How Long Murn Has Been A Butterfly (Peacemaker Timeline Clues Explained)
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 5.
The end of Peacemaker episode 4 revealed that Clemson Murn is a Butterfly and episode 5 gave a little more insight into his backstory, but it's still unclear exactly how long has Murn actually been a Butterfly. So far, the Butterflies have been set up as the main antagonists for the Peacemaker TV series. While it is possible that Amanda Waller or White Dragon might become the main villain, Murn’s role and history as a Butterfly are sure to be important.
Throughout the early Peacemaker episodes, Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji) appeared particularly stoic and emotionless with episode 3, “Better Goff Dead,” including a discussion of how he is trying to get better at showing his feelings. When Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) calls Murn at the end of episode 4, he hangs up and then is shown to have a proboscis and to eat the same food as the other Butterflies. In episode 5, he enlists Locke (Christopher Heyerdahl) to replace the Evergreen police captain and help to keep Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick) locked up, engaging in reminiscence about a conflict they were both part of in the jungles of Nyasir, a fictional northeastern African country in the DC comics.
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There is a lot about how Peacemaker’s Butterflies work that has not been explored yet. It seems safe to assume that the Butterflies keep the memories of the hosts that they inhabit, enabling them to blend in more easily when they have taken over senators and their families. This would mean that Murn wouldn’t have been a Butterfly since he was a child as he has knowledge of references to The Berenstain Bears and The Apple Dumpling Gang. Murn notes to Locke in their
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