James Gunn just can’t help himself. Just days after calling fans “racists” in an interview with GQ, the latest episode of Peacemaker doubled down with a storyline that many are calling flat-out offensive — this time targeting Christians.
“Oh, Him They Love”
In the new episode, Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) and Judo Master (Nhut Le) discuss the alternate-Earth setting known as Earth-X, a fascist world where Germany won World War 2 and spread to all corners of the globe. It’s a world where people of color, religious minorities, and gay individuals are persecuted.
Judo Master warns: “You don’t want to be a minority here. Or gay or Buddhist or anything I am really.”
Adebayo replies in disbelief: “Jesus Christ.”
To which Judo Master delivers the James Gunn punchline: “Oh, him they love!”
James Gunn sits for an interview – YouTube, GQ
This episode was written and directed by none other than DC Studios co-head James Gunn himself.
The line is played for humor, but the implication is crystal clear: Gunn and his writing team are linking Christianity with fascism. In the Earth-X universe, it’s not just fascists who thrive — it’s Christians. The message is unmistakable, and it’s hard to imagine anyone writing a similar line about another religion without immediate industry backlash.
Comparing Apples to Oranges
Later in the episode, the commentary gets even more on the nose. Adebayo reflects on the horrors of Earth-X and concludes that it’s “Not as different from our own world as we wish it was.”
Judo Master responds with a smirk, saying, “Damn straight!”
A screenshot from the intro of Peacemaker on Max – Max
That exchange is supposed to be biting social commentary, but it collapses under the weight of reality. On Earth-X, Adebayo is literally chased down the street simply for being a Black woman out in daylight. In the world of the DCU, her character’s mother, Amanda Waller, is portrayed as one of the most powerful figures in government. To equate those two scenarios is not just insulting, it’s dishonest.
“Superman leads into this show and then we have the setting up of all of the rest of the DCU in this season of Peacemaker, it’s incredibly important,” – James Gunn
James Gunn’s DCU pic.twitter.com/MKYmpJOWuf
— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) October 3, 2025
This isn’t edgy commentary. It’s lazy, ignorant, and inflammatory storytelling that tries to score political points by attacking faith and exaggerating oppression.
A Familiar Hollywood Playbook
None of this should surprise longtime observers of James Gunn. Hollywood has been pushing this tactic for years.
- Step 1: Link traditional or religious values with authoritarianism.
- Step 2: Equate criticism of the writing with bigotry.
- Step 3: Paint overblown dystopias as “not so different from our own world” as a way of moralizing at the audience.
James Gunn and John Cena introduce the Red Band Trailer for Peacemaker Season 2 – YouTube, DC
But this one strikes at the heart of millions of Christians, who see their faith maligned in Peacemaker as an accessory to tyranny. For Gunn to tie fascism and Christianity together in a mainstream DC property is beyond tone-deaf.
Fan Blaming Comes Full Circle
What makes this even worse is the timing. Just last week, Gunn defended himself from criticism of Episode 6 by claiming: “I have a few racists that have called me polarizing, but I’m okay with being polarizing and letting racists fall to the wayside.”
John Cena dancing in the opening to Peacemaker Season 2 – YouTube, DC
It’s the same Hollywood playbook we’ve seen over and over: dismiss any negative response by smearing the fans. If you didn’t like the episode, maybe you’re a racist. If you’re offended by Christianity being connected to fascism, well, that’s your problem too.
Conclusion
James Gunn has made himself the center of the DC Universe, and now Peacemaker is being used as his soapbox to spout social commentary and malign Christians. But there’s a difference between edgy satire and outright contempt. Linking Christianity to fascism while dismissing critics as racists is not a winning formula.
James Gunn introduces the trailer for Peacemaker Season 2 – YouTube, DC
If this is the vision guiding DC’s future, then fans may be asking themselves a question Gunn doesn’t want to hear: is the DCU being built on storytelling… or arrogance?
How do you feel about this line in Peacemaker about Christians? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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It’s just interesting that they never mention how Hitler was atheist. Like them. 🤔
I’ve seen what makes these people clap so who gives a damn about their opinions.
More lefties are realising that the jews arent their friends anymore especially over the isreal palestine conflict. Gunn is gonna find out the racists are on his own side that will him up against a wall before any so called far right n4zi ever will.
Some people say president of Moravia was picked to vaguely resemble Netanhyahu. Whiel I find it questionable, it is non the less amusing claim.
Hiter was atheist, Mao Zedong was atheist, Stalin was atheist … and yet somehow Christianity is the problem. Christ taught is to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies, he didn’t fight when they came for him, no he stopped his disciples from fighting. And he healed the ear of a soldier, one disciple chopped of, when they wanted to capture Christ. He went with them and died on the cross. Without ever fighting back.
As christians we aren’t called to fight physically. The way we are called to fight is by the word and by prayer. By giving testimony and calling out sin.
Of course having your sin called out doesn’t feel good. Especially if you don’t have the salvation in Christ. And because we are living in a world where most people want to be their own god, hurting their feelings is a bigger crime than killing millions of people, because in their ideology those people are all just animals anyway and since morality is relative nothing really matters.
And that’s exactly why atheism causes one tragedy after the other and one tragedy is bigger than the other. Not even muslims who prosecute and kill every minority religion in most muslim countries come close to the numbers of people killed by atheists.
Gunn continues to prove that he’s a complete moron.
Or an agitator.
I really truly and deeply wish my people were everything that these lunatics believe us to be. I wish my people were crusaders and witch hunters again, members of vigilante militias and inquisitions rooting out heretics and the evil. Maybe we wouldn’t be slowly dying off. I’ll just leave a quote from a better man than me, someone that understood what needed to happen, the kind of action that needed to be taken by men of courage and honor. You can find this quote in any Bible, in the book of Matthew, chapter 10 verses 33-39.
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
The noticing will continue until The Great Awakening happens. Deus Vult.
White men are the golden goose. Even Africans want white men in their country aka kenya and ghana rather than usa negreos. See a salty cracker podcast on rumble for an example ( i forget which vid)
Gunn is
a) the most disgusting pervert destined to Hell according to almost any religious scripture.
b) He is a Jew. All of Hollywood is Jewish. Espstein types. Weinstein types. Tip of the iceberg.
So, do you want to reward Hollywood, or to punish it, with boycotts and social media backlash?
At least in the old days they made great movies. Now they make movies designed to make kids queer / trans.