Since 2002, John Cena embodied a mythos usually reserved for comic book characters. Now his wrestling retirement run has felt less like a farewell and more like the final act of a saga that has spanned across different timelines. It’s a significant event that challenges everyone who has been on this journey with him to appreciate everything he’s done and who he was for the business of professional wrestling as WWE continues to reinvent itself.

What makes the timing interesting is the irony of Cena closing the door on his run as WWE’s enduring superhero, while having begun a new start as another one in an entirely new universe. When James Gunn cast the wrestler as Chris Smith a.k.a. Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad , he placed Cena in a role that he was already prepared for. That’s beca

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