The Boys are a CIA black ops team, initially created by Col. Greg Mallory to manage, police, and sometimes liquidate Vought. Over time, the team’s focus changed due to Butcher’s increased influence, from one of management and containment to one of direct confrontation. The first iteration of the Boys was decommissioned after a disastrous confrontation with the Seven in 2001 that resulted in civilian casualties. The unit was reformed a few years later – indicated in #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election – and have carried on where they left off.
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The Boys are a CIA black ops team, initially created by Col. Greg Mallory to manage, police, and sometimes liquidate Vought. Over time, the team’s focus changed due to Butcher’s increased influence, from one of management and containment to one of direct confrontation. The first iteration of the Boys was decommissioned after a disastrous confrontation with the Seven in 2001 that resulted in civilian casualties. The unit was reformed a few years later – indicated in #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election – and have carried on where they left off. All the members have enhanced strength and durability due to injections of Compound V, and all show no restraint when on the attack – although they avoid killing when it complicates matters in most cases. Though they are not as powerful as the corrupt superheroes they fight, they compensate with their blue-collar grit, their willingness to fight dirty, their access to high military grade weaponry, and their lack of fear to kill if they deem it necessary. Butcher is more than happy to blackmail, brutalize, torture, and murder, if it will achieve his goals. He seems to get pleasure from killing superheroes; the slaughter of 150 East EuropeanRussian supes in issue #14 left him humming Ode to Joy all day; and in #33 he continued to attack Mind Droid and Soldier Boy when they were trying to flee. In #43 he intended to brutalize the Super Duper team because of an unintended insult from a member of the team who suffered from Tourette’s.
In issue #55 he apparently got pleasure from brutally murdering Vogelbaum, possibly even eating part of him. As a boy in London’s East End, Butcher watched his father physically abuse his mother on a daily basis, almost leading him to developing an overwhelming hatred for superheroes. His younger brother Lenny talked him down from killing them, but only because of the impact it would have on their mother. Butcher went on to serve in the Royal Marines and was wounded in the Falklands War. Following his deployment, Butcher became self-destructive, drinking excessively, assaulting friends and assaulting strangers for little reason. This changed the day he met his future wife, Becky Saunders, and he changed his ways. In the current incarnation of the series, he works to reassemble the old team, with Hughie filling in for Mallory, whose leadership position Butcher takes for himself. Mother’s Milk has stated that every word Butcher says is calculated to further his own goals; an example of this is making director Raynor believe that he is easily led by his desire for sex, while in reality this is just so she underestimates him. On another occasion, Butcher told Hughie one reason he recruited him was he’d \”always wanted a little brother\”, keeping it quiet that he already had one. Butcher’s campaign against superheroes stems from the rage he felt after the rape and death of his wife at the hands of his little brother, Lenny Saunders.
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