Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Boys season 4, episode 4!

Despite him not being an official supe, Billy Butcher is one of the most dangerous characters in The Boys universe, and that is proven by him having killed five different supes throughout the show’s four seasons. Billy Butcher has made it his life goal to kill as many supes as possible, with his first introduction in The Boys revolving around him and Frenchie attempting to figure out the best way to kill Translucent. Since then, Butcher has managed to rack up a pretty impressive kill count, and here are all 5 supes that he has killed throughout The Boys.

The Boys season 4 is finally here, with the highly anticipated continuation of Amazon Prime Video’s critically acclaimed superhero series now releasing on the streaming service. The Boys season 4 picks up right where The Boys season 3 left off, with the titular team attempting to kill Victoria Neuman before she becomes Vice President of the United States while Butcher operates in the background, still attempting to kill Homelander and save Ryan. Although Butcher hasn’t been able to kill his main target yet, he has left a pretty major path of carnage behind him throughout his journey in The Boys.

5

Mesmer

Dies In “The Self-Preservation Society”

The first supe that Billy Butcher kills in Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys is Mesmer, played by Haley Joel Osment. The telepathic supe got his start as a child star, with him being the leading role in the TV show The Mesmerizer. Although Mesmer was once one of Vought’s most exciting rising stars, his misuse of his telepathic abilities led to Vought cutting ties with him, causing him to fall out of the spotlight. His subsequent criminal activities led to him falling even further, putting Mesmer in a pretty tragic place by the time he enters the lives of the Boys.

In The Boys season 1, the titular team finds Mesmer while he is signing DVDs of The Mesmerizer, blackmailing him and explaining that he can get time with his daughter if he agrees to perform a psychic reading on the then-unknown supe Kimiko. Mesmer gives the Boys the information that they wanted, and they part ways. However, Mesmer sees the encounter as an opportunity, and, having learned about the Boys’ desires to kill Homelander and take down Vought, Mesmer decides to betray Billy Butcher and the team.

Mesmer goes to Vought and reveals information about the Boys to members of The Seven, hoping that this will put him back in Vought’s favor. The Seven uses this information to track the Boys as well as their family members, with their identities now being on Vought’s radar. Because of this, Butcher hunts down Mesmer, explaining that he placed a tracker on the supe upon their first meeting. Getting revenge, Butcher lures Mesmer into a bathroom and bashes his head into a sink multiple times, killing the psychic supe for good.

4

Unnamed Supe Patient

Dies In “The Bloody Doors Off”

The second supe that Billy Butcher kills in The Boys doesn’t come until season 2, and unlike the first supe to meet his fate at the hands of the Boys’ leader, this supe is unnamed. The Boys season 2, episode 6, “The Bloody Doors Off” sees Starlight find her way into Stormfront’s laptop, discovering that the Nazi supe has been emailing Vought leader Stan Edgar about a mysterious facility known as the Sage Grove Center. The Boys decide to investigate, with the team heading there in an attempt to discover what Vought’s intentions with the facility are.

Upon arriving, Butcher and the gang secretly make their way through the center, attempting to investigate Vought’s plans. While things go well for a while, Frenchie eventually encounters Lamplighter, setting off a disastrous chain of events. Using his powers, Lamplighter attempts to blast the Boys, but the Boys manage to knock Lamplighter’s ball of fire away. Instead, the flame hits the wall of a nearby cell, with this cell containing one of The Boys‘ most powerful supes: Cindy. Cindy exits the cell, kills a Vought guard, and starts a riot at Sage Grove.

Cindy rips the cell doors off of each patient’s room, allowing the Sage Grove Center’s superpowered prisoners to roam free. Caught up in the middle of the riot, the Boys attempt to escape the facility, but they are required to face several supes along the way. One of these is an unnamed escapee who has the ability to shoot what seems to be psychic blasts of energy. After blasting the team and causing their van to flip, Billy Butcher shoots the patient several times, killing him and saving the Boys.

3

Gunpowder

Dies In “The Only Man In The Sky”

The next supe that Billy Butcher kills is the far-right gun-toting hero Gunpowder, with him appearing in The Boys season 3, episode 2, “The Only Man in the Sky.” Gunpowder was the original sidekick of Solider Boy and one of the founding members of Vought’s premiere 1980s superhero team, Payback. As the name implies, Gunpowder heavily relies on guns and other types of projectile weaponry in order to pull off his supe feats, with him having the ability of being a master marksman who rarely misses a shot. However, he wasn’t a good enough marksman to kill Billy Butcher.

While attempting to find out what really happened to Soldier Boy, the Boys decide to investigate the former members of Payback, with Billy Butcher deciding to take up the case of Gunpowder. Butcher goes to a gun show and confronts Gunpowder, asking about his history with Soldier Boy and his role in the supe’s disappearance and subsequent cover-up. After bringing up Soldier Boy’s harassment of Gunpowder, Gunpowder attempts to kill Butcher in the parking lot. Butcher manages to escape, but this isn’t the last time that the two meet.

Butcher decides to confront Gunpowder again, and although Gunpowder shoots him, Butcher has a trick up his sleeve. As it turns out, Billy Butcher has gained superpowers from Temp V, with him having increased strength and laser eyes. Gunpowder realizes that he has been beaten and admits the truth about Soldier Boy to Butcher, hoping to make it out alive. However, Butcher beats Gunpowder and then uses his laser eyes to kill him, putting an end to the life of Soldier Boy’s sidekick and the former Payback member.

2

Splinter

Dies In “Life Among The Septics”

Although Butcher kills plenty of humans, he doesn’t kill another supe again until The Boys season 4. In season 4, episode 2, “Life Among the Septics.” In the episode, The Boys decide to investigate Firecracker, a new supe that Homelander and Sister Sage are planning on recruiting to The Seven. This trail leads them to TruthCon, a far-right convention themed around various real-world and in-universe conspiracy theories. Although TruthCon is mostly attended by humans, the Boys run into one supe that they weren’t expecting to see: Splinter.

Splinter is a new supe in The Boys season 4 who has the ability to split apart into multiple clones, although he rips through his clothes during the process. Splinter attends TruthCon in order to host the panel that Firecracker is speaking at, with him introducing her before Firecracker’s presentation on the conspiracies surrounding Starlight. The Boys then attempt to follow Splinter as he leaves the room, and while they do get more information from his phone, they open the sauna to see The Boys season 4’s most disgusting scene yet.

Although the Boys go to the purported meeting place of Firecracker and Sister Sage, the team soon realizes that this is a trap, with several armed clones of Splinter arriving to kill them. This leads to an all-out brawl between the two factions, with the Boys fighting Firecracker and her army of Splinter clones. While each member of the Boys gets to kill at least one clone of Splinter, the supe isn’t truly defeated until the original Splinter is killed. As it turns out, Butcher is the one to get the killing blow on Splinter Prime, with him stabbing Splinter with a crowbar.

1

Ezekiel

Dies In “Wisdom Of The Ages”

The final supe that Billy Butcher has killed in The Boys so far is Ezekiel, the former supe pastor of Starlight. Ezekiel was first seen back in The Boys season 1, and while he has sporadically appeared and been referenced throughout the show, his final appearance occurs in The Boys season 4, episode 4, “Wisdom of the Ages.” In the episode, Firecracker invites Ezekiel to speak at her anti-Starlight event, with him taking the stage and delivering a sermon on the evils of the Starlight House.

Later in the night, Frenchie breaks into Firecracker’s trailer in an attempt to learn more about her. However, Ezekiel catches him in the act, preparing to kill the member of the Boys. Luckily, Butcher arrives in time to help him, freezing one of Ezekiel’s arms and breaking it off. However, Ezekiel quickly wraps his elastic arm around Butcher, choking him unconscious and seemingly killing him.

However, Butcher wakes up to find Ezekiel dead, with his body having been ripped apart and his blood strewn across the room. Due to Butcher revealing that he took Compound V, it makes sense that Butcher’s superpowers manifested while he was unconscious and killed Ezekiel. Although it isn’t yet known exactly how this happened, this makes Butcher’s supe kill count 5, although the number will undoubtedly go up before the end of The Boys.