The final episode of Peacemaker Season 2 reveals what lies ahead for James Gunn’s DCU

With the premiere of the eighth and final episode of the second season of ‘Peacemaker,’ the series bids farewell to this stage, now fully integrated into James Gunn’s new DCU. The events of the season finale also serve to give clues about what is to come in future series and films in this continuity under the DC Studios banner. Below we leave you with all the key information:

Author’s note: for obvious reasons, this article contains spoilers for episode 8 of season 2 of Peacemaker. You have been warned!

How Rick Flag Sr.’s plan affects the future of James Gunn’s DCU

After several twists and turns between the Nazi dimension of Earth-X and the “real” world of the DCU, the latest episode of Peacemaker season 2, titled “Full Nelson,” reveals Rick Flag Sr.’s grand plan, as well as his unhealthy interest in Christopher Smith. As revealed at the beginning of the season, Flag Sr. replaces Amanda Waller at the helm of A.R.G.U.S., an organization dedicated to protecting planet Earth from all kinds of threats.

On previous occasions, A.R.G.U.S. has demonstrated very lax morals, employing any means necessary, such as using both human and non-human inmates for high-risk covert missions, as seen in “The Suicide Squad” and “Creature Commandos.” In this episode, it becomes clear that Flag is a more than worthy successor to Waller.

Due to the events of ‘Superman’, General Flag is convinced that metahumans are a danger to the planet, so in a way, he has inherited the ideas of Lex Luthor, who also preached the same thing. For this reason, Flag wanted the alien dimensional portal technology owned by Peacemaker, in order to be able to safely open and close rifts—something that Luthor’s technology did not offer—and find a habitable planet, not to steal its resources or conquer it, but to use it as a prison.

The presence of this prison, called “Salvation,” is a major plot twist within the DCU. For all intents and purposes, it becomes a catch-all where, in the future, we could find both imprisoned supervillains and all kinds of metahuman heroes who have been unjustly locked up. Flag himself justifies this controversial decision by directly mentioning the ineffectiveness of Arkham and Belle Reve, where, and we quote, “people escape every month.”

On the other hand, the fact that the prison is the planet itself, without surveillance or facilities, may lead to the formation of different factions and alliances among the prison population that will swell its ranks. In this way, the dimensional prison devised by James Gunn is a fundamental pillar that will surely be much talked about in future DCU works.

What happens to Peacemaker at the end of season two?

Chris suffered a huge shock due to the events he experienced on Earth-X and was arrested by A.R.G.U.S. However, the 11th Street Kids—Adrian, Adebayo, and company—manage to get him out of prison using Vigilante’s illegal money and bring him back to his senses after a deep conversation among friends. They also used the illicit funds to found Checkmate, a private security consultancy that Fleury, Judomaster, and Sasha also joined, disgusted by Flag’s extreme and reckless methods in search of his interdimensional prison.

Everything pointed to the second season having a happy ending, but in one of the final scenes of the series, Chris is kidnapped again by A.R.G.U.S. and brought before Flag Sr. It is then revealed that the director of A.R.G.U.S. had been out to get him all this time for killing his son, Rick Flag Jr., during the events of ‘The Suicide Squad’. As a result, he throws the Peacemaker into Salvation, making him its first inmate and abandoning him to his fate on this inhospitable planet.

In addition, Flag mocks Peacemaker, hinting that he will serve as a test subject to see how Salvation affects the human body before they begin filling the planet with metahuman inmates. And that’s how both the episode and the season end, leaving the fate of its protagonist up in the air in a cliffhanger.

Although Christopher Smith’s fate is as grim as it is uncertain, the series’ final revelation raises the stakes and casts a dark shadow over the evolution of the new DC Universe. Rick Flag Sr. is not the reasonable authority figure he initially appeared to be, and this is accentuated by the fact that he now rubs shoulders with Lex Luthor and his minions. For now, this character is emerging as one of the greatest threats to the metahuman community, and only time will tell if even Superman himself will have to deal with him as he did with Luthor... or even save the Peacemaker.

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