HBO Max has released a new red band trailer for Peacemaker. And no shock, it’s pretty darn explicit and gruesome. What else can you expect from a spin-off of The Suicide Squad? John Cena’s psychotic and delusional anti-hero introduces the trailer for the anticipated show that he promises will “blow your bleeping mind” (censorship by author). We then see Peacemaker in a classroom detailing his “heroic” exploits to young children. He also claims to one curious child that Wonderwoman spent an entire party “eye-effing” him from across the room. Basically from the moment the red band trailer opens, there’s nothing held back.
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We then start getting into the teasers of what to expect in the story as Peacemaker sets out with his new task force. Violent images galore grace our eyes, including someone getting stabbed in the eye and someone getting an icepick in the ear. Gizmodo suggests that Peacemaker’s new team may actually be just as unhinged as Task Force X from The Suicide Squad. Violent as this trailer is, it’s also remarkably funny. The cast seems to really play nicely off each other, and Freddie Stroma’s Vigilante is looking to be an amazing comic relief who seems even crazier than Peacemaker, which is saying something. But of course, it’s Peacemaker’s bald eagle companion Eagley who stands out as the star of the trailer. As the cast suggested at DC FanDome 2021, it looks like Eagley is the one who will steal the show.
Peacemaker is a spin-off of 2021’s The Suicide Squad where John Cena made his debut as the patriotic antihero who one could say is well-intentioned but inexcusably brutal. The film received much critical acclaim which opened the door to a spin-off series for the character. That spin-off will premiere on HBO Max on January 13, 2022.
What do you all think of the red band trailer for Peacemaker? Are you excited for the return of John Cena’s violent but funny antihero? Talk to us in the comment section.