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This text accommodates spoilers for “Peacemaker” season 2, episode 8 — “Full Nelson”
Ever since his DC Universe debut on “Creature Commandos,” Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) has been related to metahumans and their jail system. Nevertheless, after successfully taking on the Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) position within the grand scheme of issues, he appears to have turn into way more proactive of their containment. “Full Nelson” reveals the true extent of his endgame: He is been in search of a simpler option to comprise the DCU’s cavalcade of metahuman prisoners, and Peacemaker’s (John Cena) dimension portal know-how provides him simply that.
After a number of false begins — together with a go to to the imp-infested sweet dimension the Earth-X Auggie (Robert Patrick) and Keith Smith (David Denman) focus on earlier within the season — Flag’s crew lastly finds what he is after. Dubbing the planet Salvation, Flag unveils his plan to make use of it as an off-world metahuman jail, and even dumps Peacemaker there as a guinea pig.
For comedian followers, that is each unhealthy information (for Peacemaker) and a very good improvement (for the DCU at giant). Salvation, because it seems, is a vital location within the comics, serving because the central location of the wonderful 2008 miniseries “Salvation Run.” This story options Flag, Waller, and a bunch known as Checkmate (which “Full Nelson” additionally introduces) dump a variety of extraordinarily distinguished supervillains on the planet, which sadly additionally occurs to be extremely harmful behind its idyllic facade.
Since “Salvation Run” encompasses a laundry checklist of DC’s most distinguished villains and James Gunn clearly means to adapt the story in a method or one other, Salvation may turn into the DCU’s go-to location for handily introducing nearly any supervillain the universe’s numerous tales would possibly want.
Salvation Run will seemingly play out in Peacemaker season 3
The “Salvation Run” comedian encompasses a large assortment of villainous metahumans, from the Flash’s rogues gallery to the Joker and even Lex Luthor (performed within the DCU by Nicholas Hoult, and already linked to the story because of his vital cameo look in “Peacemaker” season 2). These characters battle to coexist, type factions, and infrequently homicide one another whereas struggling to outlive on the planet — all of which is bread and butter to Gunn, whose superhero résumé consists nearly totally of villain and outcast groups doing such issues.
What’s extra, the planet Salvation is even linked to the notorious planet Apokolips, in case Gunn desires to carry the New Gods and DC ube-rvillain Darkseid in play in some unspecified time in the future down the road. In different phrases, “Salvation Run” gives countless storytelling alternatives and it is fairly intelligent to introduce the jail planet so early within the DCU recreation.
I am undecided that Gunn will adapt “Salvation Run” in its full extent, although. The Joker nearly definitely will not be launched like this, and Lex Luthor has his palms full with Gunn’s “Superman” sequel, “The Man of Tomorrow.” Apart from, the ending of “Peacemaker” season 2 appears to set the planet up as a key location for season 3.
On the very least, the DCU “Salvation Run” appears destined to ship Peacemaker in one more messy “The Suicide Squad”-style journey, accompanied by among the extra expendable villains from the comedian (Here is you, Psimon), and among the wackier DC baddies such because the gorilla/brain-in-a-jar crew of Monsieur Mallah and The Mind. Who is aware of? It’d even reunite Peacemaker with outdated enemy Bloodsport (Idris Elba), who’s a part of Luthor’s crew within the comedian.
All of “Peacemaker” season 2 is now streaming on HBO Max.
