Peacemaker Just Confirmed ANOTHER Joker Exists In The DCEU
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 4.
In Peacemaker episode 4, a brief confirmation ultimately reveals that there is yet another Joker in the wider DCEU whose identity is still a secret. James Gunn’s Peacemaker follows on from his revival of the Suicide Squad franchise with 2021’s The Suicide Squad. However, how James Gunn’s work fits into the full DCEU timeline is growing ever more complicated.
In Peacemaker episode 4, “The Choad Less Traveled,” Peacemaker (John Cena) returns to the house of his father, Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick). As he is leaving, his father’s neighbor (Mel Tuck) opens a conversation with Peacemaker challenging the idea that he is a superhero by pointing out that he does not have a rogue’s gallery of supervillains like Batman, name dropping Joker, Riddler, and Mad Hatter. Crucially, Auggie Smith’s neighbor also mentions that Batman doesn’t kill people.
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There have been several clues in the Peacemaker TV show that it doesn’t take place in the same timeline as the main DCEU. One of the most prominent is the idea that Batman’s no-kill rule is in place, while Zack Snyder’s direction of the Ben Affleck Batman had him kill people repeatedly, but a version of the Wayne Foundation logo is also seen and is notably different from the one that appears in the DCEU. If the Peacemaker timeline includes a different version of Batman that doesn’t kill people, then it logically means that the mention of Joker in Peacemaker episode 4 confirms a new version of Joker for this timeline as well.
With Peacemaker suggesting the presence of a new Joker, there are now five versions of the Joker that exist in active DC timelines. The main DCEU
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