While "Superman" served as the grand cinematic opening for the new DCU under the leadership of DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran, the highly anticipated second season of the HBO Max original series "Peacemaker" is the next story in "Chapter One: Gods and Monsters." Although Gunn first made the jump from Marvel Studios to DC Films with "The Suicide Squad" and the first season of "Peacemaker" shortly after, both of those projects were produced under the previous DC Extended Universe regime, with select elements carried over into the rebooted DCU. Naturally, the sequence in the season one finale featuring the DCEU's Justice League is not canon in the new DCU, but what to make of the events that transpired in Gunn's "The Suicide Squad?"
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