Peacemaker episode 5 adds fuel to my game-changing theory about Eagly

Within the second episode of Peacemaker season 2, an ARGUS squad goes to the house of Chris Smith (John Cena) to analyze indicators of extradimensional exercise. They discover the mission is much extra harmful than they anticipated when Chris’ bald eagle sidekick Eagly absolutely dismantles the group, forcing Langston Fleury (Tim Meadows) and his brokers to run for his or her lives.

Fleury and fellow ARGUS agent Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodríguez) accuse John Economos (Steve Agee) of withholding details about Chris’ “superpowered duck” in a scene that principally makes gentle of Fleury’s solely weak spot being hen blindness. However as Economos explains, Eagly is an everyday eagle who definitely shouldn’t be able to touchdown 5 folks within the hospital.

Not less than, Chris’ Eagly shouldn’t be, however I don’t assume Peacemaker is the one one swapping dimensions this season. Chris could have inadvertently taken in a distinct model of Eagly, one who continues to show the depth of his energy in episode 5 of Peacemaker season 2.

[Ed. note: Mild spoiler ahead for Peacemaker season 2, episode 5.]

Chris grew up together with his dad having an interdimensional nexus in his home and views it as only a mundane perk, treating it as a canine run for Eagly the place he can let the hen fly when it’s too chilly to go outdoors. Season 2 opens with Eagly flying out of Chris’ sight and never responding to his name to return dwelling. Chris then finds him pecking on the door to Earth-2 or as he calls it, “The best dimension ever.” When he walks into one other model of his dwelling, he’s so shaken by seeing his brother Keith (David Denman) alive that he rushes again to his dimension.

He was so panicked that I’m unsure he took the suitable hen dwelling. Eagly has all the time been an distinctive eagle, able to giving hugs and successfully laughing at Chris’ jokes. He’s intelligent, which he’s proven by breaking right into a automobile and distracting members of the Aryan Empire. However Eagly was additionally knocked unconscious by an assault from Chris’ dad and needed to get stitches at a veterinary clinic.

Nearly as good a sidekick as Eagly was in season 1, the season 2 model is so highly effective that ARGUS hires the famend eagle killer Crimson St. Wild (Michael Rooker) to hunt him. Crimson believes his whole life has led to him killing the prime eagle and makes use of ritual magic to arrange for the confrontation. However when Crimson truly faces off in opposition to Eagly, the hen makes use of his personal magical powers to summon quite a few different raptors and tear the hunter aside, bringing a finger again to Chris as a trophy. If Eagly was all the time this highly effective, why didn’t he assist Chris extra final season?

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We all know Earth-2 Chris didn’t have an Eagly since Keith is confused when Chris exhibits up with a brand new sidekick. However Eagly appears to induce Chris to return by means of the door when he decides to take over his useless doppleganger’s life and he’s pleased to soar together with his household as they go take down a kaiju.

There’s quite a bit we don’t learn about how Chris first got here to have a bald eagle pet – perhaps he’s preternaturally good with animals. We additionally don’t know the place Earth-2 Chris went throughout the lengthy disappearances Keith talked about, but it surely’s doable he was additionally making use of the dimensional doorway. These two components might have mixed to end result within the prime eagle of Earth-2 flying out of his world after which attempting to get dwelling, solely to wind up following Chris.

If that’s the case, it will clarify why Eagly’s turn into so harmful, but additionally elevate an entire new query: the place is the unique Eagly? I certain hope he’s OK, as a result of he’s going to be fairly upset when he finds out Chris has been palling round with one other hen.

Peacemaker is streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes premiering each Thursday by means of Oct. 9.