Maybe he and Rick could have been friends? But he didn’t even give them a shot.Ĭena, who plays the complicated hero, is a former wrestler built like an extremely buff, smooth version of Gossamer, the big monster covered in red hair who was always threatening Bugs Bunny.
In that film, he killed government agent and nominally good guy Rick Flag. He’s finally processing the events of the 2021 film The Suicide Squad, which introduced John Cena as Peacemaker. Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.Įarly in the first season of HBO Max’s 2022 series Peacemaker, the titular antihero collapses on the bed in his tiny trailer and breaks down sobbing.
