Summary

• Becca's birth scene in The Boys is graphic in the series, but the comic version is far more horrifying.
• The brutal comic death of Becca sets Billy Butcher on a path of vengeance against Homelander.
• The TV show altered Becca's fate, maintaining the story but omitting the most gruesome details for viewers.

This article contains mentions of sexual assault and gruesome violence.

In Amazon's TV series The Boys, Billy Butcher's wife Becca goes missing shortly after conceiving Homelander's son. Officially, she then (supposedly) dies while giving birth to the Supe baby, who escapes her body by force. Although the scene of Becca giving birth to Homelander's son is gruesome in the series, it still doesn't compare to the horrifying version of the scene in the original comics.

The Boys TV series is filled with graphic violence and gore, and even as the show has continued season after season, this hasn't changed. But one of the notable changes the TV show made to comic lore was the fate of Rebecca Butcher. The scene of her cursed birth is a major plot moment in both the show and comics, but once viewers learn how the scene pleayed out in the comics, there is no question why the showrunners decided to depict something far less disturbing.

Becca Giving Birth To Her Super-Baby Is A Horror Movie in The Comics

The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #4 by Garth Ennis, Darick Roberts, Tony Avina

The terrible story is finally revealed in the spinoff miniseries The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker, following Billy and Becca on a vacation to Miami Beach. It is here where Becca is sexually assaulted by Homelander while Billy is absent, setting in motion the events of the entire Boys story to follow. From there, Billy begins to notice a difference in Becca, as she distances herself from him physically, grows less happy, and oftentimes remains silent.

Once the Butchers return home, the truth is exposed in sudden, horrifying, and dramatic fashion. In a disaster that Billy believes must have happened quickly enought for him not to notice, he overhears Becca gasping for air in her sleep one night, before going completely still. As silence fills the bedroom, Billy turns on a light to discover Becca a bloody mess, and a baby floating above her body with the umbilical cord still attached.

Every Part of The Boys' 'Birth' Scene is Too Graphic For A TV Show

Even if The Boys TV show didn't change the story, it couldn't have adapted the scene

The scene that follows between Billy and the baby flips from tragic twist to outright supernatural horror in seconds, with the newborn announcing its existence in midair, eyes sizzling up to a heat vision blast. Billy leaps toward the lamp on Becca's bedside table while taking heat vision to the arm, and strikes the baby to the ground with it.

Following up by leaping for the baby and placing it into a chokehold, having his fingers snapped by its impossibly strong muscles, Billy succeeds in crushing his newborn opponent with the lamp in hand. After killiing the super-baby, Billy returns to his wife's side. Begging for Becca to speak in the midst of his shellshock, Billy recounts to the readers that she never would.

Considering the level of violence presented in the first season of The Boys, it's telling that the series maintained some of this story, but presented completely differently (Becca's quick death in delivery, with the grisly details stated rather than shown).

While The Boys' first season appeared to maintain this plot, albeit without showing the most graphic details, later seasons diverged completely by revealing both Becca and the baby to have survived.

Becca's Comic Death Scene Is What Cemented Butcher's Hate For Homelander

The violent nature of Becca Butcher's death can't be undervalued in Billy's desire for revenge

This event is what set Butcher on a path of destruction against Homelander and all Supes in the world. While it was eventually revealed that it was Black Noir who was responsible for Becca's death, this didn't lessen Butcher's hatred of Supes at all. Seeing the event in flashbacks, it's hard not to sympathize with Butcher's anger, as he lost the woman he loved the most in one of the most brutal and violent ways possible. While the show has never shyed away from graphic violence in the past, this is one plot point they either couldn't adapt, didn't want to adapt, or both.

Season 2 of The Boys revealed the existence of Ryan, Homelander and Becca's son, adding an entirely new dimension to Homelander and Butcher's rivalry, creating a shared son for them to fight over. This also gives Butcher a stronger reason to hate Homelander specifically, as in the comics, Homelander was entirely innocent of this crime and was mostly undeserving of Butcher's ire.

While Becca's fate in the comics provided Butcher with a perfect motivation for his actions throughout the comic, The Boys TV show has managed to rewrite the story to create one of its own, and they did it by leaving out one of The Boys' most brutal deaths.