The Internet Thinks It's Figured Out the Truth Behind Peacemaker's Best Dimension Ever

Full spoilers travel for Peacemaker done Season 2, Episode 3.

In Season 2 of Peacemaker, John Cena's Chris Smith/AKA Peacemaker seems to person defied U2 and yet recovered what he's looking for. Which is to say, acknowledgment to his dormant father's multi-dimensional Quantum Unfolding Chamber, Chris has stumbled upon a satellite that's conscionable similar his own, but alternatively of being a super-joke that nary of the different heroes takes seriously, he's alternatively a revered figure, beloved by small kids and boob-exposing fans alike.

This is simply a magnitude wherever Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), who helium is smitten with successful his ain reality, is his ex -- and seemingly inactive has feelings for him. His dad, Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), a racist POS successful Chris' world, is simply a loving begetter successful this realm. And his member Keith, tragically killed arsenic a kid successful a pivotal and traumatic infinitesimal of Chris' life, is live and good present (and played by David Denman). Chris, Auggie, and Keith each person a loving relationship, and adjacent marque up the "Top Trio," this Earth's top superhero team.

But of course, we arsenic the assemblage know, it's each excessively bully to beryllium true. And present a clump of fans person pieced unneurotic what could beryllium incorrect with what Chris calls the "best magnitude ever."

The Top Trio.

Is Peacemaker Season 2's 'Best Dimension Ever' Actually a Nazi Earth?

Chris hasn't figured this retired yet, and who knows, possibly it volition crook retired to beryllium thing much than a instrumentality theory. But it definite looks similar the magnitude Peacemaker has stumbled upon is really not a large spot astatine each for a vigilante with a bosom of golden similar him. That's due to the fact that it seems similar it's a white-supremacist planet...

As fans and outlets similar CBR person pointed out, taking a adjacent look astatine Episode 3, "Another Rick Up My Sleeve," reveals that erstwhile Chris visits the alternate dimension, determination are nary radical of colour to beryllium recovered anywhere. It's each achromatic folks arsenic acold arsenic the oculus tin see, and that's it.

Now, portion this could conscionable beryllium the effect of casting inheritance extras without an oculus to diversity, oregon the inadvertant framing of shots that hap to springiness that impression, these reasons for Peacemaker's all-white magnitude look highly improbable for respective reasons. The archetypal is that successful Chris' location dimension, there's nary deficiency of diversity. So wherefore would specified accumulation errors abruptly beryllium made conscionable erstwhile Chris is successful the alternate world? But beyond that, there's besides the information that, arsenic noted earlier, Chris' dada is simply a achromatic supremacist.

Known arsenic White Dragon, Prime Auggie Smith was an unrepentant racist who yet was killed by his lad successful Season 1 of the show. But present successful Season 2, this alternate Auggie's change ego is Blue Dragon, who is 1 of the world's biggest heroes. Sure, it could beryllium that this Auggie conscionable turned retired otherwise from Prime Auggie and is simply a large guy. But past we look astatine each those shots of the extracurricular satellite of his magnitude successful Episode 3 and that thought becomes a tougher sell. Doesn't it marque much consciousness that successful specified a satellite Blue Dragon and his sons would beryllium the cleanable prime to go its top heroes?

So Is This DC Comics' Earth-X Dimension?

There is of people precedent for this conception successful the comics. Earth-X is simply a lesser-known subdivision of the DC multiverse (created backmost successful 1973) where, aft FDR's death, the Allied warfare effort didn't spell arsenic good arsenic it did successful the mainstream DC beingness (or ours for that matter!).

Long communicative short, the Germans got nukes too, World War II went connected for decades, and yet Hitler and the Nazis became the ruling powerfulness of the world, adjacent arsenic absorption fighters similar Uncle Sam and his squad the Freedom Fighters battled the Nazis. The wide thought was reused aft 2006's Infinite Crisis, wherever Superman's vessel crashed successful Czechoslovakia and helium went connected to go Overman, an Aryan ace soldier.

The Arrowverse did its ain mentation of an Earth-X storyline backmost successful 2017. You tin work much astir the past of Earth-X astatine the link.

What Does This Mean for Chris?

Well, it's not great, Bob. It's been beauteous wide that this magnitude couldn't beryllium arsenic bully arsenic it seemed for Chris. For 1 thing, that conscionable wouldn't beryllium dramatically interesting. What, Peacemaker is yet going to find the cleanable beingness and beryllium happy? And what astir each his friends backmost home?

But also, he's benignant of truly shoveled himself into a heap already, and we're lone 3 episodes into the play astatine this point. Aside from having, you know, killed his alternate self, adjacent if it was by accident, there's besides the information that helium has since assumed that self's individuality and lied to his begetter and beloved member astir it. He's besides lying to alt-Harcourt, and you can't ideate that she's going to beryllium each that thrilled to find retired he's not the Chris she thinks helium is (or that helium killed the Chris she thinks helium is).

My buddy Clint Gage, who handled our reappraisal of Episodes 1-5 of the season, pointed retired that it really could beryllium much absorbing if it turned retired that this magnitude isn't a Nazi world. No, alternatively what if Chris conscionable had to marque the hard prime to permission his cleanable beingness down due to the fact that his existent beingness is inactive waiting for him successful his ain reality? We'll spot if the amusement goes successful that direction, but aft Episode 3, it doesn't look similar it...

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