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| “ | Forty years ago, God challenged me as he did Abraham, but I was too weak to listen. But not no more! I knew you was unclean when you were born! And even more so when you killed your brother. I knew when you listened to that devil music! I knew when you shaved your body like a woman! I knew when you slept with the WHORES OF POLLUTED BLOOD... AND MEN! And even more so when you conspired with the forces of Baphomet against the United States of America! And now, boy, I give your life... TO GOD! | „ |
| ~ White Dragon to Peacemaker. |
August "Auggie" Ransom Smith, also known as the White Dragon, is the secondary antagonist of Season 1 of the 2022 DC Extended Universe streaming series Peacemaker.
He was the leader of a white supremacist organization known as the Aryan Empire and the father of the lethal peace-obsessed vigilante Peacemaker who trained his son to kill from a young age and provided him with advanced technology to aid him in his missions. Auggie eventually retired from his supervillain career, however after being framed for a crime he didn't commit, he set out to get out of prison and became the White Dragon once again intending to kill his own son. He is the archenemy of Peacemaker and Vigilante.
He was portrayed by Robert Patrick, who also played the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Mr. Lisp in Spy Kids, Ray Schenkel in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Phil Billings in Ben 10, Rome in The Marine, Colonel Merton Bell in NCIS and The Skiptracer in Identity Thief.
Personality[]
Auggie is described as "a strongly opinionated, vulgar, small-town racist who is powerful and cunning." Auggie constantly insults and talks down to his son, repeatedly pointing out that he doesn't care about Chris in the slightest and refuses to support him in any way beyond letting him borrow his equipment. Auggie is an open white supremacist as he takes any chance to make racist remarks and insulted Sophie Song simply for being Asian. When letting Chris take a new Peacemaker, Auggie casually commented he only let him use the helmet if it meant he could kill minorities.
Auggie is not only bigoted and cruel but also selfish and cold-hearted. He refused to support Peacemaker's mission upon learning that they were the ones who framed him for murder and sent him to prison, then upon being released from prison, his first decision was to go kill his son. It is implied that Auggie was a ruthless murderer during his younger years as the White Dragon. Even morally corrupt people like Amanda Waller refer to Auggie as a terrible person. White Dragon's followers continued to worship him for years after his retirement and were quick to join him again when he decided to become the White Dragon once again.
Auggie's hatred of Chris is esteemed from his supremacist views, believing his son to be "impure" simply for his tastes and life choices. His hatred was also intensified by Chris' accidental murder of his brother Keith, who Auggie was more fond of. However, this reasoning for his hatred is irrational as well, as he was the one who made his sons fight, and it was an accident that Chris killed Keith. In his final moments before his death. Auggie continued to taunt and badmouth his son until Chris finally shot him, not believing that Chris would kill him.
Abilities[]
- Genius-level intellect: Auggie is shockingly more intelligent than how he’s introduced. He crafts weapons, designs inventions, and even figured out how to make a small space between time and space to store weapons and gadgets.
- Leadership: Auggie Smith is the leader of the Aryan Empire and his leadership is great enough that not only has he earned the title, "White Dragon", but whilst in prison, other hardened inmates who were fellow white supremacists' immediately fell to their knees and saluted him, indicating the amount of respect he has cultivated over his time with the hate group.
- Expert combatant: As a soldier, Smith is a highly skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant. He also able to train his son to become a skilled combatant.
- Marksmanship: Smith was a soldier who trained his son in weapons and hand-to-hand combat. Under his tutelage, his son would become a formidable vigilante.
- Master craftsman: Auggie Smith is immensely talented engineer, capable of crafting creative and dangerous weapons and pieces of body armor with the Peacemaker Helmets and the White Dragon suit being prime examples of his engineering prowess. Auggie Smith's engineering prowess is not limited to the mechanical however, he has also mastered such advanced levels of engineering that he was able to create the Quantum Unfolding Storage Area, harnessing the power of interdimensional physics.
- Intimidation: Smith is unfortunately a rifts bigot white supremacist.
Biography[]
Early life[]
During his early years, August Smith was the racist and supremacist leader of an organization known as the Aryan Empire. Smith at some point also created armor for his attacks and took on the mantle of the White Dragon, a supervillain that became known by the authorities and gained a reputation. August had two sons, Keith and Christopher Smith, during his kids' childhood, August claimed to have cared for Keith while simultaneously showing his disdain for Chris.
Having been a soldier and due to his twisted views, August started to train Chris from the moment he was born to become a powerful assassin and attempted to bring him under his racist views. One time he had a man tied up, August forced Christopher to kill him with a screwdriver. Despite not wanting to, Chris agreed to do it under his father's pressure, crying during the act while August watched smilingly. Later on, August forced Keith and Chris to fight each other, during the fight, Auggie repeatedly goaded Chris into fighting more seriously which resulted in Chris punching Keith to the ground that accidentally making him hit his head and have a seizure this made August's hate for his younger son even greater, even though Auggie was the one who forced his kids to fight each other in the first place.
Aiding Peacemaker[]
August's son was captured by ARGUS in 2017 for acting as "Peacemaker", a mentally unstable pacifist, and detained in Belle Reve, being sentenced to 30 years in prison. During this time, August took care of Chris' pet Eagly. After his son seemingly escaped prison, August was visited by Chris. August asked Chris why he didn't tell him when he got out of prison, with his son replying that it has been tough for him and he's been laid out in a hospital for five months after a guy shot him and a building fell on him during the Mission in Corto Maltese, with August believing that it was pathetic that he let somebody shoot him.
The two later had lunch together, and Chris told August about Ratcatcher 2, who could control rats, and mocked Bloodsport for his musophobia, which made August laugh maniacally to the point where he almost chokes. August then asked if Bloodsport was the one who had shot him, to which Chris indirectly said yes, which disappointed him. After finishing their lunch, August let Chris enter his storage chamber where he explained most of the helmets' capabilities to Chris and gave him one as long as he could do something useful with them like kill a Jew or a Communist, a remark that made Chris very upset.
Getting Framed and Arrested[]
August was later framed by Task Force X on the murder of Annie Sturphausen which involved his son, this was possible due to John Economos swapping out Chris' fingerprints in the crime scene to correlate with those of August to keep the police off Peacemaker's track while Leota Adebayo bribed two witnesses into lying when interrogated by the police about the event. August was then arrested by Detective Sophie Song and became an inmate on the Evergreen Corrections Center where he was instantly recognized as the White Dragon by various other fellow inmates, who kneel before him and claimed their loyalty to him. After finding out that his team arrested his father, Chris went to visit August at the Evergreen Corrections Center to come clean with him about the situation. After his son told him that he was involved in Project Butterfly, meaning he is to help stop the Butterflies from invading the Earth, August only used this information to threaten Chris by saying that he would expose Project Butterfly to the authorities to get free.
Later that same day, Smith was having a conversation with his fellow inmates that were members of the Aryan Empire when a new inmate, Adrian Chase, sat at their table. The new guy quickly started to mock August and his group for their racist views, which started a fight between most of August's fellow inmates and Chase. After Chase beat them all, August claimed that he would not fight him as the cameras would make him look like the instigator. As the two were taken back to their cells, Chase told Smith that he was a bad dad. Unfortunately, this made August believe that his son was trying to kill him and asked to speak to Detective Sophie Song immediately as he was dragged back to his cell by the guards.
Vengeance against Peacemaker[]
Detective Song eventually went to see him and August told her that he was innocent and was asking to check his prints again. When asked who was the real perpetrator of the crime he was accused of, August revealed that it was his son. The Evergreen Police Department took his fingerprints and Detective Song asked for the prints to be sent directly to her. After seeing that the prints didn't match and that the witnesses were threatened to lie, Song realized that August was innocent and needed to be set free despite his dubious past.
August was eventually released from the Evergreen Corrections Center by Sophie Song, who was now set to arrest his son. Outside of the correction center, he was picked up by one of his thugs, who asked him what he would do now, to which August replied that he would finally go kill Chris. August returned to his house, where he assembled various members of the Aryan Empire while he went to his Quantum unfolding storage area to get his White Dragon suit. His followers helped him put on his suit, with August assuming the identity of the White Dragon once again while the rest of his Aryan followers saluted him.
After he and his followers had everything ready, he activated the GPS tracking devices he put in each of Peacemaker's helmets, seeing that there were two groups of helmets, one that stood still at the police station and another one that was far away from there, he realized that the latter ones were with Christopher and urged his followers to go get him. His Aryan Empire eventually caught up to Peacemaker, who was driving on a truck with Vigilante and John Economos, then Auggie flies over it and use his armor's enhanced strength to hit and knock over the truck in which his son was. He ripped the truck open and encountered his son along with Vigilante, after telling him that he was gonna kill him, August tried to blast them with his energy gauntlets but they quickly dodged his attack. Just as he was about to kill his son with another blast, he started to be gunned down by Vigilante, who got him out of the truck and kept shooting him in front of his followers. Vigilante then quickly threw a grenade at close range between himself and the White Dragon, which caused an explosion that blasted August to the ground. After he got up, he realized that Peacemaker and his team had already left but kept following the signal left by his helmet.
After a lengthy chase, Peacemaker is caught by Auggie's followers. Eagly attempts to save him but is injured by Auggie. White Dragon pinned Peacemaker to the ground and prepared to execute him but Vigilante hits a weak point in Auggie's armor, disabling his weapons, while Economos kills Auggie's followers. Smith got the chance to beat up his father and finally stand up to him and confronting him for his actions that caused Keith's death and for what Chris has become before to point a luger pistol to his father. Auggie taunts and trash talks his son, saying that he couldn't and wouldn't kill him as he would never get away from him, but Chris indeed shot him in the head, killing him once and for all.
In spite of his death, the memory of August continued to haunt Chris from beyond the grave, seemingly fulfilling August's final words. While attempting to finish the Project Butterfly mission, August's hallucinatory apparition appeared to Chris and taunted him for his weaknesses. This prompted his son to reach for his blowdart and in his mind, hit and kill the apparition of his father once again. Although his dart actually only hit a tree, the action allowed Emilia Harcourt to track down Chris' missing helmet nearby.
After the completion of the mission, the apparition appeared once more to Chris as he was silently celebrating at his house. Though Chris tried to look away, the apparition did not disappear. It silently stood a few meters from Chris and slowly formed a smile even as Chris continued to drink his beer.
Quotes[]
| “ | How did my f**kin' sperm grow into a Nancy boy like you? | „ |
| ~ Auggie about his son, Christopher Smith. |
| “ | Thug: Where to, boss? Auggie: Well, I wanna go home, get a shower, have a broad over to suck my d**k and then I'm gonna do something I should have done a long time ago. Thug: What's that? Auggie: Kill my f**kin' son. Thug: Damn right. |
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| ~ Auggie speaking to his thug about his plans. |
| “ | Peacemaker: Dad. What are you doing? White Dragon: What I should've done long ago. |
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| ~ White Dragon before attacking Peacemaker. |
| “ | Well, go ahead and do it, you f**king p***y. I knew you couldn't do it, you f****t. Cause I control you. Whether or not I kill you, you'll never be able to get the f**k away from m... | „ |
| ~ White Dragon's last words to Peacemaker before he kills him. |
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Trivia[]
- August Smith is essentially an amalgamation of the comic characters Wolfgang Schmidt, the Nazi father of Peacemaker; and White Dragon, a white supremacist supervillain associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
- Smith's passcode for the Peacemaker armory is 261011.
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