John Cenaโs Peacemaker is the queer superhero we need right now, and itโs all thanks to the actor that we got him in the first place. The world was just blessed with this superhero bicon โ and we owe this one person a whole lot of thanks.
After some speculation due to earlier scenes where Peacemaker had a threesome with his male friend and fellow superhero Vigilante, as well as the mention that he had sex with men while in prison, we found out that the antihero was queer in last weekโs epsiode of the HBO Max series. In that episode, Peacemaker is fighting his father when his father yells at him for sleeping with โwhores of polluted bloodโ and men.
Creator James Gunn wanted Peacemaker to be a typical straight, white male. But John Cena, who plays him, had other ideas.
Jaรนes Gunn talked about the relationship between Peacemaker and Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks). โShe is his polar opposite in so many ways, politically. Sheโs a Black, gay woman. Heโs a white, straight โ nah, heโs not straight โ white, whatever-he-is male,โ Gunn said. โAnd yet they really like each other. They have a lot in common. Peacemaker is an interesting character because heโs so f***ed up in so many ways, and then in other ways, he is kind of weirdly forward-thinking.โ
Gunn also revealed how Peacemaker became queer in the process of making the show. โJohn does improv all the time, and he just turned Christopher Smith into this hyper-sexualized dude that is open to anything sexually,โ he said. โI was surprised by that. But I thought, โI guess it makes sense that this guy isnโt one-dimensional.โโ
The Peacemaker showrunner added that โwe see in the show that he doesnโt have any issues with sexuality. As long as youโre not f***ing animals โ that heโs not into. But besides that, heโs pretty open. And yet other things heโs completely close-minded on.โ Gunn added that Peacemaker grew up suffering homophobic abuse from his father, the white supremacist supervillain White Dragon. โI think the hair metal [that he listens to] is actually kind of a beautiful thing about Peacemaker,โ Gunn said. โIt does have that cocky male swagger that he has, but hair metal is also a way he rebelled against his father. There are the androgynous aspects of it, and his dad probably called him all sorts of homophobic slurs because he was listening to it. But he owned it. It was his. Something that was outside the realm of his father. He loves that music and heโs able to just escape into it and rock out and be okay. I think heโs grateful to the music for that.โ
Hopefully, if the show is picked up for a second season, weโll all get the John Cena queer sex scene weโve been dreaming of.
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