Peacemaker S2 Episode 6 Reveals EarthX Nazi World

Peacemaker Season 2 confirmed on Thursday that the seemingly perfect alternate reality visited by Chris Smith is a fascist, Nazi-dominated world long familiar to DC Comics readers as EarthX. Episode 6, titled "Ignorance is Chris" and written and directed by James Gunn, follows the 11th Street Kids as they reopen the Quantum Unfolding Chamber to retrieve Chris and discover a parallel United States where white supremacy is institutionalized and people of color are absent from public life.

The episode opens with the squad entering the alternate dimension where Chris, played by John Cena, had already abandoned his original world to live as a celebrated hero alongside a living, kinder version of his father and his brother. The reunion collapses as the team realizes this world is not the idyll Chris imagined. Background characters are overwhelmingly white, an American flag bearing a swastika is spotted inside A.R.G.U.S. headquarters, and scenes end with Adebayo, played by Danielle Brooks, running for her life as a hostile mob pursues her through a neighborhood. Adrian Chase, Vigilante, meets his doppelganger and learns that on this Earth he is part of a resistance group rather than...