‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Retcons Explained: How the Show Swapped in the Justice Gang

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Peacemaker” Season 2, Episode 1.

“Peacemaker” had a bit of retconning to do before Season 2 got up and running.

In the three years since the first season of “Peacemaker,” series creator James Gunn was hired — alongside Peter Safran — to take the wheel of DC’s cinematic universe and essentially became the brand’s Kevin Feige. Doing that meant ending Zack Snyder’s time at the helm and starting fresh — sort of.

Gunn had not only put together “Peacemaker” for Warner Bros.