{"id":52798,"date":"2025-10-03T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:56:09","slug":"james-gunns-dcu-is-all-about-himself-politics-and-revenge-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/52798\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2019s DCU Is All About Himself, Politics, and Revenge on the Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it wasn\u2019t clear from Creature Commandos, James Gunn now confirms his DCU is centered on himself, his politics, and his ongoing grudge against the right after being fired by Disney from Marvel. <\/p>\n

The handling of Creature Commandos, Superman, and Peacemaker Season 2 all make that point.<\/p>\n

Superman: Gunn\u2019s Political Take on the Icon<\/p>\n

Following Creature Commandos, Gunn\u2019s Superman stirred even more division. <\/p>\n

The film injected political undertones, presented a less \u201csuper\u201d Superman, and rewrote his origin with a spin that felt closer to the Viltrumites from Invincible. <\/p>\n

Gunn called it artistic freedom, but it looked more like an intentional reworking for the sake of pushing his personal style and messaging.<\/p>\n

The animals are also more super than the humans.<\/p>\n

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Peacemaker Season 2: Nazis and \u201cIgnorance\u201d<\/p>\n

Now with Peacemaker Season 2, Gunn pushes the politics further.<\/p>\n

Spoilers follow.<\/p>\n

The story sends John Cena\u2019s Peacemaker into an alternate universe where everything seems perfect\u2014his father isn\u2019t abusive, his brother is alive, he has the love of his life (played by Gunn\u2019s wife), and he\u2019s the hero he never was. But the big reveal in Episode 6 is that in this \u201cperfect\u201d world, the Nazis won and control the United States.<\/p>\n

The detail Gunn emphasizes? No people of color appear in any of the alternate-universe scenes until Episode 6 points it out. The episode ends with white people chasing after Danielle Brooks\u2019 character. The clear message: if you didn\u2019t notice, you must be racist.<\/p>\n

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Gunn\u2019s Own Words<\/p>\n

Speaking to GQ<\/a>, Gunn made it clear the episode was about him doing whatever he wants:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe\u00a0show\u00a0delights me. I really do whatever I want with\u00a0Peacemaker\u2014and I mean, in one respect, I do whatever I want with anything, because I am able to make my own choices and I\u2019m my own boss. But with\u00a0Peacemaker, we really let it go. We take chances. We go to places where I think other people are afraid to go. We got a lot of pushback from various sources within the structure, on this episode in particular, and we\u2019re like, \u201cLet\u2019s not be bashful about this. Let\u2019s just do the story that we want to do and I don\u2019t want to have to pull punches with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then dismissed criticism as racist backlash:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s interesting because there hasn\u2019t been that sort of\u2026 I have a few racists that have called me polarizing, but I\u2019m okay with being polarizing and letting racists fall to the wayside. People have loved this episode the most, so it\u2019s exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pushback and Disturbing Content<\/p>\n

While Gunn says fans love the Nazi Earth episode, the only actual pushback spotted online (that I\u2019ve seen) had nothing to do with racist fans (worth noting is that Nazis are socialists<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Instead, it was about a shocking Lex Luthor moment suggesting DC characters rape each other in prison\u2014possibly Killer Croc and Doctor Phosphorus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, Gunn gloated that he was cleared by both white and nonwhite friends, bragging that even test audiences didn\u2019t notice the \u201call white\u201d extras until it was pointed out. His response? That was the point.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that Gunn allowed Nazi imagery to slip into Fortnite through the John Cena emote<\/a>, content Epic Games quickly pulled from its marketplace and is now investigating, given the game\u2019s massive young audience.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s Next for Gunn\u2019s DCU<\/p>\n

With Supergirl and Clayface on the way, Gunn\u2019s political agendas will likely continue to shape the DCU. <\/p>\n

He is also writing and directing Man of Tomorrow, teaming Superman with Lex. Based on his track record, fans should expect more of Gunn\u2019s personal expression, ego, and politics baked into the stories. <\/p>\n

Gunn has even admitted he relates more to Lex than Superman. So the real question is: who is Gunn\u2019s \u201cMan of Tomorrow\u201d? Odds are he\u2019ll write Lex as the stand-in for a reluctant conservative, with Superman cast as the enlightened voice dragging him toward so-called progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it wasn\u2019t clear from Creature Commandos, James Gunn now confirms his DCU is centered on himself, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38766,4550,146,1725,85,46,12959,12960,397,12961,13818],"class_list":["post-52798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-creature-commandos","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-james-gunn","tag-john-cena","tag-movies","tag-peacemaker","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}