Peacemaker Already Teased DC Forgiving The Suicide Squad's Worst Death
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 6.
In Peacemaker episode 6, “Murn After Reading,” a key line from Clemson Murn drives the series further towards asking the audience to forgive Peacemaker for Rick Flag’s death. James Gunn resurrectedThe Suicide Squad for his 2021 movie with Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag serving as one of the few returning characters from David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad. His death at the hands of John Cena’s Peacemaker came as a surprise, but with the Peacemaker TV series, James Gunn seems to be using the moment as a critical aspect of the titular crime fighter's character development.
Episode 6 follows on from Peacemaker episode 5’s cliffhanger ending that showed Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji) attacking Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) after she learned that he was secretly a Butterfly. When Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) and Murn explain to Adebayo, Leota points out that the Butterfly inside of Murn killed Murn himself. Murn emotionally expresses his regret, saying that he needed a body and he searched for the worst person he could possibly find and that Murn had done terrible things before the Butterfly took him over. However, the Butterfly notes that he still hates having taken Murn’s body as his memories revealed that even someone apparently as far gone as Murn could have been redeemed.
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This line from the Butterfly inside Murn makes a fairly clear statement about the possibility of redemption for Peacemaker. Throughout the Peacemaker TV series, characters have made mention of the terrible things that might be hidden in Murn’s past, seemingly making him more of a bogeyman than Peacemaker himself. If an
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