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In the opening move episodes ofThe Boysseason 2 , Butcher was on the warpath with an entirely unlike agenda - rescue his wife and make for her back house . In " Nothing Like It In The man , " Butcher line up the Vought compound oblige Becca hostage . Their reunification was emotional , passionate , and well - merit after everything the duo had stick out . Finding a quiet patch away from the litany of CCTV photographic camera , Butcher and Becca incubate a programme to scat with Ryan – Becca ’s A-one - powered son – but when the sentence get along , she backed out and force Butcher to go out . Becca indicate that even though Butchertalkedabout saving Ryan , he ’d somehow find a room to pushHomelander ’s son Ryanout of the picture . Butcher deny the accusal , but could n’t resist calling the male child a " supe freak " in the process .

touch : The Boys : Homelander ’s Son Sets Up A Less - Tragic Ending

The Boyssaddled Becca with an fantastically toughened conclusion , but she made the absolute ripe call for a number of cause , as revealed inThe Boysseason 3 . While Homelander is a psychopath who only wants to mold Ryan into another version of himself , he turned out to be just as protective of Ryan as Butcher was against the mutual threat of Soldier Boy . Homelander is also much more predictable than Butcher , who even allied himself with Soldier Boy , not earn that Soldier Boy would happily go through Ryan if it entail killing Homelander . InThe Boysseason 3 , episode 3 , " Barbary Coast , " Butcher even unjustly lashed out at Ryan because he was broken at Mallory ’s past actions , which Ryan had nothing to do with . The truth is , likeHomelander ’s father Soldier Boy , Billy Butcher was a dreaded dad and at long last a danger to Ryan , despite the fact that Butcher really loves the son . WhileThe Boysseason 3 end with Butcher temporarily setting aside his obsessive revenge plan to protect Ryan from Soldier Boy , it was Butcher who put Ryan in Homelander ’s hands and Soldier Boy ’s sights in the first space . With Homelander , Becca could at least insure that Ryan stayed animated .

The Boys Season 4 Poster Showing Homelander with Victoria Neuman Surrounded by Confetti

Is Butcher The Villain In The Boys?

The short solvent is yes : Billy Butcher and Homelander are the most dangerous villain inThe Boys’roster of satirized Avengers - level scourge . Butcher and Homelander are each other ’s mirror images , especially in term of their various anti-Semite attitude against supes and non - supes . Just as Homelander detests regular people , Butcher was intensely distrustful towards Starlight , even after Starlight ’s noesis of The Seven prove highly useful . Starlight never deserve being viewed with hunch and Butcher admit as much , but he then evince the same attitude towardsKimiko inThe Boysseason 2 . Frenchie , MM , and Hughie have all adopted Kimiko as one of their own , but Butcher only tolerated her mien , even flat out inform Mallory that he ’d happily put " The Female " down if necessary . Butcher also face a Boys mutiny after he adjudicate to shoot Kimiko ’s brother without wavering . uncouth soundness would intimate that Butcher might show more mercy towards Ryan since he ’s only a shaver . However , this is the same Butcher who used a child supe as a arm duringThe Boysseason 1 ’s infirmary gunfight .

Can Butcher Prove Becca Wrong In The Boys Season 4?

The Boysseason 4 could see Butcher finally embrace his role as the show ’s real scoundrel , lastly proving that Becca was right about not putting Ryan in Butcher ’s manpower . The show has take a unlike access to the root material , but it also seems to be send Butcher down an equally dark path . This is supported by Butcher finally getting access to Vought’sTemp V or V24 , which puts him on an equal playing field with Homelander . To be fair , Butcher did salvage Hughie from taking a lethal window pane of Temp V , and while under the influence of the same drug , Butcher also worked with Homelander to protect Ryan . However , neither Hughie nor Ryan would n’t have been in danger if it were n’t for Butcher ’s ill - plump out alliance with Soldier Boy . Though Becca could n’t have envision Butcher ’s exact plans , it seems that she knew Butcher enough to deduce that her Logos might be slightly safer in Homelander ’s helping hand . Indeed , Homelander is driven by his extreme pauperization for love and approval , which cover to his son Ryan . In demarcation , Butcher is driven by sheer retaliation and only loves Ryan because he is Becca ’s son .

InThe Boysseason 4 , Becca ’s selection could be put to the psychometric test one last meter , especially as Ryan has side with Homelander , which could promote Butcher to even more drastic measures . Butcher is n’t a rapist like Homelander , but in term of who has the greater potential difference to jeopardize himself and everyone around him - especially the people he have a go at it - meatman is understandably the worse threat . As Stan Edgar once tell Homelander,“You are not a divinity . You are plainly … tough product . “While Edgar treated Homelander with overt disgust , Edgar afforded Butcher with much more respect , hinting that even the great Stan Edgar feared Billy Butcher . Homelander may just be a psychopathic man - fry who mistakenly reckon of himself as a god , but the same can be tell of Butcher – except he is much smarter and can really lead people . It persist to be watch whether Becca can be proven wrong byBilly Butcher inThe Boysseason 4 , as it ’s never too belated for Butcher to undergo a repurchase arc . For now , however , it seems that Becca was absolutely right about Butcher all along .

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