By this point, no one is surprised to find a weird alien in a DC Comics project. Nor, really, are we surprised to find one in a project from James Gunn , the guy who brought to the screen broccoli people and Starro the Conqueror .

But still, when we see the cold open to the fourth episode of Peacemaker ‘s second season, which shows how an idiot like Auggie Smith could acquire a quantum folding chamber, we’ve gotta ask: what’s that weird alien?

Even the biggest DC nerds might have trouble identifying the alien seen in Peacemaker . It’s a bug-eyed, vaguely bird-like creature with grayish skin. It’s not wearing anything besides a blue sash, the steel case it carries doesn’t have any identifying logos, and the noises it makes aren’t even subtitled.

There’s a very real possibilit

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