Gorilla Grodd is primarily a Flash supervillain who has super-intelligence, super-strength, and various mental powers. Peacemaker episode 4, “The Choad Less Traveled,” includes two background elements that telegraph Charlie the Gorilla’s introduction in a future episode and set fan expectations for Grodd. An extended newscast plays in the background when Peacemaker (John Cena) visits his father’s house discussing how the gorilla was stolen from Evergreen Zoo. Later in the episode, when Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) is getting himself arrested, one of the officers at the jail is reading a paper that notes the gorilla is still on the loose. In Peacemaker episode 5, “Monkey Dory,” Charlie the Gorilla is discovered at the Butterflies’ Glan Tai bottling plant and is dispatched in the same episode by John Economos (Steve Agee) with a chainsaw shortly after the gorilla has yelled, “Die humans!”

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Even with the setup and Easter eggs in Peacemaker episode 4, the logic of how Charlie the Gorilla makes sense and is well established in Peacemaker episode 5. Economos explains during his presentation that the Butterflies make humans four times stronger than they normally would be while including an image of a chimp because they themselves are 4 times stronger than humans. While a gorilla is not a chimp, the telegraphing makes what is to come clear as it makes sense that if the Butterflies can put themselves into any living form then a superpowered Gorilla would be exponentially stronger and a better security guard for the factory. However, given that the hints in the previous episodes are devoid of these clues, it does mean that James Gunn’s choices here end up doing a bit of trolling of the fans he must have known would jump to Gorilla Grodd as an explanation.

The tease and turnaround from the TV series is made worse for audiences by an episode 2 clue that made Gorilla Grodd seem that much more plausible. When toying with an item he took from the Butterfly’s apartment in episode 1, Peacemaker discovers that it is actually a small spaceship that was presumably used to get the Butterflies to Earth. In one of Gorilla Grodd’s origin stories, he gained super-intelligence after an alien spacecraft crash-landed in his homeland. That said, this is somewhat on viewers themselves being so quick to jump to conclusions rather than letting the story play out.