Warning! This submit accommodates SPOILERS for Peacemaker season 2, episode 6Peacemaker season 2, episode 6 options some actually enjoyable Easter eggs and connections to the higher DCU, together with a serious cameo from James Gunn’s Superman. After touring to an alternate dimension, the remainder of the eleventh St. Youngsters have gone after Chris Smith to carry him again house. As such, there are a number of enjoyable ties and multiversal references alongside the best way.
Beforehand in Peacemaker season 2, episode 5, Chris Smith selected to go away the principle DCU actuality behind, believing he was by no means meant for this world that is always giving him unhealthy breaks, particularly with ARGUS closing in on all sides. Now, Peacemaker season 2, episode 6 is basically set on this alternate dimension, whereas additionally that includes a serious Superman look.
D&D Cutpurse
Adrian Chase’s mom reveals she joined her son’s D&D marketing campaign when he did not have sufficient gamers, confirming she’s a stage 4 cutpurse (in any other case generally known as a low-level underworld thief).
Vigilante’s Beanie Child Assortment & Stretch
It appears as if Vigilante purchased into the real-life Beanie Child assortment craze with a closet filled with the stuffed animals and the assumption that the market’s about to growth. He additionally says that Stretch the Ostrich is the cutest one (a fast Google search confirms he is fairly priceless, too).
Xenomorph
Encountering the Kyphotic alien as soon as extra within the Quantum Unfolding Chamber, John Economos refers back to the other-dimensional being as a “Xenomorph”, a reference to the traditional monsters of the Alien franchise.
Belle Reve
Rick Flag Sr. makes a name to Belle Reve, the DCU’s most safety jail for metahumans (and the standard pool for almost all of Amanda Waller’s Job Drive X candidates).
The Reverse-Peacemaker
Economos refers back to the alt-DCU’s Chris Smith because the “Reverse-Peacemaker”. That is greater than doubtless a reference to DC’s Reverse-Flash, the arch foe and reverse of Barry Allen’s Flash.
Mick Jagger & The Beatles
Whereas speaking with Harcourt about bands like Helloween, Keith Smith reveals that Mick Jagger was the lead singer of The Beatles on this actuality, as a substitute of The Rolling Stones.
Cheeri-ohs
Loving each little change on this new actuality, Vigilante completely goes nuts over a field of Cheerios (and its refined identify change on this alternate actuality).
Spider-Man Pointing Meme
At their first encounter, the twin Vigilantes do the “Spider-Man Pointing” meme, not solely canonizing Spider-Man as a fictional character within the DCU but additionally the traditional meme originating from 1967’s Spider-Man sequence that is since develop into synonymous with a number of multiversal superhero adventures. The meme was notably featured in each Spider-Man: No Method House and each Spider-Verse films.
Lex Luthor
Rick Flag requests the assistance of none aside from Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor. Luthor is incarcerated in Belle Reve, as was teased on the finish of James Gunn’s Superman. He is additionally proven utilizing a cane, the results of the brutal beatdown he obtained from Krypto the Superdog. We will additionally hear Lex’s “LuthorCorp” theme, first heard in Superman, as he sits down.
“Vigilantes? Who Provides A S***?”
Lex Luthor reveals how little he cares about non-powered vigilantes, believing they are not a menace in comparison with metahumans like Superman. Clearly, he is but to have a significant encounter with Batman within the DCU.
