Has ‘Peacemaker’ Been Hiding Its Huge Twist in Plain Sight?

We’re within the endgame now for Peacemaker‘s season 2 finale, and its newest episode lastly lifted the lid on an enormous twist that head honcho James Gunn wished to maintain below wraps for DC followers. No, not that thing, the opposite factor. The “what the hell is going on with Christopher Smith’s pocket universe?” Evidently, Gunn has been lording that massive reveal in followers’ faces each week with out them noticing by hiding that plot improvement in an unlikely place: Peacemaker‘s opening dance number.

So, everybody and their mother just about clocked that there was one thing up with Chris’ pocket universe. Positive, his dad and brother are alive, and he’s celebrated because the hero that the Justice Gang denied him the chance to become. Nonetheless, followers felt that one thing was effervescent beneath the floor that the present would finally reveal as the large hassle in Chris’ paradise: there are no people of color. Whether or not on Twitter, BlueSky, Reddit, or TikTok, followers shortly caught on to the truth that the background extras in Peacemaker‘s alternate dimension, which the present painstakingly highlighted greater than standard, didn’t have a single particular person of shade in its quite a few crowd pictures. 

It seems that Chris’ dad, Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), being a brilliant villain and Ku Klux Klan chief, carried over into the pocket dimension within the worst manner potential, with him and his sons turning into the hero trio to an America with a Nazi image woven into its flag: a nod to Earth X from the comics, an alternate actuality the place Nazi Germany extended and in the end received World Conflict II. Shortly after followers slept on feeling good, having their Eagly-eyed sleuthing manifest in Peacemaker‘s sixth episode, they wakened with the stark realization that Gunn has been galavanting this plot revelation by placing it smack dab in Peacemaker’s catchy-ass opening each rattling week.

So, Peacemaker season 2’s opening theme options the forged performing a cool, sequenced dance, with the one obvious distinction being that it’s underscored by Cunning Shazam’s “Oh Lord.” It’s nice and has the identical campy vitality as its earlier opening, nevertheless it begins by having John Cena stare instantly down the barrel of the digital camera earlier than flailing his arms round, triggering the remainder of the forged to affix in. Nonetheless, followers on-line have observed that Cena’s arm actions appear intentional; for a short second, they resemble a Nazi image earlier than the remainder of the crew joins in. Understandably, people’s minds are blown at the concept that Gunn seemingly managed to cover this lampshade in plain sight till the endgame of the season.

Now, may or not it’s a coincidence that Cena’s large hamhock arms, dancing in a formation that resembles a Nazi image, have been a plot hinting at an Easter egg for the place the consequential DC Studios TV present was headed? Maybe, however contemplating we reside in a actuality the place a rich man-child typically jumps into the air like a buffoon, exaggerating his body into an X shape to advertise his poorly rebranded social media brand—whereas additionally throwing a “Roman Salute” in 4K—we imagine that Gunn is intelligent sufficient to tease that Nazis are what lies contained in the thriller field for Peacemaker season 2. And to have the temerity to make it clear that Nazis and racists suck.

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