John Cena’s titular character in Peacemaker Season 2 may have to fight one final villain in the upcoming Episode 8. The penultimate chapter of the sequel installment saw Chris Smith and his team face off against his Earth-X brother, Keith Smith, aka Captain Triumph, causing many to speculate that he might return as the main antagonist for the season finale.
Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 7 sets up Captain Triumph as a villain
In Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 7, the white supremacist version of Auggie and Keith Smith finally encounter the original Chris Smith. The duo also learn that he was the one responsible for the death of Earth-X’s Peacemaker. Already on edge due to his brother’s demise, Captain Triumph completely loses his composure after the Earth-X Vigilante ends up killing Auggie Smith as well.
A Nazi sympathizer due to how history unfolded on his Earth, Captain Triumph goes on an unhinged rampage against Chris Smith and his friends but ends up on the losing side with Emilia Harcourt pulling up a gun on him in Episode 7.
While they leave him to his fate instead of killing him, Harcourt teases that it is highly likely that Keith might follow their footsteps to Earth 1 to exact revenge. As such, many DCU fans have reportedly theorized that Captain Triumph might return in Episode 8 as the final villain of Peacemaker Season 2.
Notably, James Gunn, in the latest episode of the official Peacemaker podcast, also stated that “in one way,” Season 2 conveyed “Captain Triumph’s origin as a super villain, a white supremacist piece of s— super villain. And at the end [of Episode 7], we see that look in his eye.”
Therefore, all things point towards a potential showdown between Captain Triumph and the Peacemaker in the final episode of Season 2. Regardless, if David Denman’s Keith Smith fails to make an appearance in the sequel edition, fans can expect him to return to wreak havoc in Chris Smith’s life in a potential Season 3 or other Peacemaker-centric DCU projects.
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on SuperHeroHype.
