In the first episode of season two of Peacemaker, we see John Cena’s titular hero go to a secret location in an abandoned toy store. He goes there to audition for membership in Maxwell Lord’s Justice Gang, the same team from Superman. And it doesn’t quite go how he’d hoped. But we did get a little DC Easter egg in that scene. Actually, “Easter egg” is the most apt description. Because we see a costumed applicant leave the tryouts in tears, and it’s a relatively obscure Gotham City character, White Rabbit.
Played by actress Brey Noelle, White Rabbit looks just like her comic book counterpart, wearing sexy “Playboy Bunny” lingerie and giant rabbit ears. She doesn’t get any speaking lines, but she’s crying and distraught, probably because of something that Guy Gardner said. Also, for likely not making it to the team roster either. But this ridiculous-looking character actually does have DC Comics origins.
White Rabbit She first appeared in 2011’s Batman: The Dark Knight #1, in a story by writer Paul Jenkins and artist David Finch. This was part of the publisher’s infamous New 52 reboot that year. Her true name was Jaina Hudson, the daughter of a wealthy Gotham City diplomat and his wife, a former Bollywood actress. At the age of 9, Jaina moved from India to Gotham, where she eventually became a rich socialite and dated Bruce Wayne briefly.
It turned out, she had the power of Bio-Fission, meaning she could duplicate herself, reproducing “like a bunny.” Her White Rabbit persona actually became Caucasian and platinum blonde, which is fairly problematic, as that is her “sexy” persona. After causing problems for Batman a few times, she joined the Wonderland Gang, thanks to her Alice in Wonderland-inspired appearance. Eventually, the White Rabbit just recombined with Jaina. Nevertheless, she continued to make sporadic appearances here and there in the DC universe.
In the comics, White Rabbit is almost always presented as a Batman villain, and not a superhero. Of course, most of the female Gotham baddies became heroes or antiheroes eventually, like Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. So it’s not far-fetched to assume White Rabbit could go down the same career path. And one of her last appearances in the comics back in 2023 even hinted at that shift. No doubt, DC was hoping she’d became as popular as the other sexy “Gotham City Sirens.” But she never quite clicked in that way. In her most recent appearances, her costume is slightly less objectifying.
We’re pretty sure that the version of White Rabbit we see in Peacemaker is just supposed to be a one-time gag, and we’ll likely never see her again. After all, she didn’t even get to speak a single line of dialogue. But who knows? In this new DCU, anything is possible. James Gunn might want to bring her back for more than just a cameo later in the season. Some forgotten Batman villains got glow-ups thanks to their outside comics media popularity. We’re talking about former “loser” status villains like Kite-Man, or even Condiment King. Maybe Peacemaker will ensure the same fate for White Rabbit in the future.
Peacemaker season two drops new episodes every Thursday on HBO Max.