`  02:49, 21 September 2012.   There are so many assumptions here, I don't know where to begin. I'll limit my comments to one aspect: The Punisher does not have Batman- or Green Arrow-like extraordinary abilities, which have the beginning of their character conceptions were of levels beyond recognizable human reality. The Punisher is a good shot, but not depicted as someone who, like Green Arrow, essentially never misses. The Punisher also doesn't go swinging from building to building and performing other such unrealistic, superhuman derring-do as Batman does — things clearly beyond realistic human ability. These are just examples. As for Rorschach (the Wikipedia article for which lists him as an antihero), he's certainly not depicted as a superhero anywhere except possibly in flashbacks; he's portrayed as a sociopathic vigilante.  We can quibble over details about fictional people and this arbitrary, made-up concept of ``superhero``. I'm more concerned about why one person has such an obsession to label the Punisher a superhero. If nothing else, comics and other forms of literature have a variety of types of characters; that's what helps make literature rich and interesting. The Punisher is clearly not conceived of as a superhero in any traditional sense; I'm sure character creator Gerry Conway would be the first to agree. The Punisher, modeled on paperback-book vigilantes in the wake of the film Death Wish, is an antihero in any rational sense of the term. To accept the specious argument that he is a superhero is to essentially erase the very concept of ``antihero,`` to say it doesn't exist. I don't think that's within our power.   `