Peacemaker's Worst Helmet Has A Deeper Meaning Than You Realized
Warning! SPOILERS for Peacemaker's season 1 finale.
Peacemaker's «Scabies For All» helmet made reference to James Gunn's first independent superhero movie, The Specials, and a villainous plot enacted by the reformed supervillain Amok. Released in 2000, The Specials remains surprisingly obscure, despite an ensemble full of notable actors and James Gunn crediting the script for the movie with making his career in Hollywood. This is why only the most devout fans of Gunn's work noticed the homage to The Specials placed in Peacemaker's shocking season 1 finale.
Early on in «It's Cow or Never,» Peacemaker and his allies assessed what few resources they had at hand for launching a raid on an alien base. This included a collection of Peacemaker helmets that Peacemaker's father had made before his death, which granted the wearer unique superpowers. Unfortunately, as Peacemaker considered this arsenal, he concluded that most of them wouldn't be of much help since they offered highly situational superpowers, such as breathing underwater.
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The oddest helmet in this collection was «Scabies For All,» which Peacemaker claimed "gives everybody in a one-mile radius scabies, except, of course, the wearer of the helmet." This helmet stood out as unique, given that a weapon that causes people to develop a skin rash seems more appropriate to a villain like Poison Ivy than a nominal hero like Peacemaker. This was because the mention of scabies was a nod to The Specials.
One scene in The Specials centered around a conversation between the villain-turned-hero Amok (Jamie Kennedy) and the second-generation superhero Weevil (Rob Lowe), who parodied elements of
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