{"id":182780,"date":"2025-09-26T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:26:13","slug":"peacemakers-alternate-earth-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182780\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker’s Alternate Earth Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn what world is he the hero?\u201d the tagline for \u201cPeacemaker<\/a>\u201d Season 2 asks.<\/p>\n

The answer? Not a very good one.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2 follows John Cena\u2019s titular vigilante as he retreats into a world where he, his deceased brother and his racist, abusive father and are alive and well as their planet\u2019s heroes, the Top Trio. Now, the disturbing truth behind this reality has finally been revealed.<\/p>\n

Be warned, this article contains spoilers for \u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2, Episode 6. If you don\u2019t want to know what\u2019s really going on with Peacemaker\u2019s parallel Earth, go watch the episode and then come back.<\/p>\n

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After Peacemaker returned to the parallel reality and shut the door behind him in the previous episode, \u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2, Episode 6, titled \u201cIgnorance Is Chris,\u201d follows the 11th Street Kids as they reopen the Quantum Unfolding Chamber and follow him to the other dimension. The world is almost identical, but it becomes quickly apparent something is off when everyone around the characters is white. James Gunn<\/a>, who wrote and directed Episode 6, called this week\u2019s installment one of his favorite things he\u2019s ever made.<\/p>\n

After Chris and Harcourt reunite following her being detained on suspicion of drugs, they realize ARGUS is run by nazis after noticing an American flag with a swastika on it. The reveal is all the more stressful for Adebayo, who ends up being chased by a stampede of people \u2014 including Peacemaker\u2019s brother \u2014 down a quiet neighborhood in the episode\u2019s final moments.<\/p>\n

Adrien also meets this dimension\u2019s version of himself and they\u2019re getting along as expected until he lets slip that in the main Earth, he and Peacemaker are friends. On Earth-X, Vigilante and Peacemaker are enemies and he joined the Sons of Liberty \u2014 seen in the third episode \u2014 to fight back the Nazi government.<\/p>\n

\"peacemaker-jennifer-holland-hbo-max\"Jennifer Holland in \u201cPeacemaker.\u201d (HBO Max)<\/p>\n

Now, viewers know the disturbing truth of this parallel Earth \u2014\u00a0or, as it\u2019s called in the comics, Earth-X. In the show, as in the comics, this world exists as a universe where Nazi forces won World War II.<\/p>\n

Fans had long speculated that Peacemaker\u2019s \u201cbest universe ever\u201d was in reality some riff on Earth-X from the comics. Waiting for some narrative shoe to drop and reveal a hard truth about the alternate reality, viewers were tipped off by a number of clues that this would indeed be a late-season reveal.<\/p>\n

To begin with, audiences noticed early on the lack of diversity in the background characters of Peacemaker\u2019s alternate world. Where the primary world of the DCU is filled with a diverse cast of actors and characters in \u201cPeacemaker,\u201d audiences could only find white extras and background actors in the alternate world Peacemaker finds himself in.<\/p>\n

\"peacemaker-david-denman-hbo-max\"David Denman in \u201cPeacemaker.\u201d (HBO Max)<\/p>\n

This led fans to ponder the question raised in the season\u2019s tagline: \u201cIn what world is he the hero?\u201d As Gunn showed viewers in Season 1 and a cold open in Season 2, Peacemaker\u2019s father, Auggie Smith (played by Robert Patrick), was a raging white supremacist who raised his sons to share in his values. Throughout Gunn\u2019s \u201cThe Suicide Squad\u201d and \u201cPeacemaker,\u201d Gunn\u2019s central character struggles to become a better man against these values outside of his father\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n

Yet the Auggie Smith of this parallel dimension is much more loving and gentle toward his sons. Peacemaker\u2019s brother Keith (played by David Denman) is alive and similarly caring. At first, it seems as if this is the primary twist of the new dimension \u00a0\u2014 Peacemaker\u2019s family is kinder, and they\u2019re viewed as heroes as a result.<\/p>\n

But fans expecting a twist and noticing the cast of background characters quickly suspected that Auggie, at his core, did not change. Rather, the world around him changed in a way that his supremacist views were now commonly accepted. Rather than entering a world where the White Dragon (or, on this Earth, the Blue Dragon) is a hero, Peacemaker simply found a reality where people don\u2019t treat his racist beliefs as villainous.<\/p>\n

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Earth-X, or Earth-10 as it later became known, is a decades-old concept in the DC Comics universe, though not one with an overly extensive history. The idea originated in 1973\u2019s \u201cJustice League of America #107\u201d by Len Wein\u00a0and Dick Dillin. In the issue, members of the Justice League (Batman, Green Arrow, Elongated Man) and the Justice Society (Dr. Fate, Sandman, Earth-2\u2019s Superman) are inadvertently launched onto Earth-X while using a transmatter machine during their annual team-up.<\/p>\n

On Earth-X, history changes drastically when the Nazis win World War II, becoming a dominant global superpower. A group of heroes, known as the Freedom Fighters, fight as rebels in the name of America and freedom, led by Uncle Sam. The JLA and JSA help the Freedom Fighters overthrow the Nazi regime before returning to their own realities.<\/p>\n

Since then, Earth-X has only appeared in a handful of stories. After the events of \u201cCrisis on Infinite Earths,\u201d some elements of the Nazi dimension, such as the Freedom Fighters, were folded into the composite New Earth. Later, after the multiverse re-expanded in \u201cInfinite Crisis\u201d and \u201c52,\u201d the Earth-X concept was adopted by one of the new 52 universes, Earth-10.<\/p>\n

Grant Morrison later expanded upon Earth-10 during their series \u201cThe Multiversity,\u201d which explored the multiverse\u2019s 52 Earths in a post-Flashpoint, pre-Convergence timeline. In \u201cThe Multiversity: Mastermen\u201d one-shot, Morrison and artist Jim Lee depicted a world in which Superman (here named Kal-L) was adopted by Adolf Hitler, allowing him to establish Nazi supremacy worldwide. This Kal-L goes by Karl Kant and adopts the name Overman, styling himself after fictional \u201cSuperman\u201d comics read by Hitler. The most popular \u201cMultiversity\u201d one-shot, \u201cPax Americana,\u201d starred the then-unpopular Peacemaker as the primary character.<\/p>\n

Arguably, Earth-X\u2019s most prominent appearance to date was in the CW Arrowverse event \u201cCrisis on Earth-X.\u201d In this four-part crossover between \u201cArrow,\u201d \u201cThe Flash,\u201d \u201cLegends of Tomorrow\u201d and \u201cSupergirl,\u201d the wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West is interrupted when Nazi forces, led by Dark Arrow and Overgirl, invade their world. The heroes themselves went over to Earth-X, seeing the world where Nazis ruled.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear who is in charge of this DCU\u2019s Earth-X quite yet or what the rules are. But it clearly is not the idyllic place to live that Chris initially thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeacemaker\u201d Season 2 releases new episodes Thursdays on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

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