Peacemaker Twist Finally Explains DCU’s Man of Tomorrow Plot
Peacemaker just lit the fuse for Man of Tomorrow: a game-changing turn in Season 2 episode 6, Ignorance Is Chris, snaps the show and the Superman sequel into lockstep—finally explaining James Gunn’s secrecy around those last three episodes.
James Gunn has been hinting that Peacemaker and the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow are tied at the hip. Now we know how. Episode 6 of Peacemaker Season 2 doesn’t just nod at the DCU’s big blue future — it quietly shoves a major piece into place, and it involves Lex Luthor, a prison transfer, and a frankly nerdy deep cut from the comics.
The hush-hush wasn’t for nothing
Gunn recently said Peacemaker and Man of Tomorrow are "very, very connected," and the clampdown around the last three episodes of the season made everyone suspicious. Episode 6, aptly titled "Ignorance Is Chris," finally spells it out: the show is setting the table for the Superman sequel with a status-quo shift that gets Lex exactly where he needs to be.
What goes down in Episode 6
Most of the hour follows the 11th Street Kids — Peacemaker’s crew — jumping to another Earth to recover the DCU’s Christopher Smith. Meanwhile, General Rick Flag Sr. is still hunting Peacemaker for killing his son, and he knows Chris can open dimensional gateways. To exploit that, Flag goes shopping for tech expertise wherever he has leverage.
That leads him to Belle Reve Penitentiary, the metahuman lockup that houses both the Suicide Squad and the Creature Commandos. It also currently holds Lex Luthor, who is not thrilled to be rotting in a meta prison after the events of Superman. Flag uses that frustration to cut a deal.
The Lex deal that tees up Man of Tomorrow
- After establishing there’s no full pardon coming, Lex bites on what he calls an "opportunity for redemption."
- He hands over access to a scanner that can track Peacemaker and, crucially, the dimensional portal device he’s been using.
- In return — plus some vague future favors — Flag agrees to move Lex to Van Kull Maximum Security Prison.
Wait, Van Kull?
Van Kull is a maximum-security facility positioned outside Metropolis in the comics, purpose-built for metahumans and other high-risk types. Here’s the inside-baseball wrinkle: it has barely shown up in DC history, appearing in only a handful of issues. A different version of Van Kull, located in National City, popped up a few times on the Arrowverse’s Supergirl. It’s an odd, esoteric choice — which is exactly why it sticks out here. The point is obvious: get Lex back in Superman’s neighborhood.
Why this matters for the sequel
Shifting Lex closer to Metropolis sets the stage for how Man of Tomorrow will use him. Gunn has already said the sequel leans on an uneasy alliance:
"Lex Luthor and Superman having to work together to a certain degree against a much, much bigger threat."
That’s a lot easier to pull off if Lex isn’t buried in Belle Reve and is instead within reach of Metropolis — either physically or, let’s be real, narratively.
The bottom line
Between the multiversal hop, the tracking tech, and that Van Kull transfer, Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 6 quietly locks in the connective tissue Gunn teased. The episode functions on its own, sure, but the Lex relocation is the play that makes Man of Tomorrow click into place.