The Boys
The bloody rivalry betweenThe Boys’Billy ButcherandHomelanderended with the former delivering a pitiful , yet chilling message . The last words Butcher imparts to his bane highlights what sets him aside from the Supe he hates more than anything .
The bleak cosmos ofThe Boysis driven by two of its principal characters , Butcher and Homelander . Homelander is the leader of the Seven , a Justice League pastiche and Vought International ’s premiere superhero , or " Supe , " squad . Billy Butcher leads a gang of CIA secret agent mean to keep the superhero community in line by any means necessary . stumbler has a hatred for Supes , peculiarly Homelander , whom he blames for an assault that finally killed his wife . Over the grade ofThe Boys , the venerated Homelander begin crackingonce he realize the potential dark in him .
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Everything comes to a capitulum during the penultimate electric arc of the serial " Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men . " While the two confront each other inThe Boys # 65by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun , it ’s reveal that Homelander ’s teammate , Black Noir , is a knockoff who has been impersonating him to trust painful act and convince Homelander he was blacking out and doing abominable things . Homelander recoils at the news , claiming he never would have consciously done anything faulty if he did n’t already believe he was lose control of himself . Butcher coldly sums up Homelander ’s situation , tell him " It means you turn into a f * * * * * psychopath by mistake . "
slaughterer does n’t feel much good from the revelation thatHomelander did n’t attack his married woman , nor does make revenge on Black Noir for doing so . But he recognizes that the human he hated for so long was basically gaslighted or else of being the dickens he had long thought him to be . The full experience fetch Butcher to a breaking point and sets him down a way of life to commit one of the most heinous acts in the entire serial by committing a race murder on every Supe on Earth . Butcher ’s conscious determination shows how different he is from the Supe who ’d long been thought to be the series ' main antagonist .
While Butcher and Homelander have both done terrible things , several of Butcher ’s final moments show that he ’s arguably the bad of the two . Homelander was influenced by an out-of-door effect that want him to be a baddie . Butcher , on the other hired man , chose a life filled with vengeance and bloodshed . Part ofhis work with the Boysmay have descend from wanting revenge on the Homelander , but there ’s no doubt Butcher liked being able-bodied to down Supes without impunity . Under the guise of keeping the Supes in check , Butcher freely indulged in his psychopathologic tendencies . He even chooses his ultimate plan of racial extermination on Supes , knowing that he ’ll have to take out his friends so they wo n’t stop him . One ofThe Boys’biggest tragedy is thatHomelanderwas manipulated into becoming a freak , butBilly Butcherintentionally became one .
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