If that’s the case, then Peacemaker wouldn’t be veering away from the comics. Relatively, it might be adapting one of many extra upsetting elements of the DC multiverse.
In Justice League of America #107 from 1973, written by Len Wein and penciled by Dick Dillin, the titular group crosses the multiverse to reach in a world the place the Nazis gained World Conflict II. The one supply of revolt is a superhero group referred to as the Freedom Fighters: Uncle Sam, Black Condor, Doll Man, Phantom Girl, and the Ray.
After its first look, Earth-X solely confirmed up a number of extra occasions. Actually, the primary Freedom Fighters ongoing sequence noticed the group come to Earth-2 (the world of the Golden Age superheroes), having thrown off the shackles of fascism in their very own world. Additional, Earth-X will get worn out with all the different alternate realities in the course of the DC Comics occasion Disaster on Infinite Earths and the Freedom Fighters have been built-in into the one mainline world. But, within the 2005 occasion Infinite Disaster—which, by the way, begins with the Freedom Fighters being slaughtered—the Multiverse was restored and, with it, Earth-X.
For the reason that restoration of the Multiverse, Earth-X has made a number of extra appearances in DC Comics. Most notably, Grant Morrison visited the world, now also called Earth-10, for his or her miniseries The Multiversity. 2015’s The Multiversity: Mastermen, Morrison and penciler Jim Lee reimagine a world through which the toddler Kal-El lands in Nazi-controlled Kansas in 1939. Raised by Hitler, Kal-El turns into Overman and leads a fascist variations of the Justice League referred to as the New Reichsmen, which counts as members Blitzen (Flash), Brünhilde (Surprise Lady), and Leatherwing (Batman). On this model of Earth-X, most of the Freedom Fighters are these persecuted by Nazis: Black Condor is a Black man, the Ray is gay, and many others.
James Gunn has been very open about his admiration for Morrison’s work, and should have already built-in into Peacemaker the Multiverse Map from The Multiversity. However there are much more causes to imagine that he would use a variation of Earth-X within the present.
Initially, the Freedom Fighters have loads in frequent with Peacemaker and Judomaster. These two stars of the sequence have been initially printed by Charlton Comics within the Fifties. DC Comics acquired the rights to the characters when Charlton stopped publishing superhero tales, and ultimately built-in them into the mainline DC Universe after Disaster on Infinite Earths. Uncle Sam, the Ray, and others have been created by High quality Comics in the course of the Golden Age, and have been acquired by DC within the Fifties. Actually, the whole idea of Earth-X and the Freedom Fighters was devised as a method for DC to proceed telling tales about these characters.
