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Want to make sure everyone knows exactly how bad your badass is? Or how crazy your Ax-Crazy gets? Add "The Butcher" onto his name. Butchers hack up meat all day and are always surrounded by blood and gore, so they must be violent, scary people, right? You'll certainly never see "The Baker" or "The Candlestick Maker" used this way, we guarantee. Bonus points if "The Butcher" is a literal butcher, complete with cleaver, apron, and a penchant for hacking up victims gruesomely. Although the nickname can sound impressive, it's almost never intended to be a compliment in real life. The title is most often slapped on Serial Killers and military leaders who are accused of war-time atrocities. "To butcher" something can also mean to do a hack job of it, so the title can sometimes be a Stealth Insult and is often used for incompetent surgeons. Due to the many negative connotations of the word, it's no surprise that many butchers prefer to go by "meat cutter." The stigma against butchery is largely unfair to professional meat cutters, who usually don't slaughter anything themselves. Their job tends to consist of chopping large hunks of meat (sometimes directly from animal carcasses) into smaller cuts of meat, with an emphasis on precise knife strokes and good presentation. Sub-Trope of The Magnificent, and of Names to Run Away from Really Fast. Compare Red Baron. |
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Karl "The Butcher" Berger and his son from the Violent Shit series. | |
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In Worm, the Butcher is the leader of brutal a villain gang called The Teeth. Whenever the Butcher is killed, they pass on a portion of their powers to their killer, as well as their mind as a voice in the killer's head. This includes all of the previous Butchers' powers and voices as well. The Butcher who appears in the story is number fourteen, and has a long list of powers including superhuman strength and durability, pain inducement, the ability to see circulatory systems through walls, danger sense, the ability to cause festering wounds, explosive teleportation, the ability to shape raw matter into objects, rage inducement, pain immunity, and homing attacks. | |
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The Brothers' War: Mishra becomes known as the Butcher of Kroog after his soldiers and dragon engines burn the city to the ground. | |
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In Delicatessen, the main antagonist Clapet has an apartment building and runs a butcher shop on the ground floor. He lures unemployed people into working for him, and then murders and butchers them in order to feed himself and his tenants. The protagonist, Louison, is one such unsuspecting victim. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Villain "Gorr the God Butcher". That's not an exaggeration, it's exactly what he does - brutally slaughtering gods. He was preceded by Desak the God-Slayer who did pretty much the exact same thing for the exact same reason. But, admittedly, Desak did not butcher gods... he slew them. With an axe, usually. Gorr's weapon All-Black the Necrosword's corrupting influence (it's actually the first Symbiote) turns those who wield it into examples of this trope. Galactus the World Devourer became Galactus the World Butcher when he bonded to All-Black. When Loki got a hold of it, he became Loki the All-Butcher. |
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Indestructible Man is about "Butcher" Benton, who becomes nigh-indestructible after being brought Back from the Dead. | |
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In Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song, Pirate captain Hawke's Rival is known only as 'The Butcher'. The main point of contention between them is that The Butcher favors killing them all, while Hawke is supposed to be more compassionate and sensible. (Though that doesn't bar the player from butchering the entire crew of the ships he attacks in his prologue...) | |
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Fargo: Ed is a professional butcher, but when he gets inadvertently mixed up in a Mob War, gangsters assume that he's a contract killer. They frequently refer to him as "the butcher," and he eventually uses this to his advantage, calling himself the Butcher of Luverne to give himself gravitas. | |
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Backyard abortionist 'Butcher George' in the Phryne Fisher novel Cocaine Blues. | |
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Gryphon: From their debut Self-Titled Album, we have three in "Three Jolly Butchers". One of them named Johnson is a heroic example as he fights off ten robbers before the Decoy Damsel stabs him in the back, killing him. | |
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One of the characters in The Bellmaker is a shrike. In both the book and Real Life, shrikes are also known as butcher birds. In the book, the nickname comes from being completely Ax-Crazy. (In real life, the nickname comes from what they do with their prey.) | |
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Fred Johnson from The Expanse is known as The Butcher of Anderson Station for killing everyone aboard because they complained that their low oxygen rations were causing brain damage in their children. Oh and he waited until they tried to surrender to massacre them. You'd never know it from talking to him, though. Turns out he wasn't told that they were surrendering and that lie combined with a major Heel Realization eventually turned him against he old employers. | |
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Burnistoun has the Burnistoun Butcher, a ruthless Serial Killer. Unfortunately people frequently mistake him for an actual butcher, and so he receives no notoriety for his crimes despite being nearly caught many times (and goes around everywhere in a blood-stained coat). | |
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The Butcher: Merle Hench, the titular Hitman with a Heart, is a subversion, being a retired Professional Killer and a Cool Old Guy, but when push comes to shove, he can kick plenty of ass and take names in shootouts. | |
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Dexter: Dexter Morgan was dubbed "The Bay Harbor Butcher" after a couple of treasure divers stumbled across his dumping ground. Eventually, the name ends up attached to Sergeant Doakes, who does not actually have anything to do with Dexter's murders but is conveniently dead by the end of the season. | |
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In Dominic Deegan the former deceased Lord Damaske (Siegfried's father) was given this title by the Orcs for his Fantastic Racism inspired war crimes. In the midst of all the grieving after the War In Hell arc, some main character orcs can't resist doing a Happy Dance of Mood Whiplash when they hear that at least Damaske the Butcher went down. They can't bring themselves to be sympathetic about his son, Dominic's friend, dying as well, and they don't even know about what he did. Points to Dominic for managing to be friends with one of the last of the Alheera and a Damaske at the same time, even if it was apparently only possible due to political cluelessness. |
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Dark Souls has two Elite Mooks similar to the Diablo example above. They are apparently actual butchers; the first is seen chopping meat when you first encounter him. The same game also has a notable enemy NPC called Maneater Mildred, who wears the creepy burlap sack that the aforementioned Butchers hide their faces with (and nothing else) and uses their oversized meat cleaver. A line by another NPC implies that the two Butchers are her mooks, even though you encounter her much later in a completely different area of the game. | |
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Resistance has Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", perhaps the most notorious Torture Technician of The Gestapo. | |
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A Chuck Jones Looney Tunes had a mouse get back at Claude Cat by sending him a note, allegedly from the household dog, inviting him over to be friends. Claude cheerfully pays a friendly visit to the doghouse...with the name "Butcher" over the door... | |
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American Horror Story: Roanoke has The Butcher (or just Butcher) AKA Tomasyn White, wife of the leader of the Roanoke colonists who conducted human sacrifices and later killed everyone. She and her gang of ghosts kill everyone who sets foot on their land (except for the hillbillies with whom they have a deal). | |
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A Practical Guide to Evil has several of these among Dread Emperors, such as "The Tanner" for a connaisseur of Genuine Human Hide, "The Gourmet" for a cannibal, and "The Linguist" for one known to say "No matter what language they speak, everyone sounds the same when you pull out their fingernails". | |
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Sig Curtis from Fullmetal Alchemist is a butcher, but isn't particularly violent. Don't provoke him, though. It's for your own good. | |
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In Imperium Nova's Gemini galaxy, Patrice Rey Barte, the Butcher of Dnoces. | |
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The Evil Butcher monsters appearing in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow resembling large, lumbering ogres armed with an unlimited amount of knives. | |
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Fist of the North Star occasionally describes the despicable Jagi as "The Twisted Butcher of Hokuto." The name is both literal and metaphorical; he is a violent and amoral sadist who takes pleasure in killing people, but he is also a sloppy and talentless hack who does not use Hokuto techniques with any of the skill, elegance, or power of his siblings Kenshiro, Toki, and Raoh (respectively). | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami features Mukrezar, Ami's foil; who was likely called this before the terror associated with his name reached critical levels. Afterwards, where most Keepers are addressed with their full titles (like 'Keeper Morrigan' and 'Keeper Alphel') Mukrezar is simply Mukrezar. | |
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In Dauntless (Allora Gale) Lelouch has the unfortunate nickname "Butcher of Area Eighteen" after unknowingly killing several hundred civilians hiding in a military fortress. Schneizel kept the name out of the Britannian media to maintain his image as a war hero. Lelouch ultimately exploits this reputation to lure out Kenshiki by staging the faked execution of their families. |
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In "Under the Cloak of War", Enterprise ferries a Klingon ambassador named Dak'Rah. He was once a general in the recent war, where he became known as "The Butcher of J'Gal" for killing his own officers after they committed war crimes against The Federation. It then turns out that the official story is a lie, which Dak'Rah embraced as it helped him defect to the Federation and foster his diplomatic career. The real butcher was Doctor M'Benga, who dosed himself with his home-cooked Super Serum and killed the officers in question while trying to assassinate Dak'Rah. | |
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In MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries, one of your possible campaign missions has you hunting down a certain Draconis Combine Sho-sa Varus, AKA Varus the Butcher. He ordered his Battlemechs to fire on civilian protesters, gruesomely massacring over 200 people. The Free Prosperina Mutineers pay you to ensure he goes home in a small plastic box. | |
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In the Commandos series, the Green Beret (the main playable character) is nicknamed "the Butcher", not because of sociopathic or bloodythirsty tendencies, but because he uses a knife as his weapon of choice. | |
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Saints Row Player Character "The Boss" is also called "The Butcher of Stilwater".note It's with one L, bitch! By the third game, they have singlehandedly killed at least hundreds. Then Serial Escalation comes along. | |
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Fritz Haarmann, a German serial killer active in the early 1900s, was also known as The Butcher of Hannover (and referred to as "Fritz Haarmann the Butcher" in the Macabre song of the same name). | |
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Air Force One: The objective of the former soviet terrorists was to use the kidnapped First Family as a bargain chip to force the Russian government to free General Radek, the "Butcher of the Balkans" and a stand-in of the late Slobodan Milosevic (see the Real Life folder below). | |
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In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, if you get to the end of the Arena questline, you can choose this as a nickname before the grand championship match. | |
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24: In season 7, The Dragon is Colonel Dubaku, "Butcher of Sangala". | |
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The PBS superhero WordGirl has a villain called The Butcher. He wears an old-fashioned butcher's uniform, has some sort of giant cut of meat strapped to his back, and has meat-themed powers. This character is actually a subversion. He creates meat products with his powers, so there's no slaughter implied. He's also dumb, not scary at all. | |
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Discworld In Monstrous Regiment, Sam Vimes is referred to by the Borogravians as "The Butcher" or "Butcher Vimes". Anyone remotely familiar with the character of Sam Vimes will find this insanely funny (which is the point); he's more like Reluctant Warrior plus By-the-Book Cop. When Vimes meets up with the protagonist and her fellow soldiers, he tells them Borogravia "needs to work on their propaganda techniques". |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine has Jimmy "The Butcher" Figgis, an "A-list mobster" and one of the show's more serious villains. | |
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World of Warcraft: There's a boss called The Butcher, a cleaver and meathook wielding Abomination who even says "Aah, fresh meat!" when pulled. This was a deliberate shout out to the guy from Diablo. There's also another boss nicknamed "The Butcher," his real name is Theolen Krastinov. You know when a doctor is referred to by this title, he's absolutely not a nice guy. |
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Maverick: Bret Maverick was once stalked by a gunman calling himself "Terrible Fred" and "The Butcher". He turned out to be a wannabe gunfighter who had in fact been a butcher. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has Salazar's title of "El Matador del Mar" translated as The Butcher Of the Sea (the actual Spanish term is Carnicero, matador is simply "killer"). | |
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia features another Butcher monsters that bear more than a passing resemblance to Leatherface, Chainsaw Good and all. | |
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Le Boucher (The Butcher) is exactly this trope. The life of a spinster schoolmistress in a small French village is turned upside down by the arrival of an ex-soldier who is taking over the village butcher's shop. An Indochina vet, he has little quirks. One of which is murder... | |
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Samurai Champloo has the Clueless Detective Manzo the Saw who isn't particularly violent or competent: the nickname comes from the fact that he doesn't bother to take care of his sword, so the blade is jagged and dull. He's a parody of Hanzo the Razor, who did some pretty squicky things, but wasn't particularly bloodthirsty either. In fact, it's likely Manzo's nickname is meant to be ironic, because he isn't particularly sharp. |
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Samurai Champloo | hasFeature |
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Atomic Robo volume 9 features "Butcher" Caldwell - as Doc Holiday puts it, he didn't get the name because of his charm. | |
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In the 3rd Rock from the Sun episode "Dick the Mouth Solomon," the guy Sally's dating is called Sammy "The Butcher" Marchetti. She and the rest of the family assume he's a hitman and so all start acting like characters out of a Mafia movie. Sally's relieved and Tommy's disappointed to learn that Sammy is simply an actual butcher. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
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Juan of the Dead: Lázaro tries to play this trope straight when he boasts to Primo that they used to call him "the Normandy butcher." Ultimately subverted when he confesses it was because of his job slicing steaks at the Normandy hotel. | |
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The Hunting of the Snark: In Fit One: He came as a Butcher, but gravely declared/ When the ship had been sailing a week/ He could only kill Beavers, the Bell Man looked scared/ And was almost too frightened to speak. But in Fit Five: Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became/Have seldom if ever been known/ In winter or summer, 'twas always the same/You could never meet either alone |
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"The Madman From the Sudan" Abdullah The Butcher, a 400+ lbs. Wrestling Monster who was one of the Ur Examples of Garbage Wrestler, was known for carving his opponents up with a Fork and some nasty scars on his head. He later opened his own restaurant, Abdullah the Butcher's House of Ribs and Chinese Food. | |
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Abdullah the Butcher (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar's Dragon is his General, Legate Lanius. Lanius means "Butcher" in Latin. If you look inside his command tent, you'll see that Lanius takes his title very literally. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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From the Iron Kingdoms RPG and Warmachine tabletop strategy game's shared 'verse comes Orsus Zoktavir, the Butcher of Khardov. Complete and utter patriotic nutcase, who got his name when he ordered his men to attack secessionists in a village near the fortress of Boarsgate. The soldiers weren't all too keen to attack unarmed civilians, so he killed them and the locals by himself. With an axe he calls Lola. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2, you get the "Butcher of Ember" feat after being framed for massacring a village. | |
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In Red Dawn +20, General Sergei Khvostov is dubbed "The Butcher of Clear Lake City," for massacring said town's population in retaliation for NASA managing to evacuate all of Johnson Space Center's personnel, documentation, technology and materiel before Houston fell to the Soviet invasion. That's just one of his offenses. | |
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In Defiance, Joshua Nolan is known as the "Butcher of Yosemite" after taking part in the slaughter of a human and Votan settlement. The rogue General Ripper Rahm Tak tries to get in on the fun when holding a knife to the neck of Nolan's adoptive daughter. | |
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Mack "the Knife" from The Threepenny Opera as well as one of his mooks, known as Robert "the Saw". In the original The Beggar's Opera, one highwayman character is known as Wat (Walter) Dreary, with Dreary meaning something like "bloodthirsty" back then. | |
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Southpaw Regional Wrestling, the WWE's Affectionate Parody of 80's independent wrestling, has the tag team champions in season two be "The Butchers", a tag team made up of "Dry Rub" Doug and Frantic Frank. They fit the trope in title, in personality, and in secondary occupation, as their gimmick is that they are literally a pair of butchers, with their promo being recorded in the cold room of a butcher's shop, with the belts being hung up on meat hooks behind them, right next to Betsy, which appears to be a cow's leg. In fact, it's questionable whether it's just a gimmick or if they are actually butchers outside of the ring, as it's revealed that they end up having to vacate the tag team title after being linked to an E. Coli outbreak. | |
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The Vorkosigan Saga: Aral "Butcher of Komarr" Vorkosigan. A rare not-actually-earned title though, as a subordinate went behind his back and ordered the massacre of the Komarr's Ruling Senate after they surrendered to Admiral Vorkosigan on terms. Aral killed the man responsible on the spot with his bare hands when he learned of itnote (Aral Vorkosigan does in fact have a fearsome temper and exceptional capacity for violence, but he is far less readily provoked or indiscriminate than the sobriquet normally implies), only for the galaxy at large to declare that he was silencing a scapegoat. In the back story the Pierre Le Sanguinerre was warleader for Dorca the Just and served him whenever Dorca wanted an unruly Vor to be given...justice. His name is French for "Bloody Pete". |
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The Regime: Corporal Herbert Zubak was nicknamed "the Butcher of Site 5" after he ordered his regiment to open fire on protesters at a cobalt mine called Site 5. | |
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In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, the infamous Trill murderer "the Butcher of Balin" has been mentioned. In Star Trek: Mirror Universe, meanwhile, the Tellarite Gral (in the Prime Universe a diplomat) is known to the Terran Empire as "The Butcher of Berengaria". | |
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Star Trek Novel Verse | hasFeature |
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Also in Porridge, Fletch warns Godber that another prisoner is "The Butcher of Eastgate".(Or somewhere. I can't remember exactly) | |
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Porridge | hasFeature |
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Shadows over Meridian: Vera Bexley's grandfather was known among the Mogriffs as the "Nest Butcher" for the sheer brutality he showed when he took part in driving them out of their nesting grounds, torturing and slaughtering any of their kind that he captured, even hatchlings and eggs. | |
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Matt in Stardust (Arad) gained this moniker from an incident where he had to shoot an insurgent Child Soldier earlier in his military career. | |
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The Pathfinder adventure "Edge of Anarchy" from the "Curse of the Crimson Throne" adventure path, has the criminal gang known as the "Cow Hammer Boys", pretty close in meaning, and in work. They're a group of mercenaries acting under the front of giving free meat to the people of the city, at the butchery "All the World's Meat". The free meat mostly comes from the victims of the mercenary work. Additionally, there's an exotic orcish weapon called the Butchering Axe. It possesses the highest base damage of all the weapons in the game, but requires 18 Strength to wield it properly. |
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Mutants & Masterminds has Butcher Boy, teen sidekick to villainous playboy crime boss Murder Man. He wields dual cleavers and is fond of taking limbs from his opponents. | |
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Silent Scope has Scorpion the Butcher in the first game, and Fox the Butcher in the second. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons module The Tomb of Haggemoth features Lord Frohman, The Butcher of Skago, who turns out to be, in fact, a wealthy merchant well known for the quality of his meats. | |
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Fallout 2: The player can choose from a variety of nicknames before entering the boxing ring. Among those are names like "Butcher", "Chainsaw", etc. The leader of the Slaver Guild is a man named "Metzger". Metzger is German for "butcher", and in a Shout-Out to Diablo, the first thing he says is "Ah, fresh meat!" |
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Bill "the Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York is based on Bill "the Butcher" Poole, a real gang-leader of the era and a butcher by trade. | |
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Black Lagoon has an interesting twist with "Sawyer the Cleaner". She "cleans" up bodies with a chainsaw, and most of the time it seems like those bodies are still alive. Sawyer, haha. |
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In Mortal Kombat X, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is available as a DLC Guest Fighter. One of his variations is called Butcher. | |
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Galerion DeSandra, AKA the Butcher of Demarchen, an antagonist in the medieval fantasy The Granite Shield who specializes in massacring innocents. | |
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Tales of the Branion Realm | hasFeature |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Duet," a Cardassian who visited the station for medical treatment was suspected of being the war criminal Gul Darhe'el, known as "the Butcher of Gallitep." It turns out he's actually an idealistic file clerk who had himself surgically altered because he wants to shame Cardassia into admitting their crimes on Bajor. | |
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In the Flora Segunda books, an important figure in the setting's history is called the Butcher Brakespeare. The details establish the Butcher as a legendary Fiery Redheaded Lady of War with a whip. In her teens, she was a Cute Bruiser. In the time traveled to, she wasn't grown up yet. | |
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Culloden features the Duke of Cumberland, who was known as "The Butcher" among Jacobites, and in modern times, Scottish nationalists. He squashed the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, and accounts of his character vary greatly: some sources cite him as a ruthless and vicious man who terrorised his own men as well as the enemy, while others have him enforcing strict discipline on his men to ensure fair treatment of surrendering Jacobites. One accusation leveled at him was that instead of tending to wounded enemy soldiers on the battlefield (as the warfare etiquette of the time dictated), he simply slaughtered them - hence, "The Butcher." | |
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In Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels, the title character is friends with an Irish-American gangster, Mick "The Butcher" Ballou. Mick's father was a real butcher, and Mick sometimes wears his father's old apron and carries a massive cleaver. According to legend, he cut off an enemy's head and carried it around in a bag for a night, showing it to people. Through their long friendship Mick never confirms to Matt whether or not there's any truth to the story... but Matt has seen him use the cleaver. | |
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Iron Fist (2017): Two Russian agents of the Hand are butchers and use large butcher knives. | |
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In Monstrous Regiment, Sam Vimes is referred to by the Borogravians as "The Butcher" or "Butcher Vimes". Anyone remotely familiar with the character of Sam Vimes will find this insanely funny (which is the point); he's more like Reluctant Warrior plus By-the-Book Cop. When Vimes meets up with the protagonist and her fellow soldiers, he tells them Borogravia "needs to work on their propaganda techniques". | |
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Carry On Behind. Professor Roland Crump wakes up after being knocked unconscious to find a strange man (Fred Ramsden, a butcher) leaning over him. When Fred introduces himself by profession, Professor Crump screams in terror. | |
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In Mass Effect, if you choose the 'Ruthless' reputation-trait, you can - later in the game - run into your old commanding officer, who recognizes you as "The Butcher of Torfan", where you apparently sent your own men to their deaths, and killed slavers as they dropped their weapons in surrender - all in the name of ensuring the complete obliteration of the place. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the main character Tommy Vercetti is known as "The Harwood Butcher" because of a hit that went down badly. | |
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The Goodies. When Tim gets all dressed up to visit his rich uncle Butcher Fitzsimmons, Graeme thinks he's trying to impress a girl and when Tim replies, "Actually, it's Butcher?" responds: "Butch-er than what?" Turns out his uncle is an insane fox hunter. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic. Grand Moff Kilran was dubbed "The Butcher of Coruscant" by citizens of The Republic for his brutal assault on Coruscant. Kilran has adopted it with an ironic tone, but considered his actions necessary to bring a swift conclusion to the invasion. | |
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In Sim Settlements 2, in the Commonwealth Police Department questline you are for a chunk of led to think that Pete "the Butcher" Emins leads the antagonist faction the Hellhounds, which given their atrocities would make him a straight example… except when you actually meet him, it turns out he's an affable but simple fellow whose nickname is because he's the cook. | |
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Oxventure: Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue in the Blades in the Dark campaign chose that title himself. He's far from the hardened killer it would imply, instead being a foppish, self-infatuated Rich Jerk whose criminal career is motivated solely by boredom, and whose chosen playbook, the Slide, is mostly focused on being The Social Expert. The rest of the gang aren't so much afraid of him as they are mostly just irritated at putting up with his obnoxiousness. | |
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Victor Zsasz of Batman is sometimes known as The Butcher. He's an Ax-Crazy sociopathic Serial Killer who (according to the Batman: Arkham Series, anyway) occasionally mutilates his victims in addition to killing them. | |
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The Running Man's Ben Richards is known as "the Butcher of Bakersfield" after the incident where, as a military helicopter pilot, he allegedly fired on a crowd of innocent people for no real reason. The fact of the matter is that he was resisting the direct order to do so but was framed by the government because they couldn't use him after that outburst. | |
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Schindler's List: While never referred to as such within the film proper, SS Officer Amon Goeth was known as the Butcher of Plaszow in Real Life, having achieved notoriety for killing, abusing, and torturing prisoners on a whim. Also excluded from the film is the fact that the Nazi government suspended him for his severe mistreatment of prisoners. | |
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Colonel Kassad from the Hyperion Cantos is known as "The Butcher of South Bressia." In this case, it's something of a backhanded compliment: the same brutally efficient tactics that got him the epithet also made him the only person to make any headway in the war. | |
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While not as blatantly obvious, Mordecai of Lackadaisy has used the alias "Elijah Metzger," which the creator mentioned is "perhaps altogether too appropriate for him." "Metzger" is a German word meaning "butcher." We're first introduced to Mordecai (in canon) wielding a bloody hatchet and an irritated expression. It fits. | |
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Necronomicon has an episode that starts with cops tracking a Serial Killer called the Butcher, but then the story gets hijacked by pro-life aliens. Apparently, the story was meant to be an adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness. | |
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Monk: In one episode, the victim turns out to be a war criminal known as the Butcher of Zemenia. | |
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The second boss of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is also called "Butcher". His reputation is so fearsome that even the first boss feels uneasy when talking about him. | |
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Butcher is a rank the player will receive in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin if they kill several people during the mission. It's actually a mark of shame, way below Silent Assassin (killed only the target) and just a bit above Mass Murderer (killed "everyone"). | |
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A French Village: Jean Marchetti is labeled "The Butcher" for his participation in a massacre within Villeneuve. | |
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BattleTech has unsavory characters like Amos Forlough, whose idea of an appropriate response to civilian protests was to raze cities and systematically execute 10% of a population at his discretion, or the violent yet incompetent Tolstin Eukai, both of whom had appellations like "the Butcher" for their ruthless tactics. Forlough got the even more unsavory nickname of "The Baby-Killer," which is not the demonizing hyperbole that it sounds like. The Clans aren't beyond this, either: later Jade Falcon Khan Malvina Hazen got the nickname The Butcher of Wotan for her handling of labor strikes on the planet... the summary execution of five thousand civilians. Not just the striking laborers, either; Hazen rounded up the first five thousand civilians she could lay hands on and executed the lot. |
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The Evil Genius game had a recruitable henchman called The Butcher. He was a Hannibal-type mad surgeon who turned to evil after accidentally transplanting a cursed pancreas into himself. He wears a Hannibal Lecter mask and his primary skill is sharpening his cleavers to 'motivate' your men. It's that kind of game. |
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The first boss of Not Dying Today is a giant zombie monster labelled in-game as "The Butcher". He's dressed like one too, wielding a massive meat cleaver and an ax, a bloodstained butcher's apron and carries a meat grinder on it's back meant for you. | |
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Armello has the Griotte of the Rat Clan, also known as the "Butcher Baroness". Her main weapon is a cleaver, she wears an apron with a Bloody Handprint over her Pimped-Out Dress, and she's generally implied to be a Serial Killer who eats her victims. | |
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Billy Butcher (whose father was a baker, ironically enough), who almost everyone just calls "Butcher", of The Boys. He's a violent, scheming, manipulative bastard, and he's one of the good guys... for a very limited definition of "good". | |
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Dofus, female example with Julith, an extemely powerful Huppermage knows as the "Butcheress of Brakmar" for her power and ruthlessness. Lampshaded at one point in the film where the protagonist Joris complains that learning that his own mother is someone who went by the nickname of "the Butcheress" isn't something very heartening to learn. | |
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If you want to take the "evil path" through Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, you have to prove your dedication to the villains' cause by utterly slaughtering the town of Stillwater. Doing this will award you a new karma title, "The Butcher of Stillwater". | |
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In Wakfu: major Shushu (A kind of demon sealed inside an object, in this case a large sword) Burloif is known as "The Butcher", and is such a beast even his fellow Shushu are scared shitless of him, with one even commenting that "Life without you is so... less dead..." From what little we see of his powers (stabbing his sword in a wall causes the entire building to crack and crumble after a few seconds), his reputation isn't exaggerated. | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Great White Hunter Ned Land accuses Nemo of this when Nemo Kick The Cachalots in a massacre. | |
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The Butcher Boy from Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids episode of that title. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire The series introduced King Cleon, who styles himself "the Great" but who most refer to as The Butcher King. He did use to be an actual butcher, but lives up to the traditional implications as well. Also, Gregor Clegane's in-house torturer is known simply as The Tickler. After Cleon's death via Bodyguard Betrayal, Cleon II becomes King, but is murdered by a barber who becomes King in turn. The new, new King is always referred to as King Cutthroat. |
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The Brady Bunch: Averted Trope with Sam the Butcher. | |
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In Wanted, the Butcher is a brutal knife fighter. | |
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The DCU: There is a minor Anti-Hero, created during the 90s Audience-Alienating Era, called the Butcher. The Rage Entity is also named Butcher. As if being the giant bull-like embodiment of Unstoppable Rage wasn't obvious enough. |
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In Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie, Monza's epithet is "The Butcher of Caprile", thanks to the bloody sack of that city by her army. It's actually another undeserved case; she gave explicit orders not to do so, but while reporting to her boss her brother countermanded them. | |
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Former Professional Wrestler Shibata Genzo of Kemono Michi quickly makes a name for himself as the "Demon Beast Killer", for his legendary skill in subduing even the most dangerous of monsters. The reality of it is, however, is that he's an animal lover, he won't ever kill a demonic beast even if his life depends on it, and he hates the moniker, to the point where he will unhesitatingly perform a pro wrestling move on anyone who calls him that to his face. | |
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Remi Rome from 100 Bullets who also works at a meat packing factory. | |
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Jack Chick uses this, with the title character in "Gomez Is Coming." "Hey, Ricky! Guess how Gomez got named, 'The Butcher.' Because he LOVES to slowly torture his victims until they die!" "You know, just like a butcher does." |
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Matsu Gohei is given the nickname of "The Butcher" during the Clan Wars in Legend of the Burning Sands (a spinoff of Legend of the Five Rings) due to his tendency to leave a trail of bodies wherever he goes and his utter devastation of a number of Crane holdings, among them Violence Behind Courtliness City. | |
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Magic: The Gathering, Mishra was at one point called the Butcher of Kroog. Vona, The Butcher of Magan is a vampire psychopath who murdered her subjects out of boredom. Unlike many members of the Legion of Dusk, who seek true eternal life that will free them of their blood thirst, she relishes her predatory instincts and serves only because they give her license to kill people. |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, some of Wanda's father's company hire a guy called 'The Butcher' to do something unspecified to Wanda. It turns out he actually is a fairy who works as a local butcher, and the boys just wanted to give Wanda a nice meal for her birthday. | |
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In Psychonauts, the next-to-last boss, a mental projection of Coach Oleander's father, actually is a butcher. He appears monstrous and disfigured, wielding two massive cleavers, so perhaps the title is appropriate in more ways than one. | |
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Shadow Hearts: From The New World has the Butcher creature apppearing earlier in the Game. It is described as the "Resentful thoughts left behind by men who killed only for pleasure". Appearance-wise, it wears a blood-stained apron and carry a large meat cleaver. It also has a slob of meat for head and half the ribcage of a cow as a crude shield of some sorts. | |
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Robb Returns: Balon Greyjoy refers to Stannis Baratheon as "The Butcher of Fair Isle". An unusual case, as Stannis didn't kill the people of Fair Isle, but rather smashed the Iron Fleet there during the Greyjoy Rebellion. | |
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In the French translation of both Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wilhelm Strasse's nickname is changed from "Deathshead" ("Totenkopf" in German) to "Le Boucher", literally "The Butcher". | |
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The eponymous villain of the Dog City episode "Meat the Butcher" is an Ax-Crazy psychopath who doesn't fit The Family for the Whole Family vibe of the usual villains, and who Eliot is not comfortable writing about. Goes for the full butcher look. | |
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Dog City | hasFeature |
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In Aeon 14, protagonist Major Tanis Richards is known in Sol as the "Butcher of Toro", but it's indicated early on that it's undeserved. After leaving Sol on a colony ship, she tells the real story of Toro to her Love Interest. She was investigating a Cult Colony, discovered the cult leader had turned everyone on the planet into Nigh-Invulnerable mindless monsters with Bio-Augmentation, and was forced to order an Orbital Bombardment that destroyed the entire dwarf planet. The circumstances were then covered up for political reasons and she had to take the fall. | |
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In Melanie Rawn's The Exiles Series, Auvry Feiran is referred to as "The Butcher of Ambrai" because he led a major military attack on the city that utterly destroyed it. Oh, and it was the home of his ex-wife, their young daughter, and her extended family. | |
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The Exiles | hasFeature |
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Pops up briefly in Lost Odyssey, where one of the Dreams of a Thousand Years concerns a long-dead general who was known simply as 'The Butcher', due to his habit of slaughtering EVERYONE who got in his way - destroying entire villages, leaving no survivors, so as to ensure that there wouldn't be any surviving brothers or sons who would later seek him out for vengeance. Believing in this philosophy, he actually takes pride in his nickname. | |
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Lost Odyssey (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Silent Hill: Origins, there is a humanoid monster called "The Butcher" that serves as a major antagonist. It drags around a large knife and wears a blood-stained smock. It's an Expy of the series' original butcher, Pyramid Head. | |
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Silent Hill: Origins (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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in The Magnus Archives, avatars of The Flesh, most notably Jared Hopworth and the Hann family, are ominously referred to as Butchers or The Butcher at various points... because they generally have jobs in the meat industry. | |
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The Magnus Archives (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_b712435c | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_b712435c | comment |
Leverage: It's lampshaded: "Have you ever been to Kyiv? The cake maker of Kyiv could whup all our asses, and this is the Butcher." The nickname also turns out to be quite appropriate, as The Butcher's weapon of choice is, in fact, a butcher knife. In "The Wedding Job", the following exchange occurs during a con operation at a wedding where one of the con artists, Elliot, is acting the part of the chef: | |
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Leverage | hasFeature |
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In Hitch, the ancestor of a main character is called "The Butcher" for the usual reason. Hitch thought he was just an ordinary butcher and is distressed when the descendant bursts into tears at the mention of his name. | |
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Hitch | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_ba769699 | type |
The Butcher | |
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Mazarall, a Daemon Prince of Khorne from Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, gained the title of 'the Butcher' for his remorseless slaughter and devouring of both mortal and daemonic foes. | |
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War God | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_bbe25b98 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_bbe25b98 | comment |
Baby Driver features an Arms Dealer called The Butcher, who describes the weapons he sells as though they were cuts of pork. | |
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Baby Driver | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_bcadd7cb | type |
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The Butcher / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Similar to Warhammer 40,000 above, Mass Effect 2 uses the name Carnifex, which is Latin for "butcher". It is the name for a brand of pistol, however. Clearly, its designers were savvy to this trope. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_be0c33a5 | comment |
Ghost of Tsushima: In the Iki Island DLC, we learn that Jin's father, Lord Kazumasa Sakai, became known as the "Butcher of Iki" for the brutal and bloody campaign he led to try and pacify the raiders that made their home there. The Sakai name is so hated on Iki Island, Jin has to hide his identity when he travels there. | |
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Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_bff01809 | comment |
Warhammer has Ogre Butchers, who use actual butchery to fuel their magic. They also look the part, with a bloodstained apron and an assortment of cleavers and tenderizers. | |
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Warhammer (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_c0eae17 | comment |
If you have one of your generals in the Total War series slaughter the populace of a recently conquered city enough times, then he can end up with this epithet. Or, if they torture enough prisoners, "the Mauler". Yeesh. |
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Total War (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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An enemy Zentraedi ace in Robotech: Battlecry earns the title The Butcher Of Little Mesa after he orders the destruction of bunkers full of civilians for no apparent reason other than spite. | |
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Robotech: Battlecry (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_c35714d6 | comment |
"The Butcher of the Somme"- Field Marshal Haig, who appears in Blackadder. So named by his own men because of his willingness to sacrifice countless troops in order to achieve a minute gain in territory. Several historians have made a good case that his reputation as a heartless butcher is a serious distortion of the actual facts. Though others say it's too generous. | |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_c3a5fa9 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_c3a5fa9 | comment |
Robin of Sherwood has Philip Mark, the replacement Sheriff of Nottingham in the episode "The Sheriff of Nottingham". He is known as "the Butcher of Lincoln" and is just as nasty as the name suggests. | |
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Robin of Sherwood | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", the villain is Magnus Greel, "The Butcher of Brisbane", the Minister of Justice who killed 100,000 people in his experiments. And anyone who actually lives in Brisbane will find the concept of it being home to anything so exciting as a war criminal hilarious. In "Twice Upon A Time", the Testimony rattles off a list of the Doctor's titles, which includes "the Butcher of Skull Moon", after a particularly bloody battle in the Last Great Time War. |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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Night Train to Lisbon: Mendez the secret policeman was called "the Butcher of Lisbon". | |
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Night Train to Lisbon | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_c6f7e804 | type |
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Blake's 7: Bayban the Butcher in "City at the Edge of the World". As there's a Running Gag over Bayban being obsessed about his notoriety (he even resents Blake for having eclipsed him on the Federation Most Wanted list purely because Blake is a political dissident) he probably chose the moniker himself. Though Bayban clearly deserves it given Vila's Oh, Crap! reaction on meeting him. | |
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Blake's 7 | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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The picture in the thumbnail, is Zanipolo Joyce aka "Butcher" Joyce from The Darkness. Butcher Joyce is a friend of Jackie's and a cleaner for the mob, who's there to chop up bodies and make the evidence go away. | |
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The Darkness (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_c74f2d3c | comment |
There's a boss called The Butcher, a cleaver and meathook wielding Abomination who even says "Aah, fresh meat!" when pulled. This was a deliberate shout out to the guy from Diablo. | |
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Diablo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_c8c98633 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_c8c98633 | comment |
In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 when you finish a mission you get a description of the results of it which are better and more badass if you finish under par time. If you finish the Soviet mission in France to turn the Eiffel Tower into a giant Tesla Coil electrocuting men and destroying buildings around it under par time, it states that they fear your command more than Soviet Tanks and that you are known as The Butcher. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_cc2a7289 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_cc2a7289 | comment |
The League of Gentlemen: Hilary Briss, Demon Butcher of Royston Vasey. He sells some mysterious and highly addictive form of meat to his "special customers". We never learn exactly what it is, but it is implicitly both highly illegal and hideously immoral. The show's creators have Jossed speculation that it was human flesh, claiming cannibalism was far too "mundane". It's something even worse.... | |
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The League of Gentlemen | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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Criminal Minds: Season 6 has the episode "Remembrance of Things Past", where an UnSub dubbed "The Butcher" (he stabs his victims, then sodomizes them, then electrocutes them, possibly not in that order) is one of Rossi's unsolved cases. He stops killing for twenty years because Rossi was too close to catching him, then develops Alzheimer's, and resurfaces trying to recreate his previous kills that he cannot remember. | |
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Criminal Minds | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d037040 | comment |
Subverted in Hack/Slash. Vlad is a hideously deformed hulk of a man who was raised in a basement by The Butcher... who was an actual butcher, and a very kind man who did his best to help Vlad overcome his deformities and pass on his trade. After the butcher died, Vlad was forced go out at night and hunt rats with his huge knife so he could eat. Those who saw him called him "the Meat Man" and blamed him for a string of grisly murders. | |
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Hack/Slash (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d0ce0dba | comment |
Boris the Butcher from the film The Man Who Knew Too Little is something of a parody. He's certainly a brutal and ruthless Professional Killer (we're told that he once decapitated a man). He's also a literal butcher as his day job, and much prefers running his little butcher's shop with his wife to moonlighting as a hitman. | |
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The Man Who Knew Too Little | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d1710608 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d1710608 | comment |
The guerilla 'El Matarife' from the novel Sharpe's Honour - 'The Butcher' (well, The Slaughterman) only in Spanish. | |
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Sharpe | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d1710616 | type |
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K.J. Parker's novel Sharps has a General Carnufex known as "The Irrigator", because he won a war by redirecting water to flood an enemy town, killing every one of the thousands of people who lived there in the process. Amusingly, the name Carnufex presumably a reference to the Latin term carnifex which more or less means "butcher". | |
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Sharps | hasFeature |
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The Butcher Boy was one of the people-eating giants in Roald Dahl's The BFG. | |
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The BFG | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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In Wild Cards, superpowered secret serviceman Billy Ray goes by 'Carnifex', although he's more of a violent Jerkass than anything else. | |
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Wild Cards | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d4642985 | type |
The Butcher | |
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Nevil Clavain in Redemption Ark (2002) was dubbed "the Butcher of Tharsis" for "authorising the use of red-mercury, nuclear and foam-phase weapons" in a battle there about 400 years before the main plot. In reality he saved lives by bringing the war to an end, but he still regrets what he had to do: "I've killed innocents for military ends. I've made orphans. If that's honour, you can keep it." | |
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Revelation Space Series | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d46beefd | comment |
In Wild Wild West, General "Bloodbath" McGrath is also known as "The Butcher of New Liberty", for the annihilation of a town founded by freed slaves that he didn't actually commit. | |
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Wild Wild West | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d4d8ce5f | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d4d8ce5f | comment |
"The Butcher" is one of the most feared serial killers in Deadlands; he's apparently a deranged military surgeon who gave Hank "One-Eye" Ketchum his nickname. The Butcher, though, isn't a human, or even a monster. It's a scalpel that possesses its owner, possibly including a Player Character. It's implied it was what created Jack the Ripper. | |
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Deadlands (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d4f4f48c | comment |
The Butcher Bird has the eponymous ghoul pirate, Yoshimura Kaneki. He definitely deserves the name. | |
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The Butcher Bird (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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Shank has a boss named "the Butcher", who is fought inside a meat-packing plant and uses a grappling hook for a weapon. Shank finishes him off by attaching him to a hook and having him get dragged into a grinder. You do fight another Butcher beforehand in a wrestling ring, but he turns out to be fake and Shank is quickly sent to the correct Butcher afterwards. | |
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Shank (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d78e771e | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d78e771e | comment |
Admiral Kutuzov of The Mote in God's Eye was called "The Butcher" at least once, just those two words with capitals. His reputation stemmed from sterilizing a rebelling human colony planet (meaning to prevent a greater war). | |
The Butcher / int_d78e771e | featureApplicability |
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The Mote in God's Eye | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d880e828 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d880e828 | comment |
Pudge the Butcher from Dota and Dota 2 is inspired by the Diablo character listed above. You really won't like it when he goes missing, because that usually implies a meathook will be flying out of the woods soon enough, and whoever gets caught in it will not be seen again for a while. | |
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Defense of the Ancients (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_d8ffcb59 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d8ffcb59 | comment |
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani in Lion of the Desert (1981) is sent by Benito Mussolini to subjugate a native rebellion in Libya. The rebels are justly concerned over the arrival of the notorious 'Butcher', though in truth Graziani earned this nickname as a result of his activities in Libya, not before he arrived. | |
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Lion of the Desert | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_d9358526 | comment |
In "Leviathan Wakes", UN Marine Colonel Fred Johnson is known as "The Butcher of Anderson Station" for slaughtering the rebels in the aforementioned station. The remorse that he feels for doing this leads him to eventually resign his position with the UN military and join the rebels. | |
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Leviathan Wakes | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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"The Butcher of Riga"- Edward Roschmann, Nazi War Criminal, antagonist of The Odessa File. | |
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The Butcher | |
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El internado: Has Ritter Wulf, who was nicknamed "The Butcher of Belzec" because he was a sort of Mengele in said concentration field. | |
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El internado | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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The Butcher in Flag of Iron is a ruthless, bloodthirsty murderer who, when not killing people, masquerades... as a butcher in a market. | |
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Flag of Iron | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_e030b382 | type |
The Butcher | |
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Terran Republic soldiers in PlanetSide 2 unlock the T9A "Butcher" light machine gun after killing 1160 enemies on five separate LMGs. Dummied Out code in the Halloween 2014 event showed that one of the titles players would have been able to unlock was "The Butcher", applied at the end of the user's name rather than before as with all other titles. | |
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PlanetSide (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher | |
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Some of the developers behind Carrion have previously made a side-scrolling platform shooter simply called BUTCHER, in which you are a cyborg programmed to exterminate humanity. | |
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The Butcher / int_e2b0d34e | type |
The Butcher | |
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In Rustlers' Rhapsody, Peter (the sidekick) tells Rex (the hero) that the hired gun the bad guys are sicking on him is named Bob Barber. This sounds odd to Rex. "Just Bob? Not Bad Bob Barber? Bothersome Bob Barber? Bob the Butcher Barber?" | |
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The Butcher / int_e594d8b6 | type |
The Butcher | |
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A squad of airmen in Arrowsmith earns the nickname "Butchers of Holbrück." | |
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Arrowsmith (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_e6267766 | type |
The Butcher | |
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Sith scientist Vul Isen from Star Wars Legacy is nicknamed "the Butcher of Dac" after creating a toxin that successfully wipes out 80% of all life on the Mon Calamari homeworld, Dac. | |
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Star Wars Legends (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_e689486b | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_e689486b | comment |
In The Darkness, a game based on the comic series of the same name, the mob cleaner that everyone uses is named Butcher Joyce, not because he's a violent, bloodthirsty psychopath (quite the opposite, actually, he's one of the nicest guys in the game), but because he hacks up bodies and makes them disappear. | |
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The Darkness (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_e936047a | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_e936047a | comment |
Averted in Hey Arnold!, where local butcher Mr. Green is a decent, hardworking, nonviolent man. Also averted in an episode where Arnold and Gerald suspect two other butchers of wanting to hurt Mr. Green when they are only planning a surprise party for him. As Mr. Green says, "Butchers wouldn't hurt a fly," to which one of the other butchers says, "Maybe a cow, but not a fly." | |
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Hey Arnold! | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_eb4ec2c0 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_eb4ec2c0 | comment |
A collective example: in Unknown Armies, Thanatomancers, adepts who gain immortality through ritualistic serial killings, are nicknamed "Butchers" by the rest of the Occult Underground. | |
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Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_eb6802b4 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_eb6802b4 | comment |
One of the Cie'th missions of Final Fantasy XIII has you going after "Zenobia The Butcher". When you get to the location, the large, particularily abominable Cie'th pops out and begins advancing at your party... Only to be taken out by a Tonberry, the real Butcher. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_ee221a4e | type |
The Butcher | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): In their 'Universe' personnel files, Ãt is said Seacon leader Snaptrap earned the moniker 'The Butcher of the Bogs' by singlehandedly massacring a regiment of Autobots in the Toxic Sludge Swamps. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_eef5470a | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_eef5470a | comment |
The main character of Rurouni Kenshin, Kenshin Himura, is also known as the Hitokiri Battousai, or "the Manslayer." Being The Atoner of a violent past as an assassin, Kenshin both subverts this as a peaceful man who adheres to Thou Shalt Not Kill (going so far as to use a reverse-bladed sword to knock opponents out), and plays it straight when an enemy pushes him far enough that his murderous golden-eyed "Battousai" side kicks in. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_efa22b3d | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_efa22b3d | comment |
Cyril Sutherland from The Good Hunter. One of his infamous titles is "The Butcher of Lescatie", gained after killing any man or monster alike in his way during the Sacking of Lescatie. He's actually a good guy, but he is a brutal killer for sure. | |
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The Good Hunter (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_f17c3b1d | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_f17c3b1d | comment |
Dead Rising's Final Boss, Larry Chiang, is an actual butcher who worked for the mall's grocery store before all hell broke loose and he, like a good amount of the other survivors of the zombie outbreak, went criminally insane. He isn't outright homicidal as his title would suggest and is disturbingly cheerful and friendly when he views Frank as a "customer", but he's gone obsessed with his job and is encountered after he's caught hunting for new "meat" wherever he can get it and finding it in the form of the injured Big Bad. Since zombie meat comes rotten, he's eager to serve humans to humans. | |
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Dead Rising (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_f3ba2697 | type |
The Butcher | |
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A Desolation Called Peace: War Minister Three Azimuth's enemies call her "the butcher of the Nakharese mind" after her stint as military governor of the rebellious planet Nakhar. Unusually for the trope, she got the name by being very effective at infiltrating and subverting resistance cells in lieu of widespread violence; most people find the epithet a bit crass. | |
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The Butcher / int_f74b5f80 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
Babylon 5: The title character of the episode "Deathwalker," Jha'dur, is named such for the war crimes that she carried out during the Dilgar War, and was responsible for cruel experiments on Na'Toth's grandfather and other people, which led to Na'Toth swearing vengeance upon her. Sheridan's nickname among Minbari is "Starkiller", for his taking out their flagship Black Star during the Earth/Minbari War. This was the Earth Alliance's only major victory in a largely one-sided war, making the use of the moniker a sign of hypocritical sour grapes. The nickname is derogatory on the Minbari side because Sheridan destroyed the Drala Fi ("black star" in Minbari Warrior language) in an act of subterfuge and not in open combat, basically calling him a war criminal. Again, this is ignoring the fact that the Black Star answered Sheridan's false distress signal in order to destroy his supposedly helpless ship, which by human standards is highly dishonorable. |
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Babylon 5 | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_fa6731d | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_fa6731d | comment |
Daryl the Mincer, a minor side character in Jackals. Not exactly right, but the spirit is there - and he gets bonus points for using a butcher knife. | |
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Jackals (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_fcf43f47 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_fcf43f47 | comment |
Abdul the Butcher, the antagonist in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Seas of Blood. | |
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Fighting Fantasy | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_fd289bb0 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_fd289bb0 | comment |
Revolution: In one episode 17 flashback, Miles Matheson is referred to as the "Butcher of Baltimore". | |
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Revolution | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_fd5664bc | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_fd5664bc | comment |
Arkail in Of Orcs and Men got the nickname "The Butcher of Bay Harbor" among orcs after he completely lost his shit during a battle against humans and slaughtered everyone. | |
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Of Orcs and Men (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Butcher / int_fdc53955 | type |
The Butcher | |
The Butcher / int_fdc53955 | comment |
In James Patterson's Cross, the main antagonist is nicknamed The Butcher. By Himself. | |
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Alex Cross | hasFeature |
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