{"id":86854,"date":"2025-08-22T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86854\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:37:10","slug":"james-gunn-just-retconned-zack-snyders-justice-league-his-dceu-and-even-jason-momoas-aquaman-and-ezra-millers-flash-out-of-the-dc-cinematic-universe-in-one-fell-swoop-in-peacemaker-season-2-premi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86854\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn just retconned Zack Snyder’s Justice League, his DCEU, and even Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra Miller’s Flash out of the DC cinematic universe in one fell swoop in Peacemaker season 2 premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Gunn even reshot some scenes from the Snyder-era of the DCEU to take out some elements and add in the Justice Gang.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no question about Peacemaker\u2019s status in the DCU, as the Season 2 \u201cpreviously on\u201d makes big changes to the continuity of the series.<\/p>\n

This article contains spoilers for the Peacemaker Season 2 premiere.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest questions going into HBO Max\u2019s Peacemaker Season 2 was how the show would fit into James Gunn\u2019s new DCU. Previously, the series existed firmly in the Zack Snyder-crafted DCEU, thanks to multiple references to the Justice League, and even a cameo appearance from the team (well, some of it) in the Season 1 finale. Now, thanks to the Season 2 premiere of Peacemaker, ‘The Ties That Grind,’ we\u2019ve got our answer: they edited out Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League and replaced them with the Justice Gang from Superman.<\/p>\n

\"PeacemakerImage credit: DC Studios<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, Gunn hasn\u2019t Mandela Effected the original Season 1 finale out of existence \u2013 as of this writing, it\u2019s still as it previously appeared on HBO Max. So, as a reminder, since it\u2019s been three years since ‘It\u2019s Cow Or Never’ streamed, a little reminder of how it all went down.<\/p>\n

The short version is that there was a potential alien invasion of Earth thanks to \u201cbutterflies,\u201d a race that was taking over people\u2019s bodies, one by one. They were fed by a massive alien Cow, which ended up getting killed by Peacemaker (John Cena) and his team. With their food supply gone, that was (mostly) it for the butterfly threat, and the team gathered around a fallen Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), carrying her away from the wreckage of their fight with the butterflies and the Cow.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the Justice League showed up: Superman (Henry Cavill), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), and The Flash (Ezra Miller). \u201cYou\u2019re late, you fucking dickheads,\u201d Peacemaker yelled at the shadowy figures. And while Cavill and Gadot weren\u2019t actually there, the episode did feature Momoa and Miller in cameos, discussing whether Aquaman does indeed have sex with fish.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for the cameos, but they were actually responding to a phone call Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) made earlier in the episode to her mother, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), begging her to call in the Justice League. When that initially didn\u2019t work, the \u201c11th Street Kids,\u201d Peacemaker\u2019s de facto team, headed in, instead.<\/p>\n

So what changes in the \u201cpreviously on\u201d for Peacemaker Season 2? First off, this is sort of a given at this point, but the old animated DC Studios opening credits from Season 1 are replaced by the new DC Studios \u201cSuperman breaking out of chains\u201d title card. From there, most of the footage is direct from Season 1, including a scene of Peacemaker answering questions for a school class, and traumatic flashbacks to the time he killed his brother (accidentally). But that\u2019s interrupted by Gunn and company announcing their intentions, loud and clear: \u201cPreviously in the DCU,\u201d explains a title card, alongside cheery narration from Cena.<\/p>\n

\"PeacemakerImage credit: DC Studios<\/p>\n

From there, more recap including footage direct from Season 1, including a helpful reminder that Peacemaker\u2019s racist father has a room full of portals to other dimensions\u2026 That is, until we loop back to that scene of Adebayo calling her mom. There, we get the same shot as Season 1, with Adebayo pacing back and forth in front of a \u201cPaws a Moment\u201d truck. But the dialogue has not-so-subtly changed: \u201cThe whole team has been injured, so I was thinking, like, maybe you could call in the Justice Gang.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yep, we\u2019re in the DCU, as Adebayo has mentioned the Justice Gang \u2013 the name of Maxwell Lord\u2019s (Sean Gunn) team from Superman \u2013 versus the Justice League, the team from the DCEU.<\/p>\n

Later in the recap, we got another reedited scene. After John Economos (Steve Agee) almost vomits, in the original episode, Peacemaker retches as well and tells Harcourt he has a \u201creal bad gag reflex.\u201d In the new previously on for Season 2, the line continues, with Peacemaker saying, \u201cI have a real bad gag reflex. Oh shit. You know, one time I puked all over Green Lantern, I was\u2013 I got seasick from flying on a green magic carpet. The weird thing is he fucking liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"SupermanImage credit: DC Studios<\/p>\n

But the biggest change in the ‘Previously on’ is the arrival of the Justice Gang \u2013 instead of the Justice League. Again, it\u2019s reproduced shot-for-shot down to the shadowy arrivals, but this time the team includes Mr. Terrific (Edi Gathegi), Superman (David Corenswet), Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), and Supergirl (Milly Alcock). And in a fun riff on the abbreviated cameos from Season 1, only Merced and Fillion are actually in the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a meathead,\u201d says Hawkgirl.<\/p>\n

\u201cScrew that guy,\u201d Green Lantern says. \u201cYou know he tells people I\u2019m a puke freak?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for the retcons to Peacemaker Season 1, and it all allows for an extended sequence later on where Peacemaker auditions for the Justice Gang and gets absolutely ripped to shreds by Lord, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern, thanks to a faulty microphone.\u00a0 It also sets up the main conflict of the season, that Peacemaker doesn\u2019t feel he belongs in this universe \u2013 though instead of not feeling like he belongs in the DCEU and heading to the DCU (as some fans speculated pre-season), he instead finds a portal to another universe much like his own, but better.<\/p>\n

Regardless, all apologies to Snyderverse fans, but that\u2019s it for the Justice League; they\u2019ve been wiped out of existence, thanks to a few reshot scenes in the \u201cpreviously on.\u201d Unless, of course, they\u2019re behind one of the other 98 doors in Peacemaker\u2019s portal room.<\/p>\n

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