Billy Butcher

He is most famous for Boys from the Black Stuff, Gandhi, and, of course, as Theoden in Lord of the Rings.

Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dom, Billy, Ian, Andy, all led with their main parts, but Brad Dourif, cast as Wormtongue, played a cross from John Noble, eating a tomato like that, and didn't drive heave, I think is worth an Oscar.

Yep.

John Noble is an Aussie actor, mainly known for Fringe and The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It.

Anna Torv played Dr. Wendy Carr in Mindhunter, across from Bill Tench as Holt, Broadway and Glee fame Jonathan Groff as Holden, and Damon Herriman, who played Manson.

Damon played Quan Chi in the recent Mortal Kombat 2.

Johnny Cage is played by Carl Urban, who's been Judge Dredd, Billy Butcher in The Boys, and Bones in 2009's Star Trek.

Star Trek has Chris Pine, Zach Quinto, Simon Pegg, and, of course, the late, great Leonard Nimoy.

A night like this.

All these are like those Billy Butcher things where you try to think of it that way.

Screw and sinking.

In Kyoto Song, I thought like, you ever read any like Murakami, Haruki, any of his books? No.

Seems like an 80s borderline horror adventure, Lost Boys kind of vibe or something maybe.

Close to me.

What was the image? Isn't there a close to me Billy Butcher where he's like a stalker or something? You know, those like...

You know, I'm talking about the when they make like the fake kind of comic movie.

Intrigued to see how Tommy grows into his speedster powers, and if we learn more about the delusional paladin and his family tree.

Do we think he'll own an aged American bulldog somewhere? There's a whiff of Billy Butcher about him.

While I'm looking forward to episode three, not quite the drive as there was at the end of the first, in keeping with an ancient Volvo estate, perhaps.

LAUGHTER Yeah, there wasn't quite as much of a drive

I think it's superb.

So I think that was really, really good.

um yeah i can see what you mean about there being an american bulldog somewhere for paladin um for sure um and you're right i got a whiff of billy butcher for the boys yeah

i heard over the empire podcast they uh they referred to todd stasherick's paladin as um timu version of jeffrey dean morgan when jeffrey dean So he's reminding people of someone else.

My wife walked in the room.

She goes, is that? And I said, Billy Butcher from The Boys.

No, I was going to say Bones from Star Trek.

But yeah.

This is a universe where supes are real, but they are corporate owned.

Billy Butcher, played by Karl Urban, leads a CIA-backed group against corrupt heroes like Homelander, played by Antony Starr.

It is a gloriously violent satire.

Now, I wanna push back on the appeal of The Boys.

Uh, this is a gritty superhero satire that explores a corrupt world where celebrated superheroes are managed as corporate assets by the powerful conglomerate Vought International.

Uh, the, uh, resistance is led by a vengeful Billy Butcher and a group of vigilantes known as The Boys, and this, uh, w- they wage war against all the superheroes, the Seven, and the, uh, the, at the center of these guys is a guy named Homelander, who is a narcissistic and unstable Superman whose public perfection masks a terrifying, ruthlessly psychopathic intent.

This blends dark comedy, extreme violence, biting political social commentary, subversive takes on the superhero media, and modern celebrity culture.

So the two plot points that I asked the interwebs to, uh, prove my point, uh, the casual grotesque collateral damage [laughs] They're just going over the whole series.

Um-

Try not to go full Billy Butcher.

[laughs] Diabolical.

Um... [laughs]

love Carl Urban.

Billy Butcher's too fucking old to

be Johnny Cage.

Exactly, and they played it like an old...

It was the last season of the second to last season, I think.

The Boys.

When Billy Butcher walks up to that guy who was giving away Bibles.

He said, I'm not eating popcorn.