“What world is the hero in?” The slogan of season 2 of “Peacemaker”.
The answer? Not a very good.
Season 2 of “Peacemaker” follows the holder’s holder of John Cena as he withdraws into a world where he, his deceased brother and his racist and abusive father and are alive and although the heroes of their planet, the top trio. Now the disturbing truth behind this reality has finally been revealed.
Be notified, this article contains spoilers For season 2 of “Peacemaker”, episode 6. If you don’t want to know what is really going on with the parallel earth of Peacemaker, go watch the episode, then come back.
After Peacemaker returned to parallel reality and closed the door behind him in the previous episode, “Peacemaker” season 2, episode 6, entitled “ignorance is chris”, follows the children of the 11th street while they were reopping the room which takes place quantum and the follows on the other dimension. The world is almost identical, but it quickly becomes apparent that something is off when everyone around the characters is white. James Gunn, who wrote and produced episode 6, called the payment of this week one of his favorite things he has ever done.
After Chris and Harcourt gathered after being detained for drug suspicion, they realize that Argus is led by Nazis after noticing an American flag with a swastika. The revelation is all the more stressful for Adebayo, who ends up being prosecuted by a jostling of people – including the brother of Peacemaker – in a quiet area in the last moments of the episode.
Adrien also meets the version of this dimension of himself and they get along as planned until he slides that in the main earth, he and Peacemaker are friends. On Terre -X, the vigilante and the peacemaker are enemies and he joined the sounds of Liberty – seen in the third episode – to retaliate the Nazi government.
Now, viewers know the disturbing truth of this parallel land – or, as it is called in the comics, Earth -X. In the show, as in the comics, this world exists as a university where the Nazi forces won the Second World War.
The fans had long hypothesized that the “best universe in Peacemaker” was actually a riff on Earth-X of comics. While waiting for a narrative shoe to fall and reveals a harsh truth about alternative reality, viewers have been overthrown by a certain number of clues that it would indeed be a revelation at the end of the season.
To begin with, the public noticed the lack of diversity very early in the background characters in the alternative world of the peacemaker. Where the main world of the DCU is filled with a diversified distribution of actors and characters in “Peacemaker”, the public could only find white extras and background actors in the world of peacemakers of the alternative world.
It led the fans to think about the question raised in the season’s slogan: “What world is the hero in?” While Gunn showed the viewers of season 1 and a cold of season 2, Peacemaker’s father, Auggie Smith (played by Robert Patrick), was a raging white supremacist who raised his sons to share his values. Throughout “The Suicide Squad” and “Peacemaker” by Gunn, the central character of Gunn has trouble becoming a better man against these values outside the shadow of his father.
However, the Smith Auggie of this parallel dimension is much more loving and sweet towards his sons. Peacemaker’s brother Keith (played by David Denman), is alive and cares in the same way. At first, it seems that it is the main turn of the new dimension – the Peacemaker family is nicer, and they are considered heroes accordingly.
But fans expecting a twist and noting the distribution of background characters quickly suspected that Angie, at the base, has not changed. On the contrary, the world around him has changed in a way that his supremacist opinions were now generally accepted. Rather than entering a world where the white dragon (or, on this earth, the blue dragon) is a hero, the peacemaker simply found a reality where people do not treat his racist beliefs as bad.
Terre-X, or Earth-10, as it later became known, is an old concept of decades in the DC Comics universe, but not one with a too extensive story. The idea was born in 1973 “Justice League of America # 107” by Len Wein and Dick Dillin. In the question, the members of justice League (Batman, Green Arrow, Allongated Man) and the Justice Society (Dr Fate, Sandman, Earth-2’s Superman) are inadvertently launched on Earth-X while using a transmatter machine during their annual team.
On Terre-X, history changes considerably when the Nazis won the Second World War, becoming a dominant world superpower. A group of heroes, known as Freedom Fighters, fights against the rebels in the name of America and Liberty, led by Uncle Sam. The JLA and the JSA help the fighters of freedom to reverse the Nazi regime before returning to their own realities.
Since then, Earth-X has only appeared in a handful of stories. After the events of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”, certain elements of the Nazi dimension, such as the fighters of freedom, were folded in the new composite land. Later, after the multifiverse was re-examined in “infinite crisis” and “52”, the Earth-X concept was adopted by one of the new universes 52, Earth-10.
Grant Morrison then extended Earth-10 during their series “The Multiversity”, which explored the 52 Earths of the multiverse in a post-Flash pre-convergence calendar. In “The Multiversity: Mastermen” One-Shot, Morrison and the artist Jim Lee represented a world in which Superman (here named Kal-L) was adopted by Adolf Hitler, allowing him to establish Nazi supremacy worldwide. This Kal-L goes through Karl Kant and adopts the name Overman, being stored after the fictitious comic strips “Superman” read by Hitler. The most popular “multi-room” One-Shot, “Pax Americana”, played the then-apopular peaceful as a main character.
Undoubtedly, the most important appearance of Terre-X to date has been in the CW Arrowverse event “Crisis on Earth-X”. In this crossover in four parts between “Arrow”, “The Flash”, “Legends of Tomorrow” and “Supergirl”, the marriage of Barry Allen and Iris West is interrupted when the Nazi forces, led by Dark Arrow and Overgirl, invade their world. The heroes themselves went to Terre-X, seeing the world where the Nazis reigned.
It is not clear that is in charge of the X-X of this DCU or what are the rules. But it is clearly not the idyllic place to live that Chris initially thought.
Season 2 of “Peacemaker” publishes new episodes Thursday on HBO Max.
