Butch Bowers

Oscar "Butch" Bowers is a minor antagonist of Stephen King's ''It. ''He is the racist and abusive father of Henry Bowers and widowed spouse of Henrietta Bowers.

Biography
It (novel)

He is shown to be very psychotic and violent in nature. Butch tortured and simultaneously influenced his son through his beatings and drunken tirades to his own crimes against those that were lower than scum in his eyes. Butch hated William Hanlon who, in the past, killed all his chickens and tried to carve a swastika onto his property before Will threatened to shoot him. On a daily basis, Butch would beat his son and wife, who eventually left after he nearly beat her to death.

This upbringing led Henry to become seriously unhinged, and his father rewards his son with his first beer, upon learning that he killed Mike Hanlon's dog.

After a violent rock fight between the Loser's Club and Bower's Gang, Henry's insanity slowly worsens, not only from It's influence, but also his father's as well. He was killed by his son, who slit his throat while he was sleeping with a switchblade provided by It.

Upon returning to home, Henry was eventually convicted for Butch's murder (as well as the rest of the killings that occurred throughout the summer), and had been arrested by the cops, who had been looking for him.