The following contains spoilers for DC’s Peacemaker streaming series.When Peacemaker kicked off its streaming series, it did so with the introduction of Project Butterfly in the DC Extended Universe. Peacemaker was placed on a team of Amanda Waller’s choosing to track down “Butterflies” around the world and eliminate the threat. Butterflies are creatures who resemble the insect, but are able to take over the mind of living creatures by embedding in their brains. Outside of that, not much is known about the beings or their real motivations in the series.
What the audience does know is that a Butterfly has already embedded itself into the project team. Former mercenary Clemson Murn, the project leader, is actually a Butterfly, something the audience knows an episode before Leota Adebayo discovers it with the help of Peacemaker’s x-ray helmet. What’s interesting about that x-ray helmet, however, is that when Peacemaker is using it himself to find Butterflies, he doesn’t have it activated around his team. The only person he uses the helmet around is Adebayo, which is why she’s so interested in it later. He deactivates it before they meet up with the rest of the team and confront Charlie the Gorilla. It might make the audience wonder if there could be another Butterfly hidden in the team.
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It seems incredibly unlikely that John Economos could be a Butterfly. Why? The audience has seen him on his own multiple times in the first five episodes, and none of his scenes have ever featured any kind of reveal like Murn feeding as a Butterfly. That being said, there has been an opportunity for the Butterflies to get to him.
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