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As for those amazing dance moves themselves, it’s been pointed out that the choreography sure looks a lot like the movement of the ships in the game Space Invaders, foreshadowing the alien invasion in the story. That appears to be a fortunate coincidence, but what probably isn’t is the moment when Peacemaker shoots at the camera …

… and we cut to Robert Patrick, who plays his evil Nazi dad and dies from a son-inflicted gunshot to the head in the next to last episode. Meaning that the last thing he saw was something much like the screenshot above, minus the neon lights and such.

Another hint hidden in the dancing is the fact that Judomaster is only glimpsed at for most of the sequence, which according to actor Nhut Le represents the fact that he spends most of the season sneaking around on people. Whether this was an intentional choice or something Gunn told the actor to justify cutting most of his moves is unclear, but it works either way.

Finally, Gunn said on the official Peacemaker podcast that the intro is kind of a Rorschach test for the show: “It just always tells a different story. You’ll see as our story gets darker, deeper, and more sad, that the dance itself kind of becomes more sad and more serious and less funny.” Hence the tonal whiplash on episode 7, where we go from the harrowing flashback of Peacemaker accidentally killing his brother to Wig Wam’s riffs. The dead serious look on Peacemaker’s face as he dances does take a whole new meaning in that moment — especially considering that the character has a personal and redemptive connection to dumb hair metal music, according to Gunn.

There, those are the secrets of the Peacemaker opening credits unraveled. The only mystery now is how the hell Gunn is gonna top that next season. Our money’s on an interpretative ballet number.

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