James Gunn made sure Peacemaker’s White Dragon was the absolute worst

polygon.com:

Marvel hasn’t quite nailed down whether the members of Hydra are straight-up Nazis. Aside from some discussion in Agents of SHIELD, the MCU has only gone as far as to say they’re the sort of villains who would happily work with Nazis, but don’t hold any sort of fascistic or racist views themselves. It’s the sort of thing that’s increasingly common as comics are adapted to blockbuster movies and beyond, where most real-life prejudices get scrubbed away, even as they’re used to inform the level of evil we’re supposed to read into a villain.

Enter Peacemaker. In the new show, it doesn’t take long for Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), the father of Chris aka Peacemaker (John Cena) to reveal that he is an avowed racist. In Chris’ first trip home Auggie rattles off a few racial slurs, while Chris just shakes his head and tells him those aren’t people he stands against. James Gunn, who developed the show, tells Polygon he didn’t want to be wishy-washy about who Auggie is; he’s the White Dragon and an avowed white supremacist. The choice, perhaps unexpectedly, is true to the comics.

Like so many comic book characters, the “White Dragon” has been a few people across a few timelines in the DC world. First appearing as a Golden Age villain, then later a hero who was also a member of the Blackhawk Squadron.

But it’s the later two White Dragons that are most notable for Peacemaker’s purposes. Eventually William Heller, a man raised by his Nazi grandfather, became the White Dragon. He funded Neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups, squared off against Deadshot, and, after being arrested, joined the Suicide Squad. Predictably he didn’t get along with Amanda Waller; after trying to kill her himself, he was ultimately killed during a