‘Peacemaker’ Season 2: Who Are The Sons Of Liberty?

The Sons of Liberty make their live-action debut in the third episode of Peacemaker Season 2. Today we’ll cover the Sons of Liberty as they appear in DC Comics, followed by their appearance in Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3: “Another Rick Up My Sleeve”.

Spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3 Ahead!!

The Sons of Liberty In DC Comics

The Sons of Liberty was created by Jerry Ordway and first appeared in Superman Vol 2 #53 (March, 1991).

The group was founded by former U.S. Air Force Major Charles Holcraft, whose goal was to overthrow the American government. He believed that the United States drifted from the core principles of the American Constitution and wanted to restore “American Values.” This group also acted as a benefactor for Benjamin Lockwood aka Agent Liberty.

Holcraft was apprehended by Superman, and the group was close to disbanding due to his dealings with the nation of Qurac. The remaining members of the Sons devised a plan to kill Holcraft before he could testify before a senate committee. This involved the kidnapping of then Senator Peter Ross’ fiancee, Lana Lang. In exchange for Lana’s life, Ross would have to smuggle a gun and kill Holcraft before he could testify. Ross did not comply and Agent Liberty killed Holcraft instead.

In a surprise turn of events, the group met its downfall by Agent Liberty. When the group tried to silence Ross, Lockwood opposed the idea, he would later learn from Superman that the Sons had earlier assassinated Ross’ predecessor, and he personally terminated the Sons’ prominent members, Jay Harriman and Ronald Kramer. In order to put an end to the group, Benjamin gathered all the information he had on the group and forwarded it to Clark Kent of the Daily Planet to expose them.

The Sons of Liberty saw a temporary return when Lockwood’s former comrade, Paul Devlin revived the group. He ordered the group to plant a series of bombs across Washington, DC and attempted to kill the first family with a suicide attack on the White House with an airplane loaded with explosives. Agent Liberty managed to foil the assassination and dismantle the Sons which also resulted in Devlin’s death.

The Sons of Liberty In Peacemaker Season 2

While Chris and Emilia are sitting on a park bench, one of the Sons of Liberty, Jerry dies right in front of them due to an explosion, the other members are shocked. We cut to the group invading an office building, they kill the security guard and force everyone else to stay put. One of the Sons while holding someone hostage makes an announcement they plan to destroy a different governmental building each week until their demands are met. If anyone tries to intervene they plan to kill the hostage

We see some more of the Sons planting orange explosives on one of the floors. We learn that the explosive is called cefanalolol, which is the same material that killed Jerry earlier. The Sons also destroyed a Housing and Development office the previous week. Chris plans to stop the Sons and heads to a rooftop in order to sneak in

The Sons are alerted of his presence, one of the members heads to the rooftop to investigate and gets killed by Peacemaker. The Sons member making demands is killed. His hostage is set free. The rest of the team is killed off by Chris. During this time an escape helicopter arrives and the explosives are armed. Chris manages to disable the explosive while his brother suited up as Captain Triumph, takes out the helicopter as the pilots decide to leave.

Peacemaker Season 2 is created by James Gunn and stars John Cena as Christoper Smith / Peacemaker, Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase / Vigilante, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr and more. The first five episodes are now streaming on HBO Max, the sixth episode premieres on September 25th at 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET.

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