James Gunn says that almost all the pieces that occurs in Peacemaker Season 1 is canon to the forthcoming DCU; aside from one essential scene, that’s.
The primary season of Peacemaker, which was created by Gunn, premiered in January 2022. A spin-off to 2021’s The Suicide Squad, the present’s preliminary outing was set inside the DC Prolonged Universe (DCEU), which formally concluded with 2023’s Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom. Gunn and Peter Safran are actually creating a brand new DC continuity, the DCU, that formally kicks off subsequent month with the animated Creature Commandos collection.
Gunn has beforehand acknowledged that Peacemaker Season 2 will likely be set within the DCU and can function a “comfortable reboot” of the collection. He’s reassured followers that the timeline will make extra sense as soon as the brand new batch of episodes come out.
What from Peacemaker Season 1 isn’t canon to the DCU?
Talking with Rolling Stone, Gunn confirmed that the occasions of Peacemaker Season 1 will nonetheless certainly be canon to Peacemaker Season 2 and the bigger DCU, although there is only one exception.
“The reality is sort of all of Peacemaker is canon apart from Justice League… which we are going to form of cope with within the subsequent season of Peacemaker,” Gunn mentioned.
In the course of the Peacemaker Season 1 finale, members of the Justice League — together with Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra Miller’s Flash — confirmed up for a short second close to the tip of the episode. The scene is performed for laughs because the Justice League realizes they’re too late to help in preventing the Butterflies, which then evokes anger from John Cena’s Christopher Smith.
How Peacemaker Season 2 will deal with the looks of the Justice League stays to be seen because it was beforehand introduced that not one of the stars of the 2017 ensemble film (or the 2021 Zack Snyder minimize) will reprise their roles within the DCU.
Peacemaker Season 2 will premiere in August 2025 on Max.
Initially reported by Brandon Schreur on SuperHeroHype.