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!!''Adrian Chase / ComicBook/{{Vigilante}}''
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!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Citizenship:''' American
!!! '''Affiliation(s):''' Fennel Fields, A.R.G.U.S.
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreddieStroma
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/EnzoFortuny (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''
->''"What separates us from other killers is we only kill bad people. Usually. Unless there's a mistake."''
A naive and somewhat dimwitted but sociopathic vigilante, and Peacemaker's self-proclaimed best friend, who works with Project Butterfly alongside him.
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!!''Adrian Chase / ComicBook/{{Vigilante}}''
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!!! '''Species:''' Human
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!!! '''Affiliation(s):''' Fennel Fields, A.R.G.U.S.
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreddieStroma
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/EnzoFortuny (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''
->''"What separates us from other killers is we only kill bad people. Usually. Unless there's a mistake."''
A naive and somewhat dimwitted but sociopathic vigilante, and Peacemaker's self-proclaimed best friend, who works with Project Butterfly alongside him.
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->''"I used to think God put me here for a purpose. For peace. And I know I said I didn't care how many people I needed to torture or kill
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: While just as violent, this version of the character is ''significantly'' more mentally stable than his comic counterpart, who believes that the souls of everyone he kills reside in his helmet. [[spoiler:This begins to slide in the season one finale, where starts to experience hallucinations of his dead father mocking him]].
* AbusiveParents: As revealed in his series, his father was and still is incredibly emotionally abusive to him, with implications that he was also physically abusive towards him while training him to become an enforcer of his own white supremacist ideology.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Unlike in the comics, in ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker is TheMole for Waller and acts to preserve America's secrecy in being involved in very immoral projects. Subverted in his own series, as his entire character arc centers around growing out of his MyCountryRightOrWrong mindset and making choices for himself.]]
* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: In the comics (at least the '80s remake), his father was an Nazi war criminal (commander of a death camp who killed himself to escape prosecution), in the series, his father is an American white supremacist terrorist.
* AlasPoorVillain: He's a jingoist, a backstabber, and an all-around jerk who deserves the ridicule he gets from the other ARGUS agents, but when you see the kind of man his father is, it isn't hard to see how he ended up this way. [[spoiler:Not to mention, it turns out he actually hates himself for how he is.]]
* AmazonChaser: He admits to being aroused after watching Harcourt beat up a guy that was harassing her.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Peacemaker's sexuality is, to quote James Gunn, "twisted." He definitely experiences attraction to women, but there's certain eyebrow-raising things about him. He mentions that having been in prison he hasn't been with anyone in 4 years, before correcting himself to any ''woman'', and then there's his mention of how he'd suck a beach of dicks "for freedom." Muddying the waters is that he's clearly homophobic about Vigilante's father. [[invoked]][[spoiler:During their fight, his father Auggie drops the ambiguity by outright saying that Chris has had sex with men. [[WordOfGod James Gunn]] confirms his bisexual orientation online, saying it was John Cena's idea for his character.]]
* AMFMCharacterization: According to James Gunn Peacemaker's affinity for hair metal was in part rebellion against his father and his obsession with manliness. Listening to a music performed by a bunch of guys with long hair, makeup and all around CampStraight aesthetics was sure to get under his skin. It also hints at Peacemaker himself having a complex, sensitive side to him under all the macho surface.
* AnimalMotifs: Peacemaker seems to have an affinity for birds. He has doves engraved on his helmets, uniform, weapons, and shield, since they are associated with peace and freedom. His weapon is a Desert Eagle. He also has a pet bald eagle whom he named Eagly, to further advertise his love for America.
* AntiHero: He is willing to create and keep the peace. Regardless of how many men, women, and children he has to kill in order to do it. [[spoiler:He manages to mellow out to a GoodIsNotNice type by the end of the first season of his series. He's foul-mouthed, abrasive, and willing to kill threats to the peace, same as he was before. But Peacemaker does genuinely value the friends he's made, and is willing to hear out his targets for the full picture before deciding if he should kill them or not.]]
* ApologeticAttacker:
** He clearly doesn't enjoy having to fight Rick Flag to keep him from taking the hard drive. [[spoiler:And killing him is one of the few acts in the film he seems to genuinely regret. This regret lingers on into his series. He also appears to be conflicted about executing Ratcatcher, and apologizes when he decides to shoot her.]]
** He apologizes before using lethal force against someone who wasn't themself at the time. [[spoiler:He shoots Goff's host body dead after he rejects their plan that they believed would save both the humans and butterflies. Peacemaker knows that Goff isn't herself, but it's for the good of the planet, [[ShootTheDog so he goes through with it]].]]
* TheAtoner: When he recovers from his injuries and starts working for ARGUS on a more permanent basis, Peacemaker isn't as much of an antisocial blowhard as he used to be. This is best seen with how well he gets on with Vigilante and Adebayo, when his attitude towards the rest of Task Force X was one of self-importance, at least until they started bonding and discovering new surprising facts about each other. He eventually admits in his show [[spoiler:that he hates himself and his superhero identity and wants to be something different. He even ends up killing his father to distance himself from his awful origins.]]
* AxCrazy: Peacemaker may not look the part, but with the way he expresses his goals and motivation, he ends up establishing himself to be the most deranged and unstable member of the Task Force's B-Team, even making [[TheBrute King Shark]] and [[DeathSeeker Polka-Dot Man]] look more mentally stable by comparison. As demonstrated with the way he kills the resistance fighters, Peacemaker has a violent, bloodthirsty streak.
* BadassNormal: Peacemaker possesses no superhuman powers and doesn't wear any protective gear aside from his helmet, but even that is mostly just for show (up until his solo series, that is). He still proves to be an incredibly effective asset to the team using only his skills, strength, and weapons. Stripped of his weapons, he manages to hold his own against a super-strong assailant in the first episode of his own series, wounding her with improvised implements and quickly killing her once he gets his gear back, even though he started out naked, unarmed, and taken completely by surprise by a superhuman with a weapon.
* BashBrothers: Peacemaker has been one with Vigilante since before he went to prison, and they bond even more during his time on Project Butterfly. Their favorite hangout activity is showing off their shooting skills by destroying random abandoned appliances out in the woods, and Vigilante later reassures Peacemaker that while they may not be "good" guys, they're at least killing guys worse than themselves... usually.
* BeneathTheMask: Peacemaker [[https://youtu.be/l3aNVWn49qs is acutely aware that the world hates him, and feels he deserves it after the events of]] ''The Suicide Squad'', to the point of breaking down hysterically crying by himself.
-->'''Peacemaker:''' [[spoiler:Rick Flag was right... "Peacemaker... what a joke."]]
* TheBigGuy: To Murn's team involved in Project Butterfly, as he's the principal field operative and the physically strongest and most combat-ready member (besides Vigilante).
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: To Peacemaker, none of his actions are truly evil as long as he achieves peace or dies trying to maintain the world order. [[spoiler:In the series, however, he's not as committed to his ideals as he thinks because he expresses remorse for killing Rick Flag and he backs out of killing children in the name of peace.]]
* BlatantLies: He insists his aiming skills are more precise than Bloodsport's because he uses smaller bullets and could fire into bullet holes left by Bloodsport without touching the sides... ignoring the fact that he uses a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle. In reality, Peacemaker uses ridiculously huge exploding hollow-point bullets that prioritize messy overkill over precision. [[spoiler:Thus, when he and Bloodsport fire at each other in the end, Bloodsport's smaller bullet goes right through the middle of the hollowpoint in Peacemaker's bullet, flying straight through the barrel of his gun without touching the sides and right into Peacemaker's neck.]]
* BloodKnight: While he claims to fight for peace and liberty, Peacemaker revels in the death and destruction he causes. Bloodsport even points this out. [[spoiler:Averted when he turns on Rick Flag and Ratcatcher.]]
-->'''Peacemaker:''' Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day.
* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Retroactively, it turns out he's a mild form of this. He makes some rather homophobic jokes about Vigilante's gay dad to push his buttons, only for Auggie to later reveal that Chris has had sex with men.]]
* BoringButPractical: His x-ray vision helmet lets him see through walls and through the outer layers of people, which while not flashy, proves very useful in determining if someone is possessed by a PuppeteerParasite or not.
* BrightIsNotGood: The most heroic-looking member of any team he's on, whose costume sports beautiful, bright colors. [[spoiler:He's really the least heroic member of those teams, willing to outright kill his own teammates.]] According to Peacemaker, his outfit strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies, though nobody's convinced.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Peacemaker's LongList of celebrities that Economos could have framed instead of Auggie includes characters from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''Franchise/TheMuppets'', and various fast food mascots.
* CaptainPatriotic: DeconReconSwitch. Peacemaker considers himself a man fighting for peace and liberty. His car is painted with the U.S. flag, and he has a pet bald eagle whom he named Eagly. [[spoiler:Initially, this is presented as a ''bad'' thing, in reality being nothing more than a self-mythologizing right-wing militant maniac. However, in his show, he actually goes through some much needed character development, and he tries to shed the toxic mindset that led him to becoming a murderer.]]
* CerebusCallback:
** Early in ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker, in a [[BlackComedy darkly humorous moment, claims that he is willing to kill anyone, be it men, women, or children, if it means maintaining peace]]. Later on, [[spoiler:he doesn't hesitate to turn against Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2, claiming that "keeping the peace is worth any price".]]
** It also is a [[BlatantLies blatant lie]]: [[spoiler:in the show, he's shown to be deeply remorseful for killing Rick Flag, and he's so conflicted about being ordered to assassinate children that he ends up unable to do it at all, endangering the mission. Vigilante ends up taking the shot for him]].
* CharacterDevelopment: You wouldn't believe that [[spoiler:the same man that tried gunning down his own team out of patriotism and having military orders to enforce a coverup]] is the same one that [[spoiler:outright refuses to blindly do Amanda Waller's dirty work in his own spinoff series]]. By all accounts, he should be dead. [[spoiler:Recovering in the ICU and knowing that he would be released back to prison as soon as he was able to walk -- probably should have been, as Peacemaker acknowledges-- gave him time to think, and ponder that he killed a man trying to do the right thing, that would have sacrificed his life to save his team. Over the course of season one, Peacemaker realizes that he doesn't want to be that person anymore, and that he does want real friends, rather than pulling out his guns every time someone serves as his conscience]]. Actually bonding with Adebayo helps with this, [[spoiler:as he gets a taste of what it's like to have a trusted team member betray you, only for Adebayo to reveal that Waller made her do it because the woman is her ''mother'', and being on the Wall's bad side is awful enough when you're a supervillain. What's more, Adebayo nearly sacrifices her life to stop the Butterflies, though she doesn't have more than a concussion at the worst after Peacemaker helps get her out of the exploding barn. She ends the season doing what Flag would have wanted to happen -- reveal the conspiracy and Task Force X -- and Peacemaker is visibly proud of her]]. More to the point, the Peacemaker of old would have happily [[spoiler:joined the Butterflies in their crusade to fix the Earth, but the fact he outright refuses here shows he's not going to be the jackboot apologist for his country's ideals any longer.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker is depicted as an unsympathetic character fanatically loyal to the US government and implied to be a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who kills people for the enjoyment of it rather than any ideals. His own series depicts him in a more sympathetic light as someone who ''wants'' to be a superhero but fails due to being warped by his ''very'' abusive childhood, and is not blindly loyal to his handlers, getting very angry when it becomes clear they expect him to do their dirty work without question. It is justified to an extent, as some of this is a direct result of his guilt over killing [[spoiler:Flag]].
* ChekhovsGag: [[spoiler:Peacemaker ends up being the victim in this case. Early in the film, he boasts towards Bloodsport about how his bullets are more effective, and the latter states that smaller bullets are better. Bloodsport is eventually proven right after the two have a face-off in Jotunheim, and Bloodsport's bullet not only [[ShootTheBullet shatters Peacemaker's explosive bullet]], but also wrecks his Desert Eagle and eventually hits Peacemaker's [[ImpromptuTracheotomy throat]] with tight precision.]]
* ChickMagnet: Like Bloodsport, Peacemaker receives a lot of attention from the female Belle Reve inmates on the team's way to meet Ratcatcher II.
* ChildrenForcedToKill: It's revealed in a flashback to his childhood that as part of his upbringing, Peacemaker's father [[HarmfulToMinors forced him to kill a tied-up man]] with a sick look of satisfaction on his face as his son went through with it while crying his eyes out.
* ChromeChampion: Peacemaker's helmet wouldn't look out of place in a Jack Kirby comic.
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:After being revealed as a mole working under Amanda Waller's orders without a second thought spared for the other members of Squad B, Peacemaker takes the role of being the main antagonistic threat during the last parts of the Jotunheim segment, following the Thinker and preceding [[FinalBoss Starro]].]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[InsaneTrollLogic For some reason]], Peacemaker is convinced that martial artists can replace their hearts with one of their kidneys.
* CoDragons: Peacemaker and Rick Flag serve as Waller's trusty attack dogs in the film.
* TheComicallySerious: Peacemaker treats everything as a life-or-death situation, even when he's just bickering with his teammates and getting into petty dick-measuring contests with Bloodsport. After recovering from his injuries and getting recruited by A.R.G.U.S. on a full-time basis, he still takes his whole schtick way too seriously, to the point of ordering food in a restaurant wearing his full outfit, helmet included.
* CompositeCharacter: For the final fight in season 1, Peacemaker gets a shield similar to ComicBook/{{Guardian}}, the AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Captain America.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Peacemaker is this to Captain Boomerang: Captain Boomerang is scruffy, mischievous and lacks any kind of principles. Peacemaker is well-groomed with a HeroicBuild, acts no-nonsense most of the time, and has a sense of duty, however misguided it may seem.
* CoolHelmet: Peacemaker wears a shiny metal helmet with a large horizontal fin on it. He considers it a symbol of freedom, though Bloodsport just thinks he looks like he's wearing a metal toilet seat on his head.
** Peacemaker's father gives him a new, upgraded helmet that has a sonic boom function, which he uses to [[LudicrousGibs great effect]] when a one-night stand who turns out to be a metahuman tries to kill him.
** Peacemaker later gains a variant with a cleft in the arc that looks slightly more intimidating.
** There are other versions of the helmet that can let their user breathe underwater, become a human torpedo, have X-ray vision, float without gravity, or [[JokeItem give them scabies]].
* CorruptedCharacterCopy:
** Wrestling/JohnCena [[https://www.cbr.com/peacemaker-sad-empanada-dangerous-stunt-john-cena/ directly compares]] Peacemaker to "a douchey, bro-y ComicBook/CaptainAmerica", both being CaptainPatriotic agents of liberty. [[spoiler:However, while Cap is willing to go against his government and expose its unethical conspiracies, Peacemaker intends to cover up his country's dirty work in order to keep the peace, even being willing to murder his teammates to prevent them from exposing it.]] The similarity is even more pronounced in his spinoff, where Peacemaker gets a custom-made shield that he uses in battle and flings at bad guys. Although, unlike Cap, where the shield throwing is almost always non-lethal, due to the sharp points and edges of Peacemaker's shield, it cuts and stabs the butterfly hosts rather easily.
** This also goes for pretty much the kind of character archetype John Cena tends to play: Peacemaker, like many of Cena's past roles (right back to his WWE days), is a patriotic military man who cherishes peace and liberty. However, while normally this would be [[TheParagon played as a good thing]], here Peacemaker is portrayed as a delusional killing machine, and others are disturbed by both his dedication to his mission and the methods he employs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not often, but he is capable of cutting remarks, such as snarking at the Thinker's efforts to frame himself as a victim, and around Bloodsport in general.
* DeathByIrony: Peacemaker claims that he uses smaller bullets than Bloodsport that could pass through the holes left by Bloodsport without ever touching the sides of the wound. [[spoiler:When Peacemaker and Bloodsport fire at each other, Bloodsport uses a smaller bullet than him, which not only destroys the incoming round but also nails Peacemaker in the throat, seemingly killing him. {{Subverted|Trope}} when TheStinger reveals Peacemaker survived.]]
-->'''Peacemaker:''' How...\\
'''Bloodsport:''' [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Smaller bullets.]]]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Peacemaker deconstructs the CaptainPatriotic superhero. Peacemaker styles himself as a classic example of the archetype, but it becomes immediately clear that he's a delusional, jingoistic RightWingMilitiaFanatic who values the nebulous concepts of freedom and peace so much he will gleefully kill for them at the drop of a hat. Multiple characters point out the flaws in his reasoning, and Bloodsport suggests at one point that he uses patriotism to obscure that he kills people for the sheer enjoyment of it. His eponymous series is slowly beginning to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] it, as Peacemaker begins recognizing those flaws and tries to overcome them.
* DentedIron: A downplayed example, but Peacemaker still isn't quite at 100% during the events of the show. Injuries from Corto Maltese (namely a clavicle replacement) still flare up whenever he takes a rough spill or even just tries to put on his costume. This happens repeatedly.
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:Peacemaker's (and by extension, Amanda Waller's) real goal is to infiltrate Jotunheim to search for any sort of evidence of the United States Government having any sort of involvement with the Corto Maltese government via Project Starfish and destroy it, with Peacemaker stating that it is necessary to do so, as revealing the evidence would compromise the peace that he is working for. The reason why he turns against Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2, kills the former, and nearly kills the latter, is because they wanted to reveal the evidence to the public, which left Peacemaker with no other choice but to oppose them.]]
* DorkKnight: Peacemaker likes to sing along to Quireboy songs, and it's clear some of his problems are less because he's actually got issues, and more because he has NO IDEA how normal humans act.
* TheDragon: While the rest of the Squad is only following Waller's orders because of blackmail or commuted sentences, Peacemaker is a completely loyal henchman to Amanda Waller who carries out her commands to achieve peace for the United States faithfully. ''Peacemaker'' [[SubvertedTrope shows that Peacemaker's only really working with her for the commuted sentence; the second he thinks he can get away from Task Force X, he takes it and gets the hell out of dodge as fast as he can.]] While he will work for her if he thinks it will benefit the United States, he'd clearly much rather have his freedom than be forced into working for her.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}'', Murn rightfully calls out his stupidity in bringing his assassination dossier with him to a one-night stand and leaving it out for his booty call to read, but then tries to call him out for failing to understand how the fate of the country relies on Project Butterfly succeeding. Peacemaker fires back by pointing out that he doesn't understand because ''nobody'' on the team is willing to tell him what Project Butterfly actually entails, or what a Butterfly even is. [[spoiler:Murn later chews him out for refusing to shoot Senator Goff's children despite them being compromised by butterflies, and Peacemaker again fires back by saying it's unreasonable to expect him to just murder children without understanding why it's necessary. This time, Murn concedes his point.]]
* DualWielding: He effectively utilizes both his custom Deagle and his custom shield in the season one finale of ''Peacemaker''.
* {{Eagleland}}: Very, ''very'' firmly a Type II. Peacemaker is an over-the-top, boorish jingoist who owns a pet eagle, a car detailed after the American flag, [[SuperheroPackingHeat wields all kinds of crazy guns]] and styles himself as a [[CaptainPatriotic patriotic superhero]] who practically [[ForGreatJustice lives and breathes America]], when it's fairly obvious he's a [[HeroWithAnFInGood delusional murderer]].
* EnemyMine: While he aligns himself with Waller at the climax of ''The Suicide Squad'', it's only because Peacemaker genuinely believes it's in the world's best interest to cover up the U.S.'s involvement in Corto Maltese. In the aftermath, he tries to make a break for it at the first opportunity before bing press-ganged into continuing to work as a BoxedCrook.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares about his pet eagle Eagly a lot. Also his father to a degree, despite how abusive the man was and is towards him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Part of his dislike for the hired killer Bloodsport stems from a belief that killing people for money, rather than duty, is despicable.
** He isn't a racist. When his father says he hopefully can [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain kill some minorities]], he objects, saying that isn't what he does. Considering how much of a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain his father is, it serves as a nice contrast, and really shows he probably could've veered very badly in the opposite direction.
** [[spoiler:Despite disagreeing with Flag over exposing the data to the public, it's heavily implied that Peacemaker is just as disgusted as Rick Flag over the United States' involvement in Project Starfish. He also wasn't thrilled with the Thinker trying to paint himself as the victim of Task Force X for them trying to destroy his research.]]
** He also doesn't like [[ItMakesSenseInContext the idea of Aquaman fucking fish or Superman having a "poop fetish"]].
** He seems genuinely horrified by Vigilante's [[DisproportionateRetribution needlessly ruthless murder tactics]], and even more so by Vigilante's [[HeroicComedicSociopath casual and nonchalant demeanor]] about [[AxCrazy how much he enjoys it.]] He doesn't even deny Vigilante asking him if said admittance makes him sound like a "fucking maniac".
** His previous boast about [[KnightTemplar being willing to kill children in the name of peace]] gets [[IronicEcho thrown back in his face]] when he's tasked to assassinate Senator Goff's kids. When the time does come, it turns out this really was just a boast. Peacemaker finds killing kids to be a line he's not willing to cross.
** [[spoiler:When Detective Song gets an arrest warrant for Peacemaker and brings a squad of police to arrest him, he refuses to kill any officers, while Vigilante is willing to in order to avoid arrest until Peacemaker stops him. He's even horrified when Locke starts killing cops to ensure he and Vigilante can escape, with one cop begging for her life before being shot, and then executes some others that were just knocked unconscious]].
* EvilCounterpart:
** To Bloodsport. Both have virtually the same backstory and overlapping combat skills, something Bloodsport even [[LampshadeHanging points out]]. They have an immediate distaste for each other, and spend most of their time in an extended dick-measuring contest. [[spoiler:However, while Bloodsport eventually becomes the team's leader and warms to his comrades, Peacemaker was ultimately loyal to his twisted ideals above all else.]]
** Also to Rick Flag. Both are highly patriotic American heroes, but unlike Peacemaker's patriotism, [[spoiler:Flag's patriotism doesn't blind him to his country's abuses, leading him to oppose Peacemaker's attempts to cover up U.S. involvement in the Starro experiments. Peacemaker even gets Flag's old job.]]
** He's even one to Superman. Much like Superman, Peacemaker is a muscular PrimaryColorChampion that wears a symbol of benevolence on his chest. Both have also killed a military man that turned on his own superiors out of principle and [[spoiler:have been seriously injured by Bloodsport]], the difference being that Superman only killed because he had no other choice, while Peacemaker killed [[spoiler:Rick Flag]] despite having the option to either cripple him or destroy his leverage.
* EvilHero: What Peacemaker actually is. While he is honest about wanting to uphold world peace as long as he can and sincerely believes himself to be a hero, he's also insanely deluded, and his actions and motivations end up becoming more villainous than they are heroic. He's so misguided that he is willing to kill several innocents and [[spoiler:even those that he respects, as shown with Rick Flag, if it means holding on to his twisted code of being a hero]]. Although, his solo series reveals he's more of HeroWithAnFInGood.
* FailedASpotCheck: In episode 5 of his show, during a raid on a Butterfly complex, Peacemaker turns off his x-ray vision when it looks like he's killed all the possessed agents in the building. This conveniently allows for him and Leota to be completely blindsided by [[spoiler:a Butterfly-controlled gorilla]] when they hastily enter the next room to regroup with their teammates.
* FashionVictimVillain: Acknowledged in-universe in the film. His fashion sense is as reliably untrustworthy as his moral compass, and the rest of the cast - especially Bloodsport - are swift to mock him for it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** It's pointed out that, while ARGUS specifically assembled a team based on their unique skills - and Peacemaker's skills are pretty much identical to Bloodsport's - Waller specifically tasked Peacemaker with this mission. [[spoiler:It's because he's there to carry out the ''real'' objective of making sure that America's involvement with Project Starfish never comes to light.]]
** In a verbal spat with Bloodsport, Peacemaker makes mention that he is willing to kill "men, women and even children" in the name of his mission for peace. The abrupt way he says this gets played for laughs. [[spoiler:It makes his rather methodical heel turn sting even more, because despite bonding with the team and being otherwise amiable, he still ultimately prioritizes his mission over whatever bonds he may have made.]]
* ForGreatJustice: Heavily {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Peacemaker is a brightly colored self-identifying sentinel of liberty who fights in the name of everlasting peace. On paper, this would be the usual stock motivation of a CaptainPatriotic superhero. But throughout the film, Peacemaker's willingness to habitually cross whatever lines he deems as necessary in adherence to something as abstract and loosely defined as "peace" is seen in-universe as laughably ironic at best and ''[[MoralMyopia horrifyingly myopic]]'' at worst.[[note]] After all, if everyone in your way is dead, then you ''have'' peace: the peace of the grave.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Once Peacemaker murders Rick Flag in order to keep the United States' involvement in Project: Starfish a secret, Rick's DyingDeclarationOfHate lambasts the ''sheer absurdity'' that is Christopher Smith's modus operandi.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Rick Flag:''' "Peacemaker". ''[scoffs]'' ''What a'' '''''joke.''''']]
* FreudianExcuse: Everything wrong with Peacemaker can be traced back to his abusive white supremacist father, Auggie, who deliberately raised him to kill minorities and constantly belittles him for every perceived failure. [[spoiler:Peacemaker's hidden but intense self-loathing is also the result of him accidentally killing his brother in a fist fight (even though the only reason they were fighting in the first place was because their father forced them to for the entertainment of him and his friends).]]
* TheGenericGuy: Peacemaker sees himself as uniquely one of the deadliest marksmen in the world... even though Bloodsport and Deadshot have the exact same aptitudes. His civilian name is the ridiculously mundane-sounding "Christopher Smith", which coming after a decade's worth of superhero films starring actors named Chris could be seen as a joke in itself if this weren't already his name from the comics.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Peacemaker mentions having 400 gigs of lesbian porn on his computer.
* GiverOfLameNames: Considering he named his eagle "Eagly" it's safe to call him this, and in his own series his team mocks him for it.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Peacemaker swears ''a lot'', but he makes sure to say "effin" when he's around children... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint even when he's using the word as a verb]].
* GuestFighter: He's been announced to join the roster of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' as part of [[DownloadableContent Kombat Pack 1]].
* {{Hammerspace}}: Although he's usually seen with his hilariously over-extended Desert Eagle holstered on his thigh, as well as basic UtilityBelt (which contains a small BlowGun along with three darts, and an attachable scope for his gun), he also carries a hatchet and his own ''sword''. Both of which disappear between scenes. Although considering his father seems to have a [[BiggerOnTheInside "quantum unfolding storage area"]], it might not be too out of left field to say he might actually ''have'' {{Hammerspace}}.
* HandicappedBadass: In the first season of the show, Peacemaker is still recovering from his Corto Maltese injuries, having had a clavicle replaced and being unable to lift his elbow above his chest. While it hinders him in combat, it doesn't mean he's completely helpless either.
* HandCannon: Peacemaker's weapon is a heavily modified Desert Eagle with a ludicrously long barrel extension that allows him to shoot exploding compression bullets. [[WeaponBasedCharacterization If you're into gun culture, Peacemaker's choice of firearm says a lot about him]] -- it's often said that a Desert Eagle is an oversized range toy for people that are CompensatingForSomething, and associated with smug jerks.
* HarmfulToMinors: It's shown in a flashback in episode 4 of his show that his father forced him to bludgeon a tied-up man to death when he was just a child.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:It took until his own series for it to take, but he becomes fully remorseful over killing Rick Flag, acknowledging in private to himself that he's a colossal {{Jerkass}} who keeps on pushing away anyone who could actually like him.]]
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: His show has his helmets get knocked off frequently in order to retain dramatic tension, due to the gadgets in his helmets bordering on being a StoryBreakerPower.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He kills Rick Flag in their fight, which is what turns Ratcatcher against him.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Peacemaker likes to think of himself as this. He insists that he is a superhero, while everyone around him recognizes him for what he really is: a jerk and a murderer.
* HeroWithAnFInGood: He's presented more in line with this in his own series. He does genuinely want to be a hero, he's just terrible at it because he was only ever taught how to kill people by an abusive, racist father.
* HeroWorship: Downplayed, but he clearly respects Flag and defers to him as the commanding officer. The only time he talks back to him is when Flag insists on rescuing Harley due to it potentially jeopardizing the mission. He even refers to Flag as a hero despite [[spoiler:having a gun pointed at him, and is genuinely disturbed when he's forced to kill Flag. By the time of his own series, he's left with TearsOfRemorse and InelegantBlubbering when he's in private over having to kill Rick Flag.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Peacemaker's actions and demeanor are borderline-sociopathic with his dead-serious creed of having to kill anything to maintain peace, his immaturity, and being a lot more violent and brutal than his beliefs make him out to be, but he expresses these thoughts and beliefs in a quirky and humorous fashion. Still, it doesn't change the fact that Peacemaker is easily the most deranged member of Squad B.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: As time goes on, Peacemaker begins to wonder if his quest for peace means he's "just a fucking maniac" when all is said and done because of the number of people that he's killed. [[spoiler:Chris eventually has a HeelRealization when he's remorseful over killing Rick Flag, acknowledging to himself that he's a colossal {{Jerkass}} who keeps on pushing away anyone who might want to genuinely help him, and saying that he's a "a fucking joke" through tears. However, it's this self-hatred and self-reflection that eventually puts Chris on a course where he TookALevelInKindness and became a genuine hero.]]
* HiddenDepths: While Peacemaker seems pretty blind to the faults in his ideology and his own flaws, he's revealed to be well-aware of what an asshole he is, and he is deeply self-loathing because of it.
** As it turns out, he's quite the music enthusiast, and a huge fan of 1980s Glam Rock and Hair Metal. He is also a pretty capable piano player.
** [[spoiler:He also captures the Butterfly inside Senator Goff's head instead of killing it, showing that he doesn't blindly trust his handlers. Although, this is implied to be part of his growing discontent and unease regarding how much good he's doing in his job despite his earnest desire to be a hero, which has been peaking ever since his HeelRealisation after Corto Maltese.]]
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Despite defying MovieSuperheroesWearBlack, he can be as stealthy as the comparatively more practical Bloodsport.
* HonorBeforeReason: His FatalFlaw. Peacemaker puts the honor and reputation of his country above everything else, though this isn't as easy for him as he initially makes it sound.
* HumanizingTears: It turns out Peacemaker ''does'' feel guilt for all the lives he's taken. Killing [[spoiler:Rick Flag apparently took an especially hard toll on him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He believes in peace, but Peacemaker's brutal actions make it clear he obviously enjoys violence.
** He judges Bloodsport for killing people for money. It holds no weight, since he'll still kill for little to no reason, such as showing off his skills to Bloodsport or [[spoiler:trying to kill Ratcatcher II even after she gave up the drive with evidence that America was involved in Project Starfish.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Ratcatcher II:''' So okay, okay, destroy the hard drive. Why kill me?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Peacemaker:''' Because I'm thorough.]]
** His claims to be preserving freedom ring hollow when he [[spoiler:acquiesces to the wishes of ARGUS and the government in order to hide America's involvement in shady practices]].
** He chews King Shark out for playing with clay explosives and calls him a "play baby" for being childish. However, the TV series reveals that Peacemaker often behaves just as childishly as King Shark.
** He believes Batman is a terrible hero because he lets his enemies live. Many of the villains Batman lets live end up joining Task Force X, just like him.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He has a lot of trust issues stemming from his father's abuse, and thus he acts like a total jerk to other people, despite wanting to have friends that love and support him. His lack of good communication with others also makes him a desperate loner who barely knows how to behave outside of work, and growing closer to his new handlers and Vigilante helps Peacemaker discover nobler sides of himself, even almost tearing up over a heart-to-heart talk with Adebayo.
* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:While he looks genuinely remorseful over killing Rick Flag and seems badly shaken by his final words to him, spotting Cleo snaps him out of it, and he quickly resumes trying to take back the hard drive. He even doubles down and decides to murder Cleo as a witness in order to be thorough. This winds up being subverted in his own series, where he sobs in his bed over killing Rick Flag, lamenting how he keeps on pushing away and killing everyone he cares about.]]
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Peacemaker is defeated and [[NotQuiteDead seemingly killed]] when Bloodsport shoots him in the throat.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: In the privacy of his room, he weeps like a heartbroken child over [[spoiler:murdering Rick Flag. Also counts as TearsOfRemorse]].
* InexplicablyAwesome: Peacemaker somehow managed to survive a bullet to the neck, falling from a tower and being crushed under said tower's rubble in quick succession. He also managed to maintain his muscular physique despite spending six straight months in intensive care and no longer able to raise his arms above his shoulders.
* InformedAttribute: He insists he's more precise in his aim than Bloodsport because he uses smaller bullets and can fire dead center into holes left by Bloodsport. We never see Peacemaker demonstrate being a better shot than Bloodsport, and [[spoiler:actually, the exact opposite turns out to be true. In their final confrontation, Bloodsport uses a smaller bullet that goes right through Peacemaker's own.]]
* InformedFlaw: In the DVD commentary for ''The Suicide Squad'', James Gunn refers to Peacemaker as alt-right; while he is a jingoist prone to saying un-PC things, Peacemaker comes across more as [[InnocentlyInsensitive a well-meaning yet carelessly oblivious dumbass]] than an active white nationalist. In point of fact, Peacemaker's series shows [[EveryoneHasStandards that he is strongly opposed to bigotry]], in direct contrast to his father who ''does'' fit the alt-right label.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He genuinely has no idea that the racist and sexist shit he says is offensive. He's surprised when people call him on it. Given who his dad is, this is easy to understand.
* IronicName: His name is supposed to show that he wants to achieve peace, yet Peacemaker's brutal methods and belligerent personality are anything but.
* {{Irony}}:
** Peacemaker has a dove insignia on his chest, which is a symbol of peace. His methods? Not so much. Since the dove symbol is upside-down, it might be indicative of how screwed-up his idea of peace really is.
** He is the only member of the team who is considered a superhero, rather than a supervillain or mundane soldier. [[spoiler:However, he is by far the most villainous of the team.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Peacemaker is a rude, volatile, and abrasive man who often finds himself butting heads with his teammates. This very much contrasts with Bloodsport, who, while just as deadly as Peacemaker, turns out to be quite approachable once one gets to know him well enough. Bloodsport suggests that he's just a psychopath who just uses the whole CaptainPatriotic schtick as an excuse to kill people and get praised instead of condemned for it. He develops into more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his spin-off.
* JerkassRealization: In addition to his overall HeelRealization early in his series, he also gets this specifically towards his poor treatment of Economos after overhearing him through the radio confessing that he dyes his beard because he's a lonely and overworked man who wants to feel attractive, and that Peacemaker's snide comments towards his beard genuinely hurt him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His own series reveals that he's aware of his problems and that he genuinely does want to be the good guy. It's just that his upbringing has royally screwed up his morality and general social skills, so actually being good is a struggle for him. The fact remains that he is making an attempt, and is capable of feeling guilt for his actions.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk:
** Within the context of ''The Suicide Squad''. Although seemingly amiable and more of a typical JerkWithAHeartOfGold character at first, he slowly loses the façade over the course of the film, and by the end, he discards any camaraderie with his team and shows just how fanatical he is by [[spoiler:killing Rick Flag and trying to kill Ratcatcher in order to keep the information about Starro from getting out.]] It takes until his own series that it's indicated that he isn't completely irredeemable.
** Although he is a more likable character in the TV series, he is retroactively revealed as this, in his reaction to hearing the story of how Bloodsport was mistreated by his father. In the movie, he shows some level of sympathy, but in the TV series it is revealed that he actually found Bloodsport's mistreatment hilarious. Though, it's also possible he was trying to find middle ground to bond with his father.
* KnightInSourArmor: The true nature of Peacemaker's character is that he hides his inner anguish under a façade of machismo and immature bravado. The events of [[spoiler:him killing his brother and Rick Flag]] haunt him over the course of his series, [[spoiler:and him also shooting his father dead contributes to the overall guilt he feels]]. Despite that, Chris grows to aspire to be a real hero, not a person who uses heroic rhetoric to justify horrific actions.
* KnightTemplar: He genuinely strives to maintain peace for the United States. It's a good goal to strive towards, all things considered, but it's the extremes he will go to that propel him into this territory.
-->'''Peacemaker:''' Keepin' the peace is worth any price...
* TheLancer: Up until Rick Flag is rescued, Peacemaker acts as the second-in-command of Squad B, being the most effective and capable member alongside Bloodsport. [[spoiler:That said, [[TheMole his actual role]] differs from what Squad B is intended to do, and is allied with Waller above all else for that matter]].
* LargeHam: It is clear that John Cena is having way too much fun in the role of Peacemaker.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Remember when he bonded with Squad B, even dancing with them in a bar, only to [[spoiler:pull a gun on two members because they wanted to uncover a conspiracy]]? Yeah, karma is a bitch, because he suffers [[spoiler:a betrayal of his own trust, when Adebayo receives orders from her mother to plant an incriminating fake diary that would get Peacemaker arrested and pin all of Project Butterfly on him. While Peacemaker is mad at Adebayo for betraying him, he also silently admits that he isn't one to talk]].
* LaughablyEvil: He's an awful excuse for a human being most of the time, but his extreme bravado mixed with his epic incompetence and Cena's magnificently unrestrained performance make him a joy to watch.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:One of the reasons Peacemaker decides to kill Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2 is that he couldn't leave anyone who had any knowledge of the United States' involvement with Project Starro alive, which links to his misguided mindset about peace and prosperity. It also doesn't help that Flag and Ratcatcher 2 had opposite goals in mind that clashed heavily against what Peacemaker and Waller were aiming for.]]
* LoserProtagonist: He was born to a racist redneck {{jerkass}} father whose main desire in life is a white ethnostate and because of his father's violent upbringing forcing him to become a killer since a young age, he was apprehended for murder and sent to jail with serving the Suicide Squad as his only chance for parole (but it turns out [[spoiler:Amanda Waller was [[ILied never going to release him, only make him take the blame for many of the United States' problems]]]]). His home is shown to be just a trailer next to a forest.
* LovableSexManiac: Downplayed on the "lovable" part, due to the fact that Peacemaker is acknowledged to be a jerk within the narrative of the story. He is, however, unambiguously shown to be a sex-crazed pervert, as he is shown to have sex with several people, and is revealed to have slept with several women and men through his career as a vigilante.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Ten years before ''Peacemaker'' he met a woman named Becky Cooliage, and in one episode he meets her daughter who claims that he might be her father. Judging from his reaction he clearly thinks the possibility exists, but the teacher ends the class before the discussion can go further.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He arms himself with a shield in the season one finale of Peacemaker. It's sturdy enough to block bullets rather easily, and he uses it not only for {{Shield Bash}}ing but also stabbing and cutting.
* MadeOfIron: Having brawled with Rick Flag, taking a bullet to the throat from Bloodsport, and being almost crushed by the Jötunheim tower, Peacemaker surprises the doctors by only needing a clavicle replacement.
* MistakenForRacist: Due to his high body count of bad guys who are people of color, some people who know about Peacemaker think that he's a glorified white supremacist. While Christopher Smith's dad ''is'' extremely racist and absolutely fits that descriptor, the same can't be said for Christopher himself, as he shows no real signs of actually being prejudiced and is shown to [[EvenEvilHasStandards draw the line at racism.]]
* MoralMyopia: Peacemaker claims to love peace so much he's willing to kill anyone -- men, women, and children -- to achieve/maintain it. Whilst this is initially played for BlackComedy, it quickly turns tragic when it puts him at odds with his own teammates.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: No, he's definitely not a bloodthirsty ultranationalist lunatic, he's a ''peacemaker''. Nobody else in the Suicide Squad -- not even the naïve, idealistic Ratcatcher -- is fooled for even a second.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He does whatever he has to for America and global peace, [[KnightTemplar no matter the cost, and even when he strongly disagrees with his country's actions.]] [[spoiler:This includes killing his teammate and war hero Rick Flag. Him realizing how much grief this mindset has caused him and growing out of it is a key part of his CharacterDevelopment in his own series.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He looks genuinely shaken after killing Rick, the latter's [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech final words]] clearly having hit him hard. Spotting Cleo making a break for the hard drive [[IgnoredEpiphany quickly breaks him out of it, however]]. [[DoubleSubversion Then, in his self-titled series, it's revealed that he very much was and still is haunted by what he did]].]]
* TheNicknamer:
** A handful of cases, such as calling Polka-Dot Man "[[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]" and King Shark "Charlie Tuna".
** When it comes to proper names, Peacemaker turns out to be quite the dullard. He named his pet eagle "Eagly", which Harcourt and Economos find hilariously lame.
** He spends much of his own show calling Economos "Dyebeard", which he finds very insulting. Adebayo asks him to stop, and he does ''eventually'' listen, which helps when Economos [[spoiler:kills a Butterfly-possessed gorilla]] and reveals they share a common interest in the music of Hanoi Rocks.
* NothingPersonal: Peacemaker says this almost word for word [[spoiler:after turning on Rick Flag and Ratcatcher.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Peacemaker is shot in the throat by Bloodsport after the former tries to kill Ratcatcher for trying to escape with the data revealing the United States' involvement with Starro the Conqueror. It seems he is dead, as he doesn't play a role in the FinalBattle... until the [[TheStinger post-credits scene]] reveals that he was recovered from the scene and is alive, albeit wounded and under intense medical care.]]
* NoSocialSkills: On account of him being very emotionally stunted and generally ignorant, he struggles to carry out a normal conversation without saying something horribly inappropriate or offensive.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Peacemaker is an incompetent moron with terrible fashion sense and a bizarre moral code that gives him no end of mockery, but he's still a dangerous murderer at the end of the day who is scarily good at killing people.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Bloodsport accuses him of being one, saying he just uses his higher ideals as an excuse to kill people and be praised for it. Peacemaker's behavior shows that such an assessment is not totally off the mark. His own series subverts it, revealing Peacemaker is genuinely well-meaning and actually wants to be a hero. He's just ''really'' bad at it thanks to having been raised as a TykeBomb by a white supremacist and terrorist.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When introduced, Peacemaker suggests that Project Starfish may be referring to literal assholes. [[spoiler:Later on, it turns out that he was actually aware of the full circumstances and nature of the project, and is fully intending to cover it up to preserve his demented philosophy]].
* OnlySaneByComparison: There's very few defining traits that Peacemaker and Vigilante don't share - a puerile sense of humor, PsychopathicManchild tendencies, a love of murder, and CloudCuckooLander tendencies. The difference is, Peacemaker's inner pain, self-loathing, and guilt are on display much more often because he's the main character. This... is not true for Vigilante, whose homicidal tendencies are almost ''always'' on full display.
* PapaWolf: He will always ensure Eagly's safety over his own.
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:He kills his piece-of-shit dad after realizing how much trauma he put him through.]]
* PetTheDog: Peacemaker's a total asshole, but even he has moments of compassion.
** When at the nightclub, he insists on Sebastian having a drink like the rest of the team.
** Though he's clearly annoyed at him for wasting explosives, he does try to be nice to Nanaue, and even thanks him for the C4-molded figure of him he made for him.
** He seems to genuinely love Eagly, getting all giddy when the bird wraps his wings around him in an embrace.
* PinkIsErotic: Downplayed. The intro to the show has Peacemaker dancing to "Do You Wanna Taste It" by Wig Wam, and the dance involves a lot of [[PelvicThrust pelvic thrusts]], which activate the pink stage lights. As a character, Peacemaker makes a lot of dirty jokes, unwanted advances towards women, and sexual references.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Parodied. He brags about killing children without hesitation, but gets offended when a janitor says he might be racist because a high percentage of the criminals he kills are black. He then promises to kill more white people too as a compromise, which the janitor is satisfied with.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Even if he's not killing them in the name of "peace", Peacemaker's attitude towards women needs a ''lot'' of work. Then again, considering who his father is, he definitely could have turned out a ''lot'' worse.
** He tells a class full of children that Wonder Woman made a pass at him, when it's been thoroughly established how out of character that would be for her. (Although he has also said defamatory things against the other members, so it can be considered a case of hating all the members of the league equally.)
** He sees Emilia Harcourt less as his supervising officer and more as a potential love interest (although Emilia didn't do herself any favors by pointing out that she finds him handsome).
** He refers to a waitress as "sweet cheeks", although he assumed that expression was referring to her face rather than her butt. Once Leota tells him he just sexually harassed a random woman, Peacemaker misses her point and comments on Emilia's breasts.
** Though he says he's not homophobic and has actually had relationships with men, he's not above using jokes about Adrian's gay dad to push his buttons.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Peacemaker's costume is mainly colored bright shades of red, yellow, and blue.
* PsychoForHire: It becomes extremely obvious early on that he sincerely loves violence, and his PatrioticFervor is mainly about giving him a morally justifiable excuse to kill as many people as possible. This is in sharp contrast with Bloodsport, who really does treat killing as just a job, and is perfectly fine with doing something else so long as he gets paid.
* PsychopathicManchild: Due to his upbringing, he's ''very'' emotionally stunted, and has the maturity of [[InternetJerk a teenager browsing Reddit to start flame wars]]. He's petty, naive, socially inept, distinctly lacks self-awareness (grossly overestimating his importance and heroism), has a propensity for bluntness, has been shown to have a child's overactive imagination (including hilariously mistaken knowledge of how anatomy works), and while he can properly use sophisticated words like "facetious" in a conversation, he will also drop phrases such as "[[TotallyRadical dope as fuck]]" completely straight-faced. He has a puerile sense of humor, best seen when he holds a bottle out in front of his crotch and dares Vigilante to shoot it. He's also shown to use sex, drugs, and rock n' roll as a coping mechanism for life's pressures, a very adolescent attitude. He isn't strictly a ''bad'' guy like most other examples, but he does have serious emotional issues that impact his moral judgment. A few people have said that he's essentially what would happen if [[Series/TheOfficeUS Dwight Schrute]] was put into the body of [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Captain America]].
* QuickDraw: [[spoiler:Engages in one against Bloodsport after the latter sees the former about to kill Ratcatcher 2. It doesn't go well for Peacemaker, though he does end up surviving in the end]].
* ReallyGetsAround: His series reveals that he's a huge philanderer, having slept with a number of men and women, and is even seen doing so onscreen ''twice''. "Murn After Reading" heavily implies that he spawned an illegitimate daughter from his frequent sexcapades, which invites the possibility that he might have even ''more'' bastard children.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives a brutal one to [[spoiler:his father]] during episode 7. Pointing out that [[spoiler:he was the one responsible for Keith's death by making them fight each other,]] as well as stating the only reason he's such a {{Jerkass}} is because he listens to people like him.
* RedIsHeroic: While Peacemaker does wear a bright red shirt, the "heroic" part is downplayed due to his violent methods. [[spoiler:He more or less becomes this after saving the world from an alien invasion in the season one finale of his series.]]
* RedIsViolent: Peacemaker wears a bright red shirt and causes a lot of carnage. His murder of [[spoiler:Rick Flag is especially graphic]].
* RedemptionRejection: After [[spoiler:killing Rick Flag and cornering her like a rat, a teary, terrified Cleo offers him the intel that Rick died protecting in exchange for her life. He seems to contemplate sparing her, but decides he needs to be thorough with his mission and can't let her live.]] {{Subverted}} in his own series, where his actions in ''The Suicide Squad'' make him regret his choices in life and strive towards redemption.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: He's basically one of these with a superhero outfit and better-than-average combat skills.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in his own show, where it's pointed out he finds ''actual'' right-wing militia fanatics... unseemly.]]
* SadClown: He's a send-up of the NinetiesAntiHero, clearly intended to be a joke character, but also clearly intended to hate himself. Comes to a head when he finally admits to Harcourt that "I don't need the Dove of Peace, I just don't want to kill anymore."
* SarcasmBlind: [[spoiler:Gloriously subverted when Vigilante uses what is possibly the most obvious sarcasm ever. He gets it. Even though it looks like it's taking him effort.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Like Rick Flag, Peacemaker is a patriotic soldier who wants to serve America and genuinely believes he's doing the right thing. However, Flag is a true hero who is willing to go against his government when he believes they are in the wrong, while Peacemaker is a KnightTemplar who firmly believes in MyCountryRightOrWrong.
** Peacemaker is also one to Bloodsport by virtue of their overlapping characteristics. Like Robert, Christopher is a ProfessionalKiller who was [[TrainingFromHell trained by his father from birth]] to be the perfect soldier, and shares similar BloodKnight tendencies while operating in the field. But where Bloodsport is a [[AffablyEvil surprisingly affable]] [[OnlyInItForTheMoney mercenary]] who has no illusions about the evils of his job, Peacemaker is an [[PrinciplesZealot uncompromising zealot]] who genuinely believes that everybody he kills dies for the greater good of his home country and global peace.
** Has his own in Vigilante, who is what Peacemaker would be if he didn't have his own, minimal, standards and his own insane skills.
* ShieldBash: In the season one finale of ''Series/Peacemaker2022'', he makes use of a custom shield that looks similar to a heater shield (and also Guardian's shield). Not only is it tough enough to block bullets, but it has some sharp edges and a few sharp points, which let him bash, stab, and cut with it. [[spoiler:He loses it, however, when he falls into a tunnel that leads him into the Cow's underground lair]].
* SituationalSexuality: In the first episode, while trying to convince Harcourt to sleep with him, he notes that having been in prison he hasn't been with anyone in 4 years, before correcting himself to any ''woman''. [[spoiler:It's possible that Peacemaker's sexuality isn't so much a matter of circumstance but him just being unambiguously bisexual, judging by Auggie's comments on Peacemaker having sex with men.]]
* SkewedPriorities: Peacemaker, on a desperate run from the police after killing a Butterfly, still finds time to rob the place of his Butterfly attacker, filling a blanket with [=CDs=], vinyl records, memorabilia, and a strange, apparently alien artifact. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a spaceship of the kind used by the Butterflies to travel.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He very openly thinks of himself as an effortlessly efficient killing machine who is a fearless leader, peerless tactician and outstanding fighter. The reality is very much otherwise.
* SmugSuper: While not a metahuman, Peacemaker ''is'' incredibly effective at what he does, and he ''knows it.'' Best summed up in the following exchange:
-->'''Bloodsport:''' No one likes a showoff.\\
'''Peacemaker:''' Unless what they're showing off is dope as ''fuuuck.''\\
'''Bloodsport:''' ...''Fuck.'' That's true.
* StraightMan: Yes. The extremist, childish, egotistical, murderous "superhero" becomes this when he's paired with the ''more'' insane and immature Vigilante.
* SuperGullible: He has no trouble at all believing ridiculous rumors about superheroes (like Aquaman fucking fish or Green Arrow being a brony) because [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter he refuses to even consider that social media would ever lie to him]].
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: While his arsenal is very much varied, shotguns frequently end up in his hands. Mixed with his imposing figure, it's definitely just as striking as his custom Deagle. He prominently uses a Kel-Tec KSG in his solo series.
* TautologicalTemplar: Overlaps with KnightTemplar above. Christopher Smith justifies what he does with a zealous belief that because peace is his goal, and because peace is a universal good, he therefore can and will do anything to uphold his ideals, because he knows he is right. [[spoiler:This includes murdering Rick Flag and attempting to murder Cleo for the sake of covering up the truly horrific nature of Project Starfish to save the United States another stain on its image.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Bloodsport do not get along. [[spoiler:There is little love lost when they end up fighting each other.]]
* TestosteronePoisoning: Peacemaker is a jacked-out macho man with a hard-on for violence who is desperate to prove he's better than everyone else. His father is definitely to blame for this.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the rest of the Squad are villains, Peacemaker in particular is nastier and unpleasant than his comrades. [[spoiler:''Especially'' after he betrays them.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Peacemaker is considerably more abrasive in the sequel TV series than he was in the movie. Closer examination will show that this is due to the fact that [[spoiler:Peacemaker was working as TheMole for Amanda Waller, so he went out of his way to ingratiate himself with Task Force X in order to be BeneathSuspicion. His new team in the TV series is fully aware of his "true nature", so he doesn't bother trying to downplay it. It's ultimately flipped on its head, though, as while Peacemaker is more outwardly abrasive, he's also filled with more regret for his past actions. He also [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] over the course of the first season.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Unlike his antagonistic relationship with the rest of Task Force X, he grows to genuinely bond with the other ARGUS members over the course of his series despite starting on the wrong foot with practically all of them. He also starts to move away from his MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality and make decisions for himself.
* TruerToTheText: In the comics, Peacemaker believes that the souls of his victims reside within his helmet and he can hear their voices. This iteration of the character never has this disorder, [[spoiler:until he sees a hallucination of his dead father haunting him several hours after he killed him.]]
* TVNeverLies: He completely believes everything he reads on Facebook and through Google searches, regardless of how completely absurd and far-fetched they are.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Auggie trained him from birth to be an elite killer who would target minorities through a lot of emotional and physical abuse, even forcing him to kill a man at one point. While Peacemaker is a highly effective killer as an adult, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's uncomfortable with Auggie's intended purpose for him and tries to distance himself from it]].
* TheUnfavourite: His father is not exactly candid about the fact that he liked his brother, Keith, much more than him and [[spoiler:very much blames him for his accidental death]], and makes it clear that he sees Chris as the lesser son and a disappointment pretty much every chance he gets.
* VanityLicensePlate: Peacemaker's incredibly tacky car wouldn't be complete without one of these. Amusingly enough, his license plate reads "PSS-MKR", which reads closer to "Pissmaker" than his actual moniker. Bloodsport would've had a field day with that.
* VengeanceDenied: His rematch with Judomaster ends in a way that makes Peacemaker mad. [[spoiler:Judomaster just gets shot from off-screen by Leota during the fight. Peacemaker is less upset by the fact that Leota shot someone he needed alive, and more about the fact that he was "trying to reclaim [his] honor" after losing the first time, and now he can't get it.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Not having the Dove of Peace engraved on his weapon makes him angsty and hesitant to use it. [[spoiler:Although this might just be an excuse to get out of killing the Goff family.]]
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Peacemaker's car is detailed with the American flag.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A large part of Peacemaker's toxic masculinity can be chalked up to a desperate need to please his {{Jerkass}} father, who calls him a "nancy-boy" right to his face even after surviving [[spoiler:a bullet to the neck.]]
* WhiteIsPure: Invoked, Peacemaker themes himself around doves and is shown wearing a lot of white clothes; a white polo shirt, white underwear, and his combat pants are white as part of his uniform. However, he has a very strict definition of justice and he's willing to kill anyone to keep the peace. It's worth noting that out of all of his costume pieces, it's only his pants are white because they are the most prone to getting dirty, likely symbolizing how his brand of justice is anything but just.
* WouldHitAGirl: He outright says he doesn't care about how many "men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]]" he needs to kill to bring peace.
* WouldHurtAChild: He outright says he doesn't care about how many "men, {{wo|uldHitAGirl}}men, and children" he needs to kill to bring peace. {{Subverted|Trope}} when he is very hesitant to kill a U.S. Senator's children in his own series. Claiming to have no qualms about killing kids appears to merely have been a boast, and not a line that he is actually willing to cross when directly confronted with it.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Despite what he has said about the lengths he's willing to go to make peace, Peacemaker can't bring himself to kill a kid. It's left somewhat unclear if this was always something he would have struggled with when push came to shove, or if it's brought about by a crisis of conscience he's been suffering since Corto Maltese and [[spoiler:having to kill Rick Flagg]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Not surprisingly, given he's portrayed by a multi-time WWE Champion, Peacemaker's fighting style involves wrestling moves. His fights with Judomaster in particular see Peacemaker using wrestling throws, pins, and slams, including into the hood of a car.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He thinks of himself as a HeroWithBadPublicity, ignorant to the fact that he's disliked more because his brand of "heroism" involves a lot of wanton murder and bloodshed. The fact he's also a {{Jerkass}} doesn't help.
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!!''Adrian Chase / ComicBook/{{Vigilante}}''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yo man, it's Vigilante! What up?"'']]
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!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Citizenship:''' American
!!! '''Affiliation(s):''' Fennel Fields, A.R.G.U.S.
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreddieStroma
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/EnzoFortuny (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''
->''"What separates us from other killers is we only kill bad people. Usually. Unless there's a mistake."''
A naive and somewhat dimwitted but sociopathic vigilante, and Peacemaker's self-proclaimed best friend, who works with Project Butterfly alongside him.
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* AbusiveParents: As revealed in his series, his father was and still is incredibly emotionally abusive to him, with implications that he was also physically abusive towards him while training him to become an enforcer of his own white supremacist ideology.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Unlike in the comics, in ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker is TheMole for Waller and acts to preserve America's secrecy in being involved in very immoral projects. Subverted in his own series, as his entire character arc centers around growing out of his MyCountryRightOrWrong mindset and making choices for himself.]]
* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: In the comics (at least the '80s remake), his father was an Nazi war criminal (commander of a death camp who killed himself to escape prosecution), in the series, his father is an American white supremacist terrorist.
* AlasPoorVillain: He's a jingoist, a backstabber, and an all-around jerk who deserves the ridicule he gets from the other ARGUS agents, but when you see the kind of man his father is, it isn't hard to see how he ended up this way. [[spoiler:Not to mention, it turns out he actually hates himself for how he is.]]
* AmazonChaser: He admits to being aroused after watching Harcourt beat up a guy that was harassing her.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Peacemaker's sexuality is, to quote James Gunn, "twisted." He definitely experiences attraction to women, but there's certain eyebrow-raising things about him. He mentions that having been in prison he hasn't been with anyone in 4 years, before correcting himself to any ''woman'', and then there's his mention of how he'd suck a beach of dicks "for freedom." Muddying the waters is that he's clearly homophobic about Vigilante's father. [[invoked]][[spoiler:During their fight, his father Auggie drops the ambiguity by outright saying that Chris has had sex with men. [[WordOfGod James Gunn]] confirms his bisexual orientation online, saying it was John Cena's idea for his character.]]
* AMFMCharacterization: According to James Gunn Peacemaker's affinity for hair metal was in part rebellion against his father and his obsession with manliness. Listening to a music performed by a bunch of guys with long hair, makeup and all around CampStraight aesthetics was sure to get under his skin. It also hints at Peacemaker himself having a complex, sensitive side to him under all the macho surface.
* AnimalMotifs: Peacemaker seems to have an affinity for birds. He has doves engraved on his helmets, uniform, weapons, and shield, since they are associated with peace and freedom. His weapon is a Desert Eagle. He also has a pet bald eagle whom he named Eagly, to further advertise his love for America.
* AntiHero: He is willing to create and keep the peace. Regardless of how many men, women, and children he has to kill in order to do it. [[spoiler:He manages to mellow out to a GoodIsNotNice type by the end of the first season of his series. He's foul-mouthed, abrasive, and willing to kill threats to the peace, same as he was before. But Peacemaker does genuinely value the friends he's made, and is willing to hear out his targets for the full picture before deciding if he should kill them or not.]]
* ApologeticAttacker:
** He clearly doesn't enjoy having to fight Rick Flag to keep him from taking the hard drive. [[spoiler:And killing him is one of the few acts in the film he seems to genuinely regret. This regret lingers on into his series. He also appears to be conflicted about executing Ratcatcher, and apologizes when he decides to shoot her.]]
** He apologizes before using lethal force against someone who wasn't themself at the time. [[spoiler:He shoots Goff's host body dead after he rejects their plan that they believed would save both the humans and butterflies. Peacemaker knows that Goff isn't herself, but it's for the good of the planet, [[ShootTheDog so he goes through with it]].]]
* TheAtoner: When he recovers from his injuries and starts working for ARGUS on a more permanent basis, Peacemaker isn't as much of an antisocial blowhard as he used to be. This is best seen with how well he gets on with Vigilante and Adebayo, when his attitude towards the rest of Task Force X was one of self-importance, at least until they started bonding and discovering new surprising facts about each other. He eventually admits in his show [[spoiler:that he hates himself and his superhero identity and wants to be something different. He even ends up killing his father to distance himself from his awful origins.]]
* AxCrazy: Peacemaker may not look the part, but with the way he expresses his goals and motivation, he ends up establishing himself to be the most deranged and unstable member of the Task Force's B-Team, even making [[TheBrute King Shark]] and [[DeathSeeker Polka-Dot Man]] look more mentally stable by comparison. As demonstrated with the way he kills the resistance fighters, Peacemaker has a violent, bloodthirsty streak.
* BadassNormal: Peacemaker possesses no superhuman powers and doesn't wear any protective gear aside from his helmet, but even that is mostly just for show (up until his solo series, that is). He still proves to be an incredibly effective asset to the team using only his skills, strength, and weapons. Stripped of his weapons, he manages to hold his own against a super-strong assailant in the first episode of his own series, wounding her with improvised implements and quickly killing her once he gets his gear back, even though he started out naked, unarmed, and taken completely by surprise by a superhuman with a weapon.
* BashBrothers: Peacemaker has been one with Vigilante since before he went to prison, and they bond even more during his time on Project Butterfly. Their favorite hangout activity is showing off their shooting skills by destroying random abandoned appliances out in the woods, and Vigilante later reassures Peacemaker that while they may not be "good" guys, they're at least killing guys worse than themselves... usually.
* BeneathTheMask: Peacemaker [[https://youtu.be/l3aNVWn49qs is acutely aware that the world hates him, and feels he deserves it after the events of]] ''The Suicide Squad'', to the point of breaking down hysterically crying by himself.
-->'''Peacemaker:''' [[spoiler:Rick Flag was right... "Peacemaker... what a joke."]]
* TheBigGuy: To Murn's team involved in Project Butterfly, as he's the principal field operative and the physically strongest and most combat-ready member (besides Vigilante).
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: To Peacemaker, none of his actions are truly evil as long as he achieves peace or dies trying to maintain the world order. [[spoiler:In the series, however, he's not as committed to his ideals as he thinks because he expresses remorse for killing Rick Flag and he backs out of killing children in the name of peace.]]
* BlatantLies: He insists his aiming skills are more precise than Bloodsport's because he uses smaller bullets and could fire into bullet holes left by Bloodsport without touching the sides... ignoring the fact that he uses a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle. In reality, Peacemaker uses ridiculously huge exploding hollow-point bullets that prioritize messy overkill over precision. [[spoiler:Thus, when he and Bloodsport fire at each other in the end, Bloodsport's smaller bullet goes right through the middle of the hollowpoint in Peacemaker's bullet, flying straight through the barrel of his gun without touching the sides and right into Peacemaker's neck.]]
* BloodKnight: While he claims to fight for peace and liberty, Peacemaker revels in the death and destruction he causes. Bloodsport even points this out. [[spoiler:Averted when he turns on Rick Flag and Ratcatcher.]]
-->'''Peacemaker:''' Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day.
* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:Retroactively, it turns out he's a mild form of this. He makes some rather homophobic jokes about Vigilante's gay dad to push his buttons, only for Auggie to later reveal that Chris has had sex with men.]]
* BoringButPractical: His x-ray vision helmet lets him see through walls and through the outer layers of people, which while not flashy, proves very useful in determining if someone is possessed by a PuppeteerParasite or not.
* BrightIsNotGood: The most heroic-looking member of any team he's on, whose costume sports beautiful, bright colors. [[spoiler:He's really the least heroic member of those teams, willing to outright kill his own teammates.]] According to Peacemaker, his outfit strikes fear into the hearts of his enemies, though nobody's convinced.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Peacemaker's LongList of celebrities that Economos could have framed instead of Auggie includes characters from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Franchise/GIJoe'', ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''Franchise/TheMuppets'', and various fast food mascots.
* CaptainPatriotic: DeconReconSwitch. Peacemaker considers himself a man fighting for peace and liberty. His car is painted with the U.S. flag, and he has a pet bald eagle whom he named Eagly. [[spoiler:Initially, this is presented as a ''bad'' thing, in reality being nothing more than a self-mythologizing right-wing militant maniac. However, in his show, he actually goes through some much needed character development, and he tries to shed the toxic mindset that led him to becoming a murderer.]]
* CerebusCallback:
** Early in ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker, in a [[BlackComedy darkly humorous moment, claims that he is willing to kill anyone, be it men, women, or children, if it means maintaining peace]]. Later on, [[spoiler:he doesn't hesitate to turn against Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2, claiming that "keeping the peace is worth any price".]]
** It also is a [[BlatantLies blatant lie]]: [[spoiler:in the show, he's shown to be deeply remorseful for killing Rick Flag, and he's so conflicted about being ordered to assassinate children that he ends up unable to do it at all, endangering the mission. Vigilante ends up taking the shot for him]].
* CharacterDevelopment: You wouldn't believe that [[spoiler:the same man that tried gunning down his own team out of patriotism and having military orders to enforce a coverup]] is the same one that [[spoiler:outright refuses to blindly do Amanda Waller's dirty work in his own spinoff series]]. By all accounts, he should be dead. [[spoiler:Recovering in the ICU and knowing that he would be released back to prison as soon as he was able to walk -- probably should have been, as Peacemaker acknowledges-- gave him time to think, and ponder that he killed a man trying to do the right thing, that would have sacrificed his life to save his team. Over the course of season one, Peacemaker realizes that he doesn't want to be that person anymore, and that he does want real friends, rather than pulling out his guns every time someone serves as his conscience]]. Actually bonding with Adebayo helps with this, [[spoiler:as he gets a taste of what it's like to have a trusted team member betray you, only for Adebayo to reveal that Waller made her do it because the woman is her ''mother'', and being on the Wall's bad side is awful enough when you're a supervillain. What's more, Adebayo nearly sacrifices her life to stop the Butterflies, though she doesn't have more than a concussion at the worst after Peacemaker helps get her out of the exploding barn. She ends the season doing what Flag would have wanted to happen -- reveal the conspiracy and Task Force X -- and Peacemaker is visibly proud of her]]. More to the point, the Peacemaker of old would have happily [[spoiler:joined the Butterflies in their crusade to fix the Earth, but the fact he outright refuses here shows he's not going to be the jackboot apologist for his country's ideals any longer.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In ''The Suicide Squad'', Peacemaker is depicted as an unsympathetic character fanatically loyal to the US government and implied to be a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist who kills people for the enjoyment of it rather than any ideals. His own series depicts him in a more sympathetic light as someone who ''wants'' to be a superhero but fails due to being warped by his ''very'' abusive childhood, and is not blindly loyal to his handlers, getting very angry when it becomes clear they expect him to do their dirty work without question. It is justified to an extent, as some of this is a direct result of his guilt over killing [[spoiler:Flag]].
* ChekhovsGag: [[spoiler:Peacemaker ends up being the victim in this case. Early in the film, he boasts towards Bloodsport about how his bullets are more effective, and the latter states that smaller bullets are better. Bloodsport is eventually proven right after the two have a face-off in Jotunheim, and Bloodsport's bullet not only [[ShootTheBullet shatters Peacemaker's explosive bullet]], but also wrecks his Desert Eagle and eventually hits Peacemaker's [[ImpromptuTracheotomy throat]] with tight precision.]]
* ChickMagnet: Like Bloodsport, Peacemaker receives a lot of attention from the female Belle Reve inmates on the team's way to meet Ratcatcher II.
* ChildrenForcedToKill: It's revealed in a flashback to his childhood that as part of his upbringing, Peacemaker's father [[HarmfulToMinors forced him to kill a tied-up man]] with a sick look of satisfaction on his face as his son went through with it while crying his eyes out.
* ChromeChampion: Peacemaker's helmet wouldn't look out of place in a Jack Kirby comic.
* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:After being revealed as a mole working under Amanda Waller's orders without a second thought spared for the other members of Squad B, Peacemaker takes the role of being the main antagonistic threat during the last parts of the Jotunheim segment, following the Thinker and preceding [[FinalBoss Starro]].]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[InsaneTrollLogic For some reason]], Peacemaker is convinced that martial artists can replace their hearts with one of their kidneys.
* CoDragons: Peacemaker and Rick Flag serve as Waller's trusty attack dogs in the film.
* TheComicallySerious: Peacemaker treats everything as a life-or-death situation, even when he's just bickering with his teammates and getting into petty dick-measuring contests with Bloodsport. After recovering from his injuries and getting recruited by A.R.G.U.S. on a full-time basis, he still takes his whole schtick way too seriously, to the point of ordering food in a restaurant wearing his full outfit, helmet included.
* CompositeCharacter: For the final fight in season 1, Peacemaker gets a shield similar to ComicBook/{{Guardian}}, the AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Captain America.
* ContrastingReplacementCharacter: Peacemaker is this to Captain Boomerang: Captain Boomerang is scruffy, mischievous and lacks any kind of principles. Peacemaker is well-groomed with a HeroicBuild, acts no-nonsense most of the time, and has a sense of duty, however misguided it may seem.
* CoolHelmet: Peacemaker wears a shiny metal helmet with a large horizontal fin on it. He considers it a symbol of freedom, though Bloodsport just thinks he looks like he's wearing a metal toilet seat on his head.
** Peacemaker's father gives him a new, upgraded helmet that has a sonic boom function, which he uses to [[LudicrousGibs great effect]] when a one-night stand who turns out to be a metahuman tries to kill him.
** Peacemaker later gains a variant with a cleft in the arc that looks slightly more intimidating.
** There are other versions of the helmet that can let their user breathe underwater, become a human torpedo, have X-ray vision, float without gravity, or [[JokeItem give them scabies]].
* CorruptedCharacterCopy:
** Wrestling/JohnCena [[https://www.cbr.com/peacemaker-sad-empanada-dangerous-stunt-john-cena/ directly compares]] Peacemaker to "a douchey, bro-y ComicBook/CaptainAmerica", both being CaptainPatriotic agents of liberty. [[spoiler:However, while Cap is willing to go against his government and expose its unethical conspiracies, Peacemaker intends to cover up his country's dirty work in order to keep the peace, even being willing to murder his teammates to prevent them from exposing it.]] The similarity is even more pronounced in his spinoff, where Peacemaker gets a custom-made shield that he uses in battle and flings at bad guys. Although, unlike Cap, where the shield throwing is almost always non-lethal, due to the sharp points and edges of Peacemaker's shield, it cuts and stabs the butterfly hosts rather easily.
** This also goes for pretty much the kind of character archetype John Cena tends to play: Peacemaker, like many of Cena's past roles (right back to his WWE days), is a patriotic military man who cherishes peace and liberty. However, while normally this would be [[TheParagon played as a good thing]], here Peacemaker is portrayed as a delusional killing machine, and others are disturbed by both his dedication to his mission and the methods he employs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not often, but he is capable of cutting remarks, such as snarking at the Thinker's efforts to frame himself as a victim, and around Bloodsport in general.
* DeathByIrony: Peacemaker claims that he uses smaller bullets than Bloodsport that could pass through the holes left by Bloodsport without ever touching the sides of the wound. [[spoiler:When Peacemaker and Bloodsport fire at each other, Bloodsport uses a smaller bullet than him, which not only destroys the incoming round but also nails Peacemaker in the throat, seemingly killing him. {{Subverted|Trope}} when TheStinger reveals Peacemaker survived.]]
-->'''Peacemaker:''' How...\\
'''Bloodsport:''' [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Smaller bullets.]]]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Peacemaker deconstructs the CaptainPatriotic superhero. Peacemaker styles himself as a classic example of the archetype, but it becomes immediately clear that he's a delusional, jingoistic RightWingMilitiaFanatic who values the nebulous concepts of freedom and peace so much he will gleefully kill for them at the drop of a hat. Multiple characters point out the flaws in his reasoning, and Bloodsport suggests at one point that he uses patriotism to obscure that he kills people for the sheer enjoyment of it. His eponymous series is slowly beginning to [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstruct]] it, as Peacemaker begins recognizing those flaws and tries to overcome them.
* DentedIron: A downplayed example, but Peacemaker still isn't quite at 100% during the events of the show. Injuries from Corto Maltese (namely a clavicle replacement) still flare up whenever he takes a rough spill or even just tries to put on his costume. This happens repeatedly.
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:Peacemaker's (and by extension, Amanda Waller's) real goal is to infiltrate Jotunheim to search for any sort of evidence of the United States Government having any sort of involvement with the Corto Maltese government via Project Starfish and destroy it, with Peacemaker stating that it is necessary to do so, as revealing the evidence would compromise the peace that he is working for. The reason why he turns against Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2, kills the former, and nearly kills the latter, is because they wanted to reveal the evidence to the public, which left Peacemaker with no other choice but to oppose them.]]
* DorkKnight: Peacemaker likes to sing along to Quireboy songs, and it's clear some of his problems are less because he's actually got issues, and more because he has NO IDEA how normal humans act.
* TheDragon: While the rest of the Squad is only following Waller's orders because of blackmail or commuted sentences, Peacemaker is a completely loyal henchman to Amanda Waller who carries out her commands to achieve peace for the United States faithfully. ''Peacemaker'' [[SubvertedTrope shows that Peacemaker's only really working with her for the commuted sentence; the second he thinks he can get away from Task Force X, he takes it and gets the hell out of dodge as fast as he can.]] While he will work for her if he thinks it will benefit the United States, he'd clearly much rather have his freedom than be forced into working for her.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}'', Murn rightfully calls out his stupidity in bringing his assassination dossier with him to a one-night stand and leaving it out for his booty call to read, but then tries to call him out for failing to understand how the fate of the country relies on Project Butterfly succeeding. Peacemaker fires back by pointing out that he doesn't understand because ''nobody'' on the team is willing to tell him what Project Butterfly actually entails, or what a Butterfly even is. [[spoiler:Murn later chews him out for refusing to shoot Senator Goff's children despite them being compromised by butterflies, and Peacemaker again fires back by saying it's unreasonable to expect him to just murder children without understanding why it's necessary. This time, Murn concedes his point.]]
* DualWielding: He effectively utilizes both his custom Deagle and his custom shield in the season one finale of ''Peacemaker''.
* {{Eagleland}}: Very, ''very'' firmly a Type II. Peacemaker is an over-the-top, boorish jingoist who owns a pet eagle, a car detailed after the American flag, [[SuperheroPackingHeat wields all kinds of crazy guns]] and styles himself as a [[CaptainPatriotic patriotic superhero]] who practically [[ForGreatJustice lives and breathes America]], when it's fairly obvious he's a [[HeroWithAnFInGood delusional murderer]].
* EnemyMine: While he aligns himself with Waller at the climax of ''The Suicide Squad'', it's only because Peacemaker genuinely believes it's in the world's best interest to cover up the U.S.'s involvement in Corto Maltese. In the aftermath, he tries to make a break for it at the first opportunity before bing press-ganged into continuing to work as a BoxedCrook.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares about his pet eagle Eagly a lot. Also his father to a degree, despite how abusive the man was and is towards him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Part of his dislike for the hired killer Bloodsport stems from a belief that killing people for money, rather than duty, is despicable.
** He isn't a racist. When his father says he hopefully can [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain kill some minorities]], he objects, saying that isn't what he does. Considering how much of a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain his father is, it serves as a nice contrast, and really shows he probably could've veered very badly in the opposite direction.
** [[spoiler:Despite disagreeing with Flag over exposing the data to the public, it's heavily implied that Peacemaker is just as disgusted as Rick Flag over the United States' involvement in Project Starfish. He also wasn't thrilled with the Thinker trying to paint himself as the victim of Task Force X for them trying to destroy his research.]]
** He also doesn't like [[ItMakesSenseInContext the idea of Aquaman fucking fish or Superman having a "poop fetish"]].
** He seems genuinely horrified by Vigilante's [[DisproportionateRetribution needlessly ruthless murder tactics]], and even more so by Vigilante's [[HeroicComedicSociopath casual and nonchalant demeanor]] about [[AxCrazy how much he enjoys it.]] He doesn't even deny Vigilante asking him if said admittance makes him sound like a "fucking maniac".
** His previous boast about [[KnightTemplar being willing to kill children in the name of peace]] gets [[IronicEcho thrown back in his face]] when he's tasked to assassinate Senator Goff's kids. When the time does come, it turns out this really was just a boast. Peacemaker finds killing kids to be a line he's not willing to cross.
** [[spoiler:When Detective Song gets an arrest warrant for Peacemaker and brings a squad of police to arrest him, he refuses to kill any officers, while Vigilante is willing to in order to avoid arrest until Peacemaker stops him. He's even horrified when Locke starts killing cops to ensure he and Vigilante can escape, with one cop begging for her life before being shot, and then executes some others that were just knocked unconscious]].
* EvilCounterpart:
** To Bloodsport. Both have virtually the same backstory and overlapping combat skills, something Bloodsport even [[LampshadeHanging points out]]. They have an immediate distaste for each other, and spend most of their time in an extended dick-measuring contest. [[spoiler:However, while Bloodsport eventually becomes the team's leader and warms to his comrades, Peacemaker was ultimately loyal to his twisted ideals above all else.]]
** Also to Rick Flag. Both are highly patriotic American heroes, but unlike Peacemaker's patriotism, [[spoiler:Flag's patriotism doesn't blind him to his country's abuses, leading him to oppose Peacemaker's attempts to cover up U.S. involvement in the Starro experiments. Peacemaker even gets Flag's old job.]]
** He's even one to Superman. Much like Superman, Peacemaker is a muscular PrimaryColorChampion that wears a symbol of benevolence on his chest. Both have also killed a military man that turned on his own superiors out of principle and [[spoiler:have been seriously injured by Bloodsport]], the difference being that Superman only killed because he had no other choice, while Peacemaker killed [[spoiler:Rick Flag]] despite having the option to either cripple him or destroy his leverage.
* EvilHero: What Peacemaker actually is. While he is honest about wanting to uphold world peace as long as he can and sincerely believes himself to be a hero, he's also insanely deluded, and his actions and motivations end up becoming more villainous than they are heroic. He's so misguided that he is willing to kill several innocents and [[spoiler:even those that he respects, as shown with Rick Flag, if it means holding on to his twisted code of being a hero]]. Although, his solo series reveals he's more of HeroWithAnFInGood.
* FailedASpotCheck: In episode 5 of his show, during a raid on a Butterfly complex, Peacemaker turns off his x-ray vision when it looks like he's killed all the possessed agents in the building. This conveniently allows for him and Leota to be completely blindsided by [[spoiler:a Butterfly-controlled gorilla]] when they hastily enter the next room to regroup with their teammates.
* FashionVictimVillain: Acknowledged in-universe in the film. His fashion sense is as reliably untrustworthy as his moral compass, and the rest of the cast - especially Bloodsport - are swift to mock him for it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** It's pointed out that, while ARGUS specifically assembled a team based on their unique skills - and Peacemaker's skills are pretty much identical to Bloodsport's - Waller specifically tasked Peacemaker with this mission. [[spoiler:It's because he's there to carry out the ''real'' objective of making sure that America's involvement with Project Starfish never comes to light.]]
** In a verbal spat with Bloodsport, Peacemaker makes mention that he is willing to kill "men, women and even children" in the name of his mission for peace. The abrupt way he says this gets played for laughs. [[spoiler:It makes his rather methodical heel turn sting even more, because despite bonding with the team and being otherwise amiable, he still ultimately prioritizes his mission over whatever bonds he may have made.]]
* ForGreatJustice: Heavily {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Peacemaker is a brightly colored self-identifying sentinel of liberty who fights in the name of everlasting peace. On paper, this would be the usual stock motivation of a CaptainPatriotic superhero. But throughout the film, Peacemaker's willingness to habitually cross whatever lines he deems as necessary in adherence to something as abstract and loosely defined as "peace" is seen in-universe as laughably ironic at best and ''[[MoralMyopia horrifyingly myopic]]'' at worst.[[note]] After all, if everyone in your way is dead, then you ''have'' peace: the peace of the grave.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Once Peacemaker murders Rick Flag in order to keep the United States' involvement in Project: Starfish a secret, Rick's DyingDeclarationOfHate lambasts the ''sheer absurdity'' that is Christopher Smith's modus operandi.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Rick Flag:''' "Peacemaker". ''[scoffs]'' ''What a'' '''''joke.''''']]
* FreudianExcuse: Everything wrong with Peacemaker can be traced back to his abusive white supremacist father, Auggie, who deliberately raised him to kill minorities and constantly belittles him for every perceived failure. [[spoiler:Peacemaker's hidden but intense self-loathing is also the result of him accidentally killing his brother in a fist fight (even though the only reason they were fighting in the first place was because their father forced them to for the entertainment of him and his friends).]]
* TheGenericGuy: Peacemaker sees himself as uniquely one of the deadliest marksmen in the world... even though Bloodsport and Deadshot have the exact same aptitudes. His civilian name is the ridiculously mundane-sounding "Christopher Smith", which coming after a decade's worth of superhero films starring actors named Chris could be seen as a joke in itself if this weren't already his name from the comics.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Peacemaker mentions having 400 gigs of lesbian porn on his computer.
* GiverOfLameNames: Considering he named his eagle "Eagly" it's safe to call him this, and in his own series his team mocks him for it.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Peacemaker swears ''a lot'', but he makes sure to say "effin" when he's around children... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint even when he's using the word as a verb]].
* GuestFighter: He's been announced to join the roster of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' as part of [[DownloadableContent Kombat Pack 1]].
* {{Hammerspace}}: Although he's usually seen with his hilariously over-extended Desert Eagle holstered on his thigh, as well as basic UtilityBelt (which contains a small BlowGun along with three darts, and an attachable scope for his gun), he also carries a hatchet and his own ''sword''. Both of which disappear between scenes. Although considering his father seems to have a [[BiggerOnTheInside "quantum unfolding storage area"]], it might not be too out of left field to say he might actually ''have'' {{Hammerspace}}.
* HandicappedBadass: In the first season of the show, Peacemaker is still recovering from his Corto Maltese injuries, having had a clavicle replaced and being unable to lift his elbow above his chest. While it hinders him in combat, it doesn't mean he's completely helpless either.
* HandCannon: Peacemaker's weapon is a heavily modified Desert Eagle with a ludicrously long barrel extension that allows him to shoot exploding compression bullets. [[WeaponBasedCharacterization If you're into gun culture, Peacemaker's choice of firearm says a lot about him]] -- it's often said that a Desert Eagle is an oversized range toy for people that are CompensatingForSomething, and associated with smug jerks.
* HarmfulToMinors: It's shown in a flashback in episode 4 of his show that his father forced him to bludgeon a tied-up man to death when he was just a child.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:It took until his own series for it to take, but he becomes fully remorseful over killing Rick Flag, acknowledging in private to himself that he's a colossal {{Jerkass}} who keeps on pushing away anyone who could actually like him.]]
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: His show has his helmets get knocked off frequently in order to retain dramatic tension, due to the gadgets in his helmets bordering on being a StoryBreakerPower.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He kills Rick Flag in their fight, which is what turns Ratcatcher against him.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Peacemaker likes to think of himself as this. He insists that he is a superhero, while everyone around him recognizes him for what he really is: a jerk and a murderer.
* HeroWithAnFInGood: He's presented more in line with this in his own series. He does genuinely want to be a hero, he's just terrible at it because he was only ever taught how to kill people by an abusive, racist father.
* HeroWorship: Downplayed, but he clearly respects Flag and defers to him as the commanding officer. The only time he talks back to him is when Flag insists on rescuing Harley due to it potentially jeopardizing the mission. He even refers to Flag as a hero despite [[spoiler:having a gun pointed at him, and is genuinely disturbed when he's forced to kill Flag. By the time of his own series, he's left with TearsOfRemorse and InelegantBlubbering when he's in private over having to kill Rick Flag.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Peacemaker's actions and demeanor are borderline-sociopathic with his dead-serious creed of having to kill anything to maintain peace, his immaturity, and being a lot more violent and brutal than his beliefs make him out to be, but he expresses these thoughts and beliefs in a quirky and humorous fashion. Still, it doesn't change the fact that Peacemaker is easily the most deranged member of Squad B.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: As time goes on, Peacemaker begins to wonder if his quest for peace means he's "just a fucking maniac" when all is said and done because of the number of people that he's killed. [[spoiler:Chris eventually has a HeelRealization when he's remorseful over killing Rick Flag, acknowledging to himself that he's a colossal {{Jerkass}} who keeps on pushing away anyone who might want to genuinely help him, and saying that he's a "a fucking joke" through tears. However, it's this self-hatred and self-reflection that eventually puts Chris on a course where he TookALevelInKindness and became a genuine hero.]]
* HiddenDepths: While Peacemaker seems pretty blind to the faults in his ideology and his own flaws, he's revealed to be well-aware of what an asshole he is, and he is deeply self-loathing because of it.
** As it turns out, he's quite the music enthusiast, and a huge fan of 1980s Glam Rock and Hair Metal. He is also a pretty capable piano player.
** [[spoiler:He also captures the Butterfly inside Senator Goff's head instead of killing it, showing that he doesn't blindly trust his handlers. Although, this is implied to be part of his growing discontent and unease regarding how much good he's doing in his job despite his earnest desire to be a hero, which has been peaking ever since his HeelRealisation after Corto Maltese.]]
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Despite defying MovieSuperheroesWearBlack, he can be as stealthy as the comparatively more practical Bloodsport.
* HonorBeforeReason: His FatalFlaw. Peacemaker puts the honor and reputation of his country above everything else, though this isn't as easy for him as he initially makes it sound.
* HumanizingTears: It turns out Peacemaker ''does'' feel guilt for all the lives he's taken. Killing [[spoiler:Rick Flag apparently took an especially hard toll on him.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** He believes in peace, but Peacemaker's brutal actions make it clear he obviously enjoys violence.
** He judges Bloodsport for killing people for money. It holds no weight, since he'll still kill for little to no reason, such as showing off his skills to Bloodsport or [[spoiler:trying to kill Ratcatcher II even after she gave up the drive with evidence that America was involved in Project Starfish.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Ratcatcher II:''' So okay, okay, destroy the hard drive. Why kill me?]]\\
[[spoiler:'''Peacemaker:''' Because I'm thorough.]]
** His claims to be preserving freedom ring hollow when he [[spoiler:acquiesces to the wishes of ARGUS and the government in order to hide America's involvement in shady practices]].
** He chews King Shark out for playing with clay explosives and calls him a "play baby" for being childish. However, the TV series reveals that Peacemaker often behaves just as childishly as King Shark.
** He believes Batman is a terrible hero because he lets his enemies live. Many of the villains Batman lets live end up joining Task Force X, just like him.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He has a lot of trust issues stemming from his father's abuse, and thus he acts like a total jerk to other people, despite wanting to have friends that love and support him. His lack of good communication with others also makes him a desperate loner who barely knows how to behave outside of work, and growing closer to his new handlers and Vigilante helps Peacemaker discover nobler sides of himself, even almost tearing up over a heart-to-heart talk with Adebayo.
* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:While he looks genuinely remorseful over killing Rick Flag and seems badly shaken by his final words to him, spotting Cleo snaps him out of it, and he quickly resumes trying to take back the hard drive. He even doubles down and decides to murder Cleo as a witness in order to be thorough. This winds up being subverted in his own series, where he sobs in his bed over killing Rick Flag, lamenting how he keeps on pushing away and killing everyone he cares about.]]
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Peacemaker is defeated and [[NotQuiteDead seemingly killed]] when Bloodsport shoots him in the throat.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: In the privacy of his room, he weeps like a heartbroken child over [[spoiler:murdering Rick Flag. Also counts as TearsOfRemorse]].
* InexplicablyAwesome: Peacemaker somehow managed to survive a bullet to the neck, falling from a tower and being crushed under said tower's rubble in quick succession. He also managed to maintain his muscular physique despite spending six straight months in intensive care and no longer able to raise his arms above his shoulders.
* InformedAttribute: He insists he's more precise in his aim than Bloodsport because he uses smaller bullets and can fire dead center into holes left by Bloodsport. We never see Peacemaker demonstrate being a better shot than Bloodsport, and [[spoiler:actually, the exact opposite turns out to be true. In their final confrontation, Bloodsport uses a smaller bullet that goes right through Peacemaker's own.]]
* InformedFlaw: In the DVD commentary for ''The Suicide Squad'', James Gunn refers to Peacemaker as alt-right; while he is a jingoist prone to saying un-PC things, Peacemaker comes across more as [[InnocentlyInsensitive a well-meaning yet carelessly oblivious dumbass]] than an active white nationalist. In point of fact, Peacemaker's series shows [[EveryoneHasStandards that he is strongly opposed to bigotry]], in direct contrast to his father who ''does'' fit the alt-right label.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He genuinely has no idea that the racist and sexist shit he says is offensive. He's surprised when people call him on it. Given who his dad is, this is easy to understand.
* IronicName: His name is supposed to show that he wants to achieve peace, yet Peacemaker's brutal methods and belligerent personality are anything but.
* {{Irony}}:
** Peacemaker has a dove insignia on his chest, which is a symbol of peace. His methods? Not so much. Since the dove symbol is upside-down, it might be indicative of how screwed-up his idea of peace really is.
** He is the only member of the team who is considered a superhero, rather than a supervillain or mundane soldier. [[spoiler:However, he is by far the most villainous of the team.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Peacemaker is a rude, volatile, and abrasive man who often finds himself butting heads with his teammates. This very much contrasts with Bloodsport, who, while just as deadly as Peacemaker, turns out to be quite approachable once one gets to know him well enough. Bloodsport suggests that he's just a psychopath who just uses the whole CaptainPatriotic schtick as an excuse to kill people and get praised instead of condemned for it. He develops into more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in his spin-off.
* JerkassRealization: In addition to his overall HeelRealization early in his series, he also gets this specifically towards his poor treatment of Economos after overhearing him through the radio confessing that he dyes his beard because he's a lonely and overworked man who wants to feel attractive, and that Peacemaker's snide comments towards his beard genuinely hurt him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: His own series reveals that he's aware of his problems and that he genuinely does want to be the good guy. It's just that his upbringing has royally screwed up his morality and general social skills, so actually being good is a struggle for him. The fact remains that he is making an attempt, and is capable of feeling guilt for his actions.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk:
** Within the context of ''The Suicide Squad''. Although seemingly amiable and more of a typical JerkWithAHeartOfGold character at first, he slowly loses the façade over the course of the film, and by the end, he discards any camaraderie with his team and shows just how fanatical he is by [[spoiler:killing Rick Flag and trying to kill Ratcatcher in order to keep the information about Starro from getting out.]] It takes until his own series that it's indicated that he isn't completely irredeemable.
** Although he is a more likable character in the TV series, he is retroactively revealed as this, in his reaction to hearing the story of how Bloodsport was mistreated by his father. In the movie, he shows some level of sympathy, but in the TV series it is revealed that he actually found Bloodsport's mistreatment hilarious. Though, it's also possible he was trying to find middle ground to bond with his father.
* KnightInSourArmor: The true nature of Peacemaker's character is that he hides his inner anguish under a façade of machismo and immature bravado. The events of [[spoiler:him killing his brother and Rick Flag]] haunt him over the course of his series, [[spoiler:and him also shooting his father dead contributes to the overall guilt he feels]]. Despite that, Chris grows to aspire to be a real hero, not a person who uses heroic rhetoric to justify horrific actions.
* KnightTemplar: He genuinely strives to maintain peace for the United States. It's a good goal to strive towards, all things considered, but it's the extremes he will go to that propel him into this territory.
-->'''Peacemaker:''' Keepin' the peace is worth any price...
* TheLancer: Up until Rick Flag is rescued, Peacemaker acts as the second-in-command of Squad B, being the most effective and capable member alongside Bloodsport. [[spoiler:That said, [[TheMole his actual role]] differs from what Squad B is intended to do, and is allied with Waller above all else for that matter]].
* LargeHam: It is clear that John Cena is having way too much fun in the role of Peacemaker.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Remember when he bonded with Squad B, even dancing with them in a bar, only to [[spoiler:pull a gun on two members because they wanted to uncover a conspiracy]]? Yeah, karma is a bitch, because he suffers [[spoiler:a betrayal of his own trust, when Adebayo receives orders from her mother to plant an incriminating fake diary that would get Peacemaker arrested and pin all of Project Butterfly on him. While Peacemaker is mad at Adebayo for betraying him, he also silently admits that he isn't one to talk]].
* LaughablyEvil: He's an awful excuse for a human being most of the time, but his extreme bravado mixed with his epic incompetence and Cena's magnificently unrestrained performance make him a joy to watch.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:One of the reasons Peacemaker decides to kill Rick Flag and Ratcatcher 2 is that he couldn't leave anyone who had any knowledge of the United States' involvement with Project Starro alive, which links to his misguided mindset about peace and prosperity. It also doesn't help that Flag and Ratcatcher 2 had opposite goals in mind that clashed heavily against what Peacemaker and Waller were aiming for.]]
* LoserProtagonist: He was born to a racist redneck {{jerkass}} father whose main desire in life is a white ethnostate and because of his father's violent upbringing forcing him to become a killer since a young age, he was apprehended for murder and sent to jail with serving the Suicide Squad as his only chance for parole (but it turns out [[spoiler:Amanda Waller was [[ILied never going to release him, only make him take the blame for many of the United States' problems]]]]). His home is shown to be just a trailer next to a forest.
* LovableSexManiac: Downplayed on the "lovable" part, due to the fact that Peacemaker is acknowledged to be a jerk within the narrative of the story. He is, however, unambiguously shown to be a sex-crazed pervert, as he is shown to have sex with several people, and is revealed to have slept with several women and men through his career as a vigilante.
* LukeIMightBeYourFather: Ten years before ''Peacemaker'' he met a woman named Becky Cooliage, and in one episode he meets her daughter who claims that he might be her father. Judging from his reaction he clearly thinks the possibility exists, but the teacher ends the class before the discussion can go further.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He arms himself with a shield in the season one finale of Peacemaker. It's sturdy enough to block bullets rather easily, and he uses it not only for {{Shield Bash}}ing but also stabbing and cutting.
* MadeOfIron: Having brawled with Rick Flag, taking a bullet to the throat from Bloodsport, and being almost crushed by the Jötunheim tower, Peacemaker surprises the doctors by only needing a clavicle replacement.
* MistakenForRacist: Due to his high body count of bad guys who are people of color, some people who know about Peacemaker think that he's a glorified white supremacist. While Christopher Smith's dad ''is'' extremely racist and absolutely fits that descriptor, the same can't be said for Christopher himself, as he shows no real signs of actually being prejudiced and is shown to [[EvenEvilHasStandards draw the line at racism.]]
* MoralMyopia: Peacemaker claims to love peace so much he's willing to kill anyone -- men, women, and children -- to achieve/maintain it. Whilst this is initially played for BlackComedy, it quickly turns tragic when it puts him at odds with his own teammates.
* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: No, he's definitely not a bloodthirsty ultranationalist lunatic, he's a ''peacemaker''. Nobody else in the Suicide Squad -- not even the naïve, idealistic Ratcatcher -- is fooled for even a second.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He does whatever he has to for America and global peace, [[KnightTemplar no matter the cost, and even when he strongly disagrees with his country's actions.]] [[spoiler:This includes killing his teammate and war hero Rick Flag. Him realizing how much grief this mindset has caused him and growing out of it is a key part of his CharacterDevelopment in his own series.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He looks genuinely shaken after killing Rick, the latter's [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech final words]] clearly having hit him hard. Spotting Cleo making a break for the hard drive [[IgnoredEpiphany quickly breaks him out of it, however]]. [[DoubleSubversion Then, in his self-titled series, it's revealed that he very much was and still is haunted by what he did]].]]
* TheNicknamer:
** A handful of cases, such as calling Polka-Dot Man "[[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]" and King Shark "Charlie Tuna".
** When it comes to proper names, Peacemaker turns out to be quite the dullard. He named his pet eagle "Eagly", which Harcourt and Economos find hilariously lame.
** He spends much of his own show calling Economos "Dyebeard", which he finds very insulting. Adebayo asks him to stop, and he does ''eventually'' listen, which helps when Economos [[spoiler:kills a Butterfly-possessed gorilla]] and reveals they share a common interest in the music of Hanoi Rocks.
* NothingPersonal: Peacemaker says this almost word for word [[spoiler:after turning on Rick Flag and Ratcatcher.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Peacemaker is shot in the throat by Bloodsport after the former tries to kill Ratcatcher for trying to escape with the data revealing the United States' involvement with Starro the Conqueror. It seems he is dead, as he doesn't play a role in the FinalBattle... until the [[TheStinger post-credits scene]] reveals that he was recovered from the scene and is alive, albeit wounded and under intense medical care.]]
* NoSocialSkills: On account of him being very emotionally stunted and generally ignorant, he struggles to carry out a normal conversation without saying something horribly inappropriate or offensive.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Peacemaker is an incompetent moron with terrible fashion sense and a bizarre moral code that gives him no end of mockery, but he's still a dangerous murderer at the end of the day who is scarily good at killing people.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Bloodsport accuses him of being one, saying he just uses his higher ideals as an excuse to kill people and be praised for it. Peacemaker's behavior shows that such an assessment is not totally off the mark. His own series subverts it, revealing Peacemaker is genuinely well-meaning and actually wants to be a hero. He's just ''really'' bad at it thanks to having been raised as a TykeBomb by a white supremacist and terrorist.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: When introduced, Peacemaker suggests that Project Starfish may be referring to literal assholes. [[spoiler:Later on, it turns out that he was actually aware of the full circumstances and nature of the project, and is fully intending to cover it up to preserve his demented philosophy]].
* OnlySaneByComparison: There's very few defining traits that Peacemaker and Vigilante don't share - a puerile sense of humor, PsychopathicManchild tendencies, a love of murder, and CloudCuckooLander tendencies. The difference is, Peacemaker's inner pain, self-loathing, and guilt are on display much more often because he's the main character. This... is not true for Vigilante, whose homicidal tendencies are almost ''always'' on full display.
* PapaWolf: He will always ensure Eagly's safety over his own.
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:He kills his piece-of-shit dad after realizing how much trauma he put him through.]]
* PetTheDog: Peacemaker's a total asshole, but even he has moments of compassion.
** When at the nightclub, he insists on Sebastian having a drink like the rest of the team.
** Though he's clearly annoyed at him for wasting explosives, he does try to be nice to Nanaue, and even thanks him for the C4-molded figure of him he made for him.
** He seems to genuinely love Eagly, getting all giddy when the bird wraps his wings around him in an embrace.
* PinkIsErotic: Downplayed. The intro to the show has Peacemaker dancing to "Do You Wanna Taste It" by Wig Wam, and the dance involves a lot of [[PelvicThrust pelvic thrusts]], which activate the pink stage lights. As a character, Peacemaker makes a lot of dirty jokes, unwanted advances towards women, and sexual references.
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Parodied. He brags about killing children without hesitation, but gets offended when a janitor says he might be racist because a high percentage of the criminals he kills are black. He then promises to kill more white people too as a compromise, which the janitor is satisfied with.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Even if he's not killing them in the name of "peace", Peacemaker's attitude towards women needs a ''lot'' of work. Then again, considering who his father is, he definitely could have turned out a ''lot'' worse.
** He tells a class full of children that Wonder Woman made a pass at him, when it's been thoroughly established how out of character that would be for her. (Although he has also said defamatory things against the other members, so it can be considered a case of hating all the members of the league equally.)
** He sees Emilia Harcourt less as his supervising officer and more as a potential love interest (although Emilia didn't do herself any favors by pointing out that she finds him handsome).
** He refers to a waitress as "sweet cheeks", although he assumed that expression was referring to her face rather than her butt. Once Leota tells him he just sexually harassed a random woman, Peacemaker misses her point and comments on Emilia's breasts.
** Though he says he's not homophobic and has actually had relationships with men, he's not above using jokes about Adrian's gay dad to push his buttons.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Peacemaker's costume is mainly colored bright shades of red, yellow, and blue.
* PsychoForHire: It becomes extremely obvious early on that he sincerely loves violence, and his PatrioticFervor is mainly about giving him a morally justifiable excuse to kill as many people as possible. This is in sharp contrast with Bloodsport, who really does treat killing as just a job, and is perfectly fine with doing something else so long as he gets paid.
* PsychopathicManchild: Due to his upbringing, he's ''very'' emotionally stunted, and has the maturity of [[InternetJerk a teenager browsing Reddit to start flame wars]]. He's petty, naive, socially inept, distinctly lacks self-awareness (grossly overestimating his importance and heroism), has a propensity for bluntness, has been shown to have a child's overactive imagination (including hilariously mistaken knowledge of how anatomy works), and while he can properly use sophisticated words like "facetious" in a conversation, he will also drop phrases such as "[[TotallyRadical dope as fuck]]" completely straight-faced. He has a puerile sense of humor, best seen when he holds a bottle out in front of his crotch and dares Vigilante to shoot it. He's also shown to use sex, drugs, and rock n' roll as a coping mechanism for life's pressures, a very adolescent attitude. He isn't strictly a ''bad'' guy like most other examples, but he does have serious emotional issues that impact his moral judgment. A few people have said that he's essentially what would happen if [[Series/TheOfficeUS Dwight Schrute]] was put into the body of [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Captain America]].
* QuickDraw: [[spoiler:Engages in one against Bloodsport after the latter sees the former about to kill Ratcatcher 2. It doesn't go well for Peacemaker, though he does end up surviving in the end]].
* ReallyGetsAround: His series reveals that he's a huge philanderer, having slept with a number of men and women, and is even seen doing so onscreen ''twice''. "Murn After Reading" heavily implies that he spawned an illegitimate daughter from his frequent sexcapades, which invites the possibility that he might have even ''more'' bastard children.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives a brutal one to [[spoiler:his father]] during episode 7. Pointing out that [[spoiler:he was the one responsible for Keith's death by making them fight each other,]] as well as stating the only reason he's such a {{Jerkass}} is because he listens to people like him.
* RedIsHeroic: While Peacemaker does wear a bright red shirt, the "heroic" part is downplayed due to his violent methods. [[spoiler:He more or less becomes this after saving the world from an alien invasion in the season one finale of his series.]]
* RedIsViolent: Peacemaker wears a bright red shirt and causes a lot of carnage. His murder of [[spoiler:Rick Flag is especially graphic]].
* RedemptionRejection: After [[spoiler:killing Rick Flag and cornering her like a rat, a teary, terrified Cleo offers him the intel that Rick died protecting in exchange for her life. He seems to contemplate sparing her, but decides he needs to be thorough with his mission and can't let her live.]] {{Subverted}} in his own series, where his actions in ''The Suicide Squad'' make him regret his choices in life and strive towards redemption.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: He's basically one of these with a superhero outfit and better-than-average combat skills.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in his own show, where it's pointed out he finds ''actual'' right-wing militia fanatics... unseemly.]]
* SadClown: He's a send-up of the NinetiesAntiHero, clearly intended to be a joke character, but also clearly intended to hate himself. Comes to a head when he finally admits to Harcourt that "I don't need the Dove of Peace, I just don't want to kill anymore."
* SarcasmBlind: [[spoiler:Gloriously subverted when Vigilante uses what is possibly the most obvious sarcasm ever. He gets it. Even though it looks like it's taking him effort.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Like Rick Flag, Peacemaker is a patriotic soldier who wants to serve America and genuinely believes he's doing the right thing. However, Flag is a true hero who is willing to go against his government when he believes they are in the wrong, while Peacemaker is a KnightTemplar who firmly believes in MyCountryRightOrWrong.
** Peacemaker is also one to Bloodsport by virtue of their overlapping characteristics. Like Robert, Christopher is a ProfessionalKiller who was [[TrainingFromHell trained by his father from birth]] to be the perfect soldier, and shares similar BloodKnight tendencies while operating in the field. But where Bloodsport is a [[AffablyEvil surprisingly affable]] [[OnlyInItForTheMoney mercenary]] who has no illusions about the evils of his job, Peacemaker is an [[PrinciplesZealot uncompromising zealot]] who genuinely believes that everybody he kills dies for the greater good of his home country and global peace.
** Has his own in Vigilante, who is what Peacemaker would be if he didn't have his own, minimal, standards and his own insane skills.
* ShieldBash: In the season one finale of ''Series/Peacemaker2022'', he makes use of a custom shield that looks similar to a heater shield (and also Guardian's shield). Not only is it tough enough to block bullets, but it has some sharp edges and a few sharp points, which let him bash, stab, and cut with it. [[spoiler:He loses it, however, when he falls into a tunnel that leads him into the Cow's underground lair]].
* SituationalSexuality: In the first episode, while trying to convince Harcourt to sleep with him, he notes that having been in prison he hasn't been with anyone in 4 years, before correcting himself to any ''woman''. [[spoiler:It's possible that Peacemaker's sexuality isn't so much a matter of circumstance but him just being unambiguously bisexual, judging by Auggie's comments on Peacemaker having sex with men.]]
* SkewedPriorities: Peacemaker, on a desperate run from the police after killing a Butterfly, still finds time to rob the place of his Butterfly attacker, filling a blanket with [=CDs=], vinyl records, memorabilia, and a strange, apparently alien artifact. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a spaceship of the kind used by the Butterflies to travel.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: He very openly thinks of himself as an effortlessly efficient killing machine who is a fearless leader, peerless tactician and outstanding fighter. The reality is very much otherwise.
* SmugSuper: While not a metahuman, Peacemaker ''is'' incredibly effective at what he does, and he ''knows it.'' Best summed up in the following exchange:
-->'''Bloodsport:''' No one likes a showoff.\\
'''Peacemaker:''' Unless what they're showing off is dope as ''fuuuck.''\\
'''Bloodsport:''' ...''Fuck.'' That's true.
* StraightMan: Yes. The extremist, childish, egotistical, murderous "superhero" becomes this when he's paired with the ''more'' insane and immature Vigilante.
* SuperGullible: He has no trouble at all believing ridiculous rumors about superheroes (like Aquaman fucking fish or Green Arrow being a brony) because [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter he refuses to even consider that social media would ever lie to him]].
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: While his arsenal is very much varied, shotguns frequently end up in his hands. Mixed with his imposing figure, it's definitely just as striking as his custom Deagle. He prominently uses a Kel-Tec KSG in his solo series.
* TautologicalTemplar: Overlaps with KnightTemplar above. Christopher Smith justifies what he does with a zealous belief that because peace is his goal, and because peace is a universal good, he therefore can and will do anything to uphold his ideals, because he knows he is right. [[spoiler:This includes murdering Rick Flag and attempting to murder Cleo for the sake of covering up the truly horrific nature of Project Starfish to save the United States another stain on its image.]]
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He and Bloodsport do not get along. [[spoiler:There is little love lost when they end up fighting each other.]]
* TestosteronePoisoning: Peacemaker is a jacked-out macho man with a hard-on for violence who is desperate to prove he's better than everyone else. His father is definitely to blame for this.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the rest of the Squad are villains, Peacemaker in particular is nastier and unpleasant than his comrades. [[spoiler:''Especially'' after he betrays them.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Peacemaker is considerably more abrasive in the sequel TV series than he was in the movie. Closer examination will show that this is due to the fact that [[spoiler:Peacemaker was working as TheMole for Amanda Waller, so he went out of his way to ingratiate himself with Task Force X in order to be BeneathSuspicion. His new team in the TV series is fully aware of his "true nature", so he doesn't bother trying to downplay it. It's ultimately flipped on its head, though, as while Peacemaker is more outwardly abrasive, he's also filled with more regret for his past actions. He also [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] over the course of the first season.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Unlike his antagonistic relationship with the rest of Task Force X, he grows to genuinely bond with the other ARGUS members over the course of his series despite starting on the wrong foot with practically all of them. He also starts to move away from his MyCountryRightOrWrong mentality and make decisions for himself.
* TruerToTheText: In the comics, Peacemaker believes that the souls of his victims reside within his helmet and he can hear their voices. This iteration of the character never has this disorder, [[spoiler:until he sees a hallucination of his dead father haunting him several hours after he killed him.]]
* TVNeverLies: He completely believes everything he reads on Facebook and through Google searches, regardless of how completely absurd and far-fetched they are.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Auggie trained him from birth to be an elite killer who would target minorities through a lot of emotional and physical abuse, even forcing him to kill a man at one point. While Peacemaker is a highly effective killer as an adult, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's uncomfortable with Auggie's intended purpose for him and tries to distance himself from it]].
* TheUnfavourite: His father is not exactly candid about the fact that he liked his brother, Keith, much more than him and [[spoiler:very much blames him for his accidental death]], and makes it clear that he sees Chris as the lesser son and a disappointment pretty much every chance he gets.
* VanityLicensePlate: Peacemaker's incredibly tacky car wouldn't be complete without one of these. Amusingly enough, his license plate reads "PSS-MKR", which reads closer to "Pissmaker" than his actual moniker. Bloodsport would've had a field day with that.
* VengeanceDenied: His rematch with Judomaster ends in a way that makes Peacemaker mad. [[spoiler:Judomaster just gets shot from off-screen by Leota during the fight. Peacemaker is less upset by the fact that Leota shot someone he needed alive, and more about the fact that he was "trying to reclaim [his] honor" after losing the first time, and now he can't get it.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Not having the Dove of Peace engraved on his weapon makes him angsty and hesitant to use it. [[spoiler:Although this might just be an excuse to get out of killing the Goff family.]]
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Peacemaker's car is detailed with the American flag.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A large part of Peacemaker's toxic masculinity can be chalked up to a desperate need to please his {{Jerkass}} father, who calls him a "nancy-boy" right to his face even after surviving [[spoiler:a bullet to the neck.]]
* WhiteIsPure: Invoked, Peacemaker themes himself around doves and is shown wearing a lot of white clothes; a white polo shirt, white underwear, and his combat pants are white as part of his uniform. However, he has a very strict definition of justice and he's willing to kill anyone to keep the peace. It's worth noting that out of all of his costume pieces, it's only his pants are white because they are the most prone to getting dirty, likely symbolizing how his brand of justice is anything but just.
* WouldHitAGirl: He outright says he doesn't care about how many "men, women, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]]" he needs to kill to bring peace.
* WouldHurtAChild: He outright says he doesn't care about how many "men, {{wo|uldHitAGirl}}men, and children" he needs to kill to bring peace. {{Subverted|Trope}} when he is very hesitant to kill a U.S. Senator's children in his own series. Claiming to have no qualms about killing kids appears to merely have been a boast, and not a line that he is actually willing to cross when directly confronted with it.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: Despite what he has said about the lengths he's willing to go to make peace, Peacemaker can't bring himself to kill a kid. It's left somewhat unclear if this was always something he would have struggled with when push came to shove, or if it's brought about by a crisis of conscience he's been suffering since Corto Maltese and [[spoiler:having to kill Rick Flagg]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Not surprisingly, given he's portrayed by a multi-time WWE Champion, Peacemaker's fighting style involves wrestling moves. His fights with Judomaster in particular see Peacemaker using wrestling throws, pins, and slams, including into the hood of a car.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He thinks of himself as a HeroWithBadPublicity, ignorant to the fact that he's disliked more because his brand of "heroism" involves a lot of wanton murder and bloodshed. The fact he's also a {{Jerkass}} doesn't help.
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!!''Adrian Chase / ComicBook/{{Vigilante}}''
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yo man, it's Vigilante! What up?"'']]
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!!! '''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Citizenship:''' American
!!! '''Affiliation(s):''' Fennel Fields, A.R.G.U.S.
!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FreddieStroma
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/EnzoFortuny (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese dub), Thadeu Matos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''
->''"What separates us from other killers is we only kill bad people. Usually. Unless there's a mistake."''
A naive and somewhat dimwitted but sociopathic vigilante, and Peacemaker's self-proclaimed best friend, who works with Project Butterfly alongside him.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's an extremely weird man, even by the standards of previous Task Force X operatives, yet he's an utterly monstrous individual who gleefully murders people left and right, and is ''very'' good at it.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Locke is on a very different wavelength from most people. Even when he's undercover as a cop, his strange behavior almost immediately makes everyone extremely unsettled to be around him.
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* HateSink: He's an absolute monster through-and-through who murders ''unconscious people'' and then laughs about it. He may be one of Murn's operatives, and a vital member of his Project Butterfly task force, but there are no redeeming traits to be found here. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Peacemaker is throughly disturbed to see him work]], and seriously makes him question on staying with the team. ''Peacemaker.'' The same guy who is best friends with [[TheSociopath Vigilante]] and killed Rick Flag just to maintain a lie.
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* BerserkButton: Mentioning the fact that he dyes his beard is a ''massive'' sore spot for him.
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* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. His utterly boneheaded decision to pin Peacemaker's crimes on his father almost immediately backfires, and lingers throughout the entire first season, causing nothing but headaches for Murn, and makes Peacemaker resent him for pretty much the season's entire run. When the charges against Auggie fail to stick, even the normally [[TheStoic stoic]] Murn silently mouths a "[[WhatTheHellHero FUCK. YOU.]]" at him simply because of how much trouble it's causing his team.
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* AssholeVictim: Of the non-fatal variety. [[spoiler:After the utterly ''awful'' shit she's pulled over the course of the DCEU/DCU, and her downright abusive treatment of her people, she finally gets her comeuppance with her career being effectively nuked-from-orbit once Peacemaker's team leaks the details of Task Force X, Project Butterfly (and assumedly Project Starfish as well) to the media. Only time will tell if or when her career will recover from that.]]
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* TheComicallySerious: The show mines ''plenty'' of humor out of him being just about [[OnlySaneMan the only person on the team who is taking the mission seriously]]...only to turn right around and deconstruct it by showing he's NotSoAboveItAll at times.
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* CrocodileTears: He really, ''really'' tries to get the tears working when he kills one of his "own" officers and tries to look like he's tending after his body...except, he fails miserably and '''''[[AxCrazy can't do it because he can't stop laughing]].'''''
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* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from a NonActionGuy to an incredibly competent ActionSurvivor in ''Peacemaker''. He doesn't ''want'' to be involved in field work and would prefer to stay MissionControl, but his time on the field sees him beating ''Judomaster'' (with, granted, the help of an armored van), taking down Charlie the Gorilla with a chainsaw, and mowing down all of White Dragon's psycho Neo-Nazi Klansmen followers with a P90. His tendency for surprise rescues is part of what causes Peacemaker to stop treating him like shit.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from a NonActionGuy to an incredibly competent ActionSurvivor in ''Peacemaker''. He doesn't ''want'' to be involved in field work and would prefer to stay MissionControl, but his time on the field sees him beating ''Judomaster'' (with, granted, the help of an armored van), taking down Charlie the Gorilla with a chainsaw, and mowing down all of White Dragon's psycho Neo-Nazi Klansmen followers with a P90.P90 and dragging himself across a field to deliver a crucial item after breaking his leg with visible bone. His tendency for surprise rescues is part of what causes Peacemaker to stop treating him like shit.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After dipping her toes in trying to be a ManipulativeBastard like her [[spoiler:mother]] for a few episodes, the season finale has Leota being manipulated herself in a more direct fashion when Peacemaker uses her and the "human torpedo" helmet to [[spoiler:kill the Cow]], launching her into the creature at high speeds and absolutely drenching her in its gore.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of NecessarilyEvil and AboveGoodAndEvil, being a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[PunchClockHero government agent]] means she can make ruthless and pragmatic decisions that sometimes get results, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but just as often cause problems she'll have to solve later]]. Her [[LackOfEmpathy complete inability to empathize with people]] means she's never really in control over anyone because she [[EvilCannotComprehendGood doesn't understand their principals or personal ethics]], added to her MeanBoss tendencies and overreliance on RecruitingTheCriminal means no one is really loyal to her and will betray her the minute the opportunity presents itself even if it's at great personal risk.
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* MadeOfIron: Just like Peacemaker, Chase is very good at shrugging off pain and injuries. He's been beaten up, tortured, nearly shredded by a grenade, and shot in the side, but he manages to walk it all off. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He does faint from blood loss after the last one]], but he's back on his feet by the time the fight's over. He's so durable and so quick to heal that fans have theorized he has a HealingFactor, but is too dumb to know it.
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* MadeOfIron: Just like Peacemaker, Chase is very good at shrugging off pain and injuries. He's been beaten up, tortured, nearly shredded by a grenade, and shot in the side, but he manages to walk it all off. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He does faint from blood loss after the last one]], one, but he's back on his feet by the time the fight's over. He's so durable and so quick to heal that fans have theorized he has a HealingFactor, but is too dumb to know it.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: He is largely emotionless, staying at an even calm under most conditions (unless he's particularly angry). We even see him watching [=TV=] by himself with a completely blank face. [[spoiler:With the Goff family, we see that as soon as they are out of the public eye, they completely drop all pretense of emotion. At the end of episode 4, we learn that Murn is secretly a butterfly himself.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: He is largely emotionless, staying at an even calm under most conditions (unless he's particularly angry). We even see him watching [=TV=] by himself with a completely blank face. He even mentions in a conversation with John that he's never expressed any feelings before, even basic ones like hunger or chilliness which is extreme even for TheSociopath. [[spoiler:With the Goff family, we see that as soon as they are out of the public eye, they completely drop all pretense of emotion. At the end of episode 4, we learn that Murn is secretly a butterfly himself.]]
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* FatalFlaw: LackOfEmpathy, more specifically lack of understanding that other people have empathy. It never seems to occur to her that the people she employs [[EvilCannotComprehendGood have their own morals]] and don't want to make the same ruthlessly pragmatic decisions she dose. She didn't think the Suicide Squad would defy her orders and try to stop Starro's rampage, or that her subordinates would support their decision, or that her daughter would tell the truth to the press and expose the shady goings on of her task force instead of using Peacemaker as TheScapegoat.
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** CorruptedCharacterCopy: And half the morals.
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* WeakButSkilled: He's not very physically strong as demonstrated in his pathetic but ultimately successful attempt to get arrested by struggling for several minuets to pick up a bin and then tossing it at the prison window without enough force to even go through it. The guard's could have stopped him at any point but they were too busy staring in disbelief. He's also proficient in several kinds of weapons as well as unarmed combat and an IdiotSavant for killing.
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