Auggie Smith not being a ‘genius’ is something fans actually wanted to believe: Here’s what they are saying about Peacemaker Season 2

Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 4, Need I Say Door, did something unexpected; it shone a light on an antagonist in the first season. For a long time, people believed that the character was a genius, despite their perceived flaws and bigotry. However, the opening scene of the episode reveals that the character just got incredibly lucky.

The character in question is none other than Robert Patrick's White Dragon/Auggie Smith. If you forgot, Auggie is Christopher/Peacemaker's father, who is also the racist, fascist supervillain the White Dragon. This Peacemaker Season 2 episode rejects the fans' notion from 2022 that Auggie was a genius by giving an origin to the QUC inside the Smith residence.

Peacemaker Season 2 episode 4 reveals the origin of Chris's QUC:

The QUC, i.e., Quantum Unfolding Chamber, is a pocket dimension technology in the DCU. We come across the interdimensional technology for the first time in the season 1 premiere of Peacemaker in 2022. In that season, the pocket dimension was described as a storage unit for all of Christopher's Peacemaker helmets. This made people believe that Auggie was a genius despite being racist.

However, the opening scene of the last episode of Peacemaker Season 2 revealed that Auggie merely got lucky. The opening flashback scene features the DCU Auggie and his two sons hunting in a forest. Auggie shoots a creature, believing it to be a deer, but soon realizes that it wasn't a deer that he shot. As the creature is screaming, Auggie, Kieth, and Chris go to inspect and learns that it is an alien with a metallic case.

Auggie kills the alien, steals the case, and finds a mysterious door, which turns out to be the interior of the QUC. The metal case turns out to be the key to open and close the QUC. This Peacemaker Season 2 episode confirms that the QUC is portable, as seen in the second act of Need I Say Door.

As the A.R.G.U.S. agents raid Chris's house and try to open the QUC door, Chris takes the metal case and runs to the family's old hunting lodge. Inside, Chris closes the QUC portal inside his house and opens it in that lodge. On his way to the lodge, Chris confirms to Leota that Auggie was not a genius and hints at the "complicated" backstory of the Peacemaker helmets.

Thus, Peacemaker Season 2 is setting up an exciting plotline for the future of the entire DCU, and even the show. James Gunn also hinted at a major cameo in the last three episodes because of the QUC in a May 2025 interview with Entertainment Weekly:

"You've seen what we call the QUC, the Quantum Unfolding Chamber, in the first season of Peacemaker, and we see more about that technology in Superman. The QUC is the center of the story in Peacemaker season 2... We see a lot of different characters from Superman in the [season], [including] Isabela and Nathan and Sean, and then we see a bunch of other characters later on in the season from other parts of the DCU and from Superman. There might even be one really, really, really big cameo near the end of the show."

The four episodes have formulated different wild fan theories regarding the alternate dimension that Chris visits this season.

If the fans are to be believed, the alternate dimension might be the vilest Earth in the DC multiverse:

The third episode of season 2 was mostly set in the alternate dimension, and throughout the entire episode, the internet was rife with theories regarding the different reality. Many fans pointed to the lack of people of color in the background of the alternate reality as proof that this dimension might be Earth X, i.e., the Earth where the Third Reich won and took over the world.

As of now, these are just theories, but James Gunn did hint at major developments in the plot of the last three episodes (6, 7, and 8) of the second season at the red carpet premiere of the series last month. While the first five episodes were provided to the press and some influencers, the last three were kept secret. When asked for the reason, Gunn said:

"It could mean they're terrible [laughs]. That is one option. Or it could mean that there's a lot of major twists and turns in the last three episodes. And even though I'm sending the first five to a select few, things still get out as you know. Things got out already. You know, people who want to search can be spoiled on purpose, but I really don't want what's in those last three episodes to be spoiled. And so I'm keeping them close to the chest. I won't even let my publicist see them. That's the god's honest truth"

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As of now, four episodes of Peacemaker Season 2 are accessible via HBO Max. The finale will stream on the same OTT platform on October 9, 2025.

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