The Peacemaker finale’s Justice League cameo made Jason Momoa crack up

With this week’s finale of PeacemakerThe Suicide Squad spinoff has wrapped it’s story of one group of misfits standing up against white supremacists and mind control butterflies — and show creator James Gunn couldn’t resist going out with a DC Extended Universe bang.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 1.]

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It doesn’t matter if Peacemaker existed in the same continuity as any other of the current crop of Warner Bros.’ DC Comics movies has never really been in question. Its title character spun out of 2021’s Suicide Squad, which in turn was a sequel to 2016’s Suicide Squad, in which Ben Affleck’s Batman, fresh off of Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeA rather big cameo was given by.

But if there ever was any confusion, the season finale “It’s Cow or Never”, cleared it up with an appearance from four members of Zach Snyder’s Justice League: Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Aquaman. Cyborg and Batman apparently couldn’t be bothered, but that’s … honestly very much in character for Batman.

Earlier in the episode, Danielle Brooks’ Leota Adebayo made a tense phone call to her terrifying mom, Amanda Waller, to appraise the creator of Task Force X of the whole fate-of-the-world situation. “The whole team is injured, so I was thinking, like, maybe you could call in the Justice League … No, I’m not kidding!”

Although the team was pressed for time, they decided to go it alone. But it looks like Waller finally got through to… where the Justice League is located in DC Films’ universe. But, as Peacemaker put it: “You’re late, you fuckin’ dickheads!”

Two of the characters were played by silhouette doubles. However, Jason Momoa (the actual Jason Miller) made an appearance to joke about a rumor about Aquaman having sex in public. Gunn revealed to Rolling Stone his nervousness about asking the actors for a reprise of their roles in the series.

“I was a little afraid [Momoa]I was going to be mad. I was also thinking [Aquaman director]James Wan will be furious at Peacemaker’s statements [Aquaman]He fucks fish every day. I explained that Peacemaker’s an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and Jason laughed his head off and was game from the beginning. I didn’t know Ezra. Ezra was here later. I found out through some friends that Ezra likes my movies a lot, and so I asked if he would come in and do it, and he did.”

And for fans worried that this’ll be the last they see of the chrome-domed superhero known as the Peacemaker, they can put themselves at ease. PeacemakerRecently, the show was approved for a second season by HBO Max.

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