Easter Eggs & DCU References Explained

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Peacemaker season 2, episode 3

Peacemaker season 2, episode 3 features a handful of fun Easter eggs and DCU references. Accessed through his father’s Quantum Unfolding Chamber, John Cena’s Peacemaker has discovered a parallel reality where everything in his life seems better. Now, this new episode features some key differences between this new reality and the main DCU, and well as some major character returns.

In Peacemaker season 2, episode 2, a drunken Chris Smith decides to again visit the alternate reality where he just accidentally killed his other self. Now this new episode features this new reality in full. Keeping that in mind, here are all the biggest Easter eggs, references, DCU ties, and fun factoids we found in Peacemaker season 2, episode 3.

Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag Jr. Returns

Having been referenced multiple times with his father now running ARGUS instead of Amanda Waller, Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag Jr. makes a full-fledged appearance in the DCU, despite his character’s murder at the hands of Peacemaker in 2021’s The Suicide Squad.

Firstly, Rick Flag Jr. returns in a flashback with Emilia Harcourt before James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, establishing the beginning of what would have likely been a romantic relationship. Secondly, Rick Flag Jr. appears alive and well in the alt-reality, a dimension where he never died and started dating Harcourt after she and the alt-Peacemaker broke up.

June Moone – The DCU Enchantress Lives

In the flashback featuring Rick Flag Jr. and Harcourt, Rick’s current girlfriend June is mentioned, a sorceress whom he worries might “burrow a hole in the planet” if the two of them were to ever break up.

This is a reference to Doctor June Moone, otherwise known as the mortal host of the Enchantress. As seen in 2016’s Suicide Squad, June and Rick Flag Jr. were indeed in a relationship.

While the 2016 movie ends with the Enchantress being killed and June surviving in the DCEU, it seems as though the Enchantress still lives in the new DCU canon (at least in the events leading up to 2021’s The Suicide Squad).

“Corto Maltese In Two Hours”

In the same flashback, Harcourt tells Rick Flag Jr. that he ships out for Corto Maltese in two hours, confirming that they were hooking up right before the events of The Suicide Squad and the mission which ended with Peacemaker’s murder of Flag.

“Who Are the Kardashians?”

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Appalled by his doppleganger’s sense of fashion, Chris Smith asks Keith why all of his clothes look like “The Kardashians’ furniture“. However, Keith has no idea who the Kardashians are, the implication being that the famous family never became the celebrities they are in the main DCU/real life.

The Peace-Cycle

When Chris wants to meet with the alternate Emilia Harcourt at ARGUS, Keith tells him to take his “Peace-Cycle”. Stored in the garage, the “Peace-Cycle” is an armed red, white and blue motorcycle, bringing to mind DC Comics’ classic Bat-Cycle, though perhaps a better parallel would be Captain America’s motorcycle (take your pick).

Rick’s Yellow Shirt (The Flags Look Good In Yellow)

Despite appearing more timid and less confident than his deceased DCU counterpart, the alternate Rick Flag Jr. is still wearing a yellow shirt, connecting to his appearance in The Suicide Squad, as well as his father’s animated look, who also primarily wore yellow in Creature Commandos.

The Mighty Crabjoys Billboard

In the town square, a large billboard can be seen promoting The Mighty Crabjoys, the fictional DCU punk band referenced in both Creature Commandos and Superman. Multiple Superman Easter eggs connect to the band, and their theme song played during the movie’s credits. So far, every official DCU project has featured some kind of reference to The Mighty Crabjoys.

The Sons of Liberty

An extremist group known as the Sons of Liberty are shown taking over a government building and setting bombs, motivating Peacemaker to spring into action, despite being a hero from a different reality.

In the original DC Comics, the Sons of Liberty were an ultra-patriotic paramilitary organization seeking to take down the United States government, first debuting in 1991’s Superman #53.