Christopher Smith

Peacemaker

Christopher Smith

## Biography

### Early Life

Kristof Schmidt was born on November 4th, 1986 to industrialist Wolfgang Schmidt and celebrated author Elizabeth Lewis. Kristof spent the first part of his life living in Switzerland, where his father was the CEO of Schmidt Enterprises LTD. However, when Kristof was five, Wolfgang’s involvement in the Nazi party was revealed to the press. As authorities closed in, young Kristof found his father hanging from the ceiling.

Elizabeth tried to erase this traumatic memory from Kristof’s mind, but she failed. Schmidt’s assets were distributed to stockholders, and Schmidt Enterprises collapsed. At school, Kristof faced intense bullying. The family was unable to even go to the grocer without facing borderline assault. After Kristof got suspended for attacking another student, Elizabeth decided to move to the United States.

Trying to hide from everything, they moved to Metropolis, where she hoped they would blend in among the hustle and bustle of the big city. She changed her son’s name to Christopher Smith and taught him how to disguise his accent. However, he struggled to fit in. After he lashed out at a student and broke his jaw, Elizabeth decided to homeschool him for two years.

Chris developed a passion for exercise, becoming very muscular due to his excessive workout routine he practiced at home. When high school started, he tried out for the football team, where he was a star player. Coaches, players, and cheerleaders alike were head over heels for him. He skipped his graduation ceremony to enlist in the US Military.

In the military, he was a strong commanding force, but it all went south when he nearly led a battalion to their deaths and caused the massacre of an entire innocent village. Smith was a scapegoat and was sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. However, while in prison, General Wade Eiling asked him to partake in a genetic experiment in exchange for his freedom. Smith accepted.

### Peacemaker

The genetic experiment put him far beyond peak physical condition, becoming a near unstoppable super soldier. After six months of training and testing, he was dispatched to a military base where he met a group of super soldiers commanded by Eiling, known as the Living Assault Weapons. Outfitted with a special tactical helmet and suit of armor, he was given the codename of Peacemaker.

Records of the team’s missions have been scrubbed from history, however, it is known that they came to an end when fellow team member Major Force grew too brutal on missions, and the team collapsed after Major Force murdered their ARGUS handler. He was let go from the team and his record was cleared.

He started in Metropolis, where he rented a motorbike and began traveling the United States, squashing small-time human trafficking and drug rings. After taking down a Kobra operation, Lord Naga put a hit out on him. After battling many of Kobra’s operatives, he started to gain attention, to the point the DEO sent out their Privateers to bring him in.

Arrested for his vigilantism, he was sent to Belle Reve Penitentiary, where Amanda Waller scooped him up for her Task Force X operations. An already fragile mental state completely fell apart, while on a mission in Corto Maltese, he was reminded of his massacre of the village people. On Task Force X, he grew more violent, finding an outlet for his rage.

With his sentence over, he practically begged Waller to put him back on Task Force X, however, she deemed him a liability, and sent him on his way. He returned to Metropolis and reunited with his mother. His mother revealed to him that she maintained several of Schmidt’s assets herself, and so they moved back to Switzerland where he started the Pax Institute, researching advanced weaponry from around the world.

Smith was contacted by GCPD Commissioner Christopher Nakano in the midst of Gotham’s gang war, seeking to utilize his identity as Peacemaker, and the Pax Institute’s weaponry. Smith was against it, however, he was outvoted by other members of the company, and thus the Peacemaker Squadron was born.

As an initial test before the full militarization of the police force, he was dispatched to Gotham with two deputies, GCPD Officers Mitchell Black and Sean Mahoney, and each was outfitted with their own special armor. On the streets of Gotham, Smith witnessed the other two men descend into violence, specifically Mahoney seemed to enjoy bringing vengeance against the lower class of Gotham.

During the OMAC Crisis, the three men were responding to the League of Assassins’ attack on Gotham. However, he noticed Mahoney and Black apparently retreating, using the chaos in an attempt to off Anarky’s gang. Smith caught Mahoney raising a gun to a young child, so Smith tackled him, and punched him so hard it shattered his helmet. But, Mahoney smacked him with a riot shield, knocking him out.

When Smith awoke, Mitchell Black was carrying him away from Mahoney’s lifeless appearing body, and took him to the hospital, where Black was subsequently arrested. Smith dubbed this the end of the Peacemaker Squadron, pulling out of their deal with the GCPD. He returned to Switzerland and resumed his position as CEO of the Pax Institute.

They continued experimenting on new weaponry, and came into possession of a Mother Box. Smith took hold of the Box and appeared to disintegrate instantly, when in reality, he had been transported across the galaxy into the middle of the Rann/Thanagar war. He was rescued by members of the Green Lantern Corps, who offered him shelter on Rann.

There, he made the alliance of Adam Strange and Sardath. He and Strange became close friends, with Strange even building him a space-motorbike. He helped with the efforts of the heroes in the stars, where they discovered the Reach had manipulated the two planets into their war. When the battle finished in space, he returned to Earth to help the Justice League drive the alien force off the planet.

Back on Earth, he learned that his institute had been manipulated by the Reach, and helped upgrade their technology. Enraged, he shut down the company, and blew up their remaining assets. Mitchell Black then informed him that their former deputy, Sean Mahoney, had resurfaced in his brutal justice in Gotham, working with the GCPD under the identity of Peacekeeper-01.

The two men came to Gotham, where they exposed Mahoney’s violent actions, causing him to be fired. In an act of revenge, Mahoney took the GCPD hostage, prompting the two Peacemakers to attack their old friend, imprisoning him in Supermax. Now, rumors are swirling that the Justice League is looking into recruiting one (or both) of them.

## Trivia

* He is infamous for sleeping in his underwear (specifically tighty-whities).

## Notes

* The Pax Institute is a reference to the Pax Americana from the Multiversity comic, in which Peacemaker was a member of that team.