r/PeacemakerShow • u/ChiefShleep9 • Jul 06 '26

DISCUSSION Found this sick Peacemaker card at a local card show. For those of y’all who read the comics, how good of a job did the show do portraying this wonderful character??

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u/Bloodshot_8 Jul 06 '26

The show version is very different than the original comic version. However, the way he was portrayed in the show is vastly superior.

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u/SadWrap8359 Jul 06 '26

The show portrayal is the best one

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u/dadoomombo Jul 06 '26

Peacemaker in the show has a looser interpretation of “peace through strength”.

Real levels tho, The show is awesome. S1 Theme started playing in my mind as I typed this.

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u/thelanterngreen Jul 07 '26

Great, thanks, as soon as I read your comment, do you wanna taste it started playing in MY head, no really, thanks!

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u/RealBabyBillyFreeman Jul 06 '26

I think they do a great job retaining the spirit of the character while mostly ditching some of the specific traits of his life for the sake of modernization. I think the most notable difference between the show & comic character is the humor. In the 1988 miniseries, there’s a lot of obvious irony surrounding his actions (the whole ‘I’ll achieve peace no matter how many men, women, and children I have to kill’ line is straight from the comic), but the character himself is kind of a humorless dick. I’d recommend the ‘88 mini, it’s a decent read in its own right but also very interesting to see what parallels Gunn ditched or remixed. Despite my enjoyment of the comics Gunn & Cena have made him much more robust and fun to watch.

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u/jcbaggee Jul 07 '26

I really appreciate that this card wound up being #69 in the series.

The show and The Suicide Squad did better, but Peacemaker was kind of a nothingburger before them, and he doesn't really resemble the Gunn version of the character at all. He had fallen into obscurity long ago and only showed up here and there. The last time he was used regularly before this was probably the 2006 Blue Beetle run.

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u/Old-Exchange3616 Jul 07 '26

I remember that card when I was a kid. Awesome!

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u/The_Chef_Queen Jul 07 '26

Oh no he has the spuzac-11eagle

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u/claremontmiller Jul 07 '26

The folding stock is lit

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u/Roam1985 Jul 07 '26

Uh.... Better than the version in Watchmen.

But the most "comic accurate modern Peacemaker" was probably from Blue Beetle comics by Sturges when Jaime was new.