Peacemaker: Who Is The Father? Who is the White Dragon? Here Everything Explained!

One of the new characters introduced in the James Gunn Peacemaker series is Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), Chris’s Nazi-leaning father who reproaches his son for being the same guy who was afraid of rats as a kid (Bloodspot, Idris Elba) was the one who shot him down in Corto Maltese. (If you haven’t seen The Suicide Squad you should watch it now, if only for the tremendous thrashing it does to Marvel movies). The first episode of the HBO Max series already lets us see the troubled relationship between Chris and Auggie (including their friendly and shrewd neighbor, a fan in the shadow of Batman). From the beginning it’s clear to us that Auggie, ahem, hates his son and dislikes everything he does.

Also that he is a conservative and offensive type, as well as very creative when it comes to creating weapons for his offspring (more as a testing ground than for the love of his work). In the same way, the moment Chris walks through the door it’s clear to us how much he craves recognition from his father. In the second episode, when Auggie is pinned for Peacemaker’s (justified) murder and jailed, the character is greeted with joy and devotion by his fellow inmates. And everyone refers to him as the White Dragon. And at this point it is normal for you to wonder who the father of Peacemaker (John Cena) is, who is the White Dragon and if he has ever existed in the comics.

Who Is The Father? Who is the White Dragon?

Auggie connects with an infamous DC Comics villain franchise that has always answered to the name of White Dragon. Throughout the history of DC Comics, various white supremacist villains have used this name. The White Dragon first appeared in the regular Flash series in 1941, but perhaps the most representative of the white dragons was William Heller, from the crazy creative minds of the Suicide Squad comics. John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell 1987. Heller was a neo-Nazi who took on the Suicide Squad and briefly became a member of the team. It didn’t last long. The next incarnation of the character, Daniel Ducannon, was also another white supremacist who took on Hawkman. And your question is: but then Peacemaker’s father was the White Dragon in the comics? The answer is no, although it fits perfectly.

In the comics, Peacemaker’s father Wolfgang Schmidt was a real Nazi who had fought in World War II and who killed himself in front of Chris on his fifth birthday (basically when his Nazi past was discovered: he ran a concentration camp in Poland), traumatizing him for life, but he was never associated with the White Dragon villain franchise. In the Peacemaker comic book miniseries1988, Schmidt after death becomes a series of recurring visions of Chris dressed in his SS uniform. The fact is that Peacemaker was marked by the death of his father. In fact, it was the voice of his father that made him join the Peacemaker project (an elite police force of the anti-terrorist US government) after he was sentenced to life in prison by a military court for a mission gone wrong in Vietnam. The character of Robert Patrick in the James Gunn series does not look like committing suicide, but he does become a harmful influence on his son in life.

James Gunn wrote the role of Auggie expressly for Robert Kirkpatrick after seeing the Perry Mason series on HBO. According to Gunn, Auggie is “probably the most obnoxious character I’ve ever written.” Gunn also likes parent-child stories. Guardians of the Galaxy sinks its teeth into Star-Lord’s relationship with an absent father (Kurt Russell) and an adoptive father (Michael Rooker), while The Suicide Squad has Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior) coming to terms with Star-Lord’s death. his father, the original Ratcatcher (Taika Waititi). In fact the origin of Auggie’s character is in Peacemaker’s wry smile in The Suicide Squad when Bloodsport and Ratcatcher 2 are talking about their parents during the bus sequence.

A curiosity: the first time that Peacemaker and Auggie are together on stage was also the first time that Patrick and John Cena were together on set. “James looked at us and said, ‘We’re going to shoot the rehearsal,'” Patrick explained during promotional interviews for the series. “So we didn’t do anything ahead of time; we literally shot the rehearsal.”