Peacemaker's Name Just Got Its Horrific Origin Story
Warning: contains spoilers for Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace #1!
DC's Peacemaker is an incredibly violent character — so why did a man with a bodycount in the hundreds (if not more) call himself «Peacemaker»? The formerly B-list character has seen a surge in popularity thanks to the positive reception from James Gunn's The Suicide Squad and an HBO Max Peacemaker television series, also written and directed by Gunn. His appearances in comics is quite sparse by comparison, but 2022's Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace #1 reveals just how much violence the character is truly capable of regardless of how many times he shows his face on the page or screen — and the origin of the character's seemingly incongruous name.
Peacemaker first appeared in comics in 1966, with his own solo series appearing the following year. Christopher Smith was introduced as"...a man who loves peace so much that he is willing to fight for it!" While the Silver Age version of the character used a variety of non-lethal devices, the rebooted version's origin afterCrisis on Infinite Earths took a darker tone; Christopher Smith believed the souls of the people he killed were trapped inside his helmet, and realized that he suffers intense trauma as a result of his painful upbringing...and the suicide of his entire family. Exposed to violence and death from a very early age, he eventually joined the military and became a supreme instrument of death.
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In the new DC Comics Peacemaker black label bookPeacemaker: Disturbing the Peace #1 revolves around Doctor Sedgewick's efforts to interview Smith and ask him some very pointed questions concerning his history. In particular, nearly every
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