Well to be fair, Gerard Way said earlier on in the band that he'd consider the band aggressive pop. They're not trying to claim they're in a punk-pop band. People just call them pop-punk because they share a lot of elements with it. It's really hard to put a label on them. Every album sounded so much different from the one before that it's just difficult.
All of this said, I think the least punk thing to do is to limit what punk really is. I know they have a lot of punk influences for sure, hence why you hear some of those elements in the songs.
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