Warning! Spoilers for The Boys: Dear Becky #7 by Garth Ennis, Russ Braun, Tony Avina, and Simon Bowland below!
Billy Butcher is one of the most intimidating characters in both The Boys comic and television series. In the new issue of The Boys: Dear Becky, Butcher's tactical and violent methods are on full display as he uses the comic's parody version of Thor to track down and kill an entire superteam.
In the comics, Butcher's past is explored in a new book that takes a look at what happens twelve years after he died. Butcher was responsible for killing Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female, and met his end after falling off the Empire State building and coercing a wounded Hughie into finishing him off for good. The Boys: Dear Becky sees Hughie getting sent Butcher's secret journal, where he details the pain of losing his wife, Becky, as well as previous missions with The Boys he went on.
Early in the series, The Boys are tasked with taking down a new superteam called 'The Skorchers,' who are a Supe squad comprised of edgier PR-driven heroes (possibly a parody of the New Warriors), including Sex Vicar, Black Thugg, Poncing Poof and Teen Temptress. The Skorchers are the first superteam funded by Vought's media division and not by the superhuman development side - and it's clear they're not exactly what they appear to the public. While investigating, Butcher catches the Mighty Warrior (Thor) having sex with a woman at his own wife's funeral and he blackmails him (through intimidation, nearly burning him alive) into gathering him info on The Skorchers. While Mighty Warrior tries and fails to kill Butcher with his fellow Asgardians, he eventually agrees to help him. That's when Butcher uses the info he's gained from Mighty Warrior and The Boys to pay the Skorchers a bloody visit.
In a panel too gruesome to show here, The Skorchers are all decapitated by Butcher, with their headless bodies being tied to chairs in front of a blood-filled Thanksgiving dinner. Butcher then shoots a look at the only surviving person, the Vought media division head who assembled the pseudo-Supes together.
The brutal murder of The Skorcher team once again shows just how brutal Butcher can be. Not only did he kill the entire team (which even if they were powerless is a tall order), but he did so in such a dramatically violent way. Tying them up and cutting off all of their heads is particularly terrifying. That all happens after he kills off Asgardians and blackmails the Mighty Warrior into being his confidant. In the comics, Butcher evolves into a Supe-obsessed killing machine. Hopefully, the Butcher of the Amazon series can be a bit tamer and contain his bloodlust, otherwise, the rest of The Boys are in for some serious trouble.