Butcher’s dialogue in every scene is basically a couple of coherent lines that are quotable as hell and tie every thing together nicely, then slangs for the rest.
A bunch of people thought Butcher was Australian and i had to explain to them that he's supposed to be cockney British, but Karl urban is from New Zealand (which has an accent very close to Australian) and he's not good at doing a cockney British accent. So as a result, Butcher sounds like he's from a country that doesn't exist.
I'm from NZ and I thought Billy and his aunt sounded more like Australian. I didn't even know he was supposed to be British It sounds more like British-Australian. Like a British that moved to Australia. Some parts are British, but sometimes the Australian accent pops out
They made that meme. It's not our fault they're (Americans) so fucking loud that we can hear them all the time and they only just realised we don't all sound like the bastard love child of Harry Potter and the Queen. Congratulations to them. They've just discovered a second English accent
what are you talking about no one sounds like that 😭 it’s like not even cockney anymore it sounds like a drunk with a speech impediment. anthony starr is also kiwi but does a phenomenal american, i think butcher’s one is just slightly too hard to pull off without a really good accent coach for karl urban
I love how the show acknowledges Karl's _butchered_ Cockney accent and pokes fun at it while knowing that Butcher wouldn't be the same without it. Bloody brilliant!
The worst bit is, being Aussie, thus a lot of our slang is either the same or a little to the left, I can understand him perfectly, so I can never tell if the characters are being serious when they say they can't understand him
It's like someone put an input into Karl Urban that says "every sentence you say you're accent become more ridiculous by 3%" After 4 seasons we got this
Well, I'm glad they did it. It's like they broke the 4th wall for a moment to give the voice to some of the viewers like me. I mean, I understand Frenchie 100 times better than Butcher.
To be fair to karl, His accents come along way from episode one where he just straight up sounded like an aussie, asking a new Zealander to do a cockney accent just makes them sound aussie
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the director told him to sound like, but in Lord of the Rings I understood him perfectly. In the Boys I understand 50% of what he says.
@@natsudragneel95240 exactly, i think they over complicated it by making him try a cockney. A simple British accent would have been fine but the problem was probably American directors who thought it sounded authentic but it is what it is wouldn't change Carl for anyone
Simple enough explanation. Billy Butchers father is clearly an Australian who moved to London as a youngish man and whose accent became a blend. Billy has consciously or subconsciously adopted his fathers hybrid accent, much like he did with his fathers style of dressing, because he associates that with an intimidating masculinity. That is my head canon.
Dont forget the scene when kimiko killed the traffiking lady and the cop said to Butcher “whats up with the accent” which he replied “whats up with yours”
English it's not my first language (tho i can understand it pretty well) so i always watched The Boys with subtitles to not miss anything, one day i tried to watch it without subtitles, i could understand everyone except Butcher, i didn't have any clue wtf was he saying
As a fellow brit I can confirm this is how we talk. It's been said it was easier to decode coded German letters during world war 2 than understanding what a group of English men are saying
You left out the most hilarious part of that first scene between Butcher and Firecracker "Here's a little keepsake snapped by the Broward County Sheiff's Department, that you can stash in your *WANK BANK.* " "You, and your little bieber, EDGIN', in the back of your RAV4 in the car park of Buca di Beppo." he says that insane combinations of words with that accent and that weird smile of his hahaha
The only foreigner I’ve ever heard do a totally convincing English accent is Gillian Anderson. We’re very sensitive to it, possibly because we have so many across a single island. We can go 50 miles and hear the difference.
Is his accent really an issue for americans? I'm german and I get every single word without issue. It's the hardcore scottish and irish I don't understand...and the deep countryside english.
I'm Spanish and I have a lot of trouble understanding what Butcher says. I mean, when he was Eomer in LOTR I understood him perfectly, but here he made a mess. I have trouble understanding Cockney, some Scottish accents, rural Irish, etc. Basically strong/heavily slanged accents. But I'm fine with "standard" American or "standard" British, basically the ones you hear in the news or conferences or debates.
Im argentinian and I have the same issue, butcher is perfectly understandable but when I hear those scottish and irish people I think they're speaking their own damn thing
I'm american and can understand perfectly, but I watch Australian, British, and NZ shows so that likely helps since he's from New Zealand, trying to sound British, and ends up sounding Australian sometimes. (those hardcore Irish and Scottish accents really are so difficult tho)
