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Spoiler alert: This story discusses important plot developments in season 2, episode 6 of “Peacemaker”, which is currently streamt at HBO Max.

In season 2 of ‘Peacemaker’, the titular shoot-first-axle-Later-Later-Held Christopher Smith (John Cena) was enchanted by an alternative universe in which he had never accidentally killed his older brother when they were children. On this Earth, Chris, his brother Keith, Aka Kapitein Triumph (David Denman), and their father Auggie, Aka Blue Dragon (Robert Patrick), are not only a happy family, but a trio beloved super heroes. The alternative version of The Love of Chris’ Leven, Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), is emotionally well adapted and able to maintain a romantic relationship. Life seems so big in this alte-earth, and Chris’ own life seems so terrible that at the end of episode 5 he leaves his world and chooses to go to the alternative. (It helps that Chris has already killed his alt-earth Doppelgänger in episode 1.)

And yet, for many viewers, something about this world has always felt … Out and not just because cheerios is spelled cheeri-ohs. In episode 6, “Ignorance is Chris”, we finally learn How AF, after Harcourt, AdeBayo (Danielle Brooks), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) and Economos (Steve Agee)-who call themselves the 11th street children cars in the Alt-earth to convince their peacemaker to get home. (Because this is ‘peacemaker’, they are splashed along the way with splashing Vigilante’s stock of restored smuggling.)

As soon as they arrive, they are split quickly. Harcourt convinces Keith to take her to the headquarters of Argus, where she starts to notice that there are nowhere in the city of people in color. Vigilante is delighted to find his alt-earth Doppelgänger, who is exactly on him in every conceivable way, except one: Alt-Burgere calls Peacemaker his ‘arch enemy’. In the meantime, AdeBayo and Economos are left with the Smith Family Compound without a clear feeling of what to do, so AdeBayo decides to explore the neighborhood. While she walks around, people stare at her in shock and disgusting, until Keith passes by, his breaks hits and shouts: “One has come out! A black!” AdeBayo starts running for her life as a crowd of Nazi -Marikans behind her behind her.

At the same time, Peacemaker-Nadat he and Harcourt finally have a tearing heart-to-heart about their feelings for each other, the American flags that see the desks at Alt-Argus to his horror to his horror, he discovers that there is a swastika instead of stars. On this earth, just like in the DC strips, ‘Peacemaker’ Maker and DC Studios Co-Chef James Gunn ‘Earth X’ mentions home Nazi Germany.

Gunn, who wrote and directed the episode, monitored this turn so closely that he refused to send it to press for Advance Review. But he did his own private test tenses of season 2 to see if someone noticed that Earth X was only populated with white people before the big unveiling in episode 6.

“Nobody has noticed it at all,” he says Variety. “And they were also people of color. It wasn’t alone, you know, the whites.”

The internet was the internet, but some fans had correctly guessed that this turn came after sharing Harcourt’s observation over the whiteness of the population – coupled with the fact that Auggie on the most important earth was a virulent white supremacist known as the white dragon.

“It is really difficult if you are online and one person from the millions of people looking at the show says:” Wait for a moment, here is a screenshot of what it is like in the alternative world, and here is a screenshot of the background actors in the DCU, “and you see the difference between them immediately,” he says. “Many people don’t go online to talk about television. So I got a lot of comments from people who had panicked. But many people knew it was coming.”

Gunn spoke Variety About the experience of photographing this episode during the 2024 presidential election, why he brought Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) to the show, why Superman will not come to him and how Lex’s Cameo connects to the feature film “Superman: Man of Tomorrow” from the 2027.

So, Nazis.

So, Nazis!

Could you talk about how you decided to hide this turn, kind of normal vision? It seems that you wanted to place the audience in the mindset of the peacemaker?

In very right View! You know, Peacemaker is not a bad guy. He is not a racist, but he has this kind of narcissistic tendency to assess moments based on how He is are treated and assessed. He is able to go to this other planet and not to notice at all: “Hey, wait a minute …” I mean, you think, you think were Blind because you have not noticed it in a TV program with clips that are 30 seconds; He did not notice that it was walking and driving around that everyone was white. While Harcourt, who is more attention to details, and is probably more sensitive to things like that, notes that she is in public. She looks around and goes: “What’s damn?”

But part of it is usDo you know? Honest for God, I don’t think I would have noticed if I was in a bubble and didn’t talk to people about the show online. And I think that’s something we might all think about.

You said on the official podcast “Peacemaker” about this episode that the first scene was shot outside the Vigilante house on Halloween of 2024. How present in your mind was the presidential elections while you photographed this episode and the episodes that come?

I shot the scene where the cocaine splashes over everyone the morning after the presidential election. But when I write such a show, I tell a story in the first place. I never think: “Oh, I have to prove a point about something.” But undoubtedly there are things from our real world that influence what I write. It is clear that the situation of ADeBayo at the end of the episode, from one perspective, is the most important thing. But at the end of the day the show is about the 11th Street children and their relationships with each other and what they get from each other and how they change each other. Probably the biggest scene in the show was the scene between Peacemaker and Harcourt in the interrogation room. In many ways that is the heart of the show. It’s not about Earth X. It’s about them.

And people will also discover the following episode that Earth X is not simplistic. If we were raised in the Nazi world and that if we would accept well, how would you think? We get a little more with specific characters the next episode.

Rick Flag Sr. talks about the next episode. (Frank Grillo) Lex Luthor in Belle Reve Prison and closes a deal with him in exchange for help finding peacemaker. Should we expect David Corswet if the Earth X or Earth 1 versions of Superman in the show?

No. David was even very upset that Nick had to be in the show, and he didn’t. It just didn’t work. I needed Lex in the show to serve a specific goal. And actually, what Lex and Rick Flag are planning to influence what is happening in an aspect of ‘Man of Tomorrow’. So all that is connected. But this relationship between Rick Flag and Lex Luthor is a potentially negative thing for Superman and all Meta-Humans.

You wrote this season while you also worked on ‘Superman’, so did you know where you wanted to take the Lex story line for ‘Man of Tomorrow’?

Totally, yes. I didn’t know any things about it, but I knew what the general story of the DCU was. That was something I threw towards [Warner Bros. Discovery CEO] David Zaslav before we even took the job. I’m so of this, here is the story. There will be this movie, this show, this movie, this show and those things all fit in different ways. Some things came, such as ‘Clayface’, which we did not expect, and other things were a more difficult way to travel. But the general sketch of that general story is what we follow through “Superman”, “Peacemaker”, “Man of Tomorrow” and beyond.

How many of Earth X will play a role in the DCU that is progressing?

Not much. It is not an important part of the stories. That is about Peacemaker.

To go back to my earlier question, you have clearly written this show, not knowing what the outcome of the presidential elections would be. But how has it been for you, knowing that this turn would come, and watching the real world that is closer to Earth x more than anyone would have expected?

[Long pause] I don’t think I know how to answer the question. It is clear that there are many things in the world that I am not happy with. I am not so narcissistic that I think of the world in relation to my TV program. I mean, there are strange things with this show. There were weird things with ‘Superman’. Absolutely 100% of that film is written and done before something has ever happened between Israel and Palestine, and everyone continues to refuse to believe that that is not what it is about. It is not. That’s just not. You can take what you want from that, to mean what you want, but I have not written to get a stand for Israel and Palestine.

Do you feel the same about this season of “Peacemaker”?

I mean, you will see a few things next episode where of course there are parallels. We have seen more racism lately, right? Is that because there is more racism or because it is more good to be open? It’s probably the last. That is clearly daunting. And if my stupid TV program has something to do with people like: “Oh, maybe I should be more aware of my prejudices,” great. But that’s not what I write the show for. I write the show for the emotional perspective, just as I wrote “Superman” to be about kindness. If there was a sociopolitics aspect of ‘Superman’, it is that there has been an absence of kindness and understanding of a person, regardless of what their thoughts or feelings are.

Everyone is a damn anti -hero. Everyone is too damn cool. What about not Be cool? What about being a nice person for someone? Why is that considered old -fashioned and Pollyanna? I want to be Pollyanna. I love that aspect of myself. I believe in the goodness of the human mind. I think many of the people do things that I don’t like, I think they are essentially good people. They just have strange ideas about things, and I think we can communicate with those people. Maybe I am naive, I don’t know, but that’s who I am.

This interview has been edited and condensed.