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The parasitic race known only as the Butterflies, named for their resemblance to their terrestrial counterparts, are the main antagonists in Season 1 of the HBO Max superhero TV series Peacemaker.
Characteristics[]
A Butterfly emerging from its ship
Virtually resembling Earth butterfly with primarily beige and blue color scheme and red eyes on the first glance, closer inspection showed subtle differences in addition of being around the size of teenage human's fist. First, they can fold their wings in similar manner to termites and cockroaches. Then, their mouth, which located between their short neck and head, resembled that of human albeit with a pair of mandibles and devoid of teeth. Next, their middle and rear pairs of legs are long and had four joints while front pair somewhat humanoid due to having one and ended with three claws that include opposable thumbs. Lastly, they have the ability to infest a host and control it from within.
A Butterfly usually infests a potential host, be it a human or similarly sized animals, through their mouth, burrowing its way for the brain and nesting within, allowing it to use the host in question an extension of the primary body and in order to blend in among the latter's species as one of them. The process is noted to be fatal to the host as they cough up large amounts of blood until they drop dead, thus allowing the infesting Butterfly to control it but, that's not it all. Said coughing is attributed the Butterfly breaking through the body's skull to reach the brain, as well as minor yet notable internal changes resulting the Butterfly's host attaining superhuman strength and durability as well as manifesting brown proboscis from the mouth to consume nectar-like liquid with.
The host bodies controlled by Butterflies are little more than puppet corpses, as confirmed by Ik Nobe Llok when he described his host body Clemson Murn as being already dead from the moment he took Murn's body. If the host's body is severely damaged beyond the inital takeover of the Butterfly(ex. receiving headshot), it will decompose thus forcing the infesting Butterfly to eject and flee.
While unmistakably technologically advanced that they developed saucer-like spaceships that accommodated for interstellar travel, Butterflies chose to infiltrate other races' societies from within, usually through infesting their notable members.
History[]
Eek Stack Ik Ik, the leader of Butterflies, ordered her kind to migrate to Earth when their home planet was dying. Their initial plan was to peacefully live among humans in secret only for her decided to take over the planet instead, no matter how nay lives it cost them. This was opposed by Ik Nobe Llok, however, who then turned against his kind by joining A.R.G.U.S. using his host mercenary Clemson Murn as a front.
Thanks to Ik Nobe Llok as Murn, the Butterflies were discovered by Amanda Waller and the U.S. government after a plane crash where autopsies were revealed remains of them inside the victims' skulls. In response to the incoming threat they posed, Waller tasked her Suicide Squad monitoring team to handle the situation under the operation name: Project Butterfly, putting Murn in charge of the mission and sending a team conformed by her daughter, Leota Adebayo, Suicide Squad monitoring team agents like Emilia Harcourt and John Economos and the rehabilitaded skilled vigilante, Peacemaker.
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Trivia[]
- Eek Stack Ik Ik and the other butterflies do not appear in the comics, they are original creations for the Peacemaker TV series.
- The Butterflies can be considered a foil to Starro as both are animal-like aliens named as "Project" with the power to possess sentient life by attaching themselves onto their skin. But the one difference is that Starro was happily drifting through space before being forcibly brought to Earth, controlled its victims through a Hive Mind by attaching smaller versions of itself to their faces, was trapped in a lab for most of its time on Earth, escaped and violently rampaged through the streets before Task Force X put it down. The Butterflies came to Earth willingly, seeking a new home before deciding to conquer it, and are more subtle, intending to take over Earth through a quieter conspiracy, and actually going inside their victims to masquerade as them.
- The similarities are somewhat lampshaded by Peacemaker himself since the two "animals" have the same case file names. He almost mentioned hoping not to fight something that looked like Mothra, which he didn't, but instead he faced off against a Kaiju known as a "cow", that was producing the butterflies' food.
