Nhut Le has returned as the Supervillain Judomaster in Season 2 of Peacemaker, the DC Comics series about inept superheroes. He's gay in real life, so I'm reviewing Episode 2.7, "Like a Keith in the Night," to see if there's any evidence that his character is gay.
Back Story: Washed-up superhero Peacemaker (John Cena) is mourning his dead brother, and the fact he had to kill his evil white-surpremacist supervillain father. He stumbles through an interdimensional vortex in his father's old house into another universe, where Peacemaker is a hero, Dad is nice, and Brother Keith is still alive.
After accidentally killing that world's Peacemaker, he decides to stay. He even tracks down this world's counterpart of the lady who wants to be Just Friends, and guess what? She's in love with this world's Peacemaker! He's got it made!
But in Episode 2.6, his friends (and an enemy) come to retrieve him. Just Friends finds him down at ARGUS Headquarters, where she discovers that this is a white-supremacist Nazi-dominated United States. She wonders why he didn't get a clue from the swastika on American flags and Mein Kampf on every desk. Answer: He's not very bright.
Scene 1: Peacemaker's buddy, the superhero Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), meets his Nazi world-counterpart (Kellen Boyle), and they bond over superhero gossip. He mentions that he belongs to the Sons of Liberty, a resistance movement to the fascist state.
"Wait -- the Nazis won World War II here?"
"So the Allies won in your world? You must live in a utopia!" Um...do you want to tell him, or should I?
Suddenly Vigilante remembers that one of the friends he came with is black. They have to find her before she gets grabbed and sent to a concentration camp!
Cut to Leota being chased by an angry mob. They chase her into a pool. Judomaster rescues her, and electrocutes the mob (or you could just fly away with her. Oh, right -- you're a villain).
Cut to Peacemaker and Just Friends trying to escape. They're surrounded, so he grabs her and flies her out -- ineptly.
Scene 2: Peacemaker's Dad (Robert Patrick) calls to tell Brother Keith (David Denman, left) to get home fast -- he's got Economos, a guy from a parallel world, tied up in the living room.
"I'm just a casual thief who got caught, and made up a story," he claims. They don't believe him. They also know that their Peacemaker is dead, replaced by the one from his world, "a dark version of ours."
Brother Keith ran into Just Friends earlier, and complains that she must be from that other world, too: "She was wearing...ugh..pants, and she never heard of Helloween!"
"Ok, we have to round up and kill all of the intruders from the Dark World."
Scene 3: Judomaster takes Leota to a safe house -- one where the owners are out of town -- and explains that they are in a parallel world, with the portal in Peacemaker's father's house.
"What's up with this place?" Leota asks "I just went for a walk, and got chased by an angry mob."
"The Nazis won World War II. You don't want to be a minority here...or Buddhist...or gay...or anything I am, really. Also, Cheetohs end with an h here, and they aren't nearly as good." Ok, he's gay, in a blink-and-you miss it throwaway line tucked in with a joke about Cheetos.
"So what do we do now?"
"Wait till nightfall, find your friends, and sneak into Peacemaker's father's house, and go through the portal to get home."
While waiting, they play Scrabble (Scrobble in this world), and discuss Leota's problems with her girlfriend., and how much Judomaster hates Peacemaker, "jingoistic garbage person."
"If you open your mind a little, you'll find out that he's really a sweet guy."
More after the break