Peacemaker Season 2 Introduces Checkmate: DCU’s New Team Explained
Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Peacemaker season 2, episode 8
James Gunn just introduced Checkmate, a brand-new team in the DCU. As seen in Peacemaker season 2, episode 8, several of the show’s lead characters choose to cut ties with ARGUS, the US government’s predominant defense agency dealing with metahumans, dangerous technologies, and the paranormal. The result is Checkmate, a separate organization from the original DC Comics.
Making its debut at the very end of Peacemaker season 2, episode 8, Checkmate is set to become an ongoing fixture going forward. Here’s everything we know about the DCU’s Checkmate, its comics history, and its DCU future.
What Is Checkmate? The DCU’s Brand-New Team Explained
In Peacemaker season 2’s finale, ARGUS director Rick Flag Sr. allies with LuthorCorp to find an uninhabited world in another dimension using Chris Smith’s Quantum Unfolding Chamber. This results in the deaths of multiple ARGUS agents while searching for the right portal that has what they’re looking for.
Eventually, all these deaths unsettle ARGUS Agent (and cyborg) Sasha Bordeaux. Learning that Flag and LuthorCorp want to make this planet an inescapable prison world for metahumans, named Salvation, Bordeaux reveals the truth to Emilia Harcourt. In response, the 11th St. Kids and more agents break ties with ARGUS to do some actual good for the world.
Built and funded by the millions of dollars in confiscated drug money Adrian Chase had in his basement and envisioned by Leota Adebayo (Amanda Waller’s daughter), Checkmate is now in the DCU as a premier spy agency, “making the world better” according to their slogan. The DCU’s Checkmate also has key parallels to the Checkmate seen in the comics.
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