If you thought early on during Peacemaker Season 2’s run on the 2025 TV schedule that the other Earth John Cena’s title character stumbled onto was too good to be true, you were right. It was later revealed to be a Nazi-controlled world, which Christopher Smith was oblivious to despite obvious signs like the United States flag having a swastika on it, the copies of Mein Kampf on the desks at A.R.G.U.S. headquarters and even a giant mural of Hitler in front of the Capitol at the agency. Speaking of the mural, I learned a wild fact about it from Peacemaker Season 2’s production designer: it was there the whole time… literally!
Not only did Chris Smith never notice the mural every time he visited this other world’s A.R.G.U.S., production designer Kalina Invanov informed me during my recent interview with her that the portrait had always been on Peacemaker’s A.R.G.U.S. set rather than only set up for Season 2’s penultimate episode, “Like a Keith in the Night.” This information came to light when I asked Ivanov how uncomfortable it was for her team to put that mural together, to which she answered:
