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- Why does Murn refuse to tell Peacemaker what Butterflies are? Trust on the former's part is irrelevant. Peacemaker probably would have been more cooperative and prepared had he been given basic intel.
- With the reveal that Murn is a butterfly, and Peacemaker was meant to be disposable, and his file was straight out wrong about his character...they likely thought he didn't need to know, and they needed to keep him on a short leash.
- Why did Auggie take care of Eagly? I'd sooner expect the evil piece of shit to brutally slaughter him either to spite Chris or just out of pure sadism.
- It’s possible Eagly mostly took care of himself (he seems to have no trouble hunting) and Auggie just didn’t care. Either that or, being a politically incorrect jingoist, Auggie just liked bald eagles considering what they possibly symbolized. He also gives Peacemaker a helmet in the slight hope he’d use it to kill minorities despite knowing Chris’ personality.
- It's pretty obvious that Vigilante is a sadistic sociopath who genuinely can't tell right from wrong, so why is he—well... a vigilante rather than a run-of-the-mill serial killer?
- He does seem to have standards like hating the Aryan Empire so it’s possible indiscriminate murder is just too much for him. Note that his standard for ‘acceptable’ people to kill are as low as people who smoke pot and spraypaint walls. He probably sets limits for himself because it seems more acceptable in his mind. He also has less compunction about killing innocent people by accident given that he tells Peacemaker that when it happened in the past they just shrugged and never thought of it.
- In addition, being unable to tell right from wrong could also explain why he simply uses the law as a hard rule. As long as the law says it’s wrong then he doesn’t need to judge himself, society has already deemed them wrong and thus it’s okay to kill them.
- He does seem to have standards like hating the Aryan Empire so it’s possible indiscriminate murder is just too much for him. Note that his standard for ‘acceptable’ people to kill are as low as people who smoke pot and spraypaint walls. He probably sets limits for himself because it seems more acceptable in his mind. He also has less compunction about killing innocent people by accident given that he tells Peacemaker that when it happened in the past they just shrugged and never thought of it.
- Why did Peacemaker hesitate to kill the "Goffs" despite seeing with his own eyes they're clearly not human?
- It's part of Peacemaker's arc that, after killing Flagg, he becomes more conflicted and disenchanted with killing. He doesn't understand what the butterflies are or what they want and repeatedly expresses frustration that he's being kept in the dark about the reasons he's being asked to kill. So rather than kill Goff, he traps it out of curiosity.
- Because they were still CHILDREN.
- Why didn't Murn wait until after the Butterflies had left to leave his host body? He probably would have gone unnoticed and still remained alive.
- It might be the case that Butterflies can't survive inside a dead host. If they siphon oxygen from the host body, for example, then after Murn's body got shot to pieces the Butterfly would effectively be suffocating inside a heap of dead meat.
- How did a white supremacist redneck like Auggie learn and get the resources to make things like his White Dragon armor or his pocket dimension closet? While I get this is a world of superheroes and not entirely out of the norm (something Gunn executes to great effect with the banter about other heroes or Judomaster), it seems bizarre that someone like Auggie is making Tony Stark level tech and weapons yet living out in a suburban neighborhood and his "Aryan Empire" being your typical white trash gang of rednecks with trucks and AR-15s.
- Judging by his reputation? He used to be a MUCH, MUCH bigger deal. He's also gone to prison before, likely for a long time to have a 'favorite spot'...
- Well, roughly 20 years ago, he was already living in a small town suburban home and taking bets on his kids fighting in a trailer park. And his favorite spot is in a small town county jail, not Arkham, Belle Reve, Iron Heights etc, so it doesn't seem like he was ever that big a deal. We're probably just supposed to assume he's a serious mechanical savant running on comic-book logic who makes his tech out of spare parts.
- This could also be an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole. Auggie is primarily based on the William Heller version of White Dragon, who inherited large amounts of wealth from his Nazi-sympathizer grandfather and used it to fund various white supremacist organizations, presumably paying someone else to build his tech. But this show decided to also make him and his allies seem like relatively normal white trash and had him build the tech to give Peacemaker a reason to go back to him.
- He could be just a small fish back 20 years ago, and only then he inherited the fortune of his grandfather, some contacts about how to make the gear, or maybe even receive most the White Dragon armor parts and Peacemaker stuff, and he just tinkered in the final shape. That would explain why the armor has the incredible tech but so many weak spots
- Judging by his reputation? He used to be a MUCH, MUCH bigger deal. He's also gone to prison before, likely for a long time to have a 'favorite spot'...
