Peacemaker Secretly Confirms The Butterflies' Dark DCEU History
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 5.
In a brief scene, Peacemaker episode 5, “Monkey Dory,” revealed a big element of the secret DCEU backstory of the Butterflies. The Butterflies were first referenced in Peacemaker episode 1, but information on what they are and what they want has only come in bits and pieces. It’s appropriate that the audience is left almost as much in the dark as Peacemaker himself, but a scene between Clemson Murn and Locke gives a key detail that helps fill in a lot of the picture about the strange alien species.
When Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji) needs a solution to his White Dragon (Robert Patrick) problem in Peacemaker episode 5, he gets help from Locke (Christopher Heyerdahl) via Amanda Waller (Viola Davis). The conversation with Locke reveals a part of Murns dark and secretive past when they discuss their shared experience killing people during a conflict in the jungles of Nyasir, a fictional northeastern African country in the DC comics. Murn notes that he has “changed” since then.
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While Locke might read Murn’s statement about having changed as referencing not killing in the same way, with the knowledge that Murn is in fact a Butterfly, the audience can infer something different. His statement suggests that Murn became the host of a Butterfly only after his time in Nyasir and has retained his memories. This in turn implies that his attempts to be better about expressing emotions, which are still in their infancy, came after that change, and are notably already taking place early in Peacemaker episode 3. This means that he was definitely already a Butterfly before both the assassination of the Goff
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