By now, it should be clear that when it comes to comic book deep cuts, Peacemaker Season 2 isn’t messing around. Not only has the show’s slick retcon cleverly blended aspects of the old DCEU into the new DCU, but the first episode of Peacemaker Season 2 is also full of Easter eggs, great and small. And one very under-the-radar reference in Episode 1 is a call-back to one of the first and strangest DC supervillains ever. In the “perfect” dimension — in which Peacemaker’s (John Cena) brother (David Denman ) and father (Robert Patrick) are alive — there’s one specific character that the Top Trio defeated, and this call-back is a very, very obscure reference.
At the end of the first episode of Peacemaker Season 2, before Chris encounters his other self and accidentally murders said doppelgänger, he takes a good look at the trophy room/library of his family’s home in this alternate dimension. Much of what’s on display are newspaper headlines trumpeting the various successes of the “Top Trio,” which consists of Peacemaker, his brother, and his father. One headline reads: “Top Trio Save Gotham From Ultra-Humanite.”
