The Boys: Why Butcher & Hughie Look So Different In Diabolical
Amazon's The Boys Presents: Diabolical has received its official trailer, but why do Butcher and Hughie's characters look so different from their The Boys counterparts? Set for a March 4th, 2022 release date, The Boys Presents: Diabolical is an animated, eight-episode anthology series set in the canonical world of The Boys. Diabolical, therefore, will see the return of many prominent The Boys characters in new animated forms, with popular faces such as Billy Butcher and Hughie Campbell Jr. just two such examples.
The Boys Presents: Diabolical undoubtedly acts as a love letter to The Boys franchise, with each of Diabolical's initial eight episodes showcasing different writing, direction, and animation teams. Diabolical's third episode, «I'm Your Pusher,» appears particularly scintillating, with the episode written by Garth Ennis, the creator of the original The Boys DC and Dynamite Entertainment comics. «I'm Your Pusher» focuses on a brand new story featuring Billy Butcher and his sidekick Wee Hughie — with Amazon's first-look trailer showing the pair looking radically different from their live-action counterparts.
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Yet the aesthetic changes made to Butcher and Hughie in The Boys Presents: Diabolical are not made purely for the sake of change, with their new appearances tying back toThe Boys franchise in two poignant ways. The versions of Hughie and Butcher shown in Diabolical are exact replications of their comic book counterparts, which act as a nod to the episode Garth Ennis wrote for the new Amazon series. Furthermore, Diabolical's Wee Hughie is designed to pay off Simon Pegg's fantasy casting that was not possible in The Boys
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