Season two of Peacemaker will finally have Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) coming in hot for Chris Smith ( John Cena ) to exact revenge over the death of his son. Killing his squad leader, Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad was a moment that made Peacemaker irredeemable before being hilariously unpacked in season one of the HBO Max show, which centered the antihero’s mistake as something that broke him—that and the bullet Bloodsport (Idris Elba) put through his neck.

In an interview with GQ , Peacemaker star John Cena discussed how Smith viewed his action in the moment: “To know that Peacemaker is willing to kill for peace is important because he does. And he kills a person who he looks up to and who he’s developed a friendship with. What we know about

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