Peacemaker Made The Suicide Squad's Justice League Plot Hole Worse

Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker season 1.

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In Peacemaker episode 8, “It’s Cow Or Never,” Peacemaker and the team head to take out the Butterflies’ cow. Before they go into battle, Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) calls her mother, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), and asks her to send backup in the form of the Justice League as they have limited time for a world-threatening problem. Waller laughs the idea off; however, as Peacemaker and the team are leaving the remains of the barn, battered and bruised, the Justice League do indeed show up. Peacemaker yells that they’re too late, taking some particular shots at Aquaman (Jason Momoa).

The Justice League turning up late for the Peacemaker finale highlights the fact that Peacemaker and the team are far from the only heroes in the DCEU. It might not have been easy to swing, but Amanda Waller was fully able to alert the Justice League of the danger and have them arrive. With the powers of all four of them, the Butterflies would have been a trivial problem. While that leaves Peacemaker needing to answer why Waller didn’t just call the Justice League earlier, it causes a bigger problem for The Suicide Squad. During the time of the events of The Suicide Squad, the Justice League existed, and could have been called in to take out the threat that Starro posed.

As the on-screen comic book universes have grown larger, it has become more and more of a problem for Eternals), but more often is just generally ignored leaves a plot hole for why the Justice League or the Avengers aren’t helping out with problems they could easily solve as a team.

For The Suicide Squad, there remains a possible explanation in the form of Amanda Waller’s secretive operations. While Starro posed a threat to the planet, Waller was equally concerned with ensuring that news of US involvement in Project Starfish was never made public, so she used Task Force X as a way to avoid having people so focused on justice involved. However, once Starro had broken free and was massacring innocent people, even if Waller didn’t care, the Justice League could have been sent in to defeat Starro without US involvement ever being made public. Peacemaker implies that there might be some lead time with getting the Justice League assembled, but they all appear suddenly together, so it remains unclear.

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