Characters created by Garth Ennis

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: List of The Boys characters, List of Preacher characters, Jesse Custer, Hitman, Barracuda, Kev Hawkins, Russian, List of Hitman characters, Martin Soap, Ma Gnucci. Excerpt: The following is a list of fictional characters in the comic book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The Boys are a CIA black operations team, initially created by Colonel Mallory to manage, police, and sometimes liquidate Vought-American's superheroes so the company will never be stable enough to get supes into national defence. However, it was swiftly taken over by Billy Butcher; while Butcher claims to have the same mission, it's clear he has no interest in management. As Mallory notes in #55, fourteen people were killed by the Boys from 1987-95 and "nearly three times that number" between 1995 to 2002, when Butcher had gained more influence. Mallory would later say (#54-5) how special forces teams can often go wrong as they try to justify their budgets and create their private conflicts, but the concept of them is still seductive; he considers the Boys to have gone down this path and that he never should have created them. The Boys were decommissioned after a disastrous operation in 2001, but reformed a few years later - indicated in #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election - and have carried on where they left off. All members possess super strength due to injections of Compound V. He is an Englishman (from London's East End) who leads the current Boys, who were disbanded as the result of events depicted in #50. It was him he coined the teamname "the Boys", because in the East End "the boys" were who you said you'd hired to take someone out. At the beginning of the series, he works to reassemble the old team, with a new fifth member filling in for the original team leader, Mallory, whose leadership position Butcher takes for himself. He is physically large and incredibly violent. He is perfectly happy to blackmail, brutalize, torture and murder if it achieves his goals; he can also be very sociable and charismatic, to the same ends. The character Mother's Milk has stated that every word Butcher says is calculated to further