Peacemaker season 2’s finale is full of exciting Easter eggs and DCU cameos. Not only do we get even more cameos from Superman, but there are some major ties to the original DC Comics before the eighth and final episode of the season reaches its end.
After the 11th St. Kids return from the Nazi-ruled Earth-X in Peacemaker season 2, episode 7, Rick Flag Sr. is looking to use Chris Smith’s QUC for the government. Meanwhile, Peacemaker and his friends choose to break with ARGUS and build something better. Here are all the cool ties, Easter eggs, Superman cameos, and more in Peacemaker season 2’s finale.
Every Easter Egg, Reference, Cameo, and DC Comics Tie in Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 8
Big Belly Burger – Before “The Boat” incident, Chris and Emilia are shown eating a Big Belly Burger, a classic restaurant from the original comics seen in earlier episodes of Peacemaker, Superman, and in the CW’s Arrowverse.
Leota Outing Waller – Emilia shares her frustration about Leota outing Amanda Waller’s illicit operations on live television, which happened in the finale of Peacemaker season 1.
Looney Tunes – Yosemite Sam and Pepe Le Pew are both referenced in Peacemaker season 2 at different times in the episode, two classic Looney Tunes characters (also owned by Warner Bros.).
Even More LuthorCorp Employees – Following Sydney Happersen’s Peacemaker season 2 debut in the previous episode, the finale adds Otis Berg, Amanda McCoy, and Ms. Jessop, all of whom were LuthorCorp employees in James Gunn’s Superman (and all of them are existing DC Comics characters).
Imps! – The first door ARGUS manages to go through is a Candyland-type world full of vicious Imps, a callback to the Imp conversation in Peacemaker season 2’s premiere, while also continuing the ongoing trend of Imp references or appearances in every DCU project released thus far.
Running Everything Past Luthor – Flag gets a note from Lex Luthor during their exploration of the QUC, and it’s confirmed that Rick and Lex are directly working together.
Vigilante’s Videogames – Adrian’s love of video games is referenced twice in Peacemaker season 2”s finale, the first with the fairly new Nintendo game Princess Peach: Showtime as well as the classic arcade game Frogger.
Black Hole – One door in the QUC opens right up to a black hole, looking exactly like the one that nearly destroyed Metropolis in James Gunn’s Superman.
Terror Tales – Another door features some absolutely terrifying giant screaming skulls atop spider-leg bodies, an homage from Gunn to the classic Terror Tales comics.
Zombies – Yet another door in the QUC opens to a horde of Colonial-era zombies. One can only hope for an Elseworlds story one day that adapts the beloved DC superhero-zombie story DCeased by Tom Taylor.
Planet Salvation – ARGUS and LuthorCorp finally find a seemingly peaceful and uninhabited planet they choose to call Salvation, seeking to turn it into an inescapable prison world for metahumans. This mirrors 2007’s Salvation Run storyline where Rick Flag and Amanda Waller did the same thing to supervillains in the comics.
Secretary of Defense – Actor James Hiroyuki Liao reprises his role from Superman as Secretary of Defense General Stephen Mori, who approves Flag and LuthorCorp’s Salvation proposal, having been concerned about the rising threat of metahumans in the DCU’s first movie.
Arkham Asylum/Belle Reve – Classic DC Comics prisons like Belle Reve and Arkham Asylum are referenced again in Peacemaker season 2, with Rick Flag declaring that neither is capable of containing metahumans on a permanent basis, while Planet Salvation can.
Peacemaker and Harcourt’s Kiss – Dancing on the party boat, Chris pulls Emilia in for a kiss. This pays off their moment in the season’s opening dance number, where Chris and Harcourt are instead pulled away from each other.
An Eagle Hugging A Human – Leota references the “miraculous” sight of an eagle hugging a human, something that happens twice in Peacemaker season 1, but also later in the finale when Eagly hugs Economos.
Foxy Shazam – Following the use of their song “Oh Lord” as the show’s opening dance number, Peacemaker season 2’s finale features the actual band performing the song on-screen, featured on the party boat with Chris and Emilia in attendance.
Ultra Bunny – Setting up their new offices, Emilia Harcourt can be seen putting down a model of Ultra Bunny with the sign “obstacles are opportunities.” Ultra Bunny is an original character created by James Gun that was featured on Rick Flag Jr.’s shirt in The Suicide Squad, a replacement for Looney Tunes’ Wile E. Coyote holding a sign with the word “Help!”.
Slo-Mo Finale Walk – Just like in Peacemaker season 1’s finale, which featured the 11 St. Kids slo-mo walk to Wig Wam’s “Do You Wanna Taste It?”, Peacemaker season 2’s finale gets its own solo-mo walk with the main leads to Foxy Shazam’s “Oh Lord”.
Checkmate – The 11th St. Kids choose to build their own agency named Checkmate, joined by Agents Bordeaux and Fleury, as well as Judomaster. In the comics, Checkmate was originally an independent shadow agency of Task Force X created by Amanda Waller. Now, the DCU’s Checkmate looks to be much more positive and largely envisioned by her daughter Leota Adebayo.
Monsters On Planet Salvation – The very end of Peacemaker season 2’s finale sees Chris Smith being stranded on Planet Salvation by Rick Flag Sr. and ARGUS as revenge for killing his son. Hearing monsters in the distance, it’s worth noting that the comics Planet Salvation was revealed to be a training ground run by DeSaad of Apokolips, a key servant of Darkseid.
All episodes of Peacemaker season 2 are now streaming on HBO Max.
- Release Date
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January 13, 2022
- Network
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HBO Max, Max
- Directors
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James Gunn, Brad Anderson, Rosemary Rodriguez
