In Temporada 2 do Netflix The Punisher, vemos um mercenário / assassino chamado John (também chamado O peregrino) contratado pela Schultz.
Não consegui encontrar ninguém com esse nome. Então, esse personagem é baseado em algum vilão / super-vilão da Marvel?
Steve Lightfoot, Os Punidores produtor, declarou em uma entrevista publicada na Marvel.com que John Pilgrim é baseado no menonita.
Speaking about the character’s origins with Marvel.com, “Marvel’s The Punisher” Executive Producer/Showrunner Steve Lightfoot explained, “He was inspired by a character called the Mennonite from the comic books. I always really liked that character, who was a guy who had lived a life of crime and given it up and found redemption and a new life and was dragged back in to go and kill with Frank. He was sent back to New York, the last place he wanted to go, to have to face the Punisher. And I really liked that arc. As often is the nature with the comic books, it was quite broad. He went to New York on a horse and cart, which wouldn't have fit the tone of the show. I didn’t want to specify a particular creed or faith or church and put a name to him, so the idea was that we had a more mythic version of that character. Also, I was always and still am a fan of “Night of the Hunter,” the Robert Mitchum movie. And I always loved the villain in that and he had tones of that as well. That was another inspiration.”
Marvel, ‘Marvel’s The Punisher’ - The Inspiration Behind John Pilgrim
Olhar ao redor dos menonitas é de fato um personagem bastante secundário, tendo apenas aparecido em Justiceiro MAX Vol 1 emite 3 - 5 e morrer no quinto. O personagem parece ter uma história muito semelhante a John por ter uma esposa doente, ser religioso, Amish não nascer de novo cristão e ser contratado depois de deixar sua vida de matança para assassinar o Justiceiro.