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Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of single-handedly beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
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->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of single-handedly beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
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Maybe it\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \
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Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of single-handedly beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of single-handedly beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
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Maybe it\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \
to:
Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
----
[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
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Maybe it\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \
to:
Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
----
[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
----
->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold vengeance-crazed BloodKnight who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
----
[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
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Maybe it\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \
to:
Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold killer who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
----
->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
----
[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold killer who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
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->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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->\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
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Maybe it\\\'s just because I bought the entire series at about the same time Embers reached its stride of \\\"Zuko as the protagonist\\\", but I can\\\'t help comparing Aang and Zuko to the {{Deuteragonist}}s of GarthEnnis\\\' TheBoys; Hughie Campbell and Billy Butcher. They\\\'re two members of a CIA-sponsored team that monitors, polices and occasionally terminates corrupt superhumans.
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold killer who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
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->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
\\\"Wee\\\" Hughie is pretty much Aang as a powerless Scottish conspiracy theorist. He\\\'s kind, brave, determined, and even quite clever and insightful in his own way. He\\\'s also a naive, shortsighted idiot. Though he is key to cracking several investigations, two moments he\\\'s known for are \\\"parking a tiger\\\" on the floor of a suspect\\\'s home(because he couldn\\\'t work the security system said suspect had put on his bathroom) and greeting Butcher at the door of his apartment with blood in his beard because he didn\\\'t realize his girlfriend was menstruating.
Butcher is... essentially MichaelCaine as the star of his own GuyRitchie film. He\\\'s cool, calm, collected, and capable of beating the crap out of anyone save Superman, Doomsday, Wonder Woman or Thor. He\\\'s also a stone cold killer who loves violence about as much as hardcore perverts like Miroku or Happosai love sex. Though he is key to saving the United States from a coup by sociopathic superhumans, he also comes within seconds of committing genocide.
But in the end, Hughie wins out and stops him, not by beating him up, but by being a decent human being.
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->\\\'\\\'...All that stuff about being a tough guy, or being more like this friend of yours who beat somebody up... You don\\\'t have it in you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you\\\'re not less of a man, or some kind of inferior person, just because you can\\\'t be harsh and hard and cold.\\\'\\\'
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And despite being the awe-inspiring badass for +99.9% of the story, Butcher acknowledges defeat because;
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->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hughie\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'I just can\\\'t get it through my head that this is who you\\\'ve turned out to \\\'\\\'\\\'be...\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\\\\\\
\\\'\\\'\\\'Butcher\\\'\\\'\\\': \\\'\\\'Fraid so, my son. Then again, I was the one(who assembled the team, had the weapons built, killed all the bad guys, etc). You need blokes like me, Hughie. It\\\'s what we get up to in our spare time you\\\'ve gotta worry about...\\\\\\\\
...All that macho shit—that gunfighter, Dirty Harry bollocks—It looks tasty, but in the end it\\\'s fuckin\\\' self-defeatin\\\'. It just leaves you with bodies in ditches and headfuls of broken glass. Men are only so much use, Hughie. Men are boys.\\\'\\\'
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[[http://brucebyfield.com/2013/02/17/garth-ennis-and-gender/ This]] article has a really good examination of Ennis I wish Vathara would read;
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\\\'\\\'...Ennis seems genuinely divided on the subject. On the one hand, he is obsessed with machismo, and of how manly men interact with each other. On the other hand, he also views machismo as ultimately childish, and needing to give way to a less violent maturity that can only be won through the love of wife and family. The places where machismo operates may be the places where he finds stories, but he also considers those who remain there too long as immature. \\\'\\\'
