Butcher’s final words to Mother’s Milk may be the boys’ most haunting moment (including all of Homelander’s murders).

There are tons of memorable and complex characters in The boys But few are as complex as Billy Butcher. While Billy was mostly driven by rage over Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic, no one could really see how far that rage would take him. This leads to one of the most heartbreaking moments in the comic, when Butcher kills one of his best friends.

The great crux and driving force of The boys Story is the titular boys trying to hunt down and kill the seven, with Homelander at the top of the list. This is primarily driven by Billy Butcher’s hatred of Supes, and his particular hatred of Homelander. Butcher will stop at nothing to kill Homelander, however After Homelander is finally dead, Butcher’s sense of revenge is not exhaustedWhat leads him to do the unthinkable.

Everyone expected Butcher to relax, just let go of his hatred after Homelander was killed, but that was never the plan. After Homelander is dead, Butcher goes on a rampage against his former team members, which results in a heartbreaking confrontation.

Butcher’s desire for revenge goes deeper than anyone knew

The boys #68 by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson

Instead of being happy that Homelander is finally dead, Butcher instead turns his attention to every other supe on Earth. Butcher has a plan to kill every supe, but his first order of business is to kill his friends. Because the majority of his friends, like Mother’s Milk, the Female, and French, all have Compound-V in them, they must also be killed in Butcher’s Genocide. Wanting to spare the disaster, and seeing how far he’s fallen, Butcher thinks it’s best to just kill them quickly and painlessly..

This doesn’t really work out. Butcher is not able to capture the mother’s milk by surprise, as he has already figured out what Butcher does. This leads to a full-blown fight between the two, with Mother’s Milk demanding to know what’s wrong with Butcher and why he’s doing this. It is here that Butcher makes the heartfelt confession that defines his character. He admits that Mother’s Milk is the best mate he could ever ask for, but someone like Butcher doesn’t have friends. With that, he quickly shoves a grenade into Mother Milk’s face, mortally wounding him.

Butcher never really had any friends

A happy ending was never in the cards for Billy

The death of his wife, Becca, was one of the worst things to happen to Butcher. He immediately admits that without her he is just an animal looking for a fight, a place to die. Butcher served in the Falklands War, and he is someone who need a war It was only through Becca that he felt he could be someone else, that he could actually be a good person. When he lost her, he decided to start one final war, against all Supes on Earth. This meant that he didn’t need friends, he needed soldiers, and that’s exactly what he recruited. While the rest of the boys grow up in a family, Butcher is always on the outside.

Katsev had a difficult childhood, growing up under a brutally abusive father and had to go through the death of his younger brother. This caused Katsev to harden his heart, which was only further compounded by his time in the military. Butcher knows how to kill someone, and he can do it regardless of what his personal feelings towards them are. During their fight, Butcher immediately admits that Mother Milk is a good person, even a great person, and that Butcher doesn’t even deserve to know him, lets call him a friend. But that doesn’t stop him.

Butcher kills Mother’s milk with the same detached attitude that he does with Jack of Jupiter. After Jack is suspected of killing Butcher’s dog, Butcher tracks him down, disables him, and begins stabbing him to death. All the while, Jack begs for his life, pleading his innocence, and Butcher simply ignores him. It’s not that Butcher doesn’t believe Jack or anything like that, But Butcher explains that he is not even the one killing him.

As Butcher stops Jack over and over, he keeps repeating, “It’s not me, I’m not hereThis statement shows exactly how terribly efficient he is to separate on command, he even notices that he is not the one stabbing Jack, he simply sees that it is happening from somewhere else. The ability to completely disconnect from his emotions is the same trait that allows him to kill mother’s milk. He Knows What he’s doing is bad and wrong, but he can’t stop, because he’s not the one doing it.

Butcher cements himself as a monster when he kills mother’s milk

The mission always comes first for Butcher

It is a remarkably sad meeting. Throughout the series, Butcher is mostly cold and stays away from the other members of the Boys. Butcher spends the most time with Yuji, and there’s no denying that he respects and cares for all of them, but he’s careful to never get too Close. There are also many moments that showcase his willingness to manipulate and use them, despite his positive feelings towards them. For example, he manipulates the group to become mad at Yuji, which ostracizes him from the group.

At heart, Butcher is a soldier, and he always has been. Once he sets his mind on a mission, he will accomplish it, and nothing will stop him. The only person who made Butcher feel like a person instead of a monster was Becca, who was so unfairly ripped away from him. It is because of this loss that Butcher simply returned to what he knew best: fighting wars. He is perfectly capable of seeing the other people in his life as people, because they are good or bad, but he simply cannot stop himself from using them as soldiers to win the war he is constantly fighting.

The good butcher used to die with Becca

Butcher’s war against Supes does not need to continue

The great tragedy of The boys Storyline is not only that Supes are almost always corrupt and horrible people, It is that almost anyone can be corrupted by their ideals. Although Butcher may very well have started with the intention of only killing Homelander, over time, he creates the new war that can only be finished when every Supe on Earth is dead. There is no reason to go that far. He was able to stop after Homelander’s death, but Butcher Will never stop until the war is won, even if it means killing every other member of The boys.