Does Creature Commandos Confuse The New DCU Canon?

Creature Commandos is finally here, thus heralding in the new era of the DC Universe on screen. This is designed to be a reboot of DC canon as James Gunn takes over as the studio head after about a decade of the Snyder/Hamada-run DCEU. The show is great and everyone should watch it, the problem is the first five or so minutes where they kind of lay out the groundwork of what the universe is.

So the show reintroduces Amanda Waller as she discusses her new plans with Rick Flag Sr. Because Leota (Danielle Brooks) went public with the information about Task Force X at the end of Peacemaker, Waller can no longer use incarcerated metahumans to lead her task forces. She finds a way around this by using only the non-humans she has rounded up and starts Task Force M.

All of that is fine and could work when establishing this new universe. The only real ties Peacemaker has to the rest of the old DCEU are a few flashbacks to The Suicide Squad and the appearance of the Justice League in the finale. The latter is easy enough to explain away by just saying Peacemaker made that up when he was recounting the story.

The problem is that the show uses Weasel and explicitly ties itself to The Suicide Squad in ways that will likely confuse viewers. Weasel was in the first group wave sent as part of Operation Starfish, most of whom died. The cast of The Suicide Squad have already had run-ins at various points with the Justice League including Bloodsport (serving a prison sentence for shooting Superman with a Kryptonite bullet), Harley Quinn (fought Batman), and Captain Boomerang (deceased but was captured by The Flash).

By canonizing the events of The Suicide Squad into the events of Creature Commandos, you also canonize a bunch of things that do not fit. Considering how The Suicide Squad ties back to 2016's Suicide Squad, you also have to take into consideration how closely the existence of this team is tied to Batman (he has ties to Waller, gets the identity of Barry Allen and Arthur Curry from her at the end of the film, and is featured in flashbacks with Deadshot and the Joker/Harley) and Superman (the entire reason Waller gets the idea to form the team is because Superman gets killed by Doomsday in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice).

Maybe I'm overthinking it but it's worth noting that general audiences may have a problem with understanding what's fundamentally different about the new DCU when it so closely builds off the foundational texts of the original. The waters get especially muddied when you look at how the final few movies were handled. Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Black Adam both directly tie back to Peacemaker with Harcourt and Economos working with the Justice Society.

There's a lot of retconning to do when it comes to correcting these issues. That said, Creature Commandos is great and worth watching so definitely check it out and we will see if these fears are misguided when we get more information about Superman.