Epic Games will, however, modify the emote from its original form to further clarify its distinction from season 2’s big twist.
This past weekend, after the latest episode of Peacemaker lifted the lid on a long-simmering twist—that much of the second season had taken place in a riff on DC Comics’ Earth X, a parallel reality where Nazi Germany extended and ultimately won World War II—Epic Games and its perennial crossover platform Fortnite found itself in hot water when a recently released emote to tie in with the show’s return became central to a theory in confirming the Nazi-connected link.
Mostly, that audiences believed that one of the ways they could guess the Earth X twist ahead of its reveal in season 2’s sixth episode, “Ignorance Is Chris,” was because the season’s new opening dance number begins with John Cena’s titular vigilante performing a dance move that seemingly shaped his arms into the form of a swastika. The exact dance moves that Epic had, just a couple of weeks prior, added to the game alongside a Peacemaker skin as the “Peaceful Hips” dance emote.
