Spoilers below for Peacemaker season 2 finale, “ Full Nelson .”

Season 2 of Peacemaker ended on quite a cliffhanger for Chris. His buds form Checkmate, the metahuman Blackwater of DC Comics. But Chris himself gets yeeted to a secret jail planet by Rick Flagg Sr. Seems like John Cena and the crew will need a third season to resolve those problems, yes? Not necessarily, says James Gunn. “I don’t want to never say never, but right now, no,” Gunn told Deadline . “This is about the future of the DCU .” The season 2 finale of Peacemaker isn’t setting up a season 3; it seems to be teeing up Man of Tomorrow, and possibly a Checkmate spinoff.

Gunn told Deadline that Checkmate and Salvation (the jail planet) were always going to be a big part of Peacemaker season 2, because th

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