John Cena’s Peacemaker Lands in Earth‑X — The Dark Comics Twist Behind Season 2

Episode 6 of DC Studio’s Peacemaker season 2, titled “Ignorance Is Chris,” confirms that the world Chris Smith visits is Earth‑X — a universe where Nazi Germany won World War II — and the episode ties that choice to deep, documented comic‑book history for the character originally created in 1967.

1. Episode reveal and Earth‑X
2. Charlton Comics origins (1967)
3. DC multiverse and Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985)
4. Paul Kupperberg runs (1986, 1988) and the Auggie/Wolfgang backstory
5. What the comics connection means for the show

Episode reveal and Earth‑X

In season 2, episode 6 — “Ignorance Is Chris” — the 11th Street Kids follow Peacemaker into what he calls the “best dimension ever” as they try to bring him back. The episode confirms the dimension is Earth‑X, a DC multiverse world where Nazi Germany won World War II. Consequently, the show places Chris in a setting that directly mirrors a darker element of his comic‑book history.

Charlton Comics origins (1967)

The character Peacemaker was created by Joe Gill and Pat Boyette for Charlton Comics in 1967. Originally, Chris Smith was a Geneva‑based diplomat who worked on nuclear disarmament and, when talks failed, took up the Peacemaker identity to fight arms dealers and other threats. His costume and a jetpack seen in the Earth‑X sequence come from that early Silver Age design.

DC multiverse and Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985)

When Charlton Comics folded, DC acquired the characters and integrated them via the 1985 event Crisis on Infinite Earths. As a result, Peacemaker entered DC continuity and would later appear in very different incarnations under the same name. Thus, his history spans Charlton origins and multiple DC reworkings.

Paul Kupperberg runs (1986, 1988) and the Auggie/Wolfgang backstory

In 1986, Paul Kupperberg used a harsher version of Peacemaker in issue #36 of Vigilante, depicting him as a violent figure who believed the souls of his victims resided in his helmet. Then, in 1988, Kupperberg and artist Todd Smith launched a Peacemaker series that fused prior elements.

That 1988 continuity presents Christopher Schmidt as born in Austria in 1951 to Wolfgang Schmidt, an S.S. officer who was later blamed for the deaths of 50,000 inmates at a concentration camp. According to that run, Wolfgang killed himself on Chris’ fifth birthday. Over time, Chris hallucinated a specter of his father, who berated him while wearing an S.S. uniform. These plot points anchor the comic book version to explicit Nazi‑era connections.

What the comics connection means for the show

[Ed. note: Major spoilers ahead for Peacemaker season 2, episode 6, “Ignorance Is Chris.”]

James Gunn updated the backstory for modern television. In the series, Auggie Smith (played by Robert Patrick) is written as the leader of an American white‑supremacist group called the Aryan Empire rather than an S.S. officer. Nevertheless, the Earth‑X visit lets the show draw a closer parallel to the 1980s comics by placing Chris in a Nazi‑victory world.

On screen, Auggie was killed in season 1, and that finale also showed Chris haunted by his father’s ghost, reflecting the comic theme of a tormenting paternal figure. Additionally, John Economos (Steve Agee) confessed to Earth‑X Auggie that Chris had killed his real son, which suggests the series may continue to revisit Auggie’s influence — and that some characters may appear again in ghosted or alternate‑world forms.

Finally, the show continues to link the character to themes from The Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller’s use of Peacemaker as a tool who is skilled at killing. Yet the televised Peacemaker also hopes to become more than a killer, which is why Earth‑X is narratively useful: it tests whether Chris can break from a violent legacy that the comics established decades ago.