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Despite being a macrocosm filled with superheroes , The Boysis rife with psychopaths such as theHomelanderand his chief rival , Billy Butcher . While Vought ’s number one torpedo is presented the story ’s central scoundrel , Butcher ’s tough moment shows that he ’s a saturnine reflection of his most hate foeman .
The twisted tale ofThe Boyscenters around two humankind who are hit course with one another against the backdrop of incarnate superheroes . After Butcher lost his wife to an assault he believe the Homelander commit , he get together a secret crew of CIA private detective known colloquially as the Boys to keep superheroes , aka " Supes " in chit . As Butcher plays the long - plot to get his revenge , the dear torpedo , Homelander , starts to crack under the pressure and slowly begin commit more and more reprobate enactment .
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However , when the hero Black Noir reveals he ’s been bewilder as Homelander to wangle him , Butcher decides to do away with every Supefor dear . InThe Boys#69 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson , Hughie searches for Butcher after he ’s killed their teammate , Mother ’s Milk . He wind up in a house where Hughie believes The Boys ' original leader , Mallory , may have once stashed the creator of Compound V , Jonah Vogelbaum . Vogelbaum is indeed in the house , but shuffle off the mortal coil , lying dead on the ground . Hughie had initially been lead to trust Vogelbaum was already kill by Butcher by rip out his pharynx with his bare teeth . But Butcher jovially tells him that he had tricked Mallory into thinking that by using raspberry pickle . Billy deceived his friends and teammates to keep Vogelbaum around so he could work on Butcher ’s ultimate plan : a series of bomb with a change variation of Compound V that would belt down every Supe on the major planet .
WhileButcher ’s lie about tearing out Vogelbaum ’s throatmight seem over the top , it ’s actually in line with his rank psychotic behavior . Butcher is a fell , inhumane monster and he knows that is how others see him . Butcher able to fool the people closest to him by playing right into their image of him , not unlike how his hated contender the Homelander did for yr .
Of naturally , Homelander direct the diametrical approach . He used the exclusive right of being a darling hero to veil some truly criminal thing , such as his handling of Starlight when she joined the Seven and his planning of the Supes ' coup on the White House . Despite Butcher ’s hatred of the hoagy , he takesa page out of the Homelander ’s bookto fulfil his goals : using the perception others have of him to dissemble what his true intentions are . The mark of a truly great incompatible relationship is the similarities two fictitious character apportion . He may not want to include it , butButcheris the other side of the coin asThe Boys’despicableHomelander .
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