- Peacemaker Season 2’s Premiere drops lots of tips about Batman
- This season’s first episode contains several references to Dark Knight
- Other DCU projects confirmed that Caped Crusader is already operating in this universe
Peacemaker Season 2 has finally made its long-awaited debut and the popular HBO Max Show’s latest rate of waste do not depart time to tell us that Batman already exists in DC Universe (DCU).
Admittedly, previous DCU projects have done so. Creature Commandos Section 6 revealed DCU’s Batman for the first time – albeit in silhouette form – while James Gunn’s Superman Film contained a flash and you will miss that reference to Gotham City via a road sign.
Nevertheless the first episode of PeacemakerSophomore season really drives home, as Bruce Wayne has served as his vigilant alter-ego for some time and six specific Easter eggs that prove it.
Full spoilers immediately follow for Peacemaker 2‘s opening chapter.
The first of them happens 12 minutes into this season open, entitled ‘The Ties, which is sanded’.
Like Leota Adebayo and Chris Smith pull up to the place where the latter justice gang interview is held, says the venue bears the name Krank Toys.
A company founded and run by Griffin Krank, and later taken over by his son Cosmo after his father’s death, the Gotham City-based company and the Krank family were not created for DC comics. In fact, they were specifically made for 2004 -animated series Batman (NB: Not to be confused with his 2022 Matt Reeves-instrumented film name case). In this show, Krank’s futuristic but dangerous toys made, and after Bruce Wayne used his significant threat to close down the adopted Griffin Supervillain -Pseudonym toymaker to adopt revenge on Wayne.
DCU TV Originals Next Batman Easter Egg appears moments later. As Smith approaches the entrance of the building, one of its bodyguards opens the door and a visibly disturbed woman dressed in a white rabbit suit goes past Smith.
A criminal known as the white rabbit – real name Jaina Hudson – is found in the comics. And considering Hudson’s alias appears in Section 1’s final credits, it is clear that this person in ‘The Ties, Grindes’, is the Gotham-based Socialite that moonlights as a villain. So it’s another fun recall to a member of Caped Crusader’s Stacked Rogues Gallery.
15 minutes passes before the DCU Chapter One TV series falls its next Batman reference in the form of Argus agent Sasha Bordeaux, played here by Sol RodrÃguez.
Created by Greg Rucka and Shawn Martinbrough, and debut in ‘Detective Comics #751’ In December 2000, Bordeaux has great ties to Dark Knight. I won’t spoil anything about her comic book history here if any of it has been adapted to her live-action take in DCU. But when I talked to me ahead of the show’s return, RodrÃguez told me she “really loves” it if Bordeaux appears in DCU’s Batman movie, which is currently the title The brave and bold. We’ll see if her wish gets post-season 2.
Easter egg number four appears – or rather heard – during the news report see Rick Flag SR SR before Bordeaux enters his office to inform him of “Glitch” they have been watching in Smith’s home (ie Smith using the quantum folding chamber to access another dimension).
In the said news Bulletin, the anchor says there have been three outbreaks on Belle Rearing Penitentiary and Arkham for the past two months. The latter is surprising, a reference to Arkham Asylum, the psychiatric hospital that Supervillains captured by Batman.
The penultimate Easter egg can be glimpsed in the trophy room in the Smith house level found in the alternative universe we see throughout season 2.
When DCU’s Chris Smith inspects some framed newspaper clips of his family’s heroic exploitation in this parallel dimension, such an article reveals that they averted something by the rainbow being. A strong abhorrent snowman-type character, this monster first appeared in ‘Batman Vol. 1 #134 ‘in September 1960. Created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff comes from South America and has access to various superpowers, including pyrokinesis and the ability to evaporate objects using its multicolored fur.
The last reference in one of the best HBO Max Shows’ second season is not specific to Batman. Given his ties to the hero it is related to, but it still counts.
So what is it? When DCU’s Smith stumbles outside and meets his brother Keith, who lives and everyone has grown up in this alternative reality, the latter tells the former “I thought you were in the Bludhaven”. It is the Gotham-adjacent city protected by Nightwing, alias Dick Grayson. He is one of many individuals who assume the superhero identity of Robin, ie. Batman’s sidekick, in DC comics.
For more about Peacemaker‘S Last Season, Read My Peacemaker Season 2 release plan guidance to find out when new episodes will be released. Then check mine Peacemaker Season 2 Review that contains clues about what can happen in episodes 2 to 5.
