"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!"
August Ransom "Auggie" Smith, also known as the White Dragon, was the bigoted and cruel father of Keith Smith and Christopher Smith, the vigilante known as the Peacemaker. He was also the supervillain leader of a white supremacist organization known as the Aryan Empire. After Christopher accidentally killed Keith during a fight organized by Auggie, Smith felt a deep hatred for his son, always feeling disappointed in him, until Chris was arrested for his acts as a vigilante.
When Chris got out of prison and went to visit him, Auggie still hated him, until he was framed by his son being sent to the Evergreen Corrections Center. After presenting enough evidence to prove his innocence, Auggie went out to become White Dragon again and vengefully kill his son with the help of his supremacist empire. However, Smith would fail in the attempt, dying instead at the hands of his son, who managed to get rid of his father but suffered subsequent trauma. As a result, Christopher Smith would begin hallucinating his presence in spite of his death.
During his early years, August Smith was the racist leader of a white supremacist organization known as the Aryan Empire.[4] Smith, at some point also created an armor for his attacks and took on the mantle of the White Dragon, a supervillain that became known by the authorities and gained an infamous reputation. Auggie had two sons, Keith and Christopher: Auggie openly favored Keith, while viewing Chris with nothing but scorn.[5]
Training His Son[]
"He trained you to kill from when you were very young."
Having been a soldier and due to his twisted views, Auggie started to train Chris from birth to become a powerful assassin[6] and attempted to bring him under his racist views. Once during Christopher's youth, Auggie had tied up a man and forced Chris 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 satisfyingly.[5]
Auggie blames Chris for killing Keith.
Auggie was also known to host cockfights where he would pit his two children against each other and encouraged them not to pull any punches. One day, Chris-- egged on by Auggie-- unintentionally delivered a devastating blow to Keith which induced a fatal seizure, traumatizing Chris and increasing Auggie's resentment for him.[3]
Son's Arrest[]
"It's my fault now you fucked up and went to prison?"
When Christopher Smith became a delusional pacifist named "Peacemaker", Auggie made a suit and technological helmets for his missions.[5] In 2016, Auggie learned that Christopher was sentenced to 30 years in Belle Reve, although never missed him due to his hatred for him. During this time, August took care of Chris' pet Eagly, and did not pay Christopher's telephone service.[1]
August was resting at his house watching Fact Attack on TV, until he was visited by Chris, something that bothered him, but let him pass. Auggie 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 buildingfell on him during a mission, with August believing that it was pathetic that he let somebody shot him. Auggie explained that he bought a new lamp and argued with Christopher because he did not pay for his telephone service, Smith then took his son to see Eagly, whom he left in the garage, being annoyed of his behavior.
August and his son at the dinner table.
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, but Christopher gave him water. August then asked if Bloodsport was the one who had shot him, to which Smith indirectly said yes, which disappointed him, however Christopher confessed that he only came for a helmet.
After finishing their lunch, August let Chris enter his Quantum Unfolding Storage Area where he explained most of the helmets' capabilities to Chris,[1] one had scabies, confessing that men must have scabies once in their lives.[7] Christopher chose the Sonic Boom Helmet and Auggie refused for not plead him enough, but he accepted to give 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.[1]
August was later framed by Task Force X on the murder of Annie Sturphausen which involved his son after John Economos swapped out Chris' fingerprints in the crime scene to correlate with those of August to keep the police off Peacemaker's track. Smith was visited by officers Sophie Song and Larry Fitzgibbon, making fun of Song's race while being interrogated by them, but he refused to respond until he started arguing with Fitzgibbon about his past as the White Dragon. After learning that they believed he had a 1976 Ford Comet, Smith revealed it was his son’s car, closing the door to them.
Smith is praised by the Aryans.
Leota Adebayo bribed two witnesses into lying when interrogated by the police about the event. August was then arrest by Detective Sophie Song and the other officers, even though Smith claimed to be innocent, but but no one believed him, being taken to the police vehicle. After becoming an inmate on the Evergreen Corrections Center, Smith was instantly recognized as the White Dragon by various other fellow inmates, who kneeled before him and claimed their loyalty to him, horrorifying Sophie Song.[2]
Visited by his Son[]
"Dad, listen... I didn't know anything about this, okay? The people I'm working with, they did their own thing. They switched your fingerprints for mine." "They did what?" "I know, it's fucked up, but I had nothing to do with it."
Smith had fun by telling them stories to his fans of the Aryan Empire, until a guard told him that Chris went to visit him to come clean with him about the situation, angry him, who in the talk with his son, learned that the people with whom Christopher worked falsified the footprints to keep him in prison, and Auggie told Christopher that he should only go with the guards to tell them that the traces were different, but Christopher knew about this, telling him not to say anything, disappointing him by revealing him that he wanted kill him.
Demonstrating his hatred, Auggie told him that he loved Keith more than him, and listened to Christopher to show that he grew more, what Auggie saw Christopher comparing himself to a crotch, surprising Smith. After his son told him that he was involved on an investigation meant to stop aliens from invading the planet, August only used this information to threaten Chris by saying that he would expose Project Butterfly to the authorities in order to get free.
Auggie express his hatred to Christopher.
Christopher, promising that when the Project Butterfly, he would surrender to the authorities, asking his father not to say anything, however, Smith was enraged because Christopher would work for the government, revealing that he would say everything to Sophie Song. When Christopher made a joke, Auggie interrupted him to extend the repudiation he had to him again, and asked the guards to take Christopher.[5]
Later that same day, Smith was having a conversation with his fellow inmates, whom were members of the Aryan Empire when a new inmate named 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 Sophie Song immediately as he was dragged back to his cell by the guards.[5]
Confessing the Truth[]
"Motherfucker! You corrupt mutherfuckers! I didn't do it, and you fucking know it! Fucking bitch!"
Smith asked to tell the truth about the murder to Sophie Song and Larry Fitzgibbon. In the interrogation room, Smith stated that he did not kill Annie Sturphausen, and when he was asked who was the real perpetrator of the crime he was accused of, August revealed that it was his son. However they did not believe him, and Smith mocked Song’s nationality, learninf that a couple of witnesses blamed him, along with his car plates and fingerprints, but Smith asked them to take his prints and check them again to reveal that Christopher was the responsible.
Auggie insults the police for being corrupt.
The Evergreen Police Department took his fingerprints and Detective Song asked for the prints to be sent directly to her, as Smith kept mocking Song for her race, before being taken to his cell. After seeing that the prints didn't match and that the witnesses were threatened in order to lie, Song realized that August was innocent and needed to be set free despite his dubious past. When Caspar Locke, an undercover ally of Christopher’s team, became the new captain of the police department, Smith was upset to learn that he would not leave despite the proves, insulting them for being corrupt while being taken to his cell, which caught Song’s attention.[4]
Return of the White Dragon[]
Released from Prison[]
"I'm gonna do something I should have done a long time ago." "What's that?" "Kill my fucking son."
Despite Caspar Locke's attempts to keep August in prison, Sophie Song managed to contact Judge William Judy to get him freedom, being released from the Evergreen Corrections Center, Smith signed a few papers, before mocking Song for her race, insulting her, although Song also scoffed him along with Larry Fitzgibbon about his hair, angering Smith, and withdrew from the correctional center while the police prepared to set on to arrest his son.
The White Dragon returns while surrounded by his supporters.
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 planned to take a bath, call a prostitute for sex, and finally go kill Chrisas he should have done from the beginning, amazing the thug. August returned to his house where he assembled various members of the Aryan Empire, and after taking a bath and having sex, Smith went to his Quantum Unfolding Storage Area in order 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 Empire saluted him.[8]
"Well, go ahead and do it, you fucking pussу. I knew you couldn't do it, you fаggot. 'Cause I control you. Whether or not I kill you, you'll never be able to get the fuck away from m-"
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 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 actually driving on a truck with Vigilante and John Economos.
The White Dragon after surviving the explosion.
August was informed of Peacemaker's location while he was flying through the air with his jet pack, which he later use 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 the two heroes 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.
The White Dragon following the helmets' signal.
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. The White Dragon and his empire followed the signal left by the helmet but they later realized that Chris found out about the GPS device and tied the helmet to a racoon in order to trick them. However, they soon discovered another signal that came from a car Vigilante stole from them, as he didn't know about the GPS device and had a bunch of Peacemaker's helmets in the trunk of the car.
His followers later found Peacemaker again, who reunited with Vigilante and was close to the car, and tried to capture him. Just as the White Dragon arrived, Eagly tried to attack him and defend Peacemaker, but August easily punched eagle aside, brutally knocking it. This made Christopher tackle him in anger for hurting Eagly, with his son saying that he was gonna kill him before being blasted away by August, who put his foot on Chris' neck and told him about how he should have killed him a long time ago.
August is shot in the head by his son.
After giving a speech to his group, the White Dragon was ready to kill Chris with his energy gauntlets before being stabbed by Vigilante, who used one of the gaps in his armor to damage it. August threw Vigilante away and tried to kill Chris again before realizing that his gauntlets stopped working. He was then brutally punched by his son who later pointed his gun at him. August taunted 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, finally killing August.[3]
Legacy[]
"You thought you could lose me by killing me, boy? I'm in your head. I'm the reason you kill and the reason you can't sleep at night. My body may be gone, but the rest of me is right here! And I ain't going nowhere!"
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.
Auggie haunts Chris as a hallucination.
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 and show continual confusion at the apparition's presence.[9]
Personality[]
"Your dad is not a good man. Not to the world, and especially not to you." "He's still family."
Auggie was described as "a strongly opinionated, vulgar, small-town racist who is powerful and cunning."[10] Auggie constantly insulted and talked down his own son, repeatedly pointing out that he doesn't care about Chris in the slightest and refused to support him in any way beyond letting him borrow equipment. Auggie was an open white supremacist, taking any chance to make racist remarks and insulted Sophie Song simply for being Asian. When letting Chris take a new Peacemaker helmet, Auggie casually commented that he’d only let him use the helmet if it meant killing minorities.
Auggie was 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. Upon being released from prison, his first decision was to kill his own 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 referred 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 more.
Auggie's hatred of Chris esteemed from his own supremacist views, believing him to be "impure" simply for his personal tastes and life choices. His hatred was intensified by Chris' accidental murder of his brother Keith, who Auggie was more fond of. This reasoning for his hatred is also somewhat hypocritical and irrational, as Auggie was the one to pit his sons against each other in a fight. In his final moments. Auggie continued to taunt and badmouth his own son until Chris finally shot him, not believing that Chris would actually kill him. White Dragon's rant when he was about to kill Peacemaker implied he was religious, and that his religious beliefs further fueled his irrational hatred towards Chris.
Auggie Smith made and used this suit while operating as the white supremacist supervillain White Dragon. After being sent to prison then released due to his son's secretive mission, Auggie decided to suit up once again, intending to kill his own son.
Enhanced Strength: While wearing the suit, Smith is capable of ripping the metal flooring out of a truck as well as launching his son away in a very far distance. He can also hit Eagly with enough force to make it severely injured.
Enhanced Durability: The White Dragon suit is highly reinforced, and likely impervious to a large manner of conventional weaponry. This allowed Smith to survive the explosion caused by Vigilante, as well as the countless P90 rounds fired at him beforehand.
Energy Blasts: The suit is equipped with two gauntlets, one on each arm, that allow Smith to fire whitish-red energy beams from his wrists. They also double as propulsion jets to assist him in flight.
Flight: Smith uses a jet pack, as well as his suit’s gauntlets and boots, for powered-flight, one strong enough to allow him to knock over Peacemaker's truck.
Abilities[]
"His father was a soldier who trained his son how to kill from the moment he was born."
Skilled soldier: 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.
Gifted intellect: Despite his antiquated views on race, Auggie Smith has displayed formidable intelligence that renders him a dangerous individual to be an enemy of.
Expert leader: Auggie Smith was 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.
Master engineer: Auggie Smith was an immensely talented engineer, capable of crafting creative and dangerous weapons and pieces of body armor, with the Peacemaker Helmets and 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.
Expert combatant: As a soldier, Smith was a highly skilled and formidable hand-to-hand combatant. He trained his son to become a skilled combatant as well.
Weaknesses[]
Irrational hatred: Despite his intelligence, Auggie is a raging white supremacist. He harbors intense irrational hatred of anyone who isn't the same race, sex, or sexual orientation as him. He refused to talk to and frequently used racist dialogue while talking to Detective Sophie Song, ran the Aryan Empire, and included his son's romantic encounters with men in his monologue before he was going to murder him.
Equipment[]
Peacemaker's helmets: Smith reluctantly built his son multiple helmets with different capabilities to help him on his operations as Peacemaker. Some of them were the Standard, Screwdriver, Sonic Boom, Underwater, X-Ray Vision, Scabies for All, Bound for Good, Anti-Gravity, Human Torpedo, and Itchy Ban helmets. Smith was also able to track the helmets, when looking to murder his son later on.
White Dragon suit: As the supervillain the White Dragon, Smith utilized a specialized suit when leading the Aryan Empire. When Smith decided to murder his son, Chris, used the armor and his Empire to ambush him and the 11th Street Kids. However, the suit was damaged by Vigilante stabbing one of the weak spots, allowing Chris to break the armor's helmet before killing Smith.
The code is an homage to Robert Patrick, the actor who portrays Smith, as Patrick is the 1st Charter Holder of the 101st chapter of the Booze Fighters Motorcycle Club, being BF1011. Since B is the second letter of the alphabet, and F is the sixth letter, that would then become 261011.[11]
Behind the Scenes[]
In the comics, Wolfgang Schmidt was a Nazi who ran a concentration camp during World War II. When the war ended, he met a children's book author named Elizabeth Lewis and had a child together named Christopher that they raised in Austria. After they learned about his past, Wolfgang Schmidt became broken and committed suicide on Christopher's fifth birthday. His death haunted Christopher and was a factor in him becoming Peacemaker.
In the comics, White Dragon was the moniker chosen by William Heller, leader of the Aryan Empire and a childhood friend of Deadshot who was captured by the Suicide Squad after he started organizing racial conflicts as the villain William Hell. He later resurfaced as part of the Suicide Squad in a new suit of armor and with the White Dragon moniker, but he was killed by Plastique when he betrayed the team and murdered her friend Twister.
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