The Boys' murder of 'The Thing' is their strangest kill.
While the brutal murder of superheroes is a pretty common occurrence in The Boys universe, there’s one kill that stands out, which was that of The Boys’ version of Marvel Comics’ The Thing, as this supe was easily Butcher’s most inexplicable victim.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT As explained in the comic series, the Boys is a group of trained, government-backed operatives who secretly investigate crimes committed by people with superpowers. While they usually only collect information on any given supe, and primarily punish them for their proven crimes through blackmail and intimidation, there are instances when murdering a supe is the Boys’ only option.
The Boys’ ‘The Thing’ Didn’t Deserve To Die, Yet Butcher Killed Him In The 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 attend where they can pretty much do anything they want. Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll is the usual setup at Herogasm, and aside from those who are working the event , the only people allowed to be there are supes.
In previous storylines within The Boys comic book continuity, the team usually took great care to not kill supes unnecessarily, only doing so if they are attacked directly. And even if they are attacked, the Boys still make efforts to avoid needless murder. One of the best examples of this was during the Boys’ fight against the Teenage Kix, where Hughie accidentally kills Blarney Clock, and the rest of the Boys tell him that he took things too far.
While it is true that, by the end of the series, Butcher tries to kill every supe in the world just for having superpowers, good or bad, that’s not how he operated for the vast majority of the series. A supe that attacks them, or a supe that committed an atrocity so heinous that there was no other punishment than death - those are the only two reasons the Boys would kill.
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