This cameo from season 2 Peacemaker reveals an overwhelming detail that you may have missed

The following article contains spoilers For season 2, episode 7 of “Peacemaker”.

The second season of the successful HBO MAX series by James Gunn “Peacemaker” had very funny cameos, like Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) visited by Rick Flag, Sr. (Frank Grillo) to Beautiful Correctional Center in the sixth episode to obtain a little help to hunt Peacemaker (John Cena) and his dimensional portal technology. Peacemaker who uses this technology to visit alternative land also means that the characters who have been killed in season 1 can appear in season 2, like Peacemaker’s father, Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick). And in episode 7, “like a Keith in the night”, the detective of the police of Evergreen Larry Fitzgibbon (Lochlyn Munro) makes a reappearance. Although it is rather fun to see Fitzgibbon after taking control by an extraterrestrial butterfly parasite and possible death in season 1, there were also fairly disturbing implications involved in its appearance.

You see, there are a lot of similarities between the earth “our” peacemaker is and Terre-X, like the two vigilantes (Freddie Strome) obsessed with the same Pokémon (Infernape). But there are also fairly large differences – caused by the fact that in Land -X, the Nazis won the Second World War. Thus, while Fitzgibbon is still a cop, his partner of our land, Sophie Song (Annie Chang), is visibly absent, and the implicit reason is overwhelming.

Earlier in the episode, we learn from Judomaster (NHUT le) that anyone who does not come in all the Nazi dream is shipped to work camps – anyone in color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, etc. Given that Sophie Song was an Asian-American woman, the reason why she is not Fitzgibbon’s partner on Terre-X is that she is probably captive in one of these work camps. Sophie was honestly one of the best secondary characters in season 1, and thinking about her durable forced work just because of her ethnic origin is heartbreaking. Even if Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) wanted to meet her doppleganger Earth-X, she could not because she is trapped in a frightening forced labor camp. Peacemaker may not have been to start, but Earth-X is certainly the wrong place.

However, Adebayo said to Judamaster about their scrobble game: “I’m not sure that this Nazi world is as different from our own world as we wish.” And she’s on something. When you read the daily titles on the different crises engulfing the United States and the rest of the world, it is not difficult to see nuances of land-X in our own modern landscape. “Peacemaker” was not exactly subtle on her messaging, but the absence of Sophie Song is a nuanced touch that really brought how much Earth-X is really.

Season 2 of “Peacemaker” is streaming on HBO Max.