


Throughout the fight, Peacekeeper-01 openly boasted that he planted bombs in Gotham's city hall to help Simon Saint gain power. He sees anyone who deviates from his view of the world as aberrant and therefore deserving of death. He berated the Gotham City vigilante further for partnering with former police commissioner Jim Gordon, who he referred to as a "turncoat cop-hater." He never explained his reason for thinking Gordon hated the police, but this line is quite revealing about the villain's particular pathology. He accused the Dark Knight of making the city more dangerous by provoking supervillains to attack and denounced him for working alongside criminals like Harley Quinn and Catwoman. Worse, Peacekeeper-01 proved how sadistic he was when he stated that he was only interested in killing the Caped Crusader, and had no intention of even trying to arrest him. The Peacekeeper armor was designed to analyze and respond to every combat maneuver and gadget that Batman could employ. This fight did not go well for the Dark Knight. While the Peacekeepers initially appeared in the near future stories of the event, Batman fought against one for the first time in the present day during his confrontation with Peacekeeper-01 in issues #109-110 of the Caped Crusader's self-titled series. They worked for an organization known as the Magistrate and were formed by the tech magnate Simon Saint, who hoped to use them to assert more control over Gotham. The Peacekeepers are a high-tech militarized private police force best known for wantonly killing both criminals and civilians during DC's " Future State" event.
