Peacemaker, Season 2: Lets Talk About That Dead Character's Return

Be warned: Full spoilers up for the archetypal occurrence of Peacemaker, Season 2!

Peacemaker: Season 2 sees its rubric quality observe a parallel magnitude wherever everything is going his mode – oregon astatine slightest it is for that dimension’s Chris Smith (John Cena). Peacemaker is simply a beloved superhero who fights transgression alongside 2 characters who are deceased successful Chris’ location dimension: his begetter Auggie (Robert Patrick) and his large member Kevin (David Denman).

In this dimension, the Smiths are an affluent household wherever Chris has a loving narration with his doting dada and helium ne'er accidentally killed Keith arsenic a child. They each service unneurotic arsenic the celebrated superheroes known arsenic The Top Trio. As Chris says to himself astatine 1 point, “Best. Dimension. Ever.”

But the main Chris is besides surviving a prevarication aft helium accidentally kills his variant aforesaid successful the play premiere and past assumes his individuality successful bid to bask the beingness he’s acold from having successful his ain dimension.

I precocious chatted with histrion David Denman (Brightburn, The Office) astir his relation arsenic the parallel dimension’s Keith Smith and however that Peacemaker evolved successful a satellite wherever he’s had his large member his full life. (This interrogation has been edited for clarity.)

David Denman arsenic Keith Smith. (Credit: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max)

IGN: How did the Keith Smith who lived signifier that dimension's Chris Smith’s character?

David Denman: In that universe, that Chris is simply a spot troubled too. I'll effort to fig retired however overmuch we uncover oregon not, but helium tends to enactment a small excessively hard. He's not arsenic liable arsenic helium could beryllium and should be. And truthful Keith is trying to support him and screen for him and beryllium that supportive older member like, get your enactment unneurotic benignant of thing. So I deliberation that due to the fact that successful this alternate beingness things are antithetic successful here. We're celebrated. We're redeeming the time and we're considered heroes. That's specified a departure from the other of wherever he's coming from successful the existent world.

We play that Chris from the existent satellite coming into our magnitude is simply a antithetic guy, but he's saying things and we're like, what? And mostly Keith conscionable benignant of throws it disconnected with, "You're truthful weird dude, similar what's your deal?" But helium has nary crushed to not know. So helium doesn't recognize what's happening.

IGN: It's specified a implicit nighttime and time quality successful however these Smith sons turned out. Is it a quality versus nurture benignant of thing?

Denman: Yeah, a 100 percent. I deliberation that James [Gunn, the writer-showqrunner] is playing with those things. Peacemaker's trauma successful Season 1 is this grief. And the 1 feline who was the lone feline that was looking retired for him and protecting was his older member and dealing successful that location with that horrible begetter that they had. What could Chris person go if Keith hadn't died? Would Keith person ever been capable to measurement up and prevention him from his begetter oregon would helium person go a merchandise of his begetter and would they person been that? So I don't cognize due to the fact that we don't get to cognize Keith past 10 years-old oregon immoderate helium is erstwhile helium passes.

So successful this universe, I don't cognize that it needfully explained however they became that. It's conscionable that we are successful a full antithetic universe. So from the get-go, each of the dynamics are somewhat different. As you tin see, we're heroes here. We're revered successful our nine and our assemblage arsenic heroes.

IGN: How would Keith arsenic a superhero woody with a foe similar Brightburn? Could helium bushed him successful a fight?

Denman: Whoo. No, due to the fact that that Brightburn kid has got laser beams for eyes and helium would astir apt extremity up with the aforesaid demise arsenic his begetter did successful that thing. But I could alert astir with him. We could bash a small warring and possibly my disguise I person ... I'm definite that helmets astir apt got immoderate benignant of extortion from the laser beams, but I don't know. I don't know.

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