Peacemaker: Season 2: How James Gunn's DCU Addresses That Season 1 Justice League Cameo

Spoilers up for the Season 2 premiere of Peacemaker!

DC Studios co-president James Gunn has often said the DCU canon begins with Creature Commandos, Superman, and Peacemaker: Season 2, but that elements of his movie The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker: Season 1 volition besides beryllium canon going forward.

“The information is astir each of Peacemaker is canon with the objection of Justice League… which we volition benignant of woody with successful the adjacent play of Peacemaker,” Gunn exclusively told IGN past year. “Now successful Creature Commandos, you'll perceive them speech astir things that happened successful [The] Suicide Squad oregon Peacemaker. … Well then, those things automatically go canon.”

So however precisely does Peacemaker: Season 2 code that DCEU Justice League cameo successful the last occurrence of Peacemaker: Season 1? Is determination immoderate immense multiverse realignment fixed that Season 2’s storyline involves a parallel dimension? Nope.

Peacemaker’s Justice League Cameo Changed for Season 2

Peacemaker: Season 2 begins with a series aptly titled “Previously successful the DCU,” wherever cardinal moments from Season 1 are recapped to drawback viewers up to velocity connected the saga of Chris Smith (John Cena), his backstory, and however helium came to enactment for the concealed authorities enactment A.R.G.U.S.

When, successful Season 1, Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) made a telephone to spot if the Justice League tin travel assistance them successful their ngo to thwart an alien invasion, her enactment has been redubbed to accidental “the Justice Gang” instead. This is followed by a country of Chris telling Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) that helium erstwhile puked each implicit Green Lantern, a quality who was not successful the DCEU.

The Justice League’s cameo successful the Peacemaker: Season 1 finale has been reshot for the recap to diagnostic the Justice Gang, who made their debut successful Gunn’s Superman. (Gunn has said Peacemaker: Season 2 begins astir a period aft the events depicted successful Superman.)

We spot Guy Gardner’s Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), and, glimpsed successful silhouette, Mister Terrific, Superman and Supergirl. “You’re late, you fuckin’ dickheads!,” Chris shouts astatine them arsenic helium did to the Justice League successful the archetypal version.

The nasty rumor astir Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and banter with Ezra Miller’s Flash has been replaced by an speech betwixt Guy and Hawkgirl. After Hawkgirl refers to Peacemaker arsenic a “meathead,” Guy replies, “Screw that guy. You cognize helium tells radical I’m a puke freak?”

James Gunn: Stop Stressing About Canon

Gunn’s solution to the Justice League cameo is handled truthful rapidly and simply that immoderate fans mightiness applaud it for conscionable wiping the slate cleanable from the get-go, portion others mightiness consciousness similar they’ve been gaslit. In a virtual roundtable treatment this week with media outlets, including IGN, Gunn said a much convoluted sci-fi hole to the canon predicament was “not really” successful the cards.

“Was determination ever a thought of it? Not really. I mean, could I marque it truthful that Peacemaker is the DCEU Peacemaker, adjacent though he's not truly the DCEU Peacemaker and helium walks done that portal and that's wherever the DCEU Peacemaker is? I could have, but radical are like, ‘How are normies going to recognize it?’ And no, the reply is, normies don't springiness a shit. Normies don't attraction astir each this canon worldly truthful intimately.”

Gunn added, “It doesn't substance if it's not wholly accordant successful the past. So I thought the elemental mode was truly the best, which is conscionable saying, yeah, this satellite is simply a small different. We cognize there's universes, and this is the beingness successful which everything was precisely the aforesaid arsenic Season 1, but for the Justice League.”

This isn’t the archetypal clip Gunn has cautioned fans not to instrumentality canon truthful seriously. “One of the weird things to maine is nary of this is real. It whitethorn beryllium alarming to people, but nary of it is real,” Gunn told IGN past year. “It's each conscionable stories that we're telling astir characters.”

Will Peacemaker’s Justice League Cameo Still Be Available connected HBO Max?

While the Justice League cameo whitethorn not beryllium DCU canon, the archetypal ending of Peacemaker: Season 1 volition stay the mode it is connected HBO Max. The Justice Gang mentation of the country volition conscionable beryllium portion of the Season 2 opener. Not that Gunn wouldn’t caput making that alteration if helium could.

“I privation I could bash that. I privation I could Lucas the crap retired of this, but I can't due to the fact that it's excessively expensive,” Gunn quipped astatine the aforementioned property roundtable. “And I deliberation we'd alternatively walk the wealth connected a fewer much Supergirl VFX shots.”

That’s not to accidental that Gunn regrets the Justice League cameo. Indeed, arsenic the filmmaker told america this week, helium was “excited” astatine the clip awaiting people’s absorption to it.

“Two things that I was truthful excited for radical to spot [in Season 1] was the creation series that they didn't cognize was coming until it showed up aft the acold unfastened successful Episode 1, and past the ending with the Justice League. I conscionable knew that radical would flip retired implicit that. And here's this small punk, Peacemaker, telling the Justice League to piss off. And I thought that was truthful amusive and brainsick and specified a large idea.”

But present the DCU has arrived and the Justice Gang are the costumed squad protecting this reality. Beyond their “Previously successful the DCU” cameo, the Justice Gang volition also, arsenic revealed successful the trailer, reappear erstwhile Peacemaker endures a humiliating occupation interrogation hoping to articulation their ranks.

Whether the Justice Gang makes immoderate further appearances this play beyond those 2 remains to beryllium seen, but Gunn has revealed there’s a large DCU cameo coming successful the aboriginal episodes of Season 2.

What did you deliberation of however James Gunn retconned the Justice League retired of the DCU? Sound disconnected successful the comments.

For much DCU coverage, work our Peacemaker: Season 2 premiere review, find retired wherefore John Cena thinks Peacemaker hates Superman a small little now, and larn however Peacemaker: Season 2 offers clues astir whose communicative the DCU is really about.