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Peacemaker Season 2 premiered on HBO Max on August 21, 2025, and new episodes will be released weekly until October 9, 2025.
Created by James Gunn and starring John Cena, the season is already building fan theories based on one massive plot twist: Peacemaker encounters an alternate planet where his life is perfect. His family is alive and supportive, his father is a hero, and the people worship him.
But fans suspect that something is not quite right. The world is too perfect: every background person is white, there are subtle German inflections, and his father’s racist White Dragon persona is attached to positions of power.
These are the kind of details that get fans wondering if this so-called “perfect dimension” is actually DC Comics’ Earth-X, an alternate dark universe where the Nazis won World War II.
Is Peacemaker’s alternate Earth really Earth-X?
In Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 2 (Rodney King), there is a moment in which Chris wakes up in an alternate version of his hometown. It initially is peaceful and idyllic, but fans immediately noticed strange details. Almost everyone in the background is white, people sometimes speak with very subtle German dialects, and the town is very rigid and systematic, everything opposite of the disorderly DCU we are used to.
Most disturbing of all is the clue in Episode 4 (Need I Say Door), in which Peacemaker witnesses a parade presided over by his father, Auggie Smith, as the White Dragon. He is glorified as a hero, with flags resembling the swastika. In the comics, Auggie is a racist super-villain, so his glorification in Peacemaker’s imagination as a hero is a disturbing flip.
Other hints are Vigilante casually saying “nein” rather than “no” and society’s persistent militaristic tone. All of these hints point unequivocally to one answer: Chris isn’t in some kind of dream world; he is stranded on Earth-X, a bleak alternate universe in which Nazis won World War II.
Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 (Back to the Suture), provides even stronger indications that Chris Smith might be on Earth-X. In the episode, Chris chooses to stay in the other dimension, where life is finally perfect: his dad and brother are alive, and he is in the type of relationship he never thought he might have back in his home universe.
On the surface, it is a dream come true. However, unsettling details imply that this reality is founded on distorted values. Specifically, most evident is that Chris’s father, Auggie Smith, the White Dragon, is celebrated rather than reviled, and that is an indication of a society formed based on authoritative or even fascist principles.
The episode also gives us another major clue: the lack of popular Justice Gang personnel and heroes such as Superman. This is consistent with Earth-X’s history in DC Comics, where most classic heroes are absent and are instead replaced with darker equivalents or corrupted alternatives.
These are indicative of, and lead overall to, the very disturbing potential that Chris is trapped on Earth-X.
Notably, Earth-X was introduced in DC Comics in the 1970s and was a part of some major events, including Crisis on Infinite Earths. In this reality, World War II was won by Nazi Germany and gave birth to a planet ruled by oppression and tyranny. Revolutionary groups such as the Freedom Fighters fought against it, while foreboding characters such as Overman, a Superman brought up to do the bidding of fascism after crashing in Germany, represented corruption.
If Peacemaker verifies such an alternate Earth as Earth-X, it will do far more than flip the dark corner on the story of Chris. It would become a part of the growing multiverse of the DCU and could lay the groundwork for large-scale crossovers and even directly intersect with the forthcoming Superman: Man of Tomorrow.
Where does Earth-X fit in the DC multiverse and pop culture?
The concept of Earth-X is not new to TV fans. In 2017, Arrowverse’s Crisis on Earth-X crossover gave the audience a first live-action look into this dark alternate universe, in which heroes had to fight Nazi counterparts in a battle through the multiverse.
That incident made Earth-X an immediately recognizable place with its dystopian processions, police-like governments, and twisted versions of recognizable heroes. Peacemaker seems to replay these ideas, but in a less serious way, with its subtle imagery and narrative choices. By doing this, it is a tribute to DC’s past as well as an allegory that references modern anxieties.
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Should DC go all in with this, there are possibilities that viewers may get cameos from the Freedom Fighters who opposed Earth-X oppression for a long time back in the comics, or even other iterations of Peacemaker’s own team.
Mixing and mingling past comic lore, Arrowverse television history, and future film ambitions, Peacemaker may be laying the groundwork for the next large-scale multiverse epic in the DCU.
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