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| “ | I cherish peace with all my heart. I don't care how many men, woman and children I need to kill to get it. | „ |
| ~ Peacemaker's most famous quote. |
| “ | I don't kill people for nothing, all right? When my brother died, I made a vow... Anyone I'd kill, I'd kill for peace, so unlike Keith, no one would ever die for no reason again. | „ |
| ~ Peacemaker. |
Christopher Smith, better known as Peacemaker, is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Mateo Suarez) of the 2021 DC Extended Universe film The Suicide Squad and the titular main protagonist of the Max original series Peacemaker's first season.
He is a deranged vigilante who believes in ensuring peace and liberty at all costs no matter how many lives he has to kill or horrible acts he has to commit in order to do so. He joined Task Force X as part of Bloodsport's second team thanks to Amanda Waller offering him a pardon for his crimes if he were to remove all traces of evidence of her involvement with Project Starfish.
While he struck up a rapport with the team, he eventually turned on them when they learned the mission's true nature wasn't to destroy Project Starfish but rather cover up USA's involvement with it. In the attempt to complete his own bargain with Waller, Smith murdered team leader Rick Flag when Flag attempted to make public the incriminating evidence linking USA to Project Starfish, but shortly after he shot by Bloodsport.
Bloodsport used the evidence of Project Starfish to blackmail Waller into letting the team go away free but Peacemaker wasn't included in the bargain due to his previous betrayal. Smith was taken to a hospital to recover for 5 months, after which he was forced to return to Task Force X in order to participate in the mission to destroy Project Butterfly. He is also the archenemy of White Dragon.
He is portrayed by John Cena.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
Background[]
- Although it was an accident, he killed his brother Keith when their father Auggie forced them to fight for intertainment.
- Under his father's training, he became a delusional vigilante called "Peacemaker" and killed dozens of people (including children) in the name of peace.
The Suicide Squad[]
- He joined Amanda Waller's Task Force-X team to destroy all evidence of Project Starfish in Corto Maltese.
- Unlike Rick Flag, he knew all along the truth about Project Starfish being an expiremental base on Corto Maltesians and didn't care.
- He suggested killing King Shark after Bloodsport stopped the latter from eating Ratcatcher II, mainly out of his own pleasure and not to protect his teammates.
- He and Bloodsport exchange blows killing resistance fighters of Corto Maltese.
- While he did mistake them for bad guys, he didn't show remorse when he found out they were innocent (aside from some embarrassment about the confusion).
- He killed Flag by jamming a glass shard in his heart when he tried to expose Project Starfish to the public.
- He tried to kill Ratcatcher II when she took the hard drive for Project Starfish after Flag's death, even though he could have destroyed the hard drive when he cornered her.
- When Bloodsport crashed through a ceiling to save Ratcatcher II, Peacemaker tried to shoot him only to be shot in the neck by Bloodsport's smaller bullet.
Peacemaker (Season One)[]
- After recovering from the gunshot and joining Project Butterfly, he takes a couple hostage before escaping from the balcony.
- He took part in assassinating the Goff's under the team's orders, despite showing reluctance to kill children.
- He killed his father after he started gloating to him (though Auggie deserved it for everything he did).
- He briefly considered joining the Butterflies after finding out they thrive for peace the same way he does, though he does eventually reject it and foil their plans anyway.
- Even after redeeming himself, his overall crimes are way too gruesome to fully subvert, especially since he didn't show remorse for all of them.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Although his several murders and personal villainy towards the Squad by killing Flag are enough to pass the generic baseline, he still fails the heinous standards to his father Auggie, who did worse with the same resources.
- He's tragic due to being raised by an abusive father who raised him as a killer, blamed him for his brother's death even though Auggie was the one at fault for forcing his sons to fight in the first place, and is responsible for Peacemaker's self-loathing and insecurities. As a result, he's played for sympathy many times.
- He cares about others:
- He loved his brother Keith and felt remorse for accidentally killing him.
- He loves his pet eagle Eagly and even showed concern for him when he was injured by his father.
- He gets along well with his Project Butterfly teammates.
- He's in love with Emilia Harcourt.
- He mourned Murn's death after he was killed by the Butterfly Queen, Eek Stack Ik Ik.
- He kept Eek Stack Ik Ik as a pet and cared for her despite her attempts to take over the world.
- He has standards or has shown remorse with many things:
- He regretted killing Flag since he wanted to stop him non-lethally until Flag started choking him with a pipe, making it self-defense. He was even shown to be haunted by his murder of Flag in the spin-off series where he cries and tries to hurt himself and even somberly repeated Flag’s last words.
- He even had a similar reaction to killing his father even though he deserved it, as kept hallucinating his father after being haunted by his guilt of killing him.
- He hesitated when he was about to kill Ratcatcher II, showing he didn't want to kill her either and valued her as a teammate.
- He refused to kill the Goff children when he assassinated the family, despite earlier claim that he doesn't care how many men, women and children he "needs" to kill.
- He regretted killing Flag since he wanted to stop him non-lethally until Flag started choking him with a pipe, making it self-defense. He was even shown to be haunted by his murder of Flag in the spin-off series where he cries and tries to hurt himself and even somberly repeated Flag’s last words.
- He has many comedic moments that detract from his villainy such as flaunting his tidy-widies when Bloodsport mocked his choice of underwear, called King Shark "Megalodouche" when he suggested killing him in black comedy fashion, his massacre of the rebel camp being played for black comedy with him and Bloodsport trying to one up the other, and him listing out celebrities (fictional or nonfictional) as people John Economos could’ve framed instead of his dad with some of the celebrities even being Freddie Stroma and James Gunn (and nearly breaking the 4th wall).
- He's an extremist who cherishes peace, hence his codename "Peacemaker". While he is very brutal in his methods, he never subverted his good intentions and keeps them till the end.
- He redeemed himself after realizing how extremist ways about peace made him no different than his enemies, stopping the Butterflies from taking over the world.
External Links[]
- Peacemaker on the Villains Wiki
- Peacemaker on the Heroes Wiki
- Peacemaker on the DC Extended Universe Wiki
- Peacemaker on the Wikipedia
