Peacemaker Movie

Peacemaker is a 2023 American animated superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse and it is the spin sequel to The Suicide Squad ll (2022). The film follows Christopher Smith / Peacemaker after recovering from the injuries he suffered during the events of *The Suicide Squad* ll (2022) is forced to join the mysterious A.R.G.U.S. black ops squad "Project Butterfly". They are on a mission to identify and eliminate parasitic butterfly-like creatures who have taken over human bodies around the world.

### A Whole New Whirled

Five months after his mission with the Suicide Squad in Corto Maltese, Christopher Smith / Peacemaker has recovered from injuries suffered there and is discharged from hospital. Upon returning to his trailer home, Smith is confronted by a team: leader Clemson Murn, newcomer Leota Adebayo, plus A.R.G.U.S. agents Emilia Harcourt and John Economos. Murn gives Smith the choice of returning to Belle Reve prison or joining a new mission, "Project Butterfly", arranged by A.R.G.U.S. leader Amanda Waller. Smith reluctantly accepts the latter. Murn warns Smith that the bomb in Smith's head would be activated if Smith abandoned the mission. Smith visits his father, Auggie, to retrieve his pet bald eagle, Eagly, and acquire a new outfit and helmet. During dinner with the team, Murn gives Smith a dossier of an assassination target. Later in a bar, Harcourt angrily rejects Smith's proposition of sex, so Smith accompanies another woman, Annie Sturphausen, to her apartment. After sex, Sturphausen attacks Smith, showcasing her superhuman strength. The fight ends when Smith activates a sonic boom weapon in his helmet that destroys Sturphausen. Meanwhile, Waller, who is Abedayo's mother, privately discusses with Adebayo a secret order to plant a forged diary in Smith's home.

### Best Friends, For Never

Smith contacts Harcourt and explains his situation as Evergreen's police force, including detectives Sophie Song and Larry Fitzgibbon, arrive to investigate the sonic boom. While collecting his belongings in Sturphausen's apartment, Smith finds an alien device and keeps it. The police chase Smith, but fail to identify him; he briefly takes couple Evan and Amber Calcaterra hostage. Harcourt tranquillises five officers. Adebayo drives Smith, Harcourt and Eagly to safety, while Smith's wrecked car is left behind. In a rush, Economos switches Smith's car registration and fingerprint records with Auggie's. Murn has Adebayo bribe Evan and Amber into identifying Auggie as the hostage-taker. Song and Fitzgibbon arrest Auggie and jail him, where several white inmates hail him as the White Dragon. Smith tells the team that Sturphausen only attacked him after she read the dossier on his assassination target. Returning to his trailer, Smith regrets his aggravating nature and his killing of Rick Flag. The costumed and masked Vigilante arrives, wanting to befriend Smith, who expresses doubts over killing to achieve peace. Vigilante cheers Smith up by testing weapons and explosives together, followed by a threesome with Amber; they then discover that the alien device transforms into a small spaceship.

### Better Goff Dead

The team conducts their first mission: to assassinate United States Senator Royland Goff, a 'Butterfly', and also his wife and children, if they are 'Butterflies'. Smith hesitates at killing children. The team conducts a stakeout outside the Goff household, joined by a tagalong Vigilante. The team sees the Goff family displaying alien-like behavior. Murn orders Smith to kill them all, but Smith freezes, unable to shoot, despite having a clear shot. Vigilante replaces him, killing Goff's wife and children, but then Goff's bodyguard Judomaster intervenes, incapacitating Smith, Vigilante and Harcourt. Judomaster and Goff capture Smith and Vigilante into the house's basement. Adebayo saves Harcourt from Goff's other bodyguard, whom Harcourt executes. Goff sends Judomaster away to warn 'Glan Tai', but Economos incapacitates Judomaster. Goff unmasks Vigilante, who Smith recognizes as Adrian Chase. Goff tortures Vigilante, but Smith refuses to divulge any information. Murn, Harcourt and Adebayo use an explosive to access the basement. The explosion blasts Murn back, though he is largely unharmed, and blasts Smith forward; Smith escapes his bonds, fights Goff and shoots Goff's face, killing him. Smith and Vilgilante see a butterfly-like alien emerge from Goff's head. The team's computer shows thousands of suspected Butterflies worldwide.

### The Choad Less Traveled

Smith tells the team he killed Goff's Butterfly. Judomaster is restrained in the team's headquarters. Chase drives Smith to Auggie's house to retrieve new helmets, where a neighbour reveals Auggie's jailing to Smith. Despite Murn and Abedayo's efforts to dissuade him, Smith visits Auggie and reveals the team's framing of Auggie and the team's goal of eliminating aliens. Auggie vows to tell the police this to exonerate himself and stop Smith from working with the "deep state". Adebayo manipulates Chase into wanting to kill Auggie for Smith's sake; Chase gets himself arrested, but in prison, Chase fails to provoke Auggie into fighting him. Smith and Adebayo return to their headquarters where an escaped Judomaster fights Smith. Adebayo shoots Judomaster as he starts discussing the Butterflies; he is again restrained, unconscious. Murn has Economos arrange for Chase's release from jail; the team learns Chase's identity. Returning to his trailer, Smith takes out Goff's Butterfly, alive in a jar. Smith reflects on killing Rick Flag, being trained by Auggie to kill from a young age, and the death of his brother. Adebayo identifies Glan Tai Bottling Company as related to the Butterflies and informs Murn, who is secretly a Butterfly himself.

### Monkey Dory

Murn briefs the team about Butterflies, who have taken over celebrities, industry leaders and politicians, shutting down official operations against Butterflies, necessitating the secret nature of the team. Butterflies enter humans, take over their brains, enhancing body strength, but only feed on a particular amber liquid. Murn has the rest of the team raid Glan Tai's factory, where they find the Butterflies' food being mass-processed. Smith's X-ray vision helmet reveals the factory employees as Butterflies, whom the team kills. They are attacked by Charlie, a Butterfly-controlled gorilla, whom Economos kills with a chainsaw, winning Smith's respect. The team bond over their success. Auggie has Song and Fitzgibbon recheck his fingerprints, exonerating him. Evan Calcaterra tells Song and Fitzgibbon that Smith is the real culprit. Murn arranges for his associate, Caspar Locke, to become the new Evergreen police captain; Locke overrides Song, proclaiming Auggie guilty, keeping him jailed. Song asks her uncle, Judge William Judy, to help issue a search warrant regarding Smith. Smith invites Adebayo to drink at his home; she plants a fake diary there to frame him, per Waller's orders. Adebayo discovers with Smith's X-ray helmet that Murn is a Butterfly, he realizes this and chases her down.

### Murn After Reading

Harcourt tells Adebayo that she and Economos know Murn's Butterfly identity, but refuse to tell Waller, distrusting her. Murn tells Adebayo that the Butterflies came from a dying planet and are trying to conquer Earth, led by Goff's Butterfly, with Murn being the sole dissenter. Song obtains an arrest warrant for Smith and releases Auggie from prison. Murn forwards Locke's warning to Smith and Chase: the Evergreen police will immediately raid Smith's home. Smith and Chase sneak away, but Song follows. Chase accidentally breaks the jar containing Goff's Butterfly; it enters Song and takes over her brain. Locke acquires the planted fake diary and kills three officers, helping Smith, Chase, and Eagly escape. Smith tells the team that Goff's Butterfly is alive, controlling Song. Economos traces the Butterflies' activities to Coverdale Ranch, suspecting that an alien 'Cow' is mass-producing the Butterflies' food there. Butterfly-Song arranges for the Butterflies to take over all Evergreen prisoners and police officers, including Fitzgibbon and Locke. Using the fake diary, Butterfly-Locke publicly incriminates Smith as the killer of Sturphausen, the Glan Tai employees, Senator Goff and his family. Auggie reunites with his Aryan Empire followers, wears his White Dragon costume, and vows to kill Smith.

### Stop Dragon My Heart Around

Smith remembers accidentally killing his brother when Auggie made them fight in front of others while collecting bets. As a wanted man, Smith hurriedly sets out with Eagly, Chase and Economos to kill the Cow, but is tracked down and attacked by the suited Auggie and his followers. Auggie injures Eagly, but Chase disables Auggie's suit, saving Smith, and Economos kills Auggie's followers, saving Chase. Smith blames Auggie for his brother's death; Auggie taunts Smith, who shoots Auggie dead. Harcourt confronts Adebayo on her betraying Smith. Adebayo admits it and mentions being Waller's daughter and wanting to leave the team. Butterfly-Locke leads the Butterfly-officers to invade Murn's apartment, where Butterfly-Song shoots Murn's body and kills Murn's Butterfly. Judomaster escapes and attacks Harcourt and Adebayo, who incapacitate him. The team reunites at a veterinary clinic where Eagly recovers. Seeing Smith pray for Eagly, Adebayo decides to remain with the team. Without Murn, the team appoints Harcourt as their new leader. To defeat the Butterflies, the team intends to starve them by killing their Cow before the Butterflies can teleport it to another location. During the drive to Coverdale Ranch, Adebayo apologizes to Smith, but he indicates that their friendship is over.

### It's Cow or Never

Smith says his killings are aimed at preventing future meaningless deaths, while Adebayo advises him to not define himself by his accidental killing of his brother. The team reaches Coverdale Ranch; Adebayo asks Waller for backup, but none can come immediately. Economos plants Smith's sonic boom helmet, which Adebayo activates, but it fails to kill the underground Cow. Smith, Harcourt and Chase fight and kill many Butterflies, including Butterfly-Fitzgibbon. Harcourt and Chase are wounded, Adebayo joins the fight and saves Harcourt. Needing Smith's help to teleport the Cow away, Butterfly-Song saves Smith from rubble and asks for his help, explaining that the Butterflies are protecting Earth from humans who prioritize profit over their own survival. Smith instead kills the Cow by launching Adebayo into it using his human torpedo helmet. Smith kills Butterfly-Locke. He shoots Song's body; Goff's Butterfly emerges. The Justice League arrives, too late to help. Harcourt, Economos, and Chase undergo medical treatment. Smith and Adebayo reconcile. Adebayo exposes Project Butterfly, Task Force X, and Waller's leadership of both to the press, clearing Smith and Chase's names. Smith returns home with Eagly and Goff's Butterfly, who he feeds the last of his amber fluid. Smith hallucinates Auggie's presence.

### The Post Credit Scene

In the post credit scene, Smith was visited by Robert DuBois, telling him about The Creature Commandos led by Flag's father, Rick Flag Sr.

## Cast

* John Cena as Christopher Smith / Peacemaker
* Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo
* Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase / Vigilante
* Chukwudi Iwuji as Clemson Murn
* Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt
* Steve Agee as John Economos
* Robert Patrick as August "Auggie" Smith / White Dragon
* Annie Chang as Sophie Song
* Lochlyn Munro as Larry Fitzgibbon
* Elizabeth Ludlow as Keeya Adebayo
* Rizwan Manji as Jamil
* Nhut Le as Judomaster
* Christopher Heyerdahl as Caspar Locke
* Alison Araya as Amber Calcaterra
* Lenny Jacobson as Evan Calcaterra
* Antonio Cupo as Royland Goff
* Mel Tuck as Auggie's elderly neighbor
* Viola Davis as Director Amanda Waller
* Idris Elba as Robert DuBois / Bloodsport