The Boys
While the savage slaying of superheroes is a pretty vulgar occurrent inThe Boysuniverse , there ’s one kill that stand up out , which was that ofThe Boys ’ reading of Marvel Comics ’ The Thing , as this supe was easily Butcher ’s most inexplicable victim .
As excuse in the comic series , the Boys is a group of trained , administration - backed operatives who secretly enquire offense committed by people with superpowers . While they commonly only take in info on any given supe , and primarily penalise them for their prove crimes through blackmail and deterrence , there are instance when murdering a supe ( or team of supes ) is the Boys ’ only pick . While Butcher ( the leader of the Boys ) is never opposed to kill a supe - given his immense hatred of them - he never jumps to that choice right aside when working a occupation . At least , not usually , which is why the murder ofThe Boys ’ ‘ The Thing ’ was so odd .
The Boys’ ‘The Thing’ Didn’t Deserve To Die, Yet Butcher Killed Him
InThe Boys : Herogasm#3 by Garth Ennis , John McCrea , and Keith Burns , Butcher and the Boys are investigating Herogasm , which is an event supes from around the world see where they can fairly much do anything they require . gender , drug , and rock ‘ n roster is the common setup at Herogasm , and apart from those who are work the event ( in one way or another ) , the only people allowed to be there are supes . In other words , Herogasm is the utter metre to get some serious grunge on practically any supe in attending , which is precisely what Butcher and the Boys were doing . However , in this issue , Butcher takes matter a bit too far by killing a supe named Doofer - who was entail to be a sendup of the Thing from Marvel Comics - to dissemble as a distraction for the other supes , making it look like a drug overdose .
In previous storylines withinThe Boyscomic Holy Scripture persistence , the squad normally took great upkeep to not drink down supes unnecessarily , only doing so if they are set on directly . And even if they are attacked , the Boys still make efforts to quash needless murder . One of the best case of this was during the Boys ’ fight against the Teenage Kix , whereHughie accidentally kill Blarney Clock , and the residue of the Boys tell him that he hire things too far . That ’s why the slaying of Doofer is so shocking , as it ’s strange the Boys would in a flash execute someone who either did n’t endeavor to round them first , or who did n’t merit it . If Doofer did something to earn this grim fate , it was n’t made clear to the lector , giving the mental picture that the Boys just murdered him for no other reason than to act as a distraction , which is pretty off - brand for them .
While it is lawful that , by the ending of the series , Butcher tries to belt down every supe in the public just for consume major power , expert or bad , that ’s not how he operate for the vast absolute majority of the series . A supe that attacks them , or a supe that commit an atrocity so heinous that there was no other penalization than death - those are the only two reasons the Boys would obliterate . When appear at the scene in this comic that way , it ’s leisurely to see whyThe Boys ’ version of Marvel ’s The Thing is Butcher ’s most incomprehensible dupe .
