Will the multiverse play a role in Peacemaker Season 2? The latest trailer gives an answer

We got a new Peacemaker Season 2 trailer on July 26, 2025, through a San Diego Comic Con panel. In that hour-long panel, we also got a new trailer that provided more context for the upcoming second season. Looks like most of the main cast members (except for Chukwudi Iwuji's Clemson Murn) from the first season are back for the second season.

The trailer does confirm that the multiverse will play a role in the upcoming second season. This is surprising because DC is in an early phase of the universe, while the MCU is at least eighteen years old as of 2025. In the Peacemaker Season 2 trailer, we see Christopher Smith/Peacemaker fight a multiversal counterpart, confirming that parallel Earths and alternate realities will play a role in the upcoming season.

Why is Christopher stealing his multiversal counterpart's life in Peacemaker Season 2?

The second season is confirmed to follow Peacemaker's attempts to be taken seriously despite playing a role in thwarting Project Butterfly. Thus, he is somewhat treated like a joke even during the events of Peacemaker Season 2. Adding to Christopher's growing list of problems is Rick Flag Sr., played by Frank Grillo.

For those who have trouble remembering, Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flag Jr. was murdered by none other than Peacemaker in the climax of 2021's The Suicide Squad, which was also directed by James Gunn. Now that Flag Sr. is the director of A.R.G.U.S., he uses his powerful position to avenge his son's death.

Therefore, Chris probably escapes to an alternate dimension to evade a difficult life. Upon escaping to a new world, Chris finds that all of his heart's desires are a reality in this world and decides to steal his life. But it must be noted that this plotline is just a speculation, and we will learn more about it as Peacemaker Season 2 begins streaming next month.

To escape to this alternate Earth, Peacemaker will use the QUC, i.e., Quantum Unfolding Chamber. For those who don't know, we have seen the QUC twice in two different DC projects since 2021. We see the QUC for the first time in Peacemaker Season 1 as a storage unit. Secondly, we saw it in Superman as a detention area for all of Lex Luthor's enemies. Now, it will be seen in the second season of Peacemaker as well.

James Gunn himself confirmed the role of QUC in the second season:

James Gunn and John Cena sat down for an interview with Entertainment Weekly's Sydney Bucksbaum on May 26, 2025. In that interview, Gunn revealed the way in which the then-unreleased Superman will be connected to season 2 of Peacemaker. Confirming the role of QUC, Gunn even teased a big cameo at the end of the second season. The filmmaker's exact words were:

"You've seen what we call the QUC, the Quantum Unfolding Chamber, in the first season of Peacemaker, and we see more about that technology in Superman. The QUC is the center of the story in Peacemaker season 2... We see a lot of different characters from Superman in the [season], [including] Isabela and Nathan and Sean, and then we see a bunch of other characters later on in the season from other parts of the DCU and from Superman. There might even be one really, really, really big cameo near the end of the show."

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Are you excited for Peacemaker Season 2? As we wait for it, the entirety of Peacemaker Season 1 is streaming on HBO Max.

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