I'd rather be with in bat mite than you who's badmind the two-foot-tall
interdimensional imp who stans batman i'd rather be with him that's real good yeah
Welcome back everyone this is going to be my full dc peacemaker episode 1 through episode
3 video they just released the first three episodes so there's a whole bunch of easter
eggs and justice league connections it is part of the dceu so i'll explain what's going on
if you're brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the episodes i will
do videos for all the episodes just depending on how everybody feels about the series careful for
spoilers if you haven't seen the first couple of episodes yet we'll just start at the beginning and
work our way through shot by shot talking about the big easter eggs justice league connections and
big name drops as we go through the episodes super villain that's a misconception i'm a superhero
batman is a superhero i'll start with episode one then i'll do episode two then i'll do episode
three at the end of the video but they're doing the same naming convention that they do for the
mandalorian series the star wars book of boba fett episodes so it's episode 1 chapter 1 a whole new
world and the world is a reference to him whirling around at the end of the episode with that woman
who winds up being the butterfly but if it wasn't clear this series is taking place inside the dceu
in present day about five months or so after the events of the suicide squad movie that post-credit
scene where peacemaker is shown alive in the hospital recovering there are several mentions
of different justice league characters throughout the series like they do a lot of batman superman
even aquaman references in this first episode i'll point those out too but a lot of the early part of
the first episode is meant to reintroduce you to the peacemaker character and kind of remind you
who he is where he comes from and what's going on james gunn did say the peacemaker series is
supposed to set up a future big dc project like crossover the same way the marvel disney plus
series do with the big marvel movies but for the peacemaker episodes james gunn filmed all them
himself like he was the director of the writer for all the episodes and he said that there are
post-credits scenes for every episode so if you saw the post credits scenes for the first three
episodes it's going to be like that for every single episode the actual opening scene starts
with him waking up in the hospital where we saw him in that post-credits scene the mount rouge
hospital in evergreen the town where he lives and where most of this series is taking place
if you're not a big comic book reader evergreen is from the green lantern comics within the dc
eu here it's located in charlton county and that's a reference to the charlton comics
where peacemaker originally came from but the idea that this is taking place in a green lantern city
in the butterflies or part of this larger alien invasion setup i think that the series is going
to slowly tease the big green lantern hbo series that we're going to be watching next year the door
to the lair of that senator who's the butterfly is glowing green kind of like green lantern there are
veins of green running through the rocks in his underground layer but you guys can let me know in
the comments what other big upcoming dc project do you think they're going to use this to tease
they discharge him and introduced rizwan mongi's jameel character who's one of the janitors there's
a bunch of jokes with his character but he is meant to be a larger character in the later
episodes you kind of get the vibe from his character pretty much everybody on the show
all these main characters are meant to be kind of shady like even his janitor character is kind of
shady because he says he's not trustworthy and he went to mit but he's working as a janitor because
he just doesn't want the responsibility they make their first big justice league reference when he
starts making fun of peacemaker for being so dumb like you're not a hero aquaman's a hero and they
make this big joke about aquaman doing it with fish james gunn said the peacemaker is kind of new
to the internet so to speak like he just doesn't know how the internet works so he believes that
everything he reads on the internet is completely true all over social media they even make a pepe
the frog meme reference when he says the person who told him about aquaman having sex with fish
was named pepe the frog there's a bunch of references to the suicide squad movie like he has
a postcard from cortal mates that he apparently picked up while they were on their mission there
he still has corto maltese currency which he tries to use to pay for his cab ride the mr murn that
the nurse text is the team leader for their black ops team inside argus or task force x they're like
a side quest group inside amanda waller's larger argus organization he's not from the comics there
are a couple of the characters on the team here that they created for the show but a lot of the
other big characters in the series are comic book characters in this whole weird funny intro they
have with the 80s song is just meant to be like a fantasy that he's having like you're meant to
watch this series as if you're seeing inside peacemaker's head the way he thinks of himself
they also use this intro to literally introduce you to the other major characters like this is
dceu vigilante this is leota we find out that she's actually secretly amanda waller's daughter
she's meant to be like the rookie on the team because as she says she was trained in military
ops and amanda waller has been trying to bring her into argus but she's kind of been resisting that
like in episode three she gets kind of gun-shy and can't kill that guard this guy like i said is murn
he's the team leader james gunn also just cast him as a secret character in guardians of the galaxy 3
it's rumored that he's going to be the mcu high evolutionary but i guess we'll find out
when they release the first trailer for that you all remember emilia harcourt from the suicide
squad movie john economos this is a new character kia she's playing leota's wife and you all know
robert patrick he's playing peacemaker's father they actually reveal later that he is dceu white
dragon he's basically like this white supremacist super villain from the comics but that answers a
lot of questions about why he has that secret lair with the portal in all those weapons just
like miles and miles of weapons in some secret location this is sophie song and her partner
larry fitzgibbon they're detectives who just keep running into peacemaker and the task force x team
because of all the collateral damage that they cause there's also a special easter egg for the
fitzgibbon character too he's not from dc comics but james gunn has always had a character in all
of his movies called larry fitzgibbon so it's more of a james gun easter egg not so much a dc easter
egg behind them is just one of the other local police officers played by christopher herredol
who you might recognize from all the stargate tv shows this is yamil's janitor character who
you just met he becomes a bigger character later in the series this old man here is his father's
neighbor he drops a whole bunch of justice league references and batman references and right at the
end judo master jumps out he's kind of like a mid-level villain we'll see what they wind up
doing with him in the later episodes he is a comic book character like i said he debuted in
the original charlton comics where peacemaker came from before dc bought charlton and they all became
dc characters and this is eagly his pet bald eagle yes that is correct he has a pet bald eagle but he
uses him more as like a sidekick like he says best friend sidekick like batman and robin or if you
want to make a batman animal sidekick reference batman and duke from the comics if you didn't
watch the credits d bradley baker is playing the voice of eagly he does all the eagle sounds
a lot of you might remember him as the voice of momo and appa from avatar the last airbender he's
also done a ton of star wars animated characters the symbol here on the episode title is the dub
of peace that's the symbol that he has on all of his gear it becomes a big plot device in episode
three too like he feels like he can't kill someone unless the devil peace is on the gun
but that's really just part of a big panic attack that he's having then as they start introducing
you to the other characters leota makes a bunch of james bond references to octopussy
because she was expecting the secret black ops mission in the series to be something a little
bit sexier a little bit grander things will get super huge and crazy later on like with each
new episode episode 1 episode 2 episode 3 things get continually bigger and bigger and bigger she
also makes a sharknado reference and then when the cab driver won't take peacemaker's cultural
maltese currency he has to give him the helmet that he wore on the last suicide squad mission
but that's just to set up the twist with all the other helmets that a father has with the special
functions and all the special weapons he keeps in that secret base they reveal peacemaker's house
obviously going with the theme here his mobile home painted to look like the american flag the
reason they give him this funny entrance jumping in the side because he can't find the key is also
just to give you a quick tour of his bedroom just to give you a vibe for his character but as you
can see most of his furniture the design all of his records his music is all from the 80s that's
why most of the music for the series the songs that you hear in the episodes are all either hair
metal or classic rock bands then they sort of set up the vigilante character like he has a billion
missed calls and messages from vigilante he is the adrian chase version of the character they
did a version of him on arrow but it was just like a vastly different version from the comics
this version is also a little bit different from the comics too they're just playing him super
goofy and super crazy just like peacemaker they make a big godzilla touhou monster verse reference
when peacemaker thinks that they're fighting mothra like oh we're fighting a giant moth because
the mission is codenamed butterfly in project starfish starro was a giant starfish the payoff
though is that yes they are kind of fighting space butterflies but is a small insectoid race
with advanced technology my early theory right now because there's all this talk of alphas and this
hive structure in this honey drinking like they drink this weird honey fluid in episode three
that they might be connected to queen bee and hive or a version of those characters from the
dc comics queen bee is a big justice league and green lantern villain there's a bunch of different
versions of the characters then she eventually takes over a version of hive the one i'm talking
about is the alien version of the character but to make a marvel reference we kind of
have a version of secret invasion going on where you have them basically taking over human hosts
then they introduce his father played by robert patrick in his muscle car it's a 1970s mercury
comet james gunn himself called it a really shifty car like one of the worst muscle cars of all time
even though you don't get a good look at the license plate you do see it on the posters here
it's meant to say peacemaker but the way it's written it sounds kind of like piss maker which is
exactly the kind of thing the peacemaker would do punking himself the number 986 on his house might
be a reference to the mid-80s when dc bought charlton comics and the peacemaker character
became a dc character but his first dc series didn't start till 1988. his neighbor makes a
big batman reference and obviously because this is inside the dceu he's talking about ben affleck's
batman and probably the other biggest batman easter egg that surprised me was the idea that
batmite actually exists in the dc eu who's batman the two foot tall interdimensional imp who stands
batman i'd rather be with him does it real good yeah if you haven't read a lot of the old
batman comics batmite is basically like a fifth dimensional creature just like Mister Mxyzptlk
it basically does the same thing to batman that Mister Mxyzptlk does to superman just messes with
him and john economos is very clear he's like no no it's real it actually happened
so ben affleck's batman at some point in his history dealt with this interdimensional creature
when they go in the house though there's this whole fox news type show going on about
how liberals in america are secretly aliens plotting to take down the country obviously
that's meant to foreshadow the big reveal about project butterfly that there are actual aliens
who are masquerading as humans like scrolls in the mcu love the way they play all these
eagly scenes here too this is mostly done with a lot of special effects but they treat the eagle
like it really is his sidekick like it literally hugs him dad grab my phone i don't want to move
dad when peacemaker is bonding with his father over blood sports terrible father
in the story about how he locked him in the crate with the starving rats for 24 hours
and his father just can't get enough of it they're trying to show you how much of a
psychopath his father is but also because we find out that he's this classic dc comic book villain
i think they're trying to slowly set him up as a bigger villain during the course of the series
maybe not the main villain but i think they're just trying to set up this larger confrontation
that peacemaker will have with his father then they reveal the special portal disguises the door
in the garage and teleports them to this massive weapon storage depot that his father has with all
this bleeding edge tech which they do not explain yet i love the fact that they don't explain how
his father has all this they're just miles and miles full of weapons here it kind of looks like
his father even has some legit nuclear warheads or at least some giant rocket here in the center so
to make another james bond reference his father is kind of like the psychopathic cue but like i
said he himself used to be a vigilante when his father says the helmets were from before he went
into prison the idea is that his father had been training to be this hardcore weapon but peacemaker
doesn't want to be evil but the funny thing here is that even though his father is legit crazy
he does give him some solid advice like which helmet should i pick here which special function
and he gives him the sonic helmet which does serve him well at the end of the episode they reveal the
first person that he's supposed to kill the first butterfly is this shady us senator who is the
person that they kill in episode three so it takes a little while to get there but they do eventually
get there then after peacemaker strikes out with emilia harcourt he winds up inadvertently going
home with one of the butterflies although they do reveal the butterfly was also kind of watching him
while he was watching amelia harcourt like he was stalking her but he himself was also kind of being
stalked on the side so when they transitioned to the caterpillar in front of her apartment that's
meant to pay off the mothra godzilla project butterfly joke he winds up hooking up with
one of the butterflies then the whole thing with the amanda waller cameo scene is obviously they
just want to remind you that she's a big part of this series even though she's not in every single
episode and revealed that she is leota's mother in what's really going on with project butterfly
there's another batman reference on peacemaker's diary and the reason why she calls it a forgery is
probably because they stole peacemaker's diary and made a fake copy and they're trying to swap back
in the fake copy and just hide it in his trailer somewhere where he won't find it my early theory
is that they probably stole his real diary and it might have something to do with his father's
secret weapons and all the tech and his secret past as the dceu white dragon villain like on
the side amanda waller might be investigating his father love the giant fight scene the peacemaker
has in his tighty whities fighting the butterfly who's also in her underwear and using the helmet
that his father suggested to him like oh it turns out that sonic helmet worked pretty good
like as crazy as his father is it does sound like he knows his stuff it does sound like he's
actually pretty smart but the post-credits scene does make you question that just a little bit
the actual post-credits scene is really just for the scabies helmet like it's a longer version of
the new helmet scene of him looking at all the special functions in legit one of the helmets is
just designed to give him scabies not anyone else just him they're either going to pay that off in a
future episode with another joke or is just meant to make you think that his father could 50 50 be
crazy or a genius probably a little bit of both the title of episode 2 chapter 2 is best friends
for never which is a reference to the vigilante character they fully introduce the vigilante
character in his costume and they start working on the actual butterfly missions in a bigger way
detective song makes a superman reference saying that she hopes this isn't some capes thing she
also references vigilante implying that he's been going around killing people in the area for a long
time the other big joke here too is how he runs back to the apartment to steal all of his gear and
takes all that time to find his socks everything and put it back on and steal all of her 80s music
and junk and just happens upon a piece of their alien technology so sticky fingers did pay off and
they use this to set up the joke for the end of the episode where the wife does wind up sleeping
with peacemaker and vigilante in a big threesome bonding over their mutual love of hair metal bands
amelia harcourt makes a jason bourne reference john economos is the person who's responsible
for peacemaker's father getting thrown in prison although with a little bit of help from leota and
the couple who they bribed to lie about peacemaker he also references harley quinn and weasel
remember the suicide squad movie post credit scene revealed that weasel is still alive and running
around the jungles of quartal maltese unless they went and got him later and i already explained
the bat might seem like him basically saying there is a real version of batmite in the dceu
if you look around the office space that they move into here to run their missions it's basically an
old video rental store and if you look around the room like zoom in enhance on all the shelves here
on all the walls there's a whole bunch of funny references to fake movies the whole shootout that
he has with vigilante to celebrate is just meant to be a callback to his competition that he had
with bloodsport during the suicide squad movie to see who could pull off the best trick shots this
one is just meant to be a little more celebratory like he's having a little bit more fun with it
and afterwards like i said they pay off the joke with amber wanting to screw him with the
big threesome and they pay off the reveal with the alien tech like it's just a tiny alien ship
like the aliens themselves are really tiny and just living inside regular humans like parasites
controlling them that's why in episode 3 pacemaker makes the homunculus reference the episode 2 post
credit scene just winds up being a funnier longer version of the couple looking at all
the different photos identifying peacemaker's father as the actual person at the crime scene
the title of episode 3 is better golf dead which is a reference to the senator that peacemaker was
originally supposed to kill and it's just taken them this long to get to the mission
peacemaker references dceu doll man he's kind of like a discount version of dc's atom or ant-man if
you want to think of a marvel reference doll man only has shrinking powers though and like i said
earlier peacemaker references that he has an older brother who will probably meet in a future episode
or in a flashback if he's dead in present day in apparently pro tip be careful about whatsapp on
your phones if you send each other nudes maybe you should just lay off sending each other pictures
like that anyway they said of the judo master character he's exactly what he sounds like he's
just a regular martial arts expert he doesn't have any special superpowers he comes from the original
old school charlton comics where peacemaker came from so that's why they're using him on the show
shout out for berenstain bears in the mandela effect there's a big joke about the mandela effect
because they argue is it berenstain bears was it berenstein bears it really was berenstain bears
leota is correct like she shows them the picture later and he's like ah that has to be photoshopped
that can't be real the children's books it's bearing stained bears not berenstein beers
they also make a cobra kai karate kid reference netflix just released cobra chive and they
actually just brought back terry silver from karate kid 3 as the new big bad of the series
then the whole thing with not being able to take out the family is just meant to be him having
this crisis of conscience crisis of faith however you want to think about it that's the whole deal
with the dev of peace like he freaks out because there's not a dove of peace on the gun oh i can't
shoot him if there's not a devil peace symbol on it like i said earlier i think the reason they're
drinking the weird honey fluid is probably a tip-off that they're connected to queen bee
and hive from the justice league in the green lantern comics the joke about the flaming hot
cheetos is probably just a product integration like paid placement advertisement that they
turned into a joke or maybe james gunn just really likes his flamin hot cheetos they do
finally give john economos a win after spending the last three episodes making fun of him non-stop
taking down judo master using the van one and then two finishing him off with a crowbar
they do wind up taking out the senator after he winds up cutting off about half of vigilante's
toe and shocking his balls to hell and they reveal that there are theoretically thousands
of these butterfly alien creatures all over the world not so much russia for some reason not
sure why they're avoiding russia so much parts of northern africa most of australia northern canada
really what's going on here is they're just focused around the biggest population centers
in the episode three post-credit scene is just meant to be a longer version of the vigilante
scene where he shows up to help them revealing that his whole family is dead like i said they'll
probably give us a big vigilante flashback in a future episode to explain what happened to his
family but everyone post all your theories about project butterfly in the comments which alien
group do you think the bugs belong to and who is the real main villain but my peacemaker episode 4
video will post next week after my star wars book of boba fett episode video so we'll see how the
peacemaker videos do if everyone is digging the show and the video does well i will continue doing
episode videos for it every week everyone click here for my full book of boba fett episode 3 video
and click here for my eternals deleted scene for kit harington's black knight character
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys in the next one!