Some Justice League-level heroes drop in on the Peacemaker season 2 teaser

In the teaser, Peacemaker appears to interview for a new team of heroes, one that’s apparently being formed by Sean Gunn’s Maxwell Lord. Previously played by Pedro Pascal in Wonder Woman 1984, Lord is one of DC’s various rich, shady businessmen. In the comics, Lord has been depicted as helping to form a Justice League team in order to control or even undermine the heroes. In the Peacemaker teaser, he’s flanked by Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern (Guy Gardner, not to be confused with the ones from the upcoming HBO show) and Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl. 

All three are set to appear in James Gunn’s Superman, which premieres July 11, ahead of the Peacemaker premiere on August 20. So in all likelihood, Lord’s team scheme teased here is a continuation of whatever happens in the Superman movie. (The interview takes place in an abandoned “Krank’s Toys,” a nod to Batman villain Cosmo Krank a.k.a. Toymaker.) The clip offers only the lightest hints about these characters; as expected, Guy Gardner seems like kind of a dick, and Hawkgirl is worrying about her figure (sigh). None of them seem impressed by Peacemaker, nor do they care about hurting his feelings. 

Of course the Peacemaker season two teaser—and the show as a whole—actually isn’t that much about what’s going on in the larger world of the DCU. Rather than the Justice League, it’s about the dysfunctional team of the 11th Street Kids, who want to be heroes but are have done a few too many fucked up things to be considered as such. (Marvel is doing a very similar thing with Thunderbolts*.) Still, it’s fun to catch a glimpse of the new DCU coming together, even if that’s just a small part of the Peacemaker story.