The following contains spoilers for the second episode of season 2 of "Peacemaker."
Writer, director, and producer James Gunn has never shown hesitation toward some onscreen ultraviolence, from his early days pushing the R-rating of "Slither" to its absolute limit , all the way through to his recent Marvel and DC projects. Meta-humans, humans, and all kinds of animals are fair game, too (though apparently he did discover that violence towards dogs is a hair too far for most audiences). In the 2021 film "The Suicide Squad," written and directed by Gunn, there seemed to be a whole lot of violence directed toward birds — so much, in fact, that he ended up tweeting about it at one point to try and reassure fans that no, he does not "hate birds."
Enter Eagly, the digital, adorable bald