For months if not years now, it’s been unclear how precisely new DCU head James Gunn was planning to merge his beloved Peacemaker into the brand new universe, ported over from the outdated DCEU during which the character, and his supporting solid, have been born. Now now we have our reply, and it’s genuinely hilarious.
He simply…did it. Within the Peacemaker season 2 premiere, he retconned season 1, and he fairly actually erased the visitor look of the Snyder-era Justice League from the finale of the final season.
Beforehand, after the chaotic occasions of the finale, the Justice League exhibits up, largely in shadow, as he yells at them for taking their candy time. We obtained an precise cameo from Ezra Miller’s Flash and Jason Momoa’s Aquaman for a couple of quips, others like Superman, Batman and Marvel Girl are solely seen in silhouette.
Now Gunn merely erased that. As an alternative, he changed the outdated JLA in that scene with Justice Gang members Hawkgirl, Mr. Terrific and Man Gardner, together with Superman and Supergirl (who he says are usually not a part of the Justice Gang, this was only a “staff up”). Right here, the non-shadow cameo is from Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl and Nathan Fillion’s Man, although that they had a big function earlier within the episode.
You actually simply don’t see this sort of factor taking place on this age of hyper-connected comedian e book universes, which regularly bend over backward to try to clarify how every little thing is linked and painstakingly trying to not break canon or retcon issues.
Gunn didn’t trouble making an attempt and, A) it solves the issue immediately, Peacemaker and all these guys at the moment are DCU, and the thought is that they kind of all the time have been, and B) the principle group who will probably be tremendous mad about Zack Snyder’s DCEU heroes being deleted are…large Zack Snyder followers who already hate James Gunn with a fiery ardour (see Superman’s screaming pc monkeys). So why trouble caring what they suppose?
This does increase at the very least a couple of questions. If Peacemaker has all the time been DCU, how far again does this lengthen into the occasions of Gunn’s Suicide Squad film? We all know it’s canon that Peacemaker did in reality kill Rick Flagg Jr., however the standing of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is nebulous, and Gunn received’t commit but. He’s talked about bringing again Idris Elba’s Bloodsport. However one factor we all know for certain is that regardless of the hyperlink to Harley, neither Jared Leto’s Joker or Ben Affleck’s Batman will probably be again. Gunn made some extent this previous episode to bash Jared Leto particularly by making enjoyable of his band, a part of a historical past of him not precisely loving the actor.
I really like all this. It’s simply hilarious to do it this fashion. All of the hypothesis about alternate dimensions and cloning characters to make a DCU copy of them have been simply rewritten with one retcon scene. Incredible.
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