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Peacemaker Season 2 is diving headfirst into its DCEU connections, bringing Rick Flag back to explore the fallout from his death in The Suicide Squad. A couple of characters still aren’t over the tragic event and place all of the blame at Peacemaker’s feet, but they aren’t the only people who might be dealing with grief. There’s at least one other DCEU character that Peacemaker is ignoring who deserves to go after their pound of flesh before Christopher Smith’s story is all said and done.
Katana Has Rick Flag’s Back in the DCEU
Flag finds himself between a rock and a hard place in Suicide Squad. A.R.G.U.S. knows that a major threat is on the way, so Amanda Waller moves forward with her Task Force X initiative and puts her right-hand man in charge. A trip to Belle Reeve is the first task on the docket, and it proves to be a solid choice because Waller finds more than a few warm bodies to throw at her problem. Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Deadshot (Will Smith), and the rest all get chips put in their heads and get loaded up on a plane heading to Midway City. While they all have to take part in the mission, there’s one character present who doesn’t: Katana. Flag introduces her as his bodyguard, willing to put down any team member who looks at him funny.
Suicide Squad doesn’t explain why Katana is so loyal to Flag, but she clearly views him as a friend, never turning against him despite learning that A.R.G.U.S. is responsible for everything that’s going on in Midway. She even goes as far as to fight the incredibly powerful Enchantress, who is using Flag’s girlfriend’s body to attempt to take over the world. The battle ends in victory for Task Force X, and everyone who took part gets their own kind of reward. Katana, however, disappears after the events of Suicide Squad, failing to make an appearance during its follow-up. That’s understandable, as The Suicide Squad brings in a lot of new faces, but Peacemaker is all about the people Flag leaves behind – a group that should include Katana.
Peacemaker Owes Katana Just as Much as Anyone Else
Peacemaker Season 2 is all about Smith trying to make up for his mistakes. Not everyone is buying the hero act, though. Rick Flag Sr. is hot on Peacemaker’s trail, waiting for him to slip up so he can bring him down. The new head of A.R.G.U.S. is so motivated that he even convinces one of the anti-hero’s best friends, Emilia Harcourt, to turn on him. As the show reveals, Harcourt has her own reasons for joining the cast, as Flag was her only real friend. The two shared a moment before he shipped out for Corto Maltese, with Flag expressing interest in making things with Harcourt official. She didn’t want to start beef with June Moone, so she tabled the idea. Of course, Flag died shortly after, leaving a hole in Harcourt’s heart.
