Peacemaker

The main team gives a black woman, Leota Adebayo, a major co-lead role and gives women, including Harcourt and Adebayo, key combat and field duties. A black man, Murn, leads the first season's mission, while Judomaster adds an Asian hero. The modern U.S. setting makes these roles believable. The repeated use of prominent minority and female heroes creates a mild representation signal, but the marketing does not make diversity its main selling point.

Season 1 directly names Auggie as a white supremacist and links Chris's beliefs to his father's racism. Goff also says that people ignore science while leaders protect profit and deny that floods, fires, and disease are connected. Season 2 repeats direct talk about Nazis, white supremacy, and why people accept an unjust system because it feels comfortable. These points appear across both seasons and help drive the family conflict and Earth-X plot, although jokes and action still take most of the screen time.

Season 1 makes Chris's growth depend on rejecting his abusive father's white supremacist worldview. Season 2 makes race central when Adebayo is hunted because she is black in the alternate world and Chris must face why he feels at home there. The series confirms Chris is bisexual and shows a lesbian couple in his close circle. The story also treats toxic masculinity, male shame, and emotional honesty as parts of Chris's change. These identity themes recur across the series, but the main engine remains violent superhero missions and family trauma.

Season 1 presents A.R.G.U.S. and Amanda Waller as secretive powers that use people, hide crimes, and treat missions as expendable. The Butterflies warn that leaders protect profit while ignoring climate damage, and the team often works around corrupt law officers. Season 2 presents Nazi Earth-X as a system kept alive by people who accept comfort instead of resisting it. The show also calls Chris's violent pride toxic masculinity and ends with the team building a new group outside the old agency, so the critique returns across both seasons.

The show adds bisexuality to Peacemaker's screen version, a trait that was not established in the earlier film. James Gunn said John Cena helped create this part of the character. The show also changes the comic origin by making his father a modern white supremacist, but that change supports the family story instead of changing a character's race or gender. The identity change is clear and audience-visible, but it is isolated.

Small anti-woke accounts called Season 2 woke because of the premiere's orgy, gay sexual content, and the show's bisexual lead. Other small right-leaning posts called the Earth-X Nazi story anti-American or attacked Gunn's satire as woke slop. A modest men's-rights account described the writing as girlboss-style because female agents are competent while male leads are foolish. The X pass found no boycott, review-bombing drive, or large organized campaign, so the backlash remains fringe.

James Gunn is the main writer and showrunner, and his cached score is 47/100. His cached profile notes progressive representation and anti-prejudice messages with crude humor and broad human themes. Most listed directors and producers have low cached scores and no known activist record. Gunn's Peacemaker interviews describe the show as a story about vulnerability, emotional growth, and the damage caused by racist parents, which matches the show's content.