The Suicide Squad: 22 WTF Moments
18. Basically Everything About Peacemaker
John Cena is so perfectly cast as Peacemaker in this movie - he was basically the WWE's version of Captain America, and here he's playing a polarity-reversed version of Cap who's effectively a right-wing nutjob.
He exhibits a callous disregard for human life throughout the film in the misguided quest for "freedom."
In one memorable scene, he and Bloodsport keep trying to one-up each other's kills, with Peacemaker slaughtering several unarmed and non-hostile people, as well as shooting a man who Bloodsport had already set on fire.
The punchline? The people they both just killed were freedom fighters trying to liberate the island of Corto Maltese from a dictatorship.
In addition to relishing murder wholesale, Peacemaker also whines about millennials when Ratcatcher II (Daniela Melchior) wants to get some more sleep, and calls Bloodsport racist for talking about him wearing tighty-whities.
Thankfully we'll be seeing more of Peacemaker's deranged shenanigans in his upcoming HBO Max series, with all eight episodes having also been written by James Gunn.