Peacemaker Season 2 Blows Up DCU Timeline With A Suicide Squad Villain Twist

Peacemaker Season 2 just quietly took a wrench to DC continuity. Episode 3 drops a flashback that makes the 2016 Suicide Squad look, at best, different than we remember it and, at worst, not the version that actually happened in this new DCU. It is a pretty bold retcon, and it comes wrapped in a very human scene between Rick Flag Jr. and Emilia Harcourt.

The flashback that changes everything

We see Rick talking with Harcourt shortly before he heads out. He brings up his girlfriend June Moone and, in passing, calls her a sorceress who could basically end the world if he dumped her. The line lands like a grenade because it means June still had her powers.

'She might burrow a hole in the planet.'

That directly clashes with the ending of David Ayer's 2016 film, where June is freed from the Enchantress and appears powerless. Here, she is very much still magical. The scene also nails down when this is happening: Harcourt tells Rick he is shipping out to Corto Maltese in a few hours, which places it right before the mission in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad (2021) where Peacemaker kills him. The episode even cuts in a quick montage of footage from the 2021 movie to stitch it all together.

So what is the retcon, exactly?

Rick's offhand comment reframes June and, by extension, the 2016 Suicide Squad. If June is still the Enchantress here, then the events of Ayer's movie either unfolded differently in this continuity or did not stick the way we thought. It is another continuity tweak from this show after that Season 1 Justice League gag, and it pushes the older films into a new shape under the DCU banner. At minimum, the episode confirms June was still bonded to the Enchantress before the Corto Maltese op, powers intact. It also strongly hints she could still be out there with her magic, though the flashback timing keeps that technically unconfirmed in the present day.

Rick and Harcourt, clearer than ever

There is also an unexpectedly candid window into Rick and Harcourt's relationship. They had been intimate but never made it official. Rick even offers to leave June if Harcourt wants to pursue something. Harcourt shuts it down, says they were probably each other's only real friends, and calls out that sleeping together already complicated things. She then sends him to get dressed for his deployment, which we know ends in his death. It is a small scene, but it reframes their dynamic and adds a sharp, personal edge to what comes next.

• June Moone is confirmed to have her sorcery at least up to the Corto Maltese mission, contradicting the 2016 movie's ending.
• The scene happens hours before The Suicide Squad (2021), and the episode splices in footage from that film to lock the timeline.
• By implication, Ayer's Suicide Squad either did not happen as shown or has been reshuffled in the DCU.
• This is another inside-baseball continuity swap from Peacemaker, following the Season 1 Justice League bit.
• Rick and Harcourt hooked up but kept it uncommitted; he offered to leave June, she declined, and then he shipped out to his final mission.

First flagged by Anubhav Chaudhry at SuperHeroHype; ComingSoon covered it as well.