9 Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed In Marvel’s The Punisher

Agent Orange

The main antagonist of The Punisher season 1 is Paul Schulze’s Rawlins, a crooked high-ranking CIA agent and the real brains behind the Blacksmith heroin ring. In Afghanistan, Rawlins was in charge of Operation: Cerberus, which Frank Castle was a part of. The pair immediately became enemies due to Rawlins’ callous orders.

Rawlins is a vaguely faithful version of a similar character who appeared in the revered Punisher MAX comics from Garth Ennis, one of the anti-hero’s finest runs that also inspired both the 2004 and 2008 Punisher movies. On the page, Williams Rawlins is likewise a corrupt CIA boss who allied himself with the Taliban while he served in Afghanistan. In the comics, Rawlins’ most noticeable feature is the eye patch he wears over his left eye.

In the TV show, Rawlins does not reveal his real name to the soldiers while in charge of Operation: Cerberus, only going by the handle “Agent Orange.” As well as being a type of herbicidal agent used during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange is an obscure Marvel comics villains (real name: Roger Goshaw).