Peacemaker Season 2 Brings Back Larry Fitzgibbon — And Finally Reveals the Fate of a Major Superman Character

Peacemaker season 2 is back to doing what it does best: making a big, loud mess of the DCU and then smirking about it. This time, the chaos comes with multiverse detours, a very specific Earth-X cameo, and a whole lot of fan theorizing about Mr. Terrific. Let’s unpack the stuff that actually matters.

Did season 2 just tease Mr. Terrific’s fate?

The show drops two big signposts: the QUC device (Peacemaker’s new interdimensional toy) and a trip to Earth-X. Put those together and you get a popular theory about Michael Holt — the second Mr. Terrific — that’s dark but plausible. His current status in the main DCU is unknown, but if we’re reading the Earth-X breadcrumbs right, Holt’s counterpart over there is either dead or enslaved. It’s not a confirmation, but it fits the logic of that world.

Fitzgibbon’s return is the tell

Larry Fitzgibbon popping back up is more than a wink to season 1. He died after an alien parasite took him over, yet here he is again — an Earth-X version of the same guy. On that parallel Earth, the Nazis won World War II, and everyone we know ends up with altered histories. Fitzgibbon is still a cop, but his old partner Sophie Song is nowhere to be seen, which reads like she didn’t survive under that regime’s boot. It’s a bleak hint about how familiar faces get wildly different outcomes depending on the timeline.

Apply that to Mr. Terrific and the picture gets grim fast. Holt — a Black genius superhero — doesn’t fit Earth-X’s white-supremacist ideal. In a world like that, he’s a target. The theory says he was captured, killed, or sold into slavery before he ever became the hero we know. It’s not stated in the show, but given what Earth-X is, the math tracks.

What the QUC actually opens up

The QUC isn’t just a plot gizmo; it’s a door. It lets alternate versions of characters collide, which means the DCU can pull in new civilizations, dimensions, alien species — all the multiverse candy — and do it inside Peacemaker’s very specific, very messy tone. It also gives the show an easy way to bring back people we thought were gone (see: Fitzgibbon) without undoing previous stakes.

And don’t sleep on the main-universe Mr. Terrific. If he steps into the story, he’s exactly the kind of mind who would try to lock down the QUC — either to weaponize it or to make sure no one else does. That sets up the more interesting questions anyway: should heroes interfere in other realities just because they can? What happens if you fix one world and break three others by accident? The show is already flirting with that stuff, and it makes every choice feel a little more unpredictable.

The quick cheat sheet

• Title: Peacemaker
• Genre: Superhero, action, black comedy, drama
• Showrunner: James Gunn
• Cast highlights: John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Jennifer Holland, Steve Agee, Frank Grillo
• Rotten Tomatoes: 94% critics | 84% audience

Bottom line

Peacemaker’s multiverse pit stop is fun on the surface and nasty underneath. If Earth-X is the clue it seems to be, Mr. Terrific’s counterpart there probably met a terrible end. But the bigger win is what the QUC blows open: variants, reunions, ethical nightmares, and a clear lane for the real Michael Holt to matter in a big way.

Peacemaker is streaming on HBO Max in the US. While we’re at it: what’s the one QUC twist you want to see the show actually go for?