Newsdelivers.com – Peacemaker made his first appearance in the DC Extended Universe in the film The Suicide Squad (2021) with Harley Quinn and his friends in a team of brave soldiers. In the film, Peacemaker is only equipped with a gun with a unique mask appearance that turns out to be a helmet.
Peacemaker is the alter-ego character of Christopher Smith, a peace lover who is willing to sacrifice anything. In fact, Smith was willing to do things that were considered morally wrong because of these principles.
Like other DC characters, Peacemaker also has mental problems that make him emotionally unstable. This makes him often haunted by feelings of guilt and often even hallucinates about the people he has killed in the past.
Summarized brilio.net from various sources on Wednesday (22/9), here are 9 interesting stories of Peacemaker, a member of the Suicide Squad who loves peace.
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1. Not a DC character.
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Peacemaker was not originally a character created purely by DC Comics. He made his debut as an espionage team in Charlton Comics’ Fighting #5 in 1966. However, the production house died in the mid-1980s and DC acquired the character and featured him in four miniseries in 1988. The character is the same as Plastic Man, Captain. Atom, Blue Battle, and The Spirit are also not purely made by DC Comics.
2. Contrary to his own father.
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Peacemaker as Christopher Smith’s alter-ego cannot get along with Wolfgang Schmidt, his own father. His father was a Nazi SS commander in the Schlasa concentration camp in Poland during the Second World War. Smith is constantly trying to rid himself of the evil forces that stem from hatred and shame for his own father’s choices. In fact, the thought of his father made him often hallucinate and seem to have mental health problems.
3. Technical specifications of the helmet he is wearing.
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From the looks of it, Peacemaker’s helmet is both a helmet and a mask. The helmet can scramble enemy signals and emit ultrasonic frequencies. The helmet also has sensors that can detect remote signals in the vicinity.
4. Background as a student is very good.
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Smith was a bright student at the school with excellence in both academics and basketball. His passion for basketball is also supported by his relatively tall and stocky posture. However, as he grew older, Smith often bullied his classmates until he was expelled from school. After that, at the age of 18, Smith enlisted in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was also involved in the arbitrary killing of innocent civilians in South Vietnam. The act was judged a massacre and Smith was sentenced to life in prison. His worst fears came true and he became like his own father.
5. Get out of jail.
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After two years of serving his sentence, Smith was offered a place in a secret military program labeled The Peacemaker Force. Smith trained at a base in Nevada. Smith along with eight other military convicts were pardoned and had to become peacemakers or peacemakers. One of the program’s main goals is to fight terrorism in the Middle East and become Smith’s redemption under his new identity, The Peacemaker.
6. Have extreme fantasies.
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Smith, who from the beginning had mental problems, made him always overshadowed by things that became his imagination. According to the report of the military psychologist Dr. Bridgette D’Abo in the miniseries ‘Peacemaker’, Smith is always on the lookout for terrorists he can kill. In fact, that kind of feeling arose when he was no longer on the battlefield. The report stated that Smith had always created enemies in his mind and he would pursue those targets single-mindedly and fearfully. One of the victims of his imagination were two people named Harry Stein and Vigilante, whom he chased and killed in America. In addition, Smith believes that the helmet he uses to become a Peacemaker harbors many evil spirits.
7. Be an inspiration for The Comedian.
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The Peacemaker figure is the inspiration for other characters in the DC Comics world. The inspiration is told to give birth to The Comedian aka Edward Blake. Both were military prisoners who later became US soldiers in Vietnam and were both involved in mass killings in that country.
8. Never had a costume like Boba Fett, Star Wars.
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In a series of ‘Kingdom Come’ by Alex Ross, Peacemaker once appeared in flashbacks with other Charlton heroes against super villains like Parasite. In the scene, Peacemaker wears a different costume. The helmet he uses is no longer like a mask, but covers his entire head and is said to be more similar to Boba Fett which covers his entire head.
9. Peacemaker’s solo series will be released soon.
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In August 2020, James Gunn began working on the script for his solo series Peacemaker due to being bored at home for long periods of time due to the pandemic. This solo series has also been filming from January 15 to July 11, 2021. Peacemaker is set to be released exclusively on HBO Max in January 2022.
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