Peacemaker Just Admitted Batman's No Kill Rule Is Ridiculous
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 4.
James Gunn’s Peacemaker just pointed out the major flaw with Batman’s infamous “no kill” rule, and why Ben Affleck’s DCEU Dark Knight was right to break it. The latest episode of Gunn’s outrageous The Suicide Squad spin-off sees John Cena’s titular hero examining what it means to be a hero as the shadow of his own origin story made itself clear.
Peacemaker is a surprisingly complex take on heroism, presenting The Suicide Squad’s most hated character — largely for his murder of Rick Flag — as far more sympathetic than his first Task Force X appearance could get close to. The show has begun to explore more of Peacemaker’s unique take on justice and where his idea that the law can be broken and blood can be spilled in the name of the greater good comes from. Through a slightly different lens, without the influence of his white supremacist father, DC comics villain White Dragon, Peacemaker isn’t all that different to Batman himself. Both are vigilantes who take the law into their own hands, it’s just that Peacemaker gets whatever it takes done.
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Peacemaker has already taken various shots at Batman, calling him a “p*ssy” in Smith’s estimation and indirectly insulting Batman’s use of the conspicuous Batmobile. But Peacemaker episode 4 offers the most overt Batman criticism yet as Peacemaker suggests that Batman refusing to kill criminals just gives them the chance to escape and kill victims, implicating Batman as an indirect killer. And he has a point, given the frequency with which villains typically reappear to reoffend, though it’s never been a huge issue in the movies as much as it was in the
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