# Billy Butcher

William J. Butcher is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists of the comic book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. He is the leader of The Boys, a group of CIA-sponsored black ops agents (consisting of Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, the Frenchman, and the Female) who observe, record and sometimes eliminate superheroes artificially created by the mega-conglomerate Vought. He is the sworn archenemy of the Homelander, whom he blames for the rape and death of his wife Becky, while also developing an obsessive and intense hatred for all superhuman beings, which consequently deconstructs him into becoming villainous after originally starting as anti-heroic.