55 Facts About Billy Butcher

Billy Butcher is the leader of The Boys, a group of CIA-sponsored vigilantes who observe, record and sometimes liquidate Supes created by the mega conglomerate Vought.

Billy Butcher went on to serve in the Royal Marines and was wounded in the Falklands War.

Billy Butcher is teetotal, preferring to drink Club Soda, and avoiding the unnecessarily self-destructive behavior of his youth.

Billy Butcher seems genuinely fond of Hughie, but at the same time he has deliberately put Hughie into situations where he would have to use violence or kill an opponent, and rarely keeps him in the loop or will engage in one-upsmanship with him.

Similarly, Mallory sees that what he unintentionally gave Billy Butcher upon his recruitment into the Boys was a never-ending war which would constantly allow him to exercise the violent part of his being.

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At the final clash in Washington, Billy Butcher learned that it was Black Noir who'd killed his wife rather than the Homelander, and he finally gained his revenge.

The battle for Washington was won because Billy Butcher had information about how to guide missiles towards the neurons in superhuman brains, that and the Compound V made Mother's Milk suspect that Billy Butcher had faked Vogelbaum's death and was using him to develop more for himself.

Unlike the comic series, Billy Butcher has a beard, although he was clean shaven until his wife disappeared, presumed dead, with Billy Butcher mistakenly believing that Homelander killed her, while seeking to take down Vought International as a whole as a result.

In season one, Billy Butcher is first seen in "The Name of the Game", when he heads to the shop where Hughie Campbell works and offers him the opportunity of vengeance on Vought International and their "Supe" superheroes after the former's girlfriend was murdered accidentally by the Supe known as A-Train.

Unfortunately however, Hughie is caught in the act by the Supe Translucent, who follows him back to the store and attempts to kill him, only for Billy Butcher to save Hughie, and incapacitate and then kidnap Translucent.

Frenchie is at first angry that Billy Butcher has come to him, however the two reconcile and end up figuring a way to kill Translucent; Hughie is the one who ends up pulling the trigger, however.

Billy Butcher is ultimately accepted into The Boys despite Butcher believing her to be initially dangerous.

Shortly after his wife's disappearance, Grace Mallory approached Billy Butcher, showing him CCTV footage of his wife and Homelander together at Seven Tower.

Billy Butcher believed that Homelander was the reason she disappeared, presuming that he killed her, fueling a personal vendetta that would last the next eight years.

Unbeknownst to Billy Butcher, Becca had been placed into witness protection by Vought International having been pregnant and given birth to Homelander's child — a child with enhanced abilities, including Homelander's heat vision.

Billy Butcher then distracts Homelander long enough for Kenji to round the corner and neutralize Homelander by burying him in rubble.

Billy Butcher meets Grace at a memorial shrine for the 59 apartment tenants who were killed by Stormfront.

Billy Butcher explains to Butcher that she has a reoccurring dream: Billy Butcher is on a stage at Carnegie Hall and everyone whoever got killed by a Supe is in the audience just staring at her.

Confused, Billy Butcher asks why give it to him if he failed to deliver the terrorist.

Billy Butcher uses the information given to him to find the facility Becca is living in.

Billy Butcher tries to convince her he wants to help raise Ryan but Becca explains she already knows Billy Butcher's true nature, that he was already broken before she ever entered his life.

Becca's assumptions come to light, when Billy Butcher admits to calling Ryan a supe freak and that they should just hand him over to Vought so the two of them can escape and living in hiding.

Billy Butcher tries to plead with her, but Becca just gets into her car.

Starlight makes an entrance while Billy Butcher aims his rifle at her head, debating whether or not to shoot.

Billy Butcher kills the patient, and the two rush to check on Hughie.

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Billy Butcher is called by one of the gang members, who informs him they have a visitor.

Billy Butcher goes up top to see that Becca has tracked him down.

Billy Butcher meets with Stan Edgar in a restaurant to discuss about Ryan.

Billy Butcher is first patted down and assured that there are snipers trained on him.

Billy Butcher explains that he knows Ryan is Vought's contingency plan in case Homelander steps out of line and that "plan" will fail if Ryan bonds with Homelander.

Billy Butcher says he knows Edgar is ruthless because he knows Vought turns someone like Stormfront into one of America's most beloved Superheroes.

Billy Butcher then reminds Edgar that Stormfront should bother him for obvious reasons, to which Edgar revels she does worry him but he chooses not to focus on what he wants.

Billy Butcher then offers to get Ryan away from Homelander, then he'll call Vought and have them secure Ryan, in return, Vought will do a better job of hiding him.

Billy Butcher tells him to say to her that it is the only way to keep Ryan safe from Homelander.

Billy Butcher holds out his hand and makes a deal, for Vought to tell him where they are and that he'll secure the boy.

Billy Butcher reveals that he secretly made a deal with Stan Edgar to give up Ryan, and in exchange, him and Becca could live together again.

Billy Butcher refuses, so Stormfront neutralizes him with her plasma lightning.

Billy Butcher recovers and attempts to stop Stormfront by shooting her and hitting her head with a crowbar, but it doesn't even faze Stormfront as she continues to choke Becca.

Billy Butcher keeps Ryan in his protection and ends up giving him to Grace Mallory and the CIA, who will keep him somewhere safe.

In season three, in the year following Becca's death, Billy Butcher has continued to lead the Boys under the sponsorship of the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, albeit without Hughie and MM, now headquartered at the Flatiron Building.

Billy Butcher has been sober for the past year, and has served as a surrogate father figure to Ryan.

On one mission, where the size-shifting Supe Termite accidentally killed his boyfriend, Billy Butcher saves Frenchie by trapping Termite in a bag of cocaine and forced him to overdose, but decided not to kill him in accordance with Hughie's orders.

Billy Butcher provides him with vials of V24, an experimental Compound V variant which temporarily grants superpowers for 24 hours.

Whilst considering pouring the V24 down the drain, Billy Butcher is visited by Homelander, frustrated with being forced to publicly apologise for his relationship with Stormfront and having to co-captain the Seven with Starlight; begrudgingly empathising with their respective stymied positions, Billy Butcher and Homelander pledge to some day engage in a "scorched earth" fight to the death.

Billy Butcher resents Mallory's undisclosed knowledge of the existence of a weapon which could kill Homelander, believing that Becca's death could have been avoided.

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Mallory defends her actions by saying either the weapon would not have worked or have compelled Billy Butcher to go on a rampage and kill all Supes, and tells him that he is his father's son.

Whilst raiding the research lab where BC L Red is allegedly kept, Butcher is forced to use his Temp-V-enabled superpowers, namely his laser vision save the Boys from attacking guards after they run out of ammunition, and his super strength to open the pod containing BC L Red.

Moments before being revived, Billy Butcher is lambasted by Lenny for getting those closest to him killed, namely him and Becca, and similarly endangering Hughie, and is forced to witness Lenny's suicide.

Moments after emerging from his trance, Billy Butcher briefly confuses Hughie for Lenny, and comes to his aid after Soldier Boy punches him in retaliation for rescuing Mindstorm.

However, as Billy Butcher is about to tell him, he instead tells him that they need to go to the Flatiron Building to collect more.

Short film Billy Butcher, set between the first and second seasons, follows Billy Butcher on the run after being framed for Stillwell's murder.

Billy Butcher is a physically fit former SAS special forces operative later employed by the CIA, possessing no superpowers or extraordinary abilities, unless injected with a shot of the enhancement drug Compound V Each dosage applied to Billy and other members of The Boys is worth 19 billion dollars, allowing Butcher superhuman levels of strength and durability, allowing him to casually injure and kill regular humans as well as "Supe" superhumans.

In season three, Billy Butcher acquires V24, an unstable variant of Compound V that grants superpowers for twenty four hours.

When injected with V24, Billy Butcher is granted superhuman strength, speed, durability, and stamina, along with heat vision.

Billy Butcher was designed as a parody of The Punisher, a character that series creator Garth Ennis had written for nine years, prior to creating The Boys.