Peacemaker Season 2’s Big DCU Cameo Revealed in Episode 6

Spoilers up for Peacemaker: Season 2, Episode 6 (“Ignorance is Chris”).

The latest occurrence of Peacemaker paid disconnected that large DCU cameo that James Gunn has been hinting astatine for awhile now. A.R.G.U.S. brag Rick Flag, Sr. (Frank Grillo) is hopeless to find some Peacemaker (John Cena) and his interdimensional portal-opening instrumentality successful an effort to forestall immoderate much dimensional rifts similar the 1 that befell Metropolis successful Superman.

So Flag seeks retired a antheral who knows a happening oregon 2 astir them … Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult).

Flag visits Belle Reve situation wherever the fallen tech genius is presently doing a 265-year condemnation for astir destroying Metropolis (and also, presumably, for the treacherous warmongering shenanigans helium was up to overseas).

“We person a truly important infinitesimal for not lone Peacemaker but the full DCU successful that Rick Flag, the caput of A.R.G.U.S., strikes a woody fundamentally with Lex Luthor successful speech for Lex Luthor uncovering wherever Peacemaker's portal mightiness be,” Gunn explains successful the latest occurrence of Peacemaker The Official Podcast with James Gunn.

“He is going to determination him from a situation with metahumans to a situation with nary metahumans, from Belle Reve, wherever they are now, to Van Kull, some prisons from the comics. And past helium leaves and tells Sol-- tells Sasha Bordeaux that he's teamed up with Lex Luthor, which is scary. A antheral with specified powerfulness arsenic Flag, who obviously, you know, has some. He's got an agenda. It's scary for our lad Peacemaker.”

Luthor has a scanning instrumentality that volition let Flag to way down Peacemaker and his portal-opening box, and though helium wants his freedom, helium accepts Flag’s connection for a changeable astatine “redemption.” Lex, who is utilizing a cane and limping, besides truly wants to get distant from metahumans, and this alteration of venues volition let for that.

Given that Gunn precocious confirmed that Peacemaker Season 2 leads straight into his Superman follow-up movie Man of Tomorrow, Flag’s woody with Luthor suggests that it’s conscionable the archetypal measurement successful a travel that volition yet spot Superman having to enactment with Luthor to face a bigger threat.

Elsewhere successful the podcast, Gunn revealed that Luthor’s cameo was changeable during the filming of Flag’s Pentagon scenes successful Superman. Gunn, who wrote and directed Episode 6, besides said Luthor’s cameo was primitively going to look successful Episode 7.

“That is the different happening that I moved too the openings of [Episodes] 2 and 4, which I switched around. And the crushed being that the adjacent country was truthful superior and dense that I needed an in-between scene,” Gunn said. “And luckily, I had changeable some of them, truthful it wasn't a weird directing happening for maine to conscionable bargain a country from the adjacent episode.”

For more, beryllium definite to work our Peacemaker: Season 2, Episode 6 review.

What did you deliberation of the Lex Luthor cameo and Flag’s woody with him? Sound disconnected successful the comments.