- NOTE: This article is only for the original comics version of Sam Butcher. To see the article for the TV show's version of him, go to Sam Butcher (TV Series).
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| “ | See, most people're like f*ckin' sheep, son. Go where they're meant to, do what they're told. 'Cos it works for 'em, it gets 'em what they need to be happy--which ain't much. But if you've got a bit o' nouse, you can see the gaps in it. An' if you've got the b*llocks for it, you can take advantage all you want. | „ |
| ~ Sam to Billy. |
Samuel "Sam" Butcher is a minor antagonist in the highly controversial 2006 comic book series The Boys. He is the father of Billy and Lenny Butcher, who would often abuse his own wife to the point of beating her to a pulp whenever he came home drunk. Despite being an overall minor figure in the story, he does have a bit of an impact, with his influence partially shaping Billy Butcher's aggressive persona.
Biography[]
Samuel "Sam" Butcher was the owner of a bakery from the East End (although it is implied he makes his real money through other, more illicit activities) in London, England. He was the local ‘’tough guy’’ as everybody feared him, respected him, laughed at his bad jokes, and even let him have affairs with their wives. Sam was married to a woman named Carol, who gave him two sons: William ‘’Billy’’ and Leonard ‘’Lenny’’. Even so, Sam was horrifically abusive towards his family, drinking hard and beating both women and children severely.
Out of his sons, Sam favored Billy, as he thought of Billy as more like him, unlike Lenny, particularly after Billy got expelled from school for violent behavior. Billy, on the other hand, was horrified by this. One night, Sam punched Carol so hard that she lost an eye. Blind with rage, Billy tried to kill him with a kitchen knife and would have killed him if it weren’t for Lenny, who stopped him and helped him calm down.
After that episode, Billy enlisted in the Royal Marines and left to fight in the Falklands, and at home things didn’t get any better for anybody: in the following years, Sam didn’t lose all his bad habits, making the lives of everybody around him a living hell, until years of abuses over his own body claimed a toll, and he had a stroke. From that moment on, he was forced to walk with a cane, part of his face paralyzed in a gruesome grin, thus becoming even angrier and more violent with his wife.
Everything truly changed the moment Billy came back to London and found love in the person of Becky Saunders, a social worker who became his girlfriend. The young woman managed to convince Carol to leave him, so Sam suddenly found himself alone, his not-so-submissive wife packing all her stuff and moving away from him. Sam tried to confront Becky, knowing she was the one responsible for everything happening, but the woman didn’t answer to his provocations and wasn’t afraid of him; she didn’t even allow Billy to fight his father one last time, as she proved to be perfectly capable of dealing with him on her own. From that point on, Sam was completely estranged from his family, not even showing up to Lenny's funeral.
Eventually Sam died, which prompts Billy to travel back to London and finally have a "heart to heart" with his father, remembering all the abuse he put them through and how Carol got remarried with a man who truly loved and made her happy while Sam died alone. Before he leaves, Billy pisses on his father's corpse as his ‘’final gift.
External Link[]
- Sam Butcher on the Boys Wiki.
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