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James Gunn Says PEACEMAKER Season 2 Isn’t Just Another Multiverse Story

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Eric Diaz | Last updated Aug 20, 2025 8:31 PM ET

Peacemaker season two has arrived at last, after a long three-year wait. And as fans have gleaned from the trailers, alternate realities and parallel timelines play a significant role this season. But with Multiverse Saga going on in the MCU, not to mention the Spider-Verse films and even DC’s The Flash, many were weary of yet another Multiverse superhero story. But while speaking with Rainn Wilson for Interview Magazine, Peacemaker showrunner (and co-head of DC Studios) James Gunn stressed that the show’s second season is not a Multiverse story. At least, not in the way we’ve become accustomed to. Here’s what he had to say:

There’s been a lot of talk about, ‘Oh, you’re doing the multiverse and that’s already been done.’ But it really isn’t the multiverse. It’s more like Philip Roth’s The Counterlife. It’s about one reflection of your world. So the way it relates to Superman is the whole crux of the season. There’s this thing called the QUC—the Quantum Unfolding Chamber—which we saw in Season 1 of Peacemaker and exists in Auggie Smith’s (Robert Patrick) closet, which is a dimensional doorway. We find out it’s a dimensional doorway to 99 other dimensions—and by dimensions, I don’t mean alternate realities. I mean other dimensions, other realities.

So it’s not exactly the Multiverse, but it still kind of/sort of is. After all, the dimension Christopher Smith goes to is another version of his own reality. Sounds pretty “Multiversal” to us. But it sounds like that dimension is the exception and not the rule to the various worlds found in the Quantum Unfolding Chamber. For anyone who remembers the ’90s movie Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Paltrow, it sounds a lot like that. So don’t expect anything in Peacemaker season two to lead to some big DCU Multiversal event movie.

From the sound of things, James Gunn is simply using alternate realities to tell a very personal story about the main character. He stressed that “It’s about the character of Christopher Smith. It’s about him discovering this other world, which is sort of an Xerox of his world with minor differences. And those minor differences seem to be that everything is better for Peacemaker. And his life over there, his doppelganger of Peacemaker, is everything that he kind of wishes his own life was.” That has us more excited about Peacemaker than any potential DCU event it might have led to.

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