Max debuted unique footage from Peacemaker Season 2 throughout a brand new promotional trailer highlighting upcoming releases. The teaser featured key motion moments, main character developments, and the return of John Cena as Christopher Smith, providing a primary glimpse on the subsequent chapter of the DCU collection. The brand new season premieres on August 21, 2025.
John Cena’s Peacemaker seems in new Season 2 footage from a Max trailer, exhibiting Christopher Smith amid fiery destruction. Within the temporary clip, Smith offers a thumbs up whereas surrounded by chaos and later jumps via a window of a burning constructing. Leota Adebayo (performed by Danielle Brooks) tells him, “You’re a superhero now.”
James Gunn confirmed that Season 2 might be canon throughout the new DC Universe (DCU), though not all of Season 1 is included. Gunn said to IGN, “The reality is nearly all of Peacemaker is canon aside from Justice League, which we are going to form of cope with in the following season of Peacemaker.”
He added, “In Creature Commandos, you’ll hear them speak about issues that occurred in [The] Suicide Squad or Peacemaker. Effectively then, these issues mechanically develop into canon.” Gunn confirmed that the present will retcon the comedic Justice League cameo from Season 1’s finale.
Set pictures revealed a mural that options Peacemaker, his father in the White Dragon go well with, and a 3rd character believed to be his deceased brother, Keith. Robert Patrick will return as Augee Smith, regardless of the character’s loss of life in Season 1.
The collection continues the story of Christopher Smith following 2021’s The Suicide Squad. In keeping with the official Season 1 synopsis, it follows “a compellingly vainglorious man who believes in peace at any price, regardless of how many individuals he has to kill to get it.” Gunn’s feedback recommend the present’s multiverse components will permit Season 2 to shift into a brand new DCU continuity whereas referencing previous occasions.
