Wait, Did Peacemaker Season 2 Just Make Spider-Man DCU Canon?
Peacemaker Season 2 just made the Spider-Man pointing meme DCU canon. In a James Gunn-directed Episode 6, Vigilante faces his own variant, slyly confirming the wall-crawler exists here — at least as a fictional icon.
Peacemaker just did the thing. Season 2, Episode 6 drops a very specific wink at Marvel that is way more than a throwaway gag — it flat-out name-checks Spider-Man and recreates the pointing meme in-universe. It is extremely James Gunn, extremely online, and yes, it technically puts Spider-Man in the DCU... as pop culture.
The moment
This episode is directed by James Gunn, and it leans into the meta. With about 14:12 left in the episode, Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) runs into an alternate version of himself. By roughly 13:56 remaining, they are standing there, finger guns up, doing the unmistakable Spider-Man pointing pose. Then the show spells it out.
'We Spider-Man meme'd.'
That line is the key. If Vigilante can say that out loud, it means Spider-Man exists in the DC Universe — not as a superhero swinging around Bludhaven, but as a cultural reference the characters recognize. Think Marvel's Eternals (2021) casually dropping Superman and Batman as fictional icons. Same idea, different multiverse.
So is Spider-Man 'canon' in the DCU now?
Canon as fiction, yes. The scene deliberately treats Spider-Man like a meme everyone knows, not a guy Peacemaker could call for backup. It is a rights-safe, fourth-wall-adjacent nod that still lands because the meme is bigger than any one franchise at this point.
A quick Spider-meme refresher
- Origin story: The pointing bit comes from the 1967 animated series, episode 'Double Identity,' where an impostor dresses like Spider-Man and the two end up accusing each other — and pointing.
- Internet life: The frame got resurrected decades later and became one of the most recycled images online.
- On-screen callbacks: It turns up in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and again in Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
- Live-action echo: Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire recreated it during Spider-Man: No Way Home promo shoots.
Fans clocked it in seconds
Within minutes of the episode hitting, social feeds lit up. 'MCU Film News' posted comparison shots of Vigilante and the classic meme. Users like @repzmore and @spiderbatgeek shared clips and side-by-sides. 'DiscussingFilm' spelled out the takeaway: Spider-Man exists in the DCU as a fictional reference. All of this chatter hit on September 26, 2025, because of course it did.
If you want to pin down the scene, it is late in Episode 6 — look for the Vigilante-versus-Vigilante face-off around the 14-minute-to-go mark. And if you are keeping score at home, this little crossover-by-meme was first written up by Anubhav Chaudhry at SuperHeroHype.
Bottom line: Peacemaker just made the most internet-native crossover possible — not with a portal, but with a punchline.