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Cosmic Book News says Gunn's Peacemaker series on TV features certain DC characters coming from the Superman film making crude allusions to sexual violence:

James Gunn has said his Peacemaker Season 2 is a direct sequel to his Superman movie.

But instead of building on Superman’s story in a meaningful way, Gunn leans into shock value, crude humor, and political messaging.

[...] The most recent episode highlights Gunn’s controversial taste. Episode 6 features Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor sharing a prison scene with Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr.

During their conversation, Lex casually remarks:

“Meanwhile, I’m in here in Belle Reeve listening to a bear-sized man with dragon skin butt-f—king a glowing twink with cartoon eyes in a cell beside me every night.”

The implication is that DC characters—believed to be Killer Croc and possibly Doctor Phosphorus—are raping each other in prison. Gunn signed off on the line, placing this kind of content directly into what he himself calls the continuation of Superman.

A Pattern of Poor Taste

This isn’t an isolated case. Gunn has already drawn backlash for approving the John Cena Peacemaker emote in Fortnite, which Epic Games pulled after players flagged it for containing Nazi-inspired imagery. That’s in a game played by millions of kids—despite Gunn’s insistence that Peacemaker “isn’t for children.”

Now, the same “Superman sequel” contains casual rape references involving iconic DC characters.

Let's not forget the very publisher whose comics these films and TV shows adapts from coughed out a repulsive 7-part miniseries back in 2004 where Dr. Light was depicted anally raping Elongated Man's wife, Sue Dibny, and now we have a profane TV show in which similar acts are alluded to? It makes little difference whether the acts in the Peacemaker TV show are consensual or not, what Luthor's alluding to is repulsive enough regardless, and just because it's villains in discussion doesn't make it any more acceptable.

This is just another something to make clear why it's better if the new Superman movie didn't fare as well at the box office as they must've hoped. If some filmmakers wanted to write up a scene in which "civilian" villains engaged in revolting acts, that would be one thing. But this is another example of established costumed-style characters from notable comics literature being forced into roles and acts that only make the characters in question insufferable to read about as a result. It was bad enough when comics started doing this so blatantly. Now, even the live action adaptations are going miles out of their way to even allude to costumed villains engaging in repugnant behavior much worse than what was seen up to the turn of the century, and that's only lowering the bar galaxies further.

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