beaten with a rifle until the stock broke, and having a rib ''blown straight the fuck out of his chest by a shot-gun blast'' at point-blank range.

Spider: Since the Punisher often finds himself out-numbered, he relies heavily on his superior tactics to overcome the odds. Also, while he is human, and thus mortal, he really doesn’t have any glaring weaknesses.

Pixie:  There’s a reason why in a universe with physical gods gods, reality-bending sorcerers and planet-devouring space-giants, the Punisher is the man criminals fear most.