The Boys
Summary
While initially presented as the series ’ champion , The Boys ’ Butcher finally proved to be quite the opposite . Butcher was always the brutal leader of the Boys who was n’t afraid to give supes a slap when they call for it ( sometimes with a pickax through the learning ability ) , but his violent nature was seemingly used to curb a greater evil , and thus it was all forgiven . Including Butcher ’s very first supe putting to death , which - retrospectively - was a distorted clue toThe Boys ’ ending , and Butcher ’s descent into a full - shoot a line supervillain .
InThe boy : Butcher , Baker , Candlestickmaker#4 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson , readers witness the first horrifying act of murderous violence Butcher ever committed against a supe - and that supe was an baby . After Butcher ’s wife , Becky , was outrage byBlack Noir ( pretending to be Homelander ) , she became pregnant with his nipper , and when that nipper was ready to be born , he toss off Becky and nearly did the same to Butcher .
However , Butcher survived the face-off by beat the baby supe to death with a lamp in a truly horrific show of hyper vehemence , especially when take that Butcher was literally obliterate a sister . Sure , it was a supe sister that would have killed him after killing his wife , but it was a baby nonetheless . That alone is an atrocity that leave a lasting stain on the soul of whoever commit it , and this illustration is n’t the only fourth dimension an infant is killed inThe Boys .
The Boys is famous for not pull its lick with ultra - furiousness , & Butcher is perhaps its dandy perpetrator . Here ’s 10 of his most brutal kills !
Butcher Murdered an Infant in The Boys, Just Like Another Main Villain: Black Noir
The Boys#40 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson
InThe Boys#40 , it ’s uncover that ‘ Homelander ’ went crazy and killed a room full of people in the most slimy and detestable ways imaginable , and one of them was an infant . While the circumstances were for sure different , the fact remains that there are only two characters in The Boys that have deliberately kill babies : Butcher and Black Noir ( as Homelander ) , and by the end of the series , they both ante up for their unutterably heinous crimes .
Black Noir ’s narrative comes to a grisly end after revealing himself as Homelander ’s clone , then get his body buck to shreds by Homelander before finally pop the faux - Superman , only to have his skull opened and brain crushed by Butcher . Similarly , Butcher ’s story ended when Hughie succeed in preventing Butcher from launching a ‘ supe turkey ’ that would have killed every superhuman in the macrocosm , which left Butcher paralyze from the neck down for many agonizing minute of arc before he finally died a crashing death .
Garth Ennis has a Habit of Punishing Characters who Kill Kids (Not Just in The Boys)
Crossed#3-4 by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows
When the world crumbles beneath a decidedly unique breed of ‘ zombi contagion ’ in the comic book serial Crossed , a group of survivors come across some nestling who had go in the post - apocalyptic wasteland this long by kill unsuspecting travelers that hit upon their way of life - which the survivor themselves closely fall victim to . In the ending , it was decided that the kids needed to die , and the survivors merely move along . While logically voice , the cold truth of the matter was that they kill nestling , and no amount of logic relieve these survivor from that laborious burden .
Whenever someone kills a nestling in a Garth Ennis book , no matter the reason , they pay the price one way or another . For the Crossed survivor , it was a guilty conscience and the grisly destiny of be in such a diabolic existence . For Black Noir , it was get his body torn apart and his brain squished . And for Butcher , it was getting paralyze before die a ghastly last . Therefore , retrospectively , it ’s as if Butcher ’s fate was already sealed the moment he dispatch the supe infant , which is a truly twist clue toThe Boys ' ending .
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The Boys is a gritty and seditious take on the superhero genre , concentrate on a group of vigilantes who face up powerful superheroes abusing their ability , exploring base of putrescence and moral ambiguity in a man where hero are not always what they seem .
The Boys is a gritty and subversive take on the superhero genre, focusing on a group of vigilantes who confront powerful superheroes abusing their abilities, exploring themes of corruption and moral ambiguity in a world where heroes are not always what they seem.
