Christopher Smith and the 11th Street Kids are back! Three years after John Cena's muscle-bound, gun-toting, ultra-violent super-dummy emerged from being shot and buried under a collapsing building in The Suicide Squad to head up a new morally dubious black ops unit in Peacemaker Season 1, James Gunn's r-rated show is readying its return to our screens. And with the DCEU dead and the dawn of the DCU nigh, the newly released trailer for Season 2 — the first live-action offering from DC Studios — is a real statement of intent from Gunn. Just check out the teaser below to see what we mean;
Hoo boy! This one doesn't fuck about, does it? No sooner has the DC Studios ident dropped than we see Christopher 'Peacemaker' Smith being laughed out of a superhero job interview by Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), and Green Lantern Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), three DCU characters we can expect to be seeing plenty more of in Gunn's Superman this summer. From there, it looks like we'll rejoin Smith and the 11th Street Kids — Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), and Steve Agee's John Economos — as they reckon with still not being accepted in society despite having literally saved the world on their last outing. We also get the return of Smith's sentient, quite literally bird-brained sidekick Eagly, and the live-action introduction of Frank Grillo as his Creature Commandos character Rick Flag Sr., who we'll see on the warpath this season as he looks to avenge the death of his son at the hands of Peacemaker. Oh, and just to complicate matters, the whole punch-and-punchline stuffed trailer climaxes with Peacemaker coming face to face with... Peacemaker? Holy multiversal madness, Batman!
So why exactly are there two Peacemakers? Will the 11th Street Kids ever find acceptance and learn to love themselves as they are? And what will Rick Flag Sr. do when he gets his hands on our boy Christopher Smith? We'll get the answers to at least some of those questions when Peacemaker Season 2 hits Max on 21 August, and presumably Sky and Now over here in the UK very soon after. Hey, at least now John Cena will finally be able to say that he can see himself! Who'd have thunk, eh?