William J. "Billy" Butcher is the deuteragonist of the 2019 Amazon TV adaptation of the comic book series The Boys, and the titular protagonist of Butcher: A Short Film.
He was a former member of the SAS special forces turned vigilante, as he is consumed by one mission in life: to destroy superheroes. But this personal vendetta is driven by his hatred for one Supe in particular: Homelander, who raped his beloved wife Becca and caused her to go missing. Following the revelation that his wife Becca is alive, Butcher faces a difficult decision when he must choose between searching for Becca or ensuring the security of The Boys. Despite fighting against the Seven and villainous supes, Butcher has displayed violent and ruthless tendencies to complete his goals. Nonetheless, even with his dark side, Butcher has frequently shown that he does have a heart and is dedicated to stopping villainous and dangerous supes.
Moral Ranking: Inconstitently Admirable
Countdown To Chang's Guide To The Galaxy[]
Chapter 2[]
Gwen, Luan, Captain Hero, Harry and Benny reach the Boys and Gwen introduces themselves to them. Luan and Hero aren't exact trusted due to being Supes and Benny is seen as mere boy. Harrison though does gain respect and is recongized as a kindred spirit to them
Meanwhile Harrison,The Boys, Captain Hero and Benny are laying low as the three of them are learning about their history. Harrison is the most willing to help The Butcher and the Boys as he gets it from his feud with Zoom. Harry questions about his dislike of Supes and why does he work with Gwen then, He does find out Butcher considers Gwen an exception as she's just a kid, he doesn't like Hero and sees him as another Homelander.
Harry does admit Hero is a handful but can be controlled,
Harrison and The Boys decide to pursue Homelander and Vought's plans despite Benny's warning that careless actions will cause trouble. Hero calls him a pansy which Harrison does tell Hero to knock off, though Butcher does admit he would have said the samething. Butcher and Harry both decide to take charge and make a plan against the super hero, though Harry does explain that his friends, Anti Cosmo, Slade and Bender also want to take down Vought, the latter is investigating them thinking they killed a costumed vilgante who was going to expose them
Butcher thinks this Bender may be right and asks about the other 2, Harry states he works for them and Slade looked into them too on Bender's request.
Harry, Butcher, Captain Hero, Benny, Hughie, MM and Frenchie all manage to get through many of Vought's enforcers until they reach A Train, Harry, Captain Hero and Benny are brought up to speed on him. A Train is here to enforce Homelander's will although he's doing it out of some sense of fear and just so to keep his status. The Boys and Harry both proceed to deal with A Train, while Benny uses his outsider status to his advantage to help Harrison and Butcher find more out on Vought,
A Train defiently has the upper hand against the Boys and Captain Hero being smarter than the latter and having powers. Only Harrison has an upper hand which comes down to his knowledge on speedsters, Which does impress A Train that the mere mortal can keep up with him. During Harry taking on A Train, The Boys and Captain Hero manage to cover Benny as he manages to undercover more info on Vought.
Harry and The Boys realize that Bruno Mannheim and The Deep after looking into the box that they were shipping Compound V and that they were smugging it and that Harry feels that Homelander is setting something up as do the Boys. Harry wants to destory the product and Hero is on board as well. Benny and The Boys though feel that there is no real way to destroy the product without alering Homelander or Vought.
Captain Hero considers dumping it in the ocean, Though The Boys turn this down as Hero would attract The Deep. Captain Hero moans that he wants to go to the ocean, Luan and Gwen decide that could be a risk,, though The Deep isn't as dangerous as A Train or Homelander which mean they won't risk A Train.
Luan, Benny, Hero and The Boys head off to the sea, as though they won't dump it, they can find a private area to destory the shipment.
Chapter 3[]
In The Sub we have Harry talking to Billy, Hughie, Captain Hero and Benny as he has studied the notes to Operation Countdown and that it looks like Homelander is co-opearting with Smoking Man to accomplish their plans through complex means which Homerlander doesn't get but the latter does get.
Hughie tells Harrison, that the corporation is so big that they can't even fail, anything that opposes and challenges them is met with bribes, corrupt officials, blackmail, or assassination, He tried to challenge them but thet made it impossible. Harry believes no coproration can truly stay still and even they will be exposed, He knows this and won't let Vought threaten him. Billy admits that the only way to truly succeed is stop Homelander and find a weakness for him
Captain Hero states he can take Homelander easy, he has his powers and can engage against him. Billy states Captain Hero may have the power, but Homelander isn't stupid and he needs his wits too.
Benny is confident his girlfriend's guardian Bender can stop them, and he can do nearly anythng. Harry states that this may be true, but he is working on something to make this simpler. Hughie and Billy ask exactly what, Harry states he's working on a meta-human cure
Billy asks about what it does, Harry explains that it suppresses the dark matter in their pituitary gland, where super powers emerge in meta humans.
Luan, Gwen, Billy Hughie, Benny, Captain Hero, Harrison, MM and Frenchie discuss what their plans are in regards to throwing away the Compound V. Each have a different Idea,
Harrison, Billy, Frenchie and Gwen however decide to basically just use the anti meta human serum to basically save anyone from The Compund V sideaffects as that will expose the company
Each of them all debate the ideas and are on disagreeance what is the better idea. However The Deep attacks with Susshi, Tornadon, Squishy them. All them of notice this and The Deep is here to get The Compound V Crate back from them
Harry, Captain Hero and Billy refuse to give it to them and The Deep sends the monsters to attack them. Captain Hero, Billie, MM, Frenchie , The Girl, Luan and Gwen all put on snorkel gear to be able to swim and take on the monsters and The Deep without as much trouble.
The Boys meanwhile engage with Susshi and take plenty of sniper shots at it, to hurt it. This does work for a while until it directly charges at them and this leads to Billy taking a knife and basically stabbing it multiple times until it passes on
The Deep angered by this goes after them and summons creatures to keep them all in hand as he prepares to finish this.
Shark Man and Queen Cleo both basically tell them to head to the isle to dispose of Compound V upon being told of this by the others and are told to follow them. Benny, Hughie, Frenchie, The Lady, Mother's Milk, Billy, Luan, Gwen, Captain Hero and Harrison Wells all follow them as a result to that island
Shark Man and Cleo lead Luan, Harry, Benny, Captain Hero, Gwen and The Boys to the Island where Lava Woman is.
Kate Bishop arrives saying she was keeping an eye on them this whole time.
Kate shows them a file on Vought and explains what their plan is to them. Billy and Hughie read it and are suprised Kate managed to figure it out with her own work. Kate states she knows what she's doing and explains what she's doing here
The Boys and Harry Wells put things together as they work on the anti-metahuman cure to use against Vought as they figure out this is a way to defeat Homelander and his other 2 supes.
Billy and Hughie both agree with this, Billy wants to use this for his crusade against Homelander and Hughie can use it to stop Vought from the inside more sucessfully.
The Boys help him take on A-Train, Harry and The Boys use their combined abiltiies to fight off A-Train. A-Train puts a real fight against them though does get shot a few times by MM, Frenchie and Harry. The three then help The Female attack A-Train while he is exhausted at times something Hughie and Billy pick up on. Billy tells Harry that they need to use the anti-meta human cure, Harrison states it's not done yet and that they will need to test on someone before hand.
Chapter 4[]
As Harry and the others talk and discuss what they're going to regarding Vought as Billy makes his schemes with the Boys, Luan and Benny and how to ultimately disptach Homelander and Vought, Billy does appreciate that Luan does have Bender, Slade and the others opposing Vought and doing damage of their own to the corproation.
Billy though has a plan of his own to take on Homelander of his own as he notes what Bender, Libby, Anti Cosmo and Slade have managed to get dirt on Homelander as the former 3 managed to get his attack on Alamo Land recorded and kept track of. Billy states that if there's one thing Homelander is challenged it, it's his publicity being threatened.
Cleo summons a way for the gang to travel through a invisible submarine that she uses similar to Wonder Woman and her invisible plane. As they travel, Billy is privately issued a challenge by Homelander to throw down with no powers no toys, just fistycuffs. Billy of courses accepts it due to his own hate of Homelander, though he does hint it to Benny and The Boys to use the blackmail a weapon on Homelander in case.
This comes in hand as Homelander does indeed make an attack with The Smoking Man and Billy holds his word and fights Homelander. He trades blows with him and despite being weaker than him, Billy never betrays his determination and stares at Homelander with fear. He uses it for Benny and Hughie to help free the others and use the black mail as planned. Though Billy is weared out eventually, he did at least make Homelander bleed to some extent which Homelander prepares to put him out of his misery though Billy reveals that he knows of the attack on Alamo Land and that Benny and Hughie have already made it world wide. Homelander backs off realizing Billy has gotten his weakness, he is once more fasicated by Billy's lack of fear towards him.
Harry gets him and the others and tells them to go to Royal Wood Juvie with him, as they to see Luan's doopleganger as she wants to see him and Luan as that is what Hero gave over to him and the others.
Chapter 5[]
Billy is brought to the Juvie Hall with the others and meets The Prankster who Luan and Dr.Wells are familar with and learn what she is seems aware of alongside Lorenzo and Titan.
He is hesitant to trust her and her allies like the other boys as he talks to them. When The Prankster tells him, that she is intend to have Vought exposed, Billy reluctantly agrees and asks her what she knows. The Prankster states she has a lab to go to and someone willing to blow the whistle. It's Queen Maueve as they find out out before.
During this, Billy meets Captain Putty, The Newtrailzer and Hopkins and learns what they did to Shark Man and Lava Woman's daughter. He tries to save her but to no avail. due to Putty and Newtrailizer's ruthless and wreckless ways to try and kill the crew.
He works on way to save her with the others, as she's just a child as he puts it, and is digusted with what Hopkins did to her. He then talks with Luan, Harry, Gwen and Kate about what's next and learns that they are going to see Slade who is also working to expose Vought with Bender, Anti Cosmo and Libby.
Chapter 6[]
Billie and the boys get back to Halverston and Area and meet up with Slade and Bender's team to defeat Homelander.
Finale[]
Billy and The Boys help the empire and Bender take back the latter's friends towns from the invading forces. Billy helps Cleo and Celes with his team take on The Deep and kill him
He then helps Bender, Slade, Anti Cosmo, Starlight and A- Train against Homelander and with the help of the former 3 they manage to get the upperhand on Homelander and distract him long enough to keep them from The Smoking Man and they kill Homelander
With the fall of Homelander and Vought, Billy decides to continue his quest to deal with out of control supes though Hughie decides to stay and with Professor Membrane help run Vought more ethically.
Chronicles of Zaragoza[]
Chapter 6: The Arrival of Earth X[]
Billy regroups with Hughie after a long time with the other boys after being out of comission. He joins up with Elisa and her friends to deal with the invasion of The Dark Reich and takes on them as they are threats to him and his group, He also remeets Luan respectfully as an adult with the other Boys.
Chapter 7: X Marks the Spot[]
Billy is among the heroes who join the team to head into space to get the Reality Stone to keep it from getting into Dark Arrow and The New Reinkmen's hands. Through their tribulations, they suceed at this. Unlike most of the others, though he and The Boys are not so sure keeping the stones is a good idea as he does recall keeping such power is a bit too risky for everyone involved for those who seek it and those who already have it.
Chapter 8: Earth X's Last Stand[]
Billy, Hughie, Mother's Milk and Frenchie reunite with Slade, Anti Cosmo, Bender, Marcy Wu and Harry Wells upon seeing Dakota and Cavendish bring them to the future. Working with them and Mark and Eve they take on Dark Arrow and his Reichmen while investigating everything that went down respectively over time with Stormfront leading the way against them due to her vendetta against The Boys, Slade, Anti Cosmo and Bender.
The Boys run into Thawne who Bender and his friends oppose and has returned. Billy and The Boys decide to insure Bender get back to his timeline and they will deal with Thawne respectfully. They kill him, but Eve can still feel his presence. This is proven when they find the Negative Speed Forces who they destroy respectfully to keep them from furthering helping Thawne.
The Bad Guys and The Boys[]
Billy and The Boys are investigating Black Noir and his own attempts on Vought coming back and getting revenge on them as well as their allies. Deathstroke calls for them and informs of their sitatuon, introducing them to the Bad Guys who have their own thing going on.
Billy decides to have Deathstroke's backing and take out Black Noir who is the one of the remaining links of Vought and the only one not frozen. He and the Boys are put on edge to this new foe Kang who manages to have a noticable amout of control over their situation and Kang attacks The Boys beating them several times with Starlight intervening eventually due to her powers. He considers using Compound V to even the odds but is talked out of it
Billy does discover thanks to MM and Hughie of the Quantlum Realm which he decides to head to with them and run into Spider Punk and his allies who help deal with Kang's robots They regroup with the others and prepare to deal with Kang and his group one more time, now being informed of Black Noir's true nature by Bruce is that he is part of Payback and was indeed a clone of Homelander but was given surgery to insure no one could figure this out.
Billy takes on both Black Noir and Kang Respectively and manages to stop both of them with his friends and allies Being informed of Black Noir's perishing, he considers going after Solider Boy or Stormfront but Cavendish and Dakota state that they have them taken care once they thaw out.
Billy and Hughie ponder what the two time travelers mean.
House of Disenchanted Cards[]
Billy gets involved in the events of Frank Underwood and his group as he spells corruption and is a wanted man for killing plenty of Underwood's cronies, he learns Underwood's past and realizes he's targeting Slade and Bender and decides to help his two main allies respectfully. He gets nearly killed by Underwood but is found by Hughie and Starlight and he works with Bender, Hero and Wile and Mop Girl and to ultimately take down Bad Bean and The Cartel respectfully. The three are brought up to speed on Bean and Wile E, Bender and Hero's relationship with her as they havn't met her before.
En.Tropized[]
Book 1: Overture[]
Billy appears as one of the main characters of the Overture of Book 1 and it turns when he helped Bender, Wile E and Mop Girl, he ended up using Compound V and it led to a tumor and cancer forming him and leaving with not much time to live.
Chapter 1[]
Part 1[]
The Boys are looking into a way to stop Victoria Neuman as she is on on her way to reach politics. Billy Butcher is suffering from something of his own situation going on which he had been feeling since his battle with Frank Underwood and the rest of the cartel
Billy is brought to a bed by Hughie and Starlight and they tell him about what happened with him. Billy admits he proably shouldn't have taken all those Temp V shots to them. Hughie questions why he even did it, Billy says he did so he can get the edge on the supes by leveling the playing field
Starlight says did he have to do so to deal with Underwood and his cartel group. Billy says he was just trying to bring them down as well to help Bender and Slade's teams. Starlight says that he will be coming soon or later back here as Hughie hired him to investigate Neuman. Billy is clear to feel that Bender and Slade might be able to help with his condition, even if they can't he is sure they can look into it.
Dale drives Wile E, Bender, Libby and Anti Comso to THe Boys's hideout as they are sharing what they did regarding Neuman Dale is quick to ask about Billy. Bender says he's not feeling too good due to something he did a bit ago.
Billy is brought to a bed by Hughie and Starlight and they tell him about what happened with him. Billy admits he proably shouldn't have taken all those Temp V shots to them. Hughie questions why he even did it, Billy says he did so he can get the edge on the supes by leveling the playing field
Starlight says did he have to do so to deal with Underwood and his cartel group. Billy says he was just trying to bring them down as well to help Bender and Slade's teams. Starlight says that he will be coming soon or later back here as Hughie hired him to investigate Neuman. Billy is clear to feel that Bender and Slade might be able to help with his condition, even if they can't he is sure they can look into it.
Billy Butcher sees Bender, Hughie, Starlight, Libby and Anti Cosmo and inquires to them if they found anything on Neuman. Hughie explains that they just found the usual but did find some useful stuff. Anti Cosmo does explain the situation that Neuman held on him and Bender, Bender says AC not to say anything about that, he doesn't want to talk about. Starlight adds but he'll tell Slade, she even questions how much those 3 have been involved in. Anti Cosmo says him, Slade and Bender have been involved in more than they know. Bender and Hughie decide to do their best to help Butcher with Hughie asking Bender for a way to help Butcher.
He also shows after Hughie's call to Bender and asks what Hughie took without him knowing, Hughie informs Billy and Starlight there Bender needs some assistance with a serial killer who killed some of his friends of two of his and Luan's friends.
Bender and Anti Cosmo meet up with Billy and the two make a promise to try and help him out here. Even though Billy is questioning why Slade wasn't here instead, Anti Cosmo says he's busy and he decided to help Bender. Hughie, Starlight, Marvin and Frenchie all meet with Anti Cosmo and Bender and they talk about everything the duo found in their search. Both the Robot and the Anti Fairy note how what they did in China Town is coming to light due to Vicky and Marvin decides to investigate Bender and Anti Cosmo's actions to see if Neuman can find any traces of this knowledge.
Frenchie asks what's with the secrecy to the two, they're acting like Butcher which Marvin also notes. Bender tells the two that what happened now there is events he can't have anyone know about unless he wants it to as he doesn't want to remember himself. Anti Cosmo says that it's a senstivie topic for him, even most of his own friends don't even know Starlight is curious how much the two and Slade have been involved in and Marvin says that since the two asked to find traces maybe he can do that too
Hughie, Bender, Anti Cosmo and Starlight then promise Butcher they will do what they can to help out. Billy does say that he will keep trying to fight despite all of this.
Despite being Ill Billy decides to take charge of the boys despite Hughie's concern that he is ill. Billy says he can still fight and he will continue to lead the boys.
Kimiko uses her sign language to communciate what she and Frenchie had talked about. Frenchie explains how this is their one last mission for Butcher as they have had enough of Billy and his constant deceptions of them. This is a sentiment agreed by Marvin as well as his actions against Frank Underwood did so as Billy refused their help and it how took Marvin to have work with other people just to find out Billy went up against him with Hughie and Starlight without them.
Hughie didn't even know that Billy did this and questions why Billy did this, Billy informs he was only willing to get Hughie as well as Starlight as he felt he needed more help and Hughie's own skills. Starlight asks what took Hughie as long as it did to get back.
Part 2[]
As The Boys Fan out their objectives, Billy heads to The Woods to see what he can fine there and goes on his own despite the protests of the others. Over there he discovers the aftermath of what happened of both the massacres by Cate and Sam. Billy also discovers how Slade and his empire managed to infiltrate it and make off with the files needed for their own plans to help Bender deal with Neuman.
He also discovers the supe-killing virus that Professor Membrane had made to keep Supes in line and how Membrane is trying to design it for other purposes. Also during his investigations he discovers a shield which he can tell belongs to a supe. Managing to hijack the cameras he discovers it belonged to James Rogers and found how he was killed though he doesn't learn it's N.Tropy.
Getting back to the boys, Billy reveals what he found out about James Rogers and the existence of the sup virus that Membrane made and discusses the idea that Bender knows about it and is trying to procure for Membrane to keep it away from Neuman.
Part 3[]
Bender, Luan, Wile E and Libby manage to get a hold of the Boys and Starlight.
Billy asks if they gotten anything. Wile E says no and that they have been a bit on the busy getting the house from Eladio. He makes Butcher know his dissapointment in him using those drugs to beat Homelander, Billy says he has to what he had to the Coyote regarding the supes. Wile E says that he will look into the science of the disease to help out with this. Wile E does have something to consider though and it's a form of cancer treatment and asks what he knows on Cate, Butcher doesn't know anything.
He Discovers from Frenchie and Kimoko that the investigations weren't that insignifcant as the deaths of Agent Trout and Pied Piper are brought up to them. She, Hughie and Billy discuss this and theorize if not confirm that Victoria Neuman had killed them to cover her tracks or whoever she is working for. Billy even begins to suspect Neuman killed James Rogers for a odd reason, though Hughie shoots this theory as his death wasn't caused the same way as Frenchie's own details go into.
When Maeve brings in Bender, Anti Cosmo and Slade to share these details, Hughie is proven right as Billy even admits too when the three point out James Rogers isn't a supe himself he's just the son of an alternate universe of Steve Rogers and Natallie. Billy says that he found the shield there when checking the woods, he would have checked more if not for security still being present despite that the Woods is abandoned.
Hughie, Marvin, Starlight and Billy decide on heading to Chinatown to continue the digging around ahead of sechulde. Billy decides this could be a good opporunity to get the supe killing virus or even fine something unusual.
Chapter 2[]
Part 4[]
Billy starts to consider that the Virus Professor Membrane made could be the key to get rid of the supes that he finds too dangerous. He also ends up halluncating someone from his past as well it tries to convince to kill every supe regardless of good/evil. Which he is against considering who he does know at the moment.
Hughie and Billy decide to join up with Bender's posse to make way to Bolsa's Ranch on this matter upon learning about the cancer research and to help Luan what she intends to do. Though his allies do have to make special care regarding him as Slade also send them.
Part 5[]
He and the others manage to trap Neuman with Dale using a Rube Goldberg trap and stands as Luan and Snart go to try to detain him. This until Rabbid Farm Animals go after them and Neuman herself which leads to them all having to work together to survive.
During everything, Butcher begins to halluncaite on a certain manner when it comes to the supes and to just go on his own to find the viruses. He is unwilling to go after Starlight, Kimoko or other supes and while he will use others, he is not taking any risks here as he needs Bender and Slade to help. He also gives a mercy kill to some of the animals after learning of the painful mutations they are going through. This may come from the shock of his own mutated cancer that he is hiding from the boys and also from Slade, Bender and the others as he dodges quesitons Wile E, Libby and Cleo have for him.
Part 6[]
Billy has already arrived in town and got ahead of the others to find the Shetty Virus and he is preparing to engage in his plan to deal with the supes and rein them in officially. Even though he bested Homelander and others, Butcher doesn't feel he can succeed until he fully gets rid of them. Billy manages to indeed arrive at town further and is observing Bender, Dale, Libby, Wile E, Luan and Stan. He joins up with them and decides to go searching in the bunker where Professor Membrane was working until he had to leave and that would be where the Shetty Virus is located. He also finds himself having to confess to them as well about what he had did in that he did take Compound V to try and get rid of his cancer and the tumor/cancer is basically V empowered.
Chapter 3[]
Part 7[]
Billy with the rest of the B Team manage to find the Shetty Virus and are ready to claim with Butcher ready to secure it for his war on supes. Though this is put down by the arrival of Neuman's allies which Billy isn't amused and he engages with the rest of the villains and tries to stop the villains from getting the Virus. He is able to do just that, though he and Bender disagree with how to use it since Bender is unwilling to put Luan through any kind of harm, or even Starfire his own wife if Butcher uses it.
Billy Butcher sees the effects of the Shetty Virus on a video recording after helping dealing with Putty and Z9 and sees it as his ticket to deal with Neuman and those other supes. Bender, Luan and Wile E all believe his plan is nuts.
Butcher decides to just go find the doctor and make the virus for himself, thinking if Bender and his friends want to give it to Professor Membrane he won't stop them from doing it. At some point Billy kidnapped the creator of the Shetty Virus in order to help make a stronger form of the virus.
Part 8[]
Hughie and Butcher ask Slade for help regarding what Bender, Anti Cosmo, Harry and Slade discovered at Goodkin University when it comes to the students who were framed as a result of Cate and Sam being praised as heroes. Slade agrees this and decides to get his allies to assist with all of this. He undercovers his own info using Marvin Milk to do just that and then holds his scientist he abducted hostage to create a more lethal verison of the Shetty Virus all the halluncating verisons of Joe Kessler to enable his supe hating agendas which he is hesistant with the ones he knows are good like Luan and Starlight.
He manages to meet up with Leonard Snart and Mick Rory as the three study up what Tek Knight is up to with the rest of his allies as the two bugged the house with Cat R Waul as they wait for Slade to arrive with Frenchie also joining them on this as Butcher has Kimoko and Marvin monitoring the area.
Part 9[]
Butcher keeps track of everything with Leonard Snart and Mick Rory and helps beat down on the supes Tek Knight tries to use against the group and ends using a part of the SHetty Virus to kill one which gets the attention of Leo and Mick who are shocked at the effects of the Virus. Butcher says he is content to know it works he asks about Hughie and learns Nasesala has him and his bringing him back when he finishes his discussions with Bender and Anti Cosmo who under Lydia and Lincoln agreed to let Neuman go.
Butcher also discovers that Bender clashed with Solider Boy and makes a point to say that he is glad Bender is on his side if he was able to survive him and seal him away, as he himself was able to do this himself.
Chapter 4[]
He and Starlight team up into a investigation about the rest of Neuman's actions so they can discover what happened as an effect of Neuman's actions and discover that Solider Boy was involved in the events that Bender and Slade were dealing with and that Neuman was going to use this against the two groups. Starlight and Butcher burn the info and head back to the rest of the boys.
He manages to find Bender and report what he does know on things to Kang as Bender was asking around.
Chapter 5[]
Butcher eventually investigates some stuff on VOught and this goes into what Tek Knight has in mind with Cate and Sam and that what is going with the rest of things and this ends up traumatizing him. Butcher is eventually approached by an entity which offers him a chance to accomplish his goals and he does work to resist it and until a later point he eventually gives in and is possessed by as it turns out the very same demon that Hughie warned him about. Butcher manages to wipe out most of the supes of his universe apart from A-Train, Maeve and Starlight.
Butcher then sets his sights on Neuman later, which he eventually does but finds that Hughie, Bender and Slade are defending her and he doesn't take this too well and ends up ripping Neuman apart.
Chapter 6[]
This leads into a showdown with Bender, Slade and Their groups as well as The Boys. Though this is a real fight between the groups as Butcher is fighting Bender and Slade accusing the two and their teams of betraying him in favor of Neuman like they did for Solider Boy. THey try to reason with him, though he is too blinded by his hatred until he is eventually taken down by Bender's team and Slade's Empire and Butcher intended for himself to have the possession beaten out of him as while he did manage to go through with his plan, he was hoping he was going to stopped and does go out gracefully thankful that Hughie was able to stop him.
This ended up however causing The Boys to be picked off as a result of Tek Knight's actions due to how he beat down on his former team.