Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Peacemaker season 2, episode 6
Just two months after the release of James Gunn’s Superman and mere weeks after the Man of Tomorrow sequel was announced, the DCU has just given us a major tease for the future team-up movie. While details are still scarce for the 2027 movie, it’s been confirmed that David Corenswet’s Superman will team up with Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor.
Even though we’re still two years out, teases and hints for the upcoming Luthor/Superman team-up are already being made in the current DCU. This is especially true following Lex Luthor’s surprise appearance in Peacemaker season 2, episode 6. Here’s how Superman and Lex Luthor’s Man of Tomorrow team-up is already being teased in the DCU.
Lex Luthor Returns In Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 6
Struggling to find Peacemaker and his Quantum Unfolding Chamber with its access to other dimensions and running out of options, ARGUS director Rick Flag Sr. decides to visit Lex Luthor.
As teased at the ending of James Gunn’s Superman, Luthor was incarcerated for his crimes in Belle Reve, the maximum security prison full of metahumans who would often become candidates in Amanda Waller’s various Task Forces.
Shown using a cane due to the brutal beatdown he received from Krypto the Superdog, Luthor is less than pleased that he has to spend his 265-year sentence surrounded by metahuamns, the very “blight” he was trying to rid the world of.
While Flag agrees to have Luthor moved to a different prison in exchange for his help locating Peacemaker’s QUC, the implication is that this could very well be the start of an ongoing relationship between Lex and ARGUS in the DCU going forward.
How Lex Luthor’s New Deal With ARGUS Can Set Up His Future In Man of Tomorrow
While his freedom isn’t on the table (yet), Flag does offer Luthor the chance to obtain some “redemption”. He later confirms to Agent Bordeaux that ARGUS is now partnered with Lex Luthor, suggesting that they may continue working with the supergenius even after the current crisis with Peacemaker comes to an end.
After all, it’s become clear that Flag is gradually coming around to Lex’s way of thinking when it comes to metahumans and their overall influence, while also having his own secret agenda when it comes to extradimensional travel.
At any rate, Luthor’s ability to negotiate and offer ongoing services to the United States government could be the very thing that results in his future team-up with Superman. We know the two arch-foes will be reluctantly united against some greater threat in Man of Tomorrow, which many are theorizing to be the classic Superman villain Brainiac.
Following his assistance from behind bars, perhaps ARGUS will provisionally release Luthor by the time we get to Man of Tomorrow, relying on his genius and skills to help Superman take on whoever or whatever arrives to endanger the world.
At any rate, it’s going to be very exciting to see what the future holds for Lex Luthor from now till we get to Man of Tomorrow.