Superman Kaiju Connection & DCU Easter Eggs

Warning! This put up incorporates SPOILERS for Peacemaker season 2, episode 5Amongst a number of enjoyable Easter eggs and DCU references, Peacemaker season 2, episode 5 incorporates a large connection to James Gunn’s Superman. As issues collapse in the principle DCU actuality for Peacemaker, with enemies closing in from all sides, the alternate dimension Chris Smith discovered is trying higher and higher. In the meantime, this new episode options a number of strong nods and ties.

In Peacemaker season 2, episode 4, Chris relocated the QUC to a cabin, barely avoiding ARGUS whereas Rick Flag Sr. recruited Emilia Harcourt. Now, this new episode incorporates a full confrontation with ARGUS, a supernatural reveal for Eagly, and a significant determination. Listed here are all the most important Easter eggs, DCU references, nods, and enjoyable factoids we discovered alongside the way in which.

Rick Flag Jr.’s Funeral

Peacemaker season 2, episode 5 opens with a flashback to the funeral of Rick Flag Jr., notably attended by each Emilia Harcourt and Rick Flag Sr. Because the flashback progresses, it is confirmed that the funeral occurred simply after the occasions of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad however earlier than the premiere of Peacemaker season 1.

Costumed Clown and a Big Starfish (The Suicide Squad)

Rick Flag Sr. expresses his frustration and the absurdity that, after years of serving his nation, his son died on a mission with “a bunch of costumed clowns and a large starfish“. It is a reference to the occasions of The Suicide Squad and Activity Drive X’s main battle in Corto Maltese with the cosmic kaiju risk often called Starro the Conqueror.

“S*** Element in Evergreen” (Venture Butterfly)

Throughout the funeral flashback, Rick Flag Sr. tries warning Emilia that Amanda Waller has it out for her, although Harcourt already is aware of, as she and John Economos have already been assigned to “a s*** element in Evergreen…Venture Butterfly“. It is a nod to The Suicide Squad’s post-credits scene and the occasions of Peacemaker season 1 on the whole.

Shaft Is A Praise

Surrounded by ARGUS brokers within the park, Chris Smith refers to Agent Fleury as “Shaft”, the fictional P.I. whom Tim Meadows’ DCU character does bear some resemblance to. Likewise, Fluery considers the comparability to be a praise.

Sasha Bordeaux’s Cyborg Standing Confirmed

Getting ready to take Chris Smith out with a kill shot, Agent Sasha Bordeaux is confirmed to be cybernetically enhanced in Peacemaker season 2, episode 5. Afterward within the episode, Economos confirms that Sasha was in a airplane crash and that ARGUS saved her life with a number of cybernetic upgrades. This successfully makes her a cyborg, identical to her authentic DC Comics counterpart.

Some Acquainted Hat/Head Confusion

Getting her first response from her detective company advert, Leota Adebayo is requested on the telephone if she’s sporting a hat primarily based on the advert’s silhouette or if she has a sq. head, not realizing she’s being mistakenly propositioned for prostitution. Regardless, there is a related joke about head/hat confusion in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with Child Groot.

ARGUS Dimensional Testing?

Following his beatdown of Chris Smith after ARGUS briefly had Peacemaker in custody, Rick Flag Sr. is proven studying what appears to be lab notes concerning an experiment involving dimensional testing. It is attainable that for all of ARGUS’ concern concerning the risks of dimensional rifts and pocket universes, they could be seeking to safe their very own extradimensional entry for themselves.

Stopping One other Metropolis Incident (And A Better Goal)

As soon as extra, Rick Flag Sr. tells Agent Bordeaux that ARGUS’ precedence is to stop one other “Metropolis Incident” as seen with Lex Luthor’s pocket universe in Superman. Nevertheless, Flag additionally alludes to a want to realize management of Peacemaker’s Quantum Unfolding Chamber for “a higher goal“, additional suggesting that Flag might have a secret agenda to journey to different realities himself.

“A Blind Monk In The Himalayas”

Uninterested in Agent Fleury’s non-PC nicknames, Judomaster warns that if he does not cease, he’ll actually “rip his d*** off” utilizing expertise he discovered from “a blink monk within the Himalayas“.

Whereas this reference to Judomaster’s previous coaching does not come from Rip Jagger’s precise DC Comics origins, it is a traditional trope we have seen from different superhero origins, like Batman training with Ra’s al Ghul in the Himalayas or Daredevil studying learn how to combat from a blind warrior named Stick.

Peacemaker Takes Down Superman’s Kaiju

Lastly, one of many greatest DCU connections comes on the very finish of Peacemaker season 2, episode 5.

Having determined to make a life for himself completely within the different actuality, Peacemaker joins his brother and father to combat a kaiju downtown. Based mostly on the information footage proven on the very finish of the episode, The Prime Trio was profitable, although the kaiju itself appears precisely just like the one Kal-El and the Justice Gang fought in James Gunn’s Superman.

It is definitely one of many greatest connections between the 2 DCU initiatives but, although one which does open up some fascinating questions on this alt-reality contemplating the kaiju in the principle DCU was unleashed by Lex Luthor.

New episodes of Peacemaker season 2 launch Thursdays on HBO Max.