Personal: Why a butcher should kill all superheroes (not just the motherland)

Warning: contains spoilers boys By Dynamite Comics

Inside boysthat the rooted hatred Billy the butcher to feelings home country This is the obvious reason why he wants to kill all the soups in the world. However, the spin-off miniseries that explores Bill’s past shows that soups are nothing more than representatives of Bill’s true object of hatred: his abuser and abusive father.

Inside boysThe team, led by Billy Butcher, is a CIA-funded unit tasked with tracking down Soups, superpowers that act like heroes or villains, but are in reality nothing more than spoiled and depraved celebrities. At various points in the series, it becomes clear that Butcher’s personal mission goes much further. He hates soups, even the most harmless ones, and really takes pleasure in his pain and suffering. The true depth of Bill’s anger and madness is revealed in the series finale when it is revealed that he plans to kill anyone in the world who has traces of V Compound, a substance that is the secret source of superpowers. Including your own friends. Theoretically, Butcher’s personal crusade stems from the traumatic experience when Homelander raped his wife and then killed her by a powerful fetus in her womb.

Inside Boys: butcher, baker, candle By the creators of Barr Language and Darik Robertson boys Explore Butcher’s backstory and give readers important insights into the character’s motives. Billy grew up in London’s East End with a loving but vulnerable mother and an abusive father who used violence both at home and abroad. Eventually, things get so bad that Butcher is about to kill his father, but distances himself from his brother, indicating that it will break his mother’s heart. Billy joins the army and becomes just as violent as his father, although he hates him with all his heart. Her life changes when she meets her future husband, Beck, who reveals Butcher’s good sides and eventually helps her mother leave her husband. However, that doesn’t mean Billy can completely let go of his damaged relationship with his father. You always regret not”lead himYears earlier, saving his family years of abuse, his father (already aged and weakened by beatings) had clearly stated that he was ridiculing Bill’s lack of courage.

Beck’s presence may quell Butcher’s anger and remorse, but when Homelander (apparently) kills him, all those feelings are transferred not just to this hero, but to all superheroes. Butcher spent his childhood hating the man who wielded undisputed power in his family and community, and he spends the rest of his life with the representatives of that undeserved authority, first the teachers, then the commanders of his army, and then finally the soup. According to Bill, the powerful always despise the weak and even brutally beat: “When you know you’re scaring someone, you start to think it’s crazy.By that logic, he says, his exaggerated hatred of the Supes makes much more sense: he believes that the power that makes up compound V must corrupt its owner, and the depth of depravity he sees of Supes as a member of The Boys confirms this.

The saddest part is that after Beck’s death, Butcher was unable to ignore his worst instincts and resemble his father, a man who uses violence and intimidation to prove his presence in the world. He is fully aware of it but does nothing to stop it, which is ultimately a subtle suicide move. The spin-off suggests that every soup bead that injures or kills is a representative of the father, which explains why he hated them all and beyond. home countryIt’s so absolute that eventually boys Butcher He agreed to kill his friends in exchange for a crusade.