The Boys
Summary
Warning ! Spoilers ahead for The Boys!By the timeThe Boysended , Billy Butcher managed to kill three total generation of his most bitter opposition , Homelander . Butcher hates most Supes , but none more than the loss leader of the Seven . But the Boys ' leader more than gets his pound of build by chopping down Homelander ’s entire family tree .
The first person in Homelander ’s family strain to die is the superpoweredfetus that kills Butcher ’s wifeBecky ( as seen inThe Boys # 4 ) . Becky ’s death is what barrack Butcher ’s hate for Homelander , as he believed she was sexually round by Homelander . The next person in Homelander ’s category todie at Butcher ’s hand was Stormfront(The Boys # 34 ) , the Supe whose DNA was used to make the Seven , include Homelander .
Butcher ’s last human activity of revenge on Homelander ’s household wasdealing the killing blow to Black Noir , Homelander ’s clone and the individual who really snipe Becky ( The Boys # 65 ) . Ironically Homelander , the Supe Butcher sincerely disdain , is n’t vote out by him .
Butcher Killed Homelander’s Father, Brother and Nephew
The Boysis a insurgent superhero story create by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson that is set up in a world populated by powerful humans known as Supes . These Supes are in reality the product of a brawny concoction known as Compound V , and mostly the products of the mega - conglomerate Vought - American . The Supes of this mankind are far from the stout name demo in superhero cartoon strip and are either destructive nuisance or all - powerful sociopath . The only people opposing them are Billy Butcher and his group of CIA - backed operative , the Boys . No one sees Supes as a threat more than Butcherwho does everything he can to take them all down .
fumbler spends most ofThe Boyshating Homelander for what he think the Supe did to his wife . But while he was amiss about Becky ’s factual perpetrator , he more than revenge her by kill Black Noir , his ancestor , and his progeny . From curb - stomping to bludgeoning , to poke capable Noir ’s head with a crowbar , each Supe that was related to Becky ’s death died violently , Butcher no doubt spurred on by his pain in the neck and brokenheartedness . Butcher wanted Homelander to suffer well for what Butcher assumed Homelander did to Becky . And though Butcher got the retaliation he wanted by destroy an integral lineage of Supes , it did n’t give him the peace he require .
Butcher’s Revenge For Becky Was Ultimately Meaningless
Butcher wanted to revenge his wife after Noir ’s super - powered spawn killed her . And he did , by obliterate three propagation of Noir ’s syndicate . But by the time Butcher realize he had more than avenged his wife , it meant nothing to him . He was too lose to find peace or live a normal life-time and had nothing give in his life-time other than a utter race murder of Supes . Butcher ’s story of retaliation is at long last a prophylactic one . He devotes his intact life to getting revenge , and by the time he flummox it threefold , he has nothing left in his life . Out of all the trigger-happy tragedies inThe Boys , Butcher ’s retaliation crusade on the three ' Homelander ' generation is one of the bleakest .
