The season 1 finale of Peacemaker follows Christopher Smith on another clandestine mission that would reasonably warrant the attention of the Justice League. The team appears towards the end of the show’s first season finale, but two of the six Justice League , Cyborg and Batman, are curiously missing.

James Gunn gave the DCEU its first canonical television series in Peacemaker, and the comedic show frequently acknowledges the larger universe it inhabits. Peacemaker also expands the DCEU, canonizing classic DC Comics characters like Bat-Mite, Matter-Eater Lad, and now even Green Arrow, giving the often dark and dramatic continuity some of DC’s goofier characters from the comics’ storied history. After the threats of both Starro the Conqueror and the Butterflies are neutralized, James Gunn finally gives the Justice League a brief, albeit incomplete cameo.

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Shortly after killing the “Cow” alien species and foiling the Butterflies’ plot to control the course of human history, Peacemaker and the rest of the 11th Street Kids (a Task Force X offshoot) encounter the Justice League, who arrived too late to help. The League’s cameo lineup includes Aquaman and The Flash, played by Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller, respectively, but Wonder Woman and Superman are played by unknown actors and kept in the shadows. With this in mind, it’s odd that Batman and Cyborg, who wouldn’t necessarily need to be played by Ben Affleck and Ray Fisher, were absent from the cameo.

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Where Are Cyborg & Batman In Peacemaker's Justice League Cameo?

The behind-the-scenes explanation The Flash being his final performance as Batman and future DCEU productions replacing him with Michael Keaton’s version. Peacemaker may have skipped on depicting either iteration of Batman for this reason.

In-universe, the explanation is far simpler. In Justice League comics and their adaptations, the full lineup of heroes doesn’t always show up together in every mission, with some heroes being preoccupied with solo adventures. Another possibility is that Batman and Cyborg were simply aboard the Flying Fox, Batman’s experimental airplane for transporting the Justice League on their missions.

Given the outfits worn by the heroes, Peacemaker establishes its place in the DCEU timeline. Aquaman wears Atlan’s armor, while The Flash wears his Justice League suit and Superman is in his classic blue costume once more. This indicates that Peacemaker takes place before The Flash’s timeline alterations, but Superman has fully regained his strength, no longer needing his black suit (which helps him recover his power by absorbing more solar radiation). Batman and Cyborg’s absence in Peacemaker, however, is rather easily explained both in-universe and behind-the-scenes.

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