I know we make fun a lot of the sigma male edits for Homelander where he's all menacing and badass, when in reality he has ten mental breakdowns stacked on top of each other just when he wakes up every morning, but I feel the same way about Butcher.
Look, Butcher is a hardened man with rough edges, I am not denying the truth here. But Butcher is also one of the characters on this show who consistently cries over things. He's so consistently pathetic outside of The AtrocitiesTM.
Pathetic meow meow Homelander? Nay. Here's pathetic wheek wheek Butcher.
Butcher, in pain and sobbing on a bathroom floor because his eyes won't stop glowing. (Also, Grace, what the fuck, why do you raise Ryan in this environment, why is it THIS dirty??)
Butcher, shaking like a leaf because he's absolutely terrified of dying despite telling everyone and their mother that he doesn't care at all and will go out with a bang.
Butcher, saving a bunny rabbit because it vaguely reminded him of himself.
Butcher, who - whenever things look bad - immediately and without fail calls his friends and says a tearful goodbye (he does this, like, thrice throughout the show).
Butcher, trauma-bonding with the eight-year-old he just five seconds ago wanted to pummel to death with a crowbar. (Also, how tiny was this child, what the fuuuck??)
Butcher, who professes his hate of supes every chance he gets, but still kisses a supe baby on the head and tells him to be good instead of... literally just killing him, it would have been easy, that's a newborn.
Butcher, goofily calling his own bad impulses a 'wanker' (and getting kicked in the balls for his efforts).
Butcher, crying over the weight of his actions.
That's not your badass alpha male. I caught him sitting in his car in the parking lot of a 7/11, listening to the Spice Girls and yearning.
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