Peacemaker's Leota Adebayo Is Another Perfect James Gunn Character Trick
Warning! SPOILERS for Peacemaker episode 5.
In Peacemaker episode 5, the DCEU TV series demonstrated how James Gunn’s creation of the character of Leota Adebayo works perfectly for the story he set out to tell. James Gunn has become known for his comic book adaptations of strange properties in both the MCU and the DCEU where he often brings obscure characters from the comics to life. However, Leota demonstrates how his original characters can be just as important as those that he adapts.
Peacemaker episode 1 reintroduced Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) and John Economos (Steve Agee) who both appeared in The Suicide Squad as part of the Task Force X control team. It also introduced Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji), an emotionally closed-off black-ops operative, and Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), a newbie to the field and the daughter of Amanda Waller (Viola Davis). Leota has always been more open to seeing the good in Peacemaker (John Cena), but in Peacemaker episode 5, Leota Adebayo connects on a deeper level with him before having to betray him by planting the forged diary for her mother.
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Peacemaker himself was introduced in The Suicide Squad and the only side of him that was really visible was the obnoxious façade that he put up. While Harcourt and Economos got to know him through that mission, Leota is coming to him with fresh eyes at a point after he has killed Rick Flag and had his assumptions about himself shaken to their core. By creating Leota as a new face who is not already jaded by being part of the world of black-ops, she’s able to provide the viewer with a perspective on Peacemaker that is more akin to that of an average person. Her detachment
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