{"id":978874,"date":"2025-09-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=978874"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:51:26","slug":"peacemaker-season-2-sons-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/peacemaker-season-2-sons-of-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacemaker Just Brought an Unlikely Team of Superman Villains to the DCU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-spoiler-alert\"><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 23\"><path d=\"M15.713 6.511c-2.41 0-4.376 2.057-4.376 4.591 0 2.527 1.96 4.591 4.376 4.591 2.41 0 4.375-2.057 4.375-4.591 0-2.527-1.966-4.591-4.375-4.591z\"\/><path d=\"M15.713 18.358c-3.88 0-7.04-3.253-7.04-7.256s3.16-7.255 7.04-7.255c3.879 0 7.04 3.252 7.04 7.255s-3.161 7.256-7.04 7.256zm16.085-7.961C27.63 3.709 22.015.027 16 .027 9.985.026 4.369 3.708.202 10.396c-.267.43-.267.98 0 1.41C4.37 18.495 9.985 22.178 16 22.178c6.015 0 11.624-3.683 15.798-10.37.267-.432.267-.98 0-1.411z\"\/><\/svg><em>This post contains spoilers for <strong>Peacemaker<\/strong> season 2 episode 3.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this point, we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/james-gunn\/\">James Gunn<\/a> pulls an obscure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/dc\/\">DC Comics<\/a> character for one of his projects, but he may have outdone himself in the latest episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/peacemaker\/\">Peacemaker<\/a><\/em>. While visiting the alternate reality where he&#8217;s a beloved hero, Chris Smith (John Cena) and alternate Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) witness an attack on a Federal Building by a paramilitary group calling themselves the Sons of Liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Unless you were a fan of that one time in the mid-&#8217;90s when Bloodwynd, Maxima, and Agent Liberty were on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/justice-league\/\">Justice League<\/a>, the Sons of Liberty might be just as anonymous as Sons of Themyscira, whom Gunn dredged up and reimagined as Men&#8217;s Rights Activists in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/dc-creature-commandos-james-gunn-frank-grillo-alan-tudyk\/\">Creature Commandos<\/a><\/em>. 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