Peacemaker season 2 episode 6 has us expecting a blood bath. In the final seconds of that installment, we get confirmation that the “perfect” alternate world where Chris Smith was a hero with a loving family is, in fact, Earth-X, a universe in which the Nazis won World War II . The episode features Vigilante finding his double and Judomaster entering the universe, making us hope that episode seven would be wall-to-wall anti-fascist destruction.

The following episode, “Like a Keith in the Night,” delivers on that promise, but not in a way that anyone expected. Late in the episode, some of the 11th Street Kids confront Earth-X Auggie and call him a Nazi. Auggie takes exception at the term, and launches a defense of himself and his actions, framing himself as a realistic resister, a fund

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