Billy Butcher

Billy Butcher
Billy Butcher
The Boys character
	Billy Butcher armed with a crowbar, as depicted by Karl Urban in the TV series
First appearance	Comics:; The Boys #1 "The Name of the Game, Part One: This Is Going to Hurt" (2006); Television:; "The Name of the Game" (2019);
Last appearance	Comics:; Dear Becky #7 (2020); Television:; "Blood and Bone" (2026);
Created by	Garth Ennis; Darick Robertson
Adapted by	Eric Kripke
Portrayed by	Karl Urban; Luca Villacis and Josh Zaharia (young);
Voiced by	Jason Isaacs (The Boys Presents: Diabolical); Kay Eluvian (Death Battle); Gary Furlong (The Boys: Trigger Warning)
In-universe information
Full name	William J. Butcher
Aliases	The Butcher; Monsieur Charcutier; British Guy; The Guy; The One in Charge; Joe Kessler (season 4);
Nickname	Billy
Occupation	Leader of The Boys; CIA operative (formerly); Comic: Royal Marines (formerly); Series: SAS (formerly);
Weapon	Compound V; Crowbar
Family	Comic series:; Sam Butcher (father); Connie Butcher (mother); Mother's Milk (surrogate brother); Janine (surrogate niece); Television series:; Lenny Butcher (brother); Rachel Saunders (sister-in-law); Ryan Butcher (step-son); Judy Atkinson (aunt);
Spouses	Becky Saunders (comics); Becca Butcher (television)
Significant others	Susan L. Rayner (comics); Queen Maeve (television; one-night stand)
Origin	London, England
Abilities	Expert combatant, marksman, and tactician; With Compound V: Superhuman strength, durability, reflexes, stamina, and hearing; Accelerated healing; Heat vision (season 3; Temp V); Sentient tumor (season 4-5);

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. Butcher also appears as one of the two protagonists, alongside Hughie, in the Amazon Prime Video streaming television adaptation of The Boys. Although the show heavily deviates from the original comic, Butcher's portrayal is similar as he adopts an anti-hero position before he embarks on a darker path towards the end of his arc - which concludes with his death at the hands of Hughie.

Butcher is primarily portrayed by Karl Urban in the adaptation and its spin-off, Luca Villacis and Josh Zaharia portraying him as a youth in the third season, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan portraying his inner self in the fourth season (as Joe Kessler). Butcher is also voiced by Jason Isaacs in The Boys Presents: Diabolical and Kay Eluvian in Death Battle. Urban's performance as Butcher in the television series has received praise from critics.