Fortnite has re-enabled the now notorious Peacemaker dance emote, Peaceable Hips, after altering the choreography following hypothesis that it referenced Nazi imagery.
Final week, Fortnite maker Epic Video games rapidly disabled the dance after a serious plot twist aired within the James Gunn and John Cena DC sequence, suggesting the emote was unlikely to return.
“As a way to examine our companions’ artistic intentions on this collaborative emote, we’re disabling the Peaceable Hips emote in Fortnite,” Epic Video games wrote on the time. “In the event you do not come again, we’ll refund your cash inside a couple of days. We’re sorry.”
A couple of days later, Epic Video games introduced a follow-up in cautious phrases, later saying it had “labored intently with our companions at Warner Bros. Video games to substantiate that there was no artistic intent to tie the Peaceable Hip emote to the present Peacemaker storyline.”
The ultimate outcome? The developer continued, “To keep away from confusion, we are going to change the emote choreography in subsequent week’s replace.” To some, this assertion appeared unclear as as to if this emote was a reference to the Nazis on the present itself. If that’s the case, why did you come again? If not, why was it modified?
Anyway, as we speak’s large Fortnite patch (which additionally provides the sport’s Halloween occasion Fortnitemares and the primary nod to the long-awaited mini-season of The Simpsons) has switched and up to date the Peaceable Hips emote.
Evaluate the unique dance emote and the up to date emote beneath.
DC Peacemaker βPeaceable Hipsβ emote shall be disabled
“We’re investigating our accomplice’s artistic intentions with this collaborative emote. If it does not come again, we’ll difficulty a refund within the subsequent few days. We apologize.” pic.twitter.com/gQ4oARbf6f
β iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) September 28, 2025
Peaceable Hips Fortnite x Peacemaker dance up to date pic.twitter.com/1pFGheAmB6
β iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) October 9, 2025
The unique emote begins with arms outstretched and elbows bent downwards. After swinging barely to the facet, bend every arm upward, separately. Some see this motion as harking back to the swastika. Then, after a momentary contact of the thighs, the routine ends with a beneficiant thigh thrust, arms behind the pinnacle.
The brand new emote replaces that center part with a contemporary fist-clenching and arm-up-and-down motion that ties neatly into the remainder of the choreography.
It was a busy 24 hours for Fortnite final night time as they needed to take care of rap star Doja Cat breaking out of Kayfabe and criticizing a submit on the sport’s social media accounts that made it appear to be she wrote the intercourse toy references. In the meantime, for extra on Peacemaker, videogameaddicted lately spoke with Gunn in regards to the present and one other large shock: a cameo from Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor.
Tom Phillips is videogameaddicted’s information editor. You may contact Tom at tom_phillips@videogameaddicted.com or discover him on Bluesky. @tomphillipseg.bsky.social