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William J. "Billy" Butcher is a fictional character and antihero/supervillain appearing in the comic book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.He is the leader of The Boys, a group of CIA-sponsored black ops agents (consisting of Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female) who observe, record and sometimes eliminate superheroes artificially created by the ...
He is also highly self-righteous, delusional, possessive, paranoid, vindictive, insecure, insensitive, hypocritical, reckless with his powers, and incapable of accepting the possibility of any flaw in his person or decision-making. Unlike in the comic series, Homelander rapes Butcher's wife after she has been assigned as his assistant.
Later Butcher tells Hughie that eight years ago Homelander raped his wife, Becca, and she hasn't been seen since. He theorizes that either Homelander killed her or she killed herself. Mesmer takes the Boys to his house to try to read the Female's mind; however, she has a panic attack and accidentally breaks Mesmer's wrist.
The Boys is an adult superhero comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson.The first volume was published by WildStorm, which canceled it after six issues; the series was picked up by Dynamite Entertainment, which published the following eight volumes: Get Some, Good for the Soul, We Gotta Go Now, The Self-Preservation Society, The ...
In a flashback to eight years earlier, Billy Butcher and his wife Becca are at a Vought Christmas party, where Billy meets Homelander for the first time. Sometime later, after Becca's disappearance, Butcher is approached by CIA director Grace Mallory, who shows him footage of Becca and reveals that she was raped by Homelander.
The episode follows Billy Butcher visiting his aunt Judy intending to retire after his wife Becca refused to escape with him, but the consequences of finding her make presence when Black Noir is ordered to kill him, forcing the latter with the aid of Hughie Campbell and Mother's Milk to fight him.
Billy Butcher is tasked by Grace Mallory to find information about a superheroine named Liberty who has been missing since 1979, in the hopes of finding a lead to Susan Raynor's killer. Mallory also gives him the location of his wife Becca, despite Butcher and the Boys failing to deliver Kenji.
At the start of the first season, Hughie's girlfriend Robin Ward is accidentally killed by A-Train, as in the comics. With the help of Billy Butcher, he reluctantly decides to take vengeance on the Supes and joins his team, nicknamed "The Boys", which includes Frenchie, Mother's Milk "MM", and later Kimiko / The Female